Along with her husband’s legacy, Helen Kazantzakis, inherits his arch enemies: The Greek State and the Church. The days after his passing, she will face insults and disrespect. Her only consolation is the loving and adventurous memories with him: Her initial dislike of Kazantzakis, his unconventional flirting, his scandalous proposal to live together in Moscow out of wedlock,the Pope Pius XII’s decision to censor his book, the Greek government’s attempts to prevent him from winning a Nobel Prize, the efforts of the Greek Church to excommunicate him. Meanwhile, in Athens, the ambitious reporter Freddie Germanos is assigned his first significant reportage: to cover the funeral and expose the authorities’ machinations to disparage the dead thinker.
Unfortunately, he will have plenty to report. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
Chains of Time
Amara knows what’s going to happen. Even as she prepares for her wedding, she can see him in her visions: Van Owen – the slaver who will raid her village, steal her power, and pursue her across time. He will hunt her from the shores of West Africa in 1859 to the battlefields of the Civil War to the streets of modern day Harlem. But Amara also knows that the only hope of defeating him is to find her descendants and help them understand who she is, who they are, and how to fight an immortal! $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth and raised in a Catholic orphanage in New York City was never adopted. At the age of 13, she was sent to the Midwest on an orphan train and placed out as a housekeeper and farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she fought to survive in a lonely, abusive world. A story of female triumph and perseverance. How did she survive? Free on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after WW2, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the dangerous years of Nazi Germany, she uncovers a web of long-buried family secrets. “Hard to put down. … Harder to forget.” Ink Drop Reviews.
$0.99 on Kindle
Jessup
Jessup is a broken man, scarred physically and emotionally, by what he witnessed during World War 2, and now cleans the toilets of prisoners to make money to buy alcohol. When not arguing with his best friend, Marlow, he broods in his room and contemplates suicide as the only way to escape his pain.But when he is offered the chance of a better job, he must choose between a new start and turning his back on the one person who treats him with respect: a man whose life is in danger. A dark, sweeping tale from the battlefields of France and Northern Africa to the East End of London… It is 1950 and Jessup has one last chance to turn his life around. A harrowing, gripping novel, Jessup will linger long in the reader’s memory. $2.99 on Kindle
Greetings from Asbury Park
We celebrate the Greatest Generation for their courage and honor.
This is how they loved.
Fifteen-year-old Mariella yearns for a new life. Since the Germans arrived in Rome, food has been scarce, and danger lurks around every corner. On top of that, she’s haunted by a childhood tragedy and weighed down with the responsibility of caring for her siblings. Everything feels impossible. But when she meets Jack, a handsome American soldier with a crooked smile, her future doesn’t seem so dark. She gives him a tour of the famed Colosseum, then takes him to dinner with her family. Despite the language barrier, their connection is undeniable. They share the same scars. The following day, Jack has to ship off to Japan. Neither wants to say goodbye, but they exchange addresses and promise to keep in touch. Over the following years, they try to move on while sharing snippets of their lives via airmail. But when Mariella goes quiet, Jack can’t ignore his feelings any longer.
This book takes the reader on a journey from war-torn Rome, Italy, to the sandy beaches of Asbury Park, New Jersey, in search of answers to the question – how much is too much to sacrifice for love?
$2.99 on Kindle
A Savage Kultur
Set in the early days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and present-day England, A Savage Kultur follows Ava, an art student at Oxford University, who inherits her beloved grandfather’s London art gallery after his death. He leaves her a letter with one last wish—that she recover a treasured Vincent van Gogh painting deemed degenerate and looted by the Nazis in 1937. Throughout this daunting task, she unravels her grandparent’s harrowing struggle in Nazi Germany. As her search for the lost art deepens, her emotions and beliefs are tested. She faces conflict with her German boyfriend who is hiding a grim past, as well as confronts tribulations in Switzerland as she gets closer to justice and to discovering the dark history of World War II still haunts the present. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WWII, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong shattered. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Every Form of Malice: A Short Story (The Collaborative Story Project Book 1)
No one knows what killed Henry Whitelock. People say he just dropped dead from a heart attack, but not everyone believes that story.
No one knows what happened to Gideon Aloways, either. Rumor has it he died years ago. So it’s a shock when he shows up at Henry’s funeral to tell an old story that no one wants told. A story that will unearth a fifteen-year-old secret known by only two people in the world.
