Neither Seen nor Heard: A Zombie Complex Short Story by Alexander Pain

 

 

“Today, you really cannot be seen and you really must not be heard. If they hear you, they will come to see you. If they see you, they will catch you. If they catch you, they will bite you. If they bite you, you will die and become a monster just like them. If you don’t want to be a monster, you have to be very, very, quiet."

Can the very young and the very old survive?

When the zombie apocalypse started, four generations of the Hastings family gathered in a modest house on the outskirts of Atlanta. Two of those generations went out to get food leaving behind the youngest and oldest of the family. That was days ago. With food running low and his great grandchildren getting hungry, great-grandfather Bill Hastings sets out into a crumbling world with his great grandchildren in tow.

One of our heroes is an 80-year-old Vietnam veteran and the other two are his ten and twelve year-old great grandsons. Can his experience and their speed and dexterity help a whole van full of younger children survive?

A custom van, guns, skateboards, and horror!

This short story has a custom van, gun battles, skateboards, and horror. When zombies threaten experienced and physically fit fighters, readers can get complacent. But, when the most vulnerable among us are threatened, the horror is palpable. Every generation has to bring their strengths to the struggle.

A spoiler free part of the Zombie Complex neighborhood!

The action in this short story occurs in the same general neighborhood as Alexander Pain’s novel, Zombie Complex, but you can read with assurance that this short story is spoiler free. It won’t spoil any plot points. If you enjoy this short read, join the neighborhood and join fight! You’ll definitely want to check out some of Alexander’s other works.

 

Bitches, she is Madonna by Ludovico De Bonis (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

“I dedicate this book to those who know how to wait, to those who do not stop believing in their dreams, to those who know how to earn things with sweat and will of mind, to those who keep smiling in hard times, to those who think that emotions and passions are the engine of the world.”

Ludovico De Bonis

The author Ludovico De Bonis, with his book, tried to combine his passion (Madonna) with his cultural background, as an expert in Communication and Media Analyst. What makes his work outstanding compared to other works about the artist, is that none of them has neither analyzed the phenomenon from the point of view of the audience, nor focused on the artist's fandom, on her complex identity (as a woman, as a mother and as an international icon) and on the discovery that the performer artist Madonna, according to various sociologists and experts in the sector, is the emblem of popular culture.

Translation - Giacomo Bleve

Cover - Debora Conte

Additional digital editing - Serena Garganese

 

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Gli aerostati di Amélie Nothomb (Voland)

 

 

 

Dopo aver risposto a un annuncio Ange, brillante studentessa di filologia, inizia a dare ripetizioni a Pie, uno strano sedicenne, dislessico e incompreso dai genitori. Affascinato dalla matematica, Pie disprezza invece la letteratura. Sotto l’occhio vigile di Grégoire, l’autoritario padre del ragazzo, Ange si mette al lavoro incoraggiando Pie a leggere un classico dopo l’altro. Il rapporto tra i due diventa subito speciale, e anche Ange avrà qualcosa da imparare dal suo allievo… Il 29° romanzo di Amélie Nothomb è una celebrazione della lettura e della giovinezza, con una sfumatura noir.

Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring by Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss , Kyra Gurney

 

 

The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it—until it all came crashing down.
 
In March of 2017, a team of federal agents arrested Juan Pablo Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they came to be known, "the three amigos." The trio—first identified publicly by the authors of this book—had built a $3.6 billion dollar business in metals trading, mostly illegal Peruvian gold mined in the rain forest.
 
Their arrest and subsequent prosecution laid bare more than a scheme between a few corrupt traders. Dirty Gold lifts the veil on a massive and very illegal international business that is more lucrative than trafficking cocaine, and often just as dangerous.
 
As this award-winning team of current and former Miami Herald reporters shows, illegal gold mines have become a haven for Latin American drug money. The gold is sold to metals traders, and ultimately to scores of unwitting Americans in their jewelry and phones. By following the trail of these three traders, Dirty Gold leads us into a sprawling criminal underworld that has never before been in full view.

 

 

Small Magic: Short Fiction, 1977-2020 by Terry Brooks

 

 

Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Terry Brooks short-story collection, featuring both new and fan-favorite stories from all three of his major literary worlds: Shannara, Magic Kingdom, and The Word and the Void.

