What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?
Writer’s Digest Awards 2020 Finalist in Mainstream Literary Fiction
Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour. Free on Kindle
Experience the NYC Draft Riots of 1863, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1883), the General Slocum Steamship Disaster (1904), and the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 through the eyes of passionate heroes.
Failed Moments, Volume #1
Patrick Walsh relives his Failed Moments in two past lives in order to salvage his modern-day existence. He travels back to the French Caribbean in 1790 (before the slave revolution that created Haiti) and NYC in 1863 during the Draft Riots. Will he succeed the second time around?
A Wave From Mama, Volume #2
1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: A former slave gets his dream job working on the Bridge project, but becomes a pawn in a battle involving the gangs of Irishtown and the corrupt Metropolitan Police. Will his special physical abilities help him survive or will his awkward social deficits prove to be too much to overcome?
Minetta Lane, Volume #3
New York City, 1904- Bodee Rivers, who has always run from major challenges, moves to crime-ridden MINETTA LANE, which is governed by an unusual race-based code. When confronted with an unimaginable challenge aboard the General Slocum Steamship, he isn’t sure he’s up to the task. Will he stand and fight or cut and run?
Living in the Middle, Volume #4
New York/Tulsa Early 1900s: Wealthy, White, and privileged Jimmy Montgomery discovers he’s been living a lie and travels to Tulsa to uncover his roots. When an angry White mob invades the Black community of Greenwood during the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, Jimmy realizes he can no longer Live in the Middle. $4.99 on Kindle.
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 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). $1.99 on Kindle.
Plain, sensible Lady Charlotte Chalmers is still unwed after two London Seasons. It looks as if she’s destined to dwindle into an unwanted old maid – until the night she encounters Elizabethan vampyre Bess at Vauxhall Gardens and contracts a mysterious illness.
All too soon it becomes apparent to Charlotte that she, too, is now a vampyre. What can she do? To surrender to her urge to feast on human blood would be almost certain social suicide, but on the other hand, a girl needs to eat. And that’s Lady Charlotte’s dilemma.
When the Duke of Dunroth takes an interest in her predicament, things go from bad to worse. Charlotte’s very life is in danger. Only one man – the mysterious yet strangely attractive Count Saxe-Coburg-Dragenhoff – may be able to save her. $2.99 on Kindle.
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.
Days that shaped a lifetime. Step back into a Black working-class neighborhood. Rich family traditions and vibrant community culture. Follow Violet and Everett Banks through the twists and turns of life from early childhood to their 50th wedding anniversary. Root for them as they secure the often much sought after, yet demanding and often demeaning, jobs, Violet, as a domestic day worker and Everett, a Pullman porter.
Sirma has spent the first 18 years of her life as a happy and hardworking Slavic girl in her quiet mountain village. Until she loses her two best friends to a gang of outlaws. The village elders don’t do anything, because they fear the wrath of Hamza Bei – the head outlaw in the area.
Fed up with hiding and keeping silent, Sirma dresses up like a man and takes the lead of her own Haiduk gang dedicated to protecting the weak. She will stand face to face with Hamza Bei and end his tyranny once and for all. But the road she has chosen is long and full of hurdles. Will she survive living and fighting in the mountain? Will she keep her gang from becoming outlaws themselves? And will her comrades accept her once they find out she is a woman?
This is a historical fiction novel about a real historical figure. $0.99 on Kindle.
Two soldiers recently returned from the Great War are accused of murdering a woman near a small seaside town. They protest their innocence but are convicted on circumstantial evidence and given the death penalty. One of the soldiers begins to suspect the other as guilty. But can he betray his brother in arms who saved his life during the war? Free on Kindle.
The Silver Baron’s Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). After her second husband’s death, she moved to
a one-room shack at the Matchless Mine in Leadville. She lived the last 35 years of her life there, writing down thousands of her dreams
and noting visitations of spirits on her calendar. $0.99 on Kindle
“Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil.” These words rang out in 1928 in a small town in upstate New York when little four-year-old Evelyn Wilson went missing. A horrible witch hunt ensued that was based on a terrible folk tale known as the blood libel.
Follow the Schatzman’s as their son is accused of the most horrific crime imaginable. This accusation destroys their family and sends their mother and sister on a journey home to Berlin just as the Nazi’s are about to come to power.
Not in America is based on true events. However, the author has taken license in her work, creating a what if tale that could easily have been true. $5.99 on Kindle.
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.
When young King Arthur takes Lot’s wife, Morgawse, for his mistress, England will once again be thrown into war. Can the Scottish queen retain her dignity and protect her sons?
The first book in a historical romance trilogy based on strong women in Arthurian legend, by Lavinia Collins. Free on Kindle
Jake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Luckily, Jake knows how to fight for what is his. $2.99 on Kindle
Out of her time and lost in a strange land, her only chance of surviving is to see…
Serenity has no idea how she ended up in this place or how to get back home. The only thing she’s got going for her is her very confusing, yet strangely prophetic dreams and a powerless prince who thinks she’s insane. All Serenity wants is to make her way home, but fate has other plans. $0.99 on Kindle.
Treachery, political intrigue, and gut-wrenching drama…you know his name but do you know his story?
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the founding of a nation, Hamilton’s Choice chronicles the tragic untold final years of Alexander Hamilton’s life.
