Fiction Books – Page 2

One: The Kiss / The Finger (The Collected Short Works of Brian Jackson Book 1)

About One: The Kiss / The Finger (The Collected Short Works of Brian Jackson Book 1):

My name is Steve Merriman and I’m eleven years old. I go to Darby Avenue Elementary School where I’m in the sixth grade. Today, March 11th, 1969, after school, I have to kiss a girl.

So begins the opening story in this short, two-part collection, “The Kiss”, which tells of Steve Merriman’s predicament that comes about due to a dodge ball accident in which he hits Maureen Keller in the face with a scorcher. To keep Maureen from “telling”, Steve agrees to kiss her behind the bungalows after school. “The Kiss” is a classic story of burgeoning young love set amid days gone by when everything seemed to be simpler and youth was awash in a sea of innocence.

“The Kiss” was previously published in the Columbia College Spring Review, and in the book “A Curious Affair”, published in mass market paperback by New York publisher Dorchester Press.

“The Kiss” is followed by the only other story in this collection, “The Finger”, in which the narrator of the story wakes to find a severed finger lying on the coffee table of a shared apartment. But that’s only the start of a really bad day in which chaos ensues.

These two stories were written soon after I retired, while attending a creative writing class at my junior college.

I hope that you enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them. Keep your eye out for other installments in The Collected Short Works of Brian Jackson.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Grateful Fates by P.C. Zick

About The Grateful Fates by P.C. Zick:

Four women. Four decades of friendship. Four secrets that seal their fates.

Roxanne – the popular beauty who faces Ted Bundy and survives. But she’s left with a burning desire for revenge.

Jackie – the peacemaker who settles for a marriage of revenge that backfires. Yet, she manages to keep a secret for forty years until she’s forced to tell the whole story of her marriage to Adam.

Charlene – the smart one who makes the most unconventional choices and ends up successful. Until she faces losing her daughter to the truth.

Wendy – the broken child who rises above her abusive childhood to find her way back to the only man she ever loved. But she risks losing it all when forced to reveal her past.

Intertwined in the friendships are the men who range from the scoundrels to the heroes. The bonds between them all are tested when the past is resurrected to either destroy or uplift.

The Grateful Fates is a story of marriage and divorce; death and birth; love and hate. Four women and a lifetime of heartache leads to the fateful day when they must make the ultimate sacrifice. They must learn how to forgive.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

About Featured Book: The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

Gilmore Crowell’s anthropological study of Tijuana sex workers had his dissertation advisor cheering him on. But that was years ago, before his best sources in the streetwalker community up and vanished. Now he’s living in a downtown Los Angeles boarding house for seniors and listlessly trying to jumpstart his research anew. The faculty elders have grown impatient, he’s too broke to pay his parking tickets, and his girlfriend recently dumped him. To stay afloat, Gil takes a job teaching in a juvenile detention center, using his salary to pay the sex workers to speak with him. In a madcap act of self-sabotage, he begins sleeping with them, as well.

This Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

This book is in Kindle Unlimited!

Buy Book Here.

Vague Pains

About Vague Pains:

On the outskirts of Detroit, Meadowview Hospital means different things different people: a place to work, a place to learn, and a place to fear. Follow their intersecting narratives as Tess, Henry, and Thomas, find themselves traversing each other’s dreams and struggles. Afterward, they will never be the same.

In his intriguing debut novel, Zachary Lemon masterfully crafts an introspective story which will lead you to question your own daily contradictions.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Adventures of Crazy Cory: A Horse Racing Short Story Collection

About The Adventures of Crazy Cory: A Horse Racing Short Story Collection:

Everyone on the backstretch had at least one Crazy Cory story…
This short story collection brings to life the whacky but lovable Crazy Cory, a broken jockey reborn as a healer of rogue racehorses. Experience Crazy Cory’s wild antics through the eyes of the beloved characters of BACKSTRETCH GIRLS and RACETRACK ROGUES, including:
Metalhead ponygirl Teagan and her BFF Anne
Dahlia, rescuer of rejected racehorses
Pioneer female jockey Marilyn Matteo
The notoriously cheap Charlie Miller
Beleaguered track security chief Big Ed
And many more!
One doesn’t need to have read the previous books to enjoy these fun, stand-alone stories by this award-winning author.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Tango of Death. A True Story of Holocaust Survivors: Historical Book for Adults and Teens (Ww2. Jewish Holocaust Fiction)

About Tango of Death. A True Story of Holocaust Survivors: Historical Book for Adults and Teens (Ww2. Jewish Holocaust Fiction):

In the Janowska concentration camp, the Nazis conducted inhuman torture and brutal executions to music. To do so, they brought almost an entire symphony orchestra to the camp. During the Third Reich in World War 2, the Nazis massacred 200,000 ethnic minorities there, including 40 talented musicians.

