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...And Now Hello
Carole L. Kelly

In "…..And Now Goodbye", Julia Bertinelli thought she had it all. But that was before her husband confesses that he kidnapped her twenty years before, that her name is Elizabeth Grant and that she has two children.

After her husband's death, Julia struggles with whether she should return to the life that was ripped from her in a crime that left her with no memory. When her daughter, Alexandria, is critically injured in a car accident, Julia decides that she must return. In the second book of the trilogy, "…..And Now Hello", Julia's story continues as she leaves Argentina and travels to America to face the people she loves. Julia's daughter may be dying. Her son is caught up in a web of fraud and deceit. Her husband is remarried and madly in love with his new wife, and Julia wants him back. To make it worse, someone wants her dead! Kidnapped. Betrayed. Now she wants it all, her life and everything she left behind.

They thought she was dead. Now she's back. The masquerade unfolds. Can she reclaim her life before they see through her disguise? Can she love again, or will a fiery inferno destroy her only chance?

...And Now Hello" the sequel to "And Now Goodbye", this book can stand on its own for readers that have not read the first. However, I would definitely recommend reading And Now Goodbye first as it give credence to the sequel closes the story in the readers mind and is well written. To give credit to the author, And Now Goodbye was hard to beat..."
Shirley Roe... Allbooks Review,
December 2005

Soul Mates
John Underwood

Soul Mates is a fast-paced thriller set in the heart of Florida's Emerald Coast. While on a pleasure trip in Orlando, Jack Roberts meets Megan, a beautiful and mysterious woman who, with her knowledge of intimate aspects of his life, convinces him that she has had a vision and his daughter, Jessie, is in danger. Still haunted by his failure to save Jessie from a brutal attack two years ago, he rushes home, determined to protect her this time. Complicating things further is the ugly ending of his roller coaster relationship with Priss, a woman his golf buddies refer to as his "psycho girlfriend." She wants him back and is willing to employ extreme measures to get her way. While Jack tries to identify and eliminate the threat to Jessie, cope with Priss' craziness, and explore new feelings brought on by the reappearance of a special woman from his past, a sensational murder rocks his community. Much to his surprise he is soon the prime suspect. Someone has targeted him in an elaborate and deadly plot. Rediscovering old inner strengths, Jack struggles to learn the truth and save both himself and his daughter.

RELEASED 2005

Basilisk
Sim Shattuck

Peggy DeWitt is in trouble: her marriage is coming apart and her university teaching career has become stagnant. The only bright spots are her two children Molly and Danny, her best friend Mimi, and an attractive student who seems to adore her. Little does Peggy know that this young man who respectfully loves her from afar has put Peggy in his sights: he lives part-time in a strange, pagan Medieval dream world where he plots, in the name of love, to destroy anyone who comes between him and the woman he's decided to make his own. He kicks out from under her all the supports of her life--friends, love, children, career--so that he can possess her completely--body, mind, and soul. While suddenly finding herself single again and dating the detective trying to protect her, Peggy faces one of the strangest of human problems: someone wants things from her that she can't even understand, let alone give. After the student, Rick Aaron Showell, has destroyed most of her life, she fights back in the only ways she knows.

The Legend of the Big Rock
Kenneth Bachand

The author learned the tragedies of war on the home front when two of his friends married young men who went off to war but did not return. Now, remembering the heartbroken widows and the children who would never know their fathers, he has rewoven the warp and weft of life's fortunes into a tapestry more pleasant to look upon. On their high-school graduation day, Ellen meets Linda's cousin, Paul, a decorated World War II Navy fighter pilot. In less than a month they are married. And then the misfortune of war that nearly destroys Ellen's happiness brings Linda face-to-face with Philip, a promising young medical student who sweeps her off her feet and right into his heart.

Two girls as talented as they are beautiful, a war that threatens to doom them both to a lifetime of sorrow, and two young men with uncommon skills for survival are blended together in a down-to-earth, lighthearted
story that will tug at your heart, make you laugh, and perhaps make you believe the legend of the big rock.

The Sound of Death
Jack Mullen

A cancer researcher, Dr. Charles Hancock, discovers that electromagnetic rays from television, radio, satellite and even the common cell phone transmissions are a direct cause of some forms of cancer. Threatened with loss of FCC permits, the broadcast industry leads an effort to discredit the findings of Dr. Hancock by attempting to destroy him and his family. Well-financed investigations into his background uncover a mysterious missing year in his life - a year for which Dr. Hancock has never accounted.

