SHOWCASE 13: Nine Indie Books On Show
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ACEA AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by Kyle Shoop
Welcome to the Animal Kingdom, where mystery and adventure roam free! Twelve-year-old Acea Bishop was always the nerdy kid who would rather go to the library during recess to read about animals instead of playing basketball like the other boys. Now, after waking up inside of an ancient kingdom strangely resembling a zoo, Acea is running from those same animals he used to love reading about. Worse yet? Acea’s not just on a quest to get home – his mom and the dad-he-never-knew are both being held hostage inside by an evil sorcerer with a vendetta.
Realizing that his odds of survival and freeing his parents are slim, Acea raises an army of animals to combat the sorcerer and regain control of the kingdom. Follow Acea as he travels through the exotic zoo habitats and unlocks the secrets of the kingdom’s mysterious past which hold the key to his fate. Acea has secrets. Big ones. He just doesn’t know it yet.
Kyle Shoop is the author of the Acea Bishop series. He currently lives in Utah with his wife and children.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
A HEALING PLACE by Joyce Shaughnessy
The reader is taken on a tumultuous journey to experience Black Sunday and the horrible dirt storms that destroyed so many lives during The American Great Depression. Follow the Miller family and their three daughters as they struggle to find a new home and finally find peace in Texon, Texas, where the author lived and thrived as a little girl. Their son-in-law, Jed is forced to walk the infamous Death March in the Philippines in WWII and lives as a POW under the cruel and inhumane Japanese until the U.S. is able to come to the rescue over three years later. Through all of their hardships, they never stop believing in each other, the power of family, and their faith in God. Meet some of what many Americans believe to be “The Greatest Generation.” This book is the first book in a trilogy named “The Pearl of the Orient.”
Joyce Shaughnessy lives in Midland, Texas with her husband and they have two daughters and four granddaughters.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
CALLY’S SECRET by Sarah R. Weldon
Cally and Paul Walker are expecting a happy event, but Cally has a secret—one that could wreck her marriage!
Sarah and Mike Wells marriage is hardly one made in heaven, for Mike has a secret, one that could destroy his marriage.
Who will be the first to kiss and tell? Will truth win the day with happy endings for all, or end in disappointment, deceit, and betrayal?
Author Sarah Royce Weldon won her first writing competition in 1966 at the age of 10—the prize, the princely sum of one guinea, and she was determined that one day, she would publish a novel.
Now living in Brittany, with her family and their two dogs, Éclair and Hugo. Her hobbies include reading, embroidery, entertaining friends, and making novelty cakes for her daughter’s birthday. France is home for her now, and she considers herself extremely lucky to work in such beautiful surroundings.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
SAVING ALESSANDRA by Christine Maria Jahn
Alessandra Willow Smythson-Drake, a widow at four and twenty, has sailed back to her family estate in England upon the death of her abusive husband. But escape from the torture she endured during her marriage was not to come easily. Both her sleeping and waking hours are controlled by night terrors and emotional turmoil. Physical scars, one of which is too hideous to hide, force her into seclusion.
Simon Thane Bevan, Marquess of Heavensford and childhood friend, re-enters Alessandra’s life. What starts as a simple meeting to rekindle a lost friendship quickly ignites his heart into unconditional love. Overcome with anger at the abuse his friend has suffered, he vows to save her from living the life of a recluse.
Saving Alessandra is the debut novel for Christine Maria Jahn. She currently resides in Virginia and is working on her second novel.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
CROSSING THE RIVER by Harold Titus
Standing on Lexington’s town common, humbled by the veneration of hundreds of militiamen, conceding that he had instructed them, encouraged them, in the end incited them, acknowledging that he, with others, had brought them to the river that could now be called revolution, Doctor Joseph Warren gives full credit to whom it is due. They, not he, knowing fully well the danger, had attacked the master. Standing at the river’s edge, they, of their own volition, had crossed over.
Joseph Warren is but one of Crossing the River’s many historical figures that bring to life General Thomas Gage’s failed attempt April 19, 1775, to seize and destroy military stores stockpiled at Concord by Massachusetts’s Provincial Congress. Crossing the River is both a study of man experiencing intense conflict and the varied outcomes of high-risk decision-taking.
