Penny thought small-town life would be quiet—until the omens started. Now, with just 24 hours to stop a murder, she’ll have to trust her instincts… and maybe a few unlikely allies. Free on Kindle.
Free: Grounded
Forbidden Women Academy 1: An Urban Fantasy Adventure
Does someone want to tell me what the hell is going on?
I’m happy to be on the front lines as mysterious foreign mercenaries try to take what isn’t theirs. These guys clearly need an ass-kicking. And the two most beautiful women in a secret academy have big expectations of the first man they’ve ever been with… $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Chosen Children
Her whole life she believed it was only a fable—a ghost story to teach children lessons about greed and darkness. But it had all been true. And the truth was that in six months, the world would begin its descent into death. The fate of the universe would rest in the hands of five eighteen-year-olds—untrained, unprepared, and desperately searching for an adult to take over.
Accompanied by her moody brother-in-law as the only family she had left, Aella found herself in the great clan of Rhaelyn in the year of the Sun. Stuck in the home of Eddington Ryder, Rhaelyn’s social outcast, and his neurotic nephew, Carrick, Aella loathed everything about her new living conditions and the absurd arrogance Rhaelyn held. The first chance she got she was going to leave…until Summer Solstice changed everything. Not only for her, but also for Carrick.
Finding himself in the forced position of sharing his home with two Murnad refugees, Carrick’s main concern was not letting either of them destroy the social standing he’d worked so hard to obtain. Those from Murnad weren’t at the same level as Rhaelyn. Not even close. Or at least that’s what he thought right up until the first time he saw what she could do. Then he was forced to think through everything he’d been taught in order to understand if it had all been lies.
The Regression Strain
Nobody’s safe when the inner beast awakens…
Dr. Peter Palma joins the medical team of the Paradise to treat passengers for minor ailments as the cruise ship sails across the Atlantic. But something foul is festering under the veneer of leisure. The brig fills with felons, the morgue with bodies, and the vacation becomes a nightmare.
Peter and his staff face a vile affliction that pits loved ones against each other and shatters the bonds of civil society.
With the ship hurtling towards an unprepared New York, only Peter can neutralize the threat, but he’s hallucinating and delirious.
And sometimes primal urges are impossible to resist.
The Regression Strain is a fast-paced, cerebral medical thriller that’ll grab you from the first page to the last. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Flippers, Blades and Murder (Apple Creek R-Park Department Mysteries Book 1)
Newly single mom forced back to hometown. Council member murdered at new job. Will she crack the case or become the next victim? Margaret is freaking out. Moving back to her mother’s home as a newly single mom while taking the Recreation and Parks director position in Apple Creek wasn’t part of the plan. Things go downhill when her brother-in-law is implicated in a council member’s murder. Ignoring the evidence and the objections of the lead detective—her former high school crush—Margaret, with the help of a playful K9 officer, secretly began her own investigation into the corruption surrounding the R-Parks Department. When the discoveries lead to questionable procedures and missing payments, Margaret is afraid that more lives are in danger, including her own. Can Margaret solve the corruption mess before the killer gets her? Flippers, Blades and Murder is the paws friendly first book in the Apple Creek R-Parks Department Cozy Mystery Series. If you like small towns, new beginnings and solving crimes, you’ll love Montie Red’s fast-paced entangled mysteries. Buy Flippers, Blades and Murder and start scraping the mysterious ice today. Free on Kindle.
Free: Black Tides
A quest to find a fabled pirate treasure, uncover a legendary lost colony, and solve the secrets of piracy’s Golden Age.
At the soaring height of the Golden Age of Piracy in the year 1717, a young boy takes to the high seas with a ragtag gang of marauders to seek his fortune. His mentor is none other than the infamous pirate lord Blackbeard, a cruel and cunning leader with ties to a priceless treasure that has been lost to time. But the boy saw the fortune with his own eyes – if only he can live long enough to tell the tale.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke disappeared without a trace. Search parties arrived to find over a hundred colonists missing with nothing but a single enigmatic word left etched behind. Dead-set on unraveling a nearly 500-year-old mystery, renowned archaeologist Nick LaBounty embarks on an ambitious quest to solve America’s first-ever missing persons’ case. His search will take him to legendary Ocracoke Island, where Blackbeard met his grisly demise just offshore.