Here are heroes fighting new battles and struggling to conquer the ghosts of the past. Here are quests both small and far reaching; heroism both intimate and vast. Here we learn of Garet Jax’s childhood, see how Allanon first located Shea Ohmsford, and follow an old wing-rider at the end of his life. Here we see Knights of the Word fighting demons within and without, and witness Ben Holiday and his daughter each trying to overcome the unique challenges that Landover offers.

This collection of eleven tales is a must-have addition to the Terry Brooks canon—a delightful way to spend time with favorite characters, and a wonderful reminder of what makes a Brooks story such a timeless classic.

With Angel's Wings by Stephanie A. Collins (Author), Donna J. Erickson (Editor), Charles W. Davis (Designer)

 

 

With Angels Wings is the true story of Laura, a young wife and mother of a three-year-old daughter. Her husband, Kevin, a marine, is deployed overseas, leaving Laura to give birth to their second daughter and handle the two young children on her own.

Thirteen days after the birth of her youngest, the pediatrician detects a heart murmur. That leads to just the first of multiple diagnoses for both of her daughters, sending Laura on an unexpected and emotional journey into the world of parenting medically-fragile, special needs children.

Right when Laura fears she will break under the incredible pressure, she encounters the beauty of true love, in a most unexpected and unconventional way.

The Dead Game by Susanne Leist

 

Book 1 in Series

 A party is called for tonight at End House, but no host greets you at the front door.


The door locks behind you.


Candles light a path through the dark hallways.


Is your heart beating too fast?


What should you do?


Run.


The owner of End House takes no prisoners.


The Dead Game has begun.

 

 

Peter's Return to Pegasus World by F D Stewart

 

 

The stakes are high, and the freedom is limited as the group of college friends from Livingston bares their destiny. Their fate would allow them to find their identity, but at what cost-losing someone they love or facing the ultimate challenge to gain someone's approval? Despite what happened in the past, each one of them holds a key that was kept hidden within themselves, but only one has the power to unleash what was hidden and put things back the way it was supposed to be.

When the White Knight Falls by Virginia Wallace

 

 

The lovely and talented Kate McCoy once thought that her future was predictable, and secure. Classical music was her passion, and she was inarguably the mistress of her craft.Then she met Alec Murdenson... Alec knows nothing of orchestras; he’s a rocker, through and through. The ferocity of his music seems out of place when viewed alongside his easy smile, and his sense of humor… not to mention his handsome face, and striking green eyes.But there is something else lurking behind his riveting gaze, an entity that is both Alec and yet not Alec at all. That phantasm is more than a little disturbing; perhaps it is even a cold-blooded monster.As Kate becomes tangled within Alec’s web, she is forced to re-think everything she once thought she knew. In so doing, she must make a horrific choice: Either run for the hills… Or embrace a man who understands human depravity better than she ever could.

Love Leads the Way by Margot Johnson

 

 

Single mom Tessa Shore runs a successful leadership program at work and supports a mother with dementia. She can handle any challenge in her jam-packed schedule as long as nothing spins out of control...especially her feelings. Engineer Mark Delaney is an expert on pipelines at the same company, but his interpersonal skills need a makeover. Advancing to an executive job requires enrollment in a leadership course he doesn't think he needs. When their professional and personal issues entangle, life at the office gets a lot more complicated. Romance is impossible...or is it?

The Strangled Hubris by K T Browne

 

 

To the aristocratic denizens of Gullhaven, Helium is the almost priceless commodity used to lift their airships above the smothering air of the city. To Baron Jasper Brundheim, it is his livelihood. That is until Parliament frames him and seizes his family’s Helium mine for their own. On the run, the young noble must join with other rebels and fight to clear his name. They must flee their beloved city, evade brutal gunsword-wielding soldiers, and find a way to thwart a sinister plot that reaches to the very highest echelons of Gullhaven’s political establishment.

"Gunswords of a gilded age we never got to witness, a depth of courtly intrigue and political high adventure give The Strangled Hubris a sense of mystery and magic long lacking in steampunk storytelling. Compelling, thrilling, and insanely imaginative."

— Nicholas Morine, author of Punish the Wicked: A Dystopian Horror

"The Strangled Hubris is a manically delightful addition to the steampunk canon. The reader is reminded of the outlandish journeys in the work of Terry Bisson, but this tale of a floating palace is a witty and energetic contribution of Keith Browne'sown. If you like stories of political machinations, Browne's your man. If you enjoy knowing winks towards Jane Austin or Blackadder, Browne's equally your man. A confident performance, whatever the weather."

— David Mathew, author of Panic Soup and Ventriloquists

"This is a wonderfully conceived, well-written and satisfying read."

