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James Ransom presents readers with poems covering an astonishing diversity of subjects. There are iconic echoes in some of them—Auden, Eliot and Shakespeare, as well as John Crowe Ransom and Christian Wiman—but comprehending the poems is never dependent on the reader’s scholarship. These poems...

Twenty-First Century Survivalist, Alexandria “Alex” Moldovan, is wounded and sitting in a cart on the way to Illyria – but in 5 AD. The lost daughter of Avilius Tacito Severus is traveling through Germania Inferior under the protection of her husband’s commander: First File Verus Celsus Calix....

Twenty-first century survivalist, Alexandria “Alex” Moldovan, is on a march to Illyria with Minerva’s 1st Legion – in ancient Rome. Her guardian, friend, and her husband’s commander, First File Verus Celsus Calix, has been gravely wounded beyond the rudimentary methods available … but...

Alexandria “Alex” Moldovan fell asleep at a work retreat and woke up in the same place, just not in the right time. The situation improves when she’s inadvertently rescued by a Roman Centurion, and as long as she can keep her wits – and his affections – she might just survive this. But trading...

The Ocean follows the lives of three women through the growing modernization and political turmoil of Chile during the latter half of the 20th century, to their exile on the other side of the world in wintery, land-locked Winnipeg. These three women — Maria Soledad, Consuelo and Pilar — each live...

Years of British-led failures have taken its toll on Jacob Murray. Standing alone amidst the aftermath of yet another unfathomable defeat, his thoughts turn north to his wife Maggie and the perilous gulf of wilderness that stands between them like the French abbitas at Fort Carillon. He would pack his...

Darlene is my first complete novel. I can not say where I get the idea from but once I start a book, it just about writes itself. Darlene was an RN in a Siberian. She visited people in their homes as a sideline of her work and one of these clients was a rich diamond merchant. He was in the habit of using...

When a compassionate judge gives an angry and troubled young man the choice between going to a mysterious horse ranch in the western Rockies or going to jail, the choice seems obvious. But when he arrives with his parents at an old hunting lodge on Lake Sandoza, they soon realize this isn’t like any...

All jaws drop when high school track and football star Tyler Spence throws in his helmet and cleats to form Dance Machine a “white boy” funk band with four fellow classmates. Rising in popularity, the band sets off on the road to a remote corner of their State to play for yet another Sadie Hawkins...

When Ada Baldwin watches her mother die giving birth to yet another baby girl, she is changed forever by the experience. It is 1884 and Ada and her 3 younger sisters must now learn to live without their beloved mama in their midst. The younger children are not much touched by their loss, but Ada and...

A man walks into a bar …. Welcome to Troubled Waters, your friendly neighborhood watering hole in the Old Port of Portland, Maine, where that old joke takes on a life of its own amid a lively cast of characters: Jacob the gentle giant, Freddy the fixture, Quentin the troubled professor, Sean injured...

When twin brothers Jett and Adam, and their best friend Mavis, go for a research trip to Costa Rica, they never thought they would uncover relics from a land that lays hidden within the hollows of a supernatural chasm. Forbidden explorations land the trio in peril and when Jett’s curiosity almost...

Grace Ellen Lampley, smartest senior in the class of 1908 at Central High in St. Louis, fears the future because she has been so deeply hurt in the past. Strong and beautiful, she is intensely romantic but wary of love, and she must struggle to break the grip of emotionally stifling childhood trauma.

Delilah is your average college student struggling to pay rent and looking forward to graduation. Living in a loft apartment with her best friend Tatyana, there isn’t much excitement in her life. This all changes when she is cornered in an alley by a man with black wings. She fears for her life but...