Books by M.E. Sterling

Danger Nextdoor

Twelve years married, and David and Renee Holbrook have built the kind of trust most couples only talk about — no secrets, no games, nothing either of them is afraid to say out loud. Then two college seniors move into the empty cottage next door, and the fence between the yards stops being tall enough to matter.
Brielle is twenty-two, bold, and never once pretends she isn't looking. Naomi is twenty-one, quieter, and somehow harder to stop thinking about because of it. Renee notices her husband noticing them before he's even admitted it to himself - and instead of getting jealous, she gets curious.

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The Empath's Decree

Corrina Tremayne has felt every beat of her husband's heart for two hundred years. She feels it now, too - the exact moment his attention snags on the two young witches who've just walked through her gates, and every private hour he spends afterward convincing himself he's hiding it from her.

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Enough

In a house built on rules, boundaries were made to be broken.

Diane and Tom have a comfortable, settled twenty-seven-year marriage. Their lives are quiet, predictable, and safe. But when two college students, Emily and Nikky, rent rooms in their large suburban home, the domestic order begins to quietly fracturing from the inside out.

Emily is small, striking, and dangerous. She doesn’t just cross lines-she erases them with calculated deliberation. 

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About the Author - M.E. Sterling

M.E. Sterling writes high-stakes, sophisticated romance and atmospheric thrillers where the secrets are dangerous and the power dynamics are razor-sharp. Whether navigating the cutthroat politics of a global sporting paddock or unearthing forbidden, dark temptations hidden behind the walls of a secluded abbey, Sterling is drawn to characters operating under intense pressure and the breathless, slow-burn connections that defy the rules

 

Survival is more than keeping the heart beating.
The Source Rising Series & Shadow Faye Series 

The Source Rising Series

Source Awakening

It's funny how being trapped in an avalanche can make you rethink your past mistakes. They said the world was safe. I guess they were wrong.

Reena Novak was just a normal girl until the rogue planet Goliath entered the atmosphere, ending the world as she knew it. Now, the mysterious ash trailing after Goliath has absorbed into her skin, and she's seeing things she can't explain — images of an ethereal swirling liquid and ever-changing landscapes. They haunt her, just like the powers developing within her.

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Shadow Faye Series

Unbound by Shadowspire

A binding only the queen of Faerie can remove. A Guardian sworn to protect. A girl whose blood could start a war.

Myrna has never felt normal. The energy thrumming beneath her feet is wrong. Draining. Walking into Haszwalds for her internship is the first time she’s felt alive. She fits.

The patrons sense what she is, and it takes but one dangerous interaction to expose the truth of a heritage that shouldn’t exist. Myrna is a Faye, but her power is bound. There must be a reason. 

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Balanced by Radiance

Survival is more than keeping the heart beating. It’s protecting the soul. Safeguarding the veil. Holding one’s bonded close. Myrna did none of these.

Myrna’s lost everything. Again. She can’t forgive and forget, but being heir means moving forward and protecting the realm no matter the cost. The voices she hears are a complication to her position. As are the visions of those passed on. It’s all filtering through a tear in the veil between realms. The one that’s shocking her with arcane power.

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About the Author - Tracey Canole

Tracey Canole’s love for reading started at thirteen when her sister made her a deal, read seven books, and she’d buy her five more. Not long after that, she realized she’d created a monster.  Tracey became enamored with the different worlds, unique people, and outlandish adventures. It is because of this that reading has been her escape  ever since.

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Some families keep secrets. This one keeps files.
The Unholy Creed Series by James E. Lorraine & Scott/Ashdown novels by Angela. R. Key 

The Saint of Nothing

Rebecca DeSaint survived what should have destroyed her.
The men who built their power on ruined girls, buried records, bought silence, and called it medicine expected her to stay broken. Quiet. Ashamed. Disposable.
They were wrong.
Now Rebecca is turning herself into something far more dangerous than a victim. She is becoming a reckoning. A whispered name in back rooms. A public threat to private monsters. A force aimed straight at the rich, protected men who thought their money could keep the truth buried forever.

