Where Stories Rise with the Rain

Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod, one of the premier vacation spots in the country. He doesn’t have a house with an ocean view or live near the beach. He doesn’t own a boat. Ben lives in a sober home because he’s a recovering alcoholic. He works menial jobs and stays below the radar and his closest confidant is a two-year-old child who lived over a century ago. As bleak as his life seems Ben hasn’t given up. He has a plan to put his life back together, to put his marriage and his career back together. And while the road he’s currently on isn’t an easy one, or a normal one, Ben has no idea yet how much more twisted it will become. This is a story of hope and reclamation a...

Migrant Crisis is a gripping political thriller of intrigue, crime, and human drama. It exposes the hidden battles shaping migration, security, and survival in a fractured world.Behind the headlines are refugees carrying stories of persecution, poverty and hope. But among the desperate move those with darker missions.When mysterious attacks on migrant boats spark panic across Europe, ruthless smuggler Declan “Dex” Mullen fights to hold his empire together. Across the Channel, Maya Linford, a strategist answerable only to the prime minister, directs a shadow campaign the government can never admit exists.From Westminster’s corridors of power to the Élysée Palace and the cold waters of...

MyElle’s First Plane Ride is a delightful and reassuring children’s story that turns a big milestone into a beautiful adventure.Join MyElle, a curious and thoughtful little girl, as she prepares for her very first airplane ride. With questions swirling in her mind and excitement mixed with uncertainty, MyElle wonders what it will feel like to leave the ground, soar above the clouds, and travel to a brand-new place. Along the way, she learns that it’s okay to feel nervous when doing something new—and that courage often begins with curiosity.Through gentle storytelling and relatable emotions, MyElle’s First Plane Ride helps children ages 4–8 navigate first-time experiences, overcom...

Victim to Victor: My HER2+ Breast Cancer Story is an intimate, faith-filled memoir of diagnosis, determination, and transformation.In this raw and deeply personal account, LaTasha D. Vines shares her journey from the moment she recognized something was wrong to the life-altering words no one is prepared to hear: You have breast cancer. Diagnosed with aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer, she invites readers into the silent moments—sitting in her car after a biopsy, wrestling with fear, surrendering control, and learning to trust God in uncertainty.More than a cancer story, Victim to Victor is a testimony of resilience, obedience, and spiritual growth. Through chemotherapy, surgeries, set...

In a world torn by survival and impossible choices, seventeen-year-old Mitch faces a life-defining moment. Caught stealing food for his struggling family, he stands in court, staring down two stark options: a life of imprisonment in Van Diemen's Land or the uncertain promise of the Queen's shilling. Choosing the latter, Mitch's journey with the 58th Regiment of Foot begins. Taking him from the training grounds of Ireland to the perilous encounters with bushwhackers in Rio, while on a convict-laden ship bound for Australia. His fate takes an unexpected turn, leading him to the front lines of the First New Zealand War of 1845. Amid the fierce battles of Kororāreka, Puketutu, Ōhaeawai, a...

Australia is in crisis; water has vanished everywhere except the eastern states with the advent of global warming. The population from Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory have migrated east with millions of Aussies on the move. The political climate changes to a dictatorship as it comes to grips with the overpopulation of the East Coast.Across the Tasman, Australia looks with envy at New Zealand's abundance of water. A plan is devised to use the might of the Australian forces to take the water.To invade, would New Zealand capitulate or fight? It has been 250 years since an invasion of NZ.The outcome will be uncertain, but the winner will have the biggest ...

The third book in the Whispers of the Past trilogy.Thirty years have passed since Sam and his mates went through the mist to the year 1863. Thirty years ago, Sam received his head wound in the attack on Auckland. Since then, Sam's memory has not returned. Until a disastrous trip to Rhodesia with his wife, Bella, changes his life once again. Returning to the UK, slowly, his memory clears.Out of the blue, he is summoned by Queen Victoria to meet a Maori delegation from New Zealand. At this encounter, his memory is jolted when he is reunited with old enemies and friends from his past. Before leaving the palace, he is further requested to attend an audience with the Prince Regent.The story that ...

The second book in the Whispers of the Past trilogy.Samuel McInnes, aka Mack, severely wounded in the attack on Auckland in 1863, recovered consciousness on HMS Esk heading to Scotland via Sydney, Australia.Sam is mistakenly repatriated to Scotland because the army believes he is from there. With the loss of memory, his life becomes complicated, as he falls for a young nurse on the voyage who has a secret that she will not reveal to him until he is fully recovered.Out of place, out of sync, he finds himself in an alien world. Memories from another time come and go as he tries to adjust to his new life. He struggles to remember who he is and how he came to be here, while always hoping his mem...

Just after the end of World War II, the Navy suffers a tragic, and embarrassing loss. A training mission, Flight 19, at the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Sation, goes terribly wrong and all five aircraft are lost. The largest air and sea search on record is immediately put into action but fails. No trace of the bodies or any of the five aircraft are ever found. Decades later Admiral William Fairfax is called into the situation room. Roughly a hundred and twenty-five miles off the east coast of Florida, U.S. satellites photograph an almost impossible event. Irregular in its shape, and only visible for a few minutes, the energy levels it generates are greater than any country on earth is capable o...