New Books of 2017 (Part 5)
Check out these new books that have been released as of Jan. 2017.
Click on the book covers to find them on Amazon.
Steampunk Epic:
Two knights track down a dangerous monster lurking beneath
Pnarakon, the City of Masks.
As they prepare themselves to spring their ambush on the
beast, little they know that they are about to be dragged in the middle of an
insidious conspiracy which threatens to shake the entirety of the Structure.
In a claustrophobic world where food and space are precious
commodities and sunlight is only a distant memory, a Warrior, a Scion, and a
Scholar will struggle through the echoes of fear and desperation resonating in
the rusted-out corridors of an endless labyrinth.
Pulled into a vortex of political machinations, war, and
madness, these lost souls will attempt to find a way out of the dreaded maze of
steel and paranoid delusions upon which the Structure is built, as their sanity
is constantly tested by vile betrayals, twisted sorcery, and eldritch horrors
of forgotten times...
Half a Reason to Die is a collection of eight original short
stories based on real life events in the author’s life as a writer and
documentary filmmaker. The stories span the globe, from a military doctor in
Afghanistan to a homeless Vietnam vet. First person narratives supplied by
storytellers with journalistic backgrounds provide a unifying thread that runs
throughout the collection.
Chip Duncan is a writer and documentary filmmaker with a
penchant for overseas assignments. His professional journeys have taken him to
many extraordinary places including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and
Myanmar. His previous work includes Enough to Go Around: Searching for Hope in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, & Darfur and The Magic Never Ends: The Life and Work
of C. S. Lewis, as well as numerous films broadcast worldwide.
In a world where women are born to rule, love is the
ultimate crime.
Empress Nadira’s planet is governed by one unbreakable rule:
women hold the reins of power and men exist to serve them. But Nadira is in
love with her servant, Kiln, and it’s a secret that could tear her family apart.
After she’s accepted onto the High Council, the most
powerful institution on Venus, her conformity to the way her world operates
becomes more important than ever. When Nadira’s affair with Kiln is revealed,
her love for him will have disastrous consequences, and she will have to choose
between protecting her family or following her heart and saving Kiln.
Saving Kiln is a Clean Interracial Science Fiction Romance
with a touch of fantasy. Fans of Octavia E. Butler and Orson Scott Card will
enjoy this book. Fans of The Fifth Element, The Matrix, and Jupiter Rising will
also enjoy this book.
New Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be plunged
into a dangerous fantasy world?
The Blackwood brothers from New Orleans are about to find
out. Youngest brother Will dreams of escaping his mundane life as an apprentice
contractor. Caleb is a bartender whose charm and good looks see him through
life. Val, the eldest, is a high-powered attorney who hides the fact that he
can perform parlor tricks with his mind.
The brothers’ lives are changed forever when they receive a
belated inheritance from their father: a staff with a mysterious stone on top,
a pair of rogue’s bracers, and a sword that Will can barely lift. Searching for
an explanation, it is not until a strange key whisks the brothers across time
and space, into a terrifying version of New Orleans ruled by wizards, that the
brothers accept the truth and undergo a perilous journey home. With the help of
an alluring but deadly adventuress, they must break into the keep of a sorcerer
known for his love of diabolical games, find a trio of enchanted talismans, and
somehow defeat an evil wizard who can raise legions of the undead to do his
bidding.
It seems the brothers have found their adventure. But will
they live to tell the tale?
Follow one man as he chronicles his trials with life and
love, work and women, luck and loss through this collection of stories and
prose.
Composed of a collection of essays, A Boy from the
Chesapeake delivers a raw and honest insight into the working of one man’s mind
as he navigates his way through life, self discovery, and an all-encompassing
instinct to love. As a boy on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, readers are
given first hand accounts of the narrator’s awakening to the existence of love
and lust. As he continues to grow and mature, men and women alike will relate
to his desire for acceptance and companionship. Each account of his various
relationships, with women, friends, family, and coworkers, give further
insights into who this man is and just what it is that makes him tick. After
reading these stories, perhaps women will know a little more about men - and
men will know a little more about themselves.
What if, as a child, you could move the world with your
mind? Think of the possibilities. But what if you couldn’t control it, and
buildings toppled in your sleep? Think of the consequences.
Ethan and Tilly Wolfe are special. It’s a cruel, devastating
kind of special that causes death and destruction in equal measure. Nobody is
safe. Not even those who love them.
Ethan is the older sibling, his telekinetic gift powerful
but controllable. But Tilly is young, emotionally fragile and unable to stop
the physical and mental damage she unleashes on other people with barely a
thought.
And all it takes is a thought.
Pursued by the military, shunned by the authorities and
running for their lives, this is the story of a medical experiment gone
hideously wrong, and the lives of the two children trying to put it right.
Alfred, a washed-up author plagued by failures can’t believe
his luck when his father in-law Frank provides him with a chance that he direly
craved for:
Seven days alone in an isolated Motel with the task of
finishing his upcoming book!
But little does he know about the Motel’s unsavory history. Hidden
in the corpse of trees and about 400 miles away from his home, it is a two-storey
facade located in the dark forest of Skiddaw.With no WI-FI, poor signals and
weird set of rules, the dark atmosphere soon turns his seemingly idyllic trip
to a living nightmare. Apart from the usual creaks, groans and moans of the
motel, he soon finds himself face to face with an entity. An urban legend that
is lurking in the woods long before the motel found its existing foundations.
The Motel’s dark and haunting history quickly becomes
tangled with Alfred’s life as he frantically searches for answers. Barry, the
caretaker is hiding something. But what is it? Is there someone else living in
the motel besides him? Or is caretaker not what he seemingly appears?
Alfred quickly begins to lose his tenuous grip on reality as
he sinks further and further into an intricately designed game of deceit and
lies that might put his life in danger! Or is he a threat to himself and
everybody around him?
A gripping- intense psychological horror with a twist ending!
In an attempt to find her missing brother, 22-year-old Lily
goes undercover to a criminals’ lair. Every federal agent who went undercover
to bring down Pharaoh – the criminal boss – has gone missing, and Lily’s big
brother is one of them. The Director of the FBI knows possible reasons for that
– Pharaoh and his closest friends have supernatural powers. He knows only their
nicknames and a list of their abilities: telepathy, supermemory, healing,
clairvoyance, etc. To be able to save her brother, Lily has to match extra-abilities
with Pharaoh’s henchman, drag out their real names and, what’s harder, find out
who Pharaoh is and what superpowers he has. The rumor is that he can kill with
a simple glance, so if he learns who Lily is, a quick death would be the best
option she would have…
As Lord Byron, who no doubt survived many an awkward
situation himself, said, “Always laugh whenever you can. It is cheap
medicine."
A grad student rappels down the side of a building on a bed sheet in an attempt
to escape shame. An unlikely couple destroys a family heirloom when desire
careens out of control. A bumbling lothario nearly beheads his lover when his
seduction plans go awry. A middle-aged woman finds herself entwined in a
passionate embrace at a Civil War battlefield. Earnest people, hell-bent on
believing that reality lies at the surface of things, scramble toward
acceptance of their humanity as they stumble over the unspoken and
unacknowledged. 
