Pamela Taylor brings her love of history to the art of story-telling. An avid reader of historical fact and fiction throughout her life, she finds the past offers rich sources for character, ambiance, and plot that allow readers to escape into a world totally unlike their daily lives. This box set features the first three books for Second Son. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Walking with a Joystick: A Spiritual Adventure
This book is a nonfiction wrapped in a fiction. In India, most of the ancient literature also used this kind of setting. A small entertaining story is weaved around the more important topics. The important part is always explaining some core issues of our existence. But they are always presented in a question-answer manner. So a need for this discussion is created in the story; and then instead of just giving a lecture, an entertaining dialogue ensues. The same tradition is followed in this book as well. The various topics of jealousy, ego, attachment, contentment, doubt, illusion, and happiness are raised as part of the story. Free on Kindle.
Free: Nineteen Hundred Days
Twelve-year-old Ben panics when his parents don’t come home from work. Having been raised to believe that the police and CPS are the enemy, he will do anything to avoid foster homes for him and his sister. Unfortunately, their incredible journey to evade the authorities brings them into contact with people who may not have their best interests at heart. Free on Kindle.
Free: Apart from Love
Apart from Love is not your typical love story. All-consuming, heart-wrenching, and dark, it is an epic that starts when Ben returns to meet his father, Lenny, and his new wife. It is then that he discovers a family secret. Will Ben and Anita find a path out of conflicts, out of isolation, from guilt to forgiveness? Free on Kindle.
Free: Finger of an Angel
After a romp in a North London wood, 60-odd-year-old Lily drives off and takes a wrong turn. As she follows the meandering road in a state of dehydration, she experiences a series of encounters with angels and demons and ghosts from the past. “Erudite, richly layered, and unsettling” — Kirkus Reviews. Free on Kindle.
Free: Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour
What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies? A heartbreaking story that will leave you gripped about courage and finding freedom through adversity.
An intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets. A family desperate to preserve their honor, but will Eleanor find her own golden truth? Free on Kindle.
Spellbinder
A genuine and charismatic believer simply known as “Preacher,” returns from the foxholes and horrors of Vietnam with a simple goal: to spread the word of peace, love and charity. “The Church,” as his mobile flock is now known, is a culture that centers as much on sex and drugs as prayers, sacraments and salvation. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Hack
It’s the scoop of a lifetime – if he can write it before they kill him.
Meet Llew Sabler, an outrageous newspaper reporter who makes more news than he writes.
When he’s arrested for a disgraceful fake-news stunt, a repentant Llew becomes a public hate figure and is left facing prison.
Then his heart is shattered when his best friend steals the girl he loves.
With his life in ruins, Llew unearths a shocking and dangerous story. But he knows it’s more than a story. It’s a death or glory shot at redemption. Free on Kindle.
The Cause of Darkness – A Story of the Civil War
‘The Cause of Darkness’ is the story of a 16-year-old boy named Teddy Miller set during the last full-year of the American Civil War. Teddy lives with his father and brother in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They lead more-or-less normal lives even while the War rages around them.
But everything changes when their farm is burned, and Teddy’s father is arrested and sentenced to hang for espionage. Teddy’s single-minded quest to save his father reads like a grand adventure, full of gunfights, horse chases and 19th-century justice. There is even a beautiful Pinkerton detective who plays a major role in Teddy’s exploits. But nearly all the adult characters act solely in their own self-interest and few have Teddy’s welfare at heart. Left without adult guidance, Teddy takes actions to save his father which have consequences that he cannot fully comprehend; and it is the consequences of these actions that drive the novel to its conclusion. $4.99 on Kindle.
Fargo Burns
“Fargo Burns, the madly baffled, restless and beguiling subject of Kos Kostmayer’s compelling novel, bounces like a pinball between excell and sobriety-as do we, his unsettled readers. Kosymayer’s visceral account of one man’s quest for quiet normality is dark, tense, playful and deeply affecting.”-Jim Crace, author of Being Dead See price on Kindle.
The Silver Baron’s Wife
Hers is the tale of a fiercely independent woman who bucked all social expectations by working where 19thcentury women didn’t work, becoming the key figure in one of the West’s most scandalous love triangles, and, after a devastating stock market crash destroyed Tabor’s vast fortune, living in eccentric isolation at the Matchless Mine. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: POLK, HARPER & WHO
After ten years together, and in spite of some difficult times, Adam and Eva are still as in love as they were when they told each other every day that they loved each other every day more. But a police visit and then a dinner party invitation threaten to unravel all they hold dear. “Beautifully encapsulates what love is.” – Kirkus Reviews. Free on Kindle.
