Category: Literature & Fiction

Free: One Sin Follows Another

Loosely taking the Seven Deadly Sins as the inspiration for this book, travel through seven interwoven chapters that explore the motivations for people’s actions as you journey through the contemporary stories. The book starts with a tale of Pride and ends with one of Wrath. Events in the former chapter cause the main character in the last one to have murderous intent. Between times you will discover a thought-provoking read which has a clearly tongue-in-cheek aspect. We begin with two friend... [Read More...]

Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess

Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of the young vagabond from his appearance in the southwest in 1931 when he was only seventeen, until he seemingly disappeared in 1934, shortly before he turned 21. In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo has taken journal excerpts and the letters Everett sent to family and friends, and turned them into scenes, and given us a glimpse of the young artist as he lived with Navajo and Hopi, and explored the southwest wi... [Read More...]

Trying to Live Happily Ever After

If you were Cinderella, how would you deal with your stepsisters and the horrors of home life? Old folk tales are about how to handle evil siblings and handsome princes. And big bad wolves. There are lessons to be learned! “Trying to Live Happily Ever After” is a collection of 17 adaptations of classic stories in which Cinderella and others face today’s problems. How do they deal with it all? $0.99 on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Free: City in a forest

Hidden in the heart of Atlanta, a pristine forest shimmers with magic, but an unscrupulous developer plans to flatten Silver Park—unless two brave women can stop him. Arden Collier risks losing her home. Parker Gozer owns most of Arden’s secret forest, which is rooted in Atlanta’s rich African-American history. As Arden struggles to reclaim her artistic voice, Parker confronts the man who once preyed upon her—and now wants to spoil a rare urban oasis. Both women fight to protect the pla... [Read More...]

The Ghost in the Bakery

After her controlling husband’s death, entrepreneur Kate Mills happily trades big city life for her dream, owning a small-town bakery. The quiet life she envisioned is thwarted by a demanding mayor who hates progress, a sheriff with romance on his mind, and oh, yes, a couple of resident ghosts only her six-year-old son can see. If Kate can’t solve a murder—or two—her dreams will fall as flat as a half-baked cake. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Bittersweet: A Coming of Age Historical Romance

Bittersweet captures the zeitgeist of 1960: America transitioning from the gray decade of Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK and Camelot; The House on Un-American Activities Committee versus the flourishing Beatnik counterculture. Its two protagonists, Renny and Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth, Bebop, and student-led civil rights demonstrations. They join the SLATE organized anti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at San Francisco City Hall. The pol... [Read More...]

The Making of Theodore Roosevelt

This a fictionalized account of a true story – the tale of how two rough Maine woodsmen took a young Theodore Roosevelt under their wing in 1878 and introduced him to the beautiful but unforgiving woodlands of the Northeast. Under their guidance, the frail but strong-willed New Yorker becomes a worthy outdoorsman, an experience which significantly shaped the world view of the man poised to become the 26th President of the United States thirteen years later. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]