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Ferdie Shamley has a deep, dark secret. In fact, he has lots of them.

What is he hiding? How about this: angels and demons are real. He knows some of them. If he spoke of them, he would be thought of as crazy… and maybe he is. Here’s another secret: he is one of The Seven, a group of humans gifted with supernatural abilities. His tragic life has formed him, sharpened him, while still in middle school in Bakersfield, California. His power has plunged him into a supernatural shadow world, where an enemy of earth-shattering power awaits…

A Doomed Continent Where Two Lovers Struggle To Survive

When a vengeful sorcerer unleashes a Fire Demon to destroy his rivals, he sets off a chain of events that will eventually destroy Gol, a war-torn continent at the other side of the world. Unaware that time is running out Gol’s scheming barons overthrow their king and strive to seize control, unleashing a bloody civil war. Two young lovers find themselves caught in the web of murder, treachery, and sword and sorcery threatening to destroy their existence.

Lissane, a baron’s daughter and Erun Cade, a commoner, plan to flee Gol before its foretold ruin.

The future queen awakens…

Newly single mother Stevie Lewis divides her time between raising Charlie, running a store with her best friend, and avoiding the meetings of her mother’s Beaufort Historic Society. Although her life has its challenges, it’s altogether average. Just the way she likes it.

When Vanessa, a ruthless dark witch, launches an attack against young Charlie, Stevie’s simple life derails, and her long-dormant powers awaken. A 300-year-old secret is exposed, revealing her destiny to one day rule the clandestine community of witches who hide in plain sight.

Liz was gifted with extraordinary discernment, the ability to see into the near future, and to heal by touch. Liz was abused for as long as she can remember.

She came into the world shrouded in heartbreak. She grew as a child in a haze of cruelty. She came of age in a cloak of hope.

Refusing to accept that her fate is to live unhappily ever after, she is determined to not be a survivor who did not die, but a survivor who lives, who refuses to forever be the victim, to trust, and to embrace her future.

Through a Child’s Eyes is the story of an exceptional child’s endured misfortune, pain and loneliness. It is also the story of a battered child’s claim to power, resilience and triumph.

 

Collected together for the first time, with all three novellas in a single volume, The Pixy and the Giantess: OMNIBUS Edition takes you on a journey that begins with a woman discovering a young, male pixy trapped in a spider’s web. Thus begins a strange, rich and edgy romance that embroils them within the magical, medieval and miniature society of the Pixali and the Fae. Theirs is a reversed society.

This is a story that is simultaneously a dark tale and a story filled with warmth. An adventure laced through with intimate moments, it is s seemingly-sweet tale infused with a creeping sense of horror.

Harry Landon is a serial-dater who never planned on getting married, much less becoming a father. But when Jenny, his recently deceased ex-fiancé, appears as a ghost and badgers him into taking Max, the nine-year-old son he never knew existed, Harry is forced to alter the only way of life he’s ever known.

As he and Max get to know each other, Harry must confront his own personal issues if he ever wants to have a real relationship with his son. Finding help in their self-assured neighbor Luke, and Luke’s dog Sheldon, Max and Harry find their rhythm, developing a strong bond as father and son. But just when the future looks bright, Jenny’s past comes back to haunt them all, threatening to destroy their happiness—and possibly losing Max forever.

Wade Daniels found work in The Colburn Stables and love in the Caribou Coffee Shop. Hailey was the girl of his dreams.

Everything seemed wonderful… but the road to everlasting love was not a smooth one. Lurking in the backwoods were events that would not only test their love to a breaking point, but change their lives forever.

Jealousy, anger and heartbreak upset lives. Yet love will overcome… surely?

We meet again characters from earlier Northern Woods Novels, and new ones, too.

A Northern Woods Novel

 

Adult Historical Fiction/Saga/Series

Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the world when her absent father unexpectedly dies.

Raised in a Wiltshire boarding school sixteen-year-old Patricia embarks on a desperate crossing on a merchantman bound for Barbados, where she was born, in a brash attempt to claim an unlikely inheritance. Aboard a merchantman under contract with the British Navy to deliver gunpowder to the West Indian forts, young Patricia finds herself pulled between two worlds — and two identities — as she charts her own course for survival in the war-torn 18th century.

1899… Rachel is young, charming and troubled – brought down by rumour and innuendo, she is a social outcast; then she meets Richard and things change for the better, although potential problems still abound. Her father is a self-made man of influence, and she will have to convince him that Richard should be allowed to court her; a difficult task, even if things do go to plan.

Richard is athletic and devil-may-care, but things change rapidly after he and Rachel meet. Keen to prove that he is worthy enough to take Rachel's hand, he errs when he enlists to fight in South Africa and leaves her under a cloud. Once there, one sobering experience is followed by another until he is captured by the enemy and sinks into despair.

