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A captivating journey weaving together the horror of war and the power of love.Twenty-year-old Maya is given one hour to pack one suitcase and flee her home in war-torn Beirut, leaving behind everyone and everything she knows and loves.She rebuilds a new life in Los Angeles, and eventually launches a successful career in the aerospace industry. Despite professional opportunities and glamorous experiences in California, Maya is unable to escape her emotional attachment and sense of responsibility to her home country.She returns to Beirut where she meets a young surgeon, and together they believe they have a role to play in changing the trajectory of their war-torn nation.Glass Cedars, by Kath...

The O.D. is about the threats and perils that face everyone on the planet… over-population, climate change, water shortages… and what can be done to avert them. The action takes place ten or twenty years from now, by which point the Earth will have reached its tipping point (as pointed out last week by the IPCC). The burning question is, how can these threats be addressed when countries can’t agree on the simplest of things? The answer - create a base of influence outside the rest of the world that is free of history, culture, and political and religious dogma, thus enabling it to promote a solution that’s impartial and non-partisan – a solution the rest of the world can accept for...

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.- David HumeCenturies ago, the aquatic alien Sa arrived to explore Earth's wonders. Initially, they disregarded the dominant land-dwelling humans, viewing them as dangerous and primitive. However, the Sa explorers became marooned on Earth when an aggressive interstellar species invaded and occupied their home worlds. Now, human-induced climate change and nuclear weapon proliferation threaten the Sa’s existence. With their expertise in genetic manipulation, the Sa created a hybrid human species called the HumanSo to alter man’s destructive behavior toward Earth’s ecology. Unfortunately, their efforts...

When Daniel MacLean pins the lone star of a Texas Ranger on his chest, he's looking to avenge the woman he'd planned a life and family with. His pursuit takes him to the border town of Uvalde where he finds a power hungry man hellbent on overrunning the entire territory. As he works to keep the peace along the border, he continues to cross paths with a Mexican woman, Lucia Tarrango, who is trapped in the middle of it all. Will hard riding and straight shooting be enough to settle the score or is he charging headlong into an all out border war?

Restless and seeking fortune beyond his family's farm, Rory Fraser hears of men striking it rich in a place called Leadville. At the age of sixteen, he leaves his Indiana home for the Wild West, enduring hardships and discovering a hidden resilience that transforms him from a hopeful prospector into a stalwart frontiersman. Along the way, he discovers that true wealth lies not in silver and gold, but in a life forged from the land and a love born of the strength to stand fast.

A castle of dreams. A love that defies reason. And magic that will change the course of Fate...For years, Garen McTaggert has longed to own a crumbling old castle. Now his wish is granted - if he can complete renovations on time and marry the demure Leeza Cantrell, heir to the estate.Just as his future begins to look bright, Garen stumbles into an enchanted garden and falls into a deep slumber. When he awakens, he is inundated with creatures of magic: a frog, a newt, a dragonfly, and the beautiful maiden who captures his heart.Garen is torn between the life he always wanted and the love he never knew was possible. To claim Leeza and his castle, he must ignore the witch's spell - but to do th...

🌆✨ New on The Digital ShelfTHE RULES OF US — A Friends-to-Lovers Romance by Dave LawrenceShe’s all logic. He’s all heart. And their “fake” love story is about to break every rule.When attorney Lena Morales agrees to fake-date her widowed best friend Cal Parker through wedding season, it’s supposed to be harmless, just a way to dodge awkward questions and save face. But between family parties, slow dances, and a six-year-old who’s already planning their wedding, pretending starts to feel dangerously real.📚 Warm, witty, and full of heart, The Rules of Us is for readers who crave slow-burn chemistry, emotional depth, and that cinematic spark of second chances.💛 Sometime...

❄️🔥 New on The Digital ShelfTHE TRUTH WE TRIED TO BURY — A Romantic Suspense by Dave LawrenceSome secrets stay frozen for a reason.When investigative journalist Mara Jensen returns to the Arctic research base she once fled, she’s not chasing headlines; she’s chasing closure. But standing in her way is Elias Ward, the brilliant, broken scientist who once held her heart… and the truth that destroyed them both.As a new storm rolls in, buried evidence resurfaces, old lies thaw, and the line between love and betrayal becomes dangerously thin.📘 Haunting, intimate, and cinematic, The Truth We Tried to Bury is a story about what happens when the past refuses to stay buried, and the...