— Laura Knight, author of From Under the Veils of Creation

 

Faring to France on a Shoe by Valerie Poore

 

 

After seven years of owning their barge, Hennie-Ha, seven years involving catastrophe and crisis, Val and her partner finally go 'faring' to France for the first time. This travelogue describes the places they visit and the people they meet along the canals on their route from the Netherlands, through Belgium and into northern France. It tells a gentle story about how they experience their life on board during the four weeks they spend cruising. Written as a journal, the reader joins them on their travels through rain and shine and reveals how day by day, Val learns to cast aside the stresses and demands of the real world and to appreciate life's simplest of pleasures to the full. And why 'Faring to France on a Shoe'? Well, download a sample and then all will be clear, or just have a 'look inside'!

Metanoia (A Harem Boy's Saga) by Young

 

 

Metanoia is the fifth and final volume to A Harem Boy’s Saga; a memoir by Young (five-book series). This erotically sensual and captivating autobiography is about a young man coming-of-age in a secret society before being spirited away to serve in several Middle Eastern male harems.Metanoia follows Young and Andy’s (the young man’s lover-cum-chaperone) journey to their fifth Arabian Household at the opulent residences of their patriarch, Tad; an athlete of international fame. Although the couple had to maneuver through a minefield of explosive sentiments, they also acted as their “Master’s” confidante as they move through the world of the wealthy and elite.This book is steeped in preternaturalism and spirituality. It is enlighteningly educational in the Middle Eastern way of life and the different aspects of Arabian culture.This memoir is also an epic love story between Young and Andy. The joys and pleasures together with the trials and tribulations that come with heroic and unconditional love.

A Woman's Lot: The Second Meonbridge Chronicle (The Meonbridge Chronicles) by Carolyn Hughes

 

 

 

How can mere women resist the misogyny of men?
1352. In Meonbridge, a resentful peasant rages against Eleanor Titherige’s efforts to build up her flock of sheep. Susanna Miller’s husband, grown melancholy and ill-tempered, succumbs to idle gossip that his wife’s a scold. Agnes Sawyer’s yearning to be a craftsman is met with scorn. And the village priest, fearful of what he considers women’s “unnatural” ambitions, is determined to keep them firmly in their place.
Many men hold fast to the teachings of the Church and fear the havoc the “daughters of Eve” might wreak if they’re allowed to usurp men’s roles and gain control over their own lives.
Not all men in Meonbridge resist the women’s desire for change – indeed, they want it for themselves. Yet it takes only one or two misogynists to unleash the hounds of hostility and hatred…

“I didn’t so much feel as if I were reading about mediaeval England as actually experiencing it first hand.” Linda’s Book Bag @Lindahill50Hill

If you enjoy immersive historical fiction with a strong authentic feel, set in a time of change and challenge, especially for women, you’ll love A Woman’s Lot, the second MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLE. Find out for yourself if Meonbridge’s “unnatural” women stand up to their abusers.

 

Seasons of Darkness by Belinda G. Buchanan

 

 

Ethan Harrington's innocence was lost seven years ago when his mother took her own life. Forced to grow up in a hurry, he quickly learns to build a wall around his heart, vowing never to let it be hurt again. Left alone with his controlling and abusive father in an isolated farmhouse, Ethan struggles to live among the shattered remains of a family that was never functional to begin with.

A kindhearted doctor, a beautiful girl, and a caring nanny all love him in different ways, but Ethan, now sixteen and still ravaged by his mother's suicide, turns to what he has seen his father take comfort in time and time again - thus giving rise to an inner demon that will not turn him loose.

A story of hope - even in the darkest of times, this is a coming-of-age novel that depicts the sometimes difficult, and oftentimes complex, relationship experienced between fathers and sons when tragedy strikes.

 

A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love by Danny Skyfeather

 

 

Welcome to A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love… This is a growing network of open hearts who are committed to awakening and manifesting the energy of love within and through our minds and bodies – in service to all life everywhere.

Connecting to this Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love is as simple as passionately anchoring the core affirmation, or “heart-command,” into your chest and subconscious mind every day. 

With every repetition you are automatically connected with all others who repeat this command – while receiving the waves of love-energy flowing through it. Love is the energy that is present in all moments of time and all places at once. 

A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love has 4 basic parts: 

**Part One: Instruction on how to anchor the core affirmation into the deepest regions of your heart, body, and subconscious mind. Further, how to expand and raise your heart-center above your head – and to flood the energy of love through your mind-body.

