Born into the warrior elite, Jannon showed great promise as a fighter. But that life was not for him. Despite his father’s intentions, he fostered with the Master Bronzesmith. When a dead man is found in the smithy, his father demands he return home. Can Jannon solve the murder and save his tribe? What happens when a warrior’s path collides with a craftsman’s heart? $2.99 on Kindle.
Betrayal on Beltane
Surviving Gen X
Dive into the kaleidoscopic streets of 1990s Las Vegas with Surviving GenX.
Amidst the flickering neon lights and the haunting echoes of slot machines, we follow an unnamed protagonist and a battered housewife, both seeking an escape from their tormented pasts. As they wade through the city’s seedy underbelly, they find an unexpected refuge in one another a bond forged in the fires of a metropolis hell-bent on their ruin.
A potent tapestry of humor, heartbreak, and raw human resilience, this narrative unfolds with the surreal quality of a fever dream. Oscillating between the chaos of a city that never sleeps and the quiet moments of vulnerability shared between its two protagonists, “Surviving GenX” isn’t just a story it’s an experience. An experience that delves into the desolation of a generation caught amidst the disintegration of societal norms, searching for meaning in a world that seems to have forgotten them.
Join this evocative journey through a decade marked by upheaval and transformation and discover a tale that is once a testament to the indomitable spirit of Generation X and a haunting reflection on the universal human quest for connection.
“Raw, wild, proudly shocking fiction of 1990s Vegas life.” BookLife Review $0.99 on Kindle.
Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams
The enthralling story of three unforgettable young adults living on the cusp of great change in early 20th-century Mongolia. A captivating, beautiful saga from debut novelist Erin Jamies on about having dreams, finding love, and learning to survive in a harsh, ever-changing place.
In the winter of 1917, Bolormaa is introduced to the man she is to marry on her eighteenth birthday, over mutton stew and steaming buuz. She has spent her entire life in the Gobi Desert, living a nomadic life with her family, always moving with their animals in search of grazing lands. Reading about other places in a tent school, she dreamed of another sort of life. But now, her education is finished, and her future seems to be laid out before her like the colorful rugs in the family’s ger.
Ganbaatar grew up under the vast, blue-gray, Mongolian sky, the protective arm of his mother, and the withering gaze of his father. He has been a good son and a steady hand, working on the land with the herds, often feeling that he was meant for something different if only he had the courage to reach for it.
When Aisin’s parents die, she leaves her siblings and everything she knows in China to live with her uncle in Mongolia. She’s unprepared for the level of prejudice she’ll face because of her heritage, but her bravery and stubbornness form a shield she readily dons. An accomplished horse rider and rare beauty, she works alongside her uncle and forges a path as a single woman during a challenging era.
A sweeping novel of historical fiction, Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams follows these characters through the tumultuous decades following the October Revolution and outbreak of the Russian Civil War, and the Chinese occupation of Mongolia and rise of the Mongolian People’s Party, under whose leadership their nomadic way of life undergoes significant changes. Bound together in a unique love triangle that will span their lives, Bolormaa, Ganbaatar, and Aisin face these changes with courage and sometimes, with fear, and their journey of self-discovery and self-determination amidst the challenges and brutalities of life is an extraordinary tale of hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit.
“A beautiful and engrossing read, Erin Jamieson’s Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams paints a complex and captivating portrait of people and their ways of life in an isolated, rarely examined swath of the planet.” – IndieReader $2.99 on Kindle.
The Committee Will Kill You Now: A Novel
The gripping new book from the author of The Algorithm Will See You Now. Based on the true-life rationing of kidney dialysis in 1960s America, a medical intern in 1992 Seattle tries to leave his painful past behind, only to uncover a shocking truth of thirty years prior and the lasting, generational harm of hidden secrets
After a co-intern dies by suicide, a grieving Noah Meier commits an accidental error. In a desperate move to save his patient’s life, he covertly seeks help from audacious surgical resident Marah Maddox, igniting a bond between them.
When the hospital is suspiciously quick to sweep everything under the rug, Noah turns to his late father’s journal for guidance and makes a chilling discovery, all while trying to stay out of the crosshairs of abusive Dr. Rankel, keen to make an example of Noah. Worse, Rankel clearly has it out for Marah as the only woman in her program.
