A decade after being abandoned by her unstable mother, twenty-four-year-old Tessa Tremblay has one goal—to find an independent life she can call her own. But just as she moves away from her hometown and her father’s little beachside diner—both having sustained her, as well as driven her away—she learns the devastating news. Her father is battling cancer—and losing.Traveling from one corner of Massachusetts to another each week, Tessa begins to research non-traditional medicine with the assistance of an intriguing new friend. She commits to doing whatever it takes to help her dad, but as he pushes her efforts aside, Tessa questions whether she has the strength and patience—especially when unresolved feelings of loss rise to the surface.Is love and determination enough to restore her father’s health, even when he has given up hope? And can that same love and determination heal her own scarred heart? $1.99 on Kindle.
The Kurdish Bike
For Kite Runner fans. An American teacher takes a job in Kurdish Iraq in 2010. Befriended by villagers, she shares the joys and trials of these brave but little-known people. Honor killings and mutilations challenge her cultural tolerance. Based on a true story. Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction in 2017, Independent Publishers. 5 stars from SF and Manhattan Book Reviews. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Kurdish Bike
For Kite Runner fans. An American teacher takes a job in Kurdish Iraq in 2010. Befriended by villagers, she shares the joys and trials of these brave but little-known people. Honor killings and mutilations challenge her cultural tolerance. Based on a true story. Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction in 2017, Independent Publishers. 5 stars from SF and Manhattan Book Reviews.
Killing the Devil
Understanding the Alacran
Run Between the Raindrops
Nearly half a century has passed since Marine veteran Dale Dye fought in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. That brutal experience prompted him to write a searing, critically acclaimed novel about the surreal experiences of the battle to wrest control of Vietnam’s ancient Imperial capital from regiments of fanatical North Vietnamese Army soldiers. The story is told through the eyes of a veteran Marine Corps Combat Correspondent with the observational skills and off-beat attitude to relate what he sees from the close-quarter, house-to-house meat-grinder of the southside to the epic assault on the enemy-infested walls of the city’s medieval Citadel in a voice that reflects the Code of the Grunt: Just do it—or die trying. There it is. $1.99 on Kindle.
Gaia’s Majesty – Mission Called: Women in Power
Our earth mother, Gaia, was intrigued by clever creatures developing on her Earth. She believed they held promise but also danger for themselves and her planet.To safeguard the future of her planet Gaia selected a gifted population of women. They were given the mission to be stewards of Earth and to protect the future of humankind. Some of them live in cities in the sea. Mermaids represent sightings of them. Others live on the land and among them are a defense force of women called the Andromeda. Gaia’s Majesty—Mission Called tells the story of us as we descend into ever greater social and environmental crises. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Unleashed
John Chase has just arrived in Atlanta on a routine business trip. When he wakes the next morning, John is shocked to learn that America has been savagely attacked with both nuclear and biochemical weapons. He is immediately thrown into an apocalyptic horror, rescuing a young woman from a group of men who are in a violent rage as a result of the release of a devastating neurotoxin. His path is clear. Survive and fight his way across the continent to reunite with his wife as society disintegrates into savagery and millions of people become raging infected, roaming unchecked in their pursuit of the dwindling number of survivors. But survival will be the hardest task he has ever undertaken. Free on Kindle.
Beautiful Mess
Free: Cold Plate Special
Jarvis is certain that a healthy confrontation with the child molester who abused him when he was a boy is the answer to all of his problems, so he heads to Richmond, Virginia to face his former tormentor. But he gets side-tracked along the way, and his narrow world is blown open by an assortment of off-the-wall characters, including a tattooed punk rock mannequin artist who inspires him with her fearless appetite for life. When the climactic confrontation with the defiant pedophile becomes a chaotic exercise in firearms, corkscrews, bitch slaps and mannequin sex, Jarvis discovers that he will never be the same again. Free on Kindle.
Free: A Dog’s Luck
Lures
The lure of fame draws a meme detective to a hostile sports arena in Philadelphia. The chance to earn their father’s love lures his children to an electronic necromancer. The lure of vengeance causes a man to invite his best friend to an ill-fated fishing trip. These are the stories in “Lures,” a collection of short fiction and poems by John DiFelice. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Full Moon
With blood banks at frighteningly low levels, Canadian prime minister Harper Collins’ top-secret health plan would scare the Saskatoon out of Saskatchewan. Simply put, he’s recruited a pair of Draganesti dracs to suck the nation’s blood. There’s one small problem. Bogdan Moldovan can’t stand the stuff. Free on Kindle.
