Book Launches

Book Launch: Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Nov 6, 2020 | Book Launches

Six lives, one city. In Kevin Zdrill‘s latest book, The Jungle Room, almost everyone is trying to find a way out of their lives. Some want to return to their families, some want to start fresh, and some are finding the seedy underbelly of LA very fruitful. When a disturbing sequence of events causes their lives to collide, the consequences are extreme and dire.

What extremes would you go to for the chance to achieve your dream life?

Disgraced former LAPD officer Don Butler scams people out of their money in the hopes of affording a life of relaxation on the beaches of Costa Rica with his former fashion model girlfriend, Alejandra—if he doesn’t get caught by the cops first.

Alejandra’s probation-jumping new roommate, Megan, is thrilled to begin a career as a stripper at The Jungle Room. Her new mentor, long-time dancer and drug addict Tyrianne, promises to bring her to the top of her profession with cash and partying beyond her wildest dreams. But when the drugs and booze get out of control, there are harsh consequences to pay.

Tommy has discovered that having a regular desk job isn’t quite as creative as playing out the fantasies of middle-aged businessmen—unless they don’t pay up.

Kirk has been abused one too many times by boyfriends promising him the world, and now he’s stuck in a job he despises with a boss he loathes even more. Can he escape before his burgeoning paranoia leaks too far into his day job?

Experience L.A.’s seedy underbelly, where all roads lead to deceit, betrayal, or murder!

Please note: this book contains explicit content.

Some lines should never be crossed.

Sophie London has never believed in love at first sight. When she forms an instant connection with gorgeous virtual assistant, Charli Robinson, she’s thrown into a spin and her rule book on love flies out the window. This woman is perfect, and she can imagine them spending the rest of their lives together.

Charli Robinson is not perfect. Accumulating a colossal debt twelve months earlier, she’s leading a secretive double life. Working a second job as a paid escort is not information she dares to share with the woman she’s fallen hard for.

With only a few weeks before her debt can be repaid and Charli can walk away from the escort business, her two worlds collide with spectacular, yet catastrophic, consequences. Sophie is left devastated, confused, and heartbroken. Has everything they’ve shared been a lie?

Unable to disclose her secret, Charli is left in a precarious situation. Does she come clean with Sophie and risk a financial blow so severe she’ll lose everything; or will she choose to walk away from the love of her life?

Books in the Love Stories series are long novella length (35-50K words) and may contain fade to black sex scenes. While some characters do appear in multiple books, these Love Stories can be enjoyed in any order. ♥

“A firecracker of a thriller…” —Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author

On the best day of Dr. Rita Davenport’s life, she jumps in front of a speeding London Underground train.

The police think suicide.

Dr. Davenport’s team in Portland, Oregon thinks otherwise.

On the day she died, Dr. Davenport presented a paper highlighting a medical breakthrough that would change the treatment of Alzheimer’s. The breakthrough would undercut the billion-dollar Big Pharma business model, taking money from the grant writers, researchers, doctors and huge pharmaceutical companies who have made their life’s work developing drugs that don’t work.

To Dr. Davenport’s team, that is motive for murder.

They turn to Detective Kate Sawyer, one of their own—a participant in their study who is battling her own genetic form of Alzheimer’s. With her lover, Detective Beck Hudson; Dr. Davenport’s right-hand man, Thea Janeway; and Thea’s romantic nemesis and respected denizen of the Dark Web, Carter Livingston, Kate gets pulled deeper and deeper into the secret places where those on the fringes of synthetic biology ply their trade…for good and for ill.

The killer threatens to kill another of Dr. Davenport’s study participants unless Kate backs off…and he’ll keep killing until she stops.

With lives in the balance, Kate can’t stop…not until the last man falls.

But who will be next?

Read The Kate Sawyer Medical Thriller series

Book Launch: Fantasy Short Stories

Oct 31, 2020 | Book Launches

Lily Hammer‘s second short story is now available! “The Remnant” picks up from the end of “The Price“, and Hagador is immediately in a dangerous situation. Completely alone, none the wiser about Fewry, and wanted for heresy, Hagador can’t afford to take any chances with danger—it’s just that danger is intent on finding him.