As the hospital’s patriarchal power structures, and the truth about his father’s past, threaten Noah and Marah’s burgeoning relationship, Noah will have to choose: shoulder his father’s devastating legacy or create his own daring future.
The latest sensational page-turner from physician-author JL Lycette, The Committee Will Kill You Now is a riveting historical suspense about the inner workings of the medical world and the personal struggles of those within it.
A thrilling near-historical drama that exposes the dark side of the medical establishment and a must-read for anyone interested in medicine, ethics, and the human struggle for justice. $0.99 on Kindle.
Atlantis Pyramids Floods
Platos Atlantis is a true story! Now you can learn where it was located, how it was destroyed, and when it happened. This book also shows the connection between the pyramids in Mexico and those in Egypt. It shows that Noahs Great Flood is a periodic event where the Atlantic Ocean floods the Mediterranean Basin. This periodic flooding kills off most of the brown skinned population in the area leaving mostly blacks in Africa and whites in Europe. Before the next major flood comes along, it takes only a few hundred years for all of Europe to turn white again and all of Africa to turn black again. Then it takes thousands of years before the population of the Mediterranean Basin turns brown again. The last flood is also the one that destroyed Atlantis. This book also shows how Edgar Cayces predicted, that the island of Atlantis would rise again, has come true. The island rose during the time Cayce predicted it would happen, but no one knew it was happening. Now it holds a prestigious gated community. $18.96 on Kindle.
Hobbadehoy Rising
Its 1854, and seventeen-year-old orphan, Pencil, yearns for more control of his life. Viewed as a hobbadehoyone in a state of limbo between boyhood and manhoodby his adult, criminal mentors, hes a field general for a pack of juvenile street rats in Lower Manhattan. Unexpectedly shipped out to Ohio, he finds a divided nation several hundred miles north of the Ohio River. Finding himself is no easy task as farm life may have enlarged his muscles, but it will take another stint in a different city for him to learn to trust before he becomes a man.
$4.99 on Kindle.
Beneath The Wayside Cross
In the summer of 1944, the Red Army began its liberation of the Baltic States. Like the other nations of Eastern Europe, the Baltics knew that in the Soviet lexicon liberation was a euphemism for occupation. Following in the wake of the army, the conscription gangs arrived and began gathering up young men to be thrown untrained and poorly equipped as replacements into the bloody fight against the desperate Germans. Rather than fight and die for the hated Soviet Union, many of these young men went into hiding. Young Kazimieras Viltautaitas and two of his friends were among these fugitives. After running afoul of the Soviet NKVD, he decides that simply hiding is no longer an option. He elects to go into the forest and join the partisans in their fight against the despised occupiers of his country. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Legend Is Born
This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is W0tto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction.
Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Namdik, a wet atoll in the southern rain belt of the Ralik Chain. As Lainjin’s surrogate mother, she will sail with the infant by outrigger canoe in the company of his maternal grandfathers. These kind men had recently helped the W0tto Islanders overcome the terrible drought that typically follows a typhoon. With the trade-wind season approaching, it’s soon time to complete their voyage. The grandfathers begin teaching Helkena the traditional navigational arts along the way.
Her goal is to get her tattoos on Namdik and, in time, to find a man there to take home to Wotto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren desert island?
Far from being a simple story, this colorful, romantic tale presents a surprising background to the lovemaking culture of the Marshall Islands. It also reveals the early years of young Lainjin, the hero of the Legends of Lainjin historical literary fiction series
The Model Spy
Enter the glamorous yet perilous world of model-turned spy Toto Koopman in Mussolini’s World War II Italy. THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. As the war entered its final stages, she faced off against the most brutal of forces—Germany’s Intelligence Service, the Abwehr.
The Lady and the Minstrel
A lowborn minstrel with a dangerous past. A highborn lady with a scandalous inheritance. Their forbidden love may cost them everything.
In 13th century England, Robert Marcel makes a daring escape from his life as a serf and takes up the trade of a minstrel. If he can evade capture for a year and a day, his freedom becomes legal. The last thing he needs is the complication of falling in love. But his caution crumbles when he lays eyes on Lady Marguerite of Winbourne.