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The Apostle of Ruin

Rebecca DeSaint came to Chicago to do clean work in dirty rooms.
After New York, she was supposed to stay in the daylight. Read the money. Protect the programs. Expose the rot before it swallowed the people who needed help most.
But Chicago has its own kind of evil.
Inside polished boardrooms, donor foundations, women’s shelters, youth programs, and private finance corridors, money is moving through names that should not connect: Blueframe. Kestrel. Marwick. Each trail leads to another shell, another lie, another body dropped just before Rebecca can get the answer she needs.

Someone is watching her work.

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The Lies We Inherit

Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine.

Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise uncovers the hidden system her father spent a lifetime curating, one designed not simply to protect the powerful, but to control them.

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About the Author - James E. Lorraine

James E. Lorraine is fascinated by appetite. Not simply hunger for money or power, but the quieter appetites people are better at disguising: the need to be chosen, to win, to control the room, to keep the relationship, to have the last word, or to possess the one thing good judgment says to leave alone.

He writes people who are accomplished enough to believe they can manage the consequences, then gives them something they want badly enough to test that belief. His stories move through boardrooms, bedrooms, churches, marriages, and spectacular romantic disasters, because he is less interested in genre boundaries than in what happens when desire collides with self-control.

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About the Author - Angela R. Key

Angela R. Key is fascinated by the stories families teach themselves to believe. The polished version. The inherited version. The version repeated so many times that questioning it begins to feel like betrayal.

She writes psychological suspense about memory, inheritance, identity, power, and the evidence people leave behind when they try to control the truth. Her stories are populated by families with archives, institutions with long memories, houses that seem to know more than their occupants, and women forced to decide whether what they were told matters more than what they can prove. Her interest is not simply in secrets. It is in who benefits from keeping them. Explore Angela R. Key →

WHEN HOPE HAS NOWHERE
LEFT TO GO, IT LEARNS TO FLY.

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Spirit Walker: Rise of Akio

A warrior forged by fire. Defined by choice.

The Empire demanded obedience. His heart gave him the courage to choose.

Akio was taught that strength meant following an order without question. That mercy was weakness. That a warrior’s heart had no place in a world ruled by fear.

Then came a life he could not take.

One refusal turns loyalty into treason and sends Akio beyond the only world he has ever known. But what waits for him is not simply freedom. It is something far more dangerous: people willing to stand beside him, suffer for him, and give everything without asking for anything in return.

Through them, Akio begins to understand that sacrifice is not surrender. Compassion is not weakness. And sometimes the smallest choice can carry enough hope to challenge an empire.

But every choice leaves a mark.

As forgotten powers awaken and darkness moves behind the throne, Akio must carry the weight of those who believed in him—and decide how much he is willing to give for people he never expected to love.

“No one else will die because of me.”

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  About the Author - George Thorne

George Thorne is the author of the epic fantasy novel Spirit Walker: Rise of Akio.

His life has followed an unconventional path, from serving as a Captain in the Bulgarian Commandos to working as a Prison Officer in the United Kingdom. These experiences shaped his understanding of discipline, sacrifice, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit qualities that now form the foundation of his storytelling.

 

Stories of Survival. Words of Healing.
A Voice That Refuses to Stay Silent.

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Through memoir and poetry, Cherie L. Davis explores trauma, resilience, healing, identity, love, and the complicated beauty of becoming whole.

Through the Fire

A Journey of Trauma, Healing, and Self-Discovery is a raw and inspiring memoir that chronicles one woman's path from survival to self-love. From enduring childhood sexual abuse and navigating the aftermath of family dysfunction to finding healing through therapy, creative expression, and the transformative power of love, this story is a testament to resilience and hope.

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The Maps We Make

The Maps We Make is a poetry collection by Cherie L. Davis that traces one woman’s life in seven movements.

It begins in the hospital with her husband’s failing heart—the tests, the waiting, the sudden knowledge that the man who has been her steady ground could be taken. From there it moves backward into the childhood rooms where her older brother stole her innocence and the family met the truth with silence. The poems hold the weight of that silence and the long work of surviving it.

