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As Scruff Sanders struggles with the challenges of being manipulated by disguised power as well as the rewards of becoming a national celebrity, his own integrity is put to the test. Puzzled by who to trust, his life, his career, and his values are put in the crucible. The wrong answer might cost him everything. But is there a right answer? With the presidential election looming, decisions must be made.

When a woman sees a dead body across the way through the window in her Manhattan apartment, she is desperate for others to believe her. Unfortunately no one else can see what she does and it begins to drive her to desperation. In the spirit of old radio dramas of the 1940s, the heart-pounding mystery unravels delightfully until the surprising conclusion is reached. Carole Carson—a fading movie star—slowly loses her mind while surrounded by a colorful cast of unique characters who either are helping to calm her nerves or are consciously driving her insane.

Before this hour is up, I'm going to kill you, the patient announces to her doctor. It is the last straw for an entitled, socialite, trophy wife who has become enraged with her psychiatrist after she maintains he took advantage of her. He declares it was a mutual, adult relationship. In a story that takes place during the pairs final fifty-minute therapy session, words fly back and forth as the psychiatrist tries to deescalate the situation while his patient becomes increasingly erratic and emotional.

Henry Allen Carruthers had just celebrated his sixth birthday eleven days after he started first grade in 1955, and for him life was simply grand. But his idyllic existence would inexplicably grow dark with an unexpected life turn and the impact would slowly begin to change this sweet and lovable child.

Portland, 1954. By day, Francine Avery is the picture of poise, penning etiquette columns for Charm magazine. By night, she is a hunter stalking a ghost in the rain. Three months ago, Francine’s world was shattered when a Green Jaguar struck her six-year-old son, Mikey, and sped away, leaving him in the street. Now, as the police file the case away as an unsolved tragedy, Francine’s grief has hardened into a cold, jagged resolve. The sympathy cards are ignored and the prayers are discarded. In the silence of her empty home, she isn’t writing about spring place settings anymore. Armed ...

It was the summer of 1963 and one movie crashed into the world of teen America. After that, nothing would ever be the same. With babes in bikinis and tanned, muscled guys slicing through Southern California waves, the "Beach Blanket" phenomena exploded onto the scene and instantly everyone in America—from Minneapolis to North Platte—became a bitchin’ beach boy or a bronzed beach bunny. That was the first of eleven memorable surf movies that rewrote the script for an entire generation.Then came along Comic-Con and the 35th Reunion of the cast of those cult classics and, well, no one ...

On a very ordinary day in a very ordinary year, Aaron Matheson, successful Chicago ad-man, unearthed a journal from a dusty box that he had written in 1967 at the end of his high school era. During evenings it offered an interesting diversion as he followed the same dates—exactly 50 years apart—until his two worlds inexplicably began to merge. Simultaneously thrilling and terrifying, Aaron enjoys dipping his toe back into memories of growing up in a carefree beach town during the fascinating sixties, but soon realizes the dangers of time travel for each trip back takes a piece of his ...

In a delightful holiday story that stretches through eras, generations and families, the author cleverly connects historically based stories into one continuing tale built around a snow globe that comes to be passed along. Through it, the reader discovers a window into the lives and souls of those who once owned the precious item…and eventually propelled it forward from the 18th century until the present time. Filled with humor and warm sentiment as well as stirring situations with which we all connect, Jamison delivers a moving storyline that has been said is "impossible to set down for ...

As World War II rages throughout the globe, safely tucked away in one-of-a-kind cottage carved out of the cliffs of Monterey, California, is the serene and secure Casa Encanta. Its only inhabitants are two lonely women—a spinster with secrets and a young college student with dreams. But all of that changes when a dashing and delightful officer arrives on the scene with his betrothed to reserve their honeymoon suite. Then, without warning, fate intervenes and the worlds of everyone are turned upside down—some for better, some for worse—in this moving, picturesque novel. "If you are a ...

Vacationing in a five-star resort in the Rocky Mountains, film mogul Kenneth Edward Westland and his new, young wife, Delilah, find themselves trapped in the hotel after he becomes ill during a raging snowstorm. The resort, now abandoned for the winter, proves to be the last piece of the puzzle in a plot for Delilah to murder her husband and gain his fortune.

