2017-09-01 15:25
By Bruce W. PerryArmed with a crossbow, Mike Wade roams the dystopian USA deserts in search of his captive daughter Kara.Bad things tend to happen in threes: because of global warming, the… Read More
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2017-08-24 14:46
By Donna WylieLast Laugh - A murder of comic proportions Think murder isn't funny? Someone thinks it is. Someone with a sick sense of humor is murdering comedians one by one so they can wi… Read More
2017-08-22 14:16
By Michael TierneyNicodemus Boffin rose from a boyhood in the ash heaps of East London to reach the pinnacles of British science when he is mentored by the great scientist, Michael Faraday… Read More
2017-08-20 15:02
By Eve ClaytonTHWALA - the abduction and forced marriage of a young girl to an older man in South African tribal custom... But could it also be a metaphor for the way in which colonialists… Read More
2017-08-17 16:42
By Mike BefelerIn Death of a Scam Artist, a financial hatchet man who dislikes old people, accepts the job of turning around a failing retirement home and undergoes a life-transforming exp… Read More
2017-08-15 14:14
By Lee DucoteNormally, when seniors settle into Cedar Branch Retirement Community, they begin a simpler and slower pace of living. Not this group! For Jack Goslin, Karl and Betty Rutherfur… Read More
2017-08-13 16:09
By C. M. BarrettAfter strained negotiations that include an earthquake or two, the heroes and heroines of Oasis prepare to welcome fairies, dwarves, and other elementals to their land. Tho… Read More
2017-08-12 13:41
By C. M. SimpsonWhen Lorellan Cartwright finds buying back the woman he loves an impossible task, he promptly steals her away, but escaping from the criminally minded third duke of Aristoc… Read More
2017-08-11 13:35
By Ronald L. RuizRay Lopez is on the run with a duffel bag full of cash. Both drug dealers and the police are after him. But Ray is not a criminal. His last brush with the law was over tra… Read More
2017-08-10 13:35
By Stewart H. HolbrookThe Columbia commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and a source of irrigation. Here is the story… Read More
2017-08-04 13:42
By Jan Merete WeissIn the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Magg… Read More
2017-07-11 18:54
By Stephen ParatoA Cosmic Superbeing Comes to Earth as a Dog Ralphie is a dog. But there's much more to it... Dogs are not just dogs. They're actually multi-dimensional superbeings perform… Read More
2017-06-05 17:05
By Livia J. WashburnThe chili in Texas is red-hot . . . and so is murder!Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of peopl… Read More
2017-05-04 17:08
By Ieda Jonasdottir Herman The author recalls Iceland 1935, a simpler time and draws the reader into a childhood routine that had been virtually unchanged since the days of the Viking… Read More
2017-05-04 16:07
By David R. MichaelThara Gold’s rent is due and she needs a new job. Right now, though, she hopes she can make it home before her Episode starts. She doesn’t want to turn into… Read More
2017-05-01 15:13
By Eriqa QueenIf you think dragons are a myth, you will learn otherwise in this story. In her search for material for an upcoming book, Luzi stumbles upon many secrets and old wisdom, sign… Read More
2017-04-24 14:59
By Adrian SturgessA woman has gone missing and the police have a suspect. They call on the services of Dr Catherine Paradine, a young psychologist, to question him. She has the singular vi… Read More
2017-04-21 15:04
By Antoine HudonThe theft of the century! The famous Blue Diamond Affair! The jewel heist by a Thai employee in a Saudi Arabian Prince’s palace continues to have shocking repercussio… Read More
2017-04-20 14:05
By Mark MillerEven before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who rep… Read More
2017-04-19 14:05
By David BoopIt’s 1953 and scientist-turned P.I. Noel Glass is tortured with the guilt of an early experiment gone awry. When a rich recluse offers proof that the accident was a set… Read More
2017-04-17 13:47
By Teresa TrentArtist Gabby Wolfe has the ability to see not only the beauty of the living but the despair of the dead. When she returns to her childhood home in Henry Park Colorado, she i… Read More
2017-04-14 13:38
By Kristina CircelliEvangeline Frost had a plan, once. Attend a prestigious art school, become a renowned painter. It was a dream she shared with her father, one that was ripped away in th… Read More
2017-04-13 13:59
By Jay WilliamsWhat happens when you turn into the thing you most abhor? "Writing Trash and Hunting Buffalo" tells of a man who reports on the glitter set he despises, but through several… Read More
2017-04-12 13:25
By Stella KnoxvilleFind out how Bernadette was indoctrinated into the ancient super-secret organization known as the Rainbow Patrollers. From her first encounter with Rainbow Mojo shamans… Read More
