Fiction & Literature on page 15

Already a multi-black belt martial arts expert at seventeen, Dakota “Koti” is about to embark on a journey that will not only test her fighting skills, but also her desire for a more tolerant and compassionate world. Her martial arts instructor, Master Ken Takai, and her mother Esther have known for a long time she was destined for great things. They both feared, however, that the powerful dark forces emerging around her, could prove too much for one so young and innocent. Will they be able to prepare her in time? Is Koti strong enough to overcome the power of a sorcerer? And will she find the strength to save those she loves before it’s too late?

You are about to enter a world of Kings and Queens Presidents and First ladies. This an interesting Urban spin on the biblical King David saga.

Kurt Kessler is dead. He can deal with that. He's in a strange ethereal city. He can deal with that, too. He can even deal with the fact that he's been murdered. But the fact that he can't find his dead wife, Hilda, is more than he can handle. Where is she, and why has she not joined him? More importantly, why were they killed in the first place? To find out, Kurt enlists the help of his living son Emmett and an executed murderer named Bernie. Together, they work to unearth his wife's secrets. But will it be enough to find her and allow them to live together in the afterlife?

In a poverty-stricken island in the Caribbean, the lives of four people become enmeshed in a life or death struggle. Jacque Massoult, President-for-Life and absolute ruler of the tiny nation, who will use any means available to hold onto power; Martin, the most hated man in the nation, who is not what he appears to be; Stefan, a spoiled playboy, who finds he must learn to kill to live; and Alicia, Stefan’s sister, who is too shy for her own good. Together, they form a powder keg that explodes during an international beauty contest.

After Rilee loses her best friend to suicide, she must learn to survive without him in a world seemingly against her. Through new friends and unexpected struggles, she may finally be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Everything was perfect for Jocelyn, she had the job that she loved, a beautiful apartment and friends she would die for. She met the man of her dreams and she couldn't think life could get any better...until one day...he hit her. She thought everyday about escaping but Jamie always knew what she was thinking and when she was thinking it. She was his prisoner. She knew there was something different about Jamie but had no idea what it was. Will Jocelyn ever find out what makes Jamie so different or will she die before she finds out his dark secret?

Traumatized by the Assyrian attack that made her a slave, Deborah finds safety with Isaac’s family. Can she leave the horrors of the past behind?

Crawling Deep follows the story of John Vilecrest, as he ventures into a strange underground location beneath the mausoleum of one of his ancestors. He quickly finds out that not everything is as it seems, and he comes face to face with horrors beyond his imagination, but will this adventure be his end, or is this all part of a much bigger plans of some unknown being that is working behind the scenes?

Let your fingers do the walking as you flip through the pages on this journey with Tabitha and her Louisiana family through their many trials and tribulations with and without the presence of God.