Shadows Amongst the Threads is a poetic compilation of verse that feeds upon our most basic of instincts like few work before it. Using every sinew of the negative emotions and impulses our minds feed on, it explores the horror of the minds in a way that both makes us recoil but also entices us back for more of the same. Whether faced with the terror of the unknown that lurks in the shadows, the known that stands before us or the threats that we conjure up in our own imaginations, J.A. Santana takes us right into the heart of the action, at times teetering on the edge of sanity as we explore the most basic feelings and urges our consciences allow. Free on Kindle.
Free: Shadows Amongst the Threads
November 5, 2022 By
A PERILOUS JOURNEY To An Uncertain Future
November 1, 2022 By
Four boys, on a quest to find a better life, encounter the best and the worst of humanity. People on both sides of the border want to rob them, kill them, or force them into the drug trade. With their wits and the kindness of strangers, the boys weave their way to an uncertain future. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Madness of Grief
October 25, 2022 By
London 1969. While men are walking on the moon, a series of dramatic events threaten to have lasting repercussions for 16-year-old Jane and the people she loves. Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year – “A rollicking good read… combines a deep understanding of emotion, of the need to live and to grow, with an unfailing control of language.” PW’s BookLife Prize 2021
Free on Kindle.
The things we passed by and the things we realized
October 22, 2022 By
This book is a collection of 10 short stories. Honest, funny, tender, and heartwarming. A series of stories that take you back to another time and place filled with wide-eyed wonderment. The stories reveal different aspects of life, introducing you to characters that will take you inside their hearts and souls to help you learn a little something about yourself. Some will make you laugh, others will make you cry, but they will all help you see the world again through the eyes of a child.
The full-page illustrations invite the reader into a world of big-hearted imagination. The author effortlessly weaves tales that are simple on the surface but hold deep meaning beneath. As you read, you can’t help but put yourself in the characters’ shoes and wonder how you would react in these situations. Each reader will be able to connect with them in their own way; stories that are personal yet timeless offering a new perspective on life. $7.99 on Kindle.
Coyote’s Road Trip
October 15, 2022 By
“Unlike so many action-oriented dystopian stories, this is a somewhat surreal, moody, and introspective tale, with an easy flow to it that’s much like . . . well . . . taking a long drive.” —S. Lynn Helton.
Coyote Jim, the shape-shifting spirit of a desert valley in Nevada is forced out of his home by climate change. He robs a store and takes off in his pickup truck, looking for “the mountain in the air” described to him by a ghost. A blend of magical realism, travelogue, and post-climate change dystopia, this book has a 4.41 average rating on Goodreads from readers who describe it as “wonderful,” “original and interesting,” and “a tale told vividly.” $0.99 on Kindle.
The Quiet Houses: Fall of the Narcs
October 5, 2022 By
THE QUIET HOUSES
Fall of the Narcs
DEA Agent Jeff Moore was portrayed by actor Bradley Cooper in Clint Eastwood’s movie, The Mule.
Jeff’s New York Times interview regarding his arrest of the world’s oldest and most successful cartel mule, Leo Sharp, became the basis for this film.
Inspired by real events, Jeff has now written the narrative crime thriller, The Quiet Houses.
Jeff transitioned to law enforcement after finding himself unemployed from his comfortable suburban job as a graphic artist. In 2003, Jeff spent a year undercover as a street junky visiting violent drug houses throughout Kansas City, Missouri alongside his informant, Tamera Mack, a boisterous, street-wise African American woman.
His life-changing and unbelievable journey with Tammy through a sea of lost souls, dangerous men and corrupt cops gives the reader a story that is difficult to put down.
Almost two decades later, Jeff is currently a DEA Special Agent in Detroit, Michigan.
The Quiet Houses Review from Stephen Murphy
“A must read for all
true crime fans”
— Stephen Murphy,
Retired DEA agent,
Advisor – Netflix Narcos,
Author – Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
co-written with Javier F. Peña.
$9.99 on Kindle.
Reckonings
October 5, 2022 By
A vibrant, superbly written tale. It’s a fast-paced, tightly knit, family drama with a female protagonist at the heart who, despite painful adolescence memories and present financial and personal hardship, has the courage and tenacity to confront her life’s challenges head on. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Truth of Who You Are
October 4, 2022 By
When his family is plunged into poverty during the Great Depression, Ben Taylor takes a job with the US Civilian Conservation Corps developing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tragic accident puts him in a dilemma: does he let someone else take the fall for what he did so he can keep his position? $0.99 on Kindle.