And with politics, It was then as it is now: turbulent, violent, and often deadly. And when a tragedy strikes, Hamilton learns of how one simple choice can ruin a man’s livelihood forever. Read this sweeping tale of an American hero: torn between love for his family and his commitment to his country. $0.99 on Kindle.
Treachery, political intrigue, and gut-wrenching drama…you know his name but do you know his story?
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the founding of a nation, Hamilton’s Choice chronicles the tragic untold final years of Alexander Hamilton’s life.
And with politics, It was then as it is now: turbulent, violent, and often deadly. And when a tragedy strikes, Hamilton learns of how one simple choice can ruin a man’s livelihood forever. Read this sweeping tale of an American hero: torn between love for his family and his commitment to his country. $0.99 on Kindle.
After losing everything he held dear to the wickedness of man and the weakness of the law, Persimmon Apricot is a lost soul who places no value on the lives of callous men and little value on his own. Resistant to the label of Gunfighter, he vehemently rejects offers to be a gun for hire, preferring to drift aimlessly to outrun his memories. Free on Kindle.
Suppose for a moment that you go to a party with someone you think you know, but really don’t.
You have a good time; drink too much; maybe do some drugs…. At the end of the evening, your friend takes you back to your place where during the night something unthinkable happens to you.
The next morning the police are at your front door. They arrest you because a dead body was found in your trash can.
Not so hard to imagine, right? It could happen to anyone.
It happened to Finnbar 250 years ago.
TIMELESS and COMPELLING — One Night With Finnbar is a historical drama set in 1767. This richly woven tale of treachery, blackmail, and murder exposes the grotesque realities of life in 18th century London in a way that can never be forgotten. (For mature audiences.) Free on Kindle.
The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the war, 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 challenged. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $2.99 on Kindle.
The Cause of Darkness’ is the story of a 16-year-old boy named Teddy Miller set during the last full-year of the American Civil War. Teddy lives with his father and brother in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They lead more-or-less normal lives even while the War rages around them. But everything changes when their farm is burned, and Teddy’s father is arrested and sentenced to hang for espionage. Teddy’s single-minded quest to save his father reads like a grand adventure, full of gun fights, horse chases and 19th century justice. There is even a beautiful Pinkerton detective who plays a major role in Teddy’s exploits. But nearly all the adult characters act solely in their own self-interest and few have Teddy’s welfare at heart. Left without adult guidance, Teddy takes actions to save his father which have consequences that he cannot fully comprehend; and it is the consequences of these actions that drive the novel to its conclusion. $4.99 on Kindle.
Romance, hardship, bankruptcy, and a legacy of hundreds of paintings that still influence today’s artists. Her name was Sofonisba Anguissola. This is the authentic and untold story of what it was like to be a woman of ambition in the Renaissance. $0.99 on Kindle.
Candida “Sweetberry” Armstrong, a beautiful and vain woman, pits good against evil in her adulterous relationship with Deacon Josiah Hess. For twenty years, she’s been the mistress of the married man. Out of respect for him, the community has turned a blind eye. But a new man comes to town and Sweetberry is smitten. Luther McGill is everything she ever wanted in a man, and he wants her. She ends the affair with Deacon Hess and sets about planning her new life with Luther. Then the unthinkable happens! Deacon Hess murders Luther on the church ground in front of a crowd of witnesses. Sweetberry is thrown into the abyss, and her journey to redemption takes many twists and turns. Among them are nightly hauntings by Luther and the threat of insanity. “The Burden of Sweetberry” is set in the fictional town of Sipsey, Alabama, in the 1960s and features aspects of the African-American culture common for that time, including the style of speaking, humor, worship, $0.99 on Kindle.
SADDLE UP FOR THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HEART-POUNDING, BULLET-BURNING, BIBLE-THUMPING WESTERN SERIES!
There’s a monster in Lone Jack, Wyoming, and when Reno Bass and his twin sister, Sara, arrive to collect the bounty on the beast’s head, all hell breaks loose. When the smoke from the twins’ ’58 Remington cap and ball revolvers clear, a dying tattooed man threatens them with the guns of Legion.
Taken prisoner at Chronicle Rock by a giant named Elisha and the mysterious Charlie Bratt, King of Swallows, Reno and Sara are led to the Bar Seven ranch where Mendelssohn Jobe’s twisted circus is camped. Ranch owner Ben Huddleston has a soft spot for Sara that’s not forgiving enough to overlook the tattooed man’s murder. After fighting a machete-crazed wildling named Lillith and wrestling a lion, the twins escape from the Bar Seven and resume their hunt for the beast.
But at the Bar Seven, Mendelssohn Jobe takes over the ranch in a vicious midnight attack. Huddleston needs Reno and Sara’s gun hands to save the day. Leading the stricken Rancher in a guerrilla war against the deadly menagerie, Reno and Sara race the clock to reclaim the ranch and save a dead man’s widow from a heinous fate. $0.99 on Kindle.
She was looking for adventure…
Lady Rosamunde Stanley just never expected it in the form of a kidnapping.
Well, an almost-kidnapping. The dastardly man only went and took the wrong woman! $0.99 on Kindle.
Years before, David was anointed future king of Israel. Now if the sitting king learns of his secret, it will mean death for David and everyone in his family. His secret destiny becomes more complicated when he falls in love with King Saul’s daughter, Michal. He will do whatever it takes to secure her heart, provided she doesn’t find out that he is the rumored rival to her father’s throne. Free on Kindle
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