by admin | Nov 9, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Karis Booth solves four murders using her psychic abilities.
A Deadly Delivery Things are changing rapidly for Karis. As well as filing for divorce from her unfaithful husband, she decides it’s time to make peace with her estranged sister, Erin. With trepidation, Karis visits the café which Erin owns. To her great relief, Erin welcomes Karis back into her life with open arms.
During their reconciliation, a young woman, Carmel, calls into the café with a bread delivery. As Karis watches Carmel, she experiences a strong psychic vision. She sees two shadows following Carmel. Only one of the shadows belongs to Carmel — the other belongs to the person who is going to murder her later that day.
With help from her sister and an old neighbour, Karis does all that she can to find out who murdered Carmel. It doesn’t help that the investigating officer is an ex-boyfriend who broke up with Karis because he couldn’t cope with her psychic abilities. Despite this, Karis won’t rest until she finds the killer.
A Fatal Wedding Using money from her divorce settlement, Karis invests in her sister’s café. Not only are Karis and Erin planning to extend the café premises, but they are going to hold regular craft evenings there too.
A young woman, Bryony, asks if Karis and Erin can help her make a batch of wedding favours for her upcoming wedding. The sisters decide to use this as an opportunity to host their first craft evening, much to Bryony’s delight. During the craft evening, Karis receives a vision concerning Bryony and the wedding favours. It unsettles Karis to know Bryony has an enemy who wishes her harm.
Things get worse when Karis foresees a murder taking place at Bryony’s wedding. Will Karis be able to stop the murder? Or will she be too late?
Tea And Murder Karis suspects something is wrong when her morning cup of tea has an unusually foul taste. She dismisses that thought and goes to the café which she co-owns with her sister. There, she meets a builder called Howie McGarry.
Shortly after meeting Howie, Karis has a vision which shows him being murdered by poisoned tea.
To Karis’ dismay, Howie’s wife is someone who went to school with her. Once the vision is made known, Vanessa McGarry ridicules Karis and calls her by the vicious nickname she gave her at school – Krazy Karis. Vanessa tells Howie not to believe a word Karis says.
Despite Vanessa’s hateful words, Karis knows she has to do something to prevent Howie’s murder. Will she stop his untimely death in time?
The Knitting Pattern Mystery A knitting class is held at the café which Karis co-owns with her sister, Erin. An old knitting pattern is brought into the café and Karis is immediately drawn to it.
It’s not long before Karis starts to experience visions which are brought on by the pattern, and some of those visions reveal a murder will take place soon. With a sense of urgency, Karis tries to find out who owned the knitting pattern, and if that person is linked to the murder she witnessed.
As more visions come to her, Karis realises she is also dealing with a mystery from the 1950s. Is this mystery somehow linked to the murder which will occur?
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by admin | Nov 9, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha’s Vineyard mansions he tends?
Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful.
One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages.
But Ranjit’s idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator’s shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator’s beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own.
Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India.
A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad’s The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.
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by admin | Nov 9, 2025 | Fantasy |
The system of Gladonus is unlike any other.
It is home to Creatures of Legend, all-powerful gods and goddesses, lost Ancients, reclusive First Bloods, and the Guardian of the Core. All life flows in and out of the system. Should it cease, the universe ceases to exist as well. That is why it is the Guardian’s duty to protect the system at all costs. However, his time is coming to a close and he needs to hold Trials to select his next apprentice.
A haughty, yet competent prince, Hydro Paen, longs to seize the Power of the Guardian and show to everyone who has doubted him that he is worthy of his lineage.
Under the guidance of his uncle, orphan Eirek Mourse participates, hoping only to survive such Trials and having no idea how he was even accepted in the first place.
And a tactician, Zain Berrese, always living in the shadow of his stepbrother’s accomplishments, wants to prove that he is capable of overcoming his haunted past and excelling further than his rivals.