Lady Marguerite is heiress to a controversial inheritance. The only man willing to overlook the dangerous precedent it sets is the arrogant and cruel Earl of Saxton. Marguerite finds solace in the company of the handsome minstrel who sings at her betrothal dinner. Despite his humble birth, Roberts gentle courting quickly wins her heart.
Robert and Marguerite pledge their lives to one another. But before they can act on their vows Robert is swept up in a war with France. Serving as a footsoldier in King Johns camp, he stumbles upon a secret that could destroy Saxtons nefarious influence over the king and end his betrothal to Marguerite. But Saxton has an allyRoberts former lord, who is determined to drag Robert back to the fields.
If Robert returns to England, he may lose his dream of freedom. If he remains in France, he will lose Marguerite. Can the fearless minstrel outwit his enemies to win both freedom and love? $0.99 on Kindle.
Joshua and the Chosen People
Joshua has inherited leadership of the Israelites and the divine imperative to provide them a homeland entirely their own. Before him, Jericho and the nations of Canaan glimmer with arms, wealth and impure blood. Can the soft-hearted Joshua clean away the pagans? Can his virtue persevere in the face of Israel’s fearsome destiny? Can the Chosen People remain good so long as they remain chosen? Joshua and the Chosen People is a fictional retelling of the conquest of the Holy Land. Firmly committed to portraying the humanity of both conquerors and conquered, Joshua and the Chosen People will make you question the value of “proud heritage” and the nature of goodness. $2.99 on Kindle.
Delicatus
The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow’s Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history’s wildest characters.
The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from “puer delicatus” to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena.
World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow weaves a vivid adventure about one of the most colorful personalities in ancient Rome. Delicatus, the first volume in a trilogy, speaks of Sporus, from his enslavement by pirates in a remote corner of the Empire to his meeting with the great satirist Petronius and the woman to whom he bears a striking resemblance, the beautiful Poppaea with her manipulative plans to seduce the Emperor Nero and become Divine Empress. $2.99 on Kindle.
Riding With Forrest
My Mother’s Friend
The year is 1944
Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mothers death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is friendship with a German POW who shares her passion for music.
After she is recruited as the accompanist for the POW choir, Phee begins to spend more time with her new friend who she initially considers the enemy. But their friendship strengthens, and inevitably, they fall in love, a forbidden love. But Phee is a pastors daughter, and her conflicting feelings torment her. Can she set aside her conditioned beliefs and follow her heart? And if she does, what will be the result?
Their love deepens, but as the moment draws near for the POWs to leave Camp Algona after the war ends, Phee has a life-altering decision to make.
Read now for a moving historical fiction story set in small-town America during World War II. Young readers and adults alike will fall for this first-love story featuring age-gap angst, thrilling suspenseful nights, and impossible life decisions.My Mothers Friendcontains both a past storyline and a more contemporary one to tell its timeless story. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Bowman Boys
Winter’s Reckoning
Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has no use for ideas like “separation of the races” or “men as the superior sex.” There are many in her dying Southern Appalachian town who are upset by her socially progressive views, but for years—partly due to her late husband’s still-powerful influence, and partly due to her skill as a healer in a remote town with no doctor of its own—folks have been willing to turn a blind eye to her “transgressions.” Even Maddie’s decision to take on a Black apprentice goes largely unchallenged by her white neighbors.
Then a charismatic and power-hungry new reverend blows into town and begins to preach about the importance of racial segregation, placing Maddie and her friends in Jamesville’s Black community squarely in their sights. Maddie had better stop intermingling with Black folks, discontinue her herbalistic “witchcraft,” and leave town immediately. Faced with this decision, Maddie is terrified . . . and torn. Will she bow to their demands and walk away—leaving behind all that she’s built, or will she stay and fight for all that she loves? $8.99 on Kindle.
The Little Cottage in the Pines
In a delightful holiday story that stretches through eras, generations and families, the author cleverly connects historically based stories into one continuing tale built around a snow globe that comes to be passed along. Through it, the reader discovers a window into the lives and souls of those who once owned the precious item and eventually propelled it forward from the 18th century until the present time. Filled with humor and warm sentiment as well as stirring situations with which we all connect, Jamison delivers a moving storyline that has been said is impossible to set down for even a moment. $3.42 on Kindle.
