Everything was going so well at popular and picturesque Cider Run Antiques until one rainy night in May. Then the unthinkable happened. When a centuries-old stone building is transformed into an antiques shop, a lively mix of dealers is brought together. They are witty, antiques-savvy and companionable, and the shop is an outstanding success. But beneath the surface of high-spirited banter and good times, a dark undercurrent is growing. Two years after the shop’s founding, someone is insidiously killed, the weapon an antique from the shop, and the body hidden in a blanket chest. Who could have committed murder and …

Inspired by a true story, Seven Rainbows Over Santa Rosa is one man’s unique and serendipitous experience during one of America’s more turbulent times. Set in 1968 in a small Northern California town against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, two very different characters, Captain Sid and Jeff Majors, unleash their wit and shoot-from-the-hip humor over the local airwaves. The music they harvest is a thing to behold. Secretaries and schoolgirls alike swarm these lucky playboys like penguins in mating season. It’s radio romance! Red-hot rock concerts! Woodstock! Altamont! Groupies galore! Thrill to the surprise on-air capers between the fast-living …

Everyone wants to improve and deepen their relationships. This book explains the development of psychologically healthy, fulfilling, and interpersonal relationships involving effective communication, empathic emotional intimacy, shared transformational development, and constructive conflict resolution to achieve this aim. A section on improving society through enhancing interpersonal relationships is also included. The authors anticipate this book will be of keen interest to professional relationship counselors, including marriage counselors, family counselors, and conflict mediators. Readers interested in enhancing their personal relationships and gaining insight into transformational self-help and social transformation will also find this volume helpful. The book provides original, meaningful, and transformational …

Kiss Me, Love Me, Kill Me! is the whole package. Full of tension, life, love, passion, deceit, and ultimately death, it has all the twists and turns of a roller coaster ride! Join the teenage characters, Skye and Marco, as they find themselves in love, long passionately for their first kiss, and uncover a murderous plot in Wunderland, an exciting and thrilling theme park that’s their choice of fun! Meet Shontelle, Skye’s sister, who will love and lose love, hope and have hope dashed, and hope again. Get to know Roger, Clarke, and Joshua, the men in her life, and …

The King Not Lost is a historical legend that tells of a simple but clever shepherd named Dara. Set in a west Asian country in the sixteenth century, the high minister travels to Dara’s small village to inform the shepherd that he has been chosen as king of his country.Dara doesn’t want to leave his village, but he is now king and must go to the palace. There the ministers begin training the shepherd to become king. But in reality, they have taken him to the palace to be killed.The court jester and the historian inform the new king of …

Emily learns that, with God’s help, she could do more than she ever expected, and triumphantly come out on top. This is a novel based on the life of the American author, Emily Chubbock, who wrote under the pseudonym Fannie Forester. Emily was also a teacher at a girls’ school, a best-selling author, and a dedicated caregiver for her parents and sister. Follow in the footsteps of a devoted young woman as she makes the transition from life in the Eastern United States to spreading the Gospel with her missionary husband, Adoniram Judson, in the beautiful and remote areas of …

The end of the world isn’t nigh…it’s high! And the fate of all humanity rests in the hands of five Los Angeles stoners, like literally, dude! These reluctant heroes were chosen by the Virgin Mary herself, and entrusted with the Augur, the world’s most powerful object. It’s been stolen from a secret vault beneath the Vatican by a magical thief hired by the Holy Mother and the Norse god Odin. When the Augur suddenly activates itself, everyone from Homeland Security, to paramilitary Jehovah’s Witnesses, to Seventh-day Adventists, to a gun-toting Templar priest from the Vatican, descends upon an L.A. medical …

Does God really exist? Are science and religion incompatible bedfellows? Charles Darwin shook philosophy to its foundations with his theory of evolution, yet strangely, he himself refrained from commenting in depth about the religious implications for fear of adding to the furor.But suppose that he did in fact write down his conclusions as a secret addendum to his seminal work, Origin of Species. And suppose his beloved wife, Emma, who kept her own secret journal, was the only other person to know of this hidden postscript.The novel Survival of the Fittest is the modern story of the search for these …

Sonja Kent is a bright and talented girl who was raised in the home of a domineering, abusive father and a passive mother. Her life is turned upside down at age 16, when her father’s business fails and she is forced to move from Augusta, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida. Her college scholarship gone, and separated from her beloved Aunt Mabel and Grandmother Mary, Sonja finds solace in her music. Sonja does her best to survive in a home ruled by a money-obsessed, selfish, and angry father. At First Baptist Church, Sonja plays the piano and meets Walter, the young choir …