Taklamakan - The Land Of No Return - Book I    by John Schettler
Price: $4.99 USD. 148920 words. Published on April 4, 2011. .
Taklamakan is an artful blending of James Clavell’s “Shogun” and Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” An epic quest driven by strong and compelling characters traveling the fabled “Silk Road,” the book is richly fueled by the author’s detailed historical research. This is a special two volume Smashwords edition presentation, which concludes with Book II, Khan Tengri.

Khan Tengri - The Lord Of The Sky    by John Schettler
Price: $4.99 USD. 174790 words. Published on April 4, 2011. .
Book II of the novel Taklamakan, with an extended 7 chapter, 30,000 word addition to complete the Silk Road Series. An artful blending of James Clavell’s “Shogun” and Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” Taklamakan is an epic quest driven by strong and compelling characters traveling the fabled “Silk Road.” The book is richly fueled by the author’s detailed historical research.

Brother Lao: A Short Story    by Aron White
Price: $0.99 USD. 850 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .
A case of mistaken identity can happen anywhere, even on the streets of Imperial China four hundred years ago when a hapless beggar confuses a stranger for someone else. No harm done though especially when a free meal is involved, right?

Shrouded Path: Doorway Cycle Vol. 1    by Aron White
Price: $2.99 USD. 31790 words. Published on August 27, 2011. .
Jun Quan dreamed of learning kung fu, but never thought abandonment would be the price he’d pay. Years later, he winds up on the streets of Kunming, one of the most corrupt cities in 16th century China, and finds himself not only protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, but also searching for clues to his father’s disappearance and its link to the mysterious Red Doorway. 31,800 words.

Rule of the Second Fate    by Richard Russell
Price: $0.99 USD. 107890 words. Published on December 2, 2011. .
Miranda Montagne has discovered a therapy that extends life expectancy in lab mice by a hundredfold. But without more of the source material she needs, a previously unknown tree called Ginkgo quadloba, further research is stymied. Pursuing an unlikely clue to remote Axel Heiberg Island in the high Canadian Arctic, her journey turns into a deadly race as others scramble to find quadloba first.