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.
Free: Red as Apple
1986. Rural America. What’s buried beneath the loose straw and settled dirt of the barn is the only thing that could bring Keenan Butler back to this small town. His brother’s quiet and his sister’s optimism. His motel room neighbor under the buzzing lights. Her truck stop clientele. A country drive to set the past on fire that changes them all. Free on Kindle
A Cobra’s Bite Doesn’t Hurt
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up: How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time
Hillary Johnson, one of the world’s most respected Chronic Fatigue Syndrome journalists, called this book “fascinating and important.”
If you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the brilliant investigative work Neenyah Ostrom did for a decade. Starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a newspaper called New York Native. What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.
In The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, Charles Ortleb recounts his newspaper’s struggle to get the media and the mainstream medical establishment to pay attention to Ostrom’s pioneering investigative reporting on the science and politics of the devastating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic.
By the time you finish Ortleb’s stunning memoir, you will understand why the Centers for Disease Control has been unwilling to tell the public the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The CDC does not want the public to know that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a transmissible illness linked to a virus called HHV-6 that affects every system in the body. They have covered up the illness for so many decades that the neglected virus is totally out of control. Now it is causing a long list of other illnesses and many cancers.
Nobody in the world covered the emergence of HHV-6 and its link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than Neenyah Ostrom. Ostrom’s decade of reporting on HHV-6 was recently vindicated by this statement from scientists at the University of Wurzburg: “While HHV-6 was long believed to have no negative impact on human health, scientists today increasingly suspect the virus of causing various diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Recent studies even suggest that HHV-6 might play a role in the pathogenesis of several diseases of the central nervous system such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or Alzheimer’s.”
The big question about Neenyah Ostrom and New York Native is this: How many lives would have been saved if the scientific establishment and the mainstream media had paid more attention to Neenyah Ostrom’s reporting on HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in New York Native?
One day, if there is any justice in the world, the CDC and the medical establishment will apologize for not paying attention to Neenyah Ostrom’s groundbreaking work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that Charles Ortleb published in New York Native. That would be a fitting end to one of journalism’s greatest David and Goliath stories. $5.99 on Kindle.
The Revolving Heart
On a beautiful summer morning at the Jersey Shore, 4-year-old Sarah Carpenter wanders toward the ocean and never returns. The police think she drowned, but her babysitter Amy claims Sarah was abducted. The only other witness, 17-year-old Donnie Marcino, didn’t see a thing. A narcoleptic since birth, he was fast asleep. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Opium Lord’s Daughter
The Opium Lord’s Daughter is a historical drama told from the perspectives of Chinese and British—about the First Opium War, a tragic, love gone wrong, and history-altering conflict. Winner of The Independent Press Award 2020 for Multi-Cultural Fiction. Also, a finalist for The Book Excellence Awards, SPR Book Awards, and the Readers Choice Awards. $0.99 on Kindle.
Beyond The Utmost Bound
Eastbound from Flagstaff
This first installment in an epic trilogy that begins in the 1920s, unique in its purposeful illumination of the human condition and its ideological indifference to God, asks the question: “Why was God silent when I needed him?” Simon’s return to the notion of forgiveness is the catalyst for a new beginning as it reunites Simon to the place he once thought was the impossible dream. The answer for Simon isn’t blowing in the backwinds of his dream chase; rather, it unfolds in the outstretched hand of a villain. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Pigeon Hole
When a curiously violent crime strikes the suburbs, society’s attentions shift towards unearthing the villainous perpetrators. However, upon closer inspection, things aren’t entirely what they seem. A microscopic examination of the suspects results in a search considerably closer to home…
A neoteric take on the stereotypical crime novel, The Pigeon Hole will compel you to question everything about your social standpoint. Think you know the world from top to bottom? We’ll just see about that. Free on Kindle.
Seven Easy Actions You Can Take to Protect the Environment: Guide to lowering your carbon footprint
Arnold Falls
Spend time in the funny, oddball village of Arnold Falls, where larger-than-life characters deal with the smallest of problems. Somehow, it all comes out right in the end.