2017-04-11 13:44
By Crissi LangwellA story of love, loss, and the emergence of hope is told through the life and death of Rachel Ashby, a woman who is caught in the afterlife following a tragic car acciden… Read More
2017-04-10 13:53
By Rex A. EwingIt’s been twenty years since an engineered microbe brought the age of oil to an end, triggering a civil war that left civilization forever changed. Now, in a world div… Read More
2017-04-09 14:35
By Sudha BalagopalAt forty-eight, Usha has never dated. Like all good Indian girls, she married the man whom her family chose. Twenty-three years after success-driven Raja brought her to… Read More
2017-04-08 15:15
By Jeffrey BardwellThe wizard purge is in full swing. Sorcery is illegal in the modern, steam-powered Iron Empire. The Magistrate's Black Guards hunt the uncivilized mages using mechanized… Read More
2017-04-07 14:54
By Christopher T. BanksA young couple from Albuquerque, Joe and Ellie Lawrence, arrive at their new home in very rural Eastern Oregon to find the former renters still in residence and firm… Read More
2017-04-07 13:51
By James C. GammageJake Webster thought spending two weeks of leave from a combat zone would be a relaxing event. Just before he arrived, he started to notice lapses in his memory. Not sim… Read More
2017-04-06 13:17
By Laurie FinkelsteinBlessed with anxiety, depression, and OCD, Janie Weiss has seen her fair share of therapists throughout her life. So many, she doesn’t even refer to them by name… Read More
2017-04-05 13:19
By M. K. CokerAfter losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job… Read More
2017-04-04 15:40
By T. J. PattersonAdora is a fiercely independent young woman, threatened by human-looking aliens whose government needs test subjects to genetically engineer a dependent population when d… Read More
2017-04-04 15:14
By Michael Woods and Mary B. WoodsSomeone is killing scientists who breed medicine's "test tubes on four feet," the costly, genetically engineered laboratory mice that stand in for humans… Read More
2017-04-04 14:12
By John A. GreenwaldIt wasn’t that Ruth Wightman Morris didn’t know the rules—it was that she lived to break them. Fiercely defying expectations in every area of her life… Read More
2017-04-03 13:03
By V. M. FranckOnce Without Dying explores the unfolding friendship between Sheeawna, Akilah and Mali. As a child, when she overcomes death, Sheeawna, the protagonist, learns the extent o… Read More
2017-04-02 15:28
By Rob FelderBased on the true story of an immigrant Pioneer family's journey from their home country of Germany in the 1880's. They settled on the new frontier of Minnesota at a place ca… Read More
2017-04-02 14:56
By Daliah HusuDaliah Husu is a transgender writer and poet whose work focuses on themes of love, self-acceptance and spiritual and emotional fulfillment. Her lifelong struggle with gender… Read More
2017-04-01 16:02
By Sara Lee BurkeGirls born first are unlucky. If they are born into poverty and addiction, they are unluckier still. Easter Water is the story of a firstborn girl, forced to grow up too soo… Read More
2017-03-31 15:39
By Maer WilsonWhat is the truth behind the legend of Science Fiction great, Philip K. Dick?In spring, 1972, Phil Dick moved to Fullerton, CA, where he met Theatre student Mary (Maer) Wilso… Read More
2017-03-30 14:04
By Djahariah MitraIn the candid and inspiring memoir, Dancing in the Bamboo Forest, yoga teacher Djahariah Mitra takes the reader on an adventurous journey through South Indian temples, as… Read More
2017-03-28 16:06
By Will WeisserAetheria, where no one ages and a thought can summon any object into existence. Paradise. But for Meli, a crafter of intelligent plants, life in Aetheria means hollow despai… Read More
2017-03-24 15:50
By William H. RussethIt was just a bit of gold and a map etched on an ancient medallion, gifts from Poseidon, found on the ocean floor, neither enough proof to convince anyone to search fo… Read More
2017-03-23 14:19
By Kati WoronkaMaha and Leila have been friends for years, but they have not seen each other since they studied together at University of Damascus five years ago. As the war in Syria encro… Read More
2017-03-21 18:47
By C. M. SkieraHounded by watchmen, trolls, goblins, and a relentless bounty hunter, 13-year-old Jetsam dreams of the day he’ll no longer have to run for his life.In the mountain cit… Read More
2017-03-14 20:15
By Lisa BouchardWhen publicist Kathleen Harrison is executed in her suburban home, the obvious suspect is her client and lover George Wynton, a known telepath. Boston attorney Dan Stevens… Read More
2017-03-13 21:15
By Lindsay BurokerProfessor Tikaya Komitopis isn’t a great beauty, a fearless warrior, or even someone who can walk and chew chicle at the same time, but her cryptography skills earn… Read More
2017-03-12 14:40