Social Hill
THINGS FALL INTO PLACE, BUT NOT BEFORE THEY FALL APART. Tony is a bipolar stay-at-home veteran and father with a real anger management problem. When his wife and mother set him up for a fall, will he be able to rescue his kids and find new love or will he self-destruct, and take everyone else down with him? $0.99 on Kindle.
Amadea, One Spring in France
Shrink, The Unravelling of Jonothan King
Jonothan King has it all. Good looks, sharp intellect and the most successful practice in the city. Jonothan prides himself on his ability to help others, while personally soaring above the challenges of regular people. That is, until a number of clients begin to open cracks in his life that he never knew existed, and his perfect world begins to unravel. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Modern Slavery and the Gods of Consumption
Wish I Were Here
Savannah Waters, a 40 yr old Los Angeles artist, never expected to ride through the Alps on the back of her rugged doctor’s Harley in pursuit of her stolen nude self-portrait, when her world was turned upside down. After her x-boyfriend died of a drug overdose, she endures a nauseating intervention, AA, and even jail time before meeting her dream doc, who invites her on the adventure of a lifetime. But, once Savannah embarks on this trip, it turns out to be a wacky ride with a bunch of wealthy weirdos and nothing turns out the way she expected it to. $2.99 on Kindle.
Ancestors
Exciting and compelling, Ancestors journeys 40,000 years into our own dark and forgotten past. Nyriaana is an orphan of the Achalaja race. Watched over by her friend and Forbidden half-breed, Juaan, the pair are inseparable. When fate tears everything she held dear apart, Nyriaana must choose between love and loyalty when survival may go against everything she was once taught to believe… $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: My Name Is Thank-You
This powerful first novel is heart wrenching, poetically unsettling, and has the potential to brighten our entire outlook on the life we live. My Name Is Thank-You meticulously weaves together the lives of two very different thirteen-year-old girls. We follow them into a world of chaos, contrasting continuously from light to dark.
To Thank-You, the world is full of promise. Despite being raised an orphan, she carries within her the ability to find the beauty in any situation.
To Josephine, the world is a sad and lonely place. Although born into wealth, she is plagued by a life wrought with abuse. We follow their journeys into self-discovery, forgiveness, and ultimately redemption, finding bits and pieces of ourselves along the way and getting a first-hand look at what freedom truly looks like.
Their stories are our stories; their voices are our voices, teaching us that no matter the circumstances we may be facing, perspective is everything. This is the kind of story that will have you smiling through your tears and asking yourself, “How can I become a light?” Free on Kindle.
Reunion
In Reunion, author Richard Kimbrough presents the lives of the 39 graduates of the Condon Springs High School Class of ’49, as the twelve surviving members of the class gather for their 65th class reunion. Whether recognized by the graduates or not, each one of them is irrevocably changed by one or two—big or small—events in their lives. Full of humor and poignancy, Reunion will delight readers as the mysteries and ironies of the lives of the graduates unfold before them. $0.99 on Kindle.
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all. He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become. Are voters really ready for the whole truth? Are you? Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Bay of Shadows
How far would you go for love?
In a rambling house in a small Australian beach town, Elena Jameson is recovering from her recent divorce. To her delight, she is given the opportunity to foster a little boy, Daniel, whose mother is dead and whose violent father is in rehab. As Elena and Daniel explore the beautiful bay and wild bushland, they form a profound bond that will change their lives forever. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Shadow of Silver Birch
Tanks are rapidly approaching Riga, Latvia, and a family must decide what to do. Juris, the father, finds a love that sustains him from Siberia to the new postwar Latvia. Laura has left for Spain with a Division Azul soldier who was sent to fight in Russia. Olga escapes Latvia but ends up in a displaced persons camp in Germany until she and her family immigrate to Canada. All three reinvent their lives in this exceptional story of love and war. Free on Kindle.
The Man With Two Names
Quintus Sertorius was once Rome’s greatest hero, now he is her most dangerous enemy. He now tells his story from the beginning, from the treacherous Forum of Rome to the violent forests of Gaul. He recalls how he became friends and enemies of the most powerful men in Rome as he is forced to decide what risks he is willing to take, and what compromises he is willing to make, as he attempts to serve Rome and its people. $0.99 on Kindle.