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D.I Marylyn Cassar: The White Tulip Case, Book 1

By  Joe E. Gerald

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A Crime Fiction Thriller

A body is discovered in Malta, marked with a single white tulip. Detective Inspector Marylyn Cassar is assigned the case, quickly sensing that the flower is no random detail—it is a message. As she begins to unravel the layers behind the crime, the investigation leads her through grief, buried connections, and motives shaped by the past. When a second body appears bearing the same chilling signature, the case shifts from isolated tragedy to calculated pattern. Under mounting pressure and internal scrutiny, Lyn must rely on her instincts as much as the evidence, knowing that every detail could be the key. Set against the striking landscapes of Malta, D.I. Marylyn Cassar: The White Tulip Case is a slow-burn crime thriller driven by atmosphere, character, and the quiet tension that lingers long after the final page.


The VowKeeper

By  Joe E. Gerald

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A Psychological Thriller with Dark Romance.

When FBI profiler Linda Murray finds a photograph left on her car bearing the word REMEMBER, she assumes it’s a threat. Later, a different couple are found murdered. As more adulterous partners are discovered posed in ritualistic “corrections,” the media dubs the killer The VowKeeper — a moral crusader punishing broken vows.

But the case turns personal when he begins contacting Linda directly, convinced she understands his mission. Drawn into a psychological battle shaped by her own past trauma, Linda must stop a killer who doesn’t just want justice — he wants her to witness it.

And his final lesson is still to come.

 


The VowKeeper Companion Booklet

By  Joe E. Gerald

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A Literary Booklet about The VowKeeper Book

This companion explores the full architecture of The VowKeeper across fourteen sections:

  •  The philosophy behind The VowKeeper and why his argument is taken seriously
  •  The world of the novel — setting, atmosphere, and the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit
  •  The hidden structural element of the number 47, embedded at every pivotal scene
  •  A chapter-by-chapter guide to the story's arc and each chapter's function
  •  Full character psychology and motivations for every major figure
  •  An analysis of the relationships and mirrors between characters
  •  The moral and legal questions the novel deliberately leaves unresolved
  •  The meaning of the Epilogue — what the copycat understands that the FBI does not
  •  Notes on the craft and writing decisions behind the novel
  •  Background on the FBI and criminal profiling research
  •  The complete architectural meaning of 47 — mathematical, psychological, and biblical
  •  Hints about what may come next in the Linda Murray series
  •  A preview of Chapter 1 of The VowKeeper for new readers

The House That Keeps You: A Novel of Time, Loss, and the People Inside

By  Joe E. Gerald

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A Literary Psychological Horror

In October 1709, a county official named Foss rode to the Wetherly property on a routine welfare call and left as quickly as he could. He never went near Harrow’s Hollow again. He slept with a lamp burning for the rest of his life and told no one why.

Three hundred and fifteen years later, a boy walks out of the treeline at the edge of the same property. He is ten years old. He is wearing colonial-era clothing. He writes, in a hand that belongs to another century: I am afraid of what is still inside.

His name is Elias Croft. He entered the Wetherly house in 1735. He has just come out.

Dr. Clara Voss has spent eleven years documenting forty-one disappearances connected to the Wetherly property — a house that is larger inside than outside, that generates no shadows, that keeps its captives alive across centuries while exterior time flows on without them. The academic world regards her work with polite contempt. Now she has a witness.

What follows is an investigation unlike any other: into a structure that is not a building but a temporal field, into the people it has held for three centuries, and into the question of whether a house that has been keeping the lost can be made to let them go.

The House That Keeps You is a literary horror novel about grief, attention, and what it means to be known. It is also about forty-one people who went in and did not come out — and the seventeen who, finally, did.