By Richard EwaldFollow Gabriel Quinn as he hunts down the serial rapist who kidnapped his daughter. When Michelle disappears from her quiet neighborhood, the police find no evidence and se… Read More
2017-03-11 15:05
By Loren EliasA healer’s duty is to sustain life, not take it. It seems a fact irrefutable. But when a mark is upon his head the healer must choose; hide in the safety of the fortres… Read More
2017-03-10 15:27
By Leith MarekThis novel introduces an orphan who develops keen senses while exposed to nature for long periods of time. As he grows into manhood and finds helpers, he realizes he is on a… Read More
2017-03-09 14:14
By Thea GilichManda’s husband Steve regards her sketches mere bits of paper and has no qualms in burning them. Devastated she feels she’ll never be able to draw again. Yet, lack… Read More
2017-03-08 23:54
By Tim PelkeyJames Andrews finally appears to be catching a break. After years of searching for Genghis Khan’s tomb, he unearths a bone during a dig on Burkhan Khaldun, Mongolia&rsqu&hell…Read More
2017-03-08 23:26
By D. Lincoln JonesThe year is 1872 and there’s talk of building a railroad across the mountains of Colorado.Could the appearance of two strangers in the frontier town of High Grade b… Read More
2017-03-08 17:30
By Joe WisinskiA shocking crime . . .An alleged cover up . . .A TV newsroom in turmoil . . .The investigation into a brutal crime plunges veteran newsman Dave Wilson into the biggest, and… Read More
2017-03-08 16:45
By Laurie CookIn 1934, Milton Wellar, his wife and five children disappear, leaving no trace except for blood drenched rooms. Delving into the mystery nearly eighty years later, Shannon C… Read More
2017-03-08 16:11
By Terri Talley VentersWhat if someone cloned you?Lilly Allen has brains, beauty, and a trust fund. She's living in New York City and her career as a reporter is taking off. She's hoping t… Read More
2017-03-08 15:09
By O. M. KiamWhy do children growing up together in the same household turn out so completely different? How can a child raised in a family of twelve be so lonely?Coming to Astoria takes t… Read More
2017-03-08 03:45
By David MichieWhen novice monk Tenzin Dorje is told by his lama that the Red Army is invading Tibet, his country's darkest moment paradoxically gives him a sense of purpose like no other… Read More
2017-03-08 02:49
By George SaoulidasA mind-bending thriller about inspiration. On the verge of abandoning his life-long project, an obsessive physicist hires the innovative service of an android Muse to hel… Read More
2017-03-06 03:40
By James HadmanWhile Copper Spirit copes with the death of her beloved father, his spirits appear to her. They tell her that to save her people she must become a shaman. These apparition… Read More
2016-12-19 17:28
By Quinn QuadeAfter a complete upheaval in her personal life, a young woman finds herself living in a small camper on isolated, unimproved property in Southern New Mexico. With no idea of… Read More
2016-12-16 18:03
By Yvonne NavarroA woman abducted. A frantic husband. And no one can prove she exists…. One snowy night, in a suburban parking lot, a man finds the quarry he's been stalking for mon… Read More
2016-12-11 17:42
By Zubin MathaiA magical river begins singing, and a man suddenly aches to know if the paradise at its end can fill his heart. He hires an oarsman to take him upstream, but they are blocke… Read More
2016-12-10 18:12
By Jon FoytWhy would an immigrant lad from off the docks of Liverpool, one Robert Morris, pay for critical portions of the American Revolution out of his own pocket, while helping found th… Read More
2016-12-09 15:24
By L. S. GibsonWhen his dreams of marrying his beloved Gallia crumble to ash, Jhond of the House of Reeve knows he must leave home. Having grown up among the old legends of the time of mag… Read More
2016-12-08 18:07
By Ann CharlesWhen Claire's grandfather and his army buddies converge in the Arizona desert, it's her thankless job to keep them out of trouble with the opposite sex. But when she finds a… Read More
2016-12-07 15:02
By Janet BradleyOn an ordinary morning in her village, Talia Ridgetree has no idea the adventure she is going to be captured on and taken for, nor does she have any inkling to the looming… Read More
2016-12-06 17:57
By Marlene MitchellTruths turning to lies, father against son, friends becoming enemies, predator turning into prey and the circle continues. In her fifth novel, Marlene Mitchell calls upon… Read More
2016-12-05 17:50
By Mark W. SasseMartin Kinney's dying, abusive father asks him to bury his ashes in Vietnam, where he served in the war. As Martin travels to Vietnam, he discovers he buries his father's a… Read More
2016-12-04 17:44
By Brett BusangSet in London, beginning in the early sixties and spanning five decades, I Shot Bruce follows Vijay Asunder, a rock-and-roll wannabe who, many decades after he is spurned by… Read More
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