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Ninety Seconds

Some shifts remind you why you became a nurse.Others remind you why coffee was invented.
After fifteen years in emergency medicine, detox, behavioral health, military clinics, management, and the Director of Nursing role, Cherie L. Davis has learned one unshakable truth: nursing does not reward perfection. It rewards the people who keep showing up especially when everything falls apart.

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About the Author - Cherie L. Davis

Cherie L. Davis is a nurse, healthcare leader, wife, survivor, poet, and author whose writing is rooted in resilience, healing, and the complexity of being human.

With more than 15 years in nursing and leadership, Cherie has witnessed life at its most vulnerable experiences that shaped both her career and her voice as a writer.

Her books explore trauma, healing, love, grief, nursing, resilience, and the courage to reclaim your story. Through honest and deeply personal storytelling, she transforms experiences once carried in silence into words that help others feel seen, understood, and empowered.

She survived the fire. She found her voice. Now, she writes it out loud. Know More
 

The chronicle of the Five begins in the dry plains of the capital in the North. In the heart of the city, a silent erasure has begun, forcing a simple noodle chef from a quiet quarter to flee her home and stumble into an accidental sisterhood. Their old lives left behind, they must harness their will, courage and power to stand against the encroaching Darkness.

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Five maidens flee South, bereft and hunted, while the continent stands on the brink of erasure. They must scale the frozen peak and master the elements of creation to ignite the final revolution against the thousand-year-old tyranny. To conquer the infective emptiness of the Void, the Five must become the very embodiment of Nature.

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About the Author - Pete Sav

Hi there, thank you for visiting! I love writing stories that highlight the best of human nature, with prose that strips out fluff and posturing, and focuses on earnest emotions, earned stakes, and character-driven voices. Know More

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The Frontier Series (5 book series) Fans of Craig Johnson and CJ Box will love this outstanding series as the author draws on his military experience and deep love of rural America to produce this action/adventure.

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After thirty-two years of service in the United States Army, I traded the discipline of military life for the craft of storytelling. I studied creative writing at Indiana University, where I began publishing poetry, short fiction, and novellas in literary journals and magazines.

Today I write full-time from Indiana, where my days revolve around strong coffee, enthusiastic dogs, and keeping up with eight energetic grandchildren. My stories are rooted in the landscapes, communities, and characters of rural America.

The Third Estate Series is a high-stakes thriller saga of espionage, military intrigue, medical suspense, buried family secrets, and the hidden forces shaping power from the shadows.

When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play.

Sophie Allard has spent her life earning her wings at one of the military’s most elite academies. But when her estranged father dies in a mysterious explosion at their family estate, Sophie’s world shatters. The official story doesn’t add up—and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

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When Sophie Allard is accused of murder, her only chance of surviving is to trust the last man on earth she should.

Trying to bury her past and build a future, medical student and military officer Sophie Allard lives by precision, discipline, and instinct—until a dying gunshot victim whispers a message in her ear meant for someone else. By sunrise, she is suspended, framed for murder, and hunted by people who don't leave witnesses. Evidence vanishes. Someone is tying off loose ends—and Sophie just became one of them.

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About the Author - D R Berlin

Enter the world of The Third Estate, award-winning thrillers packed with secrets, danger, and deadly twists.

D. R. Berlin is an award-winning author of mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction, U.S. Army veteran and general surgeon, with degrees from MIT and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

She is the author of The Third Estate series, a cinematic thriller world of espionage, conspiracy, family secrets, and emotional risk. Her background in science, medicine, and military service brings authentic tension and procedural realism to stories shaped by danger, precision, loyalty, and consequence.

When she is not writing, she is often behind the camera at her children’s sports events, where she has earned the nickname “Mamarazzi.”