The novel’s title is a metaphor for such decision-taking.
Born in New York State and raised in Southern California, Harold Titus graduated from UCLA in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in history. Retiring from teaching in 1991, he began writing Crossing the River in 1994. Much of what he perceives about life and what he values in human beings he conveys in this book.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
IN THE BLOOD by Scott Skipper
George Washington Skipper was a man with secrets. He kept multiple wives in two states, spawned at least sixteen children, adopted three, spent four years in the Confederate Army, was shot twice and lived to eighty-five.
Then there was one more thing and a hundred years later the family is still scandalized over it.
The author is a recluse with a paranoid fear of social networking who has written for pleasure all his life but lacked time and patience, or perhaps wherewithal, to publish very much. He is hopeful of finding a niche in the democratic world of self-publishing.
He is retired from the metal fabrication industry and lives in the foothills of southern California with a wonderful wife and two foolish dogs.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
IN THE DEVIL’S OWN WORDS by Liz Wixley
Moving house has become a way of life for fifteen year old Isobel Miller; her father is an Army Major, her mother, a middle aged, pregnant, chain smoking alcoholic! But the move to the village of Langham could be the straw that broke the camel’s back!
The only light in her miserable existence, her grandfather, story-teller elite, her saviour. And when one of his macabre tales is mentioned in the local paper Isobel is drawn into the depths of evil and devil worship. Her world and that of everyone around her turns upside down.
Elizabeth Wixley was born in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom but moved house many times during her childhood. She left home and slept rough on a beach in Cornwall. A year later she found herself in London where she attended Camberwell School of Art.
Creative arts have been Elizabeth’s passion throughout her life, whether visiting galleries, painting or writing. Now she enjoys nothing more than sharing a good story with others.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
THE COACH HOUSE by Florence Osmund
The Coach House story begins in 1945 Chicago. Newlyweds Marie Marchetti and her husband, Richard, have the perfect life together. Or at least it seems until Marie discovers cryptic receipts hidden in their basement and a gun in Richard’s desk drawer. When she learns he secretly attends a mobster’s funeral, her suspicions are heightened, and when she inadvertently interrupts a meeting between him and his so-called business associates in their home, he causes her to fall down the basement steps, compelling Marie to run for her life.
But ironically, it is the discovery of the identity of Marie’s real father and his ethnicity that unexpectedly affect her life more than Richard ever could.
Florence Osmund grew up in an old Victorian home in Libertyville, Illinois, complete with a coach house, the same house she used as inspiration for her first two books. She earned her master’s degree from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and has obtained more than three decades of experience working in corporate America. In an effort to help others with a wide array of writing advice, Florence maintains a website dedicated to new authors. Osmund currently resides in Chicago where she is working on her third novel.
Alaso available from Amazon.co.uk
BECOMING HUMAN by Eliza Green
Two worlds. Two species. One terrifying secret.
In 2163, a polluted and overcrowded Earth forces humans to search for a new home. But the exoplanet they target, Exilon 5, is occupied. Having already begun a massive relocation programme, Bill Taggart is sent to monitor the Indigenes, the race that lives there. He is a man on the edge. He believes the Indigenes killed his wife, but he doesn’t know why. His surveillance focuses on the Indigene Stephen, who has risked his life to surface during the daytime.
Stephen has every reason to despise the humans and their attempts to colonise his planet. To protect his species from further harm, he must go against his very nature and become human.
BECOMING HUMAN, part one in the Exilon 5 trilogy, is a science-fiction adventure that you won’t want to put down.The Trilogy presents a future where overcrowding and global warming are serious issues and explores what happens when humans opt for the easiest solution.
Eliza Green hopes to capture the imagination of readers who shy away from the science fiction genre. Becoming Human is the first book in the Trilogy and her debut novel. She is currently working on ALTERED REALITY, book 2 in the Exilon 5 trilogy.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
I hope you’ve enjoyed this Showcase, and I look forward to publishing another one soon, with books from B.D. Heywood, Gabrielle Boutros, Jim McCulloch, Jasum Najum,Sherri Fulmer Moorer, Andrew Scorah, Jay Lefevers, Ashley Farley and Phillip Frey
Until then, enjoy your reading, Charlie