Henry’s widow, Amity, and her sister, Theo.
People talk. If they hear Gideon’s tale, Amity and Theo could lose everything. Their reputations, their wealth, the life they’ve shared for fifteen years.
Because nothing is more fragile than the truth. Free on Kindle.
Lessons From My Mother’s Life
Was the happy housewife of the 1950s really all that happy?
Women in post-war America should have been contented to live a Leave it to Beaver life. They had it all: generous husbands with great jobs, comfortable suburban homes with nice yards and a two-car garage, and plenty of house-cleaning and PTA meetings to fill their time.
They were sold a bill of goods about post-war life. Some bought it. But some didn’t. This book is about those women who didn’t.
Five stories. Five women. Five journeys of self-discovery. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Fake History: The Wildly Inaccurate, Ruthlessly Manipulative, Dangerously Deceptive, and REAL History of the World
Fake History is the textbook you wish you could have read while falling asleep in history class.
From Jesus Christ to Donald Trump, from Genesis to World War III, from ancient legends to alternative facts, Fake History takes a comic romp through the tangled narratives of history to reveal the scandalous truth of the world’s past and the incredible destiny to which it is heading. The provocative novel of “fictional nonfiction” takes the form of a mock textbook and rewrites human history as fake news. It satirizes the extremist spirit of the Information Age in all its social misinformation, political disinformation, and hysterical hyperreality. Free on Kindle.
Pathfinding Women (Waxwood Series: Book 3)
There are paths in life we have no choice but to follow.
At the close of the nineteenth century, Vivian Alderdice is twenty-six, unmarried, and has no prospective suitors. Now the heiress of the Alderdice fortune, she has yet to fulfill her duty to her family and to society: to marry well and produce heirs.
Her brother’s tragic plight the year before left her and her mother on shaky ground with the San Francisco blue bloods of Nob Hill, and the only way they can re-establish their social position is to win the heart of Monte Leblanc, a wealthy Canadian in search of a wife and looking to become a member of the exclusive Washington Street society.
But a young man on the train tells Vivian things about her grandmother that shake her to the core. Even as she is pursued by the debonair Monte Leblanc, Vivian can’t avoid ghosts from the past who send her on a journey she is reluctant to take.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Lessons From My Mother’s Life
Debuted at #1 in the Historical Fiction Short Stories category!
It was the 1950s. The war was over and women could go back to being happy housewives. But did they really want to?
Women should have been contented to live a Leave it to Beaver life in the mid-20th century. They should have been fulfilled. Women’s magazines told them so. Advertisers told them so. Doctors and psychologists told them so. Some were. But some weren’t.
In the 1950s, women were sold a bill of goods about who they were and who they should be as women. Some bought it. But some didn’t.
These five stories are about the women who didn’t.
A teenage bride sees her future mirrored in Circe’s twisted face. A woman’s tragic life serves as a warning about the dangers of too much maternal devotion. And the lives of two women intersect during two birthday parties, changing both of them. These and other moving tales of strength, discovery, and hope are about our mothers and grandmothers and the lessons their lives have to teach us. $0.99 on Kindle.
All’s Well That Ends: Disarmed by Dreams
1943, Chicago. A segregated train ride is only the beginning to a bittersweet story of loss, courage, starting over, and the pursuit of dreams.
Sara Jameson had known in an instant she’d made a terrible mistake when she discouraged everyone from coming to the train station to see them off. Standing on the platform with her three-month-old in her arms and a child at each elbow, she needed her family and friends to tell her she was making the right decision by leaving behind people and places she loved in order to move to a place she had never been. After the three-day train ride Sara needed Ben to be at the other end ready to start their new life together.
Would the move to South Berkeley help Sara fulfill her dreams or had she traded one set of problems for another? $0.99 on Kindle.
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father.
In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built upon Roosevelt’s ideals of masculine virility and virtue.
But the path to maturity is a complex thing in the Gilded Age. Will his journey free him from the Alderdice family illusions, half-truths, and lies that have kept him a child? Or will it lead him into the world of Actaeon, where the hunter becomes the hunted? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
To what lengths will one go to exorcise a specter?
