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Martyrs and Traitors: A Tale of 1916 by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 120,070. Language: English. Published: March 25, 2024 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
Kidnapped and held at gunpoint by his former IRB comrades, Bulmer Hobson, the misunderstood antihero of 1916, denounces the ill-fated Easter Rising he had tried to prevent. While his captors joke about shooting him and dumping his body on the railroad tracks, his terrified fiancée roams the chaos-ravaged city in search of him.
Ulster Lament by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,620. Language: English. Published: April 12, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
Born with a limp, unsuitable for military service, Peter Greenwood knows that he is an embarrassment to his father, an officer in the British army. At seventeen the youth travels to Belfast to study journalism. New friends help Peter find a job at a conservative newspaper. His first assignment is to publish the memoirs of a retired captain Evan Pryce, a veteran of the Transvaal campaign.
The Road to Montfaucon by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 50,840. Language: English. Published: March 10, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Modern Paris. The fire at Notre-Dame has unleashed an eerie force and awakened the ghosts of Victor Hugo's novel. Dr. Molendino, a jaded psychologist with a penchant for the occult, finds himself ejected from the clinical community for publishing controversial articles on the subject of past lives. To his colleagues he is a heretic, who compromises the prestige of the clinic.
Unshelled: A Tale of the Nutcracker by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 33,430. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Marie Stahl, a stoic combat nurse in her late twenties, unhindered by her own ailments, converts her family countryside estate into a convalescent home for soldiers slapped with the controversial diagnosis "shell shock". Her only helpers are two taciturn factory girls of Slavic descent. Marie's altruistic endeavor brings on the wrath of her brother Fritz, a Sergeant-Major in the Germany army.
Underdog Manifesto by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 91,420. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Historical » USA
After serving time for nearly killing his student—a crime he maintains he didn't commit—Sean McLaine, a puny drama teacher finds himself broke and friendless on the streets of South Boston at the peak of the Great Recession. His joints have been destroyed by compulsive weightlifting and his mind poisoned by the subtly sadistic prison psychologist.
Euromedika by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 80,500. Language: English. Published: June 26, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Philadelphia, 1982 Hazel, a truant teenager, takes refuge in a seedy alley off South Street dubbed “Nicotine Alley” under the protection of Logan Massey, a cannabis activist who dominates the alternative scene. Her most prized possession is an Olympus camera that supposedly has a soul and is able to capture the unseen. Seduced by Logan's anarchist ideology, Hazel aspires to expose the corruption.
Blood of the Stone Prince by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 119,350. Language: English. Published: September 23, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Medieval, Fiction » Historical » Renaissance
From the alchemy labs of fifteenth-century France comes a tale of one beauty and three beasts on a macabre journey through the Parisian underworld. After sixteen years of priesthood, Monseigneur Desmoulins secretly wishes for excommunication. Fed up with sacristy intrigues and tedious inquisition proceedings, he keeps himself amused by dissecting rats and playing with explosives.
Sirens Over the Hudson by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 88,990. Language: English. Published: May 18, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Urban, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Humor
Westchester Co., NY – 2008. Panic engulfs the financial district, but the privileged youth of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow is not feeling the sting just yet. For the children of bankers and Wall Street sharks, the summer holds the promise of rock concerts, boat rides on the Hudson and flippant hookups.
Never Be at Peace by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 112,780. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Historical » General
Helena Molony dreams of liberating Ireland. Her fantasies take shape when the indomitable Maud Gonne informally adopts her and sets her on a path to theatrical stardom - and political martyrdom. Swept up in the Gaelic Revival, Helena succumbs to the romantic advances of Bulmer Hobson, an egotistical Fenian leader with a talent for turning friends into enemies.
Wynfield's War by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 126,010. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Historical » General
BOOK TWO OF THE WYNFIELD SERIES From the chaos of an extensive slum known as Bermondsey, Wynfield finds himself in the Crimea where he experiences a military campaign that makes Bermondsey look orderly. The spring of 1854 was filled with violence, deceit, and bereavement, and marked the end of Wynfield's reign as the king of the Bermondsey slums.
Big Hero of a Small Country by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,350. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom, Fiction » Historical » General
Irish Free State, 1931. An ambitious journalism student from University College Dublin travels to Roscommon to investigate the life of his paternal grandfather, a deceased Fenian leader nicknamed "Colonel", in hopes of writing a stellar article that will earn him notoriety. Upon arrival he discovers that the locals who remember the "Colonel" from twenty-some years ago are not too keen on talking.
Wynfield's Kingdom by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 95,130. Language: English. Published: September 5, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Historical » General
Welcome to 1830s Bermondsey, London's most notorious slum, a land of gang wars, freak shows, and home to every depravity known to man. Dr. Thomas Grant, a disgraced physician, adopts Wynfield, a ten-year-old thief savagely battered by a gang leader for insubordination. The boy grows up to be a slender, idealistic opium addict who worships Victor Hugo.
Trench Coat Pal by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 83,400. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Glen Holyoak, son of a prominent psychiatrist, finds himself excommunicated from his privileged New England roots. After leaving a posh military academy, the young man is hiding from the hypocritical society in the basement of an abandoned house, fooling around with light recreational drugs and creating customized revenge-themed video games for all those who have a grievance against the world.

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