Flames Should Be Private is the exciting new first published poetry book by Irish author Kaylan Downes. The diverse range of poems delve into the themes of sexuality, identity, love, race, mental illness, and war. Kaylan reaches out to his audience in the hope of sparking a change in the way they view poetry. $2.99 on Kindle.
Tangled Lights and Silent Nights
Read for a cause!-Twenty talented, award-winning, and bestselling authors have crafted never before released Yuletide-themed tales about their most beloved characters. All proceeds from sales will benefit the LifeAfter-Visions of Hope project to help suicide prevention, domestic violence, and substance abuse. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Crossing
In the summer of 1983, Rafael Gregorio, a poor Cuban fisherman, loaded his small family into a makeshift boat and escaped Communist Cuba forever. Their ultimate destination: Key West, Florida–a mere 90 miles away. But first they had to cross the treacherous waters of the Gulf Stream.
This is their story.
An epic adventure that has Rafael and his family battling deadly sharks, fighting hunger and thirst, as well as nearly being tossed into the ocean by a massive tropical storm.
At around 150 pages in length, The Crossing is a novella of classic simplicity in every way, reminiscent of Hemingway’s, The Old Man and the Sea, or Steinbeck’s, The Pearl. The story explores the themes of love and family, courage in the face of danger, triumph in the face of loss, as well as showing us what one family is willing to endure in their quest for freedom. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Death (and Sometimes Life) of Barthalamew Buckett
The epic tale of a young man who falls in love with every woman he meets and the consequences of a constantly breaking heart. Barthalamew Buckett provides for a unique story, told in a Dickensian era and style, complete with a dark and subtle humor and a quieted but emotional twist in the final act. $3.99 on Kindle.
Love Into Eternity
Whispers Among The Prairie
The Wild West comes alive in this historical fiction novel set in the 1860’s. Come and join the journey and be involved in the adventure with Black Kettle, the Southern Cheyenne Chief who tries to keep peace with the army and settlers who encroach on their land. His adopted daughter, Morning Dove befriends a US Cavalry Captain Clinton McKay. What will happen to their friendship? Will it turn into much more? The answers lie throughout the prairie lands. $6.33 on Kindle.
Surfer, Sailor, Smuggler: Tales of Living
Two boys growing up together in a small California town are the best of friends. One conforms to his parents’ wishes and follows a preset path to a career; the other creates his own path, sailing the world, surfing and smuggling drugs to Hawaii. Watch their lives diverge and reconnect through the years with tales of action and adventure, brushes with the law, Mexican cartels, and lost families and friends. Do they regret their lifestyles and the consequences of their choices as they approach old age? $5.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Madness of Grief
The Wildes of the West #2
It’s Mexican mayhem as sinister sex traffickers, banditos and a murderous, masked madman are only the beginning when beauties, bad hombres and plenty of bullets mix it up in the part one of the Danger Down Mexico Way trilogy.
Settling into her new life in 1913 Arizona Allie Mastluehr is plunged deeper into the 1870’s escapades of the Wilde sisters and their forays south of the border fraught with danger, intrigue and a healthy dose of sexual adventuring. Enthralled by Catalina and Cassandra’s battle to stop the terror of The Reaper of the Rio Sangre Allie also finds herself in a war of her own against the family of her new love Connor Kincaid and before all is said and done the Wildes will live or die as the shocking secret of Cedar Ledge will be revealed the very secret that helped lead Allie to the desolate ruins of Half Breed Haven. $0.99 on Kindle.
Queenie’s Teapot
A post-Brexit, post-Trump romp through the world of what-if…
In a world where democracy has been declared no longer fit for purpose, a cohort of randomly-selected British Republic citizens receive their call to serve in parliament. As the strangers gather to learn their tasks for the next three years, the Cabinet Support Team try to fit jobs to skills—but Queenie can’t do nuffin’. Naturally she becomes head of state. Together the new government muddles through, tackling unrest on the streets and a spot of global bioterrorism in addition to their own journeys of self-discovery. $3.92 on Kindle.
Called Back – Act One
In the midst of soaring success, young theatre darling Kit Lasslin suddenly vanishes from the spotlight. She reappears months later, without explanation and hardly recognizable as she closes the door on her dreams. But when her daughter finds an old script and unwittingly unearths Kit’s secret, the entire theatre community is dragged to its knees in reckoning. $0.99 on Kindle.
One, No One & 100,000
Nobel prize-winning Luigi Pirandello’s classic novel on the nature of identity brims with sly humor, compelling drama, and skillfully depicted, oddly modern characters—all capped with timeless insight into the fragile human psyche.
Vitangelo Moscarda (aka Gengè), 20-something banker’s son, discovers that his wife (and everyone else) sees him quite differently from how he sees himself, sending him down a precipitous path to obsession and madness. He comes to a painful realization that leads him to totally rethink his life and make some drastic changes. Is he truly crazy? Or perhaps more sane than anyone else?
This new, modern translation gives the 1926 Italian classic a fresh, accessible American voice. $1.49 on Kindle.
Free: Murphy’s Luck
Master of a thousand hobbies, but cursed from birth with bewildering luck, Murphy Drummer goes in search of a luck-free zone where the world will be spared from his mystifying jinx. Along the way, he stumbles into charmed Joy Daley, whimsically upending her world and that of everyone in it. Love lucks. Free on Kindle.
