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Heist during the Rio Games Dexter James From a desolate cell located at a remote, state-of-the-art prison facility in Northern Ontario, inmate Brian Beasley plans his escape. Convicted of embezzlement when he masterfully infiltrated a bank's computer system, Beasley and a would-be journalist assigned to... |
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iCandidate David and Michelle Gardner It is the most divisive election campaign in U.S. history and the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominees are locked in an ugly fight to capture the public’s trust. It’s a familiar story; one paints himself as a political outsider, the other... |
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Prudence in Hollywood Ralph Cissne "I went to the gynecologist last week, which isn't all that unusual except I'm a man. Prudence insisted I go." So begins the title story of this collection exploring the matrix of modern American relationships. From Farewell True Love to Prudence in Hollywood... |
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A Mother Goddess for Our Times Judith T. Lambert More than 18 million people have traveled to the tiny Bosnian village of Medjugorje to witness daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary and experience her healing powers. Author Judith Lambert, a skeptic, was among them. Events that occurred during her four pilgrimages there... |
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Wicked Shadow of the Hunter Tracey L. Ryan Danger continues to lurk for Hunter Logan and Emma Sharpeton in this thrilling follow-up to Wicked Game of the Hunter. A dark shadow lurks around every corner, weaving a tangled web of deception and threats. With the gala fast approaching, the clock is ticking for... |
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Lance Walter Stoffel Marley meets... Cujo? What would you do if there was a dog in your neighborhood forced to live outside day in/day out, at the mercy of abusers, wild animals and brutal weather? Walter does nothing—at first. Then, an accidental meeting with Lance, a Border Collie, sets the wheels in motion for a... |
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ChangeSeekers Joanne Sonenshine On a career path that one could only call circuitous, Joanne Sonenshine learned that what fulfilled her the most was, in many cases, the opposite of what she had originally planned for her journey. The tragedy that struck America on September 11, 2001 changed how she saw her life and... |
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Pearls Dot Nuechterlein What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the country, aged middle 50s through late 90s, offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years—the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorrows, happy memories from the past plus... |
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There Are No Alligators in Heaven Donna & Evan Michael Codell Jennifer Hale was 2 when she was diagnosed in 1974 with Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease. At that time, children with CF had a life expectancy of just 15 years. But Jennifer had a special passion for life, and her parents – Donna and... |
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Every Now & Then Melissa Powell Gay Every Now & Then is a dual narrative of events which come before and after Iris Lee, 47, discovers a valuable objet d’art – a French military medallion – in the pocket of her mother’s secondhand mink coat. It’s mid-June. Iris must endure humidity laden heat in her parent’s un-air-... |
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The Gem Connection Michael R. Lane Clinton Windell is murdered and robbed of twenty million dollars in uncut gems. C. J. Cavanaugh is hired to root out the murderers. There's only one catch. C. J. and his partner must keep mum they're working the case. Between the killers, Homicide Detective Pendleton, and their... |
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The Train to Orvieto Rebecca J. Novelli The Train to Orvieto, set in Orvieto, Florence, and Milan, Italy, and in the heartland of America, is an intimate story of love, loss, betrayal, and reconciliation that unfolds against an historical background of war and dramatic social change. It is a story enacted by fascinating three-dimensional... |
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Monster's Children Dan Hansen The Queen of Order and the Trickster gods originally formed an alliance to defend against the dreaded beast they called the Monster. That alliance was dashed with the Monster’s defeat. The war that erupted with the alliance’s dissolution has ripped the land apart for millennia. With... |
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Yellow Dog Chronicle R. M. Smith When my great grandparents started up the Oregon Trail in 1875, two hundred thousand people had gone before them. Part of the story is that my great grandparents never got to Oregon. Neither did the twenty thousand who ended up in unmarked graves. Our story begins with... |
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The Conspiracies of Dreams Sandra Biber Didner Jews, Christians, Moslems, and Canaanites all share an ancient dream of possessing the land that lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea which they hold sacred. In 1956 an Egyptian spy, Ishmael al Mohammed, is determined to gain... |
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What Matters Most Helen Bea Kirk Meagan Morris has lost everything. Her family is dead, and all that remains of them, all that was endowed to her, has been stolen.Desperate to retrieve her legacy, Meagan disguises herself and attempts to rob King of her grandmother’s pearls at gunpoint. When Officer Dell arrives at the scene, King doesn’t... |
