Star Cloud Press: 179 books

Marilee Anderson disappeared twenty-five years ago at the age of fifteen, but police are digging up the rose garden behind her parents’ home in search of new evidence on a hot summer day in St. Paul. Marilee was last seen on a Sunday morning, when her father sent her off to a convenience store three...

Something valuable has been hidden in Duluth, Minnesota, and the evil Adherents are willing to tear the city apart searching for it. Led by Cain aboard the mighty steam battleship Goliath and using a weapon capable of tearing great holes in the Divide they have come to our world. Now all that stands...

Two worlds living beside each, one filled with myth and legend and one of science. Many years ago a great Divide was put in place to protect both worlds, but the Divide will not last forever. Together Jane Timbrill and Jacob have taken the first steps in a great adventure, but suddenly Jacob’s life...

IT’S SO COLD THAT THE FLASHERS IN DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL ARE ONLY SHOWING PICTURES OF THEMSELVES when newspaper reporter Warren “Mitch” Mitchell and photographer Alan Jeffrey are called out to cover the discovery of the frozen body of a young woman The victim is a former St. Paul Winter Carnival...

When Minnesota baby-boomer Meggie Moore is given the opportunity to housesit for a friend in Key West, Florida, she jumps at the chance. Her husband, Walter, looking forward to completing the first item on his bucket list with a small game hunting trip to South Dakota, is unable to accompany her. Shirley,...

Friendship. Danger. Murder. Grant O'Grady wants nothing more than to be a major league baseball pitcher. He's only thirteen, but his dream seems possible . . . until Big Joe turns his life upside down. Grant and his buddies are no strangers to risk. At the end of the Great Depression in small-town...

Private Detective Doyle Malloy is on the case when a string of murders pop up in North Dakota. Murders that have a striking similarity to a killer from the 1980s who used pickles--yes, pickles—as his modus operandi. A killer who also has a mysterious connection to Doyle's own past.  After witnessing...

When Detective Cal Sheehan learns no one’s heard from his childhood friend Mike “Hawk” Hawkinson in days, he begins an unofficial investigation. Cal follows a lead from Minnesota to Las Vegas, and back again. When Hawk’s car is later found abandoned north of Prairie Falls, Birch County officially...

Imagine if the king of evil genies was searching for you with deadly intent. Only through the tragic chance of becoming an orphan have you been saved . . . so far. For teenager Wendy Adair, this is reality: no home, no parents, and no idea why a gang of genies is willing to kill her. Without...

Sometimes life seems like a madhouse. And sometimes it’s worse . . . Psychiatrist Grace Rendeau struggles to make sense of her husband’s untimely death. Left a widow with two children, Grace forges a new life for her family, abandoning her private practice and moving to Minnesota to take on a...

Steeped in the history of the French-Canadian voyageur journeys in the early 1800s in North America, Waters Like the Sky is a story of a well-educated teen boy who despises his fancy schooling and longs for a more adventurous life. André’s fate changes when a letter with a royal seal arrives. He...

Grace is a shy, lonely fourth-grader. She watches the other girls from a distance and secretly wishes she were a part of their lives. Struggling with never knowing what to say or do when she is around the other neighborhood girls, Grace feels the sting of loneliness with each attempt she makes. Tillie...

The Ghosted Bridge is a ghost story set against the backdrop of mystical Sedona, Arizona, and the real life disaster of Minnesota’s I-35W bridge collapse on August 1, 2007. Katherine Simon is fed up with her life. The economic downturn of the past few years cost her husband his job and is chipping...

Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes is a three-part collection of forty-eight prose pieces and a few old, family recipes. A handful of Italian characters, some of whom immigrate to Illinois, are celebrated. The story begins in a twelfth century Tuscan mountain village in the 1940s. Part...