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Mountain Ranch
In the Wyoming and Colorado territories of the 1880s, three families navigate the challenges of the American frontier. As changes come to Twin Peaks Ranch, Kade, Jake, and James each face their own trials and must find their own paths in a world filled with prejudice, wolf packs, outlaws, and the red-light district of Laramie. Mountain Ranch is an epic tale of growth, leadership, and the enduring spirit of those who carved a place on the frontier.
Release date: February 13, 2024
Fiction: Western / Romance
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The Roadie Cartel
In this new crime thriller fiction series, the vivid imagination of Phillip J Kriz brings the elusive backstage concert experience to life. The Roadie Cartel keeps you on the edge of your seat with a story that combines America’s love of going to concerts with its odd obsession with the lavish and dangerous cartel lifestyle.
This is a detailed journey of three immigrants forced to flee their small farm town in Czechoslovakia and start all over in the land of opportunity, America. This exciting tale spans multiple decades laying out just how these three siblings changed the live music industry and drug trafficking world forever. Come inside this wild ride of good and evil found in each person as these immigrants search to unlock the key to riches where they believe happiness is found.
The Roadie Cartel: A story that finally grants everyone that very exclusive ALL ACCESS pass where only your wildest dreams and fantasies had access before.
Release date: December 1, 2023
Fiction: Crime Thriller / Music Business
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Legacy of Atonement
In the spring of 1959, a seemingly minor mistake in a wire transfer at a Swiss bank leads to the discovery of a plot by the CIA to launch a nuclear attack on the leaders of the USSR and China and to install Hitler, who is still alive and hiding in South America, as the leader of Western Europe.
Release Date: June 13, 2023
International Thriller, Alternate History
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Mountain Grown
In the mountains at the southern edge of Wyoming Territory, three families banded together in the mid-1800s and formed a community, raising livestock and garden produce. The founding family, the Welles, took excess livestock to trade with the pioneers along the Oregon Trail. This is the story of those families and the young people that are coming of age.
Central to the story is Jake Bates Welles, the oldest son of Sabra Welles and her first husband, Blue Knife, a Ute warrior. Now the adopted son of Kade Welles, Sabra’s second husband, Jake walks between two cultures. Jake grew up with his white family yet spends his summers trading with the Ute and living in the Colorado mountain cabin of his late grandfather, Jacob Bates, and spending time in his half-brother, Brown Otter’s village.
Jake has many obstacles to overcome outside the ranch as a half-white and half-Ute man, but within his community, Jake has earned the respect of everyone. This is Jake’s story.
Where does he fit into this world? Where does a man like Jake find a wife? What are the obstacles that stand in his way as he makes his way on the American frontier? The changes coming to the land, to the Ute’s, and to the ranch that these families named Twin Peaks is a frontier story of perseverance, solidarity, and love.
Release date: Feb. 14, 2023
Fiction: Historical Romance, Western
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Duped
Sam Marsh’s beloved Palm Springs hotel is hanging on by a string. Sam is running out of funds, and he’s looking down the barrel of a prospect he doesn’t want to imagine, selling his stake to his ex-wife. So when his friend, Tony, suggests a Nigerian multi-million-dollar deal, Sam forgets that deals that seem too good to be true often are.
In Duped, a novel of high-stake schemes, suspense, and sex, Sam and Tony travel to Nigeria to arrange the transfer of $37 million to Switzerland. However, Sam questions whether the stakes are worth it–between dealings with the nefarious Dr. Kidogo and run-in with an American lout who is in Lagos to carry out his own scam. Is it worth risking it all, especially with a new woman in his life, the beautiful and enigmatic Dina?
Release date: March 08, 2022
Fiction: Thriller/Crime
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Mr. Simpson and Other Short Stories
Award-winning author Stephen Maitland-Lewis’ first collection of short stories includes tales of international intrigue, suspense, mystery, and exotic adventures. Featuring the exploits of such diverse characters as a fugitive from justice, a frustrated musician, an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer, an impoverished London banker, and a British schoolboy in New Zealand and Palm Springs. The anthology also chronicles amorous escapades in Geneva, Paris, and the French Riviera, family greed, and a mysterious Munich tattoo parlor, among many other stories.
The collection is highlighted by the book’s title character, Mr. Ernest Simpson, a fictional account twenty-three years after his divorce from Wallis Simpson and the abdication of King Edward VIII.
Release Date: September 07, 2021
Fiction: Short Stories, Suspense, Thriller, Crime
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Amongst and Above All
History is written by the winners.
U.S. President Rufus Barker barely finishes his oath of office on the steps of the Capital, sworn in as the new Commander in Chief of the United States, when two shots ring out. The bullets, meant for the new president, miss him by inches, killing the First Lady and the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
As the FBI, CIA and the Mossad rush to uncover the plot behind the assassination and bring the attackers to justice, international agents reveal a secret that could jeopardize American national security.
The assassins, however, will stop short of nothing until the president is dead. When Air Force One is targeted and crash lands, the investigation takes twists and turns as agents rush to find clues. The investigation leads first to Islamic terror groups, then to the Russians until agents discover the shocking true identity of the assassin.
