Wish There Were Pictures

A quick, easy summer read that will leave you smiling and believing it’s never too late to begin again.

Starting over at fifty wasn’t the plan — but sometimes the life you didn’t choose becomes exactly what you need.

When Amy Brookfield’s husband’s betrayal shatters her marriage and her future, she returns to Cottonwood Springs, the small Colorado mountain town she once called home. Working at the local tackle store isn’t the fresh start she imagined, but it’s all she has.

Then she meets Mack, the quiet store owner with the heart of a poet whose steady presence and unexpected understanding remind her what it feels like to be truly seen. With the support of Mack and her lifelong friend Charlotte, Amy launches a small business that empowers women in the community — and begins to rebuild not just her life, but her sense of purpose.

Just as Amy starts to believe in this new future, her ex-husband returns, threatening to disrupt the peace she’s built — and pull her back into old patterns of rescue and guilt. But this time, Amy has something she didn’t have before: a community that has her back and the courage to choose herself.

The Sweet Side of Summer is an uplifting midlife story about friendship, courage, new love, and discovering that the best chapters of your life are the ones you write for yourself.

Jay Sullivan is a pathetic mess, tortured by his daughter’s kidnapping, and is nothing like the legendary assassin he used to be. Could a clue out of nowhere be the redemption he needs? Or is he destined to remain an alcoholic nomad walking through life alone?

Sullivan is a legendary assassin working for a secret government organisation. He is an expert in murder, able to kill a man and cover it up without even breaking a sweat.

His only weakness is his daughter, who he desperately wants to keep away from this life.

So when the organisation turns on Sullivan, he is taken by surprise. A chase follows, leading to the one event Sullivan dreaded:

A gun to his daughter’s head. No choice but to watch her as she’s taken away…

He searches and searches, but she is impossible to find. With no idea where she is, he finds himself falling further into a hopeless depression.

So when, after five years of nothing, a clue finally turns up – he decides its time.

Time to brush off the old suit.

Time to ready his fists again.

Time to return to what he once was.

Even if he is an alcoholic mess who can barely throw a punch anymore.

Will he rediscover his daughter and rescue her from the man who took her? Or will he run out of time and be forced to watch her let her go again?

Max Fried is a former computer forensic examiner who devotes his time to swimming, drinking and bathing in the hot Florida sun, but today… it’s a real killer. A murderer is coming his way.

When a smooth-talking lawyer persuades Max to find a deceased client’s estate assets, Max takes the job, thinking it will be a snooze. Instead, an old killer with a new identity breaks into his home and steals the client’s computer.

Max doesn’t know the computer contains clues to a 20 year-old murder but then, the murdering thief doesn’t know Max stored a copy of the stolen computer on his iPod. Too bad for the bad guy, the copy contains evidence that could get him the death penalty.

Now, Max is the last one alive who knows why people are dying. If he can outwit the killer, he can return to his bar stool on the beach. If not, he’ll be victim number five.

A violent past. A second chance. Talking mice.

Roth used to be a successful gamer with a short fuse and a nasty temper. All it took to send him on a rampage was to look at him funny. But when his rage fits cost him his friends, job, family, and freedom, he realized he had to change.

After four years in prison and countless meetings with Rageholics Anonymous, Roth can’t hurt a fly.

So when he’s tricked into logging into AstroTerra, a full-dive VRMMORPG, Roth makes one choice and sticks to it.

He refuses to fight.

Instead, he explores. He negotiates. He befriends the creatures other players hunt for XP. And in doing so, he begins unlocking parts of the world no one else has seen: secret quests, hidden races, and systems built for players willing to look beyond violence.

But Roth’s past isn’t done with him yet. A powerful enemy is hunting him in-game, and this time, he can’t win by grinding harder or hitting faster.

To win, he has to stay true to who he’s become.

Meet David Patzpowski, a happy-go-lucky kind of guy who seems to get everything he wants, everything his heart desires. Success, love, marriage – they’ve all come at no cost. But David is about to find out that the things he takes for granted aren’t all what they seem.