Title:  Lost in Infinity

Author:  Travis Besecker

Trailer Creator:  Travis Besecker

Blurb: 

This book is not for everyone.

‘Lost in Infinity’ is a novel that many readers will find hard to define. In fact, it’s much easier to list what it is most definitely not, than what it really is. It’s not necessarily a tale of suspense or a thriller. It’s not a mystery by normal standards. It’s not inspirational, romantic or full of laughs. Depending upon your perspective and final take on the tale, it’s not even entirely fiction.

This book is not for everyone. ‘Lost in Infinity’ is a novel intended for a very specific audience…

The author would have you believe this is a “psychological roller coaster wrapped in the factual memoir of a chronic insomniac suffering from apeirophobia (the fear of infinity).” He would go on to explain that the “novel unfolds the history of his life as he tries to unlock repressed memories through a near schizophrenic relationship with his own splintered subconscious.” This is a clever ruse to suck in his niche reader. This book is not for everyone.

Influenced by Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut and Carlton Mellick III, the novel offers a unique look into the private confessions of a self-absorbed blogger on the precipice of a mental breakdown. The recurring theme of déjà vu leads you through the work giving glimpses of a dark past while offering anecdotes that will eerily relate to most readers. Mixing in humor and satire with a confused childhood spent under the microscope of therapists keeps the mood light while he digs deeper into his past looking for the root of his problems. The narrator pulls back the curtain and reveals his dark inner turmoil as he fears a slow deliberate path toward schizophrenia. A repetition of events and recollections leads the reader through the twisted break the author fears while touching on life’s everyday issues and questions. He delves into sleepless nights, stress, relationships and the pitfalls of education and careers while he openly offers opinions on religion, suicide, insomnia, depression and the meaning of life.

Many casual readers will be turned off by the jumping timeline. Some will be confused by the author’s back and forth focus on his missing memories. The first person pseudo-oral narrative will leave others simply frustrated. The rest will grow sick of the author’s defense mechanisms, most often hiding behind his pretentious recollections of growing up a childhood ‘genius’. This book is not for everyone.

Now that you’ve been properly warned and many have moved on to their next light read…

‘Lost in Infinity’ is part social commentary, part psychological mystery and part diary. What begins as an egotistical journal from an overconfident, yet anti-social, bratty blogger slowly dissolves into the twisted chaos of a mind on the brink of collapse. The reader is eventually forced to decide if the book is a cry for help from a man attempting to rationalize his schizophrenia or a clever ruse to make them stop and contemplate the meaning of existence. Lost in Infinity’ will leave the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about the author’s sanity, about their own life, about existence and the infinite universe beyond.

Title:  Half a Million Dead Cannibals

Author:  Kari Gregg

Trailer Creator:  Kari Gregg

Blurb: 

All that’s keeping Riley from the man he’s falling in love with is the ruins of a city filled with half a million dead cannibals.

Strangers, Riley and Graham sheltered together in a basement storage unit when the zombie outbreak slammed into the world three months ago. They lived through the first blast of the plague, but they may not last much longer among survivors scrambling for dwindling resources. They agree to hike from the city and to the safety of the mountains.

They don’t count on the storm they hoped would cover their exit developing into a Nor’easter, though, and they sure don’t think their visibility will shrink so badly that they’ll have to hike into the leading edge of a zombie swarm, either. In the chaos of escaping the ravenous horde, they are separated, with Graham racing toward feral dog packs to the east and Riley sprinting to hostile survivors hunting them to the west.

Nobody said finding and keeping a quality guy (alive) during the apocalypse would be easy.

Title:  OMG, A CUL8R Time Travel Mystery

Author:  Bob Kat

Trailer Creator:  Kathy Clark

Blurb: 

OMG is the first book in the CUL8RTM series about four teenagers who travel back in time to solve mysteries.

Four teenagers travel back in time to save a life and solve a mystery. Will they be successful? Will they make it back?

OMG begins when Kelly, whose parents died in a car accident, moves from Texas during early summer to live with her Aunt Jane who is an assistant district attorney. Kelly quickly becomes friends with her quirky next door neighbor Scott who has a reputation as the school’s number one geek.

