Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
When a colleague dies under suspicious circumstances, everyone wants a piece of Nick Grady's criminal enterprise. However, Nick complex past comes full circle, thrusting the new manager in a scramble to decipher the truth behind the chaotic lives of the people he holds dear. "A large marijuana growing operation, Russian mobsters, undercover drug agents, and a biker gang, wraps up with a series of unexpected and shocking plot reversals that brings the book to a violent, surprising, and powerful end." (BookLife Prize in Fiction, by Publishers Weekly)
Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novelette
A yearlong love affair comes to a shattering halt and rocks Aubree Sellers world. She is blindsided by Marshall Keller’s admission… “I’m happily married Aubree, we can’t go on like this.” Her thoughts scrambled to understand. Heartbroken, ashamed, and afraid, she reaches out to the only one who has always been easy to talk to. Her prim and proper grandmother Rosalie. A Godly woman like her Grammy couldn’t possibly understand what Aubree is going through. Or could she? With a warm and sympathetic smile, Rosalie touches Aubree’s heart with her own surrendered heartbreak. As the story unfolds, Aubree rushes to a conclusion and knows exactly what she has to do. Confront Marshall. Rosalie doesn’t stop her. Will Aubree’s spontaneous decision have her missing out on the rest of the story?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
Are sea otters as cute and clever as they seem? Miranda Jones is as captivated by their sweet faces as she is spellbound by their antics. She can hardly wait to interact with them on her kayaking expedition off California's Central Coast. Yet nothing could be more surprising than the controversy they've caused in the sun-drenched Santa Barbara waters, nor more disturbing than the vehement hatred they seem to inspire among local fishermen. Are the otters really so adorable? Or is there more at stake . . . When Otters Play? Though the book stands alone, it also introduces Book 3 of the Milford-Haven Novels, the critically acclaimed, best-selling series, a multi-generational saga. Based on Purl's BBC Radio drama Milford-Haven U.S.A.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
In the 1970s, on a backpacking adventure to Europe, Alma discovers her cousins in her grandfather's hometown in northern Italy near Lake Garda. As Alma bonds with Gianna, Catrina, Novella, Veronica and Kara, the girls become lasting friends, sharing their joys and sorrows with each other on their journey through life. Over 45 years, passing into adulthood and through middle age, their friendship sustains them. While sharing their culture and testing the limits of their endurance, they experience life's lessons along the way. As Alma travels on her journey of discovery, she learns the meaning of family, friendship, love, courage and survival. In the process, she not only finds her heritage, but ultimately finds herself.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. Faced with life-threatening working conditions, Ntoni must choose between escaping the mines and abandoning his family. As a series of unforeseen events soon complicate his plans, Ntoni realizes that all is not what it seems and to trust anyone might prove to be as fatal as being trapped inside of a cave-in. The Hunger Saint draws from years of historical research and was informed by the oral histories of former miners still living in Sicily today.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
In modern Melbourne, Rosemary is introduced to a horrific truth about her parents, Shabana and Ted – a truth that goes all the way back to Kolkata, 1975. Even before the national crisis of the Emergency, social divisions are widening. Dark times are gathering.
Kolkata is also where Shabana and Ted meet: Shabana is a maid in the foreign office, while Ted is a young diplomat from Melbourne. The two form an unconventional relationship that grows into love under the shadow of Urdu poetry and Western literature.
Against cultural differences, both fight for acceptance – Ted from his manipulative mother, and Shabana from her overbearing father. They find themselves caught in a web of family secrets and betrayal, all to be re-introduced forty years later to Rosemary.
Will Rosemary take revenge?
Or will she disappear into the realm of her happiness?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
When Meera Sen comes to the city of Melbourne to become a microbiologist, all she has with her are the traditional values of her culture and the idol of lord Krishna given to her by her uncle.
When Meera meets Brian for the first time, she hates him – but Brian falls in love with her instantly. Even as he desires her, Brian, consumed with his own insecurities, risks driving her away instead.
Living in Australia, and then returning to her homeland to reconnect with her family and the obligations waiting for her, will leave Meera no stranger to heartbreak. And when it seems this world has failed her, will Meera find fulfilment elsewhere?
Inspired by the life of Mirabai, our Meera’s been bestowed with not one but with two lovers who fight to win her love: a mortal Brian seeks to rescue Meera and take her back to the temporal world, whilst the immortal Krishna invites Meera to his permanent world.
Meera Rising is the unforgettable story of an ordinary woman who dares to become an immortal saint – the extraordinary ‘modern Mirabai’.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novella
There are many stories about genies, with their three-wish policy and their limited powers. What if there was another more sinister creature? One that could give you any wish you want with no limit? For a cost, would you make the deal?
Ryan's life changes one day when he meets a strange man named Winguard. After sealing a deal with Winguard, Ryan finds his every wish coming true.
Jason, meanwhile, learns that Ryan has been put into a coma and is in danger. Jason sets out to find answers, only to learn that a family secret may be the only way to save Ryan.
While Ryan discovers he has no limit to his wishes, he cannot take one particular wish back and begins to pine for what he lost. Jason learns that he is a hunter, and his family hunts only one creature, the Djinn.
Can Jason save Ryan? Will Ryan gain back what he has lost?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Novelette
Red Dashboard LLC Publications Dime "Flash" Novels presents, "Get In The Ring" by L. Garvey Thomas: L. Doug “The Shovel” Keenan has been boxing zombies for sport to pay off his missing brother, Jimmy’s, debt—along with being exstorted by the Underground Boxing Circuit, and having his mother, a childhood friend, and manager harassed. With Jimmy’s whereabouts unknown, Doug recalls his influence growing up, and more…
What if your whole life was a dream? And what if YOU were the dreamer? Alora is a leaf who’s fallen from the Dreaming Tree into the strange new land of Lake Sojourn where she experiences an emotional roller-coaster of fear, love and loss as she struggles to remember who she is. Along the way she meets unexpected guides who share their wisdom to help her rediscover her true self and purpose. Will she continue to drift on the surface, always at the mercy of the elements? Or will she find the courage to face her fears, dive deep and reclaim her true power? This beautifully illustrated spiritual fairy tale for grownups will show us all how we can live deeper, richer lives.
