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The House on Becket Lane
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Lord Dashell Lonsdale is considered one of the most eligible bachelors in London, but few-even Lord Lonsdale himself-know that despite appearances, his family fortune is not as secure as he believes. When a chance encounter with an unknown lady on the street shakes his seemingly stable world, the young lord has no idea how to react. She collapses at his feet, a frightened child in her arms. She is whisked away before he can even learn her name. She is Caroline, the younger of two daughters of a family that carries a burden of secrets as well. All they know is that their mother’s tongue is silenced not by pride but by fear-and she took her secret to her grave. Now Caroline lives in a house with only her stepfather to guide her. Lord Lonsdale exploits his station to learn of her identity and where she lives. His arrival triggers an angry quarrel between Caroline and her stepfather. Horrified to have caused such tension within her family, he departs with the promise to return the next day. But duty calls him away before he can keep his promise. He learns that, thanks to the gambling debts of his brother, his family is on the brink of financial ruin. He has no choice but to turn his attention to restoring the family’s fortune and honor. Now Caroline has her own secret to share-and what she must tell him may end their love before it can begin.
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Playing Hurt
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99BRIAN is playing his last high school football game. When he gets hurt, the coach tells him he must stay in the game since there isn’t anyone to replace him. Brian is worried about his future and his love for DEANIE, a beautiful cheerleader.
After the game, trouble develops when BILL, Deanie’s old boyfriend returns to town. Brian is distracted by e beer party and mischief with the rival school. Deanie is with her girlfriends when Bill appears. Deanie is coerced into his car and forced to have sex. Deanie doesn’t tell Brian. Bill leaves town, promising to return in the spring.
In February, Deanie tells Brian she is four months pregnant. Brian counts the months back and suspects that Bill might be the father. Deanie confesses and Brian is devastated. When Bill returns, Brian lures him out of town. Bill is severely beaten, but when Brian’s back is turned, Bill manages to get into his car and grab his pistol. Brian is shot in the arm. With the barrel pressed against Brian’s head, Bill blurts out that he had sex with Deanie many times. Suddenly there is another shot, but this time a bullet slams into Bill’s chest. Deanie is holding Brian’s rifle. Bill dies at the hospital.
In the summer, Deanie gives birth to a baby with dark hair and eyes like Bill’s. Heartbroken, Brian enlists in the army. Aboard the bus, he agonizes over leaving Deanie. Alone and afraid, he slumps back in the seat. Then, he remembers what his coach said about playing hurt, and he realizes that he must go on, even if it does hurt.
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All Riled Up : A Story of Wreckage, Restoration, and Rebirth
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Higginbotham, after a near fatal, debilitating car wreck, regains consciousness after an extended coma and is now catapulted back into the stream of life. Here, Riley Higginbotham is joined by Ted L Carroll (author of The Weathering of Strawberry Ben, The Strawberry Ben Spiritual Workbook, and Illegal Jesus) to co-author this work, Higginbotham’s writing debut. All Riled Up, although fiction, is the parallel story of mid-thirties Rave, his fiancée Annie, Brode (Rave’s best friend), Kade (Rave’s son), Milly (Annie’s mother and Rave’s very own ‘Mrs. Robinson’-esque obsession ). Between Rave’s near-death experience, Brode’s relentless friendship (despite his severe alcoholism) and Kade’s early years’ survival, one can only wonder if Annie’s dragon-chasing habit will kill her – or everyone – involved.
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Expression of Honor
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Expression of Honor is a Civil War Romance. Juliette is from France and fell in love with a visiting Southern officer he must leave for the United States before her. She leaves later on a blockade runner All the revelations, predicaments, and perils gives her resilience and fortitude to meet each situation. Frank identifies himself as a Kansan after a decade of dealing with border ruffians, bloodshed spawned by the pro-slavers against the ant-slavers. also
the political wrangling from the Kansas-Nebraska act festered into bloody Kansas. Frank was sick and tired of being sick and tired. He was ready to hash it out in the Rebellion as a Lieutenant Colonel under General Ulysses Grant. The two main characters separate stories merge into a supernatural moment.
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My Scottish Empress
Price range: $3.99 through $36.99A masterful combination of romance, suspense, subduction and a touch of humor which will capture the heart of the hopeless romance seeking reader.
