Time For Tea

Sweet Home Alabama meets The Notebook in this captivating coming-of-age love story about trading worldly success for the unexpected joy of the path less traveled.

Featuring a colorful cast of characters, Backwater combines Southern humor with engaging storytelling to bring the river bottoms of East Texas to life. This sweeping novel stunningly portrays the rarely seen and often misunderstood culture of river people and their deep connection to the backwater they call home through atmospheric prose, authenticity, and grit perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and Yellowstone, alike.

Naturopathic Doctor Sunday Frederick can’t seem to shake her backwater roots. After years of rubbing elbows with Austin’s elite, she jumps at the chance to practice natural medicine in her beloved hometown and escape the concrete jungle in favor of a simpler life with fiancé Jeffrey Frost. But returning to the sleepy East Texas community of Old Salem with a fast-talking fiancé in tow proves more of a challenge than Sunday ever expected.

After one look at the Frederick family’s twenty-thousand-acre estate, Jeffrey has big dreams of converting the historic property into a prosperous game ranch. But when his ambitions drive threaten to drive a wedge between Sunday and her close-knit kin, she struggles to balance his desires for their future with the best interests of her family and the surrounding community — a fight that is further complicated when she is called away on a special wildcrafting assignment in the swampy, mosquito-infested river bottom of her youth.

To her dismay, hometown rebel, Eli LeBlanc, is tasked to serve as Sunday’s guide while hosting her at his dilapidated houseboat. With his crude manners and outlaw ways, Eli hasn’t changed a bit since high school, and Sunday has better things to do than answer his prying questions about her personal affairs. But as the days pass and the balmy night air is filled with the sound of crickets and softly rushing water, there’s a freedom and hospitality to river life that can alter a girl’s priorities and open her heart. With her wedding to Jeffrey only weeks away, and the future of her family’s estate resting on her shoulders, Sunday finds herself torn between everything she thought she wanted and the surprising new path she feels destined to take.

When a desperate mother accepts a dinner invitation from Oakwood’s most influential family, she never imagines the price of their generosity.

Grace Mitchell’s bakery is failing. Her daughter Emily is dying from lupus. When the enigmatic Harper family offers help, their elegant dinner party seems like salvation — until Grace realizes what’s truly being served at their table.

In this haunting literary horror novel, a mother’s love collides with an ancient hunger that has fed on human consciousness for centuries. As Grace and Emily flee the Harper estate, they discover that some appetites can never be satisfied, and some invitations can never be declined.

From a mysterious dinner party to a desperate flight across state lines, from silver-lined crypts to terrifying transformations, The Last Course serves up a feast of psychological horror that will leave you questioning the nature of consumption itself.

A chilling tale of:

• A mother’s desperate bargain to save her dying daughter

• An aristocratic family hiding centuries of dark secrets

• The seductive power of transformation and transcendence

• The price of survival when humanity itself is on the menu

Some hungers can never be satisfied. Some tables can never be left.

My name is Sister Trixie Lavender, and I’m an occasionally possessed excommunicated nun.
Okay, that’s a lot to swallow at once. But it’s true I was booted from the convent after doing something unspeakable. Something I had no control over. Something that lives inside me to this day, exploding out like that chestburster in Alien when I least suspect it.
But I have help. My amazing friend Coop — the demon who saved me from an ugly end — remains by my side, loyal and true. She was Hell’s best tattoo artist back in the day, and together with my designs, we’re opening Inkerbelle’s Tattoos and Piercings, right in the heart of Portland’s most darling district, Cobbler Cove.
Of course, our bid to fit in would be a little less rocky if I could help Coop assimilate with humans, keep a lid on our sassy talking owl, Livingston… oh, and if someone hadn’t killed our landlord on day one — in our shop.
This mystery-loving, bumbling ex-nun and her trusty demon sidekick are on the case! If I don’t bumble my way right into my own demise first…

A murder to hide a previous murder. A lone woman takes up the fight.
In the gritty streets of 1824 Sydney, Judith Sampson’s New Liffey Hotel stands as a bastion of order amidst chaos. But when a grain trader is brutally murdered and her lodger — a handsome American whaler — is slain with little justice in sight, Judith can’t turn a blind eye.
With sharp eyes and quick wits, Judith delves into the dark underbelly of The Rocks, where danger lurks around every corner. Street women and gamblers may cross her path, but Judith’s determination to uncover the truth knows no bounds.
As she peels away the layers of lies and jealousy, Judith discovers a shocking link between a pair of lovers and the murders of two men. But her pursuit of justice comes at a cost. Her livelihood is threatened, and the constabulary seeks to silence her.
Undeterred, Judith presses on, driven by her unwavering commitment to the victims and the pursuit of justice. In a world where justice is scarce and danger is ever-present, Judith Sampson stands as a beacon of courage and determination, ready to fight for what is right, no matter the cost.

Felicity is at her lowest – vulnerable and emotionally numb after her parents die in a house fire, she is attracted to volatile and troubled Jay like a moth to a flame.

Allowing herself to be drawn in to Jay’s twisted revenge plan against his former best friend, Felicity soon learns that no matter what she does, it will never be enough for Jay. As his jealousy and insecurity tip him into escalating violence against her, Felicity questions everything he has told her about his past and his former girlfriend, Sammie, and hatches a desperate plan to escape…

In the aftermath of the Civil War, federal officials dispatched a Funeral Train to transport the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln 1,600 miles to his final resting place.

No one could have guessed that outlaws would come gunning for it.

Junior Langham is the toughest bounty hunter in the business, with his own brand of justice. If there’s a man you want dead, he better deserve it.

But all it takes is one job to put Junior’s moral code at risk. A routine manhunt goes bad in the nation’s capital. So bad President Lincoln gets killed at Ford’s Theater. It doesn’t matter who pulled the trigger. All that matters is that Junior now finds himself entangled in the assassination plot. And unless he’s willing to do the unthinkable, he might find himself swinging by the neck from a Union gallows.

Now Junior and his gang of rough-riding outlaws have two weeks to deliver the prize. Two weeks to chase Lincoln’s Funeral Train from Washington to Illinois on the President’s final trip home. All in an effort to steal the body and hold it for ransom, at the behest of dark forces from within the fallen Confederacy.

Mourners line the tracks day and night. The route is treacherous. And an honor guard of Union soldiers stands watch within the last train car, ready to do battle with any insurgency. But if Junior wants to have any hope of protecting those he loves, he’ll have to deliver on one last job.

Or die trying.

Funeral Train is a fictional action thriller novel set against the backdrop of the real events of the Lincoln assassination. Step aboard the Funeral Train in this rip-roaring, pulse-pounding thrill ride.