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The Cornelius-Gilley Saga

Echoes in the Lobby Series

Echoes in the Lobby Series

The Cornelius–Gilley Saga is a sweeping, multi-generational series that follows one American family from a small Belgian village to the wide skies of Kansas. It begins in the 1760s, when Petrus and Elisabeth Cornelius risk a perilous Atlantic crossing to New York, and their son Peter “Dox” Cornelius comes of age in a world on fire—fightin

The Cornelius–Gilley Saga is a sweeping, multi-generational series that follows one American family from a small Belgian village to the wide skies of Kansas. It begins in the 1760s, when Petrus and Elisabeth Cornelius risk a perilous Atlantic crossing to New York, and their son Peter “Dox” Cornelius comes of age in a world on fire—fighting the British as a teenage patriot in 1781 and again in 1814.-quality work that exceeds your expectations.

Echoes in the Lobby Series

Echoes in the Lobby Series

Echoes in the Lobby Series

Historic Hotel Mysteries of America’s Hidden Past.  Across America’s grand hotels and historic inns, the past lingers in walls and records, waiting to be noticed. These standalone mysteries unfold in real properties shaped by celebration, ambition, and hidden tragedy. As settings shift from the Hamptons to Savannah, each story reveals a c

Historic Hotel Mysteries of America’s Hidden Past.  Across America’s grand hotels and historic inns, the past lingers in walls and records, waiting to be noticed. These standalone mysteries unfold in real properties shaped by celebration, ambition, and hidden tragedy. As settings shift from the Hamptons to Savannah, each story reveals a constant truth: places remember more than people realize, and their echoes quietly point toward buried secrets.  


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Historical Fiction

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Historical fiction is storytelling set in a real, carefully researched past. It blends invented characters and plots with authentic details—places, customs, language, and events—to make history feel lived-in and immediate. The best historical fiction respects the record while using imagination to explore what the sources can’t fully show:

Historical fiction is storytelling set in a real, carefully researched past. It blends invented characters and plots with authentic details—places, customs, language, and events—to make history feel lived-in and immediate. The best historical fiction respects the record while using imagination to explore what the sources can’t fully show: private motives, intimate conversations, and everyday textures of life. Whether it follows real figures or fictional ones moving through documented moments, it aims to entertain while illuminating how people experienced their time.

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Mystery, thriller, and suspense novels are page-turning stories built around danger, secrets, and unanswered questions. Mysteries focus on solving a puzzle—often a crime—through clues, investigation, and a final reveal. Thrillers center on high stakes and urgent action, with protagonists racing against threats and time. Suspense emphasize

Mystery, thriller, and suspense novels are page-turning stories built around danger, secrets, and unanswered questions. Mysteries focus on solving a puzzle—often a crime—through clues, investigation, and a final reveal. Thrillers center on high stakes and urgent action, with protagonists racing against threats and time. Suspense emphasizes tension and anticipation, letting readers feel dread as risks tighten and motives surface. All three rely on twists, red herrings, escalating pressure, and compelling characters who must uncover truth—or survive it.

Twenty Lives at War Series

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Twenty Lives at War Series

Twenty Lives at War is a multi-volume short story series that brings history’s great conflicts to life through ordinary people. Each book features 20 stand-alone stories from different corners of the same war—soldiers and sailors, nurses and chaplains, factory workers and farm wives, prisoners, partisans, and civilians fighting to stay hu

Twenty Lives at War is a multi-volume short story series that brings history’s great conflicts to life through ordinary people. Each book features 20 stand-alone stories from different corners of the same war—soldiers and sailors, nurses and chaplains, factory workers and farm wives, prisoners, partisans, and civilians fighting to stay human in inhuman times. Moving chronologically from the American Revolution through Vietnam—including three World War II volumes—it offers a panoramic, character-driven journey: one brief, unforgettable life at a time. ble to answer questions and address concerns, ensuring a seamless and stress-free experience.

