Friends of Mildred Budge see life in Cloverdale through the eyes of Belle Deerborn. Belle Deerborn lives next door to Mildred Budge. The Deerborn house is across and open field, and Belle sits out on her back stoop each morning reading her Bible and also watching Mildred live and the people who come and go. … Continue reading Belle: A Mildred Budge Friendship Story

A 70s story of love, betrayal, and the healing power of music. Elise thought she knew her mother, Agnieszka Halverson. A caring woman, a great cook, and an exceptional piano player who lives in a secure, predictable world, she also seems a little dull to her daughter. Agnieszka’s world is devastated when her oldest son … Continue reading Hello, Agnieszka

An unfiltered story of survival, reinvention, and the people who change a life. He survived a childhood without love. Success still couldn’t save him. Born during the Great Depression to a sixteen-year-old mother who beat him with wooden clothes hangers and never once told him she loved him, Jack R. Taylor learned early how to … Continue reading You Don’t Know Jack: Dropping out! Life anew at forty-two

Stanley Wentworth was no saint. He’d had his fair share of trouble with the law. He’d upset his former partners in gangs across the Midlands. And he’d abandoned more than one woman in his time. But did he really deserve a cold and lonely death in the Country Park? Charlie Jones, Annie McLeod and Rohan … Continue reading Villainy at the Village Store

Judgment has begun. The first trumpet has sounded. And as fire falls from Heaven, the world will never be the same. When supernatural fire crashes to earth exactly as foretold in the book of Revelation, the foundations of civilization begin to crumble. Cities burn. Fear is spreading. Food is running short. Violence begins erupting through … Continue reading Blood and Fire

Communing with animals is easy until Bybiis is captured by fearful villagers. Skin wards to suppress the talent are added, but only sharpen her connection with birds and rodents and even sea serpents. Rescued by her tribe, now she must choose if she will use immoral compulsions on creatures or follow the warrior way. Ariseng … Continue reading The Matrix Opal

In February, 1945, 350 captured U.S. soldiers were taken from a German POW camp and transported by cattle car to Berga, slave-labor camp for European Jews. Inspired by this shocking and little-known event, K.J. McCall weaves fact and fiction in a story that begins in a small Pennsylvania town in September, 1941 when America is … Continue reading Eighteen In 1942

The day Joshua’s mother left, she didn’t say goodbye… not to him, anyway. Now Joshua waits in a dusty repair shop that smells of cigarettes and broken things, rides home with a father whose best conversations end in “Damn,” and navigates a world that keeps making decisions without him. He is twelve and mostly invisible. … Continue reading The Boy Who Went to Live With the Cats

Antonio Barbieri stole my heart long before we were forced to the altar. Our friendship started when we were teenagers. Inseparable. Unbreakable. The kind of bond that felt like forever. Nineteen years later, forever came in the form of a secret wedding in Vegas. But not for love. It was about obligation. A contract signed … Continue reading His Vow

The lights went out. The desert didn’t care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn.

When Emerson Blackwell discovers a secret library in New York City where the books are doorways into magical worlds, it seems like she’s found the perfect adventure. But everything in the Library is not what it seems. The magic quickly turns sour when Emerson discovers the Library is banning books and hunting down the authors. … Continue reading Secrets of the Catalogue

Daphne has spent her life running wild beneath the moon, bow in hand, hound at her heels, determined to give herself to no man. Daughter of a river god and sworn in her heart to Artemis, she wants only the hunt, the forest, and the freedom of her own untouched body. Then Apollo comes to … Continue reading Bound Maiden

Four hundred years ago, a knight fought a dragon on a burning roof. They killed each other. The sword he carried is still out there. Now dark forces are moving in the known lands. Goblins are massing, driven down from the mountains into the forests. Across Meridia, people feel it coming, and the company that … Continue reading The Iron Path: The Tale of Ronan

A secret powerful enough to kill for, and a system corrupt enough to hide it. In America’s broken health care system, the most dangerous diagnosis isn’t a disease. It’s the truth. Health policy detective Irv Tinsley has spent his career uncovering fraud and greed in America’s health-care system. But when he opposes the hostile takeover … Continue reading Devil in the Details

Would you summon the world’s worst monster if you needed him to protect the ones you love? In the dark alleys of Old Warsaw, Anatol is forced to make an impossible choice. In a world where monsters roam free, he finds himself running from a demonic threat like no other. But as the dangers mount, … Continue reading The Fist of the Ghost

Paws in the Action – Book 1 A body in Blackwood Cove is never just a body. Jasmine Moore sees trouble before it arrives, in sudden flashes of the future she’d rather not have. She can also understand every word her golden retriever, Luffy, says. (Mostly opinions about bacon.) So when a local is found … Continue reading A Jaz and Luffy Cozy Mystery: Books 1-3

At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket, until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it … Continue reading Your Heart Belongs to Me

When Georgiana Reid’s maid goes missing, questions abound as to her whereabouts. The only problem is that nobody seems to care. Desperate to learn the truth of her disappearance, Georgiana enlists the help of Inspector Hamish Brock to find Rachel and bring her back home. But as they work together, her heart starts to beat … Continue reading Secrets of a Fair Lady

Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life. … Continue reading Random in Death