Tango of Death is an incredibly powerful and haunting WW2 historical fiction novel that captures the horrors of Jewish persecution at the height of World War II. Written by acclaimed writer and playwright Mikhail Baranovskiy in the film-play format, the book is based on true events from the incredible life of Jewish violin virtuoso and musical genius Jacob Mund. who quickly ascended to conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, but was forced to leave for Poland when occupation by Nazi Germany led to the total ban of Jewish composers in Austria.

Misfortune abruptly caught up with Jacob and his pregnant wife and Mund’s happy days in Lwow came to an unfortunate end when the Germans conquered Poland. Jacob’s Jewish parents were robbed and shot on the streets and he was shipped off to the Janowska Nazi concentration camp along with his wife, young daughter and the other Lwow Orchestra musicians.

Tango of Death was written in accord with the true story of violin player Jacob Mund, his orchestra and thousands of other Jews who lived in Lwow, Poland during WWII. 60 documentary photo illustrations are included in this book to show the violent truth of the Jewish Holocaust.

Page Up and Order Now.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Final Frame by Harmony Reed

About Featured Book: The Final Frame by Harmony Reed

Free for a limited time from 3/25/2023 through 4/10/2023

He sacrificed his family for ambition — but now they’re all he has left.

Cameron Parrish became Hollywood’s #1 action director by refusing to use AI-assist technology. Every film is a box office success, but neither fame nor fortune makes up for the fact that Cameron’s dying to make real cinema — an Oscar-worthy movie that will show the world he’s an auteur, not the clever hack that the critics make him out to be.

But mere hours after being greenlit for the film he knows he was born to shoot, director Cameron Parrish is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. There’s no treatment, and if he’s lucky, he might make it another year, but more likely, he’s got a few months left.

As word gets out about his illness, Cameron realizes he has no true friends. No real family either: his obsession with finding perfection behind the camera lens has long since alienated his ex-wife and his adult son.
Desperate to make his final days matter, he signs up for an experimental program that promises to help him discover the meaning of his life — and his death.

Accompanied by an artificial intelligence named Sofia, Cameron embarks on a bucket list journey — from the Maldives and Bhutan to Toledo and Morocco — designed to round out his unbalanced life and help him make peace with his impending death.

But what if it’s too late for Cameron to see the world through a new lens?

Eat, Pray, Love meets The Bucket List in this vibrant but poignant story exploring the possibility of second chances and the unexpected beauty of an imperfect life.

This Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook

Buy Book Here.

Other Worlds Were Possible

About Other Worlds Were Possible:

Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances and played games.

They could have lived like this forever. But a strange and foreign people had ideas of their own…

Appearing out of nowhere, these aliens looked completely different. They smelled different. They even dressed differently. And they had the most peculiar habits.

These people did not live with the earth. They exploited the earth, imposing monocultures and intensive farming. They were not content with their lot. They were possessed by an insatiable desire to consume. And they had no sense of freedom. They were beholden to a never-ending list of outlandish concepts; things such as “Hierarchy”, “Patriarchy”, “Monarchy”, “Monogamy”, “God”, “Punishments”, “Ownership”, “Inequality”, “Money”, “Work” and “Tax”.

Sunny and his kinfolk faced the toughest decision in their history…

They could wage war on these imposters. But their enemies were strong. They had killed hundreds-of-thousands of indigenous people.

They could flee. But these imperialists would surely follow. They would push them into the sea, the mountains or the desert.

Their clan needed another solution. But what could it be? Could they negotiate with this violent foe? Could they form a pact? Could they create a kind of alliance?