Abigail Fox strives to regain her emotional and financial independence despite the opposition from pirates, shady business dealings and a powerful Scottish chieftain named Gabriel McKenzie. A potent fictional love story based in the early 1800’s, Abigail must use her wit and charm to out fox and outrun her adversaries in a time when women were expected to be subservient.
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Agatha and Frank: New Adventures
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Agatha and Frank had been on a road for the last year and a half going across the Central and lower parts of the USA. But now it was time to go find a new place to leave. Houston, TX had been their home since they had returned from the island. But it just wasn’t home anymore! They loved their kids, but after the last storm, and their house getting flooded, twice! It was time to find a place where the weather wasn’t so extreme. They both agreed Oregon would be the right place. A friend of Aggie’s (Larie) needed to sell their house, so they offered it to them for a great price. Larie had lived there for over 20 years, they wanted someone that would love it as much as they did.
During their travels they had visited and explored many places. As far as Agatha (Aggie) and Frank are concerned, traveling in their RV to see this wonderful country of ours, was the only way to go! It was fantastic waking up in the same bed every morning, and then walking out of their RV to a new place, view, and new things to explore. Never knowing what they will discover in the new area. There were always so many things to see and do during their travels. But it was time to have a place to call home. With their “New Adventures” just over the horizon.
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Untamed Heart
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Shane Cordell, raised by the Cheyenne, is savagely handsome. Women are drawn to him like a moth to a flame, and he’s every bit as dangerous. His heart never gets involved…until now. Ashley Clayton is beautiful and independent, She was raised without a mother’s touch, having only her father and ranch hands to ease her into womanhood. She is naïve in the ways of etiquette but not in the ways of the flesh, horseflesh mostly. Upon her first encounter with Shane, she feels a strong attraction immediately, but there is a lie…a lie she is sworn to keep. A lie that seems so innocent now bodes heartache for their future. Shane must face his past in a courtroom where he is charged with rape and murder. Just as he’s found not guilty, Ashley’s innocent lie sends him running again, this time into a prostitute’s arms.
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The Diary of Lady X: The Journey Within
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99This story is based on actual events. The names of many of the participants and businesses have been changed for their anonymity and protection. The ones that have not been changed are correct in their presentation. Therefore this work must be regarded as historical fiction. A yearning for love and adventure evolves into a search for the meaning of life. Tony had a passion for travel. What started out as an innocent pursuit for adventure took many turns: through love, tragedy, and disillusionment; and awakened his sleeping soul, setting him on a path of aspiration. THE DIARY OF LADY X, a novel in two volumes, is filled with actual accounts. The story has appeal for a wide ranging reader-ship who will find its characters to be engaging, and its story to be intriguing.
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Impossible Beginnings: A Love Story
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Merry Morehouse, a city girl carrying a life-crushing secret, is betrayed by a woman she believes to be her best friend. This friend backs out of a planned camping trip to the mountains at the last minute. Although she has never camped out before, Merry is set on being a big girl and decides to make the trip alone. Lost at night in these mountains with few people, she decides to go home. Turning around, Merry crashes vehicles with a man who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer.
Doc Adams, a disabled combat vet in danger of being fired from his job, who holds no romantic interest in another woman after losing his much-loved wife, becomes the crash victim. He lives alone on this desolate mountain that becomes the crash scene. Merry accepts his offer to sleep at his home but panics when he pulls off on the dirt road leading to this isolated place. Their vastly different beliefs quickly become the foundations for arguments concerning God, guns, law enforcement, and news media reports. Overloaded with fear and difficult memories from her teen years, Merry is terrified of what he might do to her. Her choices for the night narrow with no place to stay, no vehicle, no way to protect herself, and a cell phone that won’t work in these mountains.
After this rough start, they work to get along with each other, and Merry struggles to become accustomed to mountain life. False accusations take them to court where the charges are dropped. They get married. Merry’s father, a big-shot lawyer, causes problems during their wedding and is ushered out. He shows up at the reception and tries to take his family home. Shots are fired, and total bedlam ensues. -
A Reason for Living
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99It is the mid-1960s in Kingston, Jamaica, and the country is steeped in social, political, and economic inequities. Howard Baxter, the heir to a real estate empire, has no interest in seeking or managing wealth. Painting and deflowering Jamaican maidens are his passions. As he combs the streets looking for greater meaning in his pathetic life, it soon becomes apparent that Howard’s journey will not be easy. Bernaldo Lloyd, a member of the Baxter clan, is a medical student who is sensitive to the hopelessness of the Jamaican masses. Inspired by his close friend and Howard’s cousin, Ras Robin Pone, and their ties with the Rastafari movement that calls for social and economic equity, Bernaldo is determined to overthrow the corrupt government. As Howard, Bernaldo and Robin become influenced by The American Black Power and Civil Rights movements demanding equal rights for African Americans, the women in their lives both love and criticize them. But when revolution breaks out, Howard finally discovers a purpose for his twisted life that leads him in a direction he never anticipated. In this tale of love, passion, and self-discovery, three Jamaican men become caught up in a 1960s revolution that reveals injustices, oppression, and a purpose for one of them.