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Get the highly rated: A 20TH CENTURY TELECOM SAGA

A 20th Century Telecom Saga is a look back into the historic Bell System. Few citizens of today understand the nature of the Bell System, as it has been extinct since January 1, 1984. This Saga looks back on these events from the prospective of an Operating Company Employee charged with the maintenance of the Bell System Network. The historic beginning of the Bell System is also discussed to provide perspective on the 20th century Bell System Monopoly. This Saga sheds light on little known contributions made by the Bell System to life in America other than telecommunication related contributions. Where would we be today without the Transistor?. 21st century Americans will not believe how today's communications technologies began! From $3.99 – SHOP NOW /
 

A. Jerry Rice retired from Bellsouth in 1994 after 30 years with the company. Twenty eight of those years were in Birmingham, Alabama. Then after 28 years, the Rice's moved to Sydney Australia to help start Optus Communications in 1992. After retiring from BellSouth, we moved to Manila Philippines to help start Bayantel Telecommunications in the Philippines, much like Optus in Australia. After the Bayantel project completion, I worked as a telecommunication consultant until 2017 in assignments all over the world. Now retired and living in North Carolina.

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Get the highly rated: The Book of Wands (The Tarot Series 1)

The cards await, ready to unveil their secrets. Are you prepared to witness their magic?

Olivia Pembroke is in her final year at Chester College, where she will vie against her friends and rivals for qualification in the Final Evaluation. Designed to be the ultimate test of Intelligence, Strength, Creativity and Courage, the Final Evaluation is set by a mysterious figure called Rasmus, who is wrapped in secrets.

Olivia has no doubt she is going to win and claim victory and pride for her family. That is, until her grandmother dies, and leaves her with a tarot deck, which she claimed could see past, present and future From $1.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Lauren Louise Hazel

Lauren Louise Hazel is a Cyber Security Manager by day and writes YA fantasy by night. She has one annoying brother and younger sister. As she was growing up, the only item her dad would buy her without demanding her pocket money was books. He’s hoping the writing is successful so he can get a Ferrari!

Some of Lauren’s favourite books and influences include the classics – like Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games – and anything by Haruki Murakami and GRR Martin.

Find out more at: http://www.llhazel.com

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Get the highly rated The Control Standard: How to Own Outcomes, Reduce Surprises, and Become the Person Leaders Trust

You're busy. But is the work actually under control?

In most growing organisations, the felt loss of control isn't a discipline problem. It's a drift problem. Work starts clear and slowly goes vague. Owners are implied, never named. Decisions stall. And the surprises that land late were visible all along — no one owned the act of raising them.

The Control Standard is a practical operating standard for the people who keep work moving: ambitious operators, new and emerging managers, and the leaders who coach them.

It shows how to convert uncertainty into something usable — an owner, a date, a decision, an escalation path, a fallback — so you become the person leaders trust with what matters.

Seniority is earned by making work easier to trust.

You'll learn how to:

• Tell real control from mere activity — and stop mistaking busyness for progress
• Own outcomes, not just complete tasks
• Communicate upward so senior people can actually steer
• Delegate and coach without micromanaging
• Catch drift and surprises early, before they become expensive
• Spot repeated pains and turn them into better systems, mechanisms, and habits
• Become easier to trust with important work

Grounded in 16 years of real delivery, not management theory. Short, concrete, and built to hand from manager to direct report.

For ambitious contributors, it is a guide to becoming easier to trust with important work. For line managers, it is the book you wish your direct reports had already read.

For readers of The Making of a Manager, Extreme Ownership, and The Coaching Habit who want the standard beneath them all. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Andrew Ward

Andrew Lee Ward is a UK tech entrepreneur, author, and international powerlifter. He is the founder of Scorchsoft, a Birmingham-based software development agency he has run for more than sixteen years, helping growing businesses use software, AI integrations, workflow tools, portals, and data platforms to solve real operational problems.

His work is driven by a simple belief: every business is becoming a technology business, whether it thinks of itself that way or not. Through Scorchsoft, Andrew helps organisations turn market opportunities into software products, and internal business pains into systems that improve how work gets done.

