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The Woman Who Ran Away
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Have you ever wanted to run away? Felicia does, and her life as well as her son’s may depend on it.
The 1950s find Felicia in a relationship with a man she no longer recognizes. She met Greg a year earlier b MORE...
Garden Reach
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Are second chances possible? Evelyn Richards thinks so. After the death of her husband, she travels to a remote spot on the Pacific coast. There, on a windswept bluff above a rugged, rocky shore, she moves into MORE...
Moving Toward the Light
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Sequel to Penance
Miranda had been through it all in her young life: homelessness, the victim of a crime that made national headlines, and losing those closest to her. Now, she barely gets by in a rat h MORE...
Hope (MM)
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
After Todd's mother dies from cancer, he moves back to his hometown in the foothills of the Appalachians from Chicago. It's 1997 and he's just been given a death sentence -- an HIV-positive diagnosi MORE...
Otis
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
It’s Christmas Eve and it’s snowing, but at least one creature is still stirring: a tabby cat with white paws named Otis. He’s protesting from his carrier in the backseat of a rented Kia, en r MORE...
The Start of a Beautiful Friendship (MM)
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
It’s 1996, and Mark Vincent, senior special agent of the Washington Bureau of Investigation and Security, is sent on assignment to Prague to cancel the head of a terrorist organization. He has no doubt it MORE...
That Feathered Menace
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
The city of Bustleburg's problems may be legion -- fires, crime, pollution, vampires -- but no one warned Professor Daniel Teague about woodpeckers. Daniel's house is his sanctuary from the city. All is well un MORE...
The Horse Who Hated Christmas
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Paula's mare gets colic every Christmas, but her owner has no idea why because she has to go away over the holiday. She always comes back to a very sick horse and a huge vet bill.
This year Paula doesn't hav MORE...
Reflection of Ice
(Published by: eXtasy Books )
Reflection-of-Ice is a vranyxi with a problem: she’s old enough to take a mate, but she doesn’t like any of the bachelor vranyxia she’s met. So, she runs away before the Gathering begins. Hiding out on the Okyr MORE...
The Crimson Lamia
(Published by: Purple Sword Publications, LLC )
Sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted.
Cull is a man with no memory of his past. Something draws him forward, toward the supernatural, toward answers. The paranormal holds the key to his past, and possibly h MORE...
Shadow of the Blue Ridge
(Published by: Cyberworld Publishing )
Despite having traveled all over the world in the last fifty years, with extended residences in Japan, Thailand, and Cyprus, the author of this anthology kept coming back, in person and imagination, to the Blue MORE...
Blue Talk and Love
(Published by: Riverdale Avenue )
The award-wining collection Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City — including the middle-c MORE...
The Adventures of Angel
(Published by: eXtasy Books )
Angel’s New Friends – Angel goes exploring into the forbidden forest, ocean, and farm in search of new friends.
Angel’s Band – Angel and her friends decide to form a band using objects found around the farm fo MORE...
Shoestring Rider
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Emma keeps her Thoroughbred horse, Wisdom, at Blakewell Stables, where Ms Larimar is the barn instructor. But Emma has a major problem. Wisdom rushes his fences, which stands in the way of Emma’s ambitions to c MORE...
Timmy the Turtle Goes to Freddy's House
(Published by: Midnight Frost Books )
Sometimes just going to a friend's house is an adventure.
The Wee Folk: Tales of Pixies, Elves and Drooly Dwarves
(Published by: CCB Publishing )
The Wee Folk is a book about the Pixies, Elves and Drooly Dwarves who live in the Great North Woods which lies just below the magical kingdom of TooDoggone.
This book will also answer a few questions like: How MORE...
Here's a fine selection of Alexander Raju's stories written over thirty years--ranging between the stories of a tyro giving expression to his idealistic perspective of the world and the society he lives in and MORE...
The Thirteen Hour Clock
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
A girl wakes up in a room where there’s a strange clock, a black owl and a church pew. With no clue on how she got there, she tries to leave but a man on the other side of the door tells her she must stay there MORE...
The Horse Who Went to Church
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
A rider faces a difficult situation, as she must attend church then almost immediately get her horse to a dressage show. There’s very little time after Mass to go home, hitch up the trailer, load up the animal, MORE...
Lilith
(Published by: Written Expressions, LLC )
Sheriff Ajana Povich arrives at a gruesome crime scene in an abandoned house where a pile of body parts is erected in the hall. A young girl suddenly emerges from underneath the pile and that’s when things get MORE...
Ghosts in the Graveyard
(Published by: esKape Press )
Most kids can’t wait to dress up in costumes and go trick or treating on Halloween. Not the Foster children. Even the promise of receiving a slew of candy doesn’t interest them. Charlie, Jack, and Millie know t MORE...
Spirit of Christmas
(Published by: Cyberworld Publishing )
An inspirational Christmas collection about the joy of sharing the Christmas spirit with those around us.
The Christmas season reawakens the desires and encouragement to give of oneself and to help others in n MORE...
Vampire Code
(Published by: Champagne Books )
Clothed in darkness and power, Jonas watches Carina from the periphery of her life. With all that he is, he secretly protects his young charge from harm. Only three months remain in the twelve-year prohibition MORE...
The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man
(Published by: Riverdale Avenue )
In this new collection of fiction, a porn star turns up pouring cocktails in a small town's only gay bar, as the queens gape and gossip and the local auto mechanic lures the bartender into elaborate rituals of MORE...
The Horse Inside
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
Catherine’s mare is an off-the-track Thoroughbred. The little ex-racehorse doesn’t fit in with the expensive German horses at the dressage barn because she doesn’t look or move like them.
So it’s no surprise MORE...
Mistaken Identity
(Published by: JMS Books LLC )
What is the meaning of identity? A woman living in an isolated cottage on the central California coast watches the fog drift across a desolate landscape. Several miles to the south, another woman, a patient in MORE...
Snake Eyes
(Published by: Beau to Beau Books )
Dick Dice P.I. (Problem Interceptor) is assigned to intercept a problem in 1930. The problem for the time traveler is Simon Temporello, a bored spoiled rich psychopath who chooses to be a gangster in the past. MORE...
