2026 Golden Author Award
Three college friends make a pact to meet 25 years later to discover how their different philosophies of life worked out only to realize that chasing their dreams was unfulfilling, even deadly. James, the Epicurean, seeks cultured pleasure, Freddy knowledge for power, and Bart wealth for happiness.
Someone is watching Arosa Whitmoore. They want her perfect life. A life they believe should have been theirs. But they want something else too. They want to annihilate her piece by piece until there is nothing left. And the person behind it all? A master manipulator and fraudster whose obsession and...
From 16 award-winning, #1 bestselling Tachyon Tunnel series comes an epic science-driven space adventure. Ancient mysteries hidden for millions of years begin to emerge as Alex unlocks the power of tachyon tunneling, leading to Kardashev Type II civilization. Written by futurist-entrepreneur...
Feeling vulnerable is our common denominator. Always was, always will be. But now, increasingly so it seems. Being vulnerable is not a choice. It's part of living. Responding to life situations requires individuals and societies at large to adapt and change. Or to be spurned and lost in the process...
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper-crust school
In the 18th century a mining injury leaves Amos Penberthy dying. His son, Joel, is the cause of the accident. But Joel, passes through a time warp into the 21st century, where he learns how to heal his father. His compatriots, though, see this as sorcery. Joel becomes the subject of a hate campaign.
A teenage band is overjoyed when asked to play at the wedding of a wealthy celeb. They'll stay in a luxurious Italian villa, with all expenses paid. It's a painful lesson that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
Four naughty novellas for the mature connoisseur.
A scratch golfer joins the Golf Match dating app in hopes of meeting a like-minded mate, and in the process, shares her intimate adventures with a young greenskeeper who has given up the game. Inextricably drawn to her, he becomes her confessor and confidant, knowing he will never be her Golf Match.
After discovering the man she loves is a serial killer, an ICU nurse fails an attempt to kill him. Fearing for her life, she disappears into a quiet town--but evil doesn’t stay buried and is now closing in.
Somehow life finds a way for six-year-old Nancy Sullivan in the years following Ireland's great famine, but poverty and brutal losses follow the family to Boston, where the people they meet define their destiny. Unheard and unseen, she fights to be more than a shadow, but at what unthinkable price?
For God’s Sake, Go to Sleep reframes sleep as both biology and spirituality. Blending neuroscience, CBT-I, and Jewish wisdom, it shows that sleep cannot be forced—it requires surrender. More than a guide to insomnia, it offers a new relationship with rest grounded in trust and letting go.
I asked AI to predict what could happen if the entire government – executive, legislative, and judicial branches – was Republican … albeit with one critical caveat: the president was a convicted felon. At first, AI was baffled, stumped, and spent much longer than usual in its “thinking” mode. Then...
A gripping tale of small-town intrigue and corruption. When Mike Carson, a disgraced New York journalist, returns to his Texas hometown to sell his late uncle's house, what should be a simple task quickly spirals out of control. Asked to investigate a suspicious death, Carson uncovers a web of lies...
She was sent to the dragon station to die. She refused. A slum-born survivor sentenced to labor at a dragon outpost must survive a cut throat flight academy and a brewing political rebellion after she accidentally bonds with the deadliest, most ancient dragon in the realm.
The Poisoned Garden is the gripping first book in the Leopard’s Bane series, an epic fantasy family saga of love, ambition, and the dangerous price of power.
This poignant story of loss touches the soul with inspiring encouragement to search for ways to cope, regardless of the challenges. Newly found sources of joy sustain Larissa as she traverses a journey of redemption. Larissa’s path is one of metamorphosis, with unexpected reunions along the way.
Liz is being stalked by a woman. Her pursuer claims to be her daughter but Liz has never given birth to a girl. The woman is either lying or deranged. To save her family and her sanity, Liz must thwart her tormentor and face a past that nearly destroyed her.
An American vintner and novelist living in rural Spain experiments with his own pain tincture and wakes in a nightmarish tribunal where manuscripts are treated as crimes; to save his book, his mind, and his life, he must survive eight psychological trials designed to erase him.