The Control Standard grew out of Scorchsoft’s own operating practice: a body of guides, principles, and hard-won lessons developed through years of client delivery, one-to-ones, project reviews, and the ordinary pressure of running a growing service business. Andrew writes from practice rather than theory, with a focus on helping people own outcomes, reduce drift, and become easier to trust with important work.

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Kristin Casey's Road to Excess: From Speed Punk to Rock Chick, From Drunk to Sobriety

Book 1: Casey Dancer

Bold, raw, and unapologetically honest, Casey Dancer is a story of resilience, vulnerability, and self-discovery.

The follow-up to Kristin Casey’s widely acclaimed memoir Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh Casey Dancer is the true story of a thirty-nine-year-old part-time stripper, full-time real estate agent, and struggling writer navigating the chaos of love and ambition. Fresh from a tumultuous breakup and newly sober, Kristin finds herself struggling to re-enter the dating scene. Buy Now

Book 2: Rock Monster

Far from bitter or self-pitying, Rock Monster is an honest account of one woman’s life-changing experience in a relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it’s her long and winding journey from life in the fast lane to sobriety and redemption. Set in the late-eighties and nineties, these are some of Walsh’s darkest years, from spiraling addiction to a stunning comeback with the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over tour. Loaded with true stories never before heard, Rock Monster is essential reading for classic rock fans and anyone touched by addiction. Buy Now

About the Author - Kristin Casey
 

Kristin Casey is a writer and recovered alcoholic and addict who’s rigorously inventoried her every resentment and relinquished ninety percent of them. She’s survived clinical depression, numerous addictions, the panhandle of Texas, and seventeen years of Catholicism. Know More

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Get the highly rated The Threshold Book 1

Dead Reckoning is Book One of The Threshold — a literary military science fiction tetralogy of duty, complicity, and the cost of survival.

The war is twenty months old. The Federation has lost too many ships and too many worlds. The rebel colonies are not breaking.

Captain Jonas Kade commands the Federation's newest carrier — and a sealed cargo hold the Admiralty refuses to discuss. His orders, when they come, are signed by men with the authority to end the war in a single afternoon. The decision they have placed in his hands is one no commander in two centuries has been asked to make.

Commander Stellan Rowe is in the path of that decision. He fights for the colonies because the Federation went one war too far. He fights for a wife and three children on Velan, who only know that he is far away. He does not yet know that the man crossing the void toward him has been given a weapon his side cannot answer.

Both men were Federation officers once. Both men know the code. You do not abandon your ship. You do not fire on those who cannot fire back.

The code is about to fail.

Dead Reckoning is Book One of The Threshold — a literary military science fiction tetralogy of duty, complicity, and the cost of survival. From $8.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Daniel E Mashmann

I am an indie novelist based in Maine, crafting narratives across epic fantasy, military science fiction, and alternate history. My work explores the brutal intersections of power and survival. Following a personal reinvention after my mother's passing, I transitioned a lifelong private dedication to world-building into a serious professional career. My stories capture the impossible choices people must make when their worlds fracture, examining the systems and human failings that define us.

Mori Quinn and the Coffin Game

A spooky middle grade fantasy about friendship, courage, and facing your fears.

Moribeth Quinn doesn’t fit in.

So when her parents drop her off at summer camp, Mori expects the worst—lonely days, awkward conversations, and no friends in sight.

She’s wrong.

Mori quickly bonds with two girls, Emma and Henrietta. But their new friendship comes with a challenge: a creepy dare from the camp bully—sneak into a nearby cemetery at night and lie in old coffins to prove who’s the bravest.

It’s supposed to be a joke. It isn’t.

When Mori climbs into one of the coffins, she’s transported to a strange and dangerous world filled with eerie ghosts, magical warriors, and terrifying monsters. Trapped in this dark fantasy realm, she must find her friends, survive the horrors that stalk the land, and face the terrifying Viscera Queen who rules it. From $3.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

The Witch of Tongues

If you hear the snip, snip, snip of scissors… run.

After a tragic accident leaves her without her father—and without her right eye—twelve-year-old Lydia Ramirez is forced to start over in the small town of Relic’s Rest, Ohio.

