WHAT IF SPARTA RULED AN EMPIRE?

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In the year preceding the French Revolution, an orphan boy named Ettore finds himself at a crossroads. Seeking to add coins to his hidden strongboxes, he sets sail on the Tyrrhenian Sea, embarking on an exhilarating journey that will test his wit, resilience, and survival skills. But little does he know that the stormy seas and Algerian corsairs have other plans for him.

As Ettore fights to stay alive, he must confront his own origins, beliefs, and shortcomings. Along the way, he forms unexpected friendships and discovers the true meaning of sacrifice. “A Captive in Algiers” is a captivating prequel to The Muhammad Amalfi Mystery Series, exploring themes of identity, fidelity, struggle, and the power of friendship. $2.99 on Kindle.

Set in Sydney, Australia, Memories of Then dances between present day and the summer of ’64, when Elijah Samuels and Audrey Hughes met and fell in love.

Decades later, troubled Elijah is informed that Audrey is in a coma, her health declining. He visits her in palliative care, determined to pay his respects and say a final goodbye to a life, love and time he once knew. However, Audrey’s family prove less than welcoming to this cantankerous, blunt stranger. Tensions rise when his presence during a difficult time is shunned.

But Elijah is not about to leave Audrey’s side; he’d done that once before …

Elijah finds an ally in Audrey’s granddaughter, Chloe, who discovers her grandmother’s secret diary. With Elijah’s captivating storytelling and Chloe reading from Audrey’s diary, the family is propelled back to the Swinging Sixties – a time of social upheaval, the sexual revolution, and the Vietnam War. $0.99 on Kindle.

This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is Wotto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction.

Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Namdik, a wet atoll in the southern rain belt of the Ralik Chain. As Jainjin’s surrogate mother, she will sail with the infant by outrigger canoe in the company of his maternal grandfathers. These kind men had recently helped the Wotto Islanders overcome the terrible drought that typically follows a typhoon. With the trade-wind season approaching, it’s soon time to complete their voyage. The grandfathers begin teaching Helkena the traditional navigational arts along the way.

Her goal is to get her tattoos on Namdik and, in time, to find a man there to take home to Wotto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren desert island?

Far from being a simple story, this colorful, romantic tale presents a surprising background to the lovemaking culture of the Marshall Islands. It also reveals the early years of young Jainjin, the hero of the Legends of Lainjin historical literary fiction series
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In the spring of 1870, Cade Wilson is one of three orphans of the American Civil War that meet a samurai warrior from Japan in the northern New Mexico Territory. This warrior trains these young men in the samurai way––in their weapons of war and the code they live by. As honor-bound servants to their Benefactor, these samurai cowboys combine their deadly new skills with the way of the West (the gun) to ruthlessly increase and defend their master’s landholdings. And taking control of the territory before the expansion of the railroad is going according to plan … when Cade decides he wants out. Free on Kindle.