Sun-Kissed Mountains of Home

Heiress Miranda Howarth-Dunn longs for the things money can’t buy. Orphaned and raised by servants, Miranda seeks comfort and companionship at a riding academy. Inspired by her friend whose disabled brother wished to ride, Miranda envisions creating an equine therapeutic program that gives patients and their families opportunities to ride together. All she needs is a genuine cattle ranch to make her dreams come true.

Ethan Baldwin, a fourth-generation of throw-back cowboys, values doing things the old way. He finds his family ranch and land of his ancestors, under constant threat. The unpredictable nature of the cattle industry tests the financial stability of all the ranches surrounding the small community of Rambletap Springs, MO, including the Baldwin’s ranch, Alma Soñada. Though it could secure the finances, the last thing Ethan wants is for his parents to bring tourists to the ranch for some riding program.

Sun-Kissed Mountains of Home brings together two adversaries who, despite their opposite goals and different backgrounds, find mutual understanding as they work together around horses. Learning to communicate using animals as an example, Miranda and Ethan travel on parallel paths seeking a way to bridge the gap created by their differences. Forced into a dangerous situation, they rely on their spiritual connections to the energies around them to cope. Can the ghosts of legends and lore with whom Miranda and Ethan feel a connection be their common ground? Will they discover they might be kindred spirits after all?

Swan’s War

After Swan Samson’s oldest brother, Isaac, is murdered, Swan, a twenty-year-old Georgian, goes to war to find his brother’s killer and exact the revenge required by his notions of duty and honor. Swan’s War is the story of Swan’s internal struggle, in which the suffering of war and the slavery of revenge transform him completely. Swan easily convinces his two younger brothers to go to war with him. However, his twin brother, Jacob, is not as easily swayed. Jacob is in love with a slave girl and has no interest in fighting for the Confederacy. He also disdains Swan’s judgments about duty and honor.

Nevertheless, Swan persuades his twin brother to join the war and search for Isaac’s murderer by appealing to Jacob’s close relationship with their slain brother. Jacob will search for Isaac’s killer, while Swan seeks glory and revenge to repair his sullied reputation, which was compromised when he accidentally killed his best friend at the age of thirteen. During the war, Swan watches his younger brothers die, loses his fiancée, suffers grievous wounds, endures a year in a POW camp, and pursues, fights, and kills the man he thought had murdered his brother – only to find out that the real killer is someone he had known his whole life.

While Swan’s War is set during the Civil War and written by a historian, it is not really about that conflict. Rather, it is a character-driven story of the protagonist’s war within himself. The story includes strong female and enslaved characters, as well as family disputes. The protagonist and several of the main characters are based on the author’s ancestors.

Sweet Debris

Discover the poignant journey of one man’s passage through solitude and emotional isolation. On the surface, he appears ordinary, blending into the streetscape. Yet, within him lies a profound empathy for the overlooked fragments of life: the homeless, abandoned houses, desolate railroad sidings, and forgotten freight tracks. These elements, along with the haunting memories of a bygone era, shape his existence. His childhood whispers to him, filled with voices now lost to the earth, offering wisdom and counsel. Through it all, he persists with a quiet determination, moving forward despite the weight of the past.

Tepatasi: Le Au'alumā

Christianity took root in the Pacific, nowhere more so than in Samoa. As World War I raged in Europe, the Great Influenza pandemic landed in Samoa in the winter of 1918. Facing tragic losses in their adopted village, a group of outsiders stayed behind to help. Living on the fringes of society, these women were unexpectedly thrust into the epicenter of the world’s most virulent pandemic. They found purpose as healers among strangers when it was needed most.

Terrifyingly Twisted Tales

Come take a ride through the strange and macabre, as Vladimir I. Vanadivorsch guides you through four uniquely chilling stories in this brand-new anthology. Terrifyingly Twisted Tales is a captivating, evocative collection, offering a unique addition to your library with subtly built and bone chilling horror. Throughout, there is a transfixing detailed approach to the tone and crafting of each plot to a striking effect, creating a compulsion that slowly builds tension and fear.

‘Letter to Shelby Scott’ is an intimate memoir from the author about their experience with the paranormal.

‘A Mother’s Love’ tells the story of a single mother who would go to any length to keep her child safe.

‘Annihilation’ will drag you through the deepest depths of existential dread.

‘Time’s Intervention’ follows Sarah White’s struggle with sobriety and trauma as she’s hurled back in time.

Texas Beach Time

Getaways. Vacations. R&Rs. Knowing when it’s time to reboot. Knowing how important it is to be rested, especially after something traumatic happens in life. But what if, during that getaway, more trauma occurs? And is it better to travel alone or with a partner?

Who would be the best person to accompany you on your getaway? Could it be someone working on classified AI research with a robot? Or maybe a visiting Australian teacher who is full of surprises and enjoys a good brawl? Perhaps a heroic and level-headed police officer?

Complications arise as antagonists emerge, from dangerous exes and a shady but influential attorney, to the mega-crime organization of a Texas-Mexico cartel. And then there’s the young woman who was murdered. At her funeral, her mother realizes the body in the casket isn’t her daughter. Naturally, the mother loses it.

Jump into Texas Beach Time for a thrilling getaway.

The 36 Watchers

“It is said that at all times, there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end.”

– Talmud, the central religious text of Rabbinic Judaism.

Was the crucifixion engineered to end Roman rule?

Could World War II have been avoided?

Could the Titanic have been saved?

The 36 Watchers tells the story of Jenna Berg, a young, professional, carefree NYC dweller, who, almost unwillingly, becomes a member of the most secretive and powerful group that has been protecting humankind from total destruction since the beginning of time.