**Part Two: This has 108 repetitions of the affirmation with other heart-commands between them. Going through this section over and over again will firmly plant & reinforce the love-infused affirmation into the furthest regions of your mind and body. 

**Part Three: This is 90 days of further insights and affirmations to help you stay focused and driven to awaken the divine love within and AS your very self.

**Part Four: The Thought-Intention-Energy-Love transmission pages. Here you can write the names or paste the photos of people whom you wish to receive the energy of love flowing through this global heart-coherent energy field. The energy of love that flows into ONE book flows into ALL books. The effect is beautiful and exponential.

If you KNOW that you are on this planet to make love more real and manifest, then this book was written especially for you. 

The Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love is not for the spiritual faint of heart. It is for warriors of love who are here to do the real internal work of manifesting love in our cells… communities… countries… and the world.

 

ATHANOR: The Secret Science of the Heart (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

The time of our civilisation, which is only one of the possible civilisations, can be transcribed synthetically through the categories of thought that specified axiologically its structure and continually remodelled it. Passages never clearly marked, if anything connoted, by that “barbarian residue” which, due to a certain instinctual pertinacity, were painstakingly exceeded. The border between reality and appearance is always very subtle, we find it so, even today in the persistence of certain scientifically anachronistic expressions; let us say, for example, that the sun rises and sets, instead of referring to the horizon. We need some time to get used to something that differs from the perception that we had of the world that is, we need time to change.This, for what it’s worth, is what we believe. In fact, however, it is only the persistences that weaken our conscious presence, which, in turn, manifests itself in a wealth of forms commensurate with the capacity we have to intuit them. Every achievement is as if a new mental being is produced, almost incapable of empathy with the past self. Ultimately, the shift over time determines a change of perspective, by regressing in the memory, we lose the sharpness of the state of mind that led to the choice or for which we risked that move. We simply change our mind and this has the effect of no longer permitting us to be that which we once were. It’s as if they slowly vanish, all the humours or moods that we have experienced converge here - there is no other time and if every shift creates a different vision of the world, everything can be changed in a single instant.

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Era meglio il libro di Valerio Lundini (Rizzoli Lizard)

 

 

"Adesso ti spiego che cos'è questo libro. Facciamo una cosa breve, anche perché lo spazio è poco. Da anni Valerio Lundini dirige e interpreta corti, sketch e spettacoli, lavora in radio e in televisione. In pratica, Lundini scrive cose che fanno ridere. Scrive parecchio, ma senza ordine: sparge fogli in giro e tra una cosa e l'altra c'è sempre il rischio che si perda qualcosa. Per questo ha deciso di scegliere le sue pagine migliori e stamparle in un certo numero di copie. Uno dice: «Potevi mettere tutto su una chiavetta usb», ma non è la stessa cosa. Il libro raccoglie una serie di racconti su killer perbene, coppie che vivono su diversi piani temporali, critici cinematografici sbrigativi, editorialisti problematici, la nostra bella Napoli, il ruolo del clacson e dell'incesto nella società civile e i gradi di separazione che ci dividono da Franco Califano. Che Lundini è surreale lo hanno già scritto in tanti, quindi su questa cosa non mi dilungherei. Anche perché qui lo spazio è finito e il libro è molto meglio dentro. No, veramente".

Poesie (2020-1997) di Vittorino Curci (Autore), Milo De Angelis (Prefazione) edito da La Vita Felice

 

 

"L'infanzia percorre tutte queste pagine, con le sue scene antiche e il suo eterno «primo ottobre nel cortile della scuola», il suo giocare «a morra con le ore della notte». Ma non è l'infanzia crepuscolare del rimpianto. È una stagione vivissima che non possiamo situare nel passato, che ci raggiunge e ci supera, a volte ci aspetta. È un inizio incessante in cui siamo immersi, quello che ha ispirato un momento esemplare di quest'opera («Se penso al mattino del creato/ quando le cose furono toccate da uno sguardo per la prima volta/ io sono contento di tornare sui miei/ passi...») e sollecita nel profondo la sua ispirazione, ponendosi come continuo esordio o come rinascita dopo la caduta e accendendo una corrente impetuosa che scorre tra le righe nei momenti dello sconforto, della sconfitta, dell'essere vulnerabili alle potenze del cosmo: quando «il tuo mandala sarà disfatto/ al primo sogno di vento», ecco che un altro vento misterioso scuote il disfacimento e lo consegna alla metamorfosi. Così il fascino di questa poesia è un soffio polifonico che raccoglie in sé diverse tonalità – dall'elegia alla riflessione sapiente, dall'invettiva alla supplica – per ricrearsi continuamente dalle sue ceneri, che sono le ceneri personali ma anche quelle della Storia: è una prospettiva vasta e generale, un'inquadratura in campo lungo, uno sguardo nitido e insieme visionario". (dalla prefazione di Milo De Angelis)

On Love by Charles Bukowski

 

 

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.

