Children’s Books

The Expectation Trap by Marge Powers

Some people will look back on their lives and know they lived a full and complete life. Most, however, given the challenge to review their life, will likely say, “I wish I would have; I wish I could have.”

In this book, The Expectations Trap, you will discover that your failures were most likely based on your old misplaced expectations, unfounded fears, faulty and outdated belief systems and myths, or a lack of knowledge. Once you become aware of understanding your unconscious expectations are and how to change them, you can experience a strong sense of freedom and develop the skills to choose the life you want, instead of going on automatic.

It will help you reduce the time you waste on ineffective strategies that don’t work anymore and stifle your power. By becoming aware of your misplaced and unconscious expectations and changing your mindset means pioneering a new way of life and carving a new path for yourself. Your success and happiness depends on your willingness to dig deep inside and do the work, create and think new thoughts, and create newer expectations that lead to having a life that works for you. Best of all, you will experience that Powerful Feeling of Being Free!

Why not commit to discovering what your expectations are and learn to re-choose the ones that will work better for you to in order to reclaim your power!You can make it happen. Having a commitment to a life that works involves devoting your time and energy to your best life a top priority. If you apply what you learn in this Guidebook, you will:

• Begin to see yourself from a new perspective
• Subdue and control the negative thoughts in your head
• Overcome your fears
• Be the person you really are
• Discover how you sabotage yourself
• Improve your relationships
• Stop being stuck
• Feel more positive and safer with others
• Improve your self-esteem and confidence
• Understand what really controls you
• Obtain the knowledge to get the life you want and deserve
• Learn to communicate in a way that works
• Understand how to transform your life, if you choose

Enjoy the process!

Bright Lights Billionaire by Ali Parker

It’s all a bunch of bullshit.

Nothing I say or do is real anymore. And I get paid for it.

My whole life has been lived behind the bright lights of Hollywood.

And I’m living proof that money can’t buy love.

My situation is complicated enough, but then a sweet girl from the local college scores a part as my co-actor in a new blockbuster film.

These people are going to eat her alive. Or are they?

Poverty has made her tough, but she’s in for the ride of her life if she thinks she’s got this gig in the bag.

I’ll play the part I’ve been handed and love her like a madman on screen, but when the lights dim?

No thanks. I’m not interested. No matter how badly my heart aches when she walks in the room.

Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, you never let them see behind the curtain.

Especially if you love them.

Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almaraby J. B. Cantwell

Magic. Adventure. Danger.

No one on Earth knows where Aster Wood is going next.

A heart condition and a jerk of a father meant twelve-year-old Aster Wood had plenty of problems to deal with already. They were the complaints of a human kid with a broken family and an uncertain future.

But now, stranded on another planet, it turns out Aster’s not quite as human as he, and everyone around him, believed. On the planets within the Maylin Fold, Aster’s ancestors have a long history of magical dealings, and he’s the last in the line who can solve the riddle of where the famous sorcerer, Almara, disappeared to two hundred years ago.

But Cadoc, the raving commander who has long sought to stamp out all knowledge of Almara, has caught wind of Aster’s plans. He joins the hunt, only it’s Aster he seeks. If he can’t sway the boy to unite with him, then his head on a spike will have to do.

Aster needs to get back to Earth, NOW.

Unfortunately, Cadoc seems to be the only Mayliner with the power to send him home. Without the tyrant’s help, any chance of seeing the fractured remains of his family again will evaporate, and he could be trapped in Maylin forever.

Aster is certain that finding Almara is the key to making his way home, if he, or any of his followers, are still alive.

But Cadoc draws ever closer, and the madman’s noose grows tighter around Aster’s neck with each step he takes along the trail Almara left behind.

Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings by Helene Boudreau

Freak of nature takes on a whole new meaning…

If she hadn’t been so clueless, she might have seen it coming. But really, who expects to get into a relaxing bathtub after a stressful day of shopping for tankinis and come out with scales and a tail?

Most. Embarrassing. Moment. Ever.

Jade soon discovers she inherited her mermaid tendencies from her mom. But if Mom was a mermaid, how did she drown?

Jade is determined to find out. So how does a plus-size, aqua-phobic mer-girl go about doing that exactly? And how will Jade ever be able to explain her secret to her best friend, Cori, and to her crush, Luke?

