After the Flames Have Cooled

This magnificent novel is a fiction filled with passion, thrills, and adventures, and it includes a flair of religious beliefs—beliefs that demonstrate strong characteristics in the characters.

After over fifty-seven years of composition (intense meditation and creativity), the author brings to life a well-developed Beasley family saga (six generations) that relied on hard work, courage, dreams, and God to give them strength to escape impoverishment, deadly romances, triumphs, and tribulations. Female matrons paved the way as traditions molded passionate hearts. High expectations to rise above poverty with rewards (happiness and wealth) were driven via romance, strong family connectivity, and education. As they embarked upon new territory—internal and external to the Mississippi Delta—they survived floods and economic downfalls, wars and societal upheavals, untimely deaths, and heartfelt relationships resulting in pleasure and deep conflicts—even murder. The author was born in such an environment where only the strongest survived!

So be it as it was—mysteries unfold like unto “diamonds in the rough”—in this fictional publication. An in-depth creation of characters & events gives life to individuals trapped in an era of American history via which they are freed as readers are enlightened & entertained. A vivid imagination allows readers to peek into a “bittersweet,” mysterious realm where secrets are told—spreading like wildfire among tall cotton and catfish ponds.

An “Unclaimed Race” of people (Mulattos) created during slavery—survives enduring journeys in spite of many evils, triumphs, and tribulations. Before burials in soil from whence they’d risen (disappearing like unto dust whirling across a broad delta plain), four of life’s secrets to happiness became their golden treasures: (1) Eros Love; (2) Storge Love; (3) Philia Love; and (4) Agape Love—in “After The Flames Have Cooled.”

Never Been Kissed

What do you do when all you have is your work to keep you going?

Christina Bell is a professional therapist with no social life to speak of. Her only vice is drinking. Her bartender is her closest friend. Her mother is the only one who ever calls. Christina has never thought of herself as lonely – maybe a workaholic, but never lonely. Still, something feels missing, and she can’t quite figure out what it is.

When two men suddenly enter her life and express interest in her, she’s caught off guard. She doesn’t want to be alone, but she’s also afraid of losing the routine and identity she has built around her work.

This is a story of self-discovery, of learning to listen to the heart and finding strength where she least expects it. Christina must face her fears, test her limits, and decide what kind of love – if any – she is willing to fight for.

Is it true that love comes and goes? Or is it something that stays with us, even when the person doesn’t? Because no matter how deeply you love someone, it doesn’t always make them stay.

Life moves on, with or without a happily ever after. So, in the meantime, let’s just enjoy the ride. Who knows, maybe something good will come of it.

Nature’s Lawyer

Nature’s Lawyer follows the journey of Rafael, a 21-year-old law student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. By morning, he studies law; by afternoon, he works as a cashier at a lottery agency. But his sharp mind is increasingly troubled by the dire warnings of rising global temperatures and the environmental destruction threatening the Amazon rainforest.

Instead of lush trees, Rafael discovers vast pastures carved out for the greedy expansion of cattle farming. As he grapples with doubt and fear, he uncovers unsettling truths that forever change his perspective on the world – and his own role in it.

In this thought-provoking and compelling novel, Ramiro Castilho Simon delivers a story that will make readers laugh, reflect, and hope. Can Rafael’s determination and creativity make a difference, or is the world already beyond saving?

Live a Great Story: Dancing Through the Rain

They were real people; you can read about them in the author’s first non-fiction novel titled A Boy And His Comet: Dancing Through the Rain. Eventually they would pass away. But with a love and a faith so strong, so committed, so undeniably right for each other, they find themselves together again. You will adore this love story between two people, the author’s dynamic writing style, and unique perspective on this fictional spinoff of a true-life story. An intriguing story that you will find yourself immersed and invested in between two worlds – the real story, and the next real story to come.

James the Games

Join James and his vibrant group of friends in the dazzling city as they navigate heartbreak, cherish friendship, and embark on a transformative quest of self-discovery.

Through laughter, delicious cuisine, and the allure of the city lights, they find solace, challenge gender norms, and embrace the true essence of authenticity.

An unforgettable adventure awaits in James the Games.

Unraveling Taboo: Love's Unexpected Pathways

In a world where sexuality, love, greed, and money take on new meanings, and death lurks around every corner, a captivating story unfolds. Father, a sophisticated and wealthy 60-year-old man, and his 34-year-old son both find themselves enamored with a stunning 27-year-old single woman. Initially, she becomes the lover of the father, a known adventurer with a penchant for beautiful, young women. However, when she meets his son, she falls deeply in love and marries him, perhaps driven by financial motives.

The tycoon, her ex-lover and now father-in-law, cannot and will not relinquish his love for her. He insists on continuing their intimate relationship, even resorting to pressure and ultimatums when she objects. Despite the husband’s suspicions, it is the wife herself who reveals the shocking truth: she has been regularly sleeping with his father, both before and after their marriage.

