Historical Fiction

Betwixt the Dark & Light: A Collection of Odditiesby Jonathan Lambert

You have questions. What if werewolves, witches, and ghosts roamed the world? The answers lie in the space between darkness and light, between what you think you know and the brutal truth of the world.

BETWIXT THE DARK & LIGHT attempts to answer your questions. Werewolves are real, but the wolf next door is in a twelve-step program. Witches roam the world, looking for companionship on dating apps. Ghosts haunt the dark, but there are worse things going bump in the night. And God does exist, but He’s a rude cubicle dweller whose greatest wish is for his football team to be champions again.

Twenty humorous and horrible explorations of the world await readers willing to ask the hard questions about decomposing zombies, vigilantes with unusual calling cards, and the outcomes of cursing your romantic rivals.

In these tales that defy black and white explanations, you will despise heroes, cheer for villains, question the innocence of children, and laugh at how odd the world really is. Most importantly, you will delve into an unseen world that only exists when the light is low and the dark is coming. It is a land BETWIXT THE DARK & LIGHT.

The Children: A Novelby Ann Leary

From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of a reclusive 29-year-old who has a secret (and famous) life on the Internet.

Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother’s home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister, Sally, grew up at “Lakeside,” their stepbrothers, Spin and Perry, were welcomed as weekend guests. Now the grown boys own the estate, which Joan occupies by their grace–and a provision in the family trust. When Spin, the youngest and favorite of all the children, brings his fiancé home for the summer, the entire family is intrigued. The beautiful and accomplished Laurel Atwood breathes new life into this often comically rarefied world. But as the wedding draws near, and flaws surface in the family’s polite veneer, an array of simmering resentments and unfortunate truths is exposed.

With remarkable wit and insight, Ann Leary pulls back the curtain on one blended family, as they are forced to grapple with the assets and liabilities – both material and psychological – left behind by their wonderfully flawed patriarch.

The Shroud Key: A Gripping Chase Baker Action Adventure Thrillerby Vincent Zandri

CHASE BAKER IS ON THE HUNT FOR THE GREATEST RELIC IN HISTORY!

Chase Baker is a true Renaissance Man. He’s also a man who knows how to find trouble. A part-time resident of Florence, Italy and New York City, his resume reads like a modern day Da Vinci or Casanova. Writer, treasure hunter, adventurer, and even archaeological sandhog, Chase is also lucky and more often unlucky in love.

Now, at the direct request of the Florence police, he finds himself on the trail of an archaeologist by the name of Dr. Andre Manion who’s gone missing from his teaching post at the American University. But having worked for the archaeologist several years ago as a sandhog on a secret but failed dig just outside the Great Pyramids in the Giza Plateau, Chase smells a renewed opportunity to uncover what, for some, just might be the most prized archaeological treasure in the world: The mortal remains of Jesus. But then, do the remains truly exist?

How will Chase Baker go about solving the mystery of finding both the archaeologist and the alleged Jesus Remains? With the help of Manion’s beautiful ex-wife, Chase will manage to secure an up-close and personal examination of the Shroud of Turin, not only to view the famous image of the crucified Christ, but to unlock the relic’s greatest secret which is none other than a map, or a key, detailing the precise location of Jesus’s body. It’s a mission that will test Chase’s faith in both himself and God. A romantic, action-packed, and thrilling conspiracy mystery.

Sleeping with the Enemyby Ali Parker

She’s completely off limits, or so I’m told.

My best friend’s little sister. Hot, curvy, and soon to be mine.

And to say the least, she’s fiery mad.

Her brother is willing to sell out their family business to me, and he’s right for doing it. I’m a billionaire. Hello.

Little did I know that this beautiful vixen is about to jack my world up.

There’s one trinket I want most in the world for my collection and guess who just bought it? Right. Her.

But I’m down to play her games.

I’ve got aces in my pocket waiting for the right moment to strike.

And when I do, the prize I yearn for isn’t a shiny object. It’s my girl.

She’s going to be upset to find herself sleeping with the enemy, but those tables will turn.

I’m not after today or tomorrow, but forever.

This is book 1 in a 3 book series. You must read books 2 and 3 to complete the story.

Desolation Runby James Snyder

70-something Oreny “Big” Johnson has a problem. Actually, he has two. Or maybe three. The first is that he’ll be dead from cancer, less than a year, which doesn’t particularly concern him: “The things I’ve been through, dying is just one more page in a long bad book.” But spending his last living days, taking his last living breath, behind steel bars does. That’s the second problem: Inmate #78903 in the notorious level-four Washington State prison known as Horseneck Bay.

Then there’s the money. Two million dollars of stolen military payroll, supposedly buried in some remote and mysterious south-Texas mountain range called Los Despoblados, or The Uninhabited, which sounds to Oreny like one of those places his mama Maybell always told him to avoid. But he’ll worry about that later. He has to get there first. Problem number three.

That’s when he brings those two smoldering dynamite sticks he’s attached himself to–his Luke-boy and Jaime–on board to help his tired old body break out of Horseneck and go dig up that money and then hightail it across the border into Mexico. And when they do break out, and Luke decides to bring his girlfriend Lauren along, and her enraged ex comes after them, and then the manhunt starts multiplying faster around them than those cancer cells inside him, Oreny still thinks he can control them. The problems, that is. At least, until Cade arrives.