America High
September 23, 2022 By
In America High a murder shatters the students, divides the community, and challenges everyone. Jocks obsess over the football games, loner outcasts create lives for themselves, and pretty girls fight against an unstoppable foe…check out this literary thriller by genre novelist Dalton Lewis, author of American Starfleet Independence. $2.99 on Kindle.
CODE NAME: THE FOX – Operation Yucatan Cartel
September 21, 2022 By
Hatred is a tough monster to kill, as Harold soon discovers the moment he realizes that his war against the cartels is morphing into a never-ending vigilante mission.
There is a lot to be said about the devastation that the cartels bring into human existence. But Harold Brandon, drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor-turned-vigilante, is not about to sit idly by and let them continue.
They need to be stopped.
This brings him to the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mexico, where he sets his eyes on a blood-thirsty Don and his equally murderous wife.
The ruthless couple has had a tight, lethal hold on the region, inflicting unspeakable horrors to locals and to those who stand in their way.
Now with a team of equally competent men, Harold seeks to bring hellfire on these vicious rulers and finally end their reign of terror.
But, with all the odds stacked against one man and his team, will they even survive long enough to see the light of day?
Find out for yourself in “Operation Yucatan Cartel: Harold Brandon’s War Against the Cartels”, the third installment to the bestselling “Code Name: The Fox” series by prolific author Dr. Hal Bradley, DD!
If you’re looking for a roller coaster of blood, betrayal, and vengeance, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!
$2.99 on Kindle.
CODE NAME: THE FOX – Operation Durango Cartel
September 20, 2022 By
Two years since the rape and murder of Harold Brandon’s beloved wife, Shelly, he strikes his scythe of vengeance upon one man and his entire cartel.
“Hey gringo, are you lost?”
“No. Not lost. Looking for someone.”
“Who are you looking for?”
“I’m looking for a dead man.”
***
Shelly was raped and murdered by the Sonora Cartel two years ago. And since then, Harold has been juggling his sorrow and rage amid a standing contract on his life set at one million dollars.
When a grieving former drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor is also being hunted like prey, he adapts.
Harold was forced to hide in the shadows and isolate himself from friends and family. He was also driven to undergo plastic surgery twice.
Heartbroken, seething, unrecognizable, and with unlimited government resources at his disposal, Harold now has the upper hand and plots to find Enrique, the Sonora Cartel’s #2 man, with every intention of killing him — slowly and in true cartel fashion.
Just like how they killed his wife.
Will Harold succeed?
Find out for yourself in “Operation Durango Cartel: Harold Brandon’s War Against the Cartels”, the second installment to the bestselling “Code Name: The Fox” series by prolific author Dr. Hal Bradley, DD!
If you’re looking for a roller coaster of blood, betrayal, and vengeance, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!
$2.99 on Kindle.
Code Name The Fox: Operation Tucson Cartel
September 19, 2022 By
Making things right was drug-lord-turned-contractor/minister Harold Brandons new purpose. But he soon finds out that changing sides comes at a steep price.
Harolds Harley roars across asphalt and dirt toward a meeting with DOJ agents and a few informants.
Its been eight years since he decided to do the right thing and take on the cartel he once served, and five since he became one of the Department of Justices most prized undercover operatives.
While hes good at what he does, Harold still teeters between love and hate for his job for each assignment draws him closer to the life he now despises.
And yet, even when every mission feels like his last, Harold cant bring himself to turn his back on his double life. May it be for adventure or simply for retaliation, he doesnt quite know.
What he is sure of, however, is that he has a yearning to make things right.
But, as soon as Harold starts a new mission, sinister forces connive against him and seek to teach him a lesson.
How they were going to go about it, however, remains to be seen.
$2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Polk, Harper & Who
September 10, 2022 By
A police visit and then a dinner party threaten to unravel all that Adam and Eva hold dear… A tender, thorny, frequently hilarious contemporary story of complicated friendships and family relationships, and ultimately of the triumph of imperfect London love within imperfect London lives. “Beautifully encapsulates what love is.” -Kirkus Reviews Free on Kindle.
