No Left Turns Today

A floating bookstore. A hidden diary. And a second chance at life and love…

Sage Harper’s dream of opening a bookstore seemed impossible until she learned about a vintage sailboat up for auction.

There’s just one catch: Flynn Cahill — her first love and the man who broke her heart — is determined to outbid her.

When the boat’s eccentric billionaire owner offers them an unusual proposition, Sage and Flynn must spend three days together aboard the Marvelous Mira, searching for his late wife’s hidden diary. Whoever finds it wins the boat for an unbelievably low price.

For Sage, it’s her chance to finally live a life with passion and purpose. For Flynn, it’s the last item on his late twin brother’s bucket list — a promise he’s devoted the past decade to fulfilling, even when it cost him everything.

Confined to close quarters, old feelings resurface and painful truths emerge.

Back in Blessings Bay, innkeeper Abigail Preston finally sees her happily?ever?after on the horizon. But when a stranger arrives on her doorstep with a shocking secret, the beautiful life she’s built is suddenly at risk.

Can they reconcile their painful pasts before it’s too late?

A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old.

Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start over. Again. But then, Moss is so familiar with rock bottom he has his mail forwarded there.

Hel was born a slave, or maybe she wasn’t. It’s confusing, just like the compulsion that keeps her building… something. When she sees an opportunity to escape aboard a ship, she takes it, not realizing the trouble she’s in for.

Roy “Hellno” Herzog is a pirate who prefers to work alone. Now he’s got a lead on a prize so big it could set him up for life, if he can stomach working with other people. All he has to do is track down one runaway slave.

*** 2025 Readers’ Favorite Award Winner ***

Monkey Flip is a funny, tightly paced mystery for all ages. Young readers will delight in the comedic mishaps of Sebastian Winthrop, chimp detective, and his amateur sleuths, while adults will appreciate the cozy mystery elements and the themes of acceptance and family. Perfect for fans of quirky mysteries like The Sheep Detectives.

When Addie and Bennett Pajakowski learn that their father, the fearsome Bonecrusher Brannigan, is accused of murdering one of his fellow professional wrestlers, they seek the help of Sebastian Winthrop, the world’s greatest detective. So, imagine their surprise when they discover that the reclusive Sebastian is a talking chimp!

Monkey Flip chronicles Sebastian’s investigation into the death of Mitch Mayhem, the heavyweight champion of a local independent wrestling federation. Along the way, Sebastian teaches Addie and Bennett what it takes to be proper detectives, while they show him that life should be lived and not mourned. The book deftly satirizes the fanatical world of professional wrestling and touches on such themes as grief, acceptance, and the importance of family.

Some are already calling Sebastian one of the best detectives in fiction. Others call him the best. Just don’t call him a monkey.

The sentence that launched a thousand classrooms also launched a genocide.

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.

For two millennia, students have parsed this sentence as a masterpiece of Latin prose. They were never told it was a declaration of ownership — the opening move of a campaign that would kill one million people, enslave one million more, and erase sixty tribal nations from the map of Europe.

The Gallic Paradox tells both stories simultaneously.

Through meticulous historical research and visceral narrative power, Robert Walker reconstructs the world Caesar destroyed alongside the machine he built to destroy it. A Helvetian metalworker watches her people burn their own city rather than leave it for Rome. A Gallic druid preserves twenty years of memorized law in a tradition that has no page for the Romans to seize. A mother in a refugee camp hears a Roman horn and knows — in her body, before her mind — what the sound means.

Against these voices, Caesar’s own words unspool in elegant third person — recording the sieges, the massacres, the engineered famines, and the systematic eradications with the detached syntax of a man filing a provincial expense report.

Inside this book, you will discover:

• How Caesar manipulated Rome’s deepest national trauma to authorize an illegal war of conquest

• The sophisticated civilizations — with currencies, senates, trade networks, and legal systems — that the word “barbarian” was designed to erase

• The massacre of 400,000 refugees that Caesar recorded in six sentences and Roman senators tried to prosecute as a war crime

• How the Commentarii functions simultaneously as history’s most important account of the conquest and the most sophisticated instrument of its erasure

• The engineered starvation at Alesia, where Caesar trapped civilians between two walls and let them die to break a siege

• Why the paradox at the center of Western civilization — achievement and atrocity in the same sentence — remains irresolvable

The Gallic Paradox is narrative history that reads like a thriller and cuts like an indictment. It does not simplify Caesar into a hero or a monster. It holds both truths in the same hand and asks the reader to do what two thousand years of classical education has carefully avoided: look at the whole picture.

Part of The Moral Complexity Series — historical works that examine the figures and events the traditional narrative has simplified, where admiration and horror occupy the same sentence.

The wife of a prominent Minneapolis business executive lies dead in the couple’s secluded summer home. Not just dead — murdered. In the midst of personal turmoil, Ray Schiller is forced to follow the clues to the Twin Cities in pursuit of the killer. Unraveling Paul Davis’s carefully guarded personal life threatens the new widower’s bid for the imminent opening for the presidency of ACC, the prestigious corporation founded and run by his father-in-law. Ray’s tenacity turns up more suspects, but their greed, ambition and loathing erupts in deadly in-fighting. Just as he’s about to bring the case to a sudden, unpredictable end, a shooting incident threatens to destroy Ray’s marriage as well as his law enforcement career. He battles back only to learn the devil is in the details, but the details aren’t what anyone expected.

Bart Gavin is a talented gambler who has always dreamt of having his own horse ranch in a quiet town. When he sets foot in Natchez Hills, he has no doubt that this is the place where he wants to settle down. However, he needs money to achieve that, and the poker table has always been the easiest and quickest way for him to get it. What he couldn’t have foreseen was that he would almost hit bottom after losing a risky bet to Larkin Bannon, a murderous cutthroat. As if this wasn’t enough, the very same man is suspected of a terrible murder and Bart is determined to hang tough until he unravels the truth and gets revenge. Will Bart manage to take down the person who has stood in the way of his happiness? How far would he go to accomplish his goal despite the grave danger?

While everything seems to go downhill, Bart will meet a lovely woman named Melanie Torrance, who will bring sunshine to his life. When he discovers that the young woman blames Bannon for her beloved father’s murder, he realizes that they have a lot more in common than he thought. Day by day, Bart is falling for Melanie, but he knows that time is running short and he needs to do everything in his power to bring Bannon down once and for all. To add insult to injury, Bannon will not rest until Melanie is dead and Bart realizes that if he fails to protect her, he will never be able to forgive himself. Will the fearless man manage to be the guard that Melanie needs and catch the enemy before it’s too late? Or will they both be doomed to a terrible fate than neither of them deserves?

Being trapped in a web of murder and corruption, Bart must act fast as Bannon is already planning to hit his next target. Will his undaunted courage and gun skills help him capture a criminal who wants to spread death and blood in the peaceful town?