Scott’s best friend is Austin, the hot and popular quarterback. Even though he runs with the cool crowd, he has stayed loyal to Scott. He joins Scott and Kelly as they embark on an adventure after Scott invents a way to travel back in time.

Zoey is on the cheer squad and hangs with the popular kids. She barely even notices that Scott and Kelly exist, but she is very focused on getting Austin’s attention.

Through a twist of technology, they go back in time to find a girl who has begged for their help. They solve the mystery, but are then faced with the dilemma of whether or not to right a wrong or to let history stand. The four end up on the time travel adventure of their lives.

The series is unique in that he creator / authors are conducting a cover model search to find the two lead girls and guys to become the ongoing series faces of the four main characters. Details on the website and YouTube.

Title:  Robert E. Lee in War and Peace: Photographs of a Confederate and American Icon

Author:  Donald Hopkins

Trailer Creator:  David Van Dusen

Blurb: 

Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America’s most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins’s painstakingly researched and lavishly illustrated Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the wait is finally over.

Dr. Hopkins, a Mississippi surgeon and lifelong student of the Civil War and Southern history with a recent interest in 19th Century photography, scoured manuscript repositories and private collections across the country to locate every known Lee image (61 in all) in existence today. The detailed text accompanying these images provides a sweeping history of Lee’s life and a compelling discussion of antique photography, with biographical sketches of all of Lee’s known photographers. Hopkins offers a substantial amount of previously unknown information about these images, how each came to be, and the mistakes in fact and attribution other authors and writers have made describing photographs of Lee to the reading public. Many of the images in this book are being published for the first time.

Title:  The Chalice

Author:  Nancy Bilyeau

Trailer Creator:  Christie LeBlanc

Blurb:                                     

In the midst of England’s Reformation, a young novice will risk everything to defy the most powerful men of her era.

In 1538, England’s bloody power struggle between crown and cross threatens to tear the country apart. Novice Joanna Stafford has tasted the wrath of the royal court, discovered what lies within the king’s torture rooms, and escaped death at the hands of those desperate to possess the power of an ancient relic.

Even with all she has experienced, the quiet life is not for Joanna. Despite the possibilities of arrest and imprisonment, she becomes caught up in a shadowy international plot targeting Henry VIII himself. As the power plays turn vicious, Joanna realizes her role is more critical than she’d ever imagined. She must choose between those she loves most and assuming her part in a prophecy foretold by three seers. Repelled by violence, Joanna seizes a future with a man who loves her. But no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape the spreading darkness of her destiny.

To learn the final, sinister piece of the prophecy, she flees across Europe with a corrupt spy sent by Spain. As she completes the puzzle in the dungeon of a twelfth-century Belgian fortress, Joanna realizes the life of Henry VIII as well as the future of Christendom are in her hands—hands that must someday hold the chalice that lies at the center of these deadly prophecies. . . .

Title:  Trove

Author:  KJ Montgomery

Trailer Creator:  Jaye Roycraft

Blurb: 

Katie Walsh is an investigative mythologist seeking clues that could lead her into the very distant past and uncover the secrets of the mythic Norland. Alec MacGowan is an archaeologist searching for clues in the recent past in an attempt to bring a murderer to justice.

Anonymous lovers five years before, they’re re-united as their worlds collide when they are thrown together to decipher the murdered man’s notes and identify his killer. As the quest unfolds, they are forced to deal with their simmering attraction and hidden secrets.

Can they uncover the secret hidden in the murdered man’s notes before the killer finds them? And can they open their hearts to each other before it’s too late?

Title:  No Reins

Author:  Angie Skelhorn

Trailer Creator:  Kim Mc Dougall

Blurb: 

An infatuation with a young man has driven Angel on to pursue the thrill of life at a standard-bred horse track.

Love at first sight shakes Angel to her core. No doubt her love is real she up and leaves her security for life at a harness-racing track. Tensions begin to rise in her new environment. Even though she is devoted to Stephen her insecurities creep in. She finds herself going in a new direction. A direction that wasn’t her. She experiences a lot of dips and dives as she tries to sustain her sanity.

The times she feels pain, fear, frustration and anger Stephen comes through for her in a very big way.