Take My Timeby Ali Parker

I never wanted wealth, power, or the responsibility that goes with it.

Making a difference by fighting fires was my dream. That and a pretty girl to love at night.

But life didn’t ask me.

After struggling through the business world, I finally have a chance to return home to chase my dreams.

The girl next door, my best friend’s little sister, was there waiting. And she’s all grown up.

But she’s not too thrilled to see me back.

But I’ll change that. I can’t help but fight for what I know we could be, no matter what it costs me.

When I finally start to melt her heart, life calls me back to the city, back to the grind thanks to tragedy.

It’s her or my future, and I have no choice in the matter.

My father’s company is my only legacy, or is it?

A little life is growing inside of her, and that changes the game. My self sacrifice doesn’t seem so damn important anymore.

I might have been forced into becoming a billion dollar man, but I’ll always be a small town guy at heart.

And that pretty girl that stole my heart all those years ago?

She’s gonna be mine. Like she always has been.

Sightings by Mark Lukens

In 1988, Lydia Conner was abducted by aliens from her cabin near Specter Lake, Minnesota while her husband lay in bed, temporarily paralyzed. She screamed for help as she floated up to the ceiling in a blinding flash of light . . . and then she was gone.

In 2009, four film school students journey to the Specter Lake cabin where the abduction of Lydia Conner took place. They hope to capture proof of an alien visitation on film; they hope to re-create events from the abduction; they plan to use themselves as the bait . . .

. . . but they encounter much more than they ever could have imagined.

Relatively Normalby Whitney Dineen

“I laughed, I cried, and I laughed some more–this is one you don’t want to miss!” -Loretta Nyhan, bestselling author of Digging In

“The perfect blend of laugh-out-loud humor and sweet sexiness!” – Amazon Reader

Catriona Masterton’s fiancé, Ethan, is Normal.

He plans trips six months in advance and arrives at the airport a minimum of three hours early. He purchases life insurance, luggage insurance, and always opts for the extended warranty. He’s responsible, reliable, and would make any woman a wonderful life partner.

In other words, he’s the exact opposite of the Masterton clan.

Cat’s mother has a kitchen gadget fetish, a father whose best friends are taxidermied field mice, and a super stoner man-child brother who lives–where else?–in the basement. Then there’s Nan, her proud Scottish grandmother with a proclivity for profanity and mischief.

What on earth will Catriona’s Normal fiancé think when he comes home with her to meet her parents? What will he think when he discovers his soon-to-be in-laws invited Cat’s ex to join them for a holiday dinner?

Find out in a laugh-out-loud journey of self-discovery, familial pandemonium, and love. A must read for fans of a true romantic comedy!

Holly and The Framed Friendby Dianne Harman

If you loved Nancy Drew, you don't want to miss the debut novel in the Holly Lewis series by two-time USA Today Bestselling Author, Dianne Harman.

Family secrets. A murdered mother. An estranged aunt. A diary. A vandalized high school.

Holly knows nothing about her biological family living in Missouri. When her aunt invites her to stay with them for two weeks after her mother's murder, she has mixed feeling but decides to accept the invitation.

Once she's there, she's determined to find out why her mother chose to live alone and at a distance from her family. What happened, and why won't her aunt talk about it? Does the diary she finds hold the key?

And who's been vandalizing the high school? Her cousin's friend has been accused, but is she guilty? Holly has to use her skills solving mysteries both at the high school and in her family.

Mountain Man’s Secretby Chloe Morgan

The man I was supposed to marry is getting married.

And the bastard has invited me to his wedding to rub it in my face.

But I need this. For closure, or so I tell myself.

It’s past time to heal already.

A good-looking Park Ranger with a chip on his shoulder just happens to show up in my life.

And his timing couldn’t be better.

I need some help getting under my ex’s skin. I’ll work on letting go later.

He needs to know what he lost and that I’ve moved on. Forever.

All lies, but the wheels in my head are turning.

If I attend the wedding with a handsome mountain man, my ex’s head will spin.

I just have to convince this new stranger a be my fake fiancé for the weekend.

And then I have to NOT fall in love with the guy.