Sunny had no idea. But he was compelled by a duty to find out. This was his time. And he was willing to risk his life, to save the people he loved…

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

One Visit

About One Visit:

In sleepy, rural North Wales, Frankie Gibbs, a recently laid off, aimless twenty-year-old on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his younger brother out of the care system. He single-handedly takes this upon himself while their alcoholic, cocaine-addict, single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their lives through systematic abuse and his never-ending wild parties. After Guy is sent to prison, Frankie is coerced into opening his home to Justin, an acquaintance from his school days now turned drug dealer, while his own addiction and self-worth spiral beyond recognition.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Black Waters

About The Black Waters:

With a 4.5 STAR on Amazon, this is the best Women’s Historical Fiction to read. This book is available for FREE after 1 year.

Will Amelia keep her promise to Sehnaz to help her lover Rupen Naik free from the notorious prison of Andaman Islands?

FREE DOWNLOAD The Black Waters to race to survival today!

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Baker’s Dozen

About Baker’s Dozen:

Her bakery is going to the dogs!

Abused and abandoned by her former owners, the unadoptable boxer, Baker, finds a safe haven at Pretty Paws, the only no-kill shelter in town. But when she’s scared, she can’t help defending herself, even from the people who want to help her.

Dumped by her cheating fiancé and mourning the loss of her mother to cancer, Maeve dreams of opening a bakery. But the only way she can afford that is to win a baking contest. Too bad her high school nemesis has entered too, and is using her rich daddy’s money to stack the deck against Maeve.

When Maeve stops by Pretty Paws, Baker chooses the best batch of pastries with her super sensitive nose. It’s not exactly love at first sight, but when Maeve learns that time is almost up on Baker’s stay at the shelter, she agrees to take her home for a couple of weeks, to reset the clock.

Can Maeve and Baker learn to trust each other, or will life find a way to crush their hopes for a fresh start?

Baker’s Dozen is the first book in The Soul Mutts Series, heartwarming stories of lost dogs finding new homes with the humans they were born to heal.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Good News for Dead People

About Good News for Dead People:

The second civil war has come to America, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding.

Good News for Dead People is a short story collection about what happens in the time between twilight and pure darkness. Set in an alternate reality that is both far away and uncomfortably close, runaway climate change, war, and scarcity lurk around every corner while anarchy reigns supreme.

Follow a psychopath fresh out of prison, a thyroid patient searching for pills, and a Senator’s shroom-obsessed son, among others, as they navigate the dangers of a bizarre world that is hostile to life itself. See war and collapse from perspectives never explored, from genesis to the bitter end.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Jetsam: New and Collected Fictions by Bruce Barber

About Jetsam: New and Collected Fictions by Bruce Barber:

Bruce Barber’s first collection of short fiction delivers twenty-two visionary excursions across such diverse genres as urban fantasy, literary, science-fiction, satire, family-drama, and horror. Fifteen of these have never been published, with seven having been previously enjoyed by readers of various Canadian small press periodicals, including On Spec, Descant, and the New Quarterly. Barber’s thematic depth and unique style paint worlds that will remain with you for years to come.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Little Women (Annotated): The Original Edition with 200+ Illustrations, Biographical Introduction, and Interesting Historical Facts (A Classic Novel by Louisa May Alcott)

About Little Women (Annotated): The Original Edition with 200+ Illustrations, Biographical Introduction, and Interesting Historical Facts (A Classic Novel by Louisa May Alcott):

Discover Louisa May Alcott’s original edition with more than 200 illustrations, an introduction to the author’s life and works, and riveting historical facts.

Originally published as two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Little Women follows the lives of the March sisters—Meg, the eldest; Jo, the tomboy, gentle Beth, and the adventurous Amy—four young women with unique personalities, hopes, and dreams, rarely featured in classic novels for young readers at the time. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women continues to resonate with readers as a timeless tale about the transition from childhood to womanhood. With its unique characters, heartwarming yet realistic style, and beautiful life lessons, the sweet story of the March sisters continues to inspire girls and women of all ages about true love, independence, feminine strength, and courage. Dive into the spirit and time of a different era with this coming-of-age novel, loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters.