The Caravello Family Saga

Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense

Twenty Lives at War Series

In 1959, Havana is “saved” from revolution by a smoke-filled bargain between a Cuban strongman, a CIA operator, and an American syndicate. Widower Dominic “Dom” Caravello comes to build a sanctuary for his three sons—only to forge a sleek empire of nightclubs, ports, politics, and quiet terror. As Washington’s favor shifts, insurgents ris

In 1959, Havana is “saved” from revolution by a smoke-filled bargain between a Cuban strongman, a CIA operator, and an American syndicate. Widower Dominic “Dom” Caravello comes to build a sanctuary for his three sons—only to forge a sleek empire of nightclubs, ports, politics, and quiet terror. As Washington’s favor shifts, insurgents rise, and the 1963 assassination rewrites the rules, glamour becomes camouflage: a nightclub queen deals in leverage, a PR fixer sells legitimacy, and a journalist follows the money. By the late ’60s, the family expands toward New York and Italy—while love and blood debts threaten to expose everything.

Back Rooms That Shaped America

Back Rooms That Shaped America

Back Rooms That Shaped America

Back Rooms That Shaped America is a narrative series showing how the nation was forged offstage—in taverns, inns, basements, back offices, and smoke-filled rooms where plans were made before history went public. Spanning the Revolution to the late twentieth century, each volume centers on a specific place and flashpoint: abolitionist safe

Back Rooms That Shaped America is a narrative series showing how the nation was forged offstage—in taverns, inns, basements, back offices, and smoke-filled rooms where plans were made before history went public. Spanning the Revolution to the late twentieth century, each volume centers on a specific place and flashpoint: abolitionist safe houses, Civil War parlors, Prohibition speakeasies, mob councils, union halls, civil-rights strategy rooms, and underground antiwar networks. Told through the people who kept doors open and secrets safe, it maps America’s unseen engines of change.

The Eliza Hart Chronicles

Back Rooms That Shaped America

Back Rooms That Shaped America

The Eliza Hart Chronicles is a Revolutionary-era saga of identity and survival in the dangerous space between nations. Taken as a child in a Cherokee raid near what will become Charlotte, North Carolina, Eliza Hart is adopted into the Wolf Clan and raised as Tsula—“Fox.” When rebellion erupts, her fluency in Cherokee and English makes her

The Eliza Hart Chronicles is a Revolutionary-era saga of identity and survival in the dangerous space between nations. Taken as a child in a Cherokee raid near what will become Charlotte, North Carolina, Eliza Hart is adopted into the Wolf Clan and raised as Tsula—“Fox.” When rebellion erupts, her fluency in Cherokee and English makes her a vital scout and interpreter—and a hunted legend. After the war, fragile peace, shifting borders, and Spanish frontier intrigue force Eliza to choose which name, and loyalty, will keep her alive. and stress-free experience.

The Ravenshaw Chronicles

Back Rooms That Shaped America

The Kincaid Doctrine Series

The Ravenshaw Chronicles is a high-stakes historical adventure where fortunes are portable—and theft can pass for commerce. Charming and ruthless, Englishman Edmund Ravenshaw turns fraud into art until bodies begin replacing missing numbers. His most dangerous opponent is Elizabeth Fairchild, a goldsmith-merchant’s daughter trained to spo

The Ravenshaw Chronicles is a high-stakes historical adventure where fortunes are portable—and theft can pass for commerce. Charming and ruthless, Englishman Edmund Ravenshaw turns fraud into art until bodies begin replacing missing numbers. His most dangerous opponent is Elizabeth Fairchild, a goldsmith-merchant’s daughter trained to spot forged hands and “small” errors that ruin families. Sparked by a perilous 1720 Atlantic voyage and a staged death, the chase races through Boston, Kingston, and 1728 New Orleans—across ledgers, lies, and love gone counterfeit. 

