When the prestigious law firm of Wayne, Rothstein, and Lincoln catches two major cases—a rape case where a White NBA star allegedly raped a Black stripper, and a murder case where a Black rapper allegedly killed a gay couple and two policemen—Bill O’Neil and Ben Turner are tasked to handle these racially charged litigations. The cases hit emotional chords with the two lawyers and force them to reckon with their interracial relationships and families. Will the racial tension of their cases destroy them or make them stronger? $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Sometimes I’m So Smart I Almost Feel Like a Real Person
Severe introvert by day, misguided dating guru by night, Harold starts a Youtube channel to workshop his elaborate strategies for seducing Emma, the girl of his dreams. But when he finally works up the courage to ask her out, he discovers that Emma is only using him to get fodder for her own dating blog – the one she’s set up to test ways to seduce Leopold. As it turns out, Leopold is actually one of Harold’s dedicated followers. When he savagely misunderstands and mis-applies Harold’s advice, he suddenly finds himself hugely successful with the ladies, Emma included. Free on Kindle.
Didn’t Get Frazzled
Free: The Road to Amistad
An unprecedented psychological change catapults people from all walks of life into an extraordinary new level of human consciousness. For most, this leads to confusion and heartache, but for some, it is their calling. They are a new breed of human: resilients. Their lives would be idyllic if not for a ruthless killer determined to end their existence. They have one thing in their favor, however: they never give up. Free on Kindle.
Wanna-be’s
With his new girlfriend – a soccer mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white and black, gay and straight, male and female, Jew and Gentile, Yuppie and militant, Payton flies higher and higher until the inevitable crash… $1.99 on Kindle.
Far Away Home
In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, solicitous Tim, good-natured, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran. Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses. The novel races through authentic experiences involving historical events until it erupts in an unexpected ending. In today’s troubled world, Far Away Home will make you believe no matter how many challenges fate sends your way, the human spirit can triumph. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: My Father’s House (Women’s Ficiton)
Still reeling from a childhood tragedy, Lily Rose Cates looks to marriage to fill the hole in her heart. But when that relationship turns dark, she must make hard choices. This is one woman’s compelling tale of love and survival as she makes her way back home to who she’s meant to be — in her father’s house. Free on Kindle.
Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
Kitchen Canary
Kitchen Canary is an historical fiction novel that follows the journey of two young immigrants. Katie O’Neil and Moira Murphy move from Ireland to Boston in 1868 to work as domestics (kitchen canaries), for the Brennan family. They become entangled in the family’s secrets and lies. The naïve women are unaware that their employer considers them his property. They suffer violation and humiliation and hide their secret to avoid rejection by their Church and families. $2.99 on Kindle.
Jesimae
Twins, Aedrik and Aedrian, and their younger sister, Ashdan, are the youngest to rule the criminal world of Western Jesimae in living memory. Aedrik’s defeat of the previous Rogue at only twenty-two has become legend in that part of country even just a few years later. King Besian’s alliance with their enemy ruling over the East has forced them to hatch a treasonous plot: to kidnap the Crown Prince and ransom him for information. The annual Royal Progress has provided the perfect opportunity. In a devastatingly unexpected betrayal, their plans are suddenly thrown to the winds and they are forced to improvise. Who could make their closest friend turn against them? Three half-magic siblings. A kidnapping resulting in a tentative friendship. A dizzying network of treachery. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Romantic’s Guide to Wilderness Survival
Billy Charbonneau, a charismatic young homeless man, flees Seattle for the rugged Cascade Mountains, accused of a crime he didn’t commit. He becomes stranded with Walt McCullough and Eleanor Sakamura, a conflictual yuppie couple who’ve come to the mountains for one last try at rekindling their relationship. These three, along with Max, a disfigured but plucky Cairn Terrier who’s adopted Billy, must share resources and work together to survive–or perish. Their struggles are complicated by a serious injury, an early snowfall, and an emerging love triangle. Are the ghostly bagpipes they hear in the night intent on leading them to safety–or into deeper peril? And could the enigmatic young woman who keeps appearing in Billy’s dreams hold the key to his future? Free on Kindle.
Embrace The Wind
What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own. Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right – it’s potentially deadly. This unlikely love story details real triumphs and tragedies from frontier women’s letters, diaries and newspapers of the day, and places Aislynn in the center of their history. Embrace the Wind illuminates an intimate picture of the American frontier, the story of the women who changed the West and helped forge the freedoms we enjoy today. $0.99 on Kindle.