Martha’s Cove
The only survivor of a 1800s shipwreck, Polly was barely old enough to speak when she was rescued off Marthas Cove, Nova Scotia. Her adoptive family named her after the cove, forbidding her speaking of her former life. A hard-scrabble life awaits her, saved only by her new brother, Joseph. Meanwhile, her grandfather, who had sent for his English daughters family to come to the New World, is tormented by the shipwreck. After fifteen years, are their paths destined to cross? $0.99 on Kindle.
England’s Martyr
1010 AD: England is dying, its people brutalized and its lands ravaged after wave after wave of Norse invaders. King Ethelred does little but sit on his throne, haunted by his troubled past and easy prey for his manipulative advisors, leaving his subjects to fend for themselves. Unwilling to stand by and do nothing, a famous Ealdorman, Ulfcytel of Eastengle, has gathered an army, ready to fight and die rather than capitulate to the latest invader: a brutal “Jomsviking” warlord known as Thorkell the Tall. To Ulfcytel’s surprise, his army is soon joined by a stranger from the south, Alaric, who has rushed to assist him in the hope that England might finally prevail. Unbeknownst to Alaric and Ulfcytel, their efforts to save their people have gained the attention of their disturbed and ill-advised king, setting in motion a chain of events that they, and all England, can only hope to endure. $2.99 on Kindle
Simon Son Of Star
When one man raises his sword against the world biggest empire in a quest against all odds to free his people, a battle that will be written on the pages of history rages on. This heroic 2000 year old story follows Son of Star leader of the second rebellion through the fierce battles and the battle of the minds against mighty Rome.
$11.49 on Kindle.
Free: Way of the Viper: The Samurai Cowboys – Book Two
Way of the Viper
Cade Wilson is a troubled man. The shadows of his past are haunting him, and he knows he must make things right––but he feels so far away from where he started and no closer to where his heart belongs.
As Viper, he was one of three elite warriors trained by a deadly samurai from Japan to fight in the service of their Benefactor, and honor bound to expand and defend their master’s landholdings in the New Mexico Territory.
Then Cade experienced love and a glimpse of the normal life he so desperately wants. But to have love and a family of his own, he must escape the life of eternal servitude.
Now he is the last of the samurai cowboys, and the blood on his hands cannot be undone. His Benefactor seeks retribution and will stop at nothing to see that Viper does not interfere with his business.
To be free, Cade must take a dangerous journey to confront his Benefactor and face Toshi, their master’s personal bodyguard and the man who taught him the way of the samurai.
But Cade is not alone. He discovers that he’s not the only one with a wounded heart or a painful past, and he will need to trust his new friends to find his way and survive with big game hunters on his trail.
Way of the Viper is the second action-packed book in The Samurai Cowboys series. Free on Kindle.
Free: When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story
“A surprisingly hopeful look at how betrayal, loss, and guilt can change the lives of a community and shape history”
–Booklife
This fact-based historical novel takes us beyond the witch trials to tell a larger story of what happened in Salem Village.
In 1692, Ann Putnam is a central figure in the trials that bring devastation to the village and deep divisions among its people
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Five years later, in love and eager to marry, Joseph Green takes on the ministry that no one else wants and sets about healing the village.
Together they will make an appeal that might finally unite their bitterly divided community.
Iron Scars : A Novel of the Spartan Empire
WHAT IF SPARTA RULED AN EMPIRE?
Free: Moonlight Runner
In 1920, rum running could make a man rich. It could also get him dead. Garrett O’Donnell was willing to take the risk.
Bentley Chance is a retired lieutenant with over thirty years at a mid-size Washington police department. His assignments included patrol, traffic, street crimes, S.W.A.T. and narcotics followed by commands in every division of the department.
Although fictional, his books are heavily influenced by extensive training and experience. With the exception of certain historical figures, the characters are products of imagination. Many real locations and businesses are mentioned. This is not to suggest any involvement in actual crimes. They are used only as a setting within which the stories take place.
The author dedicates these books to the men and women of law enforcement who risk their lives to protect us each and every day. Free on Kindle.
Free: Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Take a deep dive into Darcy’s point of view!!! Prizewinning historical fiction – not pure romance – also, a starred Editor’s Pick on PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. (“Should Elizabeth Bennet refuse me again, I shall have to wed – as I swore I never would – for dynasty alone. For I shall only ever love Elizabeth Bennet.” Free on Kindle.