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Not For Women Only: Short Stories for a Lazy Day
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Zygier’s first book, Not-For-Women-Only, Short Stories for a Lazy Day is written for people that can sit somewhere quiet with a cup of coffee or tea, OK, maybe with a glass of wine, and read. Though the title might suggest that only women can or should read it, doesn’t mean men can’t. The stories might also imply that it’s only subject is a woman and a man
bumping into themselves on a street corner, though that’s not a bad idea, it’s really much more than that. Yes, they do meet, otherwise what is the point? So, yes, they do meet in a street, on an elevator, parachuted into Afghanistan with a special force’s unit to a young woman that feels that she should have the same equality as men in Victorian England and dresses like a man then finds herself in love with an aristocrat that thinks it’s his sister and both end up in India. Since Zygier had a stint in the army, he takes that thought in many ways. Some sad, some funny and some serious. Such as an officer in Afghanistan that saves a female reporter from a sniper to a General that doesn’t want to get involved with women till he’s stuck on a plane with one. Though this is Zygier’s first book, he started to write as a hobby and later joined a writer’s group. There he was encouraged to put some stories together and publish them. -
VieVie La Fontaine
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When I first published this book in 2018, wars raged in various parts of the world, just like today. Hourly, we were allowed to follow the horror and depravity as it unfolded. On June 14, 1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Paris, marking the start of the German occupation. At that time, there wasn’t the ease of news delivery at citizens’ fingertips. Instead, acts of bravery that we seldom consider occurred. Despite the possibility of severe punishment, the underground press distributed newspapers to offset the Vichy and German propaganda. Often, coded messages relayed instructions to members of the Resistance. An attempt to distribute and obtain daily news was itself a death sentence if found out. Yet, the spirit of the oppressed was undaunted.
VieVie La Fontaine is the story of two souls drawn together by a force they couldn’t comprehend.
Facts are intertwined with Fiction as this tale of incredible bravery unfolds. Maybe, there existed a Mark and VieVie. We may never know, but I offer VieVie La Fontaine in honor of the strength and determination of so many. -
Summer’s End: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99As a music composer and author, KATHRYN B. HULL is a member of ASCAP and SCBWI. She is a State and Nationally certified teacher of music with an active studio in La Quinta, California, having taught music in elementary schools and college. She has written children’s books as well as this novel. She volunteers her time with numerous community organizations with a focus on the arts and education. She is listed in The Top Ten Registry and several Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who of American Women.
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A Siren’s Call
Price range: $4.99 through $20.99Tess is a thief of the highest caliber. Years of expertise and the support of her criminal family have led her to the biggest job of their lives. But when her life is shattered by a bullet of betrayal, only revenge will sate her raging bloodlust.
Paige on the other hand, is a romantic, filled with a shy adventurous side that wishes to stay by the man she loves, and care for nothing else in this world. When her facade begins to crack under the pressure though, who will she be in the end?
These two personas clash in the ring of love and bloodlust, with only a winner, and the other who must disappear forever. Through the combat of dodging cameras and living double lives can they decide who will be who in the end.
Tim Wolfe is a growing author from the San Diego area who has been inspired by the concepts of society, and a deep yearning to convey those beliefs through his writings of romance and the adventure that is life. Tim enjoys spending time with his family, learning about history and science, and strives for a peaceful, carefree tomorrow.
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The Secret Guy: A New England Diary: A New England
$29.99It does not matter who he is, my Secret Guy. The only thing which matters is that he is mine. We meet in private. Nobody can comment. No one can interfere. If it becomes necessary to meet in public, we require anonymity within a crowd of strangers. When our story is finished, then finally, others may know it. Future readers of these pages will know it, in due time.
