Day: October 8, 2024

Volume Two

Genre: A Collection of Holiday Romances

with stories by

Leah Miles, Vickey Wollan, C.L. Hart, Sara J. Walker, Erika Kilmer Freidly,

Marie Morton, Sally Ann Murphy, Elizabeth Edgar, Vanessa Victoria Kilmer

 

Warm your heart with nine enchanting tales of love.  

 

 Historical Fiction

Date Published: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing

 

 

In rural Radford, Tennessee, in the 1950s, a white family is killed in an automobile accident.

Upon hearing the news of her parents’ and grandfather’s deaths, Jessa runs away with her dog, creating problems for her town, especially for the sheriff, her parents’ friends, and the Black community that falls under suspicion. Racial distrust shapes the town’s response to Jessa’s disappearance, and as the weeks stretch out, the weather poses increasing challenges for Jessa as she shelters in a hollow tree while attempting to provide for herself and her dog, Cassie. Help appears from an unexpected source as a family mystery is revealed.

The Missing Girl and the second book, Jessa Is Back, are placed right in the midst of “the good old days” and serve as a reminder of the unabashed nature and danger of white supremacy in the 1950s. These provide us an opportunity to examine the parallels in events unfolding today

 

Also in the Series

Historical Fiction

Date Published: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing

 

Jessa is a different person when she returns to her hometown.

The integrated schools in Oregon allowed her to form a friendship with a Black girl, and now she sees the local Jim Crow practices in Tennessee with new eyes. Supported by her Oregon relatives, she becomes an advocate not only for the inclusion of music throughout the school system of Radford, but also for friendships that cross racial lines. While she becomes a gadfly to the school board, her interactions with other members of her town precipitate crises that uncover support for her position as well as staunch opposition.

In the South, and also in the rest of the country, a long road stretches from the 1950s to the present, and we must judge how well we have lived up to the vision that Jessa’s discovery of interracial friendship revealed to her.

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About the Author

Dr. Andrea Pálfi is an author of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry and has research work in Organic Chemistry. She has a degree Doctor of Pharmacy and is a Specialized Pharmacist in Pharmacodynamics

 

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by WILLIAM G. HYLAND JR. 

 

 Fiction Thriller

Date Published: 11-01-2024

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER/ARCHWAY

 

 

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror.

 

To uncover the truth about her mother’s mysterious disappearance years ago, the estranged daughter of a renowned illusionist must overcome her fear and spend three nights in her father’s secluded gothic mansion, where he has vowed to return from the grave. Helped by an adventurous reporter, she discovers a terrifying childhood secret that thrusts her into a world of deception and jeopardy, confronting a haunting supernatural presence and dark family secrets.

 

 DEADLINE is a supernatural, suspense thriller with a strong female protagonist, a deeply terrifying antagonist and a series of disturbing surprises that build to an ultimate shocker of an ending, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

 

 

 

PROLOGUE

 

An hour ago, I was almost burned to death. My life was saved by something supernatural, something not from this world. Call it what you will. A ghost, a spirit, a presence.

The events I now chronicle were the real thing. They happened to me at Sebastian Castle, the mansion of the famed illusionist, Nicholas Sebastian.

Thomas Veil stopped typing and stared at his computer screen. The smell of smoke and ash still lingered in his hair and clothes as he edited the article. He had changed the working title three times in the last five minutes:

Life After Death?

The Mystery of Faith

Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Nicholas Sebastian: A Modern Horror Story

                    by Thomas Veil

                    Features Editor, The Los Angeles Mirror

A darkness stirred within Veil that he could not comprehend. The hair on the back of his hands prickled upward as he typed: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”(H.P. Lovecraft) If that is true, I can assure you of one thing. Spiritual forces exist. I have no doubt about that now. Evil is something real. Over the past three days, I became part of an obscene horror story. How easy it was to be drawn in.

But this story’s origins began twenty years ago—with one man’s obsession with his wife, and life beyond the grave.

Veil stopped writing.

His mind sprinted in circles as his right hand trembled with exhaustion. He knew there would be no sleep for him tonight.

When the thrumming wind blew an overhanging tree branch against the roof, Veil flinched. The muscles in his throat tightened. It was still there: the fear seeped in. Ghastly images rose, emotion overtaking reason, filling Veil’s mouth with a bitter taste like a copper penny. The image of her face was cemented in the shadow of his mind: black galaxies of eyes shot with red.

In that moment, he declined his head and felt a shiver plaiting up his back.

Somehow Thomas Veil sensed that someone loomed behind him, even before the hand fell on his shoulder.

 

 

About the Author

WILLIAM G. HYLAND JR. is the award nominated author of four widely praised historical biographies, published by St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books, (2009) and Regnery Books (2019). He is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, the American Screenwriters Association and has attended numerous writing seminars including Harlan Coben’s and Lee Child’s Master Class Fiction Writing Courses on BBC MAESTRO. He holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama and J.D. from Samford University. Before law school, the author held a TOP SECRET security clearance and worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

 

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