Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Bob Marley BLURB: Nicholas Robinson is a chemist decades ahead of his time. Crippled by a riding accident and embittered by his injuries, he shuns the world, focusing on his laboratory and experiments. But when the sale of his country estate, Grantley, leads to an encounter with a... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.” ― Rose Lovejoy I have never read anything from this author, but was really interested in reading this story after reading the blurb. Vampires are not friendly in this book, they don't sparkle, they don't want to be your friend, they want you for their next meal. They... Continue Reading →
“Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.” ― Rose Lovejoy I have never read anything from this author, but was really interested in reading this story after reading the blurb. Vampires are not friendly in this book, they don't sparkle, they don't want to be your friend, they want you for their next meal. They... Continue Reading →
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Isaac Newton (Third Law of Motion) Blurb: Wanted: one bear. Must be burly and hairy, and strong enough to paddle. Hunter Bell is on the prowl, and he knows just where to find his prey: at the Bear Trap, a gay leather... Continue Reading →
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Isaac Newton (Third Law of Motion) Blurb: Wanted: one bear. Must be burly and hairy, and strong enough to paddle. Hunter Bell is on the prowl, and he knows just where to find his prey: at the Bear Trap, a gay leather... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." --Henry Drummond While Wild Magic is the fourth book in Poppy Dennison’s popular Triad series, it is great as a standalone. I didn’t read... Continue Reading →
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." --Henry Drummond While Wild Magic is the fourth book in Poppy Dennison’s popular Triad series, it is great as a standalone. I didn’t read... Continue Reading →
“Words are the voice of the heart.” ― Confucius In this sweet short story, we get to visit again with Mason and Jax, the two MCs from Mountain Memories. In the past months, Mason has moved across the country to be closer to Jax and gotten a job at Shenandoah National Park. His days are... Continue Reading →
“Words are the voice of the heart.” ― Confucius In this sweet short story, we get to visit again with Mason and Jax, the two MCs from Mountain Memories. In the past months, Mason has moved across the country to be closer to Jax and gotten a job at Shenandoah National Park. His days are... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
“Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” -- Jane Rubietta The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illumination as: spiritual or intellectual enlightenment OR decoration by the art of illuminating. In Rowan Speedwell’s Illumination, both definitions apply.... Continue Reading →
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