A PURE DOUBLE CROSS
Book One of the American Spy Trilogy
by John Knoerle
Cleveland, Ohio, 1945. OSS agent Hal Schroeder returns from a harrowing two-year stint behind German lines. The horrors of war have left him bitter and cynical. He is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the local mob. The feds have concocted a sting operation to nab elusive mob boss Teddy Biggs and they want Hal to execute it. He agrees.
But Hal Schroeder is no longer interested in being a hero. Hal Schroeder is interested in a fat payday.
"Hal Schroeder is destined to join the ranks of great characters in American Fiction."
Stephen L. Smoke, Editor-in-Chief, Mystery Magazine
FALLING LEAVES AND MOUNTAIN ASHES
by Brenda George
Starting in 1899, this 40-year saga is about a brave young mountain woman, Mary Harley, who elopes with Zachary Thomas to the dreaded Claw Mountain. The mountain is inhabited by a wild, violent and lawless clan known as the “Buckos”, who are engaged in a vicious 30-year feud with the neighbouring Galtreys.
With undertones of the mystical and the spiritual, this story is set against an authentic background of mountain life and is a rich weave of humour and heartache, love and violence, courage and brutality, feuds and strong family ties, and is set amongst the raw unspoiled beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the famed summer mountain resort of Skyland and Washington D.C.
"Brenda George weaves an elaborate tapestry of rich, compelling characters, and a passionate story of love, courage, violence, heartache and humor. Her writing is lyrical and visual – a movie in the making! Don’t miss this compelling, page-turning read!"
Annette Handley-Chandler – ex-literary agent, Hollywood screenplay agent, Emmy Award winning producer, writer, USA.
JOSIAH'S KINGDOM Trilogy
The Divine Dawning - Book I
by Glory Keverne
(Author of the internationally acclaimed 'A MAN CANNOT CRY')
Set in Colonial Africa in the forties through the life of one man, The Divine Dawning captures the early stages of the epic soul journey we are all destined to make. Embroiled in breath-taking adventure, metaphysical mystery and lessons in elusive love, Daniel Lasky, a 27-year-old Great White hunter, takes the reader on an unflinching expedition through humanity's traditional minefields of sin and suffering. Famous for shooting lion, the Apache trained tracker is commissioned to find the grave of a Christian minister last seen in Northern Rhodesia 30 years before. What he finds in a lost valley of the cursed Shinshika mountains, challenges the very basis of Orthodox religion, containing the power to transform humanity and save the planet. The revelation shatters Daniel's cynical world view, triggering his own, dimly discerned, Divine Dawning..
"The theme of spirituality and the devastation of the environment is incredibly powerful and inspiring." (Stanley J Corwin - Book Packager and Film Producer, USA).
"Glory Keverne is a master of description and a master storyteller." (Julian Bach, legendary New York Agent and former editor of America's original LIFE magazine).
BYRON
A novel by Robert M. TUCKER
Set in the turbulent '60s, BYRON is a young woman's powerful story of growing up in a
southern mill town.
This poignant dramatically intense novel is rich in colourful characters brought to life in lovingly narrated detail and cultural texture that resonates with current issues of gender, racial and religious intolorance.
"A beautiful, evocative novel of love and life in a small southern town in America ... reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird" (Stan Corwin, author of 'The Creative Writer's Companion').
