If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive?

Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity.

With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland. Can he get there safely? Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was?

This is the story of Marcus’s journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive. This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is “Ashes to Ashes”, followed by “When the First Bird Sings”. The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027. $2.99 on Kindle.

After one too many failings, Parker Sloane gives up his job smuggling cash for a drug cartel and returns to his childhood home in the woods of New England. There he finds that his family is just as twitchy, desperate, paranoid, and unpredictable as the underworld types he just escaped.

Now Parker has to manage homicidal family dysfunction. His tyrannical stepfather, seething younger brother, newly evangelical mother, and alluring younger half-sister Rita each have demons they never exorcised.

Delicately but disastrously, Parker attempts to keep his family from imploding, unaware that each has their own plans for escape or vengeance. The Moon in Deep Winter combines the dark comedy of the Coen brothers with a fast-paced thriller $0.99 on Kindle.

Former Western star Dusty Bob’s beloved wife has been dead for twenty-five years when signs of her presence begin to reappear on his fading Arizona ranch. Soon he is holding Olivia in his arms once again, reliving scenes from his wild life and his old, forgotten movies on a nightly basis — powerfully vivid memories that last from midnight ’til sunrise. It’s an all-too-human tale of broken dreams, lost love, desert magic, and the beauty and fragility of memories. $0.99 on Kindle.

Nothing Significant is a tender mosaic of a life lived across continents, careers, and generations. In these adventurous, funny, and deeply human—sometimes soul-wrenching—short stories, a father gathers the moments that shaped him—the storms he weathered at sea, the unexpected turns of fate on land, the quiet joys of family, and the bittersweet memories that linger long after the moment has passed.

Written not as a grand autobiography but as a collection of vivid fragments, the book reveals the heart of a man who has been many things: a naval officer, a port director, an immigrant starting over, a teacher, a husband, a father, and a grandfather. Each story offers a glimpse into his humor, his innocence, his resilience, and the warmth that has guided him through every chapter of his life.

HEARTWARMING AND SOUL-STIRRING, TRAGIC, AND HILARIOUS, Nothing Significant reminds us that the smallest moments often hold the greatest meaning. This is a book for anyone who has ever loved, lost, laughed, or longed to understand the people who shaped them. A book that stays with you long after you close it.
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If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive?

Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity.

With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland. Can he get there safely? Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was?

This is the story of Marcus’s journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive. This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is “Ashes to Ashes”, followed by “When the First Bird Sings”. The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027. $2.99 on Kindle.

Hannah Bloom longs to claim the title “poet.” With her daughters at camp, she expects time to write—until heartbreaking letters arrive, an unexpected pregnancy upends her plans, her mother considers moving back to Europe, and a lawsuit threatens the family business. Now Hannah must hold it all together—and find her voice. $0.99 on Kindle.

An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. $0.99 on Kindle.

This is not a book about trauma. It is a book about what is born through it. Thaddeus Harold Pierson is a disabled, queer orphan raised inside institutions that alternately erase him and weaponize him. His survival requires a splitting of self: the dissociated observer during confinement, the intimate narrator when free. Through shifting narration and bilingual prose in English and French, Zenith’s Peak mirrors that fragmentation—inviting the reader into a consciousness attempting to reassemble itself. When Thad escapes to Montreal in the early 1980s in search of a shamanic anthropologist, his journey feels like spiritual ascension—until he wakes years later in a hospital, missing time, on trial for acts he cannot remember. A freakish man named Walter appears only in the mirror. His mother speaks from the thin places between worlds. And his final courtroom monologue forces the reader to decide whether Thad has gone mad, or simply stepped into a frequency society has no language for.Zenith’s Peak is a visionary literary novel about madness as a rite of passage, language as a code technology of consciousness, and the fractal journey of becoming whole. For some, this book will be fiction.For others, a transmission. Free on Kindle.

A coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy and the trials and tribulations he experiences at a private all-boys high school during his freshman year. A diverse combination of family, friends and fellow students guide him through nine months of sports, dances, teenage shenanigans and Latin. Free on Kindle.

In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to turn to except the stranger who’s been leaving rambling voicemails for a dead woman. Felicity takes Alex in on one condition: She has to help scare off some kids vandalizing the fields. Not only does it work, but news spreads, and soon locals are lining up to solicit justice for their own grievances. Best of all, an unexpected friendship blooms for the two young women, who have found in each other the family they’ve been yearning for. But revenge has a funny way of getting out of hand, and when things go a bit too far, Felicity and trouble-prone Alex must stick together to confront the heartbreak of their pasts and whatever new calamities may lie ahead. $1.99 on Kindle.