This beautiful 150th Anniversary Edition includes:

– Both volumes of the original Little Women novel, including Good Wives, a sequel following the March girls and their friend Laurie into adulthood.
– 200+ original illustrations by the legendary artist Frank T. Merrill from the first illustrated edition.
– A detailed introduction of the author’s biography exploring the story’s connections to Alcott’s life.
– Historical context about women’s and girls’ lives, roles, and rights before the women’s suffrage movement.
– Interesting facts about life in 19th Century America.
– A beautifully designed cover.
– Easy-to-read format with calligraphic elements.
– Proofread and properly formatted text for the perfect reading experience.

Little Women, one of the best classic novels of all time, is the perfect gift for book lovers that will become an unmissable part of your collection!

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

The Ring

About The Ring:

Business owner Paige West misses the closeness she had with her now-deceased father. Jessivel Salter, a single mother on the brink of becoming homeless, also misses her dead father, but for very different reasons. When fate unites the two women, Paige is drawn to Jessivel from the start and wants to help her. But Jessivel doesn’t trust Paige or her intentions and rejects her many “helping hand” offers. The two women eventually connect and when certain disturbing truths are unveiled, they discover they have something in common that is inconceivable and shocking. Each has to decide whether to take the easy way out and part ways forevermore or face up to the adversity that fate has thrown at them.

And it all started with “the ring.”

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

La mirada del hijo

About La mirada del hijo:

Paula es una maestra de parvulario que no puede tener hijos y junto con su marido adoptan a Daniel, un bebé pelirrojo; al cabo de unos años irrumpe la madre biológica en ese escenario idílico, rompiendo la calma que reinaba hasta entonces. A través de diferentes etapas, desde que el niño llega al hogar hasta que se hace adulto, La mirada del hijo nos adentra en personajes como la abuela, una mujer de carácter con una especial predilección por este nieto; a pesar de que con Paula ambas son un ejemplo de relaciones problemáticas entre madres e hijas. O Sophie, la joven que aparece coincidiendo con el despertar a la adolescencia.
Con un trasfondo de danza clásica asistimos a la historia de un amor que marcará el antes y el después, y en donde todos ellos tendrán mucho más en común de lo que parece.

“Su lectura está llena de interés y no nos deja indiferentes pues es una invitación a la reflexión en un mundo donde la banalidad ejerce su imperio.”—L’Ull crític

“El lector encuentra una narrativa estimulante, que se abre a los sentimientos de distintos personajes y que exige sensibilidad para comprender cada una de las vidas que se mueven en la narración.”—Resonancias Literarias

“Hechos aparentemente sobreentendidos, y que la novela revela de forma consistente en el momento justo, dan la impresión de estar leyendo una historia escrita por escamas, en la que los acontecimientos se van superponiendo hasta conformar un panorama general. Una obra completa, redonda, cuya lectura no dudamos en recomendarte.”—Letralia

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Extra X-Ray (Hawthorn Haven Book 1)

About Extra X-Ray (Hawthorn Haven Book 1):

Billie Smith was born with an expiration date.

She’s came from a long line of short-lived women. Breast cancer has taken all of the women in Billie’s family by the age of 50 as far back as anyone could remember. Before dying, Billie’s mother made her promise to live her life to its fullest and not live in fear of death. And Billie has kept that promise. She fell in love with and married Peter, she gave birth to her daughter, Katie, and planned out how she would use the time she had with them.

When her ribs don’t heal after a car accident, she gets the diagnosis she’s been dreading since childhood. All of Billie’s plans were shattered.

Peter knows her family history, and has vowed “for better or for worse,” but will he really stick around when her father had run off?

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Broken Like Glass

About Broken Like Glass:

A three-day weekend visit home goes terribly wrong when Lillian James stabs her dad and has no memory of doing it.

All introverted, but sassy-mouthed, Lillian James wants is to get her visit home done and over with. After all, the last thing she wants is to spend more time at the place where her childhood nightmares haunt her. But when she does the unimaginable, Lillian’s entire life changes, yet she has no recollection of any of it.

Now, stuck in her small hometown suffering through six months of court-ordered therapy, Lillian must sift through the faded memories of her painful childhood. With judgmental and suspicious townsfolk, the only person she can trust or count on is her old high school crush, Uriah Pendleton. He’s the only light in her now dim life as he encourages her to explore her faith in ways she never dared to before.

