Eyes Open

Jon W. C. Flanagan is in his mid-sixties when a combination of auto accident, stroke, and seizure leaves him apparently comatose. Involuntary reflexes remain; he can breathe on his own, but is unable to move. Unbeknownst to the medical team, he can see and hear.

Expected to quickly pass away, he lingers reflecting on his life while observing the staff and infrequent family/friend visitors. He develops a relationship of sorts with Rachel, the primary treating nurse who is less sure of the diagnosis than the physicians.

Meanwhile, an ‘angel of death’ is working in the hospital. Flanagan identifies the killer and determines to somehow tell Rachel. His life now is a race against time and a quest to perform a final, perhaps his only heroic act.

Provided a rare gift of total self-reflection, he is provided a rarer opportunity for personal redemption.

Falling Through the Cracks

Depression, illness, pain, and loss can become private homes of isolation. It’s tempting to convince ourselves these homes of suffering are proof we suffer alone. Humanity falls through the cracks each time we are failed by a medical system, ignored by policy, and abandoned by those supposed to protect—to love us. May the reader find some commonality within these pages. It can be difficult to find home—know you’re not alone. May the reader experience ataraxia.

Familiar Strangers

Mirror man, mirror man Persuthen

If you don't love me, who then?

Mirror man, mirror man Persuthen

Prove your love for me before the night ends.

Turn off the lights and with this simple chant in the mirror, the Persuthen will come for you. It will come to prove its love for you and it won't stop until it does. The chant and the mirror will bring you darkness, it'll bring your fate, it will bring the Persuthen...

Marvin Barchester, a new age detective, and Adaline Rivertone, a rebellious young lady, along with others, find that the simple chant is real. And not only does the mirror man come, but it deviously shows up as someone you love or know.

The chant, unknowingly brings their own doom, by the hands of someone very familiar to them. They learn fast that it's not easy to tell who is actually who, while running into the arms of the creature, the Persuthen they created.

Find out in this fast-acting thriller what happens when you play with, or try to create out-of-this-world entities, or when a fad or a simple challenge – a mirror man challenge – can actually bring your demise. Let the Persuthen prove his love for you.

Fiercely Loyal

Brother and sister, Sean and Colleen Callaghan share a relationship of love, loyalty, and perseverance. Their early childhood in a dysfunctional orphanage run by sisters focused on corporal punishment created a bond that carries them through a hard scrapple existence. Living through tough times in the Big Apple while concurrently 20^th century history plays out, Sean and Colleen are challenged at every step.

Sean grows from petty thief to booze-running during Prohibition, to waterfront dock boss. Colleen starts out running a speakeasy that transitions into an upscale restaurant catering to the well-heeled New York crowd, politicians, and Sean’s less-than-legit pals. The Callaghans’ saga spans pre-WWI to post WWII and is a true New York City story with colorful characters from waterfront toughs, bootleggers, slick gangsters, Nazi spies, and seductive women. When Sean is accused of murder and found guilty, the bond shared by the siblings is brought to its greatest test. The Callaghans are so fiercely loyal to each other their story will break your heart and keep you turning pages.

Fire Born

An eloquently narrated story with metaphorical religious myths and a virtuoso composition on magic realism and psychoanalytic forms, Fire Born is an enrapturing tale of harsher times, set on an alluvial land in Bangladesh that will make readers appreciate the efforts to bury the past and see the future from an elevated philosophical eye.

Noor Mohammed, the incestuous child of Helal Uddin and his schizophrenic sister, Helena, becomes the center of the story. To avoid being an outcast, it was arranged for Helena to marry a greedy blackmailer. Noor, meanwhile, is a born genius who memorizes the entire Quran and becomes a hafiz. However, he also suffers from hallucinations. He experiences extraordinary events as the struggle to grab alluvial lands becomes part of the political power struggle of the late ’60s between India and Pakistan. This juxtaposition of reality, desire, and unconscious mind makes Fire Born a unique intersection, where marvels happen while characters question the foundations of their beliefs.

Firstlings of the Flock

As with the story of Cain and Abel, the two MacKenzie brothers, Duncan and Cameron, do not get along – never have. For years, there has been almost no communication between brothers until the death of their father, John Jay.

Cam feels compelled to return for the funeral and the subsequent hearing of his father’s will, though he is uncertain what drives him. Although Cam expects nothing from the estate, surprisingly, the will decrees that he and Dun should travel to the High Uinta Wilderness (a special place for his father) to settle their differences.

