American Saga

A sudden disappearance, an island escape, the boy from her past, a raging blizzard of secrets and fear, another woman’s betrayal & the quiet suffering of a broken heart. She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery...faded hope. There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had ...

What happens when a young girl is abruptly taken away from everyone and everything she knows? When the comforts of a Bayou home are pulled from under the feet of young Rahab Auguste, she must rise above and face the challenges on the streets of the South Bronx. Discovering family secrets withheld from her, Rahab embarks on a journey down a path she never saw coming, with a mother she never knew.

Seven thousand years ago, major climatic change was ushering in a 3,500 year drought. For a small band of pioneers in what is now Wyoming and the Montana Mountains, it was a time of fire. As they struggled valiantly to keep their ancestors’ dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior united to lead their people to a magnificent destiny.

This author skillfully introduces you to the captivating, wide-ranging experiences of his family in this nontraditional saga. Beginning with the hilarious misadventures of his children, he provides spellbinding insights into the antics of individuals in his family. You'll learn about a Fruit Loop cannon, the tooth fairy that gave rise to a mummy, a latrine queen, a hand that would fit through a ring, a chain sparking off into the distance, and too many other adventures to cover in this short paragraph.

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair - nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice.

Best-selling writing team and archaeologists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear offer this compelling second novel in their Battle for America series. In 1539, Black Shell, his wife Pearl Hand, and their fellow exiles try to make a stand against the invasion of the Kristianos and their leader Hernando de Soto. But de Soto doesn’t plan to back down easily.

The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie.

Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society", we witness the prominent Coles family as they gather for the wedding of their loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York.

Since the tragic loss of her parents, Enid has lived alone in a coastal cottage in Jersey. But this year someone new has come into her life: Fred, who truly gets her, and who knows how to make her happy. The only problem is that Enid has Asperger’s and doesn’t like to leave her comfort zone - and Fred lives in Australia. Like Enid, Fred has survived heartbreak and is searching for a way to start again. Could a stranger on the other side of the world really bring new meaning to his life, or is he just setting himself up for another fall?

An Iraq War veteran turned small-town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her - until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a decades-old civil rights-era murder. Colleen and Derby's community, including the descendants of the murder victim, still grapple with the fallout; Corrections Officer Doc and his wife, Jessica, have built their life in the shadow of this violent act.

"A mystery, love story, family saga filled with memorable characters you care about deeply. The author moves between generations with a sure hand, keeping the reader securely grounded in each life and storyline." –Karen Osborne, author of Reckonings Three women of different generations are bound together by history and mystery: Louise Wright, 19th century; her 20th century great-granddaughter, Lou McManus, and Kapi McManus, Lou's teenaged step-granddaughter, each full of conflicts, questions, and contradictions. Two historical storylines run parallel, converging as Lou and Kapi explore ...

Sky Dancer, a beautiful, Kiowa widow, and a proud Lakota warrior, Dark Horse, are forced to marry in order to create an alliance between their peoples. Right from the beginning, they clash in a tests of wills, loathing each other on sight, making a happy marriage seem out of the question. Will the sacrifice that is asked of them save their tribes? Can these two enemies overcome their initial hatred to find love in an unlikely place, or will distrust keep them from the reward?

Carter will stop at nothing to get Aspen back. They are far from over. Second Chance Romance Carter... For as long as I can remember I have wanted Aspen as my wife. The day I lost her, I could hardly stand to breathe. I want her back in the worst way. I don’t take losing very well. Aspen will be mine again. I need to have her. And I will. Aspen… Carter is back in my life. Long ago, we flew so close to the sun we were scorched by the twisted labyrinth of our own making. And now, here he is again, front and center, as if nothing ever happened. I doubt Carter and I stand a chance. In fact,...

Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America’s most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set.

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab. When Santo's mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colons, nothing will ever be the same.

After the tragic loss of his wife, Helen, Luke Hansard is desperate to keep her memory alive. In an effort to stay close to her, he reaches out to an online friend Helen often mentioned: a reclusive photographer with a curious interest in beautiful but broken objects. But first he must find her - and she doesn’t want to be found. Orla Kendrick lives alone in the ruins of a remote Suffolk castle, hiding from the haunting past that has left her physically and emotionally scarred.

The Dragon Singers of old summoned typhoons and routed armies, liberating mankind from the orcs before fading into legend. Now, with the world again facing a new cataclysm, the power of music stirs in Kaiya, an a naïve misfit with the perfect voice. Without a master to guide her, she must rely on Hardeep, a disgraced foreign paladin, to help awaken her latent magic. His motives might not be entirely noble. When he leads her to the fabled Dragon Scale Lute, which only a Dragon Singer can wield, it is up to Black Lotus Clan to intervene.

Finn Ziegler is on schedule to live the American Dream. He means to claim a homestead and start the Lazy Z Horse Ranch on the rugged frontier prairie in the shadow of the Mineral Hills. But a golden-haired nursemaid from the orphanage home has caught his eye and stolen his heart. From the rooftop he declares he'll marry Iris Renke: he means to make that promise stick. Iris Renke is done with men and the trouble they cause. Only one little man can hold her heart, a tender-hearted orphan boy called Joe Saturday. She'd do anything to keep him in her charge, to hold him close. All was well in ...

An unexpected clean bill of health drives ill-equipped Virgil Ray Pickers to search for an alternative to his disability checks, while an out-of-control small-town mayor and police department may provide an opportunity. Meanwhile, Virgil Ray’s wife, Martha Mae, is dealing with her own identity crisis: what does it mean to be a woke woman in rural America? In another hilarious tale from the small Midwestern town of Burned Fork, the Pickers find themselves immersed in a strange world of big money, corporate intrigue, and dirty political tricks. Will they emerge for better or for worse? In ...

Author RWK Clark's second book in the highly anticipated Zombie Diaries series is sure to entertain. In ZD2, unfortunately, Mavis is terrified to let anyone close to her know the troubles she's experiencing. Enjoy this enthralling masterpiece of mayhem with seemingly every turn leading to something gory, often time's hilarious results.

For every family secret, Elsie Finch covets the truth. Consequences for being an heir of the Finch family estate are psychologically punishing. Neither parent comprehended how these punishments would circle back to them. In their personal chaos, Richard and Gail Finch design their estate with ramifications for misplaced loyalties, but when a third generation aims for the cache, someone is expendable. Who wins this long game? There is a price to being the chosen child, one who becomes the object of sibling jealousy. It is a price that is not comprehended until the very end. Untying the ...