Martin Milton Madellbaum—or Fartin’ Martin as he was un-affectionately called by the very few people who knew him or even cared to—worked in Room 246 on the thirteenth floor of a corporate mega-tower at a company for whom he was invisible. Daily pushing his mail cart mindlessly, as if on a pre-determined and unchangeable track, his life was lived out in a human habitrail of obscurity. There was no present, no future for poor Martin. Or was there? What whizzed and whirred under that mask of blank expression? Against a backdrop of corporate greed and abusive power, one simple man ...

When a couple of young, listless losers pull off a Vegas’ slots casino heist and go on a wild run through the Mojave Desert, they find refuge in the cabin of an old man who has weathered many a decade. He tells them of an even greater score—the legend of a Spanish Galleon marooned in the desert sands that is filled with gold and jewelry.

The author’s novel—embedded into Final Draft—is the story of a hardboiled crime reporter who figures out a plot to seduce and marry a dying heiress in order to gain her fortune. His plan, however, is beset with challenges and he finds himself in an ever darker, ever deepening maze of intrigue...something the author suddenly seems unable to escape himself as the writer’s fiction merges with his own life.

Victoria Halloran was the heir of the great Whitcomb legacy which came with an estate beyond value situated on a private island, called Belle Isle, outside of Detroit. With her kind and attentive husband Herbert at her side, from there she reigned as queen on her throne. Unfortunately her throne was her bed—she was a hypochondriac invalid that had not escaped her world of pillows and linens for more than a dozen years. Imperious, entitled, and bitter, she only found happiness when the world revolved around her.

When Grace Kirkman’s husband disappears under suspicious circumstances, she plays the grieving wife with convincing ease—but behind her perfect smile lies a calculating mind. As the investigation unfolds, Lieutenant Peroski begins to suspect the crime scene was staged, the body moved, and the truth artfully concealed. Grace, a poised 1950s housewife with a dark streak, knows just how to deflect suspicion while maintaining her grip on control—and her secrets. With the case growing colder and Peroski’s gut telling him something’s off, a deadly game of cat and mouse emerges. Is Grace...

When the rich and handsome Gregg and his fiancé the peppy, mysterious Emmie decide to take a drive to meet the parents, they had expected a five-hour journey of sunshine and top-40 tunes on the radio in their convertible. But then came a summer storm. It was indeed the storm of the century, but far from simply a meteorological event it also creates an inner turmoil of epic proportions as they try to solve and survive an impossible situation that was beyond their grasp.

Lana LeFleur was the epitome of the movie star queens of the Golden Age of Cinema. Fawned over, catered to, adored and pampered she was the center of her own universe and demanded that that was also true of everyone in her orbit—especially her stand-in who lived continually in the shadow of her stardom. And also her beleaguered newlywed husband, who had sacrificed his writing career to give her the spotlight. But for Lana, there would be a reckoning. When Cameron, the shy husband, and Audrey, the unassuming body double, begin to develop a relationship…only the cinema diva is in their way.

When sweet and innocent Evie found herself mired in a wicked storm on a muddy road in the dead of night, her heart was in her throat with every turn. Perhaps that was why she didn’t notice the man walking in the rain along the road—and nearly hit him. Afraid to stop, he later confronts her at a roadside diner. Apologetic, she offers him a ride. It might have been the mistake of her life for Vince was a penitentiary escapee on the run. The next several hours together are ones of terror until they discover they have something in common and begin to plot a solution to both of their problems.

In the spirit of Stephen King, the natural becomes supernatural in Isla Chillido—a true tale of terror. Isla Chillido is a luxury Caribbean island resort that is largely populated during the summer season by the grown children of uber-rich parents who feel entitled, empowered, and carefree to a fault. Their only parameters in life seem to be an abject worry of being ridiculed by their peers or appearing “uncool” at any moment in time. These pretentious young adults fear nothing and no one until…until they are faced with a horror beyond imagination.

When two aging sisters—old maids from another era—share a crumbling mansion on a hill, one of them decides that “daddy’s house” is no longer big enough for the two of them. Tired of being the caretaker of her feeble sibling and anxious to find a husband to care for her, Miss Myrna—of the famed Boston Collingsworths—decides that it’s time for her needy sister Vera to be gone and begins to lay the framework for her disappearance. Tired of being told to “Hush!" Vera may not be as slow and trusting as she seems and soon the two enter into a cat-and-mouse game from which only one will emerge.