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Delicatus

The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow’s Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history’s wildest characters. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from “puer delicatus” to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess i... [Read More...]

Riding With Forrest

Riding off to war with the idealism of youth, John Barrett soon finds himself under the command of the most audacious, bold and fearless cavalry commander of the Civil War. Nathan Bedford Forrest terrified his enemies but endeared himself to those who fought with him. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Munich Girl

What family secrets is a portrait of Hitler’s mistress hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and Hitler’s lover – and uncovers a tangled web of long-buried family secrets. ” “Hard to put down. Harder to forget.” The Stellar Review $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Dragon Bones

When Captain Shuri Ikaki of the Japanese army took possession of China’s greatest artifact for transport to Japan he had no idea what twisted path he must follow to complete his mission. Not until nearly 80 years later do modern day historians pick up the trail for the missing treasure. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

City of Liars

When the Inquisition holds its first public execution in Barcelona, it draws a Catholic heiress and a Jewish navigator into a secret alliance to smuggle would-be targets to safety by sea. As the rescue mission unfolds, a forbidden love blooms between them. Will their heart-stopping escape plan outfox the vicious regime, or will it cost their lives? $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: The Legend Is Born

This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is Wotto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction. Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Namdik, a wet atoll in the ... [Read More...]

My Mother’s Friend

The year is 1944 Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mothers death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is friendship with a German POW who shares her passion for music. After she is recruited as the accompanist for the POW choir, Phee begins to spend more time with her new friend who she initi... [Read More...]

The Bowman Boys

A father and his four sons fight to survive and thrive during the time of Prohibition. The Bowman Boys is a raucous mix of action, mystery, and romance. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Glass Ornament Christmas

It is 1896, and this Christmastide is extra special for glass blower Shayla Toselli in Canterbury Corner, England. The town square will have an electrically lit tree, and she has been commissioned to create delicate glass ornaments for the new Dukes Christmas Eve ball. When former soldier Adam Preston finds himself in the Toselli workshop, he is intrigued by Shayla and glass blowing. Now, the unlikely pair must work together in the days leading up to the Christmas Eve ball. This will certainly ... [Read More...]

Winter’s Reckoning

Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has no use for ideas like “separation of the races” or “men as the superior sex.” There are many in her dying Southern Appalachian town who are upset by her socially progressive views, but for years—partly due to her late husband’s still-powerful influence, and partly due to her skill as a healer in a remote town with no doctor of its own—folks have been willing to turn a blind eye to her “transgressions.” Even Maddie’s decision to take ... [Read More...]