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Antonia of Venice
Very few people knew Antonia, despite her eventual fame as “La Stella di Venezia”. Antonia of Venice is an unveiling of love, connected souls, music, power and tragedy.
The story lures the reader into the beauty and decadence of 18th century Venice, and into the passions that drive and torment its characters. Antonia develops from being Vivaldi’s star pupil into his musical colleague and the pride of Venetian musical conceit. After she falls in love with Orlando Sagredo, master planner of the Palio, Antonia recognizes the emotional bondage she has never questioned.
Antonia of Venice is inhabited by brilliant musicians, avaricious politicians and ineffectual rulers of the Republic of Venice.
Chasing Darkness
Morry Sonen is a psychotherapist from Portland, Maine. After a terrifying session with a psychopathic patient, Morry`s impulsive personality propels him into a strange odyssey that lands him in the dark underworld of 1990s Manhattan.
On this journey, he indulges in his addictions - food, love and sex - and of course Manhattan itself. He sets out knowing little about his own dark side, but soon embraces it all.
Moving ever closer to danger, he meets Pauline, a refined prostitute, Jean-Claude, a lovable and flamboyant celebrity restaurateur, and Nancy, a mistress of the subterranean world of S & M.
Even the lion at Central Park Zoo understands more about Morry than he does. Closing in on his inner darkness, Morry flies high above it all... but as with Icarus, is descent inevitable?
Dark Voyage
It’s 1914, and fear and paranoia rule the high seas.
Iain Cosgrove is newly married to Jennifer Manson, daughter of a wealthy Scottish merchant. But Iain must soon leave for a research trip aboard the Lady Balgay, last of Dundee’s once-grand sealing fleet. Fueled by rum and the tales of John Pratt, the crew obsess over ancient superstitions; ones Iain casually dismisses as simple lore... until they reach the frigid Arctic seas.
When a string of accidents coincide with the recurring appearance of a female apparition, Iain’s beliefs are shaken. Then the ship discovers two castaways — one of them a woman — and events take a sinister turn.
Inspired by historical accounts, Dark Voyage is a compelling and horrifying tale set in the icy waters of the north.
Final Hours
Jamie Randall thinks he has it all, until a close brush with death brings him face-to-face with reality. An asteroid is threatening to wipe out life on Earth, and Jamie realizes that something's been missing from his life.
As he heads toward safety with his wife, Jamie decides to own his mistakes and pursue the one thing he’s dreamed of for the last fifteen years... a decision that can come with a hefty price.
A book that will make you laugh, cry and fall in love with its characters, Final Hours is a powerful love story from Norma Beishir, bestselling author of sixteen novels.
Kiss of Life
Every night, Alan Dexter has the same dream: being seduced by his former colleague Christina when suddenly, two of her perfectly white teeth turn into fangs and tear into his flesh.
Dexter is always the skeptical journalist, but his feeling that Christina must be in danger only grows when he discovers she disappeared over two months ago in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains.
What evil still lurks in the heart of Transylvania?
High Plains Holiday (Love On The High Plains Book 1)
Garden City, Kansas, 1888.
A small Western town receives an early Christmas present: a new pastor for the church. He is young, handsome, and single.
To church organist Kristina Heitschmidt, Reverend Cody Williams is nothing but trouble, especially as his first move is trying to take control of the music away from her.
But Kristina is not about to give up her life's work. With Christmas fast approaching, it appears the two are at a stalemate - until a sudden blizzard traps them together in the church overnight.
Forced at last to deal with each other, they realize that the explosive feelings between them are really symptoms of an overwhelming passion that just might lead to the love of a lifetime.
This western romance includes explicit sex scenes.
Killers (The Bax Mysteries Book 1)
After a series of personal tragedies and abuse from his alcoholic mother, eighteen-year-old Bax is determined to rebuild his life.
Using money left to him by his father, he finds a place to live and a job at the local coffee shop. But after he begins to experience psychic visions after touching certain objects, Bax realizes that a normal life may not be in store for him.
Things take a turn for the scary when he uncovers evidence that may have belonged to the latest victim of a serial killer. With no family to turn to, he enlists the help of Piper: his fellow barista and a lover of mysteries.
Together, they attempt to track the killer down before another life is lost. But are Bax's unique abilities and Piper's wit enough to the murderer to justice?
The Pale-Eyed Mage (The Dark Amulet Book 1)
Sheldrake is a mage. Maud is a shapeshifter. When their son is born, he is completely pale with nearly white eyes: the legacy of a fearsome great-grandmother.
Jayhan grows into a cheery, accident-prone eight-year-old, unhappily aware of his heritage. Soon, a dark-eyed orphan enters his life; rescued from a brutal master to become their stableboy, Sasha's past and present are shrouded in secrets.
The only legacy Sasha has of the past is an obsidian amulet. As secrets of the young stableboy's past slowly come to light, they're all thrown into a world of danger.
With ancient prophecies coming to bear and deadly enemies at all sides, can they uncover the secrets of the dark amulet.. and survive?
Caliban
After the death of his wife, Dr. Bobby Reed gives up his life as a geneticist and settles down to raise his kids. He thinks he has destroyed everything related to his research, until an old rival calls for help.
Bobby races against the clock as both the virus and Alpha Corp bear down on Walker's Pass and his children. Held prisoner by Alpha Corp until he can figure out what went wrong, it is only a matter of time before he outlives his usefulness and becomes yet another victim of Caliban.