Facing two long-buried mysteries, both inextricably woven together by fate, Nick joins forces with his brother and Native American muse – alongside a salty old sailor – to follow a sparse trail of enigmatic clues and bring old secrets to light. Finding out what happened to the colonists will settle a mystery that has haunted historians for centuries… and it could lead him to a treasure for the ages. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Mist: Books One and Two
The ancient land of Batu is on the verge of extinction. Its villagers have been driven to the top of frozen Mt. Hua to escape the evil shroud that is stealing the souls of their children. Bohai, the teenage shaman, knows his people’s only hope lie with three teenage friends living 1000 years in the future, each one struggling to fit into their modern world. Follow the fantastical journey of Sam, Mackenzie and Lucas as they travel back in time and find within themselves strength and courage they never knew existed. This is a tale of myth, monsters and magic. If you liked the Wizard of Oz and Alice Through the Looking Glass, you’re sure to like this little novel.
Excerpt
“The mist that fell over the land of Batu wasn’t cool, nor soft, nor light. It wasn’t gentle or ephemeral, evaporating with the rising sun. It was heavy, hot and dark. Oh so very dark. It didn’t drop gently into the valley. It crept and crawled and clawed its way up the mountainside, engulfing plants, enveloping animals and entrapping people. And when children wandered in its way, it slithered down their throats and into their hearts and stole their very souls, leaving only shells. Breathing, motionless shells. Dead yet still alive. And the parents still tended to the children’s silent, empty bodies. And the anguished, agonized, bodiless souls of their young cried out every night, trapped in that evil shroud. There was no way around it. No way through it. No way to stop it.”
Excerpt
“A huge, emaciated monster emerged from the earth, like a skeleton escaping a disinterred grave. With its ashen, grey, desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones, it was the complexion of death. Its maw was filled with hideous, needle-like teeth. One enormous, red eye was pushed back deep in its socket. The creature had long limbs that ended in razor-like talons. It had fed on its own lips, leaving them tattered and bloody, and its unclean flesh reeked with the stench of corruption.”
Excerpt Book Two
Luli walked to the edge of Lake Atman. She took her walking stick and cracked the thin layer of ice on the water’s surface. Slowly, her reflection emerged: a beautiful, strong 13-year-old girl, her hair shoulder-length, dark as obsidian; her face, despite a slight asymmetry, was strikingly beautiful. But it was her eyes that stood out the most. They were brown, bright, and carefree, with a bold, mischievous glow.
Luli was happy with what she saw. Atman was kind to her, for everyone in the village loved and watched over the precious child who had survived The Mist. But, among the Batu, Bohai, the shaman was the most vigilant, for he couldn’t shake the feeling that lurking within Luli, like a dormant disease, was something maleficent waiting to escape. For Bohai was never entirely sure that The Mist hadn’t, in some manner or other, left his mark upon the sweet child
Fifteen Years Later
Dylan, an adolescent outcast, must navigate the disappearance of her friend in the aftermath of a humiliating party. Years later, as an adult, she must reconcile the events of her difficult youth with what she uncovers about the night of the disappearance. Despite her efforts, one question seems impossible to answer: why, only now, has she found herself in circumstances to learn the truth? $9.99 on Kindle.
Catastrophe at Killdeer Cay
Emma Finch is on a well-deserved vacation with her boyfriend. Everything is smooth sailing until Emma boards a tender to the picturesque island of Lapis Rock. While waiting to arrive in paradise, one of the seven passengers on the boat is murdered, and the captain is forced to stop at an abandoned island. Stuck until help can arrive, Emma must figure out what happened to the unfortunate passenger, but nothing seems to be going right. At every turn, secrets are revealed, and no one can be trusted. $0.99 on Kindle.
Love at the French Station
Desperate in Barcelona, Laurie helps a stranger in exchange for airfare back home to New Orleans. She is given a simple task, but an error in timing throws her life into chaos. Joshua, a hot, young American drifter she meets, takes pity on this beautiful girl and helps her navigate the pitfalls of life on the run from some sinister people. Laurie has no choice but to submit to Joshua’s experience, strength, and other obvious charms. $0.99 on Kindle.
Shelter Beyond the Wires
Lawless towns, deadly gangs, and no safe haven—will Kat make it home?
When a solar flare cripples the world’s power, trucker Kat is stranded miles from her daughter, with no food, no shelter, and no safety in sight. Small towns have turned lawless, and Kat must fight through brutal obstacles to reach her little girl. Every step brings her closer to danger—but also closer to the one person she refuses to leave behind. As chaos reigns, will a mother’s determination be enough to overcome a world gone dark? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock’s scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an astonishing re-view.
Oscar’s spectacular assent to fame ground to a screeching halt in the wee hours of Valentine’s Day, 2013. Hearing a sound emanating from his bathroom, he grabbed his pistol and he stumbled to the washroom, screaming at the intruders to leave. Fearing someone was about to emerge to harm him and his girlfriend, Reeva, he fired four bullets into the toilet chamber. Soon he realized he had killed his lover. Horrified, he summoned the authorities. The investigating detective believed this was yet another case of an escalating argument where the man murdered his partner. World opinion is split. Some believe Oscar. Others are convinced he committed a despicable crime of passion.
