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Steve Bartholomew
Gold

 

Author BJ Bourg
BJ Bourg
Absent The Soul


Author P. June Diehl
P. June Diehl
The Magic
and the Mundane


a j dryna
Nola and
the Goblin Mountain

Author Joanne Hall
Joanne Hall
 Hierath
In Exile

Eagle of the Kingdom

 

Author Herbert Holeman
Herbert Holeman
Switcheroo
 

Author Michael Honeth
Michael Honeth
A Faerie Ring
 

Author Don Hurst
Don Hurst
Return To UKOO

Author J. Brian Jones
J. Brian Jones
The Stolen Tome

Author Jeffrey Keenan
Jeffrey Keenan
Benning's War


Chuck Lyons
Shanghaied Heart


Julia Macdonell
The Boy
And The Warrior

Author John P. Matsis
John P. Matsis
Pathogen
Cadavar


Jean Henry Mead
 Escape
A Village Shattered
 

Author Tom Spencer
Tom Spencer
Word Castles
 


G.G. Stokes, Jr.
A Lesser
Form of Patriotism
Loving Lynn Celia
 

Author Teel James Glenn
Donna Sundblad
Pumping Your Muse
Windwalker
Beyond the Fifth Gate
 


Teel James Glenn
Death At Dragonthroat
Tales of a Warrior Priest
Knight Errant
Them's Fightin' Words!
The Daemonhold Curse
Sister Warrior
The Vision Quest Factor
 

Author L.L. Whitaker
L.L. Whitaker
Needle

Dunbar's Station
 


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Steel Town by John P. Matsis

Diary of Murder by Jean Henry Mead

Georgi's husband says she took her own life but her sister Dana knows better. With the help of her friend Sarah, a private investigator's widow, Dana sets out to learn what really happened. But she first has to stop Georgi's cremation, scheduled for the following morning. Georgi's brother-in-law is the sheriff, his cousin the coroner, so help has to be found outside the closely knit Wyoming community. She and Sarah soon learn their own lives are in danger as more bodies are discovered. 

Arriving in the British colony of Georgia in March, 1756, Lynn Celia Claxton soon finds herself widowed and on the run from the law. Slipping aboard a flatboat on the Savannah River, she is discovered by young Thomas Simpson, the son of the boat's owner. From that moment, their lives are forever intertwined.  

 The Valley Retirement Village is the scene of a serial killer's revenge. Who is alphabetically killing Sew and So Club members, and why? When the newly-elected sheriff botches the investigation, Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, widows living in the village, decide to solve the murders themselves. Dana, a mystery novel buff, and Sarah, a private investigator's widow, soon make a sobering discovery: they are also on the killer's list. Dana's beautiful daughter Kerrie, a news correspondent, arrives, complicating matters, but she quickly proves her value in the investigation. San Joaquin Valley fog hides the killer as well as hindering the murder case. The plot is sprinkled with romance as well as humor in this first novel of the Logan & Cafferty senior sleuth series.

Steel Town
by John P. Matsis

Diary of Murder
by Jean Henry Mead

Second
Time Around
by Linda M. Faulkner

Loving
Lynn Celia
by G.G. Stokes

A Village
Shattered
by Jean Henry Mead

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Crime - Mystery - Suspense - Thriller

 

The Valley Retirement Village is the scene of a serial killer's revenge. Who is alphabetically killing Sew and So Club members, and why? When the newly-elected sheriff botches the investigation, Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, widows living in the village, decide to solve the murders themselves. Dana, a mystery novel buff, and Sarah, a private investigator's widow, soon make a sobering discovery: they are also on the killer's list. Dana's beautiful daughter Kerrie, a news correspondent, arrives, complicating matters, but she quickly proves her value in the investigation. San Joaquin Valley fog hides the killer as well as hindering the murder case. The plot is sprinkled with romance as well as humor in this first novel of the Logan & Cafferty senior sleuth series.

Karl Von Steppeon's young wife, Liesel, has gone missing. Not certain if she ran away or was snatched, Karl keeps it out of the media and decides to hire the Connute Agency made up of two French Canadian PI's, Roofy Contu and Pec LaNute. If not for their remarkable reputation for bagging the bad guys, they could be mistaken as the second coming of Laurel and Hardy.   