Second Chances
Connection Lost – An Anthology of Zen Poetry in Urban Settings
Where are you right now? What surrounds you? How does it feel? We got used to looking at ourselves and other human and non-human things as functional objects which exist only as long as they fulfill a purpose. But what is it that lets us be? What is it that keeps us alive? A pun on technology and the true essence of being, Connection Lost is a sensory journey from a back yard in London to the Amazon jungle – a bunch of thoughts and written images that will keep you company in the city, in the woods, by the seashore, on the train. Written in English with Italian parallel text, 15 poems and a short essay will take you on a journey into awareness, oneness, through the city, the nature, around self, art and poetry, Covid-19 and isolation. With influences ranging from Heidegger to Timothy Morton, from Ezra Pound to Matsuo Bash?, with Douglas Wood in between, the author tries to carry out what appears to be the essential task of poetry: to let the world that’s already there emerge and become visible to the reader through language.
Available in Kindle and paperback edition. Please note, the Italian edition is written in English too, the text is bilingual. See price on Kindle.
Free: The Green House
The green house is more than a greenhouse. 7 flowers, 7 colors, 7 meanings, and one 37-year-old secret—the green house is the keeper of it all. Its creator, Girard Remington, is a fragile elderly man whose life was shattered by a tragedy nearly four decades ago. And when tragedy strikes again—this time to his beloved wife—he struggles to cope. Free on Kindle.
Forbidden Woman
WARNING: This book is set in South Texas, 1920s-1950s. The author has gone to great lengths to present this story in a historically accurate fashion, right down to the going rate for a woman’s time in any given year. Another result of historical accuracy, however, is that certain uncivilized words are used in this book. Perhaps we aren’t so civilized after all.
January 26, 1926, Houston, Texas. Lucille Wilkes’ husband has disappeared, leaving the sixteen-year-old woman to bring their child into this hell alone. Though penniless, Lucille cannot turn to her parents for help, and without access to a man’s pocketbook, a pious society dictates she spends her life honorably subsisting.
Virtue, however, is overrated.
Money equals freedom, but the cost of a gold coin may be more than Lucille thinks, at least when it comes to her daughter, Rosemary. On the other hand, Lucille didn’t want the child in the first place. Or did she dare think such a thing?
As it turns out, right just might be wrong. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Rock and the Raindrop: A Space in Time
Metaphysics, Philosophy, Spirituality, Whimsy. When opposite worlds collide, sparks fly, pitching a rock and a raindrop full tilt into an unexpected but welcome quest of discovery. Replete with poetic charm, this delightful tale is an exploration of the many ways God reveals Himself to us through nature, that, and the nature of our greatest gift, free will–messy but…$0.99 on Kindle.
Eastbound from Flagstaff
Simon is running from a lie, intent on believing his own perseverance can overcome anything. He abandons his roots & hides behind his charm, living every moment as if life’s daring him to fail–again. He’s reckoning with his father’s God who could’ve delivered better outcomes but didn’t. The first installment in an epic trilogy that begins in the 1920’s. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Unscrambled Eggs
Beneath the Mulberry Tree
Jimmy Watson dreamt of retiring to a small farm in the country. After a lifetime of building a successful business, his dream becomes a reality. He has traded in the stress of deadlines for the calm grazing cows in a summer field.
But when Jimmy suddenly becomes plagued with a series of nightmares, he must decide between his peaceful life and a path he cannot yet understand. It is a choice that will eventually lead to the most important question of his life: which is greater, life or love? Will Jimmy choose tranquility or unimaginable pain?
The answer lies beneath the mulberry tree. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour
What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?
Writer’s Digest Awards 2020 Finalist in Mainstream Literary Fiction
Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour. Free on Kindle
McCabe’s Luck
Jake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Some have said the McCabe family is known best for their run of bad luck.
Jake decides to move to central Texas, along with a beautiful neighbor lady and her family. They all hope for peaceful days and happier times in their new home, but sometimes trouble just seems to follow a man. Luckily, having a new ranch to call your own and the love of a good woman are powerful incentives, and Jake knows how to fight for what is his. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees
Silvia Greco is broke and living with her father in New Jersey when her mother asks her for help in gathering their family to celebrate her younger brother’s high school graduation. Uniting her feuding family who haven’t been together in over six years and whose parents are newly separated is a truly great challenge. Can she make peace in her family and save them from devolving into families like those of her parents, with siblings who are estranged from one another? Find out while immersing in a world of unforgettable characters, humor, inspiration, and delicious food! “Best of List” in “Suspense Magazine!” Indie Reader’s 5-Star review says, “The author…manages to make us care about this family…All of the Grecos…are entertaining and their quirks are endearing.” Free on Kindle.
Free: Sweet Jane
After a broken childhood, Jane runs away at sixteen; returning for Mama’s funeral seventeen years later catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens. Free on Kindle.
Sins in Blue
A young man on a mission. An aging musician with a dream. Society perched over a racial divide. Sins in Blue is a novel about lost dreams, crippling grief, and the healing power of an unlikely friendship. It’s an engaging tale about two music lovers trying to set the historical record straight. $0.99 on Kindle.