⚡💔 New on The Digital ShelfTHE LIES WE SWORE TO KEEP — A Resonance Series Novel by Dave LawrenceIn a city built on power and secrets, love might be the most dangerous truth of all.When political analyst Clara Holt crosses paths with Julian Cross, a government contractor with too many shadows in his past, what begins as a partnership built on necessity spirals into obsession, betrayal, and a love they’re both sworn to deny.Every lie unravels.Every secret has a consequence.And the deeper they fall, the higher the stakes.🌙 Cinematic, darkly romantic, and charged with emotion, The Lies We Swore to Keep blurs the line between duty and desire, a gripping story of love, deception, and t...

🌧️🔥 New on The Digital ShelfTHE DEAL WE NEVER SHOULD’VE MADE — A Resonance Series Novel by Dave LawrenceThey had a deal.No emotions. No attachments. No mistakes.But some lines aren’t meant to stay unbroken.When ambitious art broker Elena Voss enters a high-stakes agreement with Damian Cole, a billionaire investor hiding more secrets than money, their worlds collide in a storm of passion, deception, and moral gray.What starts as business turns personal — dangerously personal — as they discover that the real cost of their deal isn’t measured in dollars, but in hearts.💼 Seductive, suspenseful, and gorgeously written, The Deal We Never Should’ve Made explores what happen...

Title: Journeyers: Book One & Book TwoForm: Duology of novels ~ 400 pages & 600 pagesGenre: Epic Fantasy x Action-Adventure x Sword & SorceryTarget Audience: teens+ / fans of Redwall, Legend of Drizzt, Hunter x Hunter🎨Cover art by Goran GligovićMain Characters:✋Apo, the boy adventurer seeking his lost sister🐍Ouro, the snake spy undercover for the Queen🐒Rakar, the monkey monk who does not remember his past🕊️Isidi, the bird bard from a city in the skyPremise: *JOURNEYERS* is a story about the fantastique of nature. Within the Spiral Forest, animals wield magic like language and resist the empire of Mankind, residing in the heart of the Spiral Castle. Apo is an adve...

Title: Journeyers: Book One & Book TwoForm: Duology of novels ~ 400 pages & 600 pagesGenre: Epic Fantasy x Action-Adventure x Sword & SorceryTarget Audience: teens+ / fans of Redwall, Legend of Drizzt, Hunter x Hunter🎨Cover art by Goran GligovićMain Characters:✋Apo, the boy adventurer seeking his lost sister🐍Ouro, the snake spy undercover for the Queen🐒Rakar, the monkey monk who does not remember his past🕊️Isidi, the bird bard from a city in the skyPremise: *JOURNEYERS* is a story about the fantastique of nature. Within the Spiral Forest, animals wield magic like language and resist the empire of Mankind, residing in the heart of the Spiral Castle. Apo is an adve...

The Library Saga is a new series as of October 2025. It starts off short with Guardians of Genre to introduce the characters, but with each novel gets longer as the stakes grow to an epic conclusion with at least ten novels planned. The Library Saga is currently on Kindle Unlimited with Audible Plus, and paperbacks are also available.Welcome to the Everyday Town Library—where fiction leaps off the page, time rewinds through the card catalog, and the thesaurus might just eat you alive.In this ten-chapter genre-bending saga, Cliff Ball invites readers into a world where librarians battle curses, footnotes, and interdimensional chaos to protect the stories that shape reality. From haunted mic...

The margins are stirring. The genres are glitching. And the footnotes are starting to fight back.Bonnie thought she’d redirected a library page. Instead, she created a genre virus with editorial flair and a vendetta against exposition. Now the Redactor is rewriting reality — one trope at a time. Romance becomes courtroom drama. Cookbooks narrate in noir. And the Mystery Section won’t stop rhyming.As the Library fractures under narrative sabotage, Dewey the cat patrols the chaos, Nora Clue adjusts to her legally distinct identity, and Alexandria faces a mystery that points to her as the culprit. Meanwhile, overdue slips fall like snow, each stamped with a single word: Remember.To stop t...

When the Library fractures under the weight of algorithmic forces, the companions are thrust into a gauntlet of corrupted genres — sitcoms, fairy tales, mysteries, pulp war novels, and even the library’s own foundations. Each shard hunt becomes a parody of pop culture, but also a mirror of the heroes themselves: the Princess trapped in glass crowns, the Marine saluted by mannequins, the Detective’s notebook writing without her, the Sitcom Dad haunted by laugh tracks.As the Arcane Archivist’s echo grows stronger, the group realizes the shards aren’t just fragments of story — they’re pieces of the library’s origin. The final keystone lies in the Founder’s Wing, where the libr...