Fiction

It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No trait is more valued than loyalty, and no possession more precious than one's steel. Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now...

Every young boy wants to be like his father when he grows into a man. But Jonathan had a different plan. He wanted a different kind of life. His love for his father was unquestionable, and he would do anything to keep him happy. The church was his...

Jack Porter never forgot the church at the fork in the road--where the entire congregation was black. When he was a boy, white folks did not associate with a church made up of black folks. Fifty years later the times have changed, and so has Jack. When...

In Cleveland, Ohio, drugs, rape, violence, and mayhem became a part of a neighborhood called Hough Heights. After the Hough riots in 1966 and 1968 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the children of Hough were growing up experiencing the...

Bria Twon didn't have the pristine upbringing like so many of her friends, raised an only child by an alcoholic mother, Bria has had to deal with hurt, shame, and embarrassment. Bria's childhood has impacted her adult life, and she doesn't know what to...

A collection of short stories about a long-gone Brooklyn from the legendary New York writer Pete Hamill. Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age,...

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London--a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue...and chocolate...

Jim Natas has spent the last decade enhancing the functionality of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to identify, track, and provide information on every living organism via an implantable chip. His concealed mission: The creation of one...

A moving story about Palestine's 1948 Exodus by the Arab world's finest living novelist. First in a trilogy. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his...

A mermaid and a merman fall in love, but her secrets will force them apart. When Kalaiyah and Nateo meet, they both experience a love unlike anything either of them has felt before.But Kalaiyah is keeping something from Nateo, the truth about who she...

Running Black Market Magic is Deadly...Winnie Durham just wants honest work in her shop selling magic.Then Resolution 84 passed...Caught between the law, her mother's escalating medical bills, and a vow to never deal in dark magic, Winnie is given an...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardThe Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man. -- Christian Science Monitor The legends say something happened in...

In 2007, award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of "culture, race, and a sense of place." The prizewinners are gathered for the first time in a ground-breaking anthology that explores many...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius...

In Tokyo--one of the world's largest megacities--a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is...

Full Disclosure: The Casino Life is a new adult romance novel with elements of erotica. It can get a little dark. It contains profanity, gory material, and sexually explicit content. Alicia only interviewed at the casino because she needed a full-time...