New house. New school. New problems.

Lydia doesn’t want to be here. She doesn’t want new friends. And she definitely doesn’t want to deal with her cruel cousin.

But Relic’s Rest has secrets. Dark ones. Whispers of a witch named Adeliza Barrow still linger in the town’s history—a woman accused, betrayed, and punished long ago. Most people say it’s just a story. Until Lydia finds the grave. And wakes something that should have stayed buried. Now children are in danger. From $3.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

About the Publisher - Crystal Lake Publishing

Since its founding in August 2012, Crystal Lake has quickly become one of the world’s leading publishers of Dark Fiction and Horror books. In 2023, Crystal Lake officially transitioned into an entertainment company, joining several other divisions, genres, and imprints, including Torrid Waters, Sinister Smile Press, Crystal Lake Comics, Crystal Lake Games, Crystal Cove Press, Crystal Lake Kids, Memento Mori Ink, and The House of Shadows & Ink on YouTube.

While we strive to present only the highest quality fiction and entertainment, we also endeavor to support authors along their writing journey. We offer our time and experience in non-fiction projects, as well as author mentoring and services, at competitive prices.

With several Bram Stoker Award wins and many other wins and nominations (including the HWA’s Specialty Press Award), Crystal Lake puts integrity, honor, and respect at the forefront of our publishing operations. Know More

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Get the highly rated The Rembrandt Heist

The Story of a Criminal Genius, a Stolen Masterpiece, and an Enigmatic Friendship

A Smithsonian Best Book of the Year

A true crime tale of unbelievable friendship, loyalty, criminal genius, and a staggeringly audacious plot to steal one of the world’s most valuable paintings—and return it.

On April 14, 1975, Myles Connor, already a known art thief, entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in disguise along with a cohort. The pair went directly the Dutch Gallery and proceeded to remove Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn from its place on the wall. After a brief scuffle with the guards—with Myles deterring his partner from shooting a bystander—the pair was gone, leaving behind no traceable evidence amidst the mayhem.

Who was Myles Connor and what were his motivations? Most thieves are in it for the money, but Myles was far from most thieves. His motive was freedom. The summer before the heist, he was arrested by the FBI when he attempted to sell three highly valuable paintings by Andrew and N.C. Wyeth to an undercover agent. Incredibly, Myles did this while out on bail for possession of yet morestolen art. When he was arrested and placed in the back seat of a state police vehicle, the FBI agent said to him, “We’ve got you now. Let’s see you get out of this one.” Without batting an eye, Connor calmly replied, “Just you watch me.” Get it Here

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Get the highly rated Cyberdome by Pat Milen

Cyberdome by Pat Milen

Brendon Walker’s life is in pieces. Haunted by the death of his son and the disappearance of his wife, Grace, he finds solace in Immersive Virtual Reality, a ubiquitous technology that can let users relive cherished memories with total realism. But as head of Cyber Trauma in his city’s ER, Brendon knows better than most that the promise of escape comes with a dangerous cost. When a lead points to Grace living in a secret virtual enclave called Sanctuary, Brendon embarks on a desperate quest to save her. What he uncovers is a sinister organ-harvesting operation exploiting society’s most vulnerable people, which forces him to choose between his life and rescuing the woman he loves.

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Get the highly rated Five Million Moments by Goldie Williamson

Book 1: Five Million Moments

What's Mine is Yours. And What's Yours is Mine.

It’s the 1990s—the decade of Singles, Reality Bites, and Friends—when young women believed they could have the career, the love, and the life they’d always imagined. Shannon, Melissa, and Amy meet during sorority rush and become instant confidantes, the kind of friends who share everything: favorite sweaters, late-night confessions, and a sacred blue notebook where they record their wildest dreams.

Shannon is fiercely ambitious and determined to shatter every glass ceiling. Melissa believes in the fairytale—the soulmate, the sign, and the happily ever after. Amy is certain she can balance it all: the journalism career, the family, and the life she’s carefully planned. Together, they are unstoppable…until adulthood reveals that the future rarely unfolds the way you expect.

