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House of Love    by Jason Dry
Price: $6.99 USD. 85780 words. Published on April 1, 2010. .

Young Paul moves to his grandparents’ house after his sister drowned. A medium to the spirit world, his great-grandmother Big Mama teaches Paul to communicate with the living and the dead, opening a door that forces Paul to realize he will never return to his life as it was before. House of Love is about family, forgiveness and the unshakable bonds that unite family through life and afterlife.
White Heat, White Ashes    by Ted Simmons
Price: $6.00 USD. 44140 words. Published by CyPress Publications on September 22, 2010. .

When a Hispanic family is killed in a tragic fire, Peter is scrutinized by the police, and his world makes little sense. His best friend ignores him, and he is lured into the frightening world of a secret militia. Peter becomes an unlikely hero: saving Jerrod and his sister, undermining a second hate-crime, and finding the courage to believe in his convictions.
My First Date with Jolene, and Her Cousin, Billy-Bob    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 14980 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on May 30, 2011. .

College freshman Simon Nance has a problem. He’s a California surfer-dude, starting college in rural Texas. He’s kind-of-sort-of on a date with the girl of his dreams. And his ‘date’ has a chaperone. A six-foot four dude with a shotgun, who’s looking for an excuse to shoot him in the postremo. Let’s see if Simon survives the evening.
Sharpest Tool in the Shed    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 17000 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 4, 2011. .

Tune into rural Texas’ radio station KRAP (don’t touch that dial, there’s KRAP on it!) as a pair of down-home country DJs try their damnedest to stop a murder…all while they’re still on the air.
Winter's Coming, Winters Gone    by Allen Glick
Price: $2.99 USD. 124190 words. Published on November 8, 2011. .

These Marines might have been the kids on your block. But the treacherous jungle war marked them and estrangement at home set them apart. This is their tale of betrayal and broken promises, in Vietnam and America. It is also a story of reconciliation. Winter’s Coming, Winters Gone begins in Vietnam, carries the reader through the turbulent anti-war period, and concludes in Austin, Texas.
Larry's Shoes    by Candyce Byrne
Price: Free! 5670 words. Published on December 1, 2011. .

I panic. I run back to the living room, my heart pounding and my breath threatening to crack my ribs. Smack in the middle of the greeny-gray, needing-to-be-vacuumed shag carpet sit two amazed-looking shoes. But no Larry. Where on the face of God's picked green earth is he?
Grace Falling Like Rain    by Donna Van Cleve
Price: $4.95 USD. 85410 words. Published on December 19, 2012. .

The year is 1875, and Allie is on her way home to South Texas. Allie grew up hearing stories about a little boy & his mother taken by the Apaches, & after six long years were found and rescued. Little did she know, history would repeat itself 18 years later, & she would be right in the middle of it. Allie develops relationships with two brothers- one out of love, & the other out of fear. Book 1.
Missy Porter    by Robert Couch
Price: $3.99 USD. 31630 words. Published on January 7, 2013. .

Sixteen-year-old Missy Porter disappeared without a trace fifty years ago. Her high-school beau, Odie McAllen, now in his seventies, talks of their love and of the profound effect Missy and her loss have had on his life. He talks of conscious life choices and the changes that seem to happen on their own before we are even aware.
The Children (Shorts) At the Beach    by Felipe Adan Lerma
Price: $0.99 USD. 7600 words. Published on January 28, 2013. .

Third of a series of shorts acting as prequels to the series of novels, “The Children.” What a distinct pleasure it has been creating this prequel set of stories, of how the six cousins, and their parents, children themselves, to the grandparents, Arturo and Rosetta, got to start hanging out together more, and what happens from that kind of close extended family contact.