In early 1862, General Henry Hopkins Sibley and his Confederate Brigade rode across the West Texas desert from San Antonio to El Paso, and followed the Rio Grande north into the New Mexico Territory. Their goal was nothing less than to conquer the entire Western US for the Confederacy.

During this time a young New Mexican named E'mile Deschampes who was only eighteen years old, enlisted in the Union Army to oppose the Confederates in New Mexico.

A prolific battle takes place at Valverde Ford near Socorro New Mexico in February of 1862, and E'mile is nearly killed there. He is rescued from the battlefield by a local villager Carmen Reyes.

Nigel must choose between entering an orphanage or entering an apprenticeship on a mule train.

To Nigel’s horror, Comanches slaughter Reverend John Blackthorn and his family before his father preaches one word. Nigel survives by following his mother’s instructions to hide in a hollow tree. Nigel prays for God to send help. Instead, Pascal LeBrun, a roaming muleteer, rides to the smoke of the burning wagons to find Nigel, who believed cooking is a woman’s work. Alone, he doesn’t even know how to cook to survive. Pascal solves that problem.

Winner of the 2017 outstanding historical book of the year, The IAN Awards
Silver Medallist, the 2017 Readers’ Favourite Awards
The 2017 Finalist, Indie Excellence Awards.

The multi-award-winning author of The Guardian of Secrets, Dark Shadows, and The Errant Flock presents the Multi Award Winning, Swearing Allegiance: The Carmody Saga.

“A rich, eloquent story of love and betrayal set during the First World War”

Award-winning Apollo's Raven sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Pre-Arthurian Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren's former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him.

The king's daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf. Trained as a warrior, Catrin must find a way to break the curse, but she is torn between her forbidden love for her father's enemy, Marcellus, and loyalty to her people.

What did it take to be a hero in the New World?

It’s 1661 in Eastern Canada where a handful of French colonists hang on to a piece of paradise called Acadia. Deep in the woods, an orphaned eighteen-year-old enters a man’s world in a remote logging camp where he witnesses an atrocity that changes the course his life. A Port Royal businessman plays a dangerous game of both sides against the middle while he tries to save his beloved homeland. A Mi’kmaw warlord raises an army to challenge the English and avenge the massacre of his clan. A Catholic priest, has his faith turned inside out through his relationship with a Mi’kmaw healer and shaman, who must recover an ancient obsidian dagger that cuts through the curtain to the spirit world.

At four years of age, his father was hung for horse stealing.

Shortly afterward, his mother died of a lingering illness.

Charlie has no one left but an older brother who is an outlaw and rustler. And even he has forbidden Charlie to ever come near his camp.
Alone and rejected, Charlie lands a job with a young, beautiful ranch woman who has a sack full of troubles.

Her ruthless neighbor wants her ranch and is willing to kill for it. Toting a heavy forty-four in his belt and a heart full of love for his boss, Charlie digs in for a fight to the finish.

Back from 44 – The Sacrifice and Courage of a Few. Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds himself in a severely crippled B-26 Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point. 

There were enough gut-wrenching events during serial-entrepreneur Dave Powers' stint at a large health insurance company to fill two books. So here's the sequel to the original novel that won the International Book Award.

Based on actual events, this humor-laced drama delves into even more details of the rampant corruption, raw power, character assassination, and unimaginable incompetence. It reaches its climax with the hard-nosed interrogation of Powers by the FBI and the Federal Prosecutor.

Learn how a well-liked Executive VP morphs into a narcissistic egomaniac when he becomes the CEO, running roughshod over his most trusted advisors.

In her spiritual, inspirational memoir, Karen Bauer shares with readers her compelling spiritual journey and actual visitations to Heaven, where she learned one hundred life-changing truths from God and the angels.  And through her journey, she discovers her life's calling and purpose.

Although the author's experiences and journey are incomprehensible to limited human understanding, she tells her story in such down-to-earth language and vivid imagery that readers have the sense that they are traveling right along beside her, thus lending credibility to her story and profound message.

Emotional manipulation is a powerful and potentially deadly fact of life. It is not easy to recognize manipulation taking place. Some people are highly skilled at manipulating the emotions of other people in order to serve their own needs and desires. When this manipulation is carried out in a secretive and subtle way it can be referred to as “covert”.

Still rewriting modern life’s little atrocities one rant at a time…Do everyday annoyances make you want to tear out what’s left of your hair? Author and comic book and game store owner Rembert N Parker feels your pain, and he’s here to give you a piece of his mind.

Nobody Wants Your Stuff – Resisting the Challenges of the 21st Century #2 is the sequel to the popular book How Much Extra Does No Cheese Cost? and is once again full of essays, insights, and anecdotes from a true contender for the World’s Most Interesting Man. With dry wit and hilarious adages, Parker tackles an eclectic mix of topics from a first kiss to how long marriages should last (and everything in between).

