SHOWCASE 20: Ten Indie Books for Summer
Welcome to the twentieth Showcase.
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THICKER THAN WATER (Brands Crossing Series) by Sharon K Owen
Thicker Than Water (Brands Crossing Series) is the first in a series of novels set in Brands Crossing, Texas. It chronicles the lives of the Kincaids, a prominent family in this mythical town, and focuses on a mystery that extends back to the mid-eighteenth century and the young Texas Republic.
As a child, KATE O’DONNELL spends summers at her grandparents’ estate in Brands Crossing, Texas where she battles make-believe monsters, rescues endangered victims and a saves a mythical kingdom.
At twenty-five Kate is a singer/songwriter living in Nashville and pursuing a promising relationship with computer game designer PHILLIP NORWOOD. There, her only battles are fought in Aidenne’s Revenge, Phillip’s online fantasy game based on her childhood adventures.
When her grandfather is critically injured in a suspicious car crash, Kate abandons career and romance to return home to solve the mystery.There, she searches for incriminating documents, investigates a centuries-old family feud and confronts an anonymous rose-bearing admirer who stalks Kate in both real and virtual universes.
Sharon is a fiction writer, a university professor, and an online creative writing teacher. Her short stories and poetry have been published in Descant, Concho River Review, Iron Horse, American Literary Review, Trinity Writer’s Workshop newsletter and collections of Christmas stories.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
THE KING by R S Sutherland
Scotland, 1306. William Wallace- ‘Braveheart’- has been dead for over a year. After a last disastrous battle against the English tyrant, the new Scottish king has been manoeuvred into a corner. Robert Bruce has many enemies amongst his own countryman and now open warfare against Edward Longshanks is impossible. He must take to the wild mountains of Scotland to survive, thus becoming one of the earliest named guerrillas in history. The women in the royal entourage must be sent to safety in the north. But what in fact awaits these five women is a life of danger and, ultimately, extreme hardship. One of them goes mad; two of them endure years caged like beasts. His twelve year old daughter will never shake the scars of her childhood and Bruce’s queen herself experiences a humiliating imprisonment for which a sheltered, privileged upbringing has never prepared her. This is the story of The Bruce through the eyes of the women dearest to him, and their astonishing, inspiring stories of survival are true.
R S Sutherland is an Edinburgh University graduate in History of Art, now retired, and has been writing and painting since an early age.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
SHORTS AND OTHER LAUNDRY by Ethan Holmes
A collection of eight intriguing, slightly askew short stories from the mind of Ethan Holmes, author of Earth’s Blood, The Keystone and Live Your Life In A Crap Free Zone.
The Box; A man gets a strange box and a bit more than he wished for.
Spooked To Death; Two women decide to find out once and for all who is trashing their back yards.
A Very Small Town; Life in a small town can seem quite desirable but it’s not always what it seems to be.
Two Paragraphs: A depressed writer meets a ragamuffin street urchin who claims her name is Death.
Who’s In Charge Here?; Norman Wright is having a difficult time maintaining control of his life after meeting Sarah.
The Man Who Ate Popcorn; George is lonely, angry and addicted to popcorn.
Have Some Cookies and Milk: Three boys who get bullied on a daily basis by Jake decide it’s time for this to end.
Make and Model; Jeff and Marta are looking forward to the birth of their little girl but get a bit more than they were expecting.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
THE TESLA SECRET by Alex Lukeman
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award 2013
Action/Adventure.
Book Five in the PROJECT Series
Plans for a devastating weapon invented by Nikola Tesla fall into the hands of
a centuries-old conspiracy bent on world domination. Powerful men will stop at
nothing to use the weapon to achieve their goal, even at the risk of nuclear war.
Nick Carter works for the Project, the shadow hand of the US President.
Selena Connor is his teammate and lover. Their relationship will be tested
to the breaking point as they are forced to question their commitment to the
other and to the violent life they have chosen.
From the streets of Prague to the jungles of Mexico, from the hills of Tuscany
to the plains of Eastern Russia, the story moves with relentless pace toward a
final, explosive confrontation.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
THE VASE WITH MANY COLOURED MARBLES by Jacob Singer
The Passionate Rebellion Against Apartheid
The name of Nelson Mandela is familiar to many, as a warrior against the injustices of apartheid. But many South Africans worked to break the power of the Verwoerd regime: the Black ANC and PAC, but also English and Afrikaans-speaking whites. In The Vase with the Many Coloured Marbles, Jacob Singer draws on his personal knowledge and experience to reach out to all South Africans, especially those who left the country because of violence; who live in exile all over the world. Jacob tells the stories of men and women who were harassed and discriminated against, and of politicians in the government who surreptitiously worked against the very regime that had employed them. You’ll read about unsung heroes such as Emily Kleintjies, who crossed the apartheid barrier and established a life for herself as a white woman. You don’t have to be South African or a student of history to learn from this remarkable book, which shares a wealth of unique experience. Everyone who is concerned with justice and the human condition will be fascinated and enlightened by the tragedies and triumphs shared in Jacob Singer’s words.
JACOB ASHER SINGER was born in 1935 in a small town west of Johannesburg, in South Africa.
