SHOWCASE 21: Eight Indie Books on Show

Welcome to the twenty first Showcase.

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DOUBLE SHOCK by Peggy Holloway

When Ramona decides the only way to escape her abusive husband is to kill him and make it look like an accident, she feels she has solved her problem. When she begins to overhear conversations from some of the people of Addison, Georgia, she realizes everyone knows it was murder but are covering it up.

At first she is glad but when she begins getting clues about what’s happening in the small Georgia town, she is faced with a choice between keeping herself out of jail and saving her country.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

DREAM by RobbiBryant

Veronica Armatti, a hairdresser and infatuation addict, has managed to strike the perfect balance between her daily existence and her overpowering desires. Veronica’s husband, Joe, tolerates her addiction as long as he doesn’t know the details. Veronica decides to get her latest fix with Andrew, an artist she meets at a grocery store. Andrew inducts Veronica into a mysterious and hypnotic dream world, where the powerful Devan entices her into his tribe of shape shifters, and where dreams and reality mingle in a deadly, intricate dance of survival.

Bestselling author Robbi Sommers Bryant has written 1 novella, 4 novels, five short story collections, and one book of poetry. Her work has been published in magazines both in the United States and internationally.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE KEYSTONE by Ethan Holmes

My name is Titus Kofi and it’s not pronounced like the drink. I took this gig working at The Keystone Hotel. What can I say? It pays the bills.

The owners, a greedy bunch of locals who are all part of one not-so-happy family and just so happen to make up the board of directors, are fairly certain that someone is stealing their precious cash from the hotel.

Their kingpin, Violetta Carbona, one of the strangest looking women you’ll ever meet, wants me to find out who so they can hang the poor bastard from the nearest leafless, half-dead tree. Well, that and she wants to keep the money flowing at The Keystone.

There’s just one problem; there’s no money missing from the cash drawer of The Keystone. There are some missing residents though and it’s not just because they didn’t take their medicine and forgot where they lived. No, someone’s playing some deadly games here; games like bird-caging, riding the gargoyle, and one-way elevator rides.To make matters worse the idiots I used to work with are zooming in on all the wrong people trying to make the pieces fit the puzzle so they can go home with a beer and a smile. That’s why they arrested Mike. That’s where I get more involved than I planned.

Suddenly I find myself caught up in this little ball of fun and I don’t like it one bit. I don’t much care for being Ms. Carbona’s pawn or anyone else’s for that matter. I’m going to get to the bottom of this one way or another, or end up on the bottom of something.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE LANCE by Alex Lukeman

In the frozen wastes of Antarctica the Lance, an ancient weapon of unthinkable power–
once lost and legendary–has been recovered. In the terrorized streets of Jerusalem,
devastation is unleashed upon the eve of  international peace.

In the halls of power of Washington, D.C. a desperate plot set in motion during the
final days of World War II has begun to unfold. Now Nick Carter and his team of
deep black operatives from the PROJECT must race against time to prevent the next
World War…but first they must first stop those who already wield the Lance…

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

 

DARK PILGRIM RISING by R. Peter Ubtrent

“Dark Pilgrim Rising” R. Peter Ubtrent is a whole universe within a book. It is the first in the ‘Dark Pilgrim’ series, so there is of necessity a lot of scene-setting since this promises to be an epic science-fiction series. It is a complex rather than complicated novel with many subplots and layers, and calls for concentration. It is a story of survival. Ailanthus and Tethys, human friends currently on a savage penal colony, are bent on surviving in a place where few last more than five years. The Imperium, the presiding body, is also trying to survive, now that its Emperor has been assassinated. It faces uprisings from the Church of the Blessed Prophets and also from the Noble Houses, which had all previously been powerful rulers. To complicate matters further, an ancient enemy returns to the fray. Any book that opens with the sentence ‘The existence of earth is a myth’ is one that needs reading! It quickly becomes engrossing. This is a dystopian novel of corruption, brutality and despair, but ultimately of hope. The cast of alien species, including the Dwad-Mehstiv, Kroor, Druzni, Drek and H’chalks, is an intricately created and plausible one. Through their unique eyes we are given a satirical view of the human race with its faults and foolishness. But good qualities shine at times in Ailanthus and his fellow convicts.  This book an impressive achievement and one that is rewarding and fascinating to read.

R. Peter Ubtrent was born in New York but raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a BS in Astrophysics and a Master’s in Military History. He is currently working on his PhD.

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DEATH OF CARTHAGE by Robin E. Levin

“The Death of Carthage tells the story of the Second and third Punic wars that took place between ancient Rome and Carthage in three parts. The first book, Carthage Must Be Destroyed, covering the second Punic war, is told in the first person by Lucius Tullius Varro, a young Roman of equestrian status who is recruited into the Roman cavalry at the beginning of the war in 218 BC. Lucius serves in Spain under the Consul Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the Proconsul Cneius Cornelius Scipio.

Captivus, the second book, is narrated by Lucius’s first cousin Enneus, who is recruited to the Roman cavalry under Gaius Flaminius and taken prisoner by Hannibal’s general Maharbal after the disastrous Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC. Enneus is transported to Greece and sold as a slave, where he is put to work as a shepherd on a large estate and establishes his life there.

The third and final book, The Death of Carthage, is narrated by Enneus’s son, Ectorius. As a rare bilingual, Ectorius becomes a translator and serves in the Roman army during the war and witnesses the total destruction of Carthage in the year 146 BC.

This historical saga, full of minute details on day-to-day life in ancient times, depicts two great civilizations on the cusp of influencing the world for centuries to come.”

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE UNSURRENDER by Joyce Shaughnessy

The voices in this book are those of the 260,000 Filipino and American men and women who made up the partisan group called The Unsurrendered in the Philippines during WWII. This historical romantic novel revolves around guerrillas who fight to bring the American Army to victory in 1945.

Jacob, an American secret agent, and Carla, a Filipina, join other partisans in 1941 to fight behind Japanese lines.

The American forces capture the Philippine Islands after the Japanese destruction of Manila. In Manila’s sprawling ruins lay the bodies of more than 100,000 Filipinos who were massacred at the hands of Japanese soldiers. It is estimated that one out of twenty Filipino citizens died during the Japanese occupation.

The Unsurrendered is the last book in a trilogy called The Pearl of the Orient. The first is A Healing Place, and the second is Blessed Are the Merciful, Our Forgotten Soldiers.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk


ORDER OF THE DIMENSIONS by Irene Helenowski



When Jane Kremowski first began her graduate studies in physics at Madison State University in Wisconsin, little did she know where her work would take her. Now, she is embroiled in a multitude of dimensions all leading to different outcomes. She and her colleagues therefore must act wisely in order to take and keep away the Order of Dimension from falling into the wrong hands for the sake of her loved ones.

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 Ethan Holmes, Alex Lukeman, Peter Ubtrent, Kim Defforge, Peggy Holloway, Fran Veal, Molly Campbell and Judith Barrow.