New Releases
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?
March
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Dawn Callahan’s dream of freedom and a life of independence is shattered. After she realizes she somehow stepped through a portal into a different century all she has left to fight for is her sanity along with a way to return to the time of her birth. To do that she has to give up her autonomy. With no money to her name or a roof over her head, she needs Gordan Murray’s help. In return she refuses to give him what he wants the most. Answers to his questions.
On first sight, Gordan means to take her into his home. Intends to give her everything she wants. When she refuses his sincere offers, he withdraws into himself searching for a means to convince her he has only good intentions toward her.
On that sunny day in July when Dawn tumbles from a whorehouse to land on her delectable little butt, a woman was the last thing in the world he was looking for. He has a fine life. Finds willing women with a smile coupled with a nod.
Love has a way of changing the rules.
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Banner’s Bounty is the thrilling conclusion to a series centered around brothers Clint, Nick, and Marc Banner, and sidekick, Zeke Slater. Marc, a skilled tracker, is thrust into a heart-wrenching mission to find Jenelle, the daughter of a wealthy businessman kidnapped years ago as a child. As he unravels the mysteries surrounding Jenelle’s disappearance, Marc navigates the dangers of a hostile environment on the arid planet, Aden, astride his cherished vintage motorcycle. To escape her captives, Jenelle must learn how to ride with Marc on the bike she initially perceives as a noisy beast. When he takes her through curves and accelerates on straightaways, her fear transforms into exhilaration as she discovers the joy of the wind in her face and the freedom of the ride. Now the target of ruthless enemies determined to reclaim their captive, an adrenaline-fueled chase forges a powerful connection between Marc and Jenelle. In a thrilling near-death showdown, Marc’s cunning and bravery are put to the ultimate test to outwit the villains. Will love triumph over all in this futuristic tale of rescue and redemption?
February
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Dallas Elaine Shaw, on a photo shoot for the magazine she works for, tumbles down an incline to find herself catapulted into the eighteenth century. Facing three men, one of those men, the one with laughing silver blue eyes commands her attention. The other two stare at her with leering, malicious intent. She finds herself rescued by the man with the intense eyes. Terrified of horses, she discovers herself riding in front of the arrogant man who saved her. In a few short minutes, he sends a multitude of sparks simmering within her.
When Roc Frasier sees the woman sprawled on the ground, he thinks he’s gone to heaven. This is the woman all his dreams are made from. Her body holds the enticement of lush bountiful breasts, curved hips he could hold onto. She is his dream come true. What he doesn’t understand is this woman has traveled through time. She comes to him to complete the interrupted circle of life. This woman is his soulmate. His life’s blood. She wants nothing more than to leave him, to return to her time. She can’t. They are each other’s destiny.
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Tom, a writer and loner going into his senior year in high school, is without friends; and to make it worse, he discovers he has cancer. Throughout the year, he continues to write letters to his former friend (Caleb), who moved across the country before high school. Shortly following the start of the year, he decides to ask a girl (Laura) to Homecoming. She introduces him to her own friend group. At the same time, while attending the hospital frequently, he meets an eleven-year-old boy (Noah) who also has cancer, and they become best friends. Tom continuously battles with the cancer and ponders philosophically about life and death, slowly experiencing making friends, facing death, making amends, and finding love.
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As Rhonda moves to a detective position with the county sheriff’s office her first lead case is the murder of the most hated man in the county. George Atkins has been killed with his own pitchfork while spreading manure. The fact the elderly man was out in a raging blizzard makes no sense. Why would he be out in such inclement weather? As the case progresses, threats are made against other members in the family, until Rhonda finally reveals the most unexpected suspect with a deep seeded hatred for the Atkins family for what he believes has been done to him in the past.
December
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After the Dublin car bombings in 1974, Harold Stokes, ME, and his new assistant, Samantha Monaghan, begin the last autopsy of the casualties. This unidentified victim is not an Irishman, but an Israeli, killed by a bullet, not a bomb. Before they can finish their task, the body is stolen. Stokes and Monaghan hunt for the victim, but Stokes is also looking for the killers who caused his wife and daughter’s bombing deaths two years before. In their hunt, he and his impetuous young assistant are enmeshed in a web of IRA and Palestinian arms trades with a terrorist known as the Jackal, the Mossad, more factional killings, and the manipulations of an Irish ex-minister using his power to take advantage of the turmoil.
November
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The single kiss behind the church changes Chauncey Lakeland’s life forever. At that moment, Chauncey knows Still Water Runs Deep is the only man she can love. Someday she will prove to him she can be courageous as well as bold. She decides that when he leaves for Dakota territory she will follow. Chauncey has every intention of being with this man she just met. She isn’t going to risk losing him. No matter what it takes, Still Water Runs Deep will be hers. Now, she is willing to take a chance on love with the Sioux warrior who kissed her then stole her heart.
Still Water Runs Deep, a Sioux warrior, is a man intent on living true and loving deep. His greatest challenge will come with the woman he is destined to love. In Chauncey’s stubborn determination to follow him into Sioux territory despite the danger, he realizes the fire in her soul. Wrapped in her arms he discovers both his heaven and hell. Even as she risks her life to be with him, he must keep her with him.
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This Christmas, Mia Hampton feels like she’s getting a lump of coal in her stocking! Not only is she on assignment for the holidays, but her hotel room is haunted, her normally prim and proper literary agent keeps drinking and dialing her in the middle of the night, she can’t stay out of the hotel pool and, oh yeah, her sexy country boy client has been flirting with her nonstop since she got into town. Did she mention… he’s nearly a decade younger? If this keeps up, her holiday might get as bloody as the festive holiday slasher she’s being paid big bucks to write about!
