After a difficult ballet performance, Iris sees that her career as a dancer is over. Her roommate won’t believe it, her boyfriend doesn’t understand ballet, and the other man in her life may be the worst thing to ever happen to her. Unable to see a future without dance, Iris makes just about every mistake and bad choice that she can. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Suicide Flowers
An aging rock star. A dying fan. A connection. Raeburn Messiah, the Messiah of Metal, sings for a living. Currently, he’s on the downward spiral that unfaithful fame loves so dearly. He feels that he’s got it bad, his life is over. That is, until he meets one of his most adoring fans, Gabriel, who has but months to live due to the complications of leukemia. They are men, both dying slow, painful deaths. But each carries a secret that could save the other. For Raeburn and Gabriel are the suicide flowers, doomed to be trampled, destined to flourish. Free on Kindle.
Free: Brief Encounters With Solitary Souls
Eugene O’Neill says it best: Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Five people—as different from each other as you and those around you in an anonymous crowd— go through personal crises. Scattered in time and place, their lives never touch. But they are bound by this: All are solitary souls. Would they sense that kinship if they ever met? From Paris to Honolulu, each character realizes how alone she (or he) is at moments that matter most. In those moments, she clearly sees herself
At a Paris Café. In early 70s Paris, a naive and eager young man chooses not to go with his buddies on a trip around the country on his summer vacation. He goes it alone in Paris. He falls in love for the first time and at first sight in his first encounter with a French couple at a café. But this encounter shakes his illusions about Paris, about love, about life. The Gypsy. A boy recently uprooted to Paris by his parents’ divorce learns some life lessons from an old gypsy he watches through a third-floor apartment window. He sees how different she is from him, but deep inside, he feels an uneasy kinship with her. The Sum of a Young Life. Finding a young woman’s journal at a Berkeley coffeehouse upsets an urbane but blasé young man’s precise routine. Unable to control his curiosity, he opens it and discovers a life that touches him. In a Few Fast Heartbeats. In the Napa Valley, a middle-aged wife and mother is taking her husband home after a heart surgery. She’s looking forward to family time and the old comforting routine. But her life changes in the blink of an eye. Fragrant Green Mangoes. Every summer on her school break, a young woman visits her beloved Grandma at her house in Waipahu, a suburb of Honolulu. But after her most recent visit, she loses her Grandma within a month of her returning home to California. In her grief, she finds the language of love, not in roses, but in fragrant green mangoes. Free on Kindle.
The Beauty of the Fall
Dan Underlight, a divorced, workaholic technology executive, suffers lingering grief over the death of his ten-year-old son, Zack. When Dan’s longtime friend and boss fires Dan from RadioRadio, the company that he helped create, he crashes and isolates himself. Willow, a poet and domestic violence survivor, helps Dan regain his footing. With her support, Dan ventures on a pilgrimage of sorts, visiting Fortune 500 companies to flesh out a software start-up idea. He then recruits three former RadioRadio colleagues and starts Conversationworks, a company he believes will be at the vanguard of social change.
Guided by Dan’s leadership, Conversationworks enjoys some early successes, but its existence is soon threatened on multiple fronts. Will Dan survive the ensuing corporate battles and realize the potential of his company? Or will he be defeated by his enemies and consumed by his grief? $9.99 on Kindle.
Concrete Wings
A naïve teen sent out of Cuba to retrieve smuggled family jewels on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion comes of age in New York City at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his liberty when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American Society.Take the journey and discover why success isn’t always measured by what one becomes, but often by what one overcomes. $2.99 on Kindle.
Fireflies in the Night
Two sisters and a beautiful mother caught between tradition and love, a family torn apart by tragedy and betrayal. Set against the lush background of wild animals and tea estates of Assam, India, this story weaves through the 50’s and 60’s and the India-China confrontation of 1962. Tragedy and powerful but fraying limitations on women roil an Indian family in this intense historical coming-of-age novel. A finely wrought family drama. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Arbiters
Marcus, an enforcer in Los Angeles’ largest drug cartel, is gravely wounded while on cartel business in Colombia. While recuperating back in LA, Marcus falls in love with Sabrina, the adopted daughter of ex-cartel member, Max Brutus. When Sabrina doesn’t reciprocate Marcus’ overbearing exultations of love, he enlists the guidance of his seemingly shrewd Uncle Sein, the cartel’s second-in-command, to assist him in navigating his feelings. Sein, who also suffers from his own emotional deficiencies, is eager to help his nephew, and concocts a plan to bring Marcus and Sabrina together. With one hasty decision, Sein ignites a series of events that results in colossal misunderstandings, unimaginable jealousy, and deadly consequences. As Marcus and Sein are forced to confront the brutal aftermath, each man embarks upon a personal, enlightening journey. Along the way, they both discover the love that exists in their hearts, and perhaps, how to make peace with their inner demons. Free on Kindle.