Bukowski is brilliant on love—often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.”

Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.

 

 

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

 

 

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up

Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. Finally, with Operation Babylift—the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon—the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.

 

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

 

 

Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing

Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.

Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to today’s discussions around feminism. Ditlevsen’s trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing up―in this sense, it’s Copenhagen's answer to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.

Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories and memoirs before committing suicide in 1976. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class, female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of Denmark's most important modern authors, with "Tove fever" gripping readers.

Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems (LOA #231) (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition) by Jack Kerouac

 

 

 

Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac’s sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac’s major poetic works—Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus—along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as the classical Japanese haiku, the Buddhist sutra, the spontaneous prose poetry of Old Angel Midnight, and the poetic “blues” he developed in Mexico City Blues and other serial works, seeing himself as “a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday.” Many poets found Kerouac a liberating influence on their work: Robert Creeley called him “a genius at the register of the speaking voice”; for Allen Ginsberg he was “a poetic influence over the entire planet”; and Bob Dylan said that Mexico City Blues was crucial to his own artistic development.

Also available in specially-designed jacket (978-1-59853-194-7)

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

 

 

 

 

Fall Of A King: Book One, The False Prince (Volume 1) by James Fuller

 

 

An epic journey of deceit, betrayal, magic and a treasonous love sets sail as Meath, a young apprentice to the formidable wizard, Ursa, escapes certain death while a freshly united Kingdom is held captive by a false Prince. In hope of relaying the truth of the usurper who now threatens the throne, Meath embarks on a dangerous journey with the true heiress, Nicolette, in an attempt to reach her Uncle before they too are entangled in the lie that has wound itself deep into the lands. Amidst the soldiers dispatched to return the princess and capture Meath and his friends, they must avoid the barbarian clans who have begun a savage war on the Kingdom of Draco; evading what seems like fate has become a perilous game they may not be able to win…

Rubies and Other Gems by Joyce DeBacco

 

 

Lily’s life isn’t going well. Her husband is clueless; her children are rudderless. It's little wonder she seeks comfort in her dreams, unaware that her grandmother’s rubies have transported her back through time to a safer, saner existence. When she learns her dream lover is not a dream after all, but a real man who lived and died years before she was born, family problems mount. Because she can’t repair the damage from the past, she vows to stay in the here and now. She almost succeeds when she accidentally sends herself back in time without her return ticket, the rubies.

A Moment in Time: A Romantic-Suspense Novel by J.G. MacLeod

 

 

He's an ex con; she's his teacher. Will their secret pasts destroy them, or be the key to their redemption?

Lily Macarthur teaches psychology at an adult ed. school by day, and runs from her past every chance she gets. When she attends course registration the last week of summer break, she never imagines she'll meet a student with a past as mysterious as her own.

Chad Anderson is instantly attracted to Lily, but he's been in prison so long he knows better than to expect such an intelligent woman to fall for a guy like him. He takes a risk and signs up for her class, hoping to get to know her better, and to start over.

A chance encounter one fall night throws the unlikely pair together for survival, friendship, and perhaps something more. But forces beyond their control threaten to destroy more than just their reputations. In a world full of bystanders, will someone take a stand against the powers of evil?

Everything can change in A Moment in Time.

Based on a true beginning, this romantic-suspense novel contains a psychological twist that will leave you questioning everything. Reviews appreciated. Recommended for 18+ for some steamy scenes & language.

 

Deadly Fears by Jessie McClure

 

 

Deadly Fears contains eight creepy tales that will linger in your mind long after they’ve ended. Stories where the unexpected should be expected. Where an ebony-clawed demon is a friend and a doting mother is the monster. Where fear is sometimes broken by humor.

• FATHER - Something lives in the luminescent fog, something that spirits away all who encounter it. A girl will come face to face with the unknown when she leaves her home to save her family.

• PLOP Industries - A deadly mistake at one of Hell’s premier human-possession facilitation agencies has occurred. With screams echoing in the halls and blood oozing under doors, can the demons handle the situation or will Hell-land Security need to save the day?