Anaïs Nin’s Paris Revisited
September 8, 2022 By
The book consists of photographs of thirty-one places dear to Anaïs Nin in and around Paris, her quotes, and the author’s essays, all bilingually presented in English and French.
It is a unique and charming guidebook to the writer Anaïs Nin, the city she lived in and loved, art, literature, and the 20th Century thought.
You will find an array of luminaries such as Henry Miller, Antonin Artaud, Sylvia Beach, Bunuel, Brassaî, and Duchamp in interaction with Nin. You will also be introduced to important feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler through Nin. $17.99 on Kindle.
Gathered
August 19, 2022 By
Gathered is a story of disconnection and redemption. Sol Severson is successful in every observable way, living with his wife and daughter in an exclusive Chicago suburb. But inwardly, Sol is an empty soul, cut off from any relationship with his family of origin and merely going through the motions with others.
After a tragedy sends him reeling, Sol embarks on a mission to explore his roots and resolve long-repressed questions about the father he barely knew. Much like his boyhood hero, Huckleberry Finn, Sol’s journey leads him to an adventure on the Mississippi River. In the end, by looking for his father, Sol discovers himself. $7.99 on Kindle.
The Book of Mathew L.
August 4, 2022 By
Mathew grew up a loner in a large family in a small town. When he gets to grad school, there’s a lot to distract him from finishing his Ph.D. thesis: a partner with “emotional issues”: a teen daughter Linda; the need to balance the loving and feeding of his eclectic family with social justice ambitions and the temptations that pop up at a university.
One day Mathew and Linda set out on the road to the mountains of North Carolina to support some Black hospital workers seeking to unionize, facing a racist management. This is the journey to the mountaintop that could get him a Ph.D. and lift him out of his grad student grind. The Book of Mathew L. is the tale of that journey.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Bravely and Faithfully
August 2, 2022 By
A New Captain’s First Patrol Turns into a Fight for Their Lives
Sam Powell gets a well-deserved promotion to Lieutenant Commander and a coveted slot at the Naval War College. His replacement, hard-charging young Lieutenant Haley Reardon, is about to get a baptism of fire aboard her new command, the Coast Guard patrol boat Kauai.
Opening with the rescue of a young family from a stricken sailboat in the middle of a major hurricane, Bravely and Faithfully presents an exciting series of adventures, culminating in the covert insertion and recovery of an assault team from a hostile Caribbean island.
This third installment of the series conveys the humor, friendships, and teamwork of Kauai‘s crew from the previous books, with a new series of exciting actions from search and rescue to combat. The crew and their new skipper must come together for the toughest mission they have ever faced.
Enjoy the action, the teamwork and camaraderie of the crew as they face life and death together with their new captain, and the course of second-in-command Ben Wyporek’s sweet courtship of the beautiful, neurodiverse genius Victoria Carpenter.
$2.99 on Kindle.
Codename Poltergeist: Some call him a ghost
July 24, 2022 By
The CIA and presidential cabinet members covertly enter into an agreement with the Palestinians to remove certain key Israeli government figures in a plan to enable the United States to claim that they engineered peace in the Middle East and gain the favor of Arabic countries and likely gain favor to increase energy supply. Sentinel, a group of angelic-type beings who monitor the Earth, are very concerned that the United States could be igniting a major conflict if the Israelis learn of the plan and retaliate. Taneen, an unscrupulous and deadly CIA operative convinces the CIA deputy director of operations to eliminate the agency’s most highly regarded operative, James Halyard, Codename Poltergeist, believing Halyard was a possible threat to their plans. Taneen won’t admit it, but he’s scared of Halyard who moves like a ghost through his missions and is jealous of Halyard’s deadliness. The attempt to kill Halyard fails, but they kill Halyard’s wife in the process. An angelic-like being from the Sentinel rescues Halyard who was seriously injured in the explosion that practically destroyed the hotel room he was sharing with his wife. Sentinel heals Halyard of his wounds. They have been monitoring Halyard for some time and give him the option of becoming an agent for their purposes with highly augmented mental and physical abilities. He agrees and truly becomes Poltergeist able to move silently with the grace and ease of a large predator. His earing, vision, and cognitive abilities are highly elevated, and he has the ability to move through the transparency to escape from confined spaces. Sentinel sends Poltergeist to unravel and thwart the conspiracy. Even with Poltergeist’s impressive abilities he finds Taneen to be elusive and very deadly. Poltergeist encounters several unforeseen allies, a highly capable and equally lethal MOSSAD agent, Deborah Eisman, who at first sought to eliminate him and a crusty homicide detective, Harry Sullivan who help Poltergeist battle Taneen and the CIA.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Mothers of Pine Way
July 21, 2022 By
Candelaria’s power lies trapped within her rage. How can she overcome her anger and free her power? Her husband’s horrific death has crippled the family, yet she must cast off the shadows of the past to realize her destiny. Many obstacles will stand in her way, including her fears for her troubled son, Jim. But, her mother’s sudden death teaches Candelaria that the only way out is to step in. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Apple & The Tree
July 19, 2022 By
Experience a writer’s pre-sobriety years. Memoirist Dre Carlan turns his hand to fiction, essays, and reveries in this collection of chemically-induced dreams. Free on Kindle.
