"My name is Ethan Canfield Ballard. It wasn't always my name, though. It used to be Pups, Pups Swift, to be exact. Unfortunately, I do not have a good origin story for that name; it seems to be one of those 'always been' sorts of things. Sticky. I survived the orphanage, or vice versa. But once I was out, the wide world was mine. What I didn't know was that a simple blood donation in a truck parked by my favorite library would change everything. Then I met Sean Challe, who had figured out ...

A young philosopher, who has sought the solitude of Iowa for no other reason than the free rent, is unexpectedly summoned by her former mentor to a remote village in Alaska. Although it has been several years since they last spoke, she leaves without question. Her roommate also receives a similar request.Only his response sets off a series of events involving unnamed billionaires with a secret project to search for an organic source of knowledge to feed their A.I. machines, a gover...

Santa's Library gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into an expansive archive of seasonal literature. Its governing concerns—charity, domestic fellowship, childhood wonder, spiritual renewal, winter hardship, and communal festivity—are explored through fairy tale, realist sketch, moral fable, devotional verse, comic anecdote, and Gothic or supernatural narrative. Canonical Christmas visions stand alongside lesser-known popular, juvenile, and t...

In the enchanting anthology "Santa's Christmas Library," readers will discover an extraordinary assemblage of narratives and poems spanning diverse literary styles and epochs. This collection elegantly weaves tales of yuletide cheer, warmth, and wonder, capturing timeless themes from the comfort of familiar traditions to the joy of unexpected surprises. With its eclectic selection, from the nostalgic to the whimsical, the anthology not only traverses a vast array of genres but also reflect...

The Santa's Library gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, legends, and seasonal reflections into an expansive archive of festive literature. Its contents range from fairy tale, domestic realism, moral parable, detective fiction, adventure, devotional verse, and comic sketch to Gothic fantasy and folklore. Canonical narratives of Christmas transformation stand beside children's stories, regional portraits, hymns, and legends, revealing how the holiday has served as a...

Two unknown amateurs help Tommy Hambledon, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, track down Nazi spies in England.

A collection of short and long stories, a sampling of poetry, and a screen adaptation of the novel "The Sparkle of Fish."

Sarason Seed was reborn as the child of a crime. From that revelatory beginning, he stumbles forward with a broken moral compass and an unusual sense of belonging to others experiencing the same social isolation.His innocence and confusion, having survived a mostly loveless childhood, were permanently lost to the challenge of what was good and what was evil. The young Sarason willingly withdrew into a world that was too adult. He learned to navigate the decay of his hometown, chall...

Anthem Waller is living her best life in the small fictional town of Barclay, West Virginia. She had a complicated beginning to her life, losing her parents to violence and despair while still too young to know, being adopted by the town and her recently arrived uncle. Forty years later, married but childless, she is content in the relaxed pace of her 'bump on a knob.'And then a stranger arrives. He has been traveling for forty years in search of merchandise stolen from a German Je...

Note to Readers: If you are considering this book, thank you. While not a trilogy, it does bring my previous two books to a conclusion. Sarason Seed was not an easy character to explore, and his demise in this final installment (not a spoiler) was necessary to relieve me of his presence and the characters he fooled while he was alive. He was the nicest not-nice man I have ever constructed. The book is broken into three parts: how he dies, the atonement his acquaintances are offered by the ...

She is alone and homeless, he is wealthy and powerful – why is he desperate to erase their past?When Alice arrives home from the school run with her two children to find herself locked out of her apartment, she doesn’t realise at first that she is also locked out of her life. The man she loves is in line for the top job in the country, and a secret mistress and two daughters are not part of the plan.Alice finds herself plunged into a situation that is alien to her and for w...

Eden Chance is a seeking a stolen treasure. His quest has led him across numerous continents until he finds what he hopes is a clue in a rural southern town. Happenstance offers him a clue to the possibility as he overhears the local residents talk about a dead man's claim to have hidden a cache of jewels, a tale they consider tall. Griffin has long since passed away but the rumor that he had stashed the 'loot' on his property gave Eden hope that his journey may be close to ending. He rent...