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Whistling Girl    by Ardell L. D. Taylor
Price: $3.00 USD. 10 words. Published on February 10, 2009. .

Whistling Girl is an historical romance taking place in Southern California just as it was being discovered by easterners. Anita Aldon is the Spanish/English daughter of a ranchero displaced by the tide of newcomers. She loves the outdoors and dreads the inevitable move to the city, but a casual meeting with one of the newcomers is followed by a series of complications changing everything.
Everything In Its Path    by Steve Alcorn
Price: $4.99 USD. 32670 words. Published on March 29, 2010. .

The true story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, told by Kate Thompson, junior archaeologist. Intertwined with Kate’s story is that of the village she's unearthing, and Singing Bird, a girl who foresees disaster. When Kate discovers the dam above them is leaking, the two girls’ fates become intertwined across the centuries as they struggle to save their loved ones from Everything In Its Path.
Our Lady of the Lowriders    by Doug Lambeth
Price: $2.99 USD. 161480 words. Published on June 4, 2010. .

Roger Donnelly's best friend says that Jesus and the Virgin Mary have started talking to him. Jesse Montoya is Roger's all-time best pal, and he swears he's having visions and can work miracles. Roger has stood by Jesse since the first grade, but as time passes and Jesse insists his mysticism is real, Roger reluctantly gets dragged into Jesse's weird world of Catholic dreams and maybe-miracles.
Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls    by Cris Mazza
Price: $9.00 USD. 98210 words. Published by Emergency Press  on December 31, 2010. .

“Cris Mazza has interwoven the stories of three contemporary women—one tempted, one involved, and one enslaved—in a fiercely honest novel about the continuum from flirtation to abuse. The story is feminist in the best sense. It wipes aside the pieties around the subject of harrasment to probe the multiple realities of desire.” — Janet Burroway
Fire and Rain    by Diane Chamberlain
Price: $4.99 USD. 122690 words. Published on February 8, 2011. .

Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile . . . and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career. Fire and Rain is a love story filled with mystery and heart.
The Z Street Band    by Ted Gross
Price: $0.99 USD. 32040 words. Published on March 26, 2011. .

Five 8th-graders in a Southern California beach town form a band, setting off a series of challenging events.
Hit or Missus    by Gayle Carline
Price: $0.99 USD. 75740 words. Published on May 28, 2011. .

Private Investigator Peri Minneopa is hired to spy on a wealthy, possibly cheating wife, but the wife's girlfriends have other ideas. After all, a friend will help you move - a good friend will help you move a body.
A Road Painted in Scarlet    by Michael Angel
Price: $0.99 USD. 14940 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on May 30, 2011. .

The infamous Highway 74 in Southern California can be a death trap of a road. There’s even a store that sells a T-shirt with the logo: I SURVIVED THE ORTEGA HIGHWAY. Let me tell you about someone who never earned that shirt. I didn't murder him. But what happened haunts me to this day. And the kicker? This story's real.
Grace Under Pressure: Five Tension-Filled Tales    by Michael Angel
Price: $2.99 USD. 26100 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 6, 2011. .

Hemingway said guts was ‘grace under pressure’. Expect ‘grace’ as we meet a supermarket worker who finds a note reading: PLEZE HELP US WE R KIDNAPED. Follow a tourist’s efforts to get free of a quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. And visit the men’s bathroom in the Vatican, where an unlucky hit man tries desperately to escape. 5 short stories await you in 'Grace Under Pressure'.
The Detective & The Unicorn    by Michael Angel
Price: $4.49 USD. 105850 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 24, 2011. .

When a warlock from the magical world of the Morning Land murders Derek Ridder’s friend, the LAPD detective gets a new partner. Her name’s Tavia, and she’s a brash, driven unicorn filly. She identifies the killer as Sir William Teach, the one man she’s sworn to capture or kill. Together, Derek and Tavia must race to uncover Teach's plan to conquer both of their worlds.