Compass eBooks (14)

Welcome to the 14th edition of Compass eBooks where I like to feature books you may not know about.


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Elmore Hammes
1.99

Kevin and Ginny are best friends. They enjoy spending their summer vacations exploring Sharper's Woods, coming up with neat experiments, pretending to be Sherlock Holmes and Mister Watson, and sometimes just sitting in the clubhouse of The Holmes and Watson Mysterious Events and Objects Consortium. They are the only members of the club, but that doesn't stop them from having fun.

Sometimes their exploring gets them into trouble, either for going somewhere they shouldn't have or by finding something that was better left unfound. In this case, it is a strange metal object, a talisman, which calls forth, unbeknownst to Kevin and Ginny, a powerful witch. The kids do know that weird events have been happening in their small town. Animals have been found dead, and then they disappear. The metal object they found has a strange effect on Ginny when she touches it. It will take all their detective skills and courage to solve the mystery, and to defeat the witch once they realize who they are up against.




Michael Galloway
2.99

In a matter of minutes, thousands of checking accounts across America go empty. Caught up in the theft is Alex Poole, a software engineer who works on house arrest and prisoner tracking systems. As a result, he switches his account to Aspirizon Bank--an institution well known for its friendly tellers, futuristic branches, and the ever-popular "Liberty Card".

But when he finds the bank is run by a notorious ex-coworker and strange visitors start arriving at his door, he realizes the bank's vision of the future may come at a price few are willing to pay.




Shiromi Arserio
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Alone on a spaceship for two years, it is up to Becca to discover a new Earth and save the human race from destruction. However, when a geomagnetic storm arrives, Becca, reaching her breaking point, must choose between abandoning a potential Goldilocks world, and jeopardising the entire mission.

Length: 7 Pages. Includes bonus 3 page excerpt from upcoming serial novel "Shatterer of Worlds".




Jonathon D. Allen
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In a time long before humans walked the Earth, a mysterious being known only as The Lost Aetelia crafted an elaborate series of Watchtowers, along with their resident guardians, the Aetelia, to watch over the operations of the Universe. In time, a rebellious group of these Aetelia came to Earth in an attempt to challenge the established structure of the Universe. A bitter war ensued, and these rebels, who had come to be known as Watchers, disappeared from human history.


The time of the Aetelia - now known as angels - is returning. After a fateful night of violence, Artist Matty DiCamillo finds herself drawn into this world by a mysterious savior, who becomes a driving force in Matty's new life.


Both driven by and fighting the words of prophecy that lay out her destiny, Matty, her lover Kristy, and her best friend Daniel, follow this mysterious savior on a journey from Northern California to Las Vegas on a path that crosses through the boundaries of time and space.


As Matty struggles to understand her new destiny, she discovers that her mysterious savior may not be who she seems to be, and that even the denizens of the twilight world that she has entered have no idea what lurks behind the stage dressing of their reality. Matty finds herself not only racing to rescue the woman she loves, but learning that she herself could be the cause of the Universe's day of reckoning.




Martin Gibbs
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Three strangers find themselves together on a strange adventure-though not to find a magic ring or save the world. One is desperate to learn magic from an exiled and dangerous warlock in the far north. Unknown to them, an idiot man-child is close behind them, guided by the spirits of the dead. All fight desperately to survive the wilderness, demonic bats, elite assassins, and their own bumbling in this dark yet off-beat fantasy adventure.




J M Winspear
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Torn from the bosom of his family by a bitter betrayal, the young Aelfric is thrust into a world twisted upon the rack of war. Sold into the service of King Elenim’s army, he must fight or die on the field of Cremen.
The time of manhood has arrived for him.
Yet all is not as it seems, for the dark and bloody hand of a sorceress moves pieces upon the board, and Aelfric finds himself an unwitting pawn in a much larger game.
Torn between the sweet charms of the Queen Amnura and the peril of his sister Aelfwen; it is time for him to raise shield and strike out for vengeance with a bloodied spear.
Aelfric – Bloodied Spears, is the first volume of the Aelfric saga.