Arnold Falls is a novel that tips its hat to Armistead Maupin and P. G. Wodehouse, creating a world in which food, music, friendship, love, and tending your own garden are connected in surprising ways. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Paths They Walked
Graduating from High School two friends, one male and one female, face life in the late 1960s. While Susan rushes forward moving to New York City, embracing the world eagerly, Dan, indecisive and unsure of himself, stays in their hometown where he sullenly muddles his way forward with no plan. The paths they head down outwardly appear completely divergent, but in reality, there is a strangely vague parallel to them. The difference is within themselves and how they react to the events in their lives. The two separately make their ways through that socially turbulent time, never noticing how each decision they make affects the courses that their lives take in an era of Vietnam, “sex, drugs, rock and roll”’ and “tune in, turn on, drop out”. Neither one seems to be able to recognize the opportunities to change their direction when they see them as they head towards the climactic moments of their lives. $0.99 on Kindle.
Spurr Morgan: A Western Double
Federal Deputy Marshal Spurr Morgan may be an old dog in the business of tracking down desperados‚ but his instincts remain unmatched. Spurr has his sights set on Clell Stanhope‚ the notorious leader of a gang called the Vultures. Not only has Clell lured every last tin star into his bloody trap‚ but he’s littered his trail with dozens of innocents. Spurr thinks he may be the last man standing — until a half-breed by the name of Yakima Henry offers his services. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Axe
Time doesn’t work the way you think it does.
2018
After a successful social justice hack and a sexy night of celebrating, Micah arrives home to a gift left outside his apartment door. An Axe, that when touched causes Micah to lose time and allow other people to use his body. After one of such events, Micah returns to his body, blood-covered and holding The Axe, with police knocking on the door. Micah has to use his hacker skills to evade the police and a corporation hell-bent on controlling The Axe, all while unraveling the secrets of the gift.
1810
In the woods of western Canada, something is stalking and devouring people. Entire settlements have been abandoned, the residents missing. The people refer to the monsters as Demons. Mehall, a demon-hunting nomad, has returned home, leaving a trail of dead Demons behind her. By her hands and her Tomahawk, she continues killing the creatures even as she begins having visions from the future.
3015
The Circle, an oppressive governing religion, is trying to insight an AI genocide while also releasing a plague on the universe to control its people. Life is as normal as it can be for Miko, a social outcast and data broker. While on a routine data delivery gone bad, Miko is chased to the galaxies edge, where she is confronted by a mysterious ship that leads Miko on a mission to stop The Circle itself.
All three lives are more interconnected than they know.
One thing wants them all dead. The Infection.
One thing binds them all together. The Axe. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Unplugged
Thirty-two-year-old Dan Johnson has it all; a nine-digit net worth, a gorgeous fiancé and a luxury riverside brownstone. The only problem is, he doesn’t want any of it. Dark, offbeat and laugh-out-loud funny, Unplugged is a coming of middle-age story about finding authentic connections and meaning in today’s hyper-digitized society. Free on Kindle.
Mildred In Disguise with Diamonds
Mildred Petrie expected a comfortable retirement after years as a meter maid. Her husband dies, and his secrets change everything. At the age of 71, broke, and desperate, she walks to the Ivory Winds Casino, and takes the first job they offer-undercover security. Mildred takes on the hidden secrets with sass, courage, and elastic waist pants. $0.99 on Kindle.
Gangsta Fever
Shantel’s hands clutch tight to her bible but her fiancé Logan’s hands stay close to his gun. She’s happy to leave the street life alone and relocate to Baltimore City but Logan sees the move as a golden opportunity to rebuild. Love and loyalty go hand and hand for this couple but will it eventually come at a price?