Distinguished clinical psychologist Brent Willock brings an entirely new perspective to bear on these horrific events: that Oscar’s horrific actions occurred while he was in a deep sleep, known as a parasomniac state. Throughout this book, Willock uses scientific scrutiny and legal precedence to resolve many of the crucial anomalies surrounding the Oscar Pistorius trial. Willock also discusses how mental health experts and the defense team could have overlooked the hypothesis of parasomnia that could have exonerated Oscar.
Millions who followed the Blade Runner’s astonishing achievements, uplifted and inspired by his triumph over physical adversity, were crushed by his precipitous plunge from grace. They were baffled. Even Oscar himself, in a television interview shortly before his sentencing, achingly asked, “I always think, How did this possibly happen? How could this have happened?” At last, Willock’s elegant work responds to these poignant questions that so plagued and pained Reeva’s family, friends, Oscar and, indeed, the world. $0.99 on Kindle.
All June Left Behind
Bestselling Author of Flat Out Lies and The Dime Box, an Amnesty International Book Club novel.
Ray had it all—a loving relationship with his wife June, a busy farm, and two beautiful grown children. Until the night June was shot on their fortieth anniversary during a botched robbery at a restaurant. Two years after June’s death, the man convicted of her murder is granted a new trial.
Horrified that his wife’s killer might walk free, Ray vows to take justice into his own hands. But when rumours surface about his wife, Ray teams up with young crack reporter Fan Mohamed to dig into June’s past. They discover a long-buried police case, a shocking murder-mystery with connections to June’s family, that has never been resolved.
Caught in a web of secrets and a race against time, Ray, his children, and Fan must band together to discover who killed June…before the killer finds them. $4.99 on Kindle.
Lucky Shot: A Classic Western Adventure
Where the Grid Ends
No power. No law. Just the fight for survival.
When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling city to save their daughters. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: West End Justice (A Detective Morgan Foster Vigilante Justice Thriller Book 1)
Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding. For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story…Unable to ignore the threat that’s crashed down on her carefully constructed secret life, Morgan gets caught in a web of motorcycle gangs, murder, and a bounty that has six figures hanging over her head. Before long, Morgan is in the sights of the people that want her dead again. Can she solve the murders before she becomes the next body to drop? If you’re a fan of vigilante justice and psychological thrillers with characters like Rachel Hatch and Jack Reacher, read West End Justice today! Free on Kindle.
Free: A Totally Killer Wedding
It’s 1985, and Beckett Monahan is working as a church secretary in her small hometown, where she has one ear on the local grapevine and the other on the rotary phone. She’s working a wedding when she stumbles upon the best man’s dead body. Investigating hijinks ensue as Beckett scrambles to clear her aunt’s name and uncover the real killer. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Suicide Detective
On a mission to capture a ruthless Al Qaeda terrorist, Sergeant Amber Downing is captured and Razor, her military working dog is injured and left for dead. Special Forces teams make heroic attempts to rescue her, but the enemy is deadly and cunning. Despite his injury, Razor never gives up on his beloved master.
After her military service, Amber, a disabled Veteran, works for the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. With the help of her service dog, Nikita, an ultra-loyal German Shepherd, Amber tries to leave the scars of her captivity and the loss of her fiancé, a fellow soldier, behind. When Amber meets someone who is overcoming his own devastating loss, Amber realizes she just might be able to love again and move on. Amber is given a task to track recent Veteran suicides, but she begins to see anomalies in the data that she can’t ignore. When events from her captivity in Iraq and the loss of her fiancé collide with her VA project discoveries, Amber and Nikita must confront evil men who will stop at nothing to prevent her from unraveling a dark conspiracy.
This spellbinding tale of loyalty, betrayal, love and redemption will leave the reader turning pages late into the night. Free on Kindle.
Free: Project Echo
When government auditor Lila Reyes arrives in Echo Town, she finds a place that isn’t on any map and shouldn’t exist. The streets are too perfect, the residents too polite, and the bells that ring through the town stop everyone in their tracks. There’s no phone signal, no internet, and no way to call for help. Every movement is watched, every smile feels rehearsed, and every answer sounds memorized. As Lila uncovers the truth behind the town’s creation, she realizes she may not be allowed to leave.
Dark Days Ahead
Chaos erupts in New York City when an EMP shuts down all power, transportation, communication, and critical infrastructure. Tom Stryder and his family are caught in the middle of the attack, and Tom summons all his skills to rescue his family from the dangerous city before they’re forever trapped in New York. $0.99 on Kindle.
Paladin’s Deception
Bound by destiny, hunted by darkness.