Tim C. Taylor
1.35

Codrin has money, even status. A professor, no less. Not bad considering he’s only a Shreb. Until one day he loses it all, and has no choice but to gamble his family’s fate on a one-way ticket across the Gate. On the other side, in another world, he'll build a new life.

Except there is something wrong with the Gate…

Steampunk collides with time-travel to inspire this story of isolation, hope, and revelation.

At 22,000 words, this Greyhart Press novella would be about 90 pages in paperback.

“Like some hybrid of Van Vogt and Charles Harness, Tim C. Taylor surprises us with worlds at strange angles to ours, and to each other, in a delicious piece of writing which ramps up excitingly through time distortions, grief, conflict, and peril, to paradoxical revelation. An excellent and provocative read.” — Ian Watson on Last Man Through the Gate





Dennis Yates
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Stephen King and Dean Koontz fans will find much to like in Yates’ debut thriller about a man searching to find his wife and son.

Robert Crain’s life has just been shattered. While recuperating at home from a car accident, men in ski masks break into his house and render him unconscious. When he awakens he is confronted by nightmarish truth -- that the men have taken his wife and son with them.
These aren’t ordinary kidnappers. They aren’t demanding Robert to come up with ransom money. No, what they’re asking him to do is unthinkable.

As he descends into the darkest journey of his life, Robert must revisit a violent period he’d put behind him, a place he’d hoped to never return to again. But if he wants to see his family alive he will have no choice but to play the kidnapper’s bloody game… A game whose grand purpose he does not understand.

Robert has always had questions about his family. About a ghost who once stalked him in the forest when he was a boy and a mysterious oblong box he’d found in his grandmother’s attic. For years he’s had the uneasy feeling that some force from the distant past would one day rise up and call to him…

Joined by his best friend Will, Robert will stop at nothing to find his wife and son. After uncovering where they are being held, the men drive to a remote desert farmhouse to rescue them from the hands of a psychopath.
Heart-pounding and unpredictable, RED MOUNTAIN takes the reader on a suspenseful adventure like no other.





Philip Chen
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Only One Man Can Save the Planet - But He Just Died.

Mysterious but silent objects have been found buried deep in the murky depths of the ocean. Dormant for decades, they are now awake and sending messages to outer space. Mike, pulled back into a clandestine world to finish a job he started as a young Navy Ensign and help decipher these strange messages, is attacked by gangs of ordinary Americans and must fight for his very life.

As he struggles through these challenges, Mike also learns that a revered friend has died. With the death of this friend, is mankind's last hope for understanding the signals lost forever in the silt and muck of the ocean bottom?

From the deepest reaches of the abyssal plains to the arid but mystically beautiful deserts of the American Southwest, Falling Star takes you on a journey through the darkest aspects of human existence to enlightenment of mankind's soul. It is a realistically written novel and contains scenes of graphic violence and strong language.

Thriller/Techno-Thriller/Science Fiction. 98,250+ words, 354 pages.




Yusufu Shehu
Free

Hhaam is the world torn apart by war. Hhaam is the world of the Bladesmen and the warrior class. Hhaam is the world where only the ruthless and murderous survive. Within Hhaam you either cloak yourself in the garb of the soldier or fall to the ever present predators; those eternally seeking blood and power. Amo and Suun are two rustic, young boys in this haphazard realm, sons of a father who is an alleged legendary soldier and a mother with an impenetrable mystery. They set out on the path of the soldier and train in the esoteric ways of the Bladesmen; but as they develop, the border between their idyllic childhood and the nightmarish reality begins to dissolve. Will Amo and Suun have the strength to rise above, conquering their fears and deflecting the threat of insanity, and become top soldiers? Will they truly master the mind? Follow their journey in this tale of pain, power and perseverance that marks the beginning of the epic - Drawn Breath

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