Beach City Indigo    by Ruth Francisco
Price: $0.99 USD. 30980 words. Published on July 9, 2010. .
Buster, a happy-go-lucky boxer, runs the Venice West Café, a beat poetry and jazz club in Venice, California. Life is simple and good, until the evil land developer Ivana Moore schemes to pass a leash law and deprive the canines of their rights. Terrified, the dogs flee for their lives. Homeless but not defeated, Buster and his friends come up with a plan to save Venice Beach.

Korinth: A Tale of Zombies in the Old West    by Lorraine LoBianco
Price: $2.99 USD. 37540 words. Published on April 3, 2011. .
Eli Baxter and Robert Fontaine travel to the small gold mining town of Korinth, California in 1872. For a year, they grow rich and the future looks bright until one night, when Edna McCauley is murdered at a church social. Her killer is Evangeline O'Meara. Murder is a hanging offense in the old West. The problem is, Evangeline was hanged the week before for shooting her husband, George.

Follow Through    by Nicole Glass
Price: $1.99 USD. 58290 words. Published on April 20, 2011. .
Emily Walker and Adam Blackburn are from entirely different worlds. When fate brings them together on a beach one night, Adam turns Emily's world upside down. Emily, an office manager from a small town is suddenly thrown into Adam's chaotic life. Can Emily and Adam find the strength to stand by each other when everything around them is going down in flames?

Slumgullion Sector    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 9700 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 7, 2011. .
I’d been sitting at Doyle’s Clam House for an hour, and no one had gotten around to being kidnapped by aliens yet. I had a bowl of what the guide books called the best chowder north of Bodega Bay on one side, and a redhead who’d make Raymond Chandler dive for his thesaurus on the other. No one told me that I'd get to witness something right out of the Star Wars cantina scene that evening.

The Emma Caites Way    by A.V. Walters
Price: $5.99 USD. 142720 words. Published on November 1, 2011. .
Empty-nester, Fiona Hedge, finds a strange and evocative painting while rummaging in a thrift store. Later she discovers that it connects her to Emma Caites, an obscure, long-dead artist whose mysterious life compels her. In her quest to unravel Emma’s story, Fiona is forced to shake free of her own circumscribed life to explore new definitions of success, as she learns to live fully.

Unexpected Rendezvous    by CKay Brooks
Price: $1.99 USD. 82420 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .
As a female tour bus driver, Jana was not surprised to meet a grumpy sheriff, while she installed snow chains on her bus, but he was surprised to meet her.The chance encounter pushes her life and values into turmoil. Surviving an assassination attempt, the wounded sheriff needs her help to safety, but who is he really and how is he connected to those she loves? Is he a threat or a promise?

Pinyon Creek, California    by Elsa Pendleton
Price: $3.99 USD. 86870 words. Published on January 14, 2012. .
The Los Angeles Aqueduct allowed the city of Los Angeles to grow and thrive, but what about the people living at the water's source in the Owens Valley of the Sierra Nevada? They saw Owens Lake vanish as their rivers dried while the big city took what it wanted. This fictional portrait of the Richardson family and their friends traces the conflict which continues to this day.

PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 4 (They Came)    by Kirby Wright
Price: $0.99 USD. 6410 words. Published on January 15, 2012. .
3 Harley dudes how up unexpectedly @ Nirvana in the dead of night are on a mission of destruction. They've come to collect on a $30 grand debt and will knock down anyone who gets in their way. What I like about this is Tony's retribution for what they do at Nirvana, and the struggle with his own interior demons when he meets the last biker mano-a-mano in a Last Man Standing battle reminiscent of t