About False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2)

Sometimes no father is better than a false father.

In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built upon Roosevelt’s ideals of masculine virility and virtue.

But the path to maturity is a complex thing in the Gilded Age. Will his journey free him from the Alderdice family illusions, half-truths, and lies that have kept him a child? Or will it lead him into the world of Actaeon, where the hunter becomes the hunted?

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Tam May grew up in the United States and earned her B.A. and M.A in English. She worked as an English college instructor and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher before she became a full-time writer. She started writing when she was 14, and writing became her voice. She writes fiction about characters who find their future by exploring their personal past influenced by the time in which they live.

Her first book, a collection of contemporary short stories titled Gnarled Bones And Other Stories, was nominated for a 2017 Summer Indie Book Award. She is currently working on a Gilded Age family saga. The first book, The Specter, is now available, and the second book, False Fathers, is now available for preorder. She is also working on a historical mystery series featuring a turn-of-the-century New Woman sleuth. Both series take place in Northern California.

She lives in Texas but calls San Francisco and the Bay Area “home”. When she’s not writing, she’s reading classic literature and historical fiction, watching classic films, or cooking up awesome vegetarian dishes.

About A Grave Misunderstanding: A Simon Grave Mystery

Murder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of “almost handsome” Detective Simon Grave and his “nearly invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation.

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I was born in a hospital that has since been torn down, grew up on a street that has since changed its name, in a house that has since changed its number. Everywhere around me my life seems to be erasing itself. Before the eraser wears out and rips through the paper of my life, I spend my days writing furiously against the darkness.

As grim as that sounds, my books tend toward the humorous. In fact, not reading my books could put you seriously out of touch with frivolity.

My latest book, A Grave Misunderstanding, was a 1st PLACE WINNER in the 2018 PenCraft Awards for Literary Excellence (Humor) and an AWARD FINALIST in the 2018 American Fiction Awards (humor/comedy/satire).

About Blood of Like Souls

Julie Madigan’s career with the New Mexico State Police ended in a puddle of her own blood after having her throat cut, barely able to lift her gun to shoot and kill the man who almost ended her life. But survival led to a year of recovery and left her desperate to hide the scars and to escape her past.

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Writing has become more than a hobby for me, and much less than a job.

I grew up in a small West Texas town and began writing years before I started in the journalism program at my high school. When I became the editor for my junior year, the joke about me was that I couldn’t sign my name in less than 300 words. Nothing has really changed decades later.

Blood of Like Souls, my first novel, took about 16 years from its humble few pages to getting a cover. The second in the series, Tears of Like Souls, took about eight months. Promises of Like Souls took about four months. Secrets of Like Souls took 60 days. It was so much easier now that I had such a feel for the characters. I’m currently working on the fifth in the series, so we’ll see how that is going, but it will be about a year I suspect.

I love writing. Surviving American Healthcare was also released, and it is what I wish every one of my patients knew about their own health, the healthcare system, and how to prepare themselves for changes as they age. You can find it on a similar Author Page for Valerie Conrad. Go take a peek.

About Fail Big: Fail Your Way to Success and Break All the Rules to Get There

Fail Big is the master blueprint for turning failure into a positive experience that speeds up your growth. This is an all-to guide in shifting your perspective on failure so you can succeed like a high-level super-achiever.

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Scott Allan writes books that focus on changing old routines, overcoming self-defeating behavior and the best strategies for dealing with rejection. He believes that successful living is a series of small actions taken consistently daily in order to build an empowering and freedom-based lifestyle. Scott is the author of Empower Your Thoughts, Rejection Reset and several other bestselling books. With a deep passion for teaching, building life skills, and inspiring others to take charge of their lives, he is committed to a path of constant and never-ending self-improvement.

About Entrapment by Greg Prado

Alice Trudeau is on her way to a dream vacation at the mysterious Arbor manor. It is supposed to be a much needed respite after the brutal murder of her brother and his wife.

What she finds instead is a living nightmare that guarantees certain death unless she is able to reveal the sinister plan of the malevolent and twisted murderer.

Can Alice survive the assassin’s onslaught and keep her newly-appointed dependents safe? Read “Entrapment,” and unravel the mystery!

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After writing for almost a decade, Greg Prado is extremely pleased to offer his stories to the public. He enjoys writing anything related to Sci-fi, the future, and especially mystery. Greg lives in Apopka, Florida with his wife, daughter, and two mischievous cats. He's a bit of a space junkie and is unafraid to discuss it with anyone willing to listen!

About The Monkey King Goes to America

Many heroes come and go, some succeed and become legends. Many heroes have been around for decades. Most have trouble staying relevant long term. The Monkey King, known as Sun Wu Kong, has been around for over five centuries. Adventuring from China to India, cloud leaping, shape shifting, and killing his way through demons at every turn.

