Literary Fiction

The Metronome (The Counterpoint Trilogy Book 1) by D. R. Bell

Pavel Rostin has taken too many chances. Once a promising physicist, he abandoned science for finance and risked everything on a speculative venture. Careless and rogue, he gambled with his personal relationships. As Pavel tries to pick up the pieces of his life, a call from Russia informs him that his father is dead.
When Pavel follows his father’s footsteps trying to solve the mystery of his death, he turns up some inexplicable clues. The investigation draws him deeper and deeper into his family’s past – and his country’s future. From starving 1941 Leningrad to free-wheeling Moscow of the mid-1990s to bubbly 2006 Wall Street, Pavel uncovers a web of money, murder, revenge and evidence of a plot involving the world’s superpowers. The choices of right and wrong don’t look as clear cut as in newspaper headlines. But is he just a pawn in someone else’s game?
The Metronome is the first book in The Counterpoint trilogy and a prequel to the earlier published The Great Game. The last book in the trilogy, The Outer Circle, will be published in April of 2015. The Great Game and The Metronome are largely independent, with only a minor overlap amongst the characters. The Outer Circle brings the heroes of the two earlier books together to conclude their journey.

The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie

Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?

When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.

A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the street and witnessed it going down, with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, fled the disaster and is hoping that her past won’t catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror unfold on the morning news, knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building.

Now, despite the marks left by the tragedy, they all seem safe. But as its anniversary dominates the media, the memories of that terrifying morning become dangerous triggers. All these women are guarding important secrets. Just how far will they go to keep them?

I Hope You Danceby Ali Parker

I let my true love slip through my fingers.

And she went on to live an interesting life without me.

But she’s back in town, and my second chance is now.

I won’t make the same mistake twice. This country boy ain’t stupid.

Losing this girl is the only thing I regret from my past, and now there’s more of her to love.

She’s got a little girl.

Unfortunately, the last few years in an abusive marriage have her shying away from me, but I’m not giving up or giving in.

This girl has a future–in my arms.

There’s only one dance partner I want in life.

Her.

This is a stand-alone, full-sized novel in the Dawson Brother’s series. Each book will focus on a different guy in the family. HEA is guaranteed, no cheating or violence.

Ghost Squadron Boxed Set (Books 1-4)by Sarah Noffke

Kill the bad guys. Save the galaxy. All in a hard day’s work.

After 10 years of wandering the outer rim of the galaxy, Eddie Teach is a man without a purpose. He was one of the toughest pilots in the Federation, but now he’s just a regular guy, getting into bar fights and making a difference wherever he can. It’s not the same as flying a ship and saving colonies, but it’ll have to do.

That is, until General Lance Reynolds tracks Eddie down and offers him a job. There are bad people out there, plotting terrible things, killing innocent people, and destroying entire colonies.

Someone has to stop them.

Experience this exciting military sci-fi saga and the latest addition to the expanded Kurtherian Gambit universe. If you’re a fan of Mass Effect, Firefly, or Star Wars, you’ll love this riveting new space opera.

This digital box set contains four exciting, action-packed books.

Formation: Eddie, along with the genetically-enhanced combat pilot, Julianna Fregin, and her trusty E.I. named Pip, must recruit a diverse team of specialists, both human and alien. They’ll need to master their new Q-Ship, one of the most powerful strike ships ever constructed. And finally, they’ll have to stop a faceless enemy so powerful, it threatens to destroy the entire Federation.

Exploration: Eddie and Julianna are hell bent on tracking down Vas and making him pay for his crimes. He’s armed and dangerous, and to make matters worse, he’s on the hunt for a devastating weapon that could bring destruction to the Federation and all its people.

Evolution: After striking a serious blow to the Brotherhood, Eddie and Julianna have learned the name of their enemy: Felix Castile. He is a man of fortune, power, and madness, and his revenge is coming.Castile won’t be deterred so easily. His armory is already restocked and his resolve to take General Reynolds down reinforced. However, this evil mastermind makes a big mistake when he allows Knox Gunnerson to escape.

Degeneration: No one is safe from Felix Castile who has the means to change the Federation, and not in a good way. Eddie and Julianna may not always see eye to eye, but they agree on one thing.

They will die to protect the general.

No matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice, one thing is certain.

The Federation cannot be allowed to fall.

The Devil of Dashford Manorby Nadine Millard

Simon Taft, Earl of Dashford has spent years cultivating the reputation that earned him the name Devil of Dashford Manor. Having learned as a boy that women were to be admired, but not trusted, he is more than happy to revel in his bachelor life, and is determined to stay that way.

Amelia Linchfield is as studious as she is unobtrusive. Being a wallflower doesn’t bother her in the slightest, because she’s only in London to meet an illustrious archaeologist, and convince him to make her a part of his next expedition.

In a moment of madness, Simon decides to help Amelia get what she wants, even as he’s finding it harder and harder to fight his growing attraction to the willful wallflower.

They say opposites attract and never have two people been so opposite.

Can a bookish bluestocking really be the one to capture the heart of the Devil?

Shots of Indifference: The Story by Sheila Murdock

Emerald Valley, Nevada is officially put on the map.

16-year-old Michaela Knapp’s prom night becomes an instant international story for an incident that is all too common. Her boyfriend Kelvin Ifill, a 16-year-old black boy, is shot by a white cop during a traffic stop. But Kelvin is unlike all of the other disadvantaged black boys that end up in these situations. He happens to be from a prominent family of great wealth–billionaire wealth–and his family is determined to not let the cop who shot their son get away with what he did.

The cop, Stu Kwiatkowski, is put in more of a difficult situation than ever since his wife is black, as well as having biracial kids, and he doesn’t know if she’s going to support him through this along with her side of the family. To make matters worse for Michaela, who is biracial with a black mom and a white dad, she gets a very unexpected surprise when she finds out that her dad was once best friends with Stu. This revelation nearly divides her family since she wants both of her parents to support Kelvin and his family, but this is easier said than done especially when it comes to her dad.

But Michaela knows that there is way more to the story about Kelvin being shot but doesn’t want to tell what she knows for only reasons that she knows, and she really struggles with this, but knows that the whole story will have to be told whether she wants to tell it or not. Meanwhile, Stu also struggles with what he’s done and is not exactly telling the whole story. He’s also still struggling with an incident that happened almost 30 years ago and feels that there’s definitely a connection to this current one.

Whose story is believable will depend on who people want to believe or who they think they should believe, but there’s one person who may or may not be able to tell their version of the story at all.

Shots of Indifference is the first book in the Shots of Indifference series.