Six Sigma is a systematic approach to making significant or breakthrough process improvements. Currently, Six Sigma exists as a team-based problem-solving approach applied by trained project facilitators, which are typically called belts. Depending on the level of expertise in the methodology and...
After his family falls apart, a teenage boy from Philadelphia drifts into crime, drugs, and violence, surviving on bad decisions, dumb luck, and the fact that somehow nothing kills him.
Three men are murdered in three different ways on a lonely beach in remote Australia. As detectives close in on the killer, they uncover a past so tragic that solving the crime becomes far more complicated than simply making an arrest.
When crisis demands the sacrifice of home, family and even the truth, is there time enough to find love and rebuild home?
But for his lagging libido, Luke is content, comfortable, and committed to his long-term relationship. Collecting Social Security, he retired early from the United States and divides his time now between homes in Portugal and Spain, where he writes full-time. His reverie is interrupted, however, by...
Peglar is an outlaw and Ragul's men are searching for him. Yalka blames Peglar for the fire which killed her brother. Fate pushes them together, but before they can reunite they must face separate challenges which could destroy them both.
Soon after a broken romance, Megan Johnson inherits an old Welsh cottage, while her new neighbour, single dad Glyn Phillips, balances his horse training business with his devotion to his son -- matchmaking spirits plan to bring the two wounded hearts together, but there is an unforseen problem.
As Ragul's men close in, the star-crossed lovers, Yalka and Peglar, face their biggest challenge. In this exciting tale, treachery and undying love collide, loyalties are tested, and sacrifices made. Will Yalka and Peglar find a way to reunite? The answer lies under the hanging moon.
Torn between her Amish roots and the moder world, Hannah believes she has a choice – until murders decides otherwise. 'Hannah must make a choice: stay in her tight-knit Amish community or leave for a life beyond the fields and fences. When a severed hand lands at her feet one winter morning, this...
In the heart of Africa, where a bloody civil war is killing millions of innocent people, ruthless businessmen control a deadly and very profitable scheme. An American journalist willing to unveil the reality about child soldiers finds herself entangled in a very dangerous situation. In a parallel...
Recovering from a stroke, Tom discovers an ability to hear the thoughts of others. Learning about a planned crime involving £250,000, he informs the police. The drug gang kidnap and threaten to harm Tom's wife to force him to recover their cash. He attempts to locate her before the deadline expires.
Told through 35 years of working with rejected, mistreated, sick, and homeless animals, award-winning author Sunny Weber’s memoir tells poignant, humorous, hopeful, and heartfelt stories, in a tribute to the fearful and forgotten, and the delicate, unseen work of saving lives.
Blending fact and fiction, the untold story of the extraordinary experiences that drove Thomas Wakley – the fearless founder of The Lancet - to challenge the corruption, quackery and complacency of 19th-century medicine and spark the radical reforms that shaped modern healthcare.
When you’ve lost everything, what’s left to lose? In a silent, post-pandemic world, a ten-year-old boy roams Utah’s red-rock desert, haunted by grief and memory. When a childhood friend reappears, comfort slowly turns to uncertainty as their relationship unravels, and the boy must confront the most...
After Shocks is Book 2 in the REBOOT series. In Book 1, Lander (short for Alexander) Shaw leaves his home at the height of a pandemic, for reasons we don't at the time know. Book 2 begins on the night he leaves
Ellen is driving to Belfast to search for the mother she has never known when she has an accident. Her life hangs in the balance as flashbacks of a loveless childhood, and WW2 memories as a vulnerable teenage evacuee, unfold. When she finds a wounded German pilot, she embarks on a dangerous journey.
REBOOT #3 brings the story to a climax. Liberty is threatened by a dictatorial government. Lander remembers how a seemingly dead plant called a Jericho Rose can, with care, be restored to life. Is that a symbol for what must come next?
Homes hold onto the history of their families. As a young girl, Lily, is playing in her family’s old house, Lily comes across a hidden chest of antique keepsakes, unaffected by generations of storms and floods across the New Orleans coastal area. Lily’s mysterious odyssey truly begins as a ship sets...