Thirteen years ago, America faced an epidemic of chronic disease: cancer, paralysis, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and more.
But California voters said “YES!” to a $3 billion stem cell research program: the awkwardly-named California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Born into battle, the scrappy little state agency was immediately blocked by three years of anti-science lawsuits — but it defeated them all. And then?

A quiet triumph. With a focused intensity like the Manhattan Project (but for peaceful purposes, not to build a bomb), scientists funded by CIRM took on the challenges: disease and disability called chronic: incurable.

The funny thing is that Sarah Elliston never realized she was “a difficult person,” –-someone who harangued people until she got her way, threw snip fits and temper tantrums, talked over her bosses and pointed out what she thought were their misconceptions. In her family, where she felt bullied, the only way she knew how to get someone's attention and approval was to voice her opinion–and loudly! Without standing her ground, how could she do what she thought was best for herself and everyone else around her. She wasn't intentionally mean-spirited. She was just trying to do what she thought was RIGHT! 

Secrets of what and how Females and Males think and act exposed in all their meanness. Be prepared for raunchy words, jokes, and limericks. NOT PC, and not for those easily offended. How to survive the battle of the sexes, avoid catastrophic losses, and possibly win, by understanding the opposite sex (and they ARE Opposite”!!), and knowing more about what makes YOU you.

The lovely (clean) drawings, alone, are worth the price of the book. Laugh at the jokes and learn from the quotes.

Attacking social evil in the interest of dismantling the platform of hate and division is not for the faint of heart. As difficult as it may seem, the goal of this book is to achieve that greater good through the presentation of facts to discredit the ugliness of the past, thereby paving the way for peaceful coexistence.

The Gospel of Thomas revealed the secret teachings Jesus gave to his doubting disciple.

The ancient historian Eusebius spoke of Thomas' travels into the mysteries of occult lands. The Acts of Thomas told of his mission among the Hindus and Buddhists of India (and there are commemorative sites and Thomas Christians in India to prove it).

What effects would Jesus' most intimate teachings have on the disciple Thomas? And how would this skeptical Jew have responded to the occult religions in strange lands?

Thomas' secret teachings and mysterious travels are now brought vividly alive in the apocryphal story: The Book of Thomas the Doubter: Uncovering the Hidden Teachings.

A New Life Series is an epic adventure. TORI FARRELL's life IS one wild story… escaped from a biker gang and running from drug lords… used by the FBI and hoping to protect her present from her past… IT'S DARK – IT'S BRUTAL, and it's WORTH EVERY MINUTE OF IT!! (Mature read, 18+ for graphic sexual content and violence, including rape)

As a celebrity stalker targets Aurora Meridian, the Rider team–Mason and Maxine– are drawn into the sinister underworld of the Russian mafia. Aurora and Mason fight for their lives and each other while Maxine Rider discovers the lines she must cross and the sacrifices to be made to keep her client and her team safe.

Rivetting suspense and sweet romance collide in a novel you won't want to end.

Hazelet's Journal is a riveting Alaska Gold Rush saga that takes place in the Copper River Country 1898 to 1902. It is a remarkable true story, not only about a man and his family, but about a nation finding its way into the twentieth century. It is a timeless story about a restless nation and the great American spirit that our country was founded upon. It's a true, unedited American story, told in the journalist's original voice, now captured for generations to come.

The phenomenal true story of one woman's struggle to regain her heart, soul, and sanity after being psychologically abused by a beloved therapist. A shocking account of a secret world of abuse that destroys the lives of many victims who are left defenseless and silent within a society that has no context to understand. A ground-breaking and important book!

In 1960, three-year-old Analie’s mother fled violence from an alcoholic husband and found safety at her mother’s house. The five daughters shared one room, a lawn chair serving as a bed. “You are killing your mother!” their grandmother said, forbidding contact between the children and their mother.

While a member of the Mount Diablo Astronomical Society in California, John Read taught thousands of students how to use telescopes and explore the night sky. Now, he's sharing this knowledge with you! Even without a telescope, this introduction to the night sky is essential for every child's collection.

Enter into the fascinating world of Arthurian Legend with these selections drawn from award-winning author Cheryl Carpinello’s Tales & Legends. The short story Guardian of a Princess shows readers how Guinevere came into the possession of King Arthur's war horse, Seren Brenin.

“Sometimes, you have to take a chance.”

As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind.

Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.

Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to find the killer?

Sarah Downing, a newly-minted Ph.D. in art history, in Kingston, Ontario, receives an assignment to conserve a copy of a Caravaggio. While writing the description, her thoughts turn to the imminent release from prison of her brutal ex-husband Jimmy. She had testified against Jimmy and disappeared into the American Witness Protection Program(WitSec).