The Salt House

By  Sharon Calleja

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The Salt House

“You are one of them, Aria.”
Some truths are buried for a reason.
Aria has always felt like a stranger in her own life. When fragments of the past begin to surface, they lead her to the Salt House - an isolated building on Malta’s coast, where something dark has been hidden for decades.
What she uncovers is unthinkable.
Children stolen. Identities erased. Lives rewritten.
As Aria digs deeper, she discovers she is not just searching for answers. She is part of the mystery. With the help of Daniel, a man haunted by his own past, she begins to unravel a truth that will change everything she thought she knew about herself.
But some secrets are closer than they appear.
And some truths come at a cost.
In a story of love, loss, and the devastating power of memory, 
The Salt House is a haunting psychological thriller that will stay with you long after the final page.
Because when the past finally is discovered, what remains may not set you free. It will always take you back.
Back to the Salt House.


Faith's Portrait

By Jude Liebermann

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Romance

The old house called to Claire, and then she found the portrait in the attic. She discovered Faith had died tragically many decades earlier, and that her fate was intertwined with a man with whom Claire felt a strange connection. She wanted to know more about what happened to Faith and Noah. Then one night Claire touched the portrait and found herself propelled into the past. Could she right the wrongs that had been done, and could she also set things right in her own life?


Embracing the Beast

By Melanie Kinder

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Dark urban fantasy and paranormal horror

How do you survive when the cure is worse than the disease? 

​June Breslin thought beating cancer would be the hardest fight of her life. She was wrong. When her husband leaves her on the heels of her remission, June is left hollowed out until something inside her begins to change. The experimental drug that saved her life has awakened a monstrous hunger, transforming her from mild-mannered schoolteacher to a predator with a taste for vengeance.

Haunted by the loss of her marriage, estranged from friends, and stalked by the mysterious Azrael—a man with secrets as dark as her own—June struggles to cling to her humanity. But as her body and mind evolve, the line between justice and savagery blurs. Each kill brings a rush of euphoria and a wave of guilt she can’t escape. 

​When her brother’s cryptic disappearance draws her into a web of corporate conspiracy, June must confront the truth about her transformation and the sinister organization that engineered it. With a loyal student-turned-accomplice at her side and a rescued stray dog as her unlikely guardian angel, June races against time to save her family, outwit her creators, and decide what kind of monster she’s willing to become. 

​Embracing The Beast is a genre-bending blend of supernatural thriller, dark humor, and raw emotion. A story of survival, found family, and the fight to reclaim your soul when the world wants to turn you into a weapon.

 

​Will June master the beast within, or will it consume everything she loves? â€‹â€‹


51 Reasons to Eat the Cake- Surviving Perimenopause through Comic Relief 

By Kelly ILYAS

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Midlife Self-help and Psychological Humor

It’s Not You. It’s Me Your Pesky Hormones. During perimenopause, hormone levels are out of whack and can fluctuate wildly. These ups and downs can trigger unwanted physical and emotional symptoms, think brain fog and mood changes which can make functioning at work almost impossible. Therefore, this book is for anyone who wants to get their confidence back and shine brightly like the diamond they are.

This book will give insight into guiding this wild journey making it relatable yet entertaining. Woman to woman, my goal is to help embrace the “changes” while maintaining a sense of humor. So, share this book as a gift for anyone who needs a comedic twist while navigating this stage of life. Enjoy the ride and always remember to eat the cake regardless of age. Hop on the Hot Mess Xpress. Cheers folks.​​


The Silent Work

By Knowledge S. King

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Spiritual Self-help

Most books on inner transformation offer answers, techniques, or systems to master.

The Silent Work takes a different path.

This book is a contemplative journey into awareness itself-into the quiet, unseen process through which human consciousness refines, integrates, and remembers its deeper nature. Rather than presenting doctrines or formulas, The Silent Work unfolds through a deliberate structure of veiled reflection, clear understanding, and lived integration.

Each movement of the book works on two levels. The veiled passages speak through symbol, image, and rhythm, inviting direct inner recognition. The unveiled reflections bring clarity and grounding, allowing insight to settle into understanding. Following each pairing, a Gate invites the reader to pause, reflect, and embody what has been revealed-not as a technique to perfect, but as an orientation to enter.

At its core, The Silent Work explores the gradual reconciliation of the inner life: thought and feeling, silence and action, the human and the divine. Transformation here is not presented as achievement or escape, but as alignment-learning to live from awareness rather than reaction, presence rather than identity.

