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Rene Descartes Does Not Exist by A.R. LaBaere
One reviewer describes this most unusual work: “An audacious experiment in Cosmicism and disoriented terror. It repeats, falls over itself, reinvents, creates layers of complex meaning and uses grammatical mistakes in a creative way. At first truly maddening and seems like it goes on forever, but by the time one is in the section about the King in Yellow, it really takes off and puts the reader into an absolutely cosmic sense of despair.”
“This is for advanced readers in the Lovecraft-Chambers tradition, who will understand the subtle references and be able to read in unending stream of consciousness mode. I fell in love with it after a whole series of challenges to my sanity and ability to suspend disbelief.”
Ryder Stephens by Veronica Ventura
Gutsy people make eye contact. Genuine people connect through the heart. And Ryder Stephens was too young and scared to master either. Walking the streets of New York City alone, she met the wrong people, slept in filthy trains — only her violin offered an escape.
Desperation led to poor decisions, trapping her into the life of a homeless teen. Everything spiraled until an unexpected twist gave her a chance. All she had to do was lie. Forever. Says one reviewer, “Thoughtful, truthful and somewhat profound. We learn its value through our struggles. A beautiful, beautiful book.” Says another: “Highlights the goodness of the human spirit.”
Legacy by Chris Coppel
In this spine-chilling, time-traveling horror, Craig Edmonds and his young family are awoken at 2 am by someone banging at their front door. On their doorstep, they find an unexpected delivery … a large crate with a generic label addressed to his family. Craig, a sheriff in southern Utah and former elite Marine sniper with psychological scars, opens the crate to discover an intricately carved wooden mirror.
Now, Craig must fight an enemy and battle against the embodiment of evil in a desperate attempt to save his family. His mission will take him 25 years into the past and 6,000 miles from home in order to defeat the reanimation of a 16th-century English witch.
Rascal on the Run by Howard Tate Scott
Drawn into a web of small-town secrets, family drama, and the rusted tentacles of the Dixie Mafia, a young lawyer is forced to confront his own notions of justice, freedom, love, and sobriety. When an episode of Unsolved Mysteries leads to the capture of a murder suspect on the run for 25 years, the ominous pattern of facts drags Attorney Critter Stillwell into a hidden corner of his father Guy’s past.
Attorney Guy had defended a black woman charged with the murder of a KKK thug. By the time it was over, Critter’s world and the sleepy town of Athens, GA, were in flames. Now an older, wiser Critter discovers stunning connections between Guy’s case and his own. He must choose between his duty to the law and an unwavering loyalty to his flawed but charismatic father.