With billions of dollars at risk, the efforts to destroy Dr. Hancock are fierce. The missing year is the key to destroying him. The outcome is a bizarre twist that links history and intrigue. The 'secret' of Dr. Hancock is a shock for all involved, including the reader.

The Wingates
by Anne Shuttleworth
Book I - Ashley

Their assignment was to find a kidnapped child, but when Nathanial Hollister and three other Pinkerton Agents arrived in Holly Falls, they were not prepared for the Wingate sisters.

We are pleased to announce the Editor's Choice Awards for 2005

...And Now Goodbye
Carole L. Kelly

"...And Now Goodbye" is a bittersweet love story of a man and his captive. Julia Bertinelli thought she had everything, a wonderful loving husband and a life that was filled with happiness. But that was before her memory returned and she realized that the man she was married to was not her husband, Julia was not her name and that this was not her life . . . It was all a lie!

She had struggled through the abduction. She had suffered through the amnesia. Now she must face her awakening. How does a woman cope with the reality that she has loved and cherished her enemy . . . the man who tore her from her family and stole her life . . . the man who would never let her go unless fate intervened. This is a story of love and a crime of passion, of hate and despair, of faith and forgiveness.

Set in Argentina, ". . . And Now Goodbye" takes you back to Italy and the war, to Paris and the scene of the abduction and to the United States as the mystery unfolds as to why she was taken and kept for twenty years. The story lays the gripping groundwork for the second book in the trilogy, as Julia faces her past, the life she might have had, and those she left behind.

Set in Argentina, author Carole Kelly weaves a tale of love and hate, secrets and lies that grabs the reader on page one and refuses to let go until the final page when readers beg to know more. Her intense writing style will take you on an emotional roller coaster. Characters come to life. Vivid imagery of the surrounding landscape is enchanting. This is a storyteller with great talent. Highly recommended by Allbooks Review, review
Shirley Roe, December 2004.

ALLBOOKS REVIEW Editors Choice Award 2005

On Second Thought
Hodelin Rene
I know now who I am

A man away from home
Far from the maddening crowd
From which I sprang and left . . .

Such is the power of On Second Thought, Hodelin Rene's first collection of poetry. This volume is a collection of poems written by Hodelin Rene over a period of 25 years. These poems were selected from many that Hodelin has written during his adulthood. The poems are about a wide range of his life's experience and some of life's recurrent themes such as love, faith, friendship, hope, self examination. The poem "On Second Thought" is also the title of this book. This poem reflects a time in the author's life when he was experiencing a transition; from lamenting over leaving the town he grew up in; to the realization that happiness can be enjoyed when we dwell on the good we can accomplish right where we are in the present.

Now's the Day and Now's the Hour
Carl Peterson

A unique collection of history and music that connects the spirit and the background of the Alamo defenders to Scotland.From the beginning of Scotland's freedom wars, with Wallace and Bruce, we see the trend carried forward to the Texas and the Alamo. With piper John MacGregor and the fiddler of the Alamo the men's spirits were maintained with the music of Scotland that contained a history of a fighting spirit. These songs were then used as the tunes for ballads and stories written about the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. This Texas freedom fight has its roots in Scotland's freedom wars.

Beverly Mount-Douds has collected a brief history of these lighthouses, along with a few short stories that range from mysterious deaths of lighthouse keepers to the genealogy of lighthouse keepers themselves. This work is filled with information on the construction, operation of, lighting equipment, directions to these buildings and the many battles fought to build and maintain each lighthouse through these years. The Light House Keepers delivers a marvelous library of family histories and photographs of the men and their families who lived this great adventure.

This book on three local lighthouses, in the Forgotten Coast area of Florida, gives a glimpse of what life was like for the men and their families who maintained these magnificent sentinels. It also serves as a family history of the generations of men who kept the waters safe for ships and sailors. Many of their descendants still live in this area.