The One-Horned Heretic series continues as Hagador embarks on the harsh journey west, running from the guilt of what he’s done and from a realm that wants him dead for it.

Hagador has no choice. He must get to the The Void, a safe haven in the wild and unfamiliar western reaches of Darkwerks where only those who have committed crimes against the Gods can seek asylum.

But he can’t do it alone. When Hagador runs into trouble in a border town, an unlikely ally reveals himself. This comes at the perfect time for the one-horned Ovis; the west is about to demonstrate how dangerous and unpredictable it can be.

“The Remnant” is the second installment of The One-Horned Heretic series. Part one, “The Price“, is available on Amazon.

Read the first short story in the One-Horned Heretic series

Book Launch: Occult Horror

Oct 27, 2020 | Book Launches

Clever, terrifying, and worthy of a movie, debut author Mike Feria‘s Passenger keeps you on the edge of your seat. Not a page goes by that isn’t gripping. You may need to put this book in your freezer between reads!

It preys upon your guilt and your grief.

Instances of demonic possession have long been blamed for the atrocities mankind inflicts upon itself. When a demon latches onto Marshall Lison, a child, it torments, and it corrupts. Those who stand in the demon’s path are swept aside or used as pawns to commit violent crimes of escalating brutality.

As years pass into memory, the fractures in Marshall’s psychological health grow, as does the demonic influence. Is it possible to fight an intangible evil? By the time the demon’s ultimate plan is unveiled, it may be too late for what remains of Marshall’s sense of self.

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Buy Passenger on Amazon

Book Launch: Recovery Memoir

Oct 22, 2020 | Book Launches

We are honored to be a part of publishing All Eyes on Me by Kevin Zdrill about Vincent Lillie’s life. Stuck for years in a circle of incarceration, drugs, and gangs, Lillie can now share his story of the rocky road to recovery and the incredible changes he has made to his life and to others’ lives. If you or someone you know is stuck in this cycle, this book is the hope they need.

Drugs, gangs, crime, doing time.

Vincent Lillie desperately wanted to escape the cycle that was slowly killing him, and the first step was leaving the very gang he had depended on for love and acceptance. The price for escape? A beating so brutal, many don’t survive.

The story of Vincent’s life starts with the destruction of his family at the hands of his father’s sexual abuse, worsens with his school’s discriminatory segregation of him, and deteriorates further with every drug he does, every crime he commits, and each of his incarcerations. With his three brothers stuck in the same cycle, Vincent’s lowest point of addiction came to attempted suicide-twice.

But fate had other plans for him.

At times heartbreaking and at others breathtaking, Vincent’s true story will give you faith in humanity and prove the strength of the human spirit. His slow but steady road to recovery through sheer willpower and determination led him to become a mentor and speaker, motivating kids and adults to become the best version of themselves, and stopping those who are troubled from following in his footsteps. His is an unforgettable story of burning to ashes and rising from them better than ever before-one step at a time.

A raw and honest memoir that will give you hope.

FOREWORD BY MITCH BOURBONNIERE, Director of Service, Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin (OPK), working with Winnipeg’s most vulnerable people who suffer with homelessness, post traumatic stress, addiction, mental health issues, domestic violence, gang involvement, and sexual exploitation.

Read Vincent’s story

Book Launch: Reverse Harem Romance Series

Oct 7, 2020 | Book Launches

October is the perfect month for paranormal books, and Jaya Moon’s latest release Enlightened fits the bill wonderfully. Get absorbed in Meghan May’s paranormal world! Torn between risking her life to help the peaceful animal-shifter kin and playing it safe for the sake of love, Meghan’s problems are just beginning. Things get steamy in this paranormal reverse harem romance, and just when you think you know what’s going on, it all gets flipped on its head.

“Just like allies can be found in unlikely places so, too, can foes.”