This book does not promise instant insight or dramatic awakening. It asks for patience, honesty, and sincerity. What it offers is not instruction to follow, but a mirror in which the reader may recognize what has always been present beneath noise and striving.

The Silent Work is for readers drawn to depth over display, experience over belief, and inner clarity over external answers. It is not meant to be rushed, consumed, or explained away.

Some books are read.

This one is entered.

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Demon Sleep: and other dark stories

By Keith R Rich

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Fantasy Short Stories

Slightly darker stories
Demon Sleep - Devil's Plaything - A Man and His Drug - Queely Archive - Jaguar Priest - No Intent - Grier Clean - Ernesto’s Fix - Dead Weight - Becoming - Aesculapiu in Space - Abysal Crown

The prose in this collection is a high-velocity, sensory assault that refuses to look away. Written with a clinical, forensic eye, the style strips away the "beige-wall" safety of the mundane world to reveal the jagged, Splatterpunk reality beneath. The author utilizes a rather dark approach—sharp, high-contrast, and unflinching—where the sound of a "wet pop" or the "rhythmic grinding" of bone-centipedes becomes a visceral, physical weight on the reader. This is not a gentle exploration of the dark; it is a mechanical deconstruction of the human form, where every paragraph functions as a deliberate, high-frequency "gut-punch" to the nervous system.
Abandoning the comfort of traditional narrative arcs, these stories move with a glitchy, high-frame-rate intensity. The language is heavy with the scent of "anaerobic rot," "industrial bleach," and "ancient brine," creating an atmosphere of Blue-Collar Noir meets Cosmic Nihilism. The author treats the human variable as a "Choice Cut" in a cold, indifferent census, focusing on the metaphysical transition from a person to a portion. It is a style that demands total biological surrender, leaving the reader trapped in a "lightless, frozen crypt" of prose where the only thing louder than the silence is the sound of their own frantic, terrified pulse.


Hemmed In: A young adult coming-of-age novel (Buttoned Hearts Series Book 1) 

By Gemma Stringer 

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Hemmed In - A young adult coming of age novel

Gabrielle has always wanted to be a fashion designer, showcasing her designs on catwalks in London and Paris. There’s just one problem – her super controlling mother. Ever since her father was tragically killed in the capital, her mother forbids her from going out with friends or spending any time not under her watchful eye.

But Gabrielle is eighteen soon, and a meeting with local bad-boy Hudson, makes her realise the life she is living isn’t normal. She wants to be able to go somewhere without her mum driving her, go on trips like the other kids at college and not have a debate every time she leaves the house, even just to go to the local library.

When encouraged by her best friend Ambrose to sneak out of the house for a night on the town, she runs into Hudson. After an argument with Ambrose she leaves the club, with Hudson hot on her heels, neither of them realising how that night will change both of their lives.

A fabulous novel for readers who love small town romances. Hemmed In is a young adult coming of age novel about family relationships, first love and self-discovery.


The Deus Molecule: Endure Series: One

By Dimitrio Terranova

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The Deus Molecule: Endure Series: One

 

A voice in the ether… a shadow lurking amidst fire and carnage… it whispers softly, “Come home, Royce.” But when he awakens, Royce is met not by the living shape from his nightmares, but by Dr. Atticus Cais. After losing his parents and younger sister in a devastating tragedy, Royce has spent the past three years in an induced coma. Now, six months into this chaotic new reality, he’s begun adjusting to life under Dr. Cais’s care at the rehabilitation center known as ENDURE.

But something isn’t right within these walls. An evil presence stirs—something gnawing at Royce’s sanity. It calls itself Mallen.

When Royce discovers that Mallen may be more than a figment of his imagination—and may be planning the extinction of humanity—he’s left with one terrifying question: Is this all in his head? Or is the fate of the world in his hands?

 


Chomchura

By Patrick L Chen

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Chomchura

 

In a Kingdom ruled by a dragon for five centuries, one girl's forbidden powers could reshape the world.