Sarah is convinced the Caravaggio is original. When an accident in the studio reveals a second copy, Sarah suspects the Director of the museum, Gregory Lang and her boss, Veronica Houstead, of planning to sell the original. She is determined to save it from the black market in stolen art.

A murder at one of the world’s busiest airports opens this simmering crime romance where a good man’s loyalty is tested to its limits. Circumstance and evidence point to Michael Kieh's guilt. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge.

Michael chose a lonely life devoted to helping others, despite growing up in the midst of a brutal civil war where he witnessed the killing of a missionary priest who refused to betray him to certain death. But there was a first love that he left behind in the pitiless confusion. When she and Michael cross paths once more, they rediscover their teenage passion as they battle the tide of injustice, and Michael foresees a happy future.

“Yesterday morning my life was great; I had a new job and a beautiful girlfriend. Then I end up in the middle of a gunfight, my girlfriend dies, and I find out that not just one, but two of the biggest gangsters in Chicago are both after me to steal the same thing for them from the Feds. What the hell is happening to me?”

In 1920s Chicago, postal employee Saul Imbierowicz is unwittingly swept up in a city-wide conflict between rival gangs, federal agents, and supernatural forces beyond his control.

Comic Con is in full-swing and all is well. But no sooner does the biggest event of the year begin before a mysterious wave of identify thefts overshadows the grand affair.

While Nala tries to rein in Karly’s efforts to use the con for dating purposes, she also finds herself the target of a brazen thief. If she and her crime-solving canine companion don’t find the culprit, her bank accounts could be wiped cleaned.

Can Nala and Max bring an end to the chaos before it’s too late?

International Book Award Winner, The Unholy is a dramatic story of Claire Sanchez, a young medicine woman, intent on uncovering the closely-guarded secrets of her past. Forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop, William Anarch, she confronts the dark side of religion and the horror of one man's will to power.

Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, a mythopoeic realm of hidden terrors and guiding spirits, The Unholy is a supernatural tale of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.

September, 2032: A dull boom echoes through the urban canyons of downtown Dallas. A 50-story skyscraper shudders. A firecracker-like rumble fills the air. In five seconds, floor by floor, the 646-foot tower pancakes into the ground.

Six months earlier, Rusty Chambers, a quantum programmer, takes a consulting job with the Artificial Intelligence giant, Quantum Query. The secretive, insular company's Project 143771 will revolutionize the field . . .

 

A desperate woman.
An alien warrior whose craving knows no bounds.
A passion that will change the fate of humanity.
In a world where humans have been hunted to near extinction, Rose is captured and on her way to be sold on the lucrative black market. Seizing her only chance, she escapes and finds fate waiting for her in the form of another captive of terrifying strength: a legendary Eok warrior.

Together, Rose and the Eok warrior Karian will fight for their survival – and ultimately for the fate of the entire human race. During that fight, a dangerous attraction is born.

Four hundred years into the future, Clara, the Secretary, is faced with a dilemma, mankind is facing extinction and our only hope is alien technology, but it comes at a price.

Fracony, a super-civilization that visited Earth in the past, built models showing that this apocalypse, triggered by human virus experiments, was inevitable. Are Fracony’s models right?

The only human that could communicate with Fracony is Clara. Her qualities were detected when she was only few months old and she has trained all her life for the challenge to lead the world. But training could not foresee everything.

When college student Abbie Cooper wakes up in a hospital bed barely alive after a violent assault, her world comes crashing down. She has no memory of the attack or her assailant, and no idea how she ended up in the Emergency Room.

As she grapples with the horrific aftermath, Abbie is determined to uncover the truth about what happened that night. But to catch a monster, she must piece together the events in the weeks leading up to the assault. Why did charming senior Spencer Rossdale take a sudden interest in her, and why did her quiet study group partner Justin Tate want to meet with her alone?

 

An unsuspecting world stands on the brink of annihilation. 
A shadow government waits in the wings, ready to seize power. 
A former Navy Seal is humanity’s only hope. 

Frank Marshall knows all about the ultra-secretive Committee, its involvement in 9/11, its quest for global power, and most terrifying of all, its imminent plan to murder three billion people. Because once upon a time Frank was one of them.

Now, after years of surviving off-grid, Frank is stepping out of the shadows, a vigilante seeking justice, determined to stop his former employers from committing genocide on an unthinkable scale and ushering in a brutal shadow government.

Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Pepper Hunt, struggling to deal with the murder of her husband, leaves the private practice they shared and relocates to Wyoming.

There, in the stark landscape of the high desert, there is nothing to remind her of everything she lost and left behind. Then her new patient, Kimi Benally, goes missing in a Wyoming blizzard after her last therapy session—making Pepper the last person to see her. She knows the secrets Kimi shared in therapy hold clues to her mysterious disappearance, and she joins forces with Detective Beau Antelope to try to discover what’s happened to her.