In all of his years as Sheriff, Mark BaldEagle has never seen a flu like this one. Something is happening to the citizens of Walker's Pass. As he begins to put the pieces together, he finds his town under an illegal quarantine; anyone who tries to leave is killed.
Under the cover of a severe winter sto
Den of Dark Angels
Demons roar from the mouths of lions and the devil lives on an alien planet in this collection of three adult fantasy/paranormal novellas set on Earth, Hell, and Heaven, and in the nether somewhere in between.
Passion for Poe is the first novella, which spins from Calgary to Denmark in a crescendo of dysfunction. Demons slop from the trunk of a car bought by Astria Brin with her boyfriend, Patrick Ferguson. Lions gaze from a bridge in the center of Calgary and follow them home, as mysterious dreams, murder and horror intertwine.
The second novella takes place in a netherworld of Paradise, Earth, and Hell. Dark Angel introduces Drake Bent, a half-demon man who roars about the universe on a chromed Harley-Davidson motorcycle with his terrier dog Killer in the sidecar.
Drink The Water
Four strangers find themselves haunted by the same dream: being dragged to a drowning death by the Nartressan seaweed.
The four begin to investigate the origin of the dreams and discover that the mysterious entity is not only more vicious than previously believed, but something else altogether. Things escalate quickly, as reports of drownings and ships under attack reach the media.
After they discover an abandoned underground research station, they embark on a mission to unlock the terrible secrets hidden in the shuttered facility.
I Was Murdered Last Night
Anita’s vacation in New York City ends tragically when she’s killed in Central Park, but instead of the end, it’s only the beginning. Her soul remains at the death scene, trying hard to process what happened.
But the reality of being a ghost doesn't sit well with Anita: what is she supposed to do now?
Then, she feels a connection to Olivia Brown, the detective assigned to solve her murder. Is she supposed to help her, or is something else going on? And in the end, can Detective Brown get to the bottom of what happened in the park that fateful night?
Crime, mystery and the paranormal meet in I Was Murdered Last Night, first novel in A.J. Gallant's Olivia Brown Mysteries series.
Obsidian Tears
Mother Earth is crying. Yellowstone is dying.
New troubles are stacking up like cordwood for Chief Ranger Glenn Merrill, as Yellowstone’s existence is threatened by earth tremors and an imminent supervolcano. After a series of gruesome deaths claiming animals, tourists, and a ranger, it’s clear that something’s gone terribly wrong at the nation's oldest national park.
But putting an end to these mysterious deaths is more than just the chief ranger’s job — it may be his end.
Obsidian Tears plunges Glenn, his Shoshone friend, an aggressive young seismologist and an Arapaho healer into a world of Indian mysticism. Will man and nature join forces, or risk losing all of humanity to an ancient evil?
Road To Soul
Nestled in the contours of the sun-blistered Mojave, a strip of asphalt stretches from east to west, leading nowhere.
Along this lonely expanse travel various lost souls:
•An addict who finds love and self-acceptance within a group of desert dwellers
•Two forlorn hikers seeking answers to unknown questions
•A lonely woman wandering among the pungent spring flowers, recalling time spent with a mysterious Irishman
•A mother and daughter who slowly allow the isolation to heal their strained relationship
•A colorful assortment of tourists and bar flies who make a desert watering hole their home
•A terrified young woman who finds the courage to escape her dysfunctional past
Genesis
The clock is ticking for the human race.
Max Dumerick has spent his young life doing the dirty work of the highest bidder. When his last job awakens his reluctant conscience, he finds himself teaming up with an unlikely duo to try to stop a would-be god.
When Melanie Edwards realizes she’s being hunted, her desire to protect her family forces her to make some hard choices. Choices that will lead her into the belly of the beast.
Abandoned by the woman he loves and the mother of his child, and left with nothing but infrequent, cryptic messages, Ryan Edwards stumbles across evidence of the coming apocalypse. When he starts digging for the truth, he must choose between warning the world, and his daughter’s life.
Misguided Target
Three strangers with an unlikely connection find themselves pawns in a dangerous struggle for power.
After serving Washington’s political elite as a high-class escort for seven years, Kendall Daley is ready to move on. But on the eve of her final assignment she meets Kane Clarke — a Navy SEALs Lieutenant on enforced leave. What Kendall doesn't know is that Kane is in town to repair his relationship with his estranged brother... someone she knows all too well.
Soon after that fateful night, Senator James Clarke is kidnapped and Kendall finds herself the target of hired assassins. Deep and personal secrets are exposed as Kane rushes to her aid. Embroiled in a dangerous game, the pair must work to unravel a tangled web of deception and save the Senator before time runs out.
A Study In Red (The Study In Red Trilogy Book 1)
On the table of psychiatrist Robert Cavendish lay a strange set of papers, claimed to be the journal of the infamous Whitechapel murderer whose crimes instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.
Delving deeper into the journal, Robert is convinced of its authenticity, and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside, he is drawn into the dark, sinister world of Jack The Ripper.
Robert is about to find out just how thin the line between sanity and madness really is. But can he distinguish fact from fantasy?
Knowledge Revealed (The Nememiah Chronicles Book 1)
After a tragedy, Charlotte Duncan moves to the small town of Puckhaber Falls with one purpose: to end her life.
But when the attention of a stranger takes her by surprise, Charlotte begins to reconsider her plan. She finds herself drawn to the mysterious Lucas Tine, and doesn't know why.
Soon, Charlotte's life turns upside down as she discovers a shocking truth about her new lover - and of her own past.