A body Absent the Soul is dead, but does it mean that if a person is alive, he or she automatically possesses a soul?  

A shortage of cadavers, necessary for medical school anatomy classes, creates a global market for bodies of the unfortunate dead. With no regulations to govern their acquisition and transport, the scene is ripe for disaster.

 

A Village
Shattered
by Jean Henry Mead

The Bratwurst Kidnapping
 by David Hayes

Absent
The Soul
 by BJ Bourg

Cadaver

 by John P. Matsis




Eric Knight was looking forward with anticipation to a great season jousting at the Renaissance Faire until someone killed his best friend. Suddenly Eric is plunged into a shadowy world of assassins and gunrunners. Now, he’s in a fight to the death that cannot be choreographed. Will he solve the mystery and find the killers before they find him? This novel provides a 'behind the scenes' view of the renaissance faire world. In these pages you will experience the humor, the camaraderie, the jealousy, and the lustfully adventurous lives of the ‘rennies’.

In the wet, warm ecosystem of the Costa Rican rainforest, a deadly amphibian pathogen lies in wait for the unwary, as well as the cunning. Years earlier, this pathogen infected and decimated frog populations. Now, silently, the mutated microorganism allows amphibian-to-human transmission. Brightly colored imported frogs, sold as pets, enter the United States. An abused wife, her heart set on revenge, purchases a vial of powder, whispered to have magical powers: an aphrodisiac if only a tiny amount is used; a larger dose results in the "bleeding death." Experts at the Centers for Disease Control identify the pathogen, but is it too late? Has it already made the leap to human-to-human transfer? What happens when the impending peril reaches high into the U.S. political scene, all the way to the President of the United States?

In a cozy cafe in the coastal redwoods, Nick Oliver is enjoying a second cup of French Roast coffee and a freshly baked scone. Living the good life is he? 
Knight Errant:
Death and Life
at the Faire
by Teel James Glenn

Pathogen
 by John P. Matsis
 

Switcheroo
 by Herbert Holeman

 
 Crime - Mystery - Suspense - Thriller

 

It began with a kidnapping in a little house on a desolate corner of the reservation that no one would ever learn about. The home sat almost at the foot of the summer ranges where the tribe's herd of cattle grazed apart from the rest of the tribe. Here Jon Morningeagle, the tribe's chief wrangler, spent much of his time in the same rambling structure where a father even more immersed in the "old ways" than he had raised him. In this house his father, in a drunken fit of rage, had fallen off the front porch and broken his neck to be found by a teenage Jon.

Welcome to the sensual, savage and fantastic world of Altiva. It is a world of crystal-smiths and warp wizards, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat where Ku'zn, blue furred warrior woman of the Z'n, gained her freedom from slavery. Now she begins a journey to free her brother, who along with her had been sold into contract bondage to save her tribe. She visits the strange, plague-wracked city of Orania only to encounter bigotry and deception in her search for him.

This fantasy highlights the strangest day in T.K. Mitchell's life, which began with a slight hangover and a woman lying beside him. 

 

Imprisoned in the desert city of Tellis, tangled in the schemes and plotting of the Telesian court, Lydia must risk her life to save her friends. Escaping to the Endless Mountains, realm of the Northern Ghosts, she finds solace with these unpredictable feline allies as she prepares for war. Aided by her loyal companions, Bale and Meganne, she supports the man she loves as he readies an army, determined to take back Hierath Castle and with it the Kingdom. But many would do anything to ensure they fail. 

Beyond the Fifth Gate
 by Donna Sundblad

The Vision
Quest Factor
by Teel James Glenn

Sister
Warrior
 by Teel James Glenn

Death
At Dragonthroat
 by Teel James Glenn

 

Eagle of
the Kingdom
by Joann Hall

 






In this dramatic fantasy, the world stands on the edge of peace, the first peace for a thousand years. A fragile alliance has been formed between the New Kingdom and Telesia, and they have agreed in principle to set aside their centuries-old quarrel over land and culture. The deal has been forged by the efforts of Alex, the peace-loving newcomer to the throne, but things are about to change.  

