2024 Golden Author Award
This book provides "everything you need to know before you go!" It is a book in three parts: building legacy, examining death and dying, and a workbook and checklist to help you provide an emotional life insurance plan for our loved ones. It asks the ultimate question, "What's your legacy?"
She was his one obsession . . . he married someone else. Casting a daring spell, Hologram will stretch your imagination—and your psyche. Award-winning author Jo Deniau’s second novel weaves science, romance, metaphysics, and magic realism into a romping adventure story.
While facing terrifying childhood nightmares and her brothers impending death, Tilly looks back to her past, and fights the suspicion that she's carrying a terrible secret. Yet, maybe she has chosen to forget: a child’s eye refusing to see the reality of what really happened and who was responsible...
Book 3 The two men in Jiddy's life have left. Defiant, she resolves to find choices for local girls battered by poverty. Inland, love beckons. The North Sea entices with dreams of foreign shores, but smuggling is all Jiddy has known. A brutal, breathtaking and brilliant conclusion to the trilogy!
A serial killer's inner demon takes control of his life as he struggles to protect his newfound love from the darkness that consumes him.
A foolish young American caught during the 1837 Canadian Rebellion, is sentenced and transported to Van Diemen's Land, endures unspeakable hardships in different penal stations, has a disastrous love affair, and makes a daring escape on a whaling ship, leaving him a saddened changed man .
A WWI veteran emigrated from Scotland to Canada, marrying a widowed mother of four. They had five more children. The Grant children kept their original surname but all nine kids were raised as a deeply connected unit. This memoir pays homage to the life stories and ancestry of this remrkable family.
When his nephew Philip is threatened by a former child soldier and a gangster with a grudge against him, Byron Mason returns to Manchester. Working with fellow former Royal Marine, Adam Sterling, he fights to keep Philips family safe, but the gangster is determined to take revenge on Byron.
Cricket and Sebastian come from entirely different worlds but have one thing in common: they find solace in the challenges they face in life through their careers. When they team up at the ad agency, their weaknesses become each other’s strengths. Against all odds, they risk everything for love.
Adventure is found in unlikely places. Lily is a lonely child who lives in an old house by the banks of the Mississippi River. The house is mysterious with a closed door between two apartments. Lily hears a voice encouraging her to open the door, but she is scared to do so. Curiosity can be good.
'A story of love and tragedy' Based on a true story, Gwendoline explores the challenges facing women in the 1900s, the struggles confronted by individuals suffering from mental health issues, and the devastating impact these issues can have on their families.
An extraordinary memoir of Communist China, the Cultural Revolution, and a yearning to be free.
Helgha falls in love with Erik but he must marry within his class. Helgha is jealous of his wife and plots to prevent her having children. She is accused of witchcraft and flees with her two sons. They go to a Christian village but she falls in love with the theign. It all starts again with jealousy...
Tagged with killing a Spanish Viceroy and the heist of King Philip’s doubloons, Captain Connachan learns of an imminent Spanish invasion of her base on Isla Tortuga. She’s compelled to marshal precious resources and rally detested rival pyrates, including her archenemy, to defend their rebel island...
“Kick” is a Canadian-born American-made killer; shattered by years of violence. He fought in America's secret war in Vietnam and continued working for the CIA. By 1988, Kick has one goal: to finally expose Canada’s covert involvement in the Vietnam War before those dark secrets are hidden forever.
A possessed book of near antiquity is stolen. Legend has it that, within the book, are the means by which a satanic ceremony can be performed that will unleash hell’s demons on earth. Melanie Ashford buys the book for Peter, her husband, an expert in the occult. She rises from her chair to retrieve...
A happily married aesthetician is living the small town dream, but when she finds a box in the closet full of women's lingerie, she realizes her soulmate isn't who she thinks he is.
I wish to enter for the Phoenix award with this story since early Welsh medieval history is little known and chronicled; I hope to shed light on a particularly dark corner of early medieval history.
There’s no second-guessing God. When He’s got his hook into you, there’s no wriggling off until He’s landed you.
The only thing 11-year old Finn looks forward to are the visits of his Uncle Henry, who always arrives with amazing gifts and unbelievable stories. When Henry goes looking for his father’s ship, lost in the Arctic 40 years ago, Finn can't believe the stories - until he joins in the adventure himself...
Does Norah hail from a matriarchal lineage of madwomen? Or an Irish ancestry of female power and purpose? Secrets and revelations pour forth from a mysterious family diary as Norah connects the stories and lives of her foremothers, healing her maternal relationship in the process.
Eastwood Minster is a close-knit community – with a few dropped stitches. Beginning where 'Looking to Move On' (Finalist 2023) ended, this second Eastwood Story is one of hope overcoming adversity. We encounter familiar & new characters as each live with the differences & changes that life brings.
Rescued at birth, Jiddy Vardy grows up in Robin Hood's Bay, a coastal community which harbours a dangerous secret that could get you killed. Always the outsider, at sixteen, Jiddy is clever, brave and headstrong, soon risking her life and freedom to play her part in the Bay's clandestine activities.
Currently disowned by England, privateer Garret Connachan saves an infamous pirate's drowning crewmate. In return, he discloses a plot to defraud Spain’s King Philip. Garret faces overturning the plot or forever being labeled a pirate—not only by the King but also by former ally, Queen Elizabeth.