Conscious Coma
David Rabhan
Available Now

In March 1980, David Rabhan, a private industrialist was swept up in the revolution of the era in Iran. Arrested and sent to a public prison, David waited three years for his first court appearance and to be charged with espionage. At the mercy of his captors, he spent years in chains--blindfolded and being shuffled from one prison to another. In the midst of being tortured, imprisoned, beaten and going through three "mock executions", he survived. He survived by writing, drawing and sketching scenes from his surroundings. He also became the "tea man" for the prison, by making tea daily for other prisoners. He never gave up. He devised schemes and plans and he challenged his captors daily whether it was about his showers, his food or his photograph of President Jimmy Carter. David had been President Carter's private pilot during Carter's gubernatorial days and as David remained in prison for ten years, Carter was back home writing letters and meeting with foreign diplomats trying to get his friend released. These years with a few other American prisoners that came and went spread into days, weeks and years of unbelievable horror. Now, years after his harrowing imprisonment, he has written a story of his survival and what he found and lost while being held captive.

"David Rabhan is one of the most interesting people I know. His examples of prison art give an insight into his extraordinary character . . ." Former President Jimmy Carter.

Even though the problem birth of the little foal was overcome, the traumatic ordeal was enough to make Jess Steel know that Breathtaker was special. He was a fighter and Jess knew that the foal possessed the right ingredients. Breathtaker had heart and would likely become a world class racehorse in time. Keeping Breathtaker in his possession would be something Jess did not anticipate, but the strong bond between him and his special horse prevailed.

This incredible stallion lived up to his name as the winningest horse in the
West . . . One that just took your breath away . . . hence Breathtaker

Sam Hernandez gets more adventure than he bargained for when he volunteers for World Health Oganization's Smallpox Eradication Program in India. He becomes the prime suspect in a murder. A gutsy woman from Scotland gets him involved in a search for her missing sister. And despite the on-going demands of the eradication effort, Sam becomes embroiled in foiling an assassination plot. The fast-moving finish brings surprises and a new outlook for Sam.

Bob Emerson's Forty-Rupee Clock is part of a new kind of adventure novel, one that happily increases quality of life instead of glorifying death.

Anthrax: The Game
by Dwan G. Hightower

A silent, solitary traveler sat down in a window seat on the plane and brushed back his thick black hair, leaning over and pushing the silvery metal briefcase under the seat. Even if the briefcase was checked at the next airport, security would find the vial empty. Pulling his jacket open he checked his coat pocket again. Where was the diskette? Damn! Looking in both pockets he wiped his brow and replaced his handkerchief. Using the illegal entry lock kit, it had been so simple to break into the office and remove the inhaler from Dr. Bishop’s top desk drawer and replace it with the contaminated one. He had spent a few moments admiring the family in the picture on the desk. He checked his bag and his jacket pockets again. Where was it? His throat tightened momentarily. Where was the diskette? Maybe he had dropped it back at the library or at the hotel. Oh, well, no matter. If a maid found it she would just toss it. He relaxed, and a strange secretive half-smile passed over his smug visage.

Aging, beautiful, wealthy widow Elena Muñoz hurts her head in a drinking accident and sees her dead father, who tells her to leave the emptiness and isolation of her present life and go to Belize--where at the top of the Classic Maya pyramid of Altun Ha she will receive a revelation promising to give her a purpose for the rest of her life. Elena buys a giant Winnebago and takes a group of misfits with her across Mexico and Belize. What happens to this Crazy Caravan on the road and after they arrive is completely unexpected...

When Howie returns to his Georgia home from WWII, he brings with him longings that he does not understand and subsequently cannot explain, not even to his beloved wife. IN THE SHELTER OF THE FOLD is a chronicle of America's emerging into and learning to live with the "Atomic Age," told from the point of view of Winston Cobb as he accepts without understanding the world he has inherited.

Winner of the Toni Morrison award for Buttermilk Bottoms, Dream Catcher welcomes our awarding winning author Kenneth Robbins. Kenneth Robbins, originally from Douglasville, Georgia, lives in Ruston, Louisiana, where he is a professor and Director, School of the Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University. His first novel, Buttermilk Bottoms, received the 1986 Toni Morrison Prize and the Associated Writing Programs Novel Award. It was published in 1987. His short fiction has appeared in numerous major periodicals. We are proud to showcase his second novel, The Baptism of Howie Cobb, the story of a young man growing up in Georgia during the Depression. To escape the life of previous generations of his family in the cotton mill, Howie takes advantage of the opportunity to join the Civilian Conservation Corps and seeks adventure in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Howie leaves his family and his girl behind and sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. With the knowledge of fairness, integrity and baseball, Howie grows into the fine man he was meant to be. Through the suffering of great loss and experiencing great joy, he is baptized into manhood.