I never asked to be a Viator—gifted with the powers of the angels and destined to protect humanity from the shadows. I definitely didn’t ask for a mate bond to someone I barely remember. Now, I’m being hunted by the Paladin Order’s ruthless leader, a man who will stop at nothing to control our power.
As I struggle to understand the mysteries of my newfound gifts, an even darker threat looms. The demon-powered leader of the Malum, the one who once held me prisoner, refuses to let me go. He wants me—his bride, his weapon—and he’s willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way.
I’m caught between my desperate need for freedom, the strange pull of the bond I never wanted, and the danger closing in on all sides. If I don’t find the strength to claim my own fate, I risk losing everything—to the forces of light and darkness vying for my soul.
In this world where alliances are tested, bonds are forged, and destinies collide, one question haunts me: will my light burn bright enough to outshine the shadows? If you loved Shadow Spell Academy, you’ll love this action-packed story where Angels and Demons collide.Bound by destiny, hunted by darkness.
I never asked to be a Viator—gifted with the powers of the angels and destined to protect humanity from the shadows. I definitely didn’t ask for a mate bond to someone I barely remember. Now, I’m being hunted by the Paladin Order’s ruthless leader, a man who will stop at nothing to control our power.
As I struggle to understand the mysteries of my newfound gifts, an even darker threat looms. The demon-powered leader of the Malum, the one who once held me prisoner, refuses to let me go. He wants me—his bride, his weapon—and he’s willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way.
I’m caught between my desperate need for freedom, the strange pull of the bond I never wanted, and the danger closing in on all sides. If I don’t find the strength to claim my own fate, I risk losing everything—to the forces of light and darkness vying for my soul.
In this world where alliances are tested, bonds are forged, and destinies collide, one question haunts me: will my light burn bright enough to outshine the shadows? If you loved Shadow Spell Academy, you’ll love this action-packed story where Angels and Demons collide. $0.99 on Kindle.
Fade to Blue: A Fast-Paced Medical Thriller with a Sharp Twist
“Filled with vivid characters and a fast moving plot.” — BookLife, Editor’s Pick
“An engaging medical mystery, after which the plot becomes a swiftly paced thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews
Sarah has a wonderful boyfriend and a great career, but she’s about to snap. Eager to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and spend more time with Rogelio, she’s hoping that the end to her brutal work schedule is just one miraculous breakthrough away. Fed up with the long hours and lack of progress in her research, she performs an experiment she has been forbidden from pursuing.
The ethics committee she can handle. After all, when her risky experiment pays off, they’ll be throwing her a parade.
But nothing could have prepared her for Marcel.
“The strong characters, fast-paced action, and ethical dilemmas create thought-provoking reading. . .” — Midwest Book Review $0.99 on Kindle.
The Town That Shouldn’t Exist: The Complete Trilogy
All 3 books of the thrilling horror series in one ebook bundle!
Trapped in a town surrounded by an endless blizzard, a group of people struggle to survive while looking for a way home. To make matters worse, something stalks the streets at night, killing the residents one by one.
Kentucky Blood (The Kentucky Blood Series Book 1)
A GRIPPING, DARK SOUTHERN SAGA.
In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory. To unlock its secrets, they imprison victims in their garage, each kidnapping leading them closer to their coveted prize.
“We’re gonna find it, Daddy…”
“The Temple…”
But dark secrets threaten to tear the family apart. Rhonda, the eldest daughter, harbors a thirst for violence that may jeopardize everything. Bill, her father, struggles to balance parenthood with the brutal demands of their Quest. Then there’s Bobby, the current prisoner, who may be more dangerous than they realize. Has the family made a mistake they can’t undo?
Meanwhile, in the 1970s, a young Bill embarks on a violent rise to power. Driven by prophetic dreams, he forms a ruthless “Posse” determined to rule the Tri-County. Standing in his way are the Smoketown Boys, a rival squad led by Tommy Glick, who holds a personal vendetta against Bill. In the battle for dominance, both sides spiral deeper into a conflict they can’t control—a warning of the horrors in Bill’s family’s future.
Two timelines. One family. One destiny.
Will Bill’s dreams lead him to greatness—or a point of no return?
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The Bottom Floor: Jonathan and Denise have a wild ride through the portals of time
Jonathan West gave a very moving and beautiful eulogy for his dear friend Kathryn Kramer at the Manfred Methodist Church in Newton. The twenty-one-year-old college student felt a very special bond with the 101-year-old great grandmother and matriarch of the Kramer family. Now she was gone, and he missed her dearly. If only he could see her just one more time and share the things they used to talk about. The truth is he would be able to see her one more time as he found a way to go from 2024 to 1947. This is a story of adventure, love and the wonder of time travel. I won’t tell you anymore because it will ruin the story. Please read this work of fiction and enjoy every minute. $4.99 on Kindle.