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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT STUART’S DESERT BURIAL? is a sex and crime-infused Western-American road story, with hints of “Lolita” and “Thelma & Louise.”
UNTOLD MAYHEM is a collection of short horror stories, each of which revolves around or culminates in an act of violence. Some feature supernatural specters...
The central mystery of ENTWINE concerns who is murdering the young women of a sleepy Scottish town and why.
SPIRALS OF FATE takes readers through a fictionalized account of Kett's Rebellion, an uprising by farmers and laborers that took place in Edward VI's short...
THE MADNESS OF GRIEF deals with the rift between lie and reality in a melancholic spin of drama, intrigue, mystery and the coming-of-age for a...
When Walter Jackson’s wife leaves him, taking his daughter with her, he finds his search curtailed by a global disaster and chases the narrowest of...
Sydney has quietly kept her head down for years, working a steady but unrewarding job as a proofreader. But now her mother is dead, the...
Told in first-person by Horatio, author J.A. Nelson’s novel follows in the tradition of historical fiction.
TRANSFERENCE explains the purpose of human suffering and the essential nature of hope in the struggle that is life.
Angel I. Hawkins' THE POINT tracks a young adult relationship through five seasons, starting the summer after Willoughs' senior year in high school and throughout...
A young woman discovers that she is, in fact, only part-human, and the heiress to a powerful genie family - but can she fight back...
To ANNA INCOGNITO in the novel by Laura J. Preble, life is disastrous; something that must be survived, and often isn't.