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About the Author - Goldie Williamson

I love writing about the friendships that shape us, the secrets that follow us, and the moments that define who we become. I studied English at the University at Buffalo in the 1990s where I met the two friends who inspired the heart of Five Million Moments.

After earning my MBA from Duke, I spent more than two decades as a marketing executive at global brands including FedEx, AOL, Choice Hotels, Pearson, and Booz Allen Hamilton, helping shape stories about travel, technology, and human connection.

Although I’ve been writing stories about friendship since elementary school, Five Million Moments is my debut novel. Let’s stay connected! Follow me on social media.

Return To Dixie

Dixie speaks to the central challenge of our time: beating the relentless forces of prejudice and repression that threaten to suffocate decency and respect. Set in a present-day world where Union and Confederate States co-exist, five protagonists strive to forge a path to freedom and dignity –a Black man’s quest to liberate an entire race from the bonds of subjugation, two young men wishing only to love one another, and a pair of accomplished women seeking to lift their cherished societies’ cultures … journeys of faith, perseverance and hope. From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Truscott Jones

After practicing law for 25 years, Truscott Jones left to teach government and world affairs to high school students. Across both careers, he worked in politics: party conventions, presidential campaigns, and as debate partner for a sitting U.S. senator. These endeavors, and a passion for history and the thin margins upon which it turns, inspired the writing of his latest work of alternative history, Return to Dixie. Engaging students in a diverse public school, persuading juries, and swaying voters all require creative storytelling. This new novel taps into those prior experiences.

Growing up in the South, but raised by parents from Boston and Scranton, Jones lived the tension between our great nation’s cultures. As a gay man coming of age in an era before today’s shaky acceptance, intolerance and the constant fight for equality are familiar concepts to him. Return to Dixie is the product of that backdrop, an effort to paint a unique view of our American condition.

What if your body already knows how to heal—if you simply create the right conditions?

In 30 Days of Transformative Holistic Healing: A Guided Self-Healing Journey to Rebalance Your Mind, Body, Energy, and Nervous System, holistic practitioner and award-recognized author Kateryna Armenta invites you to explore a deeper understanding of health and healing.

Many people search for solutions outside themselves—through treatments, medications, and quick fixes. Yet true healing often begins when we reconnect with the body’s natural intelligence and learn how our lifestyle, emotions, beliefs, and environment influence our well-being.

This book is designed as a 30-day guided journey, helping you gradually build awareness, shift patterns, and support your body’s ability to restore balance.

Drawing from years of experience in sound and vibrational healing, nervous system regulation, and holistic wellness practices, Kateryna blends personal insights, scientific perspectives, and practical exercises that you can begin applying immediately. From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Kateryna Armenta

Kateryna Armenta is an award-winning author, holistic practitioner, sound & vibration therapist, Reiki practitioner, NLP and HeartMath coach, and Qigong practitioner. She is deeply passionate about guiding her clients toward healing, personal growth, and unlocking their full potential. With a unique blend of transformative coaching and energy-based practices, Kateryna helps people overcome mental and emotional barriers, embrace self-awareness, and live with more balance, clarity, and joy.

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Eighteen-year-old Acteo Venand is an elite striker cadet at Inoton Academy, a military institution that prepares him to battle Noxvaleres, supernatural warriors who hold sway over the three pillars of desire: memory, fantasy, and reality. With graduation just a few months out, Acteo is ready to dedicate his life to the righteous destruction of Noxvaleres and avenge the traumas that he and his family have endured—until an ill-advised prize fight entangles him with Reyna Ward, an alluring assassin and Inconclusive, meaning a human with a chance at converting into a Noxvalere. Reyna continuously challenges Acteo’s worldview, and soon, his understanding of the distinctions between human and Noxvalere, and justice and desperation, begins to fracture. From $4.14. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /



