New Releases
March
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In 1950s London, Irene, an innocent sixteen-year-old, desperate to escape the strict confines of her parents, is smitten by Joe, a flashy, charismatic, cockney charmer. He’s twelve years her senior with a flourishing career in the entertainment business. When he proposes it’s like a dream come true. She believes he’ll take care of her, give her beautiful things. But Joe has a dark side, and that dream quickly turns into a nightmare. Can Irene find the inner strength to protect herself and her two children from the deeply troubled Joe?
February
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Her life was tipped head-over-heels…
When Dallas Shaw realized her long-time friend meant more to her than she ever imagined, she panicked. With the first kiss, unexpected sparks flared between them. Because of her intensifying passions, she was relieved to receive an assignment far away from the town of Cranach so she could come to terms with the raw desire coursing within. The handsome brooding artist who’d painted her many times was a hazard of a different kind. Dallas soon found herself yielding to his mercuric enchantment.
…and so was her heart
Taught to believe in eternal love Rafe Frasier thought he would never find his mate in this lifetime. If he didn’t find her, they would never meet again in the future. Once, he thought Dallas might be his mate. Yet, there was no energy between them, no spark of raw passion when they touched. After Dallas returned from an unexplained absence, he couldn’t deny her intoxicating effect on him. Now Rafe would risk his life to protect the innocent beauty who had seduced him with her tender love.
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Why does an asylum have so many patients in zombie-like states? Private Inquisitor Jak Barley means to find out, even though it pits him against the shadowy world of his city’s elite. What to do when a swarm of bee’s hivemind asks Jak to find its kidnapped queen? Take it, of course. The case takes a threatening turn when hired assassins become involved. Could anything go wrong with a free passage on a cruise ship? Yes – murder, as well as a conspiracy involving a mythical suit of armor hidden in a lost fortress ruins. A problem arises when vying wizard cabals are dead set on possessing the magical-imbued armor. Jak is not without his own support, including the Witch Morgana and his mysterious friend from an alternate world lacking magic, Lorenzo Spasm.
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Set in Florida in 1988, Hating Harlon is about a year in the life of thirty-two-year-old Lily Green who employs dark humor as she struggles with right and wrong in a society where she believes she is an outsider by not conforming to traditional feminine roles and values. Her adolescent daughter, Marie, is a runaway with drug and alcohol problems, Lily’s family ignores her, and her boyfriend, Harlon, views her through a skewed lens where she never measures up. When her only ally, her grandmother, starts an inexorable decline in health, Lily decides her independence is something she must relinquish for a stable life. The events that ensue prove that her grandmother’s example, and Lily’s own inner strength, compensate for the hardships of rebelling against predetermined societal roles. Lily’s dilemma is relevant for that moment in history; it also rings true thirty-five years later.
January
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Wild and free, intending to remain so, Kerrie Johnstone has one goal in mind. She intends to build a stable with the best race horses in the British Isles. Life is good for Kerrie. Beautiful, self-assured and fiercely independent, she understands she is no debutant even though she is headed for a season in London. One she will loathe. She is prepared to step into her dreams, not become some aristocrat’s wife. If she never meets another man with a title, she will be more than satisfied.
Life is good for Sterling Talmage, the future Duke of Sherburn. Known to his friends as Tam, he is wealthy, handsome and happily unencumbered…until stunning Kerrie Johnstone plumets into his life racing across an open field on a stallion much too large for her petite frame. After pulling the damsel in distress from the stallion, he discovers a wild, struggling termagant who refuses to admit she needs his help.
During their impromptu stay in a hunting box in the wilds of Scotland, Tam learns the woman he’s decided will be his wife despises men with titles. During the next weeks he does all he can to keep her from discovering he is not only a marquis but in line to become the next duke. This young beauty might have some strange notions about men with titles, but she is about to discover that when it comes to passion, a loving heart wins hands down.
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Four extraordinary teens, each cursed with a corrupted gift from one of the four elements: Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind.
After discovering that SanCorp was continuing with their human experimentation, the group of four escaped in a blaze of fire. Refusing to be turned into weapons and refusing to turn a blind eye on the death and torture that SanCorp was guilty of, they have decided to take down the company as a whole. They will not run. They will not hide. They will no longer be the hunted. They will become the hunter.
Spark is Eve’s story. Earth is more than just the dirt under our feet. It encompasses all the energy around us. It can be beautiful in the flowers and the trees it helps to create, or the animals and the life it brings forth. But it can also be destructive and ugly, and it can kill. Now that Eve and the group have something more than just themselves to protect, Eve may become the weapon SanCorp wanted all along. Only this time, the weapon will be focused on them.