My Canvas Bag
July 18, 2022 By
Mark is a young man born into a bad family situation. He escapes from the chaos of his home by spending time in the woods near his house. Mark has a hidden canvas bag that contains blankets, a flashlight, and more. The canvas bag makes it possible for him to be in the woods.
Mark’s life is a constant struggle to avoid the judgments of his family being placed on him. He feels helpless.
As Mark gets older, he makes some bad decisions.
When Mark discovers his ability to write, he discovers himself. $2.99 on Kindle.
Rising Wind
July 15, 2022 By
This suspense action series of the Rising Wind series by Diane Olsen with book three, a prequel to the first two books, so it’s not necessary to have read the first two begins with the lead characters, Sage Dalton and L.W., are the parents of the main character in the other Rising Wind books. Although the characters are different and it is set in an earlier time period, the tone of the book is very similar. This time they discover an ancient text in a Mexican desert tomb that leads Sage, L.W., and a group of fellow explorers to Tibet where they find themselves in the middle of a war. Even with danger at every turn, they still manage to discover secret caves that lead them toward an elusive yet powerful Book of Hope.
Just like the other books in the series, the author combines three strong story elements to make for a fun, exciting, and educational read. First, and foremost, her books have a superb cast of characters that readers can easily relate to. They care about each other, work together to achieve a common goal, laugh together, and cry together. Second, her stories revolve around rare ancient discoveries found all around the world. Much like the great Indiana Jones films, each new discovery comes with an element of danger.
Sometimes the danger comes from a person or an organization that wants to keep the discovery for themselves, or the danger comes from the object itself, or sometimes it’s a little of both. The third common theme is an embracing of all world religions. Religion is somehow intertwined with each rare find that the characters make. This book is a fun read filled with colorful characters and lots of action. I recommend it for fans of character-driven adventure who like to learn about science, ancient civilizations, and world religions along the way.
From $0.99 to $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Color of Miracles
July 12, 2022 By
Thomas Hall is an artist with astonishing talent–and he knows it. Since his days as a child prodigy, he has reveled in recognition and believed in his inevitable destiny. Chosen. Entitled. He presumes his artistic brilliance deserves a lavish life of independence, fast cars, and drop-dead gorgeous women. Thomas Hall wants it all and more. But God has other plans. When “Cass” the woman from the Healing Place, walks into Thomas’s life, nothing can ever be the same again. Thomas finds himself faced with a challenge he could have never imagined, suspended between one client’s flat denial of the existence of God and the undaunted faith of a little girl named Christina. What he discovers about the child’s harrowing escape from death and her inexplicable life-after-death experience, brings him face to face with the most frightening question of his life. *Previously released as “The Evolution of Thomas Hall.” Free on Kindle.
Free: The Sins of Others
July 9, 2022 By
The international story of a young aspiring conflict zone reporter turned Hollywood celebrity photographer and his estranged mother, a brilliant social activist turned militant fanatic who’s been on the run from Interpol for thirty years, as well as the array of people they encounter on their (mostly) separate journeys to deliverance. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Coldness of Objects
July 7, 2022 By
A dystopian satire and a story about different kinds of love: London 2030. The news a young postman delivers will cause Mr. Rubens to reflect on all the sorrows and joys of the past, while he begins to prepare for the menacing surprises of the future. “Thoroughly gripping… a chilling vision of an abnormal ‘new-normal’ to come.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Best Book of 2021
Free on Kindle.