In the midst of her self-discovery, the relationship she has with the Savior—who she lovingly refers to as “Papa”—is tested beyond measure. She must allow Him to heal her wounds while learning that the past doesn’t define the future. Will Lillian accept that God has a purpose for all things—even those that nearly shatter someone?

Warning: this isn’t like my usual fluffy light romance. It is darker and has a strong religious theme.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Vampire hybrid: Searching for my mates by Tasha Cobbs

About Vampire hybrid: Searching for my mates by Tasha Cobbs:

After Annalise was given the privilege to search for her mates, she found her first mate Emerald who is a witch boy. Her second mate Gerald who is her personal knight. Her third mate prince Malcom whom she loves most. She later gets the shock of her life when she found out that her fourth mate is prince Malcom’s father the king. The king and prince challenged themselves for a deadly duel, who stays alive after the fight would marry Annalise as second wife. Then something tragedy happened during the duel, the king killed his son and threw him down the waterfall. He decided to marry Annalise as second wife but she didn’t agree, she felt that the prince wasn’t dead. The king locked her up in the cell and instructed the guards to torture her till she agrees to marry him. After staying for two months in the cell, Annalise discovered that she was pregnant for the prince but the baby isn’t an ordinary child. He is the devil. Find out more about what happened to Annalise. Did she later search for her baby daddy? Or did she marry the king to act as father to her unborn child?

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

Apache Jack: A Legend Is Born

About Apache Jack: A Legend Is Born:

Author has sold 200,000 books and is briefly giving away 65 ebooks — gets yours now! In 1843, when the Millers steal a secret gold mine in New Mexico, everyone wants to kill them — especially Geronimo. Hatred here is a way of life, but war with Mexico looms. In a lawless time, in a brutal land, where murder is just a popular career, Jack Miller will do anything to take what he can and kill who he must.
PRAISE FROM AMAZON VERIFIED REVIEWS:
“A great western. Stunning battles and epic historical details… Geronimo leaps off the page.”
“An all-nighter… Non-stop action and never-ending fun. It had great good guys and better bad guys.”
“An epic western, huge in scope with tons of cool history. The pages flew like a bullet. The author vividly captures the spirit of the times. A must read for western fans.”
“The wild west at its wildest. Great book. Highly addictive. Great revenge plot.”
“Stunning battles and epic historical details. I loved it.”
“Destined to become a great movie. A killer plot with killer characters.”
“Best western ever! Read if you like dark revenge with Geronimo.”
“A huge story! Tough men in brutal times. Well written.”
“My new favorite western! It’s a barn burner. Incredibly clever.”
“Geronimo comes to life… Well written with colorful characters. Best western I’ve read in years.”
“Read this with the safety on… Jack has enough balls for a cavalry platoon while Geronimo is fierce and unforgiving. I had a blast with the explosive writing. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
“Great story. Bloody brilliant. Geronimo is so dark he shines. Westerns don’t get better than this. Expect non-stop action, betrayal, and tension.”
“Fantastic western. I gripped my tablet as horrible things happened to my heroes. The superb historical figures are as seductive as the story. The visceral plot ramps up without wearing out.”
“Read this if you like wild westerns. Jack and Geronimo are fascinating monsters. The terrific plot twists shocked me out of my stunned stupor to scream like a lunatic.”
“Bold, beautiful and badass. A terrific tale of terrible times where murderous men get their mean on. Explosive prose burns up the pages. The fascinating hero is as ruthless and relentless as his nemesis. This massive masterpiece takes westerns to new heights. Impressive historical details of the past set a new standard for the future. If this gets made into a show, I’m stockpiling popcorn.”
“Spectacular gunfights. Very well written.”

BOOK 1: In 1843, when the Millers stole a secret gold mine in New Mexico, everyone wanted to kill them — especially Geronimo. Hatred here is a way of life, but war with Mexico looms, complicating survival. In a lawless time, in a brutal land, where murder is just a popular career, Jack Miller will do anything to take what he can and kill who he must. The legend born amid that bloody landscape will forever transform the Wild West.

Buy the book:

Get The Book Here.

« Previous Page