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When his mother is beaten to death by his alcoholic stepfather, fourteen-year-old Samuel Marlowe is rescued from seeking revenge against him by a chance meeting with Officer Edwin Hill. The veteran policeman takes Sam under his wing and even becomes the boy's foster father.Sam becomes a cop and works alongside his beloved mentor until Edwin is killed in a shooting. Hailed as a hero for his actions in the case, Sam feels like anything but. He b...

January, 1717 A solitary figure walks along the windswept beach of a deserted island. His only companions are twelve silent castaways, brutally murdered. As the man fights to come to terms with his situation, he realizes just how dire the circumstances are.So begins the adventure of Grayson Fallon and his quest for the truth. Come along in this sweeping tale that will take Fallon throughout the Caribbean and Colonial America during the golden ...

1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government was going through some changes itself in The Black Chamber, while everyday heroes could be confused with the Devil. Which will be your favorite?Fe...

The story opens with Sabrina, a well seasoned personal injury attorney, contemplating a different trajectory in life. She stumbles upon an old family practice that may help her seek a new path, or at a minimum, gain self-fulfillment.At just five years-old, Teddie is taken from her mother and placed in foster care, where she remains until college. Never understanding why her mother didn't come for her, and overwhelmed with the reality that she ...

Baro Xaimos: A Novel of the Gypsy Holocaust follows the nearly miraculous survival path of a group of Roma, led by Tobor Mericano, through the Nazi years, including World War II. The novel opens in the 1930's on the eve of the formation of the Marzahn Camp. This camp was the prototype for a system of concentration camps designed to contain, oppress and ultimately kill all Roma within Nazi occupied Europe. The gypsies manage to escape the traps...

A Collection of Community Based Short StoriesA Zimbell House AnthologyNovember Falls features nine short stories about community that may just surprise you.Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:Aimee Bingham Osinski ♦ Asma Al Jailani ♦ Chris Espenshade ♦ Don Noel ♦ Katherine DeGilio ♦ Leslie D. Soule ♦ Lora Kempka ♦ Steve Carr ♦ and Tyson West

Earth's pollution is destroying its twin realm, Alpha. It may already be too late ...Determined Andréa Ramirez: An athlete from Argentina, ends up in America after her family's farm burns down. All she ever dreamed of was becoming the fastest Latina runner in the world. Intuitive Cora O'Neil: An academic genius, future entrepreneur, and an activist with Friends of Earth-Ireland, has dreams of saving the world through green industry.Charming TJ...

Earth's pollution is destroying its twin realm, Alpha. It may already be too late ...Determined Andréa Ramirez: An athlete from Argentina, ends up in America after her family's farm burns down. All she ever dreamed of was becoming the fastest Latina runner in the world.Intuitive Cora O'Neil: An academic genius, future entrepreneur, and an activist with Friends of Earth-Ireland, has dreams of saving the world through green industry.Charming TJ ...

John Fulghum Mysteries presents neo-noir short stories dedicated to the Private Investigator, John Fulghum, that just happens to be a decent, brilliant former war hero and gumshoe. Working out of an unlikely second-story office in Greater Boston, he solves crimes that no one else will handle because they fall outside the parameters or jurisdiction of normal police work. They're dirty crimes, involving savage methods and little-understood socie...

Private Investigator John Fulghum knows it is more than good fortune that brings a beautiful, intelligent Korean woman to his seedy second-story office above Joe's Malt Shop. The executive assistant and unlikely wife of a wealthy Boston centenarian -that just happens to be a Korean War hero, and now a murder victim- Kim Su Baek spins Fulghum an incredible tale with roots in the ancient Korean royal family. Yet Fulghum believes her incredible t...

John Fulghum, a Boston area Private Investigator, is at it again in E. W. Farnsworth's latest collection of titillating noiresque detective stories. Fulghum once again relies heavily on his close friend, Nigel Pounce, of the Boston Police Homicide Department, along with long-time associate in the CIA, Ken Mander, to get to bottom of the gruesome task of solving unsolvable mysteries. Along the way, Fulghum's sweetheart at the Boston Globe, Sylv...

The style of E. W. Farnsworth's stories reminds one of Chandler or Elroy on amphetamines. John "Jack" Fulghum, Private Investigator, bachelor, former war hero and inveterate outsider, solves grisly homicide cases that stump the overworked police forces of Boston and other cities. To solve these cases, he crosses jurisdictional boundaries in the US and abroad and teams with close, like-minded friends Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide and Kenneth ...

Finding Harry Diamond, John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume V continues with the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum. Fulghum must track down Harry Diamond, an infamous and ruthlessly effective CIA assassin, before the man decides to make Fulghum his next target. Tracking down his 'double' with the help of his friend, CIA agent Ken Mander, leads Fulghum into close quarters with beautiful women, secret en...

The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, by E. W. Farnsworth takes you through the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum with the services of his friends, Ken Mander of the CIA, and Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, to unravel the secrets of Fulghum's latest case. Fulghum, and his long-time girlfriend, Boston Globe archivist Sylvia Blackwood, go undercover to solve a murder at a small Cat...

January, 1717A solitary figure walks along the windswept beach of a deserted island. His only companions are twelve silent castaways, brutally murdered. As the man fights to come to terms with his situation, he realizes just how dire the circumstances are. So begins the adventure of Grayson Fallon and his quest for the truth. Come along in this sweeping tale that will take Fallon throughout the Caribbean and Colonial America during the golden ...

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The story opens with Sabrina, a well seasoned personal injury attorney, contemplating a different trajectory in life. She stumbles upon an old family practice that may help her seek a new path, or at a minimum, gain self-fulfillment.At just five years-old, Teddie is taken from her mother and placed in foster care, where she remains until college. Never understanding why her mother didn't come for her, and overwhelmed with the reality that she ...

The year is 1560, the Inquisition in Madrid has turned on the conversos in Al-Andalus, and the Benzions must flee to their holdings in Palermo. Don Miguel Benzion, a former Captain in the employ of the Duke of Sienna, and the son of a wealthy converso family in Granada, Spain must sell the family business before he is trapped by the inquisition and is forced to flee to Cuba. On the voyage to Cuba, Don Miguel meets the lovely and vivacious Seno...

The year is 1829. The gruff, self-reliant Goldfinch, a veteran of the War of 1812, has become the anointed leader of an idyllic religious community named Synod, nestled in the Ramapough Mountains of northern New Jersey. Thanks to the advice of the village's Founders, Synod will become a stop on what would soon be called the "Underground Railroad." Goldfinch oversees this transition, bringing in a broken runaway family. As southern bounty hunte...

Imagine if you will that your evening news has just announced that Vampires are real. It's not a hoax ...Midnight Rising is a collection of seven tales that delve into what that may look like in today's society.Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:Glen Damian Campbell ♦ Michael Grantham ♦ Kathleen Halecki ♦ Katie Krantz ♦ R. S. Pyne ♦ Abiran Raveenthiram ♦ and Leslie D. Soule