When prophetic dreams and poems collaborate to thrust Idris, Navin, Michael, and Layla together out of the shadows of secrecy, one fateful event shows them how interconnected they have truly been all along. Through both prose and verse, Everything and Nothing tells the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of these four individuals as they grapple with family conflict, friendship, and individuality, with first love and second chances, with impermanence and spirituality, and with the sweeping awareness of mortality. $2.99 on Kindle.
A Whisper of Angels
Free: No Going Back
godless children have no heroes
Her world had been perfect and then it wasn’t. Faced with impending devastation and loss of control, Lex begins to spiral into survival mode, making risky choices bound for consequence, whatever it would take to not lose what was hers, whatever it would take to escape the emptiness of old demons. This life she existed for, who would she be without it? This person she had become, was it just a façade? Was she defined by her secrets? And when confronted by her actions, trapped in a dangerous game that risks her life and the lives of those she loves, will she be able to escape without retribution?
In survival, right and wrong are all relative. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: Days of Ascent
Forty years ago Rory Beaumont’s New Zealand was not an easy place for protests against racism, enjoying home-grown music or finding a place like home. Rory’s journey passes through forgotten history, poetry, romance and there are always more apples to pick. Not a light-weight novel but worth it for the reader prepared to go the extra mile. Free on Kindle.
Free: Nutshell
During Dust Bowl days in west Texas, a country doctor with shaky credentials delivers a baby, a so-called “monster.” A surgeon-in-training periodically rotates at a hospital within a mental institution, his story of emotional decline merges with that of an inmate who unwittingly finds herself becoming his guardian angel. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Other Hamlet Brother
Meet Tim Hamlet, the identical twin brother of the famously melancholy Danish prince. Tim has abandoned royal life and is trying (and failing) to make it as a playwright in London. But then, tragedy rears its ugly head—King Hamlet dies, Claudius takes the throne, and young Hamlet dons an “antic disposition.” Free on Kindle.
Free: Rain City Lights
One part Coming of Age Story. One part Murder Mystery. As they navigate their way through Seattle’s Underground, Monti & Sasha will break and warm your heart!
In the summer of 1981, a serial killer preys on black, teenage prostitutes working Seattle’s arterial highways. But the eyes of youth are blind to danger, and Montgomery “Monti” Jackson is distracted by her own problems. She’ll be starting high school soon, and the return of her mother’s boyfriend heightens the tension in her fractured household.
To add to her worries, Monti fears she may be in love with her best friend Sasha. But as close as they’d once been, now they couldn’t feel further apart. Sasha is a burnout punk rocker, and has befriended the neighborhood drug dealer. And when an eviction notice is posted on Monti’s door, a strange dynamic forms between them.
One night, an altercation leaves her family penniless. So Monti turns to the very streets where a killer stalks and ensnares young women, beginning her journey towards understanding one, simple truth – sometimes your only choices in life are to love and survive.
Rain City Lights is a gritty, urban love story that explores how poverty, addiction and abuse is passed from one generation to the next. Free on Kindle.
Free: Mutiny In The Dugout
Parents send their kids to the newest craze in Little League baseball: military boot camp on a diamond. The kids have had enough of out-of-control parents, coaches, and abusive drill sergeants. After a typical day of coaches cursing and hitting kids, exploding bases, booing from the stands, and parents fighting in the parking lot, the kids are at their wits’ end. It’s mutiny in the dugout. The kids go on strike, pulling out picket signs to let their parents know they’ve finally crossed the line. Free on Kindle.
Escape To Simisu
There is a stunning hidden planet…Simisu. It has always been there, close to Earth but in a different dimension. And now they want to try to help us save Earth.
Bernadette has been chosen as their final Seeker, and will be given the last chance to help Earth remember what has been lost. If she fails, Earth and all its creatures will perish shortly in a series of unstoppable events.
Bernadette is taken on a journey of discovery to find the Simisu gifts which are needed to save and restore Earth. To find them she must first uncover secrets, forgotten knowledge, and work out the lost Principles of Simisu for herself.
What she finds in Simisu astounds her and brings her a joy and happiness she never knew was possible. And will change her life for ever.
But evil men from Earth are after her to kill her, steal the gifts, wage war, and plunder Simisu for themselves.
Will she succeed? What insights will she uncover on the way? And will the reader also hear the call from Simisu? $4.23 on Kindle.
The Memory of Music
The Bestselling Award-Winning Irish historical novel, The Memory of Music
One Irish family – 100 turbulent years.
1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams.
To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics and neglects his lucrative craft. As Dublin is plunged into chaos as The Easter Rebellion of 1916, Betty gives birth to her first child to the sound of gunfire and shelling.
But Betty vows that she will survive war and want, and move her little family out of the tenements. Nothing will stand in her way.