Release date: January 21, 2020
Fiction: Suspense, Espionage
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Mountain refuge
In 1847, sixteen-year-old Sabra, facing a forced marriage, enlists the help of Jacob Bates, an old mountain man, to take her to the mountains of the American west, where she hopes to raise good horses while hiding from her wealthy but cruel father. But danger lies within the wilds of the mountains too, and when Sabra finds herself alone, her life takes many turns, eventually forcing her from her mountain home. Fighting for her freedom and the life of her child, she eventually finds her way back to the beauty of her beloved mountains, the horses she loves, and the one man who has her heart.
Release date: Feb. 07, 2023
Fiction: Historical Romance, Western
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The Polar Protocol
The world teeters on the brink of disaster as a rogue hypersonic missile launched from a B-2 bomber threatens the delicate balance of global peace.
CIA Director Patrick Stevenson and his team race against the clock on an intense classified mission to Antarctica, where they must face-off the Russian intelligence agencies looking to find the deadly weapon before it’s too late.
As the stakes grow higher with each passing moment, the team faces shocking twists and turns, risking everything to save the world.
A heart-pumping rollercoaster ride of action and suspense, The Polar Protocol is a must-read for fans of espionage and high-stakes thrillers.
Release date: July 11, 2023
Fiction: Thriller / International Espionage / Military
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Unyielding Destiny
Destiny might be the end of you . . .
Frank Morris was born in the desperation of a tenement in New York City’s Little Italy. He is orphaned and adopted by the boss of a powerful NY crime family, a veteran of the Korean war, an inmate of Alcatraz penitentiary, and a phantom hitman. Frank’s true nature is selfless and altruistic revealing his unyielding struggle to escape the darkness of his destiny.
Release date: March 15, 2022
Fiction: Thriller/Crime
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Nineteen Forty-Five
Rusty barbed wire and distant AM radio—Montana hid my secrets for fifty years.
Then a young reporter arrived in a beat-up Impala. Her assignment, WWII Homecoming Memories, had uncovered a puzzling lead about several dead men last seen with a red-headed nurse. I could have lied, but she reminded me of myself at that age so I rolled a cigarette and told her all of it.
She spilled coffee on my table.
Her research started in New York. In choosing soldiers to profile, she included her hometown and discovered her great uncle, reported MIA in 1944, bought a train ticket to Browning, Montana, three months after they buried his empty casket. Impossible, yet on two consecutive pages, she counted 14 tickets to Browning—a village on the Blackfeet Reservation. The National Archives showed that 13 of those men shared the same distinct status: Missing in Action.
I know where those passengers are.
Southwest of Browning, where the plains run into the Rockies, stands a church. Once it represented everything good in our country, a tiny church built in 1913 by a young man for his wedding. Only four people attended the bride’s funeral in 1918. Her twin babies slept through the service. Eight months earlier her husband marched into World War I and he never returned.
My story starts and ends at that little church, but in between, the darkest hours of mankind churned through Europe. Some of that darkness found its way to Montana. As bad as it ended, I wondered if the Lord forgives murder. As it turns out, sometimes yes, sometimes definitely no.
Release date: September 01, 2020
Fiction / Alternative History
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Doomsday Alley
Many reasons spark a military conflict that can quickly escalate to a war. Most incidents are created by accidents or errors of commanding officers whose bad planning is fueled by inflated political egos.
When a carefully planned drill becomes a real military conflict and dramatically increases the consequences of war, a pandemic makes it even more threatening.
Superpower governments navigate to solve the crisis that threatens the annihilation of mankind.
Spy agencies have always been drawn into conflict to contribute, sabotage, and nibble on adversaries for information, and chase each other down dark alleys. In the history of the World Wars, the Navy always took the motto, “No empire will fall, if it controls the sea.
Where do loyalties lie and can they be trusted when one push of a button could be the end of the world as well know it?
Release date: February 22, 2022
Fiction: Thriller/Espionage
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Constellation: The final leap
Unprepared after years of negligence NASA scrambles to rescue the ISS crew and investigate mysterious events on the Moon’s surface. An inexperienced President must suddenly guide his administration through the crisis, trusting his top brass who insist on a preemptive strike and tackling surprise developments that have the ability to reshape the Earth, and its surroundings as we know it.
Release date: June 23, 2020
Thriller: Fiction
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From Tangled Roots
Carrie Barclay, a seventeen-year-old high school senior gifted with brilliant communication skills struggles with maturity issues and manages to find trouble because of it. She navigates her world and searches for direction, a good job, and a prom date—opportunities arise which test her resolve. Carrie finds comfort in a best friend who strongly suggests ancestral research to help find her roots for future direction. Her Uncle Wit has other ideas for her, but making it up as one goes creates a conundrum, especially when Carrie’s mother wants him to have no part in her life.
Through her struggles, she finds a place in her heart for her uncle. Feeling the need to help him find peace and direction, Carrie discovers that her own issues and ways of resolving them are leading her into a new chapter of her life. A small gift from an old friend will eventually solidify why her gift of communication is so important.
Release date: November 10, 2020
YA Fiction: Christian / Coming of Age
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