Title:  Destiny Calls

Author:  Lydia Michaels

Trailer Creator:  Lydia Michaels

Blurb: 

After making the ultimate sacrifice in order to save his perfect brother and mate, Cain Hartzler’s patience with Destiny has grown thin. Resigned to an eternity spent alone, Cain decides it’s time to choose his own Destiny once and for all. But every choice he makes holds a greater consequence than the last.There is only so much an immortal heart can take, and once Destiny Santos grabs hold of Cain’s, he is changed forever. Cain’s ever-confident bad-boy reputation is shaken to the core by this mere mortal, and he will do anything to have her, but another female has set her heart on Cain, and he must make an impossible choice once again.A storm unlike any other is coming, The Order is changing, and passion will burn hotter than ever before when Cain Hartzler is finally pushed too far. There is no escaping Destiny when she calls!

Title:  The Cross of Ramplet – The Mystery of Throckmorton Manor

Author:  Garnell Thompson

Trailer Creator:  Plain Sight VFX

Blurb: 

Throckmorton Manor – Built on the bones of dead men, shrouded in mystery with secrets to reveal, adventure to unfold, suspense to break and treasure to be discovered…

The Throckmorton Family – Deviously deceptive and greedy historical characters who use powers of romance and guile on a treasure hunt while hiding behind the thin veil of Regency England high society to disguise their quest…

The Village Constable – A secret Knights Templar Sergen ordained centuries after the historical order was disbanded, blinded to his duty by his romance with the insane daughter of the Squire…

The Village Doctor – A lecher and mystery object spelunker with greedy secret motives, his medical practice in suspense as he digs his way in the quest for the famed religious icon, the Cross of Ramplet, the great treasure of the Knights Templar…

The Anglican Priest – Caught up in his own unhinged view of faith and the loss of his most treasured religious icon, but is it a facsimile or the genuine article…

The French Spy – Using false love and romance to meet his secret mission objective…

The Pirates – Resolute in their brutal quest to bring the Cross of Ramplet to their Middle Eastern master…

The Grand Prize – The Cross of Ramplet, the fabulous ancient Knights Templar religious icon, believed to hold a great secret and presumed lost forever while being hidden in plain sight…

The Cross of Ramplet – The Mystery of Throckmorton Manor is a mystery adventure novel set within the parameters of a treasure hunt filled with suspense and set around the infamous Throckmorton family against the romantic backdrop of Regency England. The novel features a truly diverse and intriguing cast of characters who are prepared to do anything in their quest to possess the Knights Templar fabled religious icon treasure –the Cross of Ramplet.

An historical novel set in Regency England around the sleepy village of Portsur, this page turning parody mystery adventure book hurtles along like a runaway freight train. It combines the elegance of a Regency England Jane Austin romance with the cunning treasure hunt mystery style of Agatha Christie and the broad comedic style of Mel Brooks — equating to a serious parody of the more traditional mystery adventure novel. The mood swings from hysterically ridiculous, to soft romantic overtures, often becoming deadly serious while maintaining the suspense of a ‘who done it’ treasure hunt that keeps the reader guessing right until the final four chapter climax filled with glorious fun.

Title:  Fleur deKey

Author:  Vickie Pettee

Trailer Creator:  Vickie Pettee

Blurb: 

A French Quarter Mystery with a dash of paranormal, a pinch of history and splash of romance.

!! FLASH !! Unbidden and unpredictable. That’s what can happen when Echo touches objects and people. IFs – intuitive flashes. She’s inept at interpreting her bizarre dreams and her IFs may be erratic, but the French Quarter locals have adopted Echo and her Insight Foresight Benevolent Foundation as their resident sleuth.

It’s the weekend of the Satchmo SummerFest. When a Jazz legend’s house is demolished, the discovery of a 1939 newspaper photo and a silver key hidden inside a tarnished cigarette case, triggers assaults, mayhem and treasure hunting. The Foundation follows a spider web of clues, revealing an unsolved murder at the root of the mystery.

Someone is obsessed with recovering the hand tooled key Echo is safeguarding. Someone who wants the seventy-two year old secret to stay buried. Echo wrangles with making sense of old history, wacky dreams and nonsensical blues tunes while dodging and outwitting her adversary – until the menace escalates with a kidnapping. The ransom demand takes Echo on a chase through the French Quarter in a frantic search for the right keyhole.