The 36 Watchers: Book II Spring

Embark on a riveting journey into the clandestine world of The 36 Watchers: Book II Spring. Within the realm of this gripping series, the true secret society that stands as humanity’s shield against the ultimate evil is unveiled—the 36 Watchers. Unlike the superficial facades of other organizations such as Freemasons, Illuminati, Templars, and Rosicrucians, the Watchers hold the key to mankind’s protection.

In the first installment, we are introduced to the courageous heroine, Jenna, as she undertakes her transformation into a Watcher. Alongside Jenna, we uncover a hidden history, unraveling the mysteries surrounding the crucifixion, the enigmatic link between canned goods and World War II, and the veiled forces that propelled the tragic events of 9/11. This knowledge bestows upon Jenna immense power and wisdom, but not without an agonizing cost of isolation, melancholy, and anguish. Nevertheless, she perseveres, emerging as a fully-fledged Watcher, ready to undertake her inaugural assignment.

In Book II, Jenna’s growth as a Watcher accelerates, and the true purpose of organized religion is laid bare. Secrets shrouding Swiss banks’ shady dealings, the authentic origins of Kabbalah, and the untold tale of who truly declared the land of Israel holy are unveiled as Jenna embarks on her mission. Armed with their extraordinary abilities, Jenna and the Watchers stand poised to alter the course of history itself.

The 36 Watchers: Book II Spring immerses readers in a captivating world where hidden truths and ancient forces collide. Prepare yourself for a tumultuous journey that will challenge everything you thought you knew about history, religion, and the forces that shape our world.

The Ah-Ha Moment

Jokes are intellectual can-openers offering surprisingly powerful insights into not only how our minds work – but into how the world around us works too.

Why? Well, when you think about it, a good joke requires, demands, a very special kind of deep thinking – a kind of world-upturning, no-holds-barred problem solving. It’s the same skill that produces the great insights of art and commerce, the insight that sees solutions and creates opportunities. And yes, such skills can be approached through exercises and study, but there’s no good reason to think such sensible methods work any better than having a sense of humour.

So why not, at least for a moment, throw all conventional thinking to the wind, and start re-examining the world through the very special, very beautiful prism of jokes and riddles?

“With wit and irony, Martin Cohen explains the basic concepts of philosophy and incidentally introduces the most famous thinkers in history.” – Der Spiegel.

The Air That We Breathe - Book One

Father Marcellinus warns the young monk, saying, ‘The air that we breathe, that is the creature that we become’ explaining how every influence, both good and evil ultimately shape us into the person that we are. Based on real events, this novel unfolds in a nineteenth century abbey and is about a young man who struggles to face the truth of who he really is, something that all of us must ultimately do in our own lives. The reader is invited into that cloister, so full of passions and conflicts.

Simon desires only one thing since he was a little boy, and that is to serve God as a priest. He dreams of wearing silken gold vestments and being enveloped in great clouds of incense, offering the Sacrifice to God. When he is seventeen, he leaves home and becomes a monk far north in the mountains of Pennsylvania. His faith is genuine, and he gives himself to his studies in order to become a Roman Catholic priest.

But not all is as he expected. A sexual awakening he had not anticipated, blossoms in him and boyhood dreams are shaken to the core as he wrestles with a side of himself he never counted on. He falls in love in a monastic world filled with holy men, mischievous souls, colorful individuals and also great scoundrels.

A powerful visitor invites him to Rome, something Simon never expected. There is a dark price tag, however, something Simon is unaware of.

The Allies

This book lay almost half a century at the bottom of an old computer before it was published. At the time, it was considered politically ‘inappropriate’ because it was too ‘anti-Russian.’ It was written in America by two political émigrés, refugees from the communist part of the world, who knew Russia as it really is and always has been, even during World War II, when it pretended to be a faithful ally of the United States.

American pilots, crew members of a B 29 bomber, are hit by anti-aircraft fire during a reconnaissance flight over Japan. They make an emergency landing in USSR territory. It would seem that they are safe on the lands of an ally, but the reality turned out to be frighteningly different.

Although this book is historical fiction and its characters are invented, they are woven into real historical events related to the Manhattan Project infiltrated from within by Soviet spies. During Gorbachev’s ‘thaw,’ Stalin was forgotten, and Russia was to be ‘an example and model of democracy’ from then on. Even then, this book was supposed to be a warning; now it is allmost a wake-up call. Today’s Russia, waging a criminal, aggressive war against Ukraine, Russia of Vladimir Putin, with its troll farms, armed green men, murdering disobedient citizens in labor camps, poses an even greater threat to the entire free world.

The Assignment

Emerging from the ashes of a stagnant long-term relationship, Dr. Savannah Dawson finds the adrenaline rush of the emergency room has dulled to a monotonous routine. It’s her best friend Lacey who nudges her out of her comfort zone, convincing her to take a leap into the unknown with a new job in Barcelona. However, Savannah soon discovers she’s signed up for more than she anticipated, finding herself entwined in a century-old family coca business that demands she apply her sharp wits and judgment beyond the ER.

Tomas Rey IV, a man who holds the title of the decade’s most eligible bachelor, becomes her most challenging puzzle: a man who might just fulfill her dreams or plunge her into a nightmare. With the aid of serendipity and a loyal group of friends, Savannah navigates the complexities of a new country, a foreign lifestyle, and a covert role she’s intent on keeping under wraps. As she adjusts to this unexpected chapter, she hopes to stay beneath the radar, all while the stakes grow ever higher.