by James Duncan

4.2 stars – 68 reviews

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Blood Republic is a cerebral political-thriller for a divided modern America. First published in the summer of 2016, as the United States now spirals further into dangerous tensions, many are commenting on the eerie, almost prophetic, similarities between this novel and America 2020. Written prior to Donald Trump’s election, the rise of Anitfa, Qanon conspiracies, RussiaGate, and the most recent BLM protests, this book will have you amazed, and frightened, at what is shows.

Ruthless politicians, riots, corrupt media, and a looming conspiracy-fueled, disputed election; Blood Republic is a heart-pumping thriller about extremism, with the fate of the country at stake. Will America survive its next election, or collapse into a 2nd civil war of conservative versus liberal?

During the closing hours of the tightest presidential election in US history, firebrand Annie Daniels is a socialist senator determined to win the White House. She dreams of eradicating injustice, and hopefully, saving her dying daughter’s life. Major Amos Daniels though, her conservative Green Beret brother, might have something to say about that, if her plans go against his faith.

As an Electoral College tie nears, the country erupts into chaos while an unknown enemy fans the flames. Annie and Amos are thrust to opposite ends of a constitutional crisis with guns drawn, the very soul of our nation at stake. Will the Daniels family find common ground above ideology to prevent a second civil war, or will a secretive enemy-of-the-state help them bring about America’s final days?

Blood Republic is an intelligent thriller, described as combining the philosophical depth of an Ayn Rand or George Orwell novel with the excitement of such story-tellers as Michael Crichton or Tom Clancy. Politically independent in tone, Blood Republic will make you question your own political and philosophical beliefs while keeping you guessing who the true villain is in a fractured modern America.

Can peace and reason overcome two-party hate, or has the country already been pushed too far? Read Blood Republic to see if America will survive.

by Em Brown

3.5 stars – 15 reviews

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Take your reading to erotic heights with this sizzling novelette!After debt-ridden Deana Herwood loses a hand of cards to the wealthy Halsten Rockwell, he offers a wicked proposition: that she clear her loss by offering her body up to his pleasure for one night. After accepting, she discovers his desires might be more than she can handle. But he makes an even more outrageous proposition, one she finds hard to refuse. All she has to do is refrain from succumbing to his wicked pleasures…

by Paul Davidson

4.2 stars – 17 reviews

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The Kid learned the hard way that you can try to be a pacifist in a world full of clenched fists, stiff upper lips and mean looks, but it won’t get you far—and it might get you killed.

Olebark—The Kid—grew up in a community infested by fighting, bullying, organized fight clubs, gambling, and hoodlums. A world of few laws and fewer smiles and the backdrop to the incident that changed him forever. Traumatized and beaten at the age of six, The Kid decides to take things into his own hands—in fact, his own fists.

A fictionalized account of a true event, Bully Shack takes you on the intrepid journey of a boy that was initiated into his childhood through a brutal beating at the age of six. Traumatized and terrified, he vowed to fight his way out of his rotten world.

While The Kid fights his own battles, the institutionalized bullying and unwilling-sex-in-return-for-protection go on around him, ensnaring almost everyone he knows in its horrid web. Girls “put out” so that they are exempt from being mistreated, beaten and raped. Other boys are dragooned into a nightmarish Fight Club world—where nobody talks about it because they are too intimidated to do so.

To tell is to risk all.

In this true tale, one boy’s courageous battle against intimidation and emotional, spiritual and physical torture inspires those around him to rise up and fight—to fight for their lives.

by E Ryan Janz

3.5 stars – 17 reviews

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In this amazing anti-mystery loaded with dark humor, twenty-three-year-old Monty Hill leaves his Midwestern roots for 1977 Hollywood with dreams of becoming a major film screenwriter. He meets Harry, an unpredictable yet endearing man who in hopes to assist Monty financially, steers him to an apparently dangerous producer of pornographic movies, just as an unidentified pedophile looms in the background, inexplicably relating his own brief narratives. There are shocks and secrets aplenty buried in this intelligent story based on actual events, but it’s up to the reader to figure out where they are hidden before they crash-land with thoroughly unexpected explosions.