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It Rhymes With Truth

by Rich Miller

Sometimes the truth sets us free. But most of the time, it’s the scariest thing in the world – so scary it keeps us on the run for our entire lives. Which is why, when an eight-and-a-half-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a retirement community forge a fragile bond and become each other’s accidental family, they only have one rule: never speak about before. But the truth has a way of catching up to us, spoken or unspoken. And when the pair’s bond is tested, t... more

Memories Time Can't Heal

by James Quinnett

This is a story about Jim, a draftee, grunt, and reluctant warrior, who goes through a challenging and intense experience as a member of the 1st Cavalry Division. The narrative involves foul language, death, drugs, betrayal, stupidity, and brutality capturing the harsh realities of war and its impact on Jim's humanity. The story concludes with the aftermath, depicting Jim's struggle to adjust and regain his sanity.

Fire Horse

by Pat Olney

Exploring themes of love, loss and redemption, Fire Horse is the story of Don and Julia’s quest for peace and meaning in a chaotic and unfair world. Don is a man adrift. Since his separation from Julia, he spends his days puttering around his isolated cabin and his evenings drinking alone on the porch, staring into the woods of western Michigan. Julia, meanwhile, is living a life of comfort in London together with her boyfriend, Gerrard. She goes through the motions of life oblivious to th... more

Wolves and Empires

by Daniel McKenzie

Captain Lucien Dumaine is directed to France by the Orthodox Church in an alliance with Cardinal Richelieu on the political chess-board and immediately sails to Europe, receiving a grand welcome. His Red Eminence, Cardinal Richelieu, orders his new privateers to sail to the Spanish Main, pirating in the Caribbean.

The Captain and crew sail to the Caribbean and join with the infamous Brethren of the Coast, where the Wolf plans a heist of Spain’s major shipping port at Vera Cruz, Me... more

Giant Banana Over Texas: Darkly Humorous Tales

by Mark Nutter

A collection of thirty-one short stories, perfect for fans of absurd comedy.--Monty Python meets Douglas Adams meets Salvador Dali.

Dancer on the Ceiling: More Darkly Humorous Tales

by Mark Nutter

Laugh-out-loud stories for lovers of absurd comedy.

The Night Doctor of Richmond

by Tony Gentry

The Night Doctor of Richmond is a biographical novel which portrays the life of Chris Baker, a notorious 19th Century “resurrrectionist,” who by his own admission robbed hundreds of graves to supply anatomy classes for the Medical College of Virginia across his long career. The novel draws on contemporary newspaper articles and the hospital’s historical records, along with research into the fraught racial politics of the city in Baker’s time, to align with what is known about this man. The chron... more

Dog Logic

by Tom Strelich

Hertell Daggett has just discovered a time capsule. Only this one is full of people, and they've been living beneath his pet cemetery since 1963 due to some bad information they got about the end of the world. Hertell leads the duck-and-cover civilization into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying modern world. What could possibly go wrong?

School

by Isabel Pabán Freed

This is a campus novel that follows a collection of students navigating life after a video of a self-immolation appears, as well as a former student, who offers to write a report on the student body in exchange for some student loan forgiveness.

Among Sea Wolves: 1150 The Whale Road

by Jean Gill

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A yarn fit for a Norse saga. Full of action, poetry and heart; a thrilling voyage through the vibrant world of the twelfth century." Matthew Harffy 1150: The Whale Road. An epic medieval adventure, set in the Viking world of 12th century Orkney. To change their doom, Skarfr and Hlif must pay the price. Warrior-poet Skarfr embarks on a death-defying pilgrimage with his ruler, Jarl Rognvald, from the wind-whipped shores of Orkney to the Holy Land. He is one of the few men trusted by t... more

Zephyr Trails

by Nicki Ehrlich

The fine line between friends and enemies blurs as Ellis Cady sets out to reach the new frontier of post-Civil War America. After waiting out winter at the Cady ranch in southern Missouri, hope blooms in the Spring of 1866. Ellis receives news of a mysterious man arriving in St. Louis. Will she find her father alive and well, or finally put his memory to rest? Grasping at the illusive promise of her father’s whereabouts, Ellis is distracted by the intrepid trick rider, Jimmie, a woman wh... more

Finding Plymm

by Christopher Brookhouse

Theo Vos comes to Mott County from Ohio in search of answers about an ancestor whose casket was shipped home during the Civil War but when it arrived, the body inside wasn't his. While there, Theo is hired to tutor an agoraphobic teenager, the daughter of Milo and Calla Drew. Milo, a once renowned author, has holed himself up in the family castle too, working on a book based on an old journal of the county's sheriff during the War Between the States. Finding Plymm weaves back and forth between T... more

Anemone

by Jim Frazee

After his failed rescue of his brother Wyatt in a house fire, sixteen-year-old Russell Cobb wakes up from a coma, strangely mistaken for him and thrust into the middle of an arson investigation. Russell’s only hope, before his bandages come off, is to deduce the likeliest suspect in his recent turbulent past or risk being charged with homicide. In view of his brother’s death, he begins to see his family and Wyatt’s enigmatic girlfriend Edie in a darker light, colored by deceit and his own parano... more

A Brush With Mortality

by Caryl Hallberg

By all outward appearances, she’s just a typical woman going through menopause at the turn of the 21st century. Living in a stale and distant marriage, her grown kids living their own lives, there is a psychological and sexual itch she hasn't felt in years that needs to be scratched. What are the secrets this Executive of a Hospice nonprofit keeps? Even she doesn’t know for sure – Set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the year 2000, her journey explores meaning through death, erotic adventure, m... more

A Grand Pause: A Novel on May 14, 1945, the USS Randolph, Kamikazes, and the Greatest Air-Sea Rescue

by Gary Santos

Based on an incredible true story that took place in the midst of World War II, on May 14, 1945, A Grand Pause follows two American airmen, Ensign John Morris and his gunner Cletis Phegley, after they are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Japanese islands, surrounded by a cutthroat enemy. What follows is a daring rescue mission by the Randolph and her war-weary crew, as they struggle against enemies both physical and psychological to bring their brethren home safely. A story almost lost to... more

Deep Fried

by Mark Doyon

Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation’s capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism. One day he idly asks the sky: “Why am I here?” Deep Fried is a tragicomic love story wrapped in creative freedom. Its characters – chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs – face a world of oversized dreams and shaky prospec... more

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