Sent away by Tallow for her “own good,” Meghan May vows to return to her old life. A routine of eat, work, sleep, and repeat. Any connection she had with Tallow, Mox, and Abriel is over. She was never meant to be part of their lives or Tallow’s world.

There are kin, however, who have other ideas.

Faced with new threats, Meghan seeks refuge with those Tallow has warned her against. But who is the real enemy?

New truths are revealed. Old truths shattered.

Who can she trust when nothing is as it seems?

Read the first book in The Ascension of Meghan May series

Book Launch: Secret Baby Romance

Sep 29, 2020 | Book Launches

Ever wonder what a chance encounter could lead to? In Sienna Blake‘s latest Irish Kiss novel, My Secret Irish Baby, the only thing holding Michael and Abbi back is their fear of trust and abandonment, but what if something tied them together? This second-chance, secret baby contemporary romance is a roller coaster of both their worst fears and their greatest hopes.

Can painful pasts be healed?

Nine years ago, I met Michael O’Sullivan over a stolen bottle of red and a platter of bacon-wrapped dates.

Handsome. Perfectly poised. Fiercely intelligent.
Fastest rising star of the Dublin legal world.
Top thirty most successful under thirty.

But none of that mattered to me—only that he made me feel like my heart was full of sunshine when he danced with me in the rain.

Nine years ago he broke my heart when he walked away.

Now I don’t have time to dance in the rain. I’m working several jobs to support my kid. She is the light of my life. She looks like me but with his eyes.

I’ve just been assigned to assist a visiting hotshot lawyer—the arrogant, bossy, rude ass who can’t even be bothered to sign his emails with his full name.

Guess who my new boss is?

I just have to get through the next few weeks without Michael finding out my secret. Or letting him break my heart again.

Not easy when he’s determined never to let me go.

You better be ready for a rip-roarin’ good time, mmhmm!

Ball and Powder is a character-driven steampunk fantasy about a thick-skulled, hornless minotaur named Ham Herdstomper who lives to snort blood leaf and go dungeon crawling. Created to die and then be reborn again, he has not known much more than the rush of gaining experience, getting chips, and buying more of his precious drug. However, when he begins a new cycle on Moravan with his bomb-tossing gnome companion, Nickl Nackle of Clan Paddiwackle, their dark adventure begins to weigh on Ham’s morality and causes everything to change.

While in pursuit of a death-dealer, Ham’s mood turns for the worse along with his addiction, causing him to make decisions that negatively impact his alignment. When their newfound companions, Kildrak the dwarven sharpshooter and Beans the gun enthusiast, point out Ham’s faulty reasoning, the fellowship begins to fall apart. Thinking the death-dealer is to blame, Ham must discover how to realign his moral compass before his adventuring party abandons him and he transforms into an evil non-player character.

More books by Joshua Robertson

Book Launch: Lesbian Romance

Sep 14, 2020 | Book Launches

Boss-employee relationships are already trouble, but when the boss’s ex is vindictive, jealous, and tied to the boss’s business success, it’s a whole other story. The new lesbian romance novel Love In Focus by author Ellie Spark is slow burn with lots of tension, memorable characters, the well-loved Trekkers fitness group, and most importantly, a romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last minute.

Some boundaries should never be blurred.

Professional photographer, Shayne Granger, is overcome with shock and grief when her girlfriend of two years ends their relationship without warning. Not only does the breakup devastate her personal life, but her professional life is also left in tatters.

Amber Knight has worked at In Focus Photography as an assistant for the last six months. The moment she entered the studio, she was immediately attracted to both the job and her boss. However, it has become a daily battle to hide her disappointment at the lack of recognition for who she really is—a first-rate photographer, and more importantly an attractive, intelligent, and available woman.

Forced to work closely together to save In Focus, Shayne finally sees Amber in a different light. Sparks fly. But with the return of Shayne’s controlling and manipulative ex, is there any hope of a future between these two women, or will their chance at happiness be destroyed for good?

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