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On the day Owen Black was notified that his employment was coming to an end, he had even worse news. His wife was leaving him. He was an ex-navy seal and his training was in killing terrorists, and breaking things. There wasn't much call for an experienced soldier in the modern day workforce. Owen and his wife had been together since grade school. He was lost, empty, and unemployed. When he tried to get back into the military, he was denied. He had seen too much, fought too many battles, and they believed he was mentally damaged by war. The Navy recruiter's brother was looking for employees to tear down buildings in Washington, DC, and Owen was offered a job. He traveled from his home in Kentucky, took up residence in a broken down apartment building with a young man who would be his coworker. The two of them were a wrecking crew, proficiently disassembling ancient buildings in historical districts.One day they dislodged a leather satchel from within the wall of a civil war era building. What they found was a world changing document, and an item worth millions. The New Jersey Mob, and the FBI both got wind of it, and they wanted what Owen and his young friend had found. From that moment on, they were pursued unbeknownst to them. The intrigue ended when they learned they were under surveillance by law enforcement and criminals alike, They found a way to take matters into their own hands.

When we last left Murphy Murphy, the Department of Redundancy Department detective had just solved a mystery that revolved around the popular rock band, Serious Crisis. That success made headlines and sent Murphy's world spinning. Acclaim followed in the form of TV network interviews, a book deal, and ultimately a call from Hollywood. Now, back in Los Angeles our intrepid detective goes from movie set consultant to crime solving detective with one, out of the blue, phone call. The Commission on Cliches is in crisis and only Murphy Murphy can solve the case. Murder, mayhem, and a motive as old as the hills ensue as redundancies and cliches abound. Can Murphy crack the case? Only time will tell. PRAISE FOR MURPHY MURPHY AND THE CASE OF THE COMMISSION ON CLICHES"This book is the best thing since sliced bread"Mystery Loves Company Reviews"I could tell you the author missed the boat on this one, but I'd be a bald faced liar. Buy this book."Mitchell Mitchell - The News Courier Times Examiner

Salvatore "Sal" Slocum is a sales representative at True North, LLC, a direct marketing company hawking a self-improvement system based upon the personal experiences and wisdom of the company's founder, the enigmatic Burt Leathers. Thirty years earlier a blinding flash of light erased Leathers' memory, yet also imbued him with strange persuasive powers and a keen intuition. Even more curious - any compass within his vicinity points directly at him. Taken together, Leathers interpreted these signs as proof that he had achieved enlightenment, and promptly set about building a business empire imparting his knowledge to the masses for fifty dollars a pop. One morning, shortly after arriving for work, Sal is summoned to Leathers' office and given the shocking news that he has been chosen to take over the company following his boss's imminent departure. The part Sal wasn't told about - the death threats being sent in by a disgruntled customer named Don Bagley, a Stetson-wearing, gun-toting, wannabe cowboy who has vowed to exact vengeance against the company for ripping him off. As Bagley travels across the country toward True North's headquarters, he has no idea that he himself is being pursued by a woman with whom he had a chance encounter at a roadside bar, one whose identity and relationship to both Salvatore Slocum and Burt Leathers will change everything.

Ishmael was the sole survivor of the ill-fated Pequod that Moby Dick attacked. We know that Captain Gardiner and the whaling ship's crew, the Rachel, saved him. But whatever became of him once he was saved? Days after being rescued the Rachel was set upon by the pirate ship, the Flying Dragon. She was captained by two of the most notorious pirates, Captain Calico Jack and Captain Black Dog Billy Twigg. Ishmael and several other seamen were conscripted aboard to serve aboard the Flying Dragon for three years to share in all of the crew's booty. With the onslaught of steam-powered war vessels, Ishmael and the others knew that it was only a matter of time before they would be captured and hung. With the news of the gold strike in California, the crew of the Flying Dragon decided to set sail to the port of San Francisco. When the Civil War broke out, Ishmael felt the need to volunteer for the California Brigade fighting alongside Kit Carson for the Union. After a distinguished career as a Union Captain in the war, he became one of the largest cattle ranchers in California. Upon a chance meeting with Teddy Roosevelt, Ishmael was invited to join Roosevelt's Smithsonian Institute's year-long expedition to capture, collect, and catalog wild and unknown species. Tired and wanting to return home to his Stockton ranch, Ishmael books passage back to the United States from England with his friend John Astor and his wife, Ava, on a luxury liner. It's a story of danger, adventure, drama, romance, and morality, as told by Ishmael himself.

Calliope is a unique, eccentric soul, in touch with nature and with the poetry that lives in her incredible mind. Functioning in an alien world, in which emotions sometimes confuse and confound her, nevertheless, she has the love and acceptance of an adopted family and friends, who know, in Calliope's own words: "My soul does not sing, but hums, With measured notes, discordant." The simplicity and beauty of Calliope's view of life brings clarity to a precocious young girl struggling to understand and accept tragedy to move into a new life in the mountains of Southeast Tennessee, in the valley of uwohali, the eagle. Calliope is a story of faith, family, and eternal values, largely forgotten or denied, but sorely needed in this contemporary society-values that are alive and well in the hearts of those who seek and find more than this troubled world has to offer.Writer Jan Dearman is a native of southeast Tennessee, born into a family that has called the land of the river gorge at the foot of Suck Creek Mountain home for seven generations. Hardy Scottish forefathers and the native women they married produced a people who, still today, cling to the land as their heritage-a place of history, beauty, and ancestry, shared with uwohali, who reigns with grace and magnificence along the banks of the Tennessee.