Of Dust and Tides
The Girl Who Just Wanted to Have Fun
Three stories. Three women. Three very different lives. Watch out for the unexpected twist! Liz is a career woman who is desperately trying to break through the glass ceiling in the world of finance, Betsy is the motherly figure with more than enough on her plate, while Ellie is a wild party girl, hooked on having a good time. As the lives of the three become increasingly interwoven, the sudden financial crisis creates a different set of problems for each one, as they battle to maintain their individual lifestyles. And as it deepens they find that the pressure of life becomes almost unbearable, as Liz loses her job, Betsy’s mother dies and Ellie is assaulted while out one night. As lives begin to unravel, Liz suffers a crisis as her increasingly bizarre behavior spirals out of control and she suddenly finds herself shunned by the people she knows. Rescued by friends, life begins to look a little brighter and there is yet one last surprise for her. The question is, will Liz be able to regain control, or is it already too late for her? I loved this book just wish I’d been sitting on the beach! $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Stormer’s Pass
If you can’t wait for a hero, you must become one. Star high school quarterback Max Stormer is one season away from a state championship when a remarkable girl saunters out of the surrounding hills and punts all his plans. Be he outlaw or champion, soon Max finds himself captain of something much bigger than a football team. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Untethered
A juvenile delinquent chases his dream to build the greatest aircraft in history–and the world tries to stop him. A rising political star runs from her childhood dream–and the world encourages her on. A self-loathing geneticist hides below the streets of Las Vegas–and rebels against the whole world. An artist tries to make his father proud–at the cost of everything he loves. When all four lives collide, each must make a choice. And the world will never be the same. Free on Kindle.
A Wave From Mama
1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York’s Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, the boy swears revenge against everyone and everything that contributed to her death. His diminutive size and acrobatic climbing abilities make him a spectacle to behold, while his awkward social habits make him an outcast to everyone in Weeksville, except the adopted family he swears to protect. The boy becomes embroiled in a battle between the Irish Gangs and Whiskey Kings of Irishtown while the corrupt Metropolitan Police sit on the sidelines. All of this action set in the backdrop of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the racial tensions of the period. $0.99 on Kindle.
Bateleur
Inspiration for the dreamers. For the dreamers of today who want to make their world a better place, Dreams of Eden is a synthesis of all of the thoughts of the great minds who dreamed the very same dream through the ages. It unifies the many models of epistemology, morality, emotionality, and ideology expressed through art, media, and literature into an expansive, epic-scale narrative. $0.99 on Kindle.
Far Away Home
In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, solicitous Tim, good-natured, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran. Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses. The novel races through authentic experiences involving historical events until it erupts in an unexpected ending. In today’s troubled world, Far Away Home will make you believe no matter how many challenges fate sends your way, the human spirit can triumph. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Between Midnight and Dawn
Nicole Chambers’ track record with men is bad. Very bad. She’s sworn off dating for the foreseeable future. Recovering from an assault by the last man she’d only casually dated, Nicole is attacked again in her rural home. If not for the hot guy who showed up about her rental cottage, she would have been dead for sure. Her self-imposed sabbatical is soon tested when he moves into her backyard. Kyle’s mother was kidnapped and murdered when he was just a kid. Filled with rage and a determination to hunt down the man who became known as the Clove Hitch Killer, he goes into law enforcement. When his efforts lead him to Nicole Chambers, he falls for her completely. Now he’s torn between keeping her safe, or using her as bait to capture a killer. Free on Kindle.
Flowers in December
A MAN GOES HOME TO BURY HIS MOTHER BUT FINDS HIMSELF.
In this moving story, Connor Norton returns home to bury his mother. Confronting his own mortality as he deals with grief and regret, he examines his present life, caught in the balance where the vibrancy of youth has diminished and the prospect of becoming middle-aged is looming. In this heartfelt and uplifting portrait of a man and his emotional journey through loss and hope, will Connor come to terms with his past as he reshapes his future? $0.99 on Kindle.
Unto Herself
This Christian fiction novel is factually brilliant, yet riddled with daring, raw, gripping emotion and fraught with intents of mediumship and the occult… It’s a beautifully composed work of Christian science fiction that allows us to see Maryam, the mother of Jesus, as never before as she journeys to discover her strongest pathway to power in a way that’s guaranteed to keep your eyes glued to the page at every turn. $0.99 on Kindle.
Worthy Of This Great City
Ruth Askew, a minor celebrity, is spouting some highly incompetent philosophy about the end of philosophy, a fortunate woman mysteriously pushed to extremes. Con Manos, a journalist, is searching for certainty, meanwhile attempting to uncover a political scandal or two. Add in some undistinguished members of Philadelphia City Council, a popular radio station, a disorganized charity, a prestigious newspaper, any number of lawyers, and other professional criminals. In Worthy Of This Great City the compelling stories of two stubborn individualists intertwine in a scathing satire that invites you to question everything you think you think about today’s most discussed issues: populism and elitism, the possibility of truth, the reach of profound stupidity, and the limits of personal responsibility in these post-truth, morally-uncertain times. $3.99 on Kindle.
Conversations With Shadows: Short Fiction From The American Southwest And Beyond
In the new collection of short stories of Magical Realism by award winning poet and writer, Esteban Luis Soto, you will read of a beautiful Mexican girl who is able to extract and devour souls at will. You will read of gifted individuals who sell and transfer emotions for a hefty fee and of a grape vine whose fruit will cure any illness, if planted in truly sacred soil, and several others. $2.99 on Kindle.
Embrace The Wind
This sequel begins where FAR AWAY HOME ends? What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own.Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right? it’s potentially deadly.This unlikely love story details real triumphs and tragedies from frontier women’s letters, diaries and newspapers of the day, and places Aislynn in the center of their history. EMBRACE THE WIND illuminates an intimate picture of the American frontier; the story of the women who changed the West and helped forge the freedoms we enjoy today. $0.99 on Kindle.