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Reyna adjusts to life inside the guarded walls of Inoton Academy and navigates a tenuous relationship with her fellow Inconclusives. Her arrival has Acteo intrigued and Inferi on edge. With Tereus scheduled to return soon from battling Noxvaleres at Alitelli, Reyna wonders how he will respond to her banishment. Much to Reyna's dismay, a seeker, or Andrivalian spy, takes an interest in her, forcing Reyna and Inferi to collaborate. From $4.14. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

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Acteo struggles to come to grips with the fallout of the Inconclusives’ escape and the implications of the Network’s involvement. Reyna uncovers Reid’s alteration of her memories and wonders whether she made the wrong choice in staying at the Academy. Meanwhile, Reid, Sentia, and Mica face an unexpected reception in Noxvaleria. From $4.14. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

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About the Author - Sherri L. Dodd

Sherri grew up in southeast Texas. Walking barefoot most days and catching crawdads as they swam the creek beds, she had a love for all things free and natural. Her childhood ran rampant with talk of ghosts, demons, and backcountry folklore. This inspired her first short story for sale about a poisonous flower that shot toxins onto children as they smelled it. Her classmate bought it for all the change in his pocket. It was not long after that her mother packed the two of them up and headed to the central coast of California. She has ping-ponged throughout the area ever since.

Sherri holds a bachelor’s degree in Holistic Theology, and this helps her see the world through a colorful lens, with her writing sometimes showing hints of these teachings. Her publisher categorized her first fiction novel as a paranormal thriller. It was also a murder mystery with generous dashes of magic realism, showing that she loves to merge genres. This Murder, Tea & Crystals Trilogy released book one - Murder Under Redwood Moon - in March 2024; book two - Moonset on Desert Sands - in March 2025; and the final book in the series – Hummingbird Moonrise – released October 2025! All three books became an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the Occult Supernatural genre.
 

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If given a second chance at life, would you love differently? Would you mend broken relationships? Would you follow your dreams?

Homeless and estranged from her family, Mary, a guitar savant with big dreams and little hope, is on the verge of letting her life slip away. Just before taking a fatal mix of alcohol and pills, the spirit of a guitar legend appears before her to offer her guidance and a glimmer of hope.

Mary takes advantage of this second chance by getting clean through rehab, falling in love with an actress named Leila, and pouring her soul into her music. When she's diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, Mary is faced with the decision of barely living or living harder with the limited time she has left. Navigating her grief with the help of her family, Mary comes through on the other side ready to show the world why her life mattered.

This 14-track playlist of Mary's life highlights the highs and lows of a tragically beautiful life. With raw wisdom and inspiring philosophy, this story invites readers to look deep within themselves and find the difference between being alive and living. From $3.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

About the Author - Aaron Denius

Born in Virginia, Aaron spent his childhood splitting time between Venezuela and the U.S. After graduating from Virginia Tech, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in storytelling.

Constantly putting the pen to the paper, he found a writing home on the TNT show "Leverage". Following a two year stint on the show, Aaron moved on to more personal endeavors in both film and books. After writing and directing multiple festival films, he turned his attention to books, publishing multiple books.

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re you using AI or is AI using you?

In a world where algorithms shape thought and automation floods the creative field, Human Again is a field-tested playbook for staying awake, original, and alive in the age of machines. Part reflection, part practical guide, it invites readers to explore identity and inspiration in real time, learning to think with AI rather than be replaced by it.

Blending cultural insight, personal experience, and practical tools, Macpherson explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, work, and identity, and how to harness it without losing yourself.

You will learn how to:

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Whether you are a professional, a creator, or simply curious about what is next, Human Again shows how to use AI better than anyone around you while keeping what no algorithm can replicate: your judgment, conscience, and imagination.

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About the Author

J.D. Macpherson is an author and journalist who works in the messy middle—turning complex ideas into stories people actually want to read. Relentless, jargon-allergic, and unmistakably human, she cuts through hype with a reporter’s instinct. A Canadian with a background in theatre and philosophy, Macpherson loves people-watching and finding beauty in unexpected places—and has an especially soft spot for chicken katsu.