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As the tropical city of Darwin slumbers, a massive armada of dragonflies approaches, their eerie hum reminiscent of the haunting drone of Japanese fighter planes on that fateful February 14, 1942.
Callum and Ande receive an invitation from Pitch to holiday in the remote Northern Territory. Reunited on their native soil, exhausted but relieved to have survived the carnage of the Sorcerer’s beetle apocalypse in Istanbul, Callum and Ande strive to conquer their personal demons and nurture their budding relationship, while Pitch desperately attempts to revive his failing marriage.
The Dragonfly Lord, hellbent on revenge against the Divine Wind, heralds impending death and devastation through his airborne insect agents. Once again, Callum, Ande, and Pitch find themselves ensnared in a storm of diabolical malevolence. With the aid of the Archangel Barachiel, the affable devil Ron, and a spiritually empowered priest, will this valiant trio emerge triumphant over the forces of darkness? Or will the Dragonfly Lord’s wicked designs obliterate everything?
December
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Kaity Kinney and Matt Dwyer meet when they are in their teens while working after-school jobs at the same Chicago grocery store. The two become good friends but go down different paths in life and lose touch. Matt contacts Kaity nearly twenty-five years later, and they catch up with one another’s lives, reminiscing about the shared events of their youth and remembering the people they both knew. As their friendship blooms, their relationship becomes more intense.
Determined to find out if Matt might be the man of her dreams, Kaity accepts Matt’s invitation to reconnect in person so that they can have a serious conversation about life and love. And Kaity wonders, could Matt be “The One?”
November
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Sheltered, Maggie MacRae is shocked to learn her mother has agreed to a marriage proposal for her made to a man she detests. All her dreams are ripped away from her when she realizes escape is unlikely. For her, there is no viable way out of the engagement. Choices needed to be made. The man she is to become engaged to is ruthless, a dangerous power. Terrified of her future with this man, Maggie is left with few options.
Feeling as if her world has shattered, Maggie flees the night her engagement is announced. She puts her life in the hands of a man she doesn’t know, a man who could be as cold-blooded and treacherous as the one who is now her fiancé…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.
Jasper Kenworthy has spent his life with few cares and he has no intention of changing the patterns of his existence. When he finds that Maggie can offer him something he never thought would be his, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together in each other’s arms has given Jasper a taste for Maggie. He discovers he would do anything, risk everything to keep Maggie safe and within the shelter of his embrace.
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As the war in Europe winds down, a unit of battle-fatigued GIs are tasked in liberating the survivors of the infamous Verurteilt concentration camp, in theory a relatively simple rescue mission. Upon arrival, Sergeant Rance Hawkins and his four young charges are ordered to search an unmapped area beyond the main camp for evidence of a separate, clandestine compound, reportedly created for high-ranking SS officers to further torment and torture. Their quest will eventually lead them into a nearby coal mine, where a young camp survivor claims that her mother and other refugees are being held. Inside the murky caverns, the motley crew of dogfaces discover revelations so terrifying and vile as to make even the inhuman atrocities of Verurteilt seem tame by comparison.
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A former GI vet from the Vietnam war, suffering from PTSD, has made his way to the peaceful Okanagan area of B.C. Here he chooses to target young Asian female victims who will serve his purpose as he assumes the persona of Ogopogo, a Canadian folk lore lake serpent who was said to inhabit Okanagan Lake.
Ignatius (Iggy) Myles and Jacob (Jake) England, two Kelowna street-wise detectives are nearing retirement, but their plans are put on hold as the killer’s prey becomes personal and they are forced to pursue the monster through the mountainous wilds of British Columbia.
October
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Blood Clan is an historical novel set just after the Civil War. It is Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian meets Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. In the heart of the fighting during 1862 in a place called Andersonville, a notorious prison camp was erected. Forty-five thousand union prisoners were placed in the walls of a stockade. When Sherman liberated the camp, over 13,000 had died. But what if they did not die of starvation. What if they were trapped behind those guarded walls with something else, something ancient, something found and contained, a secret scientific experiment gone wrong before the war. And what if by miracle of miracles a baby was conceived within those walls, a baby born of two genetic codes, two races, and when Sherman liberated the prison camp, he liberated not only an ancient evil but also the means to stop it: Welcome to The Blood Clan. This is literary gothic at its best. This is dark, violent, compelling fiction that will keep you turning the page and leaving the lights on at night.
