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In the library, every story is tested. Some are judged, some are erased, and some are forced to endure their longest day.Alexandria thought she knew the rules of survival: endure the trials, cling to faith, and keep walking. But when the library turns its gaze fully upon her, she’s thrust into a gauntlet of judgment halls, forgotten shelves, and suffocating silences that threaten to erase her voice forever. Haunted by migraines that blur reality and faith that steadies her steps, she must face the Library’s cruelest truth — it doesn’t just want to test her, it wants to rewrite her.And as the library fractures, its corruption spills outward. Council hearings glitch into game shows, ne...

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...

This is the debut novel of the Abbey Roberts series.  It is a medical thriller.  Abbey is an RN who after brain surgery returns to her workplace, the ICU/trauma unit.  As she navigates her new normal she realizes that the meth-addicted neurosurgeon who botched her surgery is now working in her ICU.  She must stop him before he hurts others, even at the risk of her own career.

This is book 2 of the Abbey Roberts series.  Abbey Roberts becomes the Director of Nursing Care at the Toronto Manor and quickly realizes that her residents are not safe.  With the help of a senior retired investigative journalist, Larry, Abbey must identify what is wrong and fix it so her residents are safe and cared for, even at the risk of her health and marriage.

In the 2150’s, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn’t know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The US government wants him to find out.

Explore the intriguing world of time travel in my novel. Discover how the past, present, and future intertwine. Read more!

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For years, stories have circulated around the Superstition Mountains about an old hermit who seems to have been there forever.University of Arizona graduate student Matt Hayden has always been fascinated by the stories, but fascination isn’t enough for a historian. When the opportunity arises to investigate the legend for his final graduate paper, Matt sets out to find out what is fact, what is folklore, and whether the mysterious hermit ever existed at all.He finds the answer sooner than expected. What begins as a simple research project soon becomes something far stranger as the man that Matt talks to shares memories of an Arizona that no longer exists, stories gathered over a lifetime, ...

     At secretive military electronics surveillance station in the Arctic Circle, a lowly fry cook, paradoxically the son of a wealthy and powerful politician, mysteriously dies. A victim of circumstances, FBI agent, Rhett Bradley, in the last month of his career, is hastily dispatched to investigate, to arrive ahead of a Siberian-spawned blizzard and a feared Washington, D.C. political storm.     Bradley must maneuver through guarded, secretive, and complex circumstances, periling his own life while contending with an egotistical FBI supervisor, paranoid intelligence agents, and petty criminals.  His investigation must be conducted in an ali...

Some secrets are buried too deep to dig up.In the sleepy coastal town of Ferndale, California the fog rolls in thick like an old ghost, hiding a dark history of stolen land and forged Gilded Age fortunes. For Dr. Ann McBride, life is supposed to be about quiet healing—tending to the town's aging population alongside her golden retriever, Stella, and pouring her heart into opening The Nook, a community bakery.But when a gruesome local murder shatters the town's artificial peace, and a century-old diary is unearthed beneath the bakery floorboards, Ann finds herself at the center of a lethal conspiracy. Someone is systematically eliminating Ferndale’s elite using a silent, untraceable poiso...

He has nine lives, a limp, and zero patience. In the sleepy village of Ferndale, CA.
The local banker has been found dead, poisoned by a mysterious ingredient. The police are baffled, but House, a sarcastic black cat with a catnip dependency and a limp in his back left leg, knows exactly what happened.

Unfortunately, his owner, the kindly Dr. Ann McBride, just wants him to be a "good kitty." Can House expose the killer without getting declawed, or will he just knock a vase off the table to prove a point?

HOUSE RULES: THE CAT WITH A CATNIP SLANT is a 37,600-word small-town medical thriller. It combines the sharp medical suspense of Tess Gerritsen with the small-town secrets and feline-assisted sleuthing of Rita Mae Brown.In misty Ferndale, Dr. Ann McBride spends her days treating geriatric patients. When a ruthless local patriarch drops dead, the police rule it a natural heart attack. However, Ann’s medical expertise points to a calculated poisoning. Teaming up with rugged ex-detective Noah Fletcher, she begins to unravel a dark web of predatory loans that holds the entire town hostage.The danger strikes home when an intruder drugs Ann's fiercely independent cat, House, with a synthetic bak...

In this cozy mystery, you'll find:A Witty, Relatable Sleuth: A fifty-year-old doctor who knows that diagnosing a financial murder isn't all that different from diagnosing a patient.Small-Town Charm: Quirky locals, fierce baking competitions, and the atmospheric magic of a Northern California coastal village.Feline Forensics: A judgmental, fiercely protective black cat who isn't afraid to take a bite out of crime.Bonus Content: Includes the actual recipe for Hal’s famous Macadamia Nut Cookies!In this cozy mystery, you'll find:A Witty, Relatable Sleuth: A fifty-year-old doctor who knows that diagnosing a financial murder isn't all that different from diagnosing a patient.Small-Town Charm: Qu...

A combat mission over Afghanistan becomes something no soldier has ever trained for.When their aircraft is struck and a platoon of the Seventh Cavalry bails out, they don’t land in a war zone they recognize. Instead, the 13 soldiers hit the ground two thousand years in the past—in a world of empires, iron weapons, and wars fought face to face.Cut off from their own time and surrounded by forces that will kill them without hesitation, the men and women of the Seventh must choose quickly: remain outsiders and perish, or intervene in a history that was never meant to be altered.As modern weapons collide with ancient armies, courage, discipline, and ingenuity are pushed to their limits—and...

Just days before the world erupts in the Russia-Ukraine war, Jasmine and Kave set out from Gloucester, Massachusetts in their thirty-foot fishing boat, chasing bluefin tuna across the remote Seamounts of the North Atlantic.They sail straight into a nightmare.After a violent storm disables their boat, a massive Chinese supertanker appears out of the fog, bearing down on them at full speed. The giant vessel shows no signs of slowing. Jasmine and Kave shout and wave frantically—but there is no response from the towering ship.With only seconds to spare, they dive into the sea as the tanker crushes their boat beneath its steel hull.The ship never stops.As the vessel thunders past, they see a li...