None of these participants, however, know that the Trials will pit them against others who are just as conniving, talented, and motivated to win. None of them know that the Trials will test them in ways unimaginable. And none of them know that, by participating, it might mean the rendering of their identity and the forfeiting of their lives.
With their lives and identities on the line, will one of these would-be heroes find the inner strength and wisdom to emerge a champion and impress the Guardian before the system collapses?
A perfect sci-fantasy story for those who love Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, and Eragon. Buy today and experience the Trials for yourself!
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by admin | Nov 9, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
Two missing persons. One haunted investigator. No such thing as coincidence.
Fresh off launching Nike City’s first private facilitating agency, Gideon Quinn hasn’t even hung a sign before a friend from Lower Cadbury begs for help. Several of the district’s most vulnerable squatters have gone missing—and no one else is looking.
Gideon takes the case, with his apprentice Mia tagging along for a crash course in fieldwork. But when a woman from his past appears with a second disappearance—this time a high-ranking Corps officer with a long history of antagonizing Gideon—the job takes a darker, more personal turn.
As he digs into both mysteries, Gideon uncovers a tangled web of secrets, revenge, and corruption that reaches deeper than he ever imagined. With lives on the line and ghosts of his past closing in, Gideon must decide how far he’s willing to go—and who he’s willing to lose—to bring the missing home.
Welcome to Gideon Quinn & Associate’s, where the clients are broke, the cases are strange, and coincidence is never just coincidence.
Readers respond to Fortune’s Fool:
• “Absolutely, unreservedly recommended.”
• “I laughed out loud, several times.”
• “…exceptional world-building, and characters which are continually fleshed-out which each novel…”
• “I’m already looking forward to the curtain rising on the next act.”
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by admin | Nov 9, 2025 | Science Fiction |
Young Kiwi tech entrepreneur Regan Stein has just sold ten percent of her company for a massive price. The buyer, aerospace and defence giant USDynamics wants a share of Arteis, her new cyber defence system. Plus they’ve picked out Regan as a fresh creative genius and want in on whatever she has planned next.
Washed out from negotiations and cash rich Regan decides to take a break for six months and freshen up her thinking. Tramping off track, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, she accepts a Satphone appeal for help from an unknown caller. Doing the right thing finds her the rescuer of a comatose man, human but yet strangely alien. Within hours her life has changed.
While in orbit at the mercy of a quirky artificial intelligence and acting as nursemaid to the injured alien she finds out traitorous moves have been made against her company by foreign business powers. Trapped on the ship she is unable to fight back and instead embarks on the journey of a lifetime, assisting the AI to return the man while leaving her trusted team to deal with the attack at home. The two month interstellar journey sees a growing relationship with the AI and a formidable partnership developing. They arrive at their destination in the midst of a political crisis. Meanwhile, at home on earth her team have their own problems. They find themselves collateral damage in a corporate war full of intrigue, murky politics, and betrayal.
Will Regan survive the trip across the galaxy? How will her friends deal with the threats? Will her company survive the attack? And who would want to be in Regan Stein’s sights if she returns at all?
This is classic science fiction, the first part of a series that includes technology, androids, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil.
Review By Heinz Zwack on June 10, 2014
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With the Renaissance of space opera that indie publishing and e-books brought about this is refreshingly different. It is space fiction with lots of action and lots of exotic technology – but not the usual rehash of space battles and Galactic empires.
In almost 60 years of reading science fiction – probably 2000 or 3000 books and at least as many stories in the Golden age of SF magazines – I haven’t found a character like Ham very often. He certainly beats “Hal” of 2001 hands-down.
5.0 out of 5 stars: A sorely needed new heroine
Review by M Travison August 19, 2014
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I think this was a terrific beginning to a new series but more importantly a new heroine for the scifi genre. It’s also refreshing to read an intelligent scifi novel without galactic space battles or alien earth invasions. Regan is by no means a genius but she’s ambitious, focused, assertive and especially knows how to assemble a good team to make her dreams reality.
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