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Following her husband when he takes a new position, Rhonda leaves Wisconsin behind to begin a new life in Las Vegas, Nevada. Without a job for the first time, she is thrilled when she obtains a position with the Clark County Sheriff’s department. To celebrate her new job, she and her husband, Mark, go to Red Rock Canyon for a relaxing day of sightseeing. Even before she is scheduled to begin her job, she finds herself at the center of a murder. The victim, a college student, has been killed close to the petroglyphs using an ancient Native American weapon,. Have the ancients returned to protect their history or is there a modern-day predator trying to confuse her with the use of ancient weapons?
September
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Kelsey Chinn and her BFFs are elated to make the freshman girls basketball team for legendary Westside High. Then COVID-19 and a bullying old coach cancel their dreams of playing in their first Warrior hoops season. The girls are stunned when they are abruptly dismissed with zero chance to compete, but don’t ever say ‘No way’ to these teammates. They refine their game on the only court available – the Chinn’s DIY driveway hoop – and when the virus suddenly strikes down the Varsity squad, an improbable opportunity emerges. To run with it, the teammates will have to brace against the pandemic, support a grieving friend, struggle with a conceited older teammate, and stand together against the abusive coach and Westside’s arch-nemesis. Wielding high basketball IQs, trust and friendship, plus a touch of hoops magic, the young BFFs morph into an uncanny, mystical basketball team beyond words — literally. Will it be enough to soar to the school’s rescue? An epic fail seems certain but…c’mon, this one’s for the Gods of Hoop! Bring it on!
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The Calling is a novel set in 1992 and revolving around a group of magic users who all feel a calling to travel to Northern Wisconsin for a major shift in the world’s magic. Each member of the group has a different type of magic (earth, weather, necromancy, etc.), and, as they train, they explore the nature of magic and get to know each other. Directing their efforts is an enigmatic leader known simply as “the boss.” The group members have varying levels of trust in both the boss and their overall mission. As they debate the nature and value of their mission, tensions rise and fall. They continue to explore and debate as they struggle against secret, dangerous forces.
August
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The Highland Lass…
Harris Frasier was raised and adored by a devoted mother and father, zealously sheltered by her two older brothers. Harris is everything sweet and spicey, trusting and loyal until she is faced with what she believes is betrayal to all she holds dear within her heart. She gives her love to a man who confuses her. A man who she doesn’t think can return her loyalty. Given no viable choice, Harris is forced to follow him to London then on to his home near the Dover coast to discover she is correct in all her assumptions about his fidelity. He is a womanizer. Harris cannot abide a life with a man who will not remain faithful.
…The Sassenach Soldier
Stunned to discover the woman he will love forever then into eternity believes he is a cad and a philanderer. Ashton Wolcott realizes the uphill battle in front of him will worsen before Harris will learn to trust his word. He isn’t anything like the man she assumes him to be. Ash endangers all her previously held values. Even while he delights her senses, she battles misconceptions. From the moment he first sees her sunning herself naked by the loch to the moment she runs after him begging him to compromise her, his captivating masculinity holds her in thrall. Within the shelter of his arms, she will learn all-encompassing passion, loyalty, and joy and the lasting power of love.
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It is 1969. Iggy and Jake are two rock musicians who decide to leave their mundane jobs and travel west in search of finding that elusive record label. Their journey takes them to Calgary where they plan to hook up with an old-time buddy, only to discover he has been the victim of foul play. Two jaded Calgary PD detectives utilize the talents of the street-wise musicians and they are soon involved in an international drug bust in which their lives and those of their friends are at great risk.
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Jason B, celebrity and artistic director of the National Theatre, has been accused of a heinous crime. Within hours, he is besieged by reporters and paparazzi. He seeks refuge at the home of his former drama teacher. Patrick G. Patrick G is in two minds whether to harbour his ex-student. However, he decides he cannot abandon him in his hour of need.
The Return of the Dissolute Son, or Breaking the Vicious Circle, is about Patrick G’s love for two women and a man he considers his ‘second son.’ It is also the tragic tale of someone plagued by the vicious circle of abuse. Will Patrick be able to reconcile his love for his ‘adopted son’ and the crimes he is alleged to have committed?
July
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Performing live music in front of an audience is fun and rewarding. These stories give the reader a “behind-the-scenes” look at what we think it ultimately takes to become a popular and successful local musician– and why we enjoy music. In this compilation of memoirs and narratives, several musicians talk about their backgrounds, their motivations, their aspirations, and their successful and not-so-successful experiences. Think of it. Musicians are performing in your town, somewhere, probably right now, as you read this. Country bands, rock groups, jazz ensembles, community bands, solo acts, duets– they’re all good and they all love interaction with friends and fans. Live music is such a great part of the American experience. “Voices from the Small Stage” reveals our part in local music history.