Cade, the prison investigator Oreny knows is dangerous and unpredictable as a six-foot-two wolverine on eight gallons of adrenalin gone bad. And who won’t stop until he catches them and does to them what Cade does best.

Cade, Oreny knows better than anything else, is their biggest problem of all.

Ticket to Tulsaby A. Robert Allen

James Montgomery fails in business but succeeds in love with a woman from the other side of the tracks in racially divided Tulsa. An unorthodox proposal offers a financial solution at a great personal cost. Will he accept it? 1896, New York City/Tulsa: James Montgomery II, a 35-year-old Manhattan playboy, discovers that his family’s fortune has been reduced to almost nothing when his parents pass away. He attempts to rebuild his finances with a risky oil prospecting venture, which takes him to Tulsa. James falls in love while in Oklahoma, but hides his relationship—Tulsa isn’t ready for a mixed-race couple. Soon, there is a child on the way and his business deal falls apart. James is out of options financially and struggling to find a way personally. He receives an unorthodox proposal that offers a financial solution at a great personal cost. Should he accept it and go back to living the life to which he’d become accustomed in New York, or stay and find a way forward with his new family? Pick up a copy to find out.TICKET TO TULSA is a short-story prequel (word count 9600), which sets the stage for events that will transpire eighteen years later In the associated novel, LIVING IN THE MIDDLE.

Make Enterprise Great Again: The Gods Must Be Crazy!: Cradle of Communism to Catacomb of Capitalismby EPM Mavericks, Saji Madapat

♥♥♥This book will blow away your preconceptions of the almighty American Empire and its Enterprises. I guarantee it!♥♥♥

This book takes its title from the 1980 comedy film “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” in which an empty Coca-Cola bottle is dropped from a plane onto a community of African bushmen. The bottle is thought to be a gift from the Gods, but after it incites bitter fighting amongst the villagers, the tribal leader decides to return it to the Gods, embarking upon a journey to the end of the world. Through my own metaphorical coke bottle, I visualize the dawn of a daunting new Empire.  This book serves as both a testament to the past glories of the current American Empire and a guidebook to restoring Capitalism and Enterprise – before it is too late.

Steve Hilton:” A lot of people say that China wants to replace the US as the superpower     …,  Do you believe that that’s their intention?”

Trump: “Yes, I do. Why wouldn’t it be? They’re very ambitious people. They’re very smart. They’re great people. It’s a great culture.”

                          –           Fox News interview (05-19-19)

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It’s halftime America!

Ay Yi Yai Yi!  We are in the middle of The New World Order!

Empires rise, decline, and fall. History has witnessed this cycle with the Romans, the Ottomans, and the British. They have all toppled, and if we are not careful, the US will be the next.

Many of today’s enterprises are a gaggle of debt-addicted extreme financial engineering frogs floundering in tepid snake oil. Unfortunately, many will find their demise in the clutches of IP vultures.

If we don’t play our trump cards right, the next voracious Empire – the Middle Kingdom of China – will consume us; sending their errand boys to collect bills from the US and over a hundred other countries that it has economically and digitally colonized since the Economic Tsunami of 2008, through “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) to its “Digital Silk Road” (DSR).

“Make Enterprise Great Again” digs into the foundations of capitalism and traces the ideals, triumphs and zeitgeist of the Roosevelt years in order to “Build Back Better” – and to save us from the impending Fourth Reich.

Yeah! It’s halftime, America!

Stay A Little Longerby Nicole York

My days and nights are bleeding into each other.

And unfortunately, my mistakes from the past are catching up.

I had a life. A long time ago.

A wife. A business. A future.

But she decided she wanted someone else. Someone a little less rough natured.

Anger has started to consume my heart and my mind, but it is what it is.

There’s no way out.

Until she shows up. And the little saucy thing won’t take no for an answer.

She’s softening my edges and making me want things I’d long given up on.

I have no right to fall in love with a woman so pure.

And something is off at Kadia. I can feel it.

Dangerous people have always been a part of my life, but maybe it’s time for a change.

I don’t want to let this woman go, even though it’s the best thing to do.

I’d much rather she stay a little longer.

Finding Mr. Writeby Ali Parker

How in the world can someone tell a million romance tales and not have love?

For real? If you’re honestly wondering, ask me. I’d know.

I’ve got bestselling romance novelist behind my name, but the world only knows me as W. Parker.

It’s been fun to keep them guessing whether I’m a woman or a man.

I’m pretty private beyond that because why give up the ruse? They’d laugh if they looked at my own love life.

Besides, no good ever came from the entire world knowing someone’s dirty laundry.

But then like in chapter twenty in a good book, it happens.

She walks up while I’m deep in thought and bam!

It was a dimly lit bar and a rainy night. As soon as I laid eyes on her, a muse formed in my mind and I had to talk to her.

I had to know her.

What? I’m a romance writer. Cut me some slack!

Little did I know, though I should have, she rocked my world in ways I couldn’t create on paper or otherwise.

She’d been with a lot of Mr. Wrongs, but maybe, just maybe, it was time for her to find Mr. Write.