Alone and in hiding, the young widowed Queen takes on a new identity as she grieves the death of her husband and the loss of her newborn son, abandoned to the care of strangers for his own protection. Hatred for the man who ripped away all she held dear tempers her grief and haunts her nightmares as she relives his brutality, his betrayal. The support of her cousin and a new love do little to ease the pain of her emotional scars, until a face from the past finds her in Cape Carey with a revelation that sends her on a journey across the Kingdom, from the high mountains of the north to the rolling hills of the Estmarch, her birthplace. It is a mission to restore hope. 

Nola Goddard learns that her parents fled from a magical world to protect their unborn child. Now at age twelve, she inadvertently reveals their location to the dark wizard, Grimald, who kidnaps her parents.  

Return to the world of Altiva, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat, a world of crystal magic and cruel combat where young Lord Erique Shoutte becomes a master wordsman and a devoted priest of the Kova religion.  

Erique Shoutte, warrior priest of the Kova, five years earlier failed to save Lady Caution Daemon from a horrible death. Now her younger sister, Fidelity, has come to him for protection from the same sinister threat. This ancient curse warns that each female of the line will die, drained of blood, before the morning of her twenty-first birthday.  

Hierath
 by Joanne Hall

In Exile
by Joanne Hall

Nola and the Goblin Mountain
 by a j dryna

Tales of
a Warrior Priest
by Teel James Glenn

The Daemonhold Curse
 by Teal James Glenn

 
 Fantasy - Science Fiction

 

 

 

The Brazilian slave boy, Bento, follows his cruel master into the mountains and witnesses his supernatural disappearance. Alone, he finds his way home. To his surprise his master's widow frees her slaves to become sharecroppers, and Bento helps build a cooperative farm. Two years later, he meets the ancient black King Zumbi in a vision. The warrior invites him to travel back in time to his 17th century kingdom. Hardship and adventure prepare Bento for life in past time where he lives among the ancients for two years.  

A Faerie Ring unfolds in a world where trolls and fairies live in increasingly troubled times, complicated by the inevitable encroachment of humans. Elantra, a human with an inescapable link to the fairies, is destined to save the world, but she falls in love with William, who is hiding a dark secret that could ruin everything. Love and lies become entwined, hope challenges destitution, and time is warped as generations try to understand each other. 

Officers Ryan Matson and Sandy Rie meet on the Alpha Queen 9, furthermost outpost of the Alliance fleet. Sandy Rie, an eager newbie gunner, nurtures a secondary agenda: historical research to verify her failed college Master’s thesis that some of the first hundred colony ships sent out from Sol system 500 years previously, have indeed made planetfall.  

 
 

The Boy
And The Warrior
 by Julia Macdonell

A Faerie Ring
by Michael Honeth

Needle
by L.L. Whitaker

  

 

 
         
 

 
 

Return to UKOO is an engaging fantasy/satire. Is life itself a Wizard Tae illusion? Return to UKOO has some fun with the answer as 40-year-old homicide detective Dale Hern is drawn into an alternate world to discover who and what he really is. Can he survive the stink of Poo Pool? Pet dragon Burney? A duck riding race of three-foot-tall Migolites? Running out of bullets?

 Morgan Glendennings, aristocrat wizard, is at a crossroads. She believes her family’s mysterious heirloom holds a secret. After much research, she learns of an ancient book that contains the information she needs. When the book is lost during shipment, Morgan suspects it has been stolen. She hires a shadowy rogue named Axel to help get it back. Together, they pursue the book and the men who stole it. Axel’s distrust of wizards and all things magical only complicates matters, especially when the chase takes longer and covers a greater distance than either expected. Caught in the intricate plots and schemes of the thieves who stole the book, Morgan and Axel push onward, trying to learn who paid the thieves for their services. Can they figure out who is behind the theft and why they would go to such lengths? And what could be so important about the Stolen Tome?

Hundreds of years ago, the Stygian race welcomed disease-riddled Jonnick to their shores despite prophetic warnings. Concealed powers of darkness disembark with the refugees.