Moving in silence has always been a way of life for North. His childhood pain made him cold-hearted towards love but still helped morph him into a calculated boss. He isn’t attached to the glitz and glam that comes with his street wealth but instead making his money make money. While he enjoys being low key his life quickly becomes filled with noise when his sheltered sister Nova, tries finding her own wings. North stumbles upon Shantel and Logan and when their lives intertwine nothing but bloodshed, drama, love, and lust explodes. $2.99 on Kindle.
Wyandotte Bound
Wyandotte Bound chronicles a 25-year struggle for power, wealth, passionate love, and a more meaningful way of life, pitting the town’s dominant family against a deranged and violently corrupt rival during the fading years of the Western Frontier.
Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family in Wyandotte and influential throughout Nevada.
To J.D. Rohr, who has no money and few prospects, bound is a hopeful force, driving him to Wyandotte, where he assumes the identity of Jesse Bodine in a desperate attempt to live in obscurity, hiding from his reputation as one of the West’s most feared gunfighters.
For Dr. Frederick Albert Carlisle, an aristocratic Boston physician who becomes Jesse’s friend despite their romantic rivalry, bound is a magnetic lure that compels him to abandon his Beacon Hill mansion, his upper-class privileges, and his affluent patients in a quest to give meaning to his life by serving poor westerners sorely in need of his healing knowledge.
As for Honoria Lowell Blaire and Lillian Tomlinson Wellesley, blue-blooded descendants of New England’s oldest and most distinguished families, bound represents the chains that will bind them to “a God-forsaken wilderness” if they choose to live with the men they love instead of clinging to their pampered lives among America’s nobility.
And for the incomparably beautiful Jolene Lloyd, being bound is like virtual imprisonment when she is coerced into saving her family from financial catastrophe by being shackled to a ruthless, emasculated tyrant driven by hatred and bitterness to take control of Wyandotte and force the mighty Van Sheltons to grovel at his feet.
These and the other men and women of Wyandotte, the good and the bad, battle for a quarter of a century to determine their region’s fate during the fading years of the Western Frontier. $6.99 on Kindle.
Cucina Tipica
Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure is the story of Jacoby Pines, a disheartened American who arrives in Italy on holiday, and decides he never wants to leave. What follows is a wine-soaked, food-filled, travel-laden adventure about one man’s quest for an antiquated existence in the modern world. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Silver Baron’s Wife
The Silver Baron’s Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages. Hers is the tale of a fiercely independent woman who bucked all 19th-century social expectations. $0.99 on Kindle.
Gangsta Fever
Shantel’s hands clutch tight to her bible but her fiancé Logan’s hands stay close to his gun. She’s happy to leave the street life alone and relocate to Baltimore City but Logan sees the move as a golden opportunity to rebuild. Love and loyalty go hand and hand for this couple but will it eventually come at a price?
Moving in silence has always been a way of life for North. His childhood pain made him cold-hearted towards love but still helped morph him into a calculated boss. He isn’t attached to the glitz and glam that comes with his street wealth but instead making his money make money. While he enjoys being low key his life quickly becomes filled with noise when his sheltered sister Nova, tries finding her own wings. North stumbles upon Shantel and Logan and when their lives intertwine nothing but bloodshed, drama, love, and lust explodes. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Disharmony of Silence
A truly emotional and heartfelt story, author Linda Rosen does an amazing job of delving into the theme of family, how we define it and how family secrets can change the dynamic of future generations as a whole. Two families who once considered themselves one take diverging paths, waiting to discover the truth of the bonds they never knew existed. Free on Kindle.
The Boys of Summer
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 threatens to unravel all they hold dear. “beautifully encapsulates what love is” Kirkus Reviews. Free on Kindle.
How Fires End
A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption. A ”beautiful, mesmerizing” novel (Alexander Chee), that is ”a moving depiction of multigenerational loss and love, grief and gratitude, heartbreak and hope.” (Kirkus Reviews).
How Fires End was a 2020 Connecticut Book Awards finalist and honorable mention and won the 2021 Italian American Studies Association Book Award. $2.99 on Kindle.