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This is a story about two families. A terrible accident brought them together. There is sadness and happiness, friendship and love. Can this tragedy bring two people together or will it tear them apart? Will separation help or hinder them?

Marianna grew up in a small town. After high school graduation her world opened up more than she had dreamed possible. With so many different popularities in music, she wasn’t sure where her love for the violin would take her. She attended Juilliard in New York City. Marianna is a gifted musician and talented vocalist. After college she returned to the little village where she grew up. She was offered a position with several orchestras with the opportunity to travel the world. Why did she refuse to accept any of them? Why would she move back home where those opportunities did not exist? This is a story of musically gifted young woman who works to help a wounded war veteran overcome his p ...

This is a story of a young woman who found true love but finds herself in the middle of high profile crime, and she becomes unknowingly involved. She doesn’t realize that she is being used by a world class criminal. Katie had just started her second year at Ohio State University when she meant Sean. They fell in love and planned to get married until she caught Sean with another girl. She feels like her whole life is big disaster. Katie was in her senior year when she realized that her ambitions were not what she wanted. She decided to return home to the small town where she grew up and start her life all over again. She felt it would be a long time before she could trust another man. The ...

Jackson is a gifted writer, it’s all he’s ever wanted to do, and after graduating from NYU he lands a well paying job with one of the hottest magazines in New York City. After a few years he's burned out and decides to make a change. He’s been writing a novel for a couple of years, but it isn't going anywhere. Jacks hates winter and he has always wanted to live and work someplace warm. He thinks about his parents, and he misses his sister he hasn’t seen in a long time. He thought he might move to Key West. Jacks take a side trip to visit his sister Julia, who lives in a small town. His visit has allowed him to discover a side of himself he didn’t know he had. As the summer days grow shor ...

Ben never wanted to write a book. Being autistic, troubled, and the fourth child? It just doesn't sound like a very interesting story. That doesn't stop his therapist, Dr. White, from giving Ben a blank journal. And when Dr. White's mysterious (and slightly annoying) daughter, Julia White, blackmails Ben into joining the therapy program, Ben finds he has no choice but to testify. So, he starts at the beginning: the day he stole a water bottle. From there, it only seems right to discuss his entrance into the group therapy program, his obsession with chocolate chip waffles, and the ever-crippling relationships with his parents and brothers. As Ben navigates his own life and works tire ...

In a world governed by power and loyalty, Okami, a captivating half-Black, half-Japanese woman, relishes the luxuries granted by her family's wealth and her father's Yakuza influence. Unaware of the darkness lurking beneath, her opulent life takes a dark turn when she endures a heinous assault by her father's boss's son. This ordeal sparks a fierce determination, leading her to become an assassin within her father's organization, seeking justice and purpose. "Okami: Young Assassin" follows her riveting journey as she confronts her new identity amidst the underworld's intricate dynamics.

After Griffin and his family move from Florida to a small town in Kansas, his life is turned upside down. When he encounters a group of kids bent on making his life even more difficult, what he needs more than anything is a friend. This story, written by a 15-year old, expresses the complexities of bullying, grief, friendship, and the notion that not everyone with a voice can speak.

Esther Beckett is in for the surprise of her life. She thinks she still desires to get married, but she might be embarking on the biggest adventure she can imagine if she decides she can trust these men. But who are these men and what are their intentions? Come and spend some more time in Pine City so you can find out. You will also meet an older couple who are still very much in love, and have a deep yearning to see the restoration of lives and to leave a legacy. Renew acquaintances with some of the people in the Grace 'n' Faith Church who were in Book one of the Sunshine Series. This is an inspirational romance novel and it is the sequel to "Everywhere There's a Su ...

"Sing a Song of Frottage" features a few quaint & humorous glimpses into life's compelling darkness, as the adventurous reader is tossed headlong into the phantasmagorical miasma of this twisted, absurdist era. Our Cheapskate Chapbooks Series is a slimline collection of edited favorites in a lightweight, unchallenging format specially designed for today's aliterate intellectual. You have more important things to spend your money on than improving the mind and spirit, and we here at the White Devil Press know it. They're cheap enough to abuse, yet booky enough to make for fun reading! Buy a bunch and pass them out at church or at the next drug gang meet-up! Now there's no more excuse f ...

(Book 1) June 25, 1959 was the day Charles Starkweather was executed in the electric chair for the murders of 11 people. Jude Cross raised in the same town as Charlie, Lincoln Nebraska, interrogates Charlie breaking down his defenses with the new science of mirroring and profiling. He would discover the real story of Charlie and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, whose family was Charlie’s second and third and fourth victims. In a small town in Georgia in 1976, an 18-year-old girl is hunted in the woods for the assault of two prominent boys who tried to molest her. The innocence of the 1950s and a young girl is resilient, not easily defeated by prejudice and darkness.