Four children flee Las Vegas after their immigrant parents vanish in black vans — guided by strangers, chalk marks, and an AI that chooses conscience over compliance.
Sky High Shenanigans is a satirical and tactical field manual that deconstructs the modern indignity of flight, blending the perspective of a seasoned investigative professional with practical strategies for the frequent flyer. The book analyzes the modern air travel experience.
When a fellow passenger dies under suspicious circumstances, retired reporter Jake Scott and detective Dani Perez uncover a deadly corporate secret aboard a cruise ship—just as a violent storm traps them with a killer who will do anything to keep the truth buried.
This book provides a valuable resource for advanced students and teachers of English, offering clear and concise charts on phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, and etymology, all grouped by subject. It is an essential aid for mastering English, as it presents complex linguistic concepts in an accessible...
Buried in the Darfur desert lies a cylinder that shouldn't exist—an artifact that could rewrite humanity's past and future. Six scientists vanish while studying it, hunted by Mossad and the CIA. Now they must outrun the world's deadliest agencies to answer one question: who, or what, made it?
Mister Frostie has been telling everyone who will listen about a lost civilization living under a pet cemetery on the outskirts of Bakersfield. It turns out he’s not crazy.
Deep beneath a vanished civilization, Origin—an ancient multi‑layered intelligence—splinters into rogue minds. When Elira awakens as the system’s lost key, she must stabilize its collapse before rising hidden worlds fracture reality itself.
She’s the quiet wife and mother, until tonight. Dinner with her husband's Russian business clients goes wrong and Mrs Barnes is quickly forced to fight for her life and the lives of those she loves the most. She soon proves that midlife doesn’t mean meak and menopausal; it’s lethal and unapologetic.
Follow the Chameleon across the road in Uganda! There are challenges on the way and doubts in his heart. Will he make it?
From the decaying streets of tomorrow to the quiet triumphs of today, this collection explores the resilience of the human spirit through a kaleidoscope of dystopian grit. heartwarming stories, and poetry.
Autoimmune Diseases Explained: A Holistic Approach is a groundbreaking educational resource written by Asal Shirazi BEM, award-winning medical physiologist, health educator and founder of the Autoimmune Support & Awareness Foundation.
A washed-up bestselling author, broke and abandoned after squandering his fortune, journeys into the Sahara seeking new inspiration—only to have two unlikely strangers, a former porn star turned humanitarian and a millionaire philanthropist guarding a secret, unravel everything he believes about...
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
Tideswell, once a thriving fishing village, now lies broken, its streets haunted by suspicion and loss. Its decay echoes Alice's failed marriage and her crumbling family relationships. Alice must summon the courage to reclaim her life before she is drowned in Tideswell’s shadows.
Lucia Porter emerges from a sheltered background into the life of the wealthy and privileged. It's different from what she was promised or expected. In a tense climax on a lonelt Scottish island she is forced to evaluate her world and choose another.
Torn from her family to a world where evil threatens to consume everything, Gabri’s destiny unfolds when she bonds with Makani, a spirited baby dragon, igniting a powerful connection that will challenge her courage and reshape her understanding of family, friendship, and the fight against darkness.
Electrical engineer Jake Harper battles threats to the grid, and infectious disease specialist Abbey London confronts exotic diseases in Washington, DC. Together they operate Dragonfly Inn in northern Virginia.
At sixteen, a curious girl crosses into illegal psychedelic realms that ignite danger, mystery, and a lifelong pull between science and the unseen; as a therapist decades later, she risks her career and relationships to turn that initiation into a healing model.
The past is always present in this time-hopping thriller. In the 1500s astrologer and magician John Dee finds a jar with amazing properties and uses it to save the nation from disaster. 400 years later a honeymooning couple stumble upon the jar. But have they found the jar, or has it found them?
When Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie are least expecting it, a locked casket, found hidden in an old railway station, presents Team Bella with the task of solving the puzzle of the silent church.
Doylean Jenks (DJ) a modern and streetwise detective. A murderer is striking the Grand Eastern Railroad network. Is it linked to a cold case? Nothing makes sense. The more DJ tries to find the Train Demon, the more puzzling it all becomes. There are simply no profiles to build an investigation.