The Kincaid Doctrine Series

Back Rooms That Shaped America

The Kincaid Doctrine Series

 The Kincaid Doctrine Series is a near-future political thriller saga following Victor Marshall Kincaid, a president who abandons incrementalism for a sweeping, power-first strategy meant to force real peace and prosperity. In Merchants of Venom, he globalizes the drug war—crippling cartel money, choking synthetic supply chains, and prose

 The Kincaid Doctrine Series is a near-future political thriller saga following Victor Marshall Kincaid, a president who abandons incrementalism for a sweeping, power-first strategy meant to force real peace and prosperity. In Merchants of Venom, he globalizes the drug war—crippling cartel money, choking synthetic supply chains, and prosecuting corporate enablers—while restoring rule of law at home through targeted interdiction, data-driven policing, and judicial reform. Abroad, he confronts rogue regimes with sanctions, cyber power, and decisive force—testing the moral cost of security.

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Sitcom adult-humor stories are fast, episode-like comedies built on workplace chaos, sharp banter, and escalating misunderstandings, aimed at grown-up readers. They rely on recurring characters, running gags, A/B plots, and a steady rhythm of set-ups and punchlines—often treating absurd situations with deadpan seriousness. Area 51-1/2: Co

Sitcom adult-humor stories are fast, episode-like comedies built on workplace chaos, sharp banter, and escalating misunderstandings, aimed at grown-up readers. They rely on recurring characters, running gags, A/B plots, and a steady rhythm of set-ups and punchlines—often treating absurd situations with deadpan seriousness. Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits fits this style: a secret desert “daycare” for rejected aliens, where an overwhelmed rookie, a no-nonsense major, and a fragile genius contain disasters with paperwork, cover-ups, and nonstop bits.

Stories of Reincarnation

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Stories of reincarnation are tales in which a soul lives more than once, returning in a new body after death. They often follow characters who remember past lives, relive unfinished relationships, or carry karmic debts into a different era, culture, or identity. The plot may hinge on recognition—of a place, a lover, an enemy, a talent—and

Stories of reincarnation are tales in which a soul lives more than once, returning in a new body after death. They often follow characters who remember past lives, relive unfinished relationships, or carry karmic debts into a different era, culture, or identity. The plot may hinge on recognition—of a place, a lover, an enemy, a talent—and the chance to heal, atone, or repeat a mistake. These stories explore fate versus choice, and what endures when a life ends.

Near-Future Sci-Fi

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Everyday Grace Series

Near-future sci-fi is speculative fiction set a few years to a few decades ahead, imagining how today’s trends could reshape everyday life. It focuses on plausible advances—AI, biotech, climate tech, surveillance, space, energy—and the social, political, and ethical consequences that follow. The world still feels recognizable, but slightl

Near-future sci-fi is speculative fiction set a few years to a few decades ahead, imagining how today’s trends could reshape everyday life. It focuses on plausible advances—AI, biotech, climate tech, surveillance, space, energy—and the social, political, and ethical consequences that follow. The world still feels recognizable, but slightly tilted: new tools, new rules, new pressures. By staying close to current reality, near-future sci-fi explores “what’s next” in a way that can feel uncomfortably possible.

Everyday Grace Series

Sitcom Adult-Humor - Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits

Everyday Grace Series

Everyday Grace is a feel-good series that celebrates the quiet good beneath life’s daily noise. Inspired by Chicken Soup for the Soul and On the Road with Steve Hartman, these heartwarming stories unfold on America’s backroads and main streets—coffee counters, church basements, school gyms, and front porches. Ordinary people—nurses, veter

Everyday Grace is a feel-good series that celebrates the quiet good beneath life’s daily noise. Inspired by Chicken Soup for the Soul and On the Road with Steve Hartman, these heartwarming stories unfold on America’s backroads and main streets—coffee counters, church basements, school gyms, and front porches. Ordinary people—nurses, veterans, teachers, cashiers, grandparents—choose patience, generosity, and courage in small, luminous moments. Hardship exists, but kindness helps us endure—and reminds us how much we share.


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