Cole Luce is a guitar-maker who dreams of securing his reputation as a master luthier and achieving financial success with a small guitar manufacturing company. His goal is close to realization when his company investors withdraw financial support without warning and mysteriously drop out of contact. Without financial support, his dream quickly turns to despair as his electricity is turned off, his cars are repossessed, his health insurance cancelled, and he and his wife, Jewell, find themselves staring into a nearly empty refrigerator and pantry. It is when Jewell is admitted to Edna P. Slate's Women's Center for evaluation of depression and exhaustion that he must face the real possibility that that his wife's health is at risk and his marriage may be crumbling. His guitars are almost ready to show; his vision is nearly realized; his years of striving are on the verge of bearing fruit...but to continue his quest may prove too costly. Heartbreak Guitar is the story of a man with a passion, but few resources. It is the story of a man who is striving to fulfill a dream, but whose quest puts in jeopardy the most important elements in his life...his marriage, family and friends.

When several Falls High School students turn up drained of their life force, Justin Thyme realizes these are no ordinary murders! The ghastly state of the victims-void of any DNA, leathery, shrunken and twisted-has the police and coroner at their wits end! Now Justin's close friend, Charles Phillip Underwood, is missing. Justin must summon all his powers to find Charles before he becomes the killer's next victim!

Can she tame the beast within? Resigned to a life of solitude, Jasper Rogue knows he is not meant to be king. His scars have left him shunned by his own people, and unloved by anyone left in his afterlife. Love had become a distant memory, an idea that he knows he will never be able to attain, until the day he hears a cry for help from the one woman who would change his life forever. Forced into hiding by the demons who seek her soul, Emeline Lillian can only wish for a life of adventure, and a man who will love her for all eternity. Yet, no one in the small, mortal village she lives in can quench the thirst she has for something more in life. From the moment they meet, there is a connection between Jasper and Emeline that neither can deny. But when a surprising villain turns up, ready to rip them and the world they covet apart, Jasper will do whatever it takes to keep Emeline and her father safe. But will Jasper be willing to risk falling in love? Or will the beast he perceives himself to be destroy his one chance at happiness forever?

From the author of The Last Autumn comes a raucous fiction novel set in the Nashville music scene. Bobby Linder, an aging, formerly successful country music producer, goes overboard on alcohol and drugs only to find himself divorced, broke and a pariah in the industry. Twenty-something Lauren Culiver is a guitar playing, cowboy boot salesperson with her eyes set on a music career. A chance meeting ignites a fire in Bobby to get back into the music game and gives Lauren the possibility of management by someone other than her overbearing on and off again boyfriend. Being just one of thousands in Nashville seeking the golden ring of stardom, Lauren needs to navigate the unique and soul-crushing world of the Nashville Music industry while trying desperately to discover and maintain her own identity. Bobby gets increasingly involved in Lauren''s career leading to commercial success but not without questions of his true intentions and personal quest for younger days of glory. Readers with an interest in popular culture, music, humor, independence and redemption will find the road thru NASH well-worth the trip.

In the wake of the Soviet Union''s collapse, a group of nomadic tribesmen abandon the bleak mining town in which they had been forced to live and journey into the desert to found an independent nation of their own. Thus was born the tiny, breakaway principality of Hayal Gurunu. The only problem - no sooner was the existence of Hayal Gurunu declared than its fledgling citizens forgot where it was. The resulting search for their missing homeland forms the backdrop to The Cosmic Embrace, the title novella from the new story collection by Randall DeVallance.

River Sisters, the Strangers completes the "River Sisters" trilogy. Great-granddaughter of Nancy Hilderbrand, Eliza McNeal, with her husband and former river boat pilot, Josh, are settled in their city home, enjoying the blessings and challenges of rearing teenaged children-Nancy Jewel, namesake of her foremother Hilderbrand, and John Henry, better known as "Hank," named in remembrance of Eliza''s father. The story revolves around the lives of these youths and their closest friends, a trio of couples, typical teenagers and young adults of the time and culture of post-depression America. The junior year of high school was to be the "best of times," as one teacher had read the words of Charles Dickens. But on December 7, 1941, the world was turned "upside down and backwards." Overnight, teenagers became adults, having to endure what had become "the worst of times," and charged with the task and responsibility of righting their world. The youth, who had everything before them, became the adults for whom "everything" was at the end of a tortuous dark trail, littered with bodies and broken dreams. They are our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents-a generation almost past but not forgotten. This story remembers them with love, admiration, and respect.

Winner of the 2023 U.P. Notable Book Award¿In 1842, every resident of Copper Harbor, MI disappeared without a trace. In 2019, Bill Hitze and his son Brandon make a gruesome discovery while fishing on Lake Superior that starts to shed light on the old mystery. According to Professor Stephanie Crowe, an Ojibwa legend predicts that the town's residents will be lost again. Together, Bill and Stephanie strive to discover the truth about what happened so they can protect the small tourist town. But time runs out when brutal winter weather hits Copper Harbor and awakens the ancient horror. The legend claims the evil is indestructible. The warrior Vikings who'd set foot upon these lands hundreds of years ago scrawled their advice on a stone marker: flee. With escape cut off, the residents must hide or fight. And there is nowhere to hide.A level of plausibility is hard to find in today's horror fiction, and Hellman has the credentials to weave an immensely intriguing plot that delivers aabundantly satisfying conclusion." -Craig A. Brockman Author- Dead of November: A Novel of Lake Superior.