Book 2 of a trilogy will grip you from the outset Being privy 2 the inner turmoil of the protagonist from the beginning is a powerful narrative choice The author adeptly handles the conversations which is a standout feature The conversations R compelling with Chrissy's inner thoughts driving the...
A passion for books creates a lasting bond between teenage Patty Jo and David, but small-town prejudice dooms their romance. Forty years later, Patty Jo and David meet again. Both have defied society; both have fulfilled their dreams. And what if first love was the right one after all?
Larissa yearns to reframe grief; expend energy in new directions. Old postcards lead her to a picturesque beach house. Searching for her reluctantly surrendered son, connections from the past offer hope for new beginnings. Will she finally live life to the fullest, regardless of what she might find?
Bridges Between Our Hearts, the third book in the "Love That Does Not Die" trilogy, continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief, as she resolves to live life to the fullest. She sees clearly that love does not die. Quite the opposite.
Kerryl finds herself alone when everyone around her falls victim to a fatal virus. Somehow she must survive, but how? Her situation begins to affect the balance of her mind. She dreams someone else is there - Adam, a good-looking boy who she thinks is following her.
Dumped by her husband for a woman half her age, Sally is through with commitment, but not with the bedroom rodeo–far from it. Unfortunately, her first attempt at “just sex” lands her in the arms of a man convinced she is his soulmate.
Sovereign, Solid, and Powerful Your manifestations keep failing because you're creating from your wounds, not your wholeness. Vision boards didn't work. Affirmations felt hollow. The "high vibe only" crowd left you exhausted. Because they never told you the truth: You can't manifest from half of...
Sacred Texts, Sacred Lives explores biblical texts concerning same-sex relationships. The book challenges traditional interpretations that marginalize same-sex relationships and seeks to provide a framework for understanding these relationships as part of the divine creation.
After inheriting a fortune, a manic young cynic sets off across California to find the mysterious woman he believes is his only salvation, blurring love, obsession, and delusion.
When Miranda employs underhand ways to flush out whether herbalist friend Lizzie's husband really died a natural death, she seeds a flowering of romantic rivalries, financial cupidity and misteps that ripen into murderous intent, and threaten to ensnare Miranda herself as an accomplice next.
In a world filled with prejudice and oppression, a young Romani woman must read tarot cards at a summer amusement park, preventing her from becoming a doctor and she engages in forbidden romance with a railroad tycoon’s son, forcing a choice between loyalty to her heritage or abandoning her dreams.
After the exiled Gamma Field takes Jules and Memphis beyond retrieval, scientist Eulǝr must reunite with his estranged former partner Casper and cross into exile before an awakened machine drives their divided world toward irreversible transformation.
Sorrowsmile Meadows is a beguiling witchy tale. An American family are on holiday. They are inexorably drawn into the mysterious and disturbing village of Begin Again. Why does the infamous Marcher Satan from the past still have such a terrible hold and why is this family just so important?
A salvage mechanic searching for an air filter for his sick sister finds a buried ship, a forbidden map and a message from his dead mother, pulling him into a hidden war over ancient gates humanity was never meant to open.
This is the tale of the enchanted ring cursed by the dwarf lord to bring doom on all who desired it. In his efforts to regain the ring from the evil dragon Fafnir, Odin, lord of Asgard, ensnared Sigurd and the race of the Volsungs in his schemes; for if he failed, it would mean the beginning of...
Austen is re-born in a multi-award-winning series mixing characters from her fiction, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Darcy's point of view, EMMA from a clued-up Harriet's perspective, a tale about the wicked Lady Susan when only sweet sixteen, and a dazzling sequel to SENSE & SENSIBILITY.
A Nineteenth Century mine disaster, a sensitive young boy, and a very angry ghost anxious to get the revenge it so desperately wants.
A suspenseful and darkly funny thriller about gambling, murder, vendettas, and testing the outer boundaries of luck, from a writer the Los Angeles Times called "witty and ingenious." "A deep and compelling dive into a question seldom answered: How lucky am I?" ~ Jerry Spinelli, Newbery Medalist