Chomchura, a humble farmer's daughter, lives in a society where social rank is determined by test scores-and magic is outlawed under penalty of death. But when she discovers a cache of hidden spellbooks, she's thrust into a dangerous world of power, secrecy, and rebellion.

As unrest brews across the land and whispers of magic rise once more, Chomchura must decide how far she's willing to go to protect her family, challenge a ruthless noble, and uncover the truth behind her country's long-standing tyranny.

Chomchura is a bold and imaginative young adult fantasy about hidden strength, class struggle, and the quiet defiance of a girl who refuses to stay silent.

 


Once and Future: Tales of Eirlandia, Book One

By Mariclaire Norton

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Once and Future: Tales of Eirlandia, Book One

 

A lost journal. A legendary queen. A war that never truly ended.

The discovery of the ArdRighian Tara Prima’s journal could change the fate of Eirlandia. The warrior-scholar Maeve, tasked with retrieving this ancient text, soon realizes its contents hold the key to ending a centuries-old conflict. But she is not the only one seeking its power.

Tara’s own story unfolds within the journal’s pages—her capture by the Vike prince Alaric, her struggle to unite warring nations, and her quest to master magic strong enough to defeat the Formorrid. She must do all this while navigating political intrigue, treacherous alliances, and the growing shadows of war.

Once and Future is the spellbinding first book in the Tales of Eirlandia series, blending rich world-building, historical intrigue, and an unforgettable heroine’s journey.

 


Defeating My Demons: My Mental Breakdown, Through Darkness to the Light

By Manda Jones (Author), Jason Bjorn (Author), K.N. Lucas (Foreword) 

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Defeating My Demons: My Mental Breakdown, Through Darkness to the Light

 

Mental healthcare in the United States is desperately lacking. Manda opens up about her real life nightmare inside an inpatient mental health facility. Manda does this to shine a light on the forgotten and stigmatized.

Manda's story is detailed and shocking. However, she firmly believes we cannot change what we do not acknowledge and nothing will change if we do not speak out and seek that change.

 


The Beautiful Blue Caterpillar

By Manda Jones (Author), Indalecio Chavez (Illustrator)

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The Beautiful Blue Caterpillar

 

 

Awareness for Gender Dysphoria or trans youth and anxiety disorders in children. The Beautiful Blue Caterpillar is unsure of the world, silent, and shy. Read and discover with The Beautiful Blue Caterpillar as it finds its wings!

"They give participation ribbons because there are children that go their whole life, never being celebrated." Manda Jones

 

 


Aletheia

By Michael Karlsen- Williksen 

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Aletheia

 

Some signals shouldn’t be answered.
When Earth receives its first reply from the stars, the message is only one number: –273.15.
Absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion stops.
As panic spreads, a Norwegian LOFAR operator is sent aboard 
Aletheia to silence our last message in a bottle. His only companion is NOUS, an intelligence as unsettling as the signal itself.
But as the mission drifts deeper into the void, quiet unease gives way to doubt and the terrifying sense that the real mystery is not what answered from the stars but what waits aboard with him.
Aletheia is a haunting philosophical sci-fi thriller about first contact, artificial intelligence, perception, and the possibility that reality itself cannot be trusted.

Take the leap. Read 
Aletheia now and discover where the signal leads.

 

 


Fear of Magic (Rhabdophobia Book 1)

By Oluwafikayomi Adeniyi 

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Fear of Magic

 

Comet Divinely has rhabdophobia—an irrational fear of magic.

In a world that practically runs on magic, this isn't exactly easy to live with, but Comet has managed just fine so far (well, that's a bit of a stretch).

Then one night, something magical appears in his pool, and he knows his life is about to be turned upside down. Things take a turn for the worse when he's cursed with his greatest fear—magic itself. Now, with his next-door neighbour, Knight (an elfwolf), at his side, Comet sets out to find the witch who cursed him. Along the way, they'll have to dodge wizards hunting him down, crash a wedding, and somehow stop Comet's out-of-control magic from killing them both.

 



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