Thorns
To Anton
No one ever said that love is easy. Sometimes is the most difficult battle a woman has to take.When you decide it’s enough? That you suffered to your limit? How can you decide to leave the man you love more than anything in the world?
“I loved you madly, passionately, with blood. I hated you worse. I cursed you, and I adored you. I have never been able to be indifferent to you. I always vibrated at you, in shades of colors, from the red of jealousy to yellow sunny summer days where we first met and to the purple starry nights of love. You were my hope, light, heat. And also the worst hole, my emptiness.” $0.99 on Kindle.
Motorbikes and Camels
Diverse characters. Diverse tales. Sometimes intertwining.
There is Salma, facing a spiritual crisis in a Middle Eastern country steeped in dogma; Hussam – a billionaire’s son who tries but fails to conceal his gay relationship; Mohammed, a bigamist, grasping tightly to antiquated patriarchal ideals at the expense of his love life; Mike, who adopts cultural appropriation to provide him with a stable foundation when his world collapses; and the remaining characters, one per chapter, revealing the impact of collective thought matrices on the individual and vice versa. Motorbikes and Camels is a timely book that begs the question, offered to the reader by author Al-Yagout, via one of the protagonists, Zayna: Am I who I am because of my culture? $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Blue Almond Eyes
Blue Almond Eyes is a historical fiction novel based on a true life story. A story about defying society’s expectations, racism and discrimination.
The story weaves back and forth through time, in three countries and over four generations reflecting societal attitudes on both sides.
Whilst the story is unique, it is also universal. It’s an epic story of survival, tragedy, struggle, of the burning desire to belong, and how ultimately, Love transcends all. 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: If Kisses Cured Cancer
If Kisses Cured Cancer is a story about life in a growing coastal town, falling in love and stealing shopping trolleys.
Matt Pearce is depressed, working an uninspiring job and lacking any prospect of dragging his life out of mediocrity. That is until he meets Joy: a cancer survivor who lives beyond the rules of normal people.
As the pair go on a series of unusual dates – from hijacking fish n chip orders, to ‘extreme people watching’ at the airport – their love for each other grows. But Joy’s past is about to catch up with her, and a hidden secret could tear the two apart forever.
If Kisses Cured Cancer is a quirky look at finding love in unlikely places. It is about the importance of connecting with those around you, enjoying every moment and not being afraid to go skinny dipping in the forest.
It will have you in tears of joy, tears of sorrow and tears of laughter. Free on Kindle.
A Dog Story
In “A Dog Story,” a Los Angeles woman going through a divorce visits her soon-to-be-ex-husband on Mother’s Day and gets their dog, Scrappy, for the day. That dog changes everything.
This story is part of a series of new tales from Christopher Meeks of modern life in America. Meeks continues here with his trademark insight and humor. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Grizzly Creek Massacre
Following on from his recent Western successes! Discover something new and exciting from bestselling author Russ Towne. These are Western adventures that are filled with guns, guts and the spirit of the Old West.
The Grizzly Creek Massacre
Four young men in the cavalry witness a mutiny and brutal murder and are chased by their sadistic sergeant and his men through hostile Indian territory until they make a desperate stand at Grizzly Creek.
Hoodwinked
A crooked rancher tries to hoodwink a young man into buying a nearly worthless piece of land.
Desperation
A four-year-long drought tests the mettle of two friends and neighbors as they face the complete loss of a lifetime of work, and, perhaps much worse.
Saddle Buddies
Meeting in St. Louis, Sam and Joe head toward gold country. They encounter a 2,000-mile journey is full of hardship and danger on their 2,000-mile journey.
Fool’s Gold
A beautiful woman and her fiancé create the perfect scam for fleecing mining camps full of lonely men out of their hard-earned gold, but they learn the hard way that betrayal can be a two-headed coin.
If you love the great Western adventures of Paul L. Thompson, C. Wayne Winkle, Robert Hanlon and Scott Harris—you’ll love this new, exciting release from Russ Towne! $0.99 on Kindle.
Triangle of Hope
If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. Filled with grit and determination, these three people with three different problems, an unlikely trio of unexpected allies, converge in a small Irish town to form a Triangle of Hope against all odds. Together they take a courageous stand that will forever change their world and that around them. $0.99 on Kindle.
Fortune’s Son
Heads you win. Tails you die…Can one man’s revenge become his redemption? Set against a backdrop of wild Tasmania, Australian Gold, and African diamonds, Fortune’s Son is an epic story of betrayal, undying love and one man’s struggle to triumph over adversity and find his way home.
Fortune’s Son is the first book in the Tasmanian Tales trilogy. Buy it now to discover why Jennifer Scoullar is one of Australia’s favorite story-tellers! $0.99 on Kindle.
Model Marine
In this vivid multi-character narration, a teenage model abandons her destiny to become a U.S. Marine. Determined to prove that she is more than a pretty face, she uses her journalistic prowess and tenacity to eliminate the boundaries that confine her and reveal the strength of the warrior spirit. $0.99 on Kindle.
Whispers Among The Prairie
Historical fiction set in the colorful American West era. Join Chief Black Kettle on his plight to keep the peace with the US cavalry. His adopted daughter Morning Dove develops an unforeseen friendship with Captain Clinton McKay. Will their friendship turn into love or will they stay on opposing sides? Come and find out in “Whispers Among The Prairie” $6.64 on Kindle.