A war erupts between the three, as life teaches us to smile through the tears. Who do you think will be the first to die? Or is the human being simply a poor customer of life? Life on earth is a journey filled with people we encounter in all seasons. Some accompany us, while others remain behind. Those who stay with us will witness our happiness, smiles, sadness, and ultimately, our death. In a world that is absurd, full of wonders, and where death is ever-present, life is riddled with disappointment. We always need that breath of air to outlet our emotions, to breathe heavily and calm ourselves down.

‘There is no such thing as one hundred percent security in this life; there are always unforeseen events. Living is an art, and dying is an art as well.’

Unity

The Dimension Series will enchant readers across generations, resonating with adults at every stage of their life journey. This epic saga unfolds through dimensional voyages, life on 3D-Earth, ascensions to higher frequencies, portal explorations, time travel, and the mysteries of the multiverse.

In Unity, the captivating journey begins when two sisters are cast into different dimensions by their mother at an early age for their protection. Arriving alone and unprotected, with nothing but an amulet necklace, each sister experiences a vastly different life, unaware of the other’s existence. In their twenties, during a time of great need, the amulets reveal clues, suggesting they are not as alone as they believed. Their journey is one of laughter, tears, gut-wrenching pain, and the alignment of destinies.

Embark on this epic adventure, where tears, joy, laughter, and romance await in the first book of The Dimension Series.

Tracks from Nowhere

Tracks from Nowhere takes the reader into the remote and impoverished coal-mining community of New River Gorge, West Virginia. The year is 1936. Hank O’Neill, a ruggedly handsome coal miner, bears the burden of a promise that threatens not only his life, but his marriage to the lovely, Louise as well. She is discontented living in poverty and is desperate to escape; but in the isolated Appalachian Mountains of post-depression America, a way out is difficult to come by.

Gambling everything, Louise blindsides Hank in a risky plight to fulfill the destiny that haunts her dreams. Hank severs his promise and hops aboard a south-bound freight train to pursue the amazing woman he loves. His journey is a perilous one; but fate offers an unexpected opportunity. Melding history into the lives of absorbing characters, this engaging tale is full of heartbreak and survival sprinkled with hope and optimism.

Tangled in poignant emotions, Tracks from Nowhere weaves a beautiful tapestry of love, forgiveness, and the reward for having the courage to live one's dream.

Tracker's Choice

If it were between two people you love, who would you choose for death?

One phone call changed my life as I knew it, but I carved myself something from that ruin. When the notes started showing up, I ignored them and focused on my new life. Then the gifts started, followed shortly by the threatening words. I had no choice. I knew the one he would send would change my life once again but there was no looking back now… a new war had begun.

I let her go to protect her from my past, but it found its way to her doorstep anyways. They stalked her and then they came for her. With every minute she is gone from my sight the body count will rise until I have her back in my arms.

The only question now is… Who will survive this new war and who will be six feet under?

The Stable Boy

The Stable Boy is historical fiction. It is a love story, a rags-to-riches story, an anti-racist story and a triumph over injustice story. Taking place in the antebellum South, it tells the tale of how a lowly slave... a hidden genius... defies all odds and becomes one of the richest men in America. In Pygmalion* style, the young slave is taught proper elocution and English grammar, a gift that takes him from picking cotton to dealing with some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in America. It’s also a touching, tender... if unlikely... love story between two young men... one a slave, the other his owner. It takes the reader from the rural South to New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and London. It makes the incredible, credible.

*Pygmalion is the George Bernard Shaw play on which the movie "MY Fair Lady" was based. It shows how the gift of language can change a guttersnipe into a princess.

The Road to You

In a tumultuous marriage of eight years, Lisa Curtis finds solace and passion in the embrace of a new lover. As she grapples with the torment inflicted by the man she once promised to cherish, Lisa is faced with a perilous choice: remain bound by her vows or pursue a chance at true happiness. But is her new lover genuinely offering the love and respect she craves, or is their bond merely a fiery physical attraction? As their affair escalates, boundaries are tested, loyalties are questioned, and the fate of her husband hangs in the balance. Dive into this tantalizing erotic thriller that promises twists at every turn.

The Faces of Womankind

The novel recounts a tale of passion, treachery, grief and redeeming love set against the background of the glamorous but deadly world of the Florentine aristocracy. It traces the path of Lord James Markham from the discovery of his wife’s depraved infidelities to his tragic affair with a young student while dealing with fraud at the bank and his brother-in-law Paolo’s suicide in compromising circumstances. Urged on by his uncle, Cardinal Palmieri, he leaves for Buenos Aires is search of a former mistress, Carolina.

The second half of the novel centers on Carolina, a peronista hotel receptionist whom James had bedded many years earlier. Still in love with him, despite the Malvinas, she agrees to marry him and reluctantly enters into the world of the nobility with all its licentiousness, greed and murder. She struggles to reconcile her roots with her new aristocratic lifestyle. Blessed with a lively intelligence and sturdy common sense, she proves Paolo’s suicide to be murder. Arising from obscurity, she emerges as the heroine of this intensely erotic and literary novel.