”There are so many stories to tell about South Africa” he says. “South Africa is a beautiful country, with a fascinating although controversial history. Unfortunately with the increase in criminal activity and tardiness in controlling violence it is rapidly falling into the ‘Africa trap.’
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
WHERE IS SHE NOW? by Frances Gilbert
Rosemary wants only to recapture the calm promised in remembered fragments of hymns from her childhood, but something is wrong, something happened to her baby, Where Is She Now? Rosemary can’t quite remember, and the bossy and competent Anna, a shade from the past and Brian, her supportive (or is he?) husband emesh her confusion.
A satisfying read, rich in detail and description with a surprise ending.
Frances Gilbert has been called a master writer (Ina Chadwick in Connecticut Muse – Winter 2009 )
and Nina Sankovitch (readallday.org 2010) put this book in her favorite mysteries category and said it is a stunning psychological thriller, a wonderful novel that left her “gasping and roiling, breathless and blown away”
Frances would like to expand her UK audience since this book takes place in UK.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
WHEN WE WERE MARRIED 1 The Long Fall by Daniel Quentin Steele
The first volume of four, “The Long Fall” introduces Bill Maitland, a short, fat, balding Assistant in the Florida State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville, Florida in 2005. He is married to Debbie Maitland-Bascomb, a tall, gorgeous, blonde Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Florida (UNF) in Jacksonville.
Over the past five years Maitland has lost touch with his wife and two children as the demands of his job have swallowed up his personal life.
He is, despite the demands of the job, an ignorantly happy man until the night his wife utters four fatal words. That Freudian slip unleashes his pit-bull instincts upon his wife and results in a discovery that changes both their lives forever.
In the courtroom, Maitland will face baby killers and stone cold drug lords, mercy killers and deadly grannies, killer cops and drug cartels.
Against these and all odds, Maitland is armed only with a superb legal mind, the powers of the prosecutor’s office, bulldog stubbornness and a compulsion to do the right thing no matter what the cost. And a basic decency that gives him surprising allies from the Florida underworld to a Colombian crime cartel.
And in the wake of a bitter divorce, Debbie Maitland-Bascomb will dump Maitland for a gorgeous young stud, but will find that beauty is not a shield against pain and loneliness, and that it is harder to walk away from Maitland than she expected it to be.
Daniel Quentin Steele is a long time reporter and editor for several major Florida newspapers. Steele now writes full time fiction which allows him to tell stories that are more true than the facts.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
JAZZ BABY by Beem Weeks
While all Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, a sudden orphanhood casts its icy shadow across Emily Ann “Baby” Teegarten, a pretty young teen.
Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, Baby Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that brings church ladies to righteous tears and makes angels take notice. “I’m gonna sing jazz up in New York City,” she brags to anybody who’ll listen. ’Cept that Big Apple—well, it’s an awful long way from that dry patch of earth she used to call home.
Jazz Baby just wants to sing—not fight to stay alive.
Beem Weeks is the 46-year-old indie author of several short stories, poems, essays, and the historical fiction/coming-of-age novel Jazz Baby. A divorced father of two grown children, Beem has lived in Florida and Georgia, and is currently calling Michigan home. He is currently hard at work on his second novel—though that’s a slow-go at times.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
BLOOD ON THE WHITE WHICKER by Peggy Holloway
Fleeing an abusive foster father, Vicky ends up in New Orleans and begins to uncover clues about her past, who she is, where she came from and what happened to her 13 years ago. When she is given a unique necklace she recognizes from a repeating dream, her life is in danger.
The necklace also triggers her dreams to become more detailed giving her more clues. She will eventually learn the truth about what happened to her 13 years ago, but at what cost?
A note from Peggy Holloway - After fighting the main character and losing sleep over her, I decided to let her have her way. It was then that the book wrote itself and I began to relax and let it happen, although I didn’t appreciate her waking me up in the middle of the night to write. This book will always have a special place in my heart because of the struggle and the many emotions I experienced writing it. I learned many things about myself while writing this book and when it was finished the characters kept calling to me and I had to continue with them through four more books, so far.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
CHILDREN OF DREAMS by Lorilyn Roberts
A one-of-a-kind inspirational adoption story–in fact, two stories. “Children of Dreams” is borne out of Lorilyn Roberts’ shattered world. The inspiring story of turning broken dreams into reality will bring hope that the reader’s adoption dream can come true. The timeless theme of God’s faithfulness will make this a favorite adoption story for years to come.
Despair transformed into heavenly joy and evil overcome by God’s redemptive love will inspire even the most skeptical to believe in miracles. In September 2010, Manisha’s medical mystery, as told in “Children of Dreams” was featured on Animal Planet’s “Monsters Inside Me.”
Lorilyn Roberts is a Christian author who writes children’s picture books, adult nonfiction, memoirs, and a young adult Christian fantasy series, Seventh Dimension.
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 Peggy Holloway, Robbi Summer Bright, Ethan Holmes, Alex Lukeman, Julia Underwood, Peter Ubtrent, Robin E Levin, Joyce Shaughnessy and Irene Helenowski.