What if you were accidentally swept back in time with no idea how to get home? Although a story of adventure, the novel is also about survival, about coming to terms with losing home, family and everything that matters, and how unexpected and unlikely friendships make life still worth living.
Two lab dogs set out to rid the planet of all suffering after gaining unimaginable mental power, and enough skills to learn all about the world by hacking the lab's Internet. A team of young researchers, a farmer, a girl from the Gadigal tribe, and an ET join their quest through space and time.
The Beastly Baron is not as nice man. He shouts too much and doesn’t keep his promises. When he breaks his word to the Warty Witch though, things go very go very badly for him. Then they get much, much worse!
Book 2 in trilogy. Jiddy returns to the Bay and immerses herself in smuggling. But her sweetheart wants to make an honest living, The obsessed Captain of the Dragoons is more determined than ever to capture wrong-doers like Jiddy. She has to choose doing what she loves or losing Jonas forever.
Have you ever wondered how some people deal with the challenges of life with confidence and turn their dreams into reality? Well, maybe someone will help you find a secret to embark on a transformative journey toward a life filled with purpose and accomplishment. The first and most important step is...
Forget what you think you know about dreams, spirits and the Otherworld —the spirits themselves with set you straight.
In a near future where the law has not yet caught up with our ability to predict criminal behaviour, young boys are being locked up for crimes they have yet to commit. One boy escapes, but to remain free he needs to work out who he really is and why the people chasing him now want him dead.
The birth of the Goddess! Anastasia is a divine High Priestess of God from her creation God knew she would rule by his side
"Black on Madison Avenue" gives readers a sense of what it’s like to be Black in the ad business. “Mad Men from a Black perspective.” For an industry that professes to be the vanguard of creativity and popular culture, advertising is one of the most un-diverse white collar professions in America.
Elite private schools, where resources, curriculum and tuition are comparable to the best colleges are not for those who can afford better. They are for those who can afford only the very best. They are places of privilege. They rarely include black students. In the 60s, they almost never did.
Radhika, a young, Ceylon tea plantation worker is sent to work at the house of Chasley Rannoch, a ruggedly handsome, Scottish, estate superintendent. Her infatuation for him results in the shocking arrival of a baby, leading to a spiral of events of misfortune, scandal, intrigue and A Heritage Lost.
The Ultimate Power Within: Unleashing the Magic of Affirmations is not merely a book on Affirmations but a guidebook and instruction manual providing a step-by-step process for understanding, creating, and using Affirmations to unlock the power within and bring about positive change in your life.
A private detective in 1954 Hong Kong has an alter ego, a killer known as BlackJack. And that killer is slowly taking control.
In the Monster Belt, an area in the Northern Hemisphere between two latitudes, the most mythical creatures are found. Or are they real? Bereaved Harris wants to find out. Dee sees monsters every day and she wants to escape them. When their paths collide will each of them find the answers they seek?
The Turners are house-hunting. Passing by a large but dilapidated property buried in dense foliage, Robin strangely faints. Upon recovering, she insists upon viewing the house, later demanding Gil buy it. He angrily asks why she wants such a monstrosity. Robin slowly replies, "I don't know why."
A time travel story about survival and coming to terms with losing home, family and everything that matters, and how unexpected and unlikely friendships make life still worth living
She can save the world, but there's a price to pay... November 2003. Brilliant scientist Uma Jakobsdóttir has figured out a way to solve global warming for good. Known as LEAP, the system is capable of providing Earth’s ultimate second chance...until it falls into the wrong hands.
This is a collection of short stories. The improbable stories include traditional fiction, but fully warped out of reality. Yet, the stories have an authoritative and convincing ring! Just imagine a universe (as big as the present one). And much more such tales.
Kate Hetherington’s father disappears in China and she recruits firefighter Adam Sterling, who rescued her from a car smash, to help her find him. Adam and fellow ex-Royal Marine Byron Mason accompany Kate to China to find her father and try to keep her out of the clutches of an implacable assassin...
When a solar flare plunges the world into chaos and tears apart her family, retired teacher Laurie navigates a fractured America on foot, braving weakened magnetic fields and societal collapse, desperate to reach her sons - one clinging to safety in Africa, the other lost in the urban sprawl of a...
When the Germans occupy northern Italy in 1943, vowing to steal Italy's cultural heritage, a young art curator has to decide whether to embark on a perilous mission to save the thousands of priceless works of art hidden in the countryside she calls home.
What would you do if you knew you had 10 days to live? Get your legal affairs in order? Contact family, friends, lovers, and ex-lovers. Take a trip or make an exceptional donation? Clean the house and do the laundry? Or ... would you kill someone?
Nowhere to go. Impossible to stay. The last remaining Chalet Park residents are about to lose their homes to the sea. 21-year-old Lizzie can't understand why they don't leave. But they are up to something odd. Will they have time to enact their plan before their way of life is gone forever?
Expelled from a private academy for knifing a classmate, twelve-year-old Garret Connachan joins Captain Drake’s fleet as a midshipman. Striving to earn a captaincy among marauding 16th-century pirates is complicated by a family secret shared by the rising pirate’s father just prior to departure.