• REVENGE – Separated from her parents during the zombie apocalypse, Nora survives when a mysterious creature swoops in to kill her attackers. Unfortunately for her, there’s a disturbing price to pay for its help, and it won’t go down easily.

• ORB C68 - A large alien orb, dormant for months, has activated. Cracks form on its surface as its temperature rises and a wild scent fills the air. Do scientists know enough to save themselves, much less humanity?

• THE TRANSFORMATION – Maggie wakes to a world that is not her own and a life she doesn’t understand. With nowhere to go, she wanders aimlessly until an uncontrollable urge has her step into an empty house. Inside lives a creature of nightmares.

• THE APOCALYPSE –The monster apocalypse has arrived and most of humanity is dead. Preppers Todd and Gordon feel safe until they hear scratching coming from the apartment upstairs. Can they put aside their differences and defeat the monster? Or will they become its next victims?

• DORIS & ERVIN –Ervin is a demon studying humans in their natural habitat. As a vegetarian, he forbids any consumption of human flesh. With his health in jeopardy, Doris commits the ultimate betrayal to save him, chancing her own demise.

• THE REAPER - A grim reaper obsessed with collecting the flesh of his victims is hunted by an entity with an obsession of its own—him. Will he be able to solve the mystery before he loses his own desiccated hide?

Enjoy Deadly Fears and hope the stories don't haunt you.

 

Return to the Streets (Children from the Streets) by Maria Gibbs (Author), R E Hargrave (Editor), Tammy Clarke (Illustrator)

 

 

From the outside, Marcos and Jasmine Martinez seem to have everything. Their days are filled with dream jobs, perfect health, and untold wealth, yet underneath it all, something is broken. Something money won’t fix, but neither have a clue as to what will.Honourable to a fault, Cristian Matos is trapped in a loveless marriage to his best friend’s sister. A siren, Leticia Martinez fulfills his desires whilst making him feel dirty. Leaving her is very much on Cristian’s mind, as are his relationships with Marcos and Jasmine, but what kind of man would take the steps he’s considering when his wife is so emotionally unstable?The fun-loving celebration of Carnival is over. As we return to the streets of Rio, love, lies, and betrayal rock the Martinez family once again. With so much devastation, surely all that’s left now is destruction, especially when vengeance brings the family full circle.Can enough happiness still be found to overcome all their heartaches? Or is the Martinez family forever cursed?

Sapphire by Bryan W. Alaspa

 

 

Jimmy Parker is a typical high school student. Unpopular with the girls and picked on by the boys, he’s just trying to survive long enough to escape the tiny Pennsylvanian town of Knorr. With Jimmy and his friend, George, heading to the school dance, they expect nothing but the usual ritual humiliation from their peers. But when a girl in a brilliant blue dress enters their lives at the side of a lonely old bridge…everything changes. Her name is Sapphire, and she is the most alluring girl that Jimmy has ever met. Yet, there is something strange about her; something different. Why has he never seen her at school? Why does she only want to meet up near the bridge? And why does everybody keep warning Jimmy to stay away from her? Before long, Jimmy is plunged into a decades-old mystery. The town of Knorr has many secrets; some held by powerful men. Men that would do anything to keep them from getting out. Something dark happened one night in Knorr, and now Jimmy is a part of it whether he likes it or not. And Sapphire holds the key to understanding it all. Jimmy discovers that his bond with the mysterious girl creates a unique power between them. A power that bridges time, space, and even dimensions. It is the one thing that could save them both. Because sometimes the most powerful force on Earth is love.

Not Dead by Anita Dickason

 

 

A small-town Texas cop who is haunted by his past.A reporter who risks it all, even her life. A kidnapping that crosses into an unearthly realm. Focused on the abduction of four-year-old Mandy Norton, Chad Bishop, Meridian’s Police Chief, ignores the twinges of foreboding triggered by an eerie fog that shrouds his town. What he can’t ignore is the editor of the Tribune. When Ashley Logan becomes embroiled in the search, nothing stops the hard-hitting, investigative reporter, including Chad’s threats to throw her in jail. She’s Mandy’s aunt. As the mystery of Mandy’s disappearance deepens, unnerving details emerge. Chad refuses to believe they’re connected to his past until the case turns deadly. He’s forced to face the terror that haunts him. It’s waiting in the shadowy depths of the unearthly fog. This time, it could cost Chad more than his sanity.