Today's Featured Books

In today's market, range-rearing of swine can provide the family farm with a key venture for diversification and provide a good cash flow - perhaps no other large animal enterprise offers as fast a turnaround on investment.
With the informed consumer expressing concerns about the issues with factory farming and willing to pay a premium to get a healthy, quality alternative - range-produced pork is more and more the right answer. This comprehensive book on raising hogs the natural way includes sections on housing, fencing, selection, breeding, herd maintenance, feeds, marketing and more. FREE – SHOP NOW /

With 16 literary awards, from the #1 bestselling series, Tachyon Tunnel 4 delivers a masterful blend of epic space adventure rooted in real, yet understandable science, and powerful human connection. Written by futurist and innovator Michael Gorton, founder of Teladoc and a pioneer in multiple industries, the Tachyon Tunnel series reflects a rare combination of storytelling, visionary thinking and authentic scientific insight. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

ALPHA WOLF. BETA HUMAN. BIG APPLE.

Michael Andrews seems to have it all. He's a successful author and a minor celebrity living in Manhattan. It's a pretty big step up from his humble Canadian upbringing.

Of course, his lycanthropy poses a bit of a challenge.

After waking up from his latest night of howling at the moon, he's naked, he's got a bullet hole in his leg, and he has a sneaking suspicion he ran into another wolf last night. A wolf that was stomping all over his home turf. FREE – SHOP NOW /

In this contemporary fantasy, we continue the adventures of Josephine O’Connor, a recently retired grandmother who has always enjoyed a youthful body due to extremely slow aging but when she discovers she’s become immortal, she must return to the workforce and leave retirement behind for good. Soon after starting her investigative work for the police, Josephine finds herself smack dab in the middle of trouble when she discovers a secret organization called the Valituras that has amassed ancient magic and power with single-minded determination. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

A resurgence of interest in heritage poultry breeds has invigorated poultry raising on family farms and backyards across the country. These are the birds that can and should be producing for today’s marketplace – for consumers that have come to value locally bred and grown, historically significant agricultural food. This book offers valuable insight into rare, heritage and heirloom breed selection, chick raising, breeding and marketing so you can start your own fully sustainable heritage chicken flock and raise eggs or meat for your family or small farm business. FREE – SHOP NOW /

This book demolishes the mythology on which toxic chemical agriculture has been built. Dr. Dan Skow’s teacher was the late Dr. Carey Reams, and the lessons he learned — and improved upon — are important ones. This book teaches how to measure fertility down to the atomic level and project forward bins and bushels with brix high enough to confer immunity to fungal, bacterial and insect attack — and to ward off weeds. The biological theory of ionization as applied to agriculture for all to understand. Practical, hands-on advice that is hard to come by. From $9.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

In this book, eco-agriculture is explained — from the tiniest molecular building blocks to managing the soil — in terminology that not only makes the subject easy to learn, but vibrantly alive. Eco-Farm truly delivers a complete education in soils, crops, and weed and insect control. This should be the first book read by everyone beginning in eco-agriculture . . . and the most shop-worn book on the shelf of the most experienced. FREE – SHOP NOW /

He saved me from a kidnapping.
Promised protection I never asked for.
And became more dangerous than my enemies.

Viktor Kovalev isn't a hero.
He's the kind of man even the Bratva fears.
And he just started a war over me.

I was supposed to marry a monster.
A forced Bratva alliance my own father arranged.
I said no.
They dragged me into a car anyway. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW / 

“And I thought you were my savior in my darkest hour. How very wrong I was.”

1794: Devastated by the violent disappearance of her husband, Charles Sharpe, Eliza struggles to save Pleasant Hall from the hands of crooked creditors and the governor’s greed. In the aftermath of the attack, her husband’s enemies have branded him a traitor and declare him dead.

But an unlikely source carries knowledge that he still lives, and he alone knows who has taken Charles. Eliza’s desperation drives her to form an alliance with the king of the underworld himself: Captain Hiram Bruin, a notorious man who is more pirate than privateer. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

Since childhood, Ysara has been hiding in plain sight, keeping her head down and her mouth shut. She has small ambitions: a dowry, a boy who barely knows her name, a life that's hers to keep. Then a clumsy prince wanders into the wrong forest, an imperial investigator starts asking the wrong questions, and everything she thought she'd buried comes looking for her. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

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