The Monkey King being rebellious by nature is kept in line by the Buddha and made to serve the good of humanity. He uses his intelligence and all his magic tricks at his disposal. Now he finds his journey has taken him all the way west to the continent of North America.

The Monkey King together with Pigsy and Sandy embark on an adventure to save America. Along the way they learn valuable lessons about friendship, trust, and happiness. Based on the heroism theme, the trio travel across the United States from New York City to the Grand Canyon. Through team work and corporation, Sun the Monkey and friends must save America from the Underwater Dragon King.

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Jeffrey Frisone is the founder of Monkey King Comics Publishing Company, an up and coming publishing house of books and graphic novels. Jeffrey was a retail owner of a comic book shop, Real Estate Agent, Rental Manger, and a pizza delivery driver. He spends his time now between flipping houses and his writing. He lives in New Jersey, close to his family who he loves very much.

About What’s Best For Me

“Darian was a fantasy, what I had with Wallace was real.”

Free spirit, Chanel Henderson, has finally found happiness in her first genuine relationship. That euphoria is challenged when her “friendship” with R&B singer, Darian Russell, exposes the cracks in their foundation.

Darian Russell is known for his baby-making music and loyalty to remaining a bachelor. After suffering heartbreak early in his career, he vowed never to let another woman get that close to his heart again. Avoiding love had been easy until Chanel Henderson made it impossible.

***This story includes explicit language, strong sexual content, and violence. Please don’t read this story if you feel that you will be triggered.***

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Danesha Little is an Air Force Veteran who loves to write about the power of healing, compassion, and love. Her goal with each story is to not only entertain the reader, but to also leave them feeling inspired. In 2018, she won a “Heartbreaker Watty Award” for the “mastery of tugging on heartstrings.” She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with her family.

About Leviathan

Leviathan, a collection of poetry by Kent C Schroer, is a thrilling mixture of old and new: it both embodies the struggles of the author’s past, and the present wisdom of a man with lived experience. One thing that makes this collection so special is its origin. In between his first book, Pillars of Sand, and his second, the since unreleased version of Leviathan, an event took place that almost cost him his life- hence, this book, and this version, would never have seen the light of day were it not for some wonderful people- friends, family, and strangers included. Where Pillars of Sand saw the poet in turmoil, Leviathan is a book dealing more with resolution, finding peace in oneself, and keeping demons at bay. In it, you will find themes of religion and myth, nature, and personal events that have offered, in many ways, strength and healing. Ultimately, this book is an exercise in reflection: it is a peek into the past of someone battling with mental illness, drugs and dark ideations, while keeping a hopeful eye on the future. Kent has picked only the best poems from the first collection, and the best from the second, and with a writing finesse that has grown with age, distilled them down to their purest, most impactful forms. This is the perfect collection for any lover of poetry, and above all for those who feel the universal struggles of being a human.

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Kent Schroer was born in Orange County at the turn of the 90's, and grew up in Corona for the first, few years of his life- from there, he spent another 15 years living in the San Bernardino mountains, a place he would call his home from 3rd all the way up to 12th grade and beyond. It was here, surrounded by a mountain rife with all the seasons, the notable extremes being heavy snow and smoldering fire, that he began his writing career. The extremes of these seasons would also go on to reflect how he began to see the world: often there was no grey area when it came to effort- either it was done to its fullest, or not done at all. It was at age 15 that he began his writing career, starting, interestingly enough, with a poem about his older brother, who had since gone off the war. From there he honed his skills, until, at the age of 16, he was published in his first collection of poetry, Alabaster & Mercury, Vol. I, named after a Myspace group of the same name. Kent Schroer has been challenging the norms of poetry since he was a young writer, betraying the traditional for themes and ideas more compelling. A long-time writer, he has carved his own path, relying on the concept that less is often more, and that poetry should find a happy medium between appealing to the layman, as well as those with more sensitive tastes. Over the years, with new life experiences and thus sources to draw upon, he wanted to write a collection of poems that would serve as both a reflection and looking glass into his inner world. First it was Pillars of Sand, a book wrought from turmoil, and now, it is Leviathan, a book dealing more with resolution and reminiscence. Since he was sixteen, he has been published in a number of collections; he studied at UC Riverside, where he was taught under such notable poets as Juan Felipe Herrera and Chris Abani, and received his degree in Creative Writing. From there on, he has been striving to hone his craft and find his own niche in the poetry world, drawing upon such writers as Dylan Thomas, Jane Hirshfield and W.S Merwin, notably his earlier works.