BookLife - Resources and tools for book publishers and writers

Lake Barcroft

by Jeffrey Marcus Oshins

1964, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., garage bands play popular songs in school cafeterias and church social halls

14-year-old Beck Lyons is in love with Randall, a popular local rock musician. Randall offers Beck a life that’s different to one spent being the perfect daughter of a powerful politician.

When Randall gets Beck pregnant, she turns to her grandmother for help. Her grandmother - more concerned with protecting Beck’s father than Beck - sends B... more

The Refuge

by John A. Heldt

A family of time travelers goes to Hawaii in 1941 to stop a mercenary from changing history.

“Foxfairy” is not an adequate translation of the Chinese "HULIJING", which is a dangerous supernatural creature, a ghostly shapeshifter, cunning and wily as a fox, and irresistibly alluring as a beautiful woman. The HULIJING is an appropriate symbol for this story of love, longing, and deception, featuring the last days of the magical city of Old Peking. Mrs. Eve Freeman, who was born and grew up in Peking, returns after World War II, seeking a renewal of faith in herself and in the possibility ... more

Ninja Stories: Chiyo and Hanzo

by Ron Nakano

THREE LEGENDARY NINJAS! Hanzo Hattori (leader of the Iga ninja clan), Chiyo Mochizuki (leader of an all female ninja clan), and Goemon Ishikawa (ninja, and master thief, banished from the Iga ninja clan), along with with Sen No Rikyu (who shaped the modern Japanese tea ceremony), Yasuke (the only Black samurai in history), and Jesuit priest Father Morejon, COLLIDE at the most pivotal point in Japan's history that will either bring centuries of peace or plummet them back into centuries of war.

Moby the Flea

by amy hill

Dr. Ahab is on a quest for vengeance against a white flea who has bitten him, leaving him half blind. He enlists the workers in his veterinary practice to search all dogs in the area for his monstrous foe.

The Hummingbird and the Sea

by Jenny Bond

How far will a person go to gain freedom? When Samuel Bellamy, an enigmatic Englishman on the run from the Crown, seeks refuge in Eastham, Massachusetts, the life of Maria Hallett begins to tragically unravel. Stepping outside the boundaries of her pious and unforgiving Puritan community, she faces censure and judgement from her family and church. Eventually Maria is pushed to the limits of her sanity when a trusted, childhood friend betrays her in the most heinous and violent of ways. Base... more

Facets of the Past

by Monique Gliozzi

When Hank Gild is given the opportunity to take up his dream job, he accepts the offer with excitement. As a tour guide at the historical imperial castle on Lake Starnberg, Hank delights his guests with stories of the late Bavarian emperor-his antics, his precious artifacts and the mystery shrouding his death in 1886. But it seems that not all the castle's visitors are of pure heart. Before long, Hank is forced down a path of greed, deception and danger with no way out. A once happy and simple l... more

Everything I Am

by Jenny Bond

When her partner of twenty-five years dies, Rebecca Collins discovers the secret life he had been living. Grieving, and with her sense of self in ruins, she embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about the man she loved, and to recreate the shattered image of herself. Rebecca is constantly challenged in her quest by visions of her dead partner. Is she going insane or is her current sorrow and anger beginning to mesh with the remnants of an earlier trauma, one she has long ago repressed, one... more

In His Father's World: The Love Affair of Seth Hunter Jr. and Sandy

by C.D. Harper

Imagine a life engulfed by a civil war that will change everything about the world as you know it. A world built by your father for you and your son on and on into perpetuity, a world built on the promises of slavery with the acquiescence of God but compromised by the ideals and will of the new nation. This is the world Seth Hunter Jr., heir to Covenant Plantation, must learn to live in. The basic issues of life: love, hate, revenge, desire, survival, etc. remain the same, but the world, everyth... more

A Double Life, A Single Love: A Sinclair Story

by Rosalinda Haddon

Tall, handsome, and wealthy, Mafia-connected Thomas James Sinclair has again been recruited by the FBI to work with Interpol and the Secret Service to find and apprehend an international counterfeiter. Thomas, "Tommy," is anxious and ready to get back into his alternative identity, in which he enjoys a life of travel, gambling, womanizing, and working at the edges of the law. A dangerous life that takes him from his home in New Jersey and his life with his wife, Hannah, to Las Vegas, France, and... more

Deathbed Confession: My Son Was a Stolen Baby!

by Thadeus Parkland

Mary, near death, reveals to her daughter-in-law the unfathomable act she committed some fifty years ago. The man she raised was not hers; she took him from a young unwed girl she befriended on a city bus. Her own childhood took an unexpected turn leaving her sterile, leading her to commit such a heinous act. The action resulted from her deep-seated desire to have a child of her own.
When Mary befriends the young Beatrice, alone and pregnant in The City, helping another person was ... more

A Nickel and A Trinket

by MAX WATSON

Stefan works street corners around town, giving strangers the gift of their Time of Death in exchange for a nickel. Mona has worked the streets from a young age and years later, she fights to free as many lives as she can from the fate she suffered as a child. When a dangerous hooded figure has his sights set out to destroy all her efforts, Desdamona must rely on Stefan, the one person she’s afraid to get close to, or watch as everything she’s built is set aflame.

Exploration

by David Tory

Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles by David Tory is a tale of high seas adventure as chronicled by Issac Stanfield, a young British sailor aboard a merchantman bound for the contentious New England Colonies. Through resilience, initiative, and luck, Isaac finds himself a participant and observer in the perilous explorations preceding the Mayflower’s arrival in New England in 1620. Charming and undaunted, he charts a course from shipmate to spy to confidant of key strategists during tumultuous... more

Pillowhumper

by Jason Hyde

Crazy Tinder dates. Kinky sex accidents. Depression and STD’s. These are things Jordan deals with after his pornography and alcohol addictions ruin his marriage. At first thrilled to be single again, he soon finds himself lost in a pitiful life of drinking, masturbating, serial dating, and exploring his bisexuality in a desperate attempt for happiness. With him is his best friend Kiana; a queer, fowl-mouthed photographer struggling with depression and her body image. Together, they navigate thro... more

Perchance Freedom

by Michael Thomas Brimbau

Perchance Freedom is a murder mystery set in New England and the civil war South in 1861. Emily White is a fledgling journalist whose instinct is to investigate her stories before reporting them. Her editor at the Daily Whaler in New Bedford introduces Emily to the Underground Railroad and enlists her on secret mission of inquiry and danger. The unexpected pragmatism of subjugation opens her eyes wide. And as she defies the brutality and injustice of plantation life, and the reality of her un... more

Careless Love

by Steve Zettler

Grace has gone to Hawaii to escape Southern California; with suicide very much on her mind. It’s 1979. Her philandering husband, Nick, a successful film director, has walked out on her and is carrying on yet another illicit affair. On Grace’s first night at Honolulu’s lush Pickering Club she meets Lee, a man who also has a need for escape. They recognize this bond immediately, along with an emotional and physical attraction that cannot be ignored. Enter Ray Slack, brutal and sadistic substance a... more

Discover Books

General Fiction (including literary and historical)