 
 

Return
To UKOO
by Don Hurst

The Stolen Tome
by J. Brian Jones

Windwalker
 by Donna Sundblad

  
 

 

 

Rachael, at fifteen, needs a good husband—in the worst possible way. Catholic and the lone Black teenager living on the fringes of a 1960s Pacific Northwest farming community, she is pregnant from a violent rape. As her only hope to protect her father, her unborn child, and herself from the rapist's retaliatory death threats, she maneuvers an unwilling fellow student into a shotgun marriage to disguise the source of her pregnancy.  

Shanghaied Heart
 by Chuck Lyons

 

Observe any modern high school at class break, and you'll see lots of kids moving down the halls in a more or less orderly fashion. Some are hiding the desperate secret of abuse. Suppose in that milling throng, we focus on three girls who happen to ride the same school bus. Because all of them live in their own private hell, each recognizes the signs of abuse in the others. Wary, they form a pact--not quite a friendship--and escape to another town where they are thrown into the uncertain, brutal life of the streets. They recognize that so long as they stay together, they survive. A string of near fatal events take them to an old mud-brick place in Dry Wells, Texas called Dunbar's Station run by a man who is the dregs of human life. There, they find the space and time to recover. But . . . what happens if the smartest one starts to unravel? What if they forget they must stick together to survive? 

CONTEMPORARY FICTION, SHORT STORY COLLECTION. Everyday life is full of joys and sorrows, triumphs and failures. In the thirty-four stories in this collection you will share in the laughter and tears of Other People's Lives.  

Tom Spencer is a master poet and prolific writer. As you open this edition of Spencer's Word Castles, you will be captivated at his first poem and unable to stop reading until the last page is turned. You will find yourself returning time and again to your favorites, which might be in the form of prose, sonnets, Haiku, villanelle or free verse. Tom Spencer's poems are as diverse as the peoples of the world about which he writes.

Dunbar's Station
by L.L. Whitaker

Other
People's Lives
 by Betty Kreier Lubinski

Word Castles
 by Tom Spencer

 

 

Benning’s War is a tale of war, friendship, and love in the American Colonies. Isaac Benning fights in the battle at The Waxhaws. Appalled at the disastrous outcome of that battle, he goes home. His enlistment is over; he can no longer face the horrors of war.  

Arriving in the British colony of Georgia in March, 1756, Lynn Celia Claxton soon finds herself widowed and on the run from the law. Slipping aboard a flatboat on the Savannah River, she is discovered by young Thomas Simpson, the son of the boat's owner. From that moment, their lives are forever intertwined.

Benning's
War
 by Jeffrey Keenan

Loving
Lynn Celia
 by G.G. Stokes Jr

 

     
t is said that during the American Revolution, more American’s served in the British forces than in the Continental Army of the United States. This is their story. Escape by Jean Henry Mead lends drama to the historical legends of Wyoming and creates a vivid account of the days when posses pursued bank robbers. The year is 1850. Rumors of gold in California turn out to be true. In fact, there's more gold than anyone imagined. Thousands of people board ships or travel cross-country by wagon train, leaving their homes behind to head for the mines.

A Lesser
Form of Patriotism
 by G.G. Stokes, Jr.

Escape
 by Jean Henry Mead

Gold
 by Steve Bartholomew


 

 
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Tap into your own creative process and unique voice! Learn how to combine the magical art of writing with the mundane daily work of learning the craft. Journey with Esumera, muse extraordinaire, and her feline companion, Mystique, as they inspire you to explore the magic of writing and elevate the mundane. Internalize what you learn from examples and writing exercises to inspire and motivate your creativity. Included as a bonus is a Writer's Book of Days, which includes over 350 unique and inspiring writing prompts. Join the adventure! Discover creative approaches to broaden your writing journey.!  

Pumping Your Muse drives the imagination through a series of world-building drills. Each chapter extracts elements from the real world and uses them to construct a believable fictional realm.

Join stuntman and author Teel James Glenn as he takes you on a literary journey through the process of creating believable and dramatically valid action scenes in every kind of fiction.

The Magic
and the Mundane
by P. June Diehl

Pumping
Your Muse
 by Donna Sundblad

Them's
Fightin' Words!
by Teel James Glenn

 
 

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