Precious Jewels
Dale Martellino blends history, suspense, and romance in this intricate tale. She addresses the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim European communities and modern issues of identity and devotion. The horrors of the Holocaust have left scars that will never be forgotten, but we should also celebrate the heroes who stood up to genocide and tyranny. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Oil Patch Home
A coming-of-age story for the whole family, the novel is written from the viewpoint of a young girl growing up in the post-war central Oklahoma oil fields. For 12-year-old Sharon Miller, her last childhood summer is an eventful one of young love, tragedy and for the first time feeling the pressure of weightier adult issues. The novel addresses early fears and hopes of families when a union organizer comes on board. Struggles with a worker strike and a lost love returned continue throughout the book. In the midst of all the public and personal conflicts and a changing world, the foundation of family becomes stronger than ever. Free on Kindle.
Worst. Superhero. Ever.
Four offbeat tales take you down a winding road of unexpected twists, delivering full-size satisfaction in a bite-sized package. Superheroes with superpower control problems. The best high in the world from a very unlikely source. Futuristic lesbian farmers battling closed-minded neighbors. And a curious amnesiac navigating her world with an unusually talkative parrot. $0.99 on Kindle.
Too Jewish
This is the FIRST book in the Cooper Family Saga. Like Patty Friedmann’s father, young, brainy protagonist Bernie Cooper escapes Nazi Germany and ends up in New Orleans, where he finds an entirely new kind of prejudice against Jews—the kind that comes from other Jews. Sadly, they’re his own in-laws. $0.99 on Kindle.
Through the Cajon Pass
Free: Milkman
Do you wish men could breastfeed? Calder Boyd can. The lactating new father becomes a media darling wanted by all sorts of strange characters while simultaneously trying to repair his strained marriage. The Fourth Estate, sex, art, love, memory, marriage and family converge during the snowiest winter on record in this commentary on contemporary American fatherhood. Free on Kindle.
The Cooper Family Saga (Vol. 1-3)
Free: Inclementia–Gothic Madness and Undead Love
A loveless marriage, a remote crumbling mansion, a man who was not what he seemed and an ‘impossible’ love that would lead Eudora into terrible danger and change her life in ways beyond her imagination. We cannot choose who we love. In life or in death, it will find us. A strange and twisted gothic tale. Free on Kindle.
Between the Levees
For Sam Miller, family is what he wants most in the world. Though with his parents deceased since he was a boy, and with no way of uncovering who they were, finding a sense of family is more than a daunting task—it seems impossible. Until he goes to Louisiana’s Cajun country, with hopes of finding a man who perhaps knew them. After enduring blistering heat, torment from mosquitoes, venturing into eerie, backwater swamps, and fending off alligators, snakes, and a few sinister locals, Sam finds what he had sought all of his life. He’s also given a second chance, one to leave behind a pained past that he would rather forget. But finding what he wants most means that he’ll eventually have to lose it. $0.99 on Kindle.
Journeys of Choice
Raven and Mark embark on journeys they can no longer avoid, crisscrossing the same ancient lands, although thousands of years apart. Strangely enough, a definitive reason for their travels is what happened long ago when a group of Early Modern Humans encountered a band of Neanderthals hunting bison. Journeys of Choice is an intricately woven tale of how the past and present are intertwined! $1.99 on Kindle.
The Darkening
“The Darkening is a promising, spine-chilling debut! Motz is a writer to watch.” Brian Keene – The Rising, Ghoul “The Darkening” is a coming-of-age horror novel that pits everyday characters against an unspeakable evil intent on destroying everything they know and love. Their home is torn apart as their friendship and love are tested in a battle for their very survival! Shocking and terrifying, “The Darkening” will take you to the very edge of sanity, to the dark corners of our world, and to the worlds right next door! $3.99 on Kindle.
Blood Republic
Free: Of Dust and Tides
Hesperia Jack and the Desert Rose
Find out just what challenges faced those brave enough to journey into the American West. Meet Hesperia Jack, the bravest man who ever rode a horse, and his lady love the Desert Rose. Get to know the characters in this story told through poems and then follow their journey in the upcoming Hesperia Jack book series. $4.99 on Kindle.
The Worst Day Of My Life, So Far
Secondhand Smoke
JERUSHA’S POISON ……to just about everyone–particularly her adult children. Fortunately, poison is the very superfood of the satirist. Patty Friedmann, the reigning queen of black comedy, hits one out of the park with her family straight out of Tolstoy–unhappy in its own way, a uniquely twisted Southern way. $0.99 on Kindle.
Billionaries and Bagmen
Are you fed up with politics, payoffs, corporate mega-profits at a cost to taxpayers, immunization of white collar crime, bribes and favors guiding the decisions made by our elected officials? Have you had ENOUGH of politics? There is only one way to fix it – rewrite the rules. It can be done! Midwest Book Review “Highly Recommended” $3.99 on Kindle.