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Private Inquisitor Jak Barley needs a break after a string of perilous investigations involving evil viper mages, rampaging dragons, stolen fairy gold and very annoyed assassins. So what could go wrong with helping a kindly old woman find her missing pet wyvern? Plenty. His search takes a deadly turn when it leads him to a secret society and the survivor of an ancient race of malevolent beings. And once again Lorenzo Spasm, a friend who claims to be from an alternative world where magic does not exist, pulls him into a tangle of conspiracies involving a palace coup, deadly magical artifacts and a kidnapping. Luckily for Jak, he also has the aid of his intended, the young witch Morgana.
October
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Carmen Santos, a marine researcher exploring derelict oil rigs off the Nicobar Islands, is mysteriously transported to a strange an unfamiliar land during a dive. Join Carmen as she traverses a land of never ending darkness, braving the horrors within to get home and reunite with her son.
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She’s a good girl…
During a tempest, Gracie Seymor flees the hands of an abusive fiancé to find herself tossed from her horse. The blow to her head causes the loss of her memory. In the shelter of a wayside inn, she meets a man who steals her heart. From the moment the handsome man, Gordan Murray, lifts his dark brown eyes to meet hers, they are drawn together, spellbound, into each other’s arms then into the night of passion that claims her innocence sending her on a course that will change her life forever.
…Nonetheless he steals her heart
So dependent on the man who claims her virginity, Gracie becomes his mistress even though she understands she should refuse. She’s a good girl. Good girls don’t become men’s playthings. After the night spent with Gracie in his arms, Gordan takes her to a cottage near his home. Here they will confront the specter of her past and discover Gracie’s identity. It revolves around a tangled web of secrets coupled with a magical love that cannot be denied.
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Rhonda Pohs has been hired as a token woman on a small town police force. Other than traffic stops on the highway, her only other duties are to meet with families after a loved one has been killed in a traffic accident. A call from a distraught wife about her missing husband comes in just before one of a man floating in a local lake. Chief Franks send Rhonda to check on one of the most cheating husbands in town. While Rhonda is talking to Kitty Reedman, she is informed that the man floating in the lake is Karl Reedman, Kitty’s husband. From the get go, Rhonda is embroiled in solving the mystery of Karl’s murder at the risk of her life.
September
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When duty calls, wedded Military Intelligence Science Agents Jules Santros and ‘Manda Mooney have no choice but to accept knowing that they may be the only ones standing between the Terran Consortium and its total destruction. At least those were the stakes in previous missions. This time, however, they face a different kind of challenge. A sociological/political threat promoted by a madman intent on reviving a deadly ideology from the past, one so toxic, that it cost the lives of millions in centuries past. To prevent a repetition of such a tragedy, of the total breakdown of Terran society, Jules and ‘Manda risk their lives as they follow twin trails from Earth to the edge of known space to stop the new plague from engulfing mankind.
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Alberta Canada 1969
Emily’s child is growing far too rapidly in her uterus. Emily’s best friend Jeremy Lodge has deep concerns as to whom or what might have fathered the child. Memories of the past are bought home to Deacon when a much beloved and cherished figure he believed dead, appears to him, in the company of wolves. Lost in the vast forest, hikers Larry Gaylord and Rick Morales are attacked by an unknown species. A woman is bought to Deacon with stories of his father Jonathan’s ultimate betrayal. The forest is disordered. It’s up to Deacon to find the cause of it and to explain if he can the sighting of a skeletal spectre, and the faceless shadows observed moving between the trees.
August
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It has been ten years since Christopher Dante, the last storyteller, defeated the Ghul in the abandoned subway tunnels under Cogstin, and now he has vanished without a trace. There are rumors and whispers of a new evil emerging, ancient, dark, beyond the Black Mountains, a Horned God who rules the skeleton people of the north. Welcome to Gods of IMAGO, book two in the stunning IMAGO Series. Gods of IMAGO is literary dystopia at its absolute best, blending amazing world-building with thought provoking, artful prose in an unforgettable, page-turning experience that will haunt the reader long after the last sentence.
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Connecting the dots. Looking backward to look forward. Personal discovery. Acceptance. Rejection. Change. Love. Family. These are the themes of essays, poems and short stories by Bill Mathis who writes of the people he meets along the path while walking his dog, the lessons in life those interactions bring to mind. A poem about a young soldier who died in Viet Nam, another about God being a baseball or a sixteen-inch softball. Fiction about missed opportunities between a father and his gay son, their guilt and reconciliation. A humorous trip to Romania ends in awe at how his traveling companion escaped a totalitarian life.
With humor and thought, Bill explores his surroundings, contemplates his past, and looks to the future. Whatever the future may be, it will be the way things are…
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BLURB
In order to get away from her abusive alcoholic father, Luella Johnson joins the Air Force. When she goes to the recruiting office, she meets Adam Welter. While in the Air Force, Luella meets her husband of over fifty years. When he passes after a long illness, she decides it’s finally time to return to her home town.
Adam Welter has never forgotten his first love. Even though he only knew Luella Johnson for a few days, it was enough to fall in love. When the girl he knew as Ella return to town, he wonders if they can be friends, or maybe even more, so many years after their first meeting. Now a widower, he is hoping for a second chance at love. Time is of the essence to save both of their lives before it is to late for either of them.
July
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Come back with me to the ancestors of Robert Shirk. The people and places are true, but put in a story form. The book starts out in 1912 with 12-year old Robert Shirk finding an old picture album in the attic and he wants to know more about his ancestors. His mother starts by reading a book published by a cousin on the very early relatives, going back to the Vikings. The reader will go back to 1642, over 380 years ago, when the first ancestor, John Poling, a puritan, comes from England to the present age. This book captures true American History of the average man the way it was for so many families of the time period.