One hundred years later, secrets churn their way to the surface and Betty’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren uncover both Betty’s ruthlessness and her unique brand of heroism. $0.99 on Kindle.
Mothers of Pine Way
Free: From da Big Island
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train where she was placed out as a farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. A story of female triumph and perseverance. How did she survive? Free on Kindle.
Sweet Jane
After a broken childhood, Jane runs away at sixteen; returning for Mama’s funeral seventeen years later catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Candyman’s Tale
The story of the birth of the drug trade in New York City, in two small communities in the Borough of Queens: the very white Cambria Heights, and the very black Saint Albans. Four your men, steeped in poverty, have big dreams, sell weed across the big avenue in Cambria Heights. Their plans skyrocket, the weed is sold, kids are hooked, and this leads to severe unintended consequences….an outraged group of citizens, corrupt cops, and organized crime. In the middle of all this, a black family tries to move into Cambria Heights, triggering a white flight, and a stunning confrontation between new arrivals and old timers. The shattering climax, as the four young men face the ultimate challenge will shake and startle you, leaving a long memory of the story well after the last page has been turned. $3.99 on Kindle.
Oja and the Parrot’s Curse
In the modest but peace-loving village of Umuzura, everyone enjoys the fruits of their colorful culture and ample agriculture. Who would start worrying about any prophecy that their happy lives and freedom is doomed to some disaster – even if it wasn’t the village parrot that said so?
As for Obinna, the apple of his eye is Adaure, the lead singer and dancer in Umuzura’s latest festival. With his flute, he hopes to make his suit and earn some money, seeing nothing sinister in the old beggarman he takes pity on, on his way. After all, surely, he’s blind? Isn’t he?
Yet on the wrong side of West Africa’s Sahel lurks the kingdom of Tangandoom, a warrior kingdom that preys on its neighbours under its tyrant king, Gandoom – and its green eyes have spotted Umuzura.
Sub-Saharan sorcery meets hope, romance and war in this African adventure alive with curious, quaint and colourful characters. $4.99 on Kindle.
Lost Creatures
Downtrodden luck poachers, lovelorn chemical elements, obsolete villains, trademarked teenagers, domesticated centaurs, outcast reindeer, victimized zombies, and time-jumping alcoholics are some of the LOST CREATURES who inhabit this collection of short stories that blends fantasy, science fiction, dark comedy, and magical realism. $2.99 on Kindle.
Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him.
“I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.”
Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he’s headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he’s a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he’s just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too.
Everybody’s trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950’s America. $0.99 on Kindle.
Sea of Glass
How bright and how terrible is dawn on the day we discover our wings.
Twelve-year-old Teo spends his days helping his drunken papá hang windows on shanties along Baja’s wild coast. When an old angler presses Teo to seek a goddess—the Sea Angel—for rescue, Teo sets out to test whether help can be found at the hands of the gods. To learn the truth, he must look beyond legends and summon the courage to challenge his papá. And to reach freedom, he must tap his own strength, hidden beneath wounds laid by glass. $0.99 on Kindle.
Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
“Fantastical, meditative, and witty… An outstanding collection.” — The Prairies Book Review
Is love the most revolutionary of all acts?
In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables.
Join the struggle against stifling societal powers and explore the potency of love.
Join the revolution! $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Whippoorwill Chronicles
My Father’s Indian: How A Butterfly Split The Oak
When tragedy in the wilderness forces Suzy to confront her past and seek out true friends, a psychological drama/mystery exploring the meaning of human connection unfolds. “Not your run of the mill psychological thriller…Comfortably casual and yet subtly elegant, highlighting the beauty in nature and in the relationships we cultivate.” $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Ubiety
If you were to find yourself at the edge of a dying world with a lingering sense of reality, would you simply fade into the nothingness or would you fight for everything you hold dear? This assertive question is at the heart of the thought-provoking book Ubiety, for this abstract book was designed to help people emerge into reality and find the truth whilst questioning both what could and should be.
Join Adam in a whirlwind of past and present madness, diving into the many mysteries which will uncover bittersweet secrets to see if he can save his fate and somehow put the chaos set in his mind at rest. However, be aware, this will certainly not be an easy read but remember that some of the greatest fortunes lie on the darkest paths. Free on Kindle.
Free: Test of Faith
When Miriam Beiler, a first class quilter, narrowly avoids an accident with an Englischer who asks her for directions to a nearby high school, will this chance meeting push Miriam and her Amish community to an ultimate test of faith?
Amish woman, Miriam Beiler is being courted by John Fisher, and she’s moving towards being Baptized into the Amish community, but a chance meeting with an Englischer leads to deep trouble when Lance Newman begins stalking her. What happens next will forever change this peaceful Amish community and test the faith of all involved.
This book was previously published as Seasons of Love. This second edition has been revised and edited with some new content. Enjoy :)) Free on Kindle.