Needless to say, both brothers do not return from the wilderness, but unfortunately, that still does not resolve the matter. Now the will is being contested by a third party claiming to be a previously unknown daughter.

Through DNA testing and some serious sleuthing, Cam discovers nothing is as he thought, and even he, Cameron MacKenzie, is not who he thought he was.

Flatlands

Flatlands is believable and complex. This story ranks with the classic depictions of the marvel that was the Old West, that great, vanished moment in history; within its strong atmosphere of reality, fiction intertwines with known facts of the time. This novel is a study in the strength of interaction between individuals of the same family or group, and explores stress and loyalty in the face of hostile odds.

Flatlands rewards the reader with rich insight into character and situation. Its individual tune interrupts shock and sorrow with irresistible laughter. A gripping original.

Follow Without Fear

Follow Without Fear is a Vietnam era, anti-war, romance novel involving the lives of two young college graduates recently commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force. It was a tumultuous time in our nation's history - a time of racial tension and riots, assassinations, the draft, war protests, and college campus unrest. America's youth was tested in many ways and lives were changed dramatically as a result of circumstances beyond their control. Stan was a fervent and principled young man who believed unequivocally in the wisdom of his country's leadership. He was hesitant to question authority until his experiences in a war zone opened his eyes to the consequences of blindly following an ideal. The story follows his psychological journey from complete trust in the decisions of elected leaders to the chilling awareness that those resolutions may be utterly flawed.

Forbidden Love Songs

How can love songs be “forbidden”?

They can be when the love is between two men in the late ’90s and one person is already in a relationship with someone else.

This collection of poems is about falling in love when you’re 3,000 miles apart. The poems were written over the course of a few months at the beginning of a passionate yet challenging love affair. Many of the poems were actually written in airports after a tearful good-bye and not knowing when I would see him again. Some of the poems were written after my partner's tragic loss of his parents in a homicide/suicide. 22 years later, we’re still together today and I love him now more than ever!

Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon

With echoes of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins, Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is Patrick Greenwood’s first book in a new series about romance, love, and passion against the backdrop of the Post- Vietnam War. Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is a romance novel about Jack Kendall and Linh Ng. After connecting online, Jack sets out on a cycling tour of Vietnam to meet Linh while keeping his intentions hidden. They both choose to leave their current relationships and share an unforgettable romance.

But like all good things, their time together is limited, and the sunrise in Saigon symbolizes their love that lasts a lifetime. Intrigued by the country of Vietnam since 11, Jack Kendall long remembered the fall of Saigon in 1975 and its painful aftermath.

After years of chatting online, Jack desires to follow his heart to meet Linh in person. Linh, wanting to feel Jack’s love, wanted nothing more than to be held by him. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Linh agrees to meet Jack in Saigon.

They both know they have found something special when they set eyes on each other. Despite their obstacles, they leap a faith and give their love a chance, even if it means giving up their current relationships. Experience the passion and romance that ignites between Jack and Linh as they explore Vietnam and each other.

Follow their journey as they discover the true meaning of love and the courage it takes to pursue it. But like all good things, their time together is not forever. The sunrise in Saigon that brought them together becomes the emotional connection between them for the rest of their lives.

Freedom Village

Time waits for no one. Everyone knows age is out there waiting…waiting…waiting. The big question is: how will we decide to deal with it? Given a choice, most seniors would never choose a care facility.

Life in Freedom Village is unlike any nursing home one could imagine. Residents take their aging and drawbacks into their own hands. Monica, Toni, Ari, Harrison, Frank, and others hold interesting and active past lives.

The tenants come together, weaving the need for companionship, suspicion of backroom theft, and finding missing family members into adventure, laughter, intrigue, peril, and much more. Your spirits will lift and soar in a fast-moving account of their escapades. Join the ride!

Friendship, Love, and Happiness

“It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.”

Prof. Robert J Waldinger – Harvard University

Friendship, Love, and Happiness

is a celebration of what makes us most happy…

close, quality relationships.

Jazz Amour sends you on a journey

to reflect on the great moments and the difficult times

in finding and keeping relationships; and then puts you in charge of navigating your own goals, relationships

and ultimately your happiness.

This book is a must read,

and one that you’ll want to read again,

and again.