In 1892, people gather to mourn the death of San Francisco socialite, Penelope Alderdice. Among them is a strange little woman who claims to have known “Grace” as a young woman in the small coastal town of Waxwood. But Vivian, Penelope’s granddaughter, has never heard of Grace or Waxwood.
Vivian journeys to Waxwood and eventually discovers a packet of letters her grandmother wrote forty years ago.
As Vivian confronts the specter that holds the truth to the secrets and myths buried in the family consciousness for forty years, she is forced to examine her grandmother’s life as a mid-19th century debutante and her own life as a Gilded Age belle. $0.99 on Kindle.
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father.
In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built upon Roosevelt’s ideals of masculine virility and virtue.
But the path to maturity is a complex thing in the Gilded Age. Will his journey free him from the Alderdice family illusions, half-truths, and lies that have kept him a child? Or will it lead him into the world of Actaeon, where the hunter becomes the hunted? $0.99 on Kindle.
Our Wild and Precious Lives
Historical fiction for 15+ as Army brat teens survive life on a small base in Cold War Germany with a WW II hero father with PTSD and Italian war bride mother. Flashbacks to WW II and the Korean Conflict show how emotional war wounds get passed to the next generation. “This was a beautiful and painful book for me to read,” Amazon/Goodreads review. $0.99 on Kindle
The Secret Keepers
In the summer of 1718, Blackbeard investigates a mysterious island village off the coast of North Carolina. Finding nothing to plunder, he kidnaps three young women, intent on making them his newest wives. But this is no ordinary village, and these are no ordinary women. They have an important mission to complete—one not even Blackbeard can stop. $3.99 on Kindle.
Catching a Witch: A Novel of Loyalty, Deception, and Superstition
What Would You Do to Save Your Best Friend from Burning at the Stake?
The year 1660 is when it all changed…That’s when a witch-hunter comes to Clara Dahl’s seaside village in Norway. She’s horrified to discover how fast her neighbors and friends are to turn against each other. She soon realizes her sleepy, little, picturesque corner of the world has been invaded by evil—and it has nothing to do with witchcraft.
Catching a Witch is a story about a young woman who’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect the people she cares about most in this world. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
To what lengths will one go to exorcise a specter?
In 1892, people gather to mourn the death of San Francisco socialite, Penelope Alderdice. Among them is a strange little woman who claims to have known “Grace” as a young woman in the small coastal town of Waxwood. But Vivian, Penelope’s granddaughter, has never heard of Grace or Waxwood.
Vivian journeys to Waxwood and eventually discovers a packet of letters her grandmother wrote forty years ago.
As Vivian confronts the specter that holds the truth to the secrets and myths buried in the family consciousness for forty years, she is forced to examine her grandmother’s life as a mid-19th century debutante and her own life as a Gilded Age belle. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Sergei and Hans
Two soldiers from opposite sides of the war.
One Christmas meal that will change their lives forever.An action packed historical thriller where survival is the only thing that matters, SERGEI AND HANS is a story of war, loss, and redemption. Set on the Eastern Front of WWI, on a cruel and unforgiving mountain, and later in a terrifying German prison camp, this fascinating story encapsulates real men and their struggles to survive a war unlike the world has ever seen.
Both soldiers have their own stories to tell. They are “Sergei and Hans.” Free on Kindle.
Princess of Sky, Earth, Fire and Water
In 1772, amidst the ancient ruins and standing stones of western Ireland, a young woman inherits an army, a fleet of ships, and special powers.
To keep her magic, she journeys to the East Kingdom and meets her greatest challenge — a warrior prince whose love threatens to destroy them both.
Together, they face ruthless enemies and royal intrigue, fighting for survival and a chance for enduring love. $0.99 on Kindle
Princess of Wind and Sea
The year is 1773.
It’s a race across the globe as Aisling and the prince travel on a series of secret missions.
From the shores of Asia to the wilds of western Ireland, a chase ensues as dark forces seek to destroy them both.
Aisling’s magical powers are increasing, but enemies lurk around every corner.
The prince must protect her at all costs, as they fight for survival and abiding love. $1.99 on Kindle.
My Family’s Survival
My Family’s Survival is the incredible true story of how the Shwartz family survived the Holocaust. The #1 New Release on Amazon tells the powerful tale of how one family resisted by escaping the Nazis. Fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz will enjoy this riveting saga where hope prevails. $0.99 on Kindle.