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When Rhonda is called to a private residence to investigate a murder, she finds this is the site of the twenty-fifth-class reunion for her former partner, Phil. With her new partner, Martin, she is forced to question all the classmates regarding the murder of Pete Potter, even Phil. Pete has been found floating in a small lake on the property. The owner of a local insurance agency it’s hard telling who would want him dead. When it’s revealed he’s a transvestite, the suspect pool widens. Could it be someone from the community he embraced in Madison, or someone closer to home? The odds are 50/50 in each direction, so Rhonda must decide which way to look.
June
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When a pack of werewolves start hunting and killing in Pine View County, Texas, Sheriff Garrett Lambert must end the carnage. This task becomes even more urgent when three people he cares about are bitten and become infected. If Sheriff Lambert cannot find and kill the alpha werewolf that infected them by the next full moon, they will become cursed. With the help of his teenage daughter, Paige, best friend and deputy, Tyrone “Ty” Jackson, an English professor who specializes in the occult and folklore, Dr. James Huff, a Native American of the indigenous Cato tribe, Trowa Raintree, and an elemental witch with the gift of sight who is a decedent of Marie Laveau, Lola Laveau, Garrett becomes the hunter.
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A retired CSI investigator, Todd Watson and his wife, Dana, a retired pathologist assistant, seeks out answers behind the unexplained disappearance of an elderly couple in their Florida retirement community leaving in the middle of the night with a person wearing a hoodie and driving a dark blue van. The couple had sold all their worldly possessions giving the money to a daughter in Maine. The couple told no one, including their daughter, where they were going or why they left. The two sleuths recruit Lewis Emerick, a computer forensic specialist for the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Crime Scene Evidence Division. His computer wizardry assists in investigating the mysterious disappearance of the couple. The determined sleuths are taken into unpredictable scenarios hoping to solve this mystery.
May
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The Immeasurable Man is a sci-fi/speculative fiction story about celebrity, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the way we perceive reality, but at its core it’s about a lonely individual who wants nothing more than to connect with someone. Due to a severe immunocompromised condition, IM lives a solitary life, only interfacing with the outside world through his computer screen. All he knows of human interaction is what he’s seen in movies and on television, but when his tech-savvy older brother offers him a chance to have a life beyond his domicile, IM thinks his dream has finally come true. Little does he know that life on the outside is much more complicated than what he’s been led to believe.
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Is a dream a lie if doesn’t come true? Or is it something worse? When Van’s brother goes missing, he places his career in Chicago as an artist on hold and reluctantly returns to his hometown of Oneida Valley. Digging deeper into a string of disappearances and murders linked to his brother’s case, the mounting clues point to an evil entity holding the inhabitants of the town under its sinister control. Destroying the lives of anyone who defies it or attempts to flee the confines of the Valley’s peaks. As old memories and traumas resurface, the lines of reality distort. To find the answers he seeks, Van must sacrifice everything, and journey into the depths beneath the town to discover the truth hidden in the heart of The Valley.
April
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Dressed as Bonnie and Clyde, Rhonda and her husband are on their way to a Halloween party, when they witness a drive by shooting. The man who is shot is John Richardson, who is handing out candy dressed up as a scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern covering his face. Going into detective mode, completely unaware of how she is dressed, she calls in the crime and rushes to the scene. To her dismay, she soon learns John is in the hospital and his grandson, Sean, has taken his place. Joined by her partner, Phil, Rhonda must decide if the intended victim is John or his beloved grandson. No matter which one it is, why would anyone want to take either of their lives?
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There’s been enough death in the Hatcher family—brother Billy died as a teen in a game gone wrong. Now, after returning home to settle the family estate, brothers Mark and Benjamin discover that some old memories have yet to die. And maybe the same goes for Billy. After all, the body was never discovered.
Father Frank Timmons delivers the eulogy for Mrs. Hatcher, and also senses a malignant force in their small community of Kosmosdale, Kentucky. And it seems to hold more power over him than anyone as if controlled by the devil himself.
Meanwhile, a gorgeous real estate agent wants to sell the vacant Hatcher house…just a little too much.
Townspeople began to go missing. Then one after another of the Hatcher’s children, in town for the funeral, go missing. And it’s up to Sheriff Daniels to solve this mess. But how do you catch a ghost? And what’s in the Hatcher attic?
