Published Books
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction brings the past to life through richly imagined characters, authentic settings, and real historical events. It blends meticulous research with compelling storytelling, letting readers walk battlefields, sit at kitchen tables, and witness turning points in history—feeling the hopes, fears, and choices of people who might truly have lived.
The Bootleggers Highway
Capone’s North Road follows Joe Danner, a Northwoods bootlegger feeding Capone’s Chicago pipeline along Lake Superior. After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, rival crews and federal agents close in. One brutal season forces Joe to choose: protect his family by betraying the Outfit—or go under the ice with their secrets.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
316 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3304-0387-5
The Quiet Coup of 1933
How Power Changed Hands Without a Shot
In 1933, amid Depression panic, American power shifted without tanks or speeches. The Quiet Coup of 1933 follows exhausted leaders, bankers, and quiet memoranda as emergency authority moves decisions from public debate into private rooms. The takeover succeeds because it looks like administration, until its consequences prove permanent.
Author: Evan A. Rook
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
488 pages
ISBN:
A Novel of Nazi-Occupied Paris
In 2006 Paris, Claire discovers an apartment sealed since 1942, an untouched relic of a family. Through letters and clues, she reconstructs teenage Hanna Rosen’s escape from Nazi-occupied Europe—safe houses, mountain crossings, forged identities. As archives, art, and a contested inheritance surface, Claire must decide how far she’ll go to let the past speak.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
550 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3304-1329-4
A Kansas City Boxing Story Under the Pendergast Machine
Between 1925 and 1939 in Kansas City, a determined boxing trainer navigates the brutal fight world of the West Bottoms under a powerful political machine. As careers rise and fall in smoke-filled arenas, he confronts corruption, loyalty, and the true cost of ambition in a city where power always watches from ringside.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
398 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3485-3699-2
An American in the German Army 1942—1945
For fans of Band of Brothers, a D-Day novel about Heinrich “Henry” Keller, a German immigrant trapped in Nazi service after a 1939 visit home. Fighting from Poland to Normandy while wife Mary is shunned in Oregon, Henry’s capture near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont forces a reckoning with the country and family he loves.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
358 pages
ISBN: 9798349651939
The Donor's Daughter
A Romance of Power and Peril
In Washington, power has a price. A veteran lobbyist pushing a deregulation bill falls for the donor’s daughter, a policy analyst determined to kill it. Their secret romance becomes leverage as leaks and threats close in. One vote could save them both… or destroy everything.
Author: Evan A. Rook
Paperback
6 x 9
452 Pages
ISBN:
Kansas Basketball’s Rise Through Segregation
Spanning 1898–1955, Rafters of the Plains follows KU basketball’s rise through Miles “Bell” Gaines, a fictional Black aide whose bell rope and timetables keep the team moving. Blending documentary history with scenes of segregation, it traces Naismith, Phog Allen, and stars from Endacott to Wilt as the program grows.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
340 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3495-9593-6
A 19th Century Serial Killer
A nameless killer haunts post–Civil War rail lines, slaughtering women as he rides from Indiana to Kansas. Pinkerton agents Hart and Meachman, aided by farmer-veteran Peter Cornelius, track Jimmy Ward through prisons, boomtowns, and one fragile love. The Petticoat Butcher is a relentless historical manhunt you won’t forget.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
338 pages
ISBN: 9798349566967
From Bataan to Home — A Pilot’s WWII Story
Promise in the Sky follows Colonel Robert J. Jones, a Wisconsin farm boy turned WWII aviator whose vow to Dorothy sustains him through Bataan, the Death March, and brutal POW camps. Blending history and heart, this true narrative honors love, faith, and endurance across the Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
334 pages
ISBN: 9798349641206
A Soldier’s Redemption in Occupied Italy
In war-torn Italy, 1943, American soldier Tony Bellini defies orders to save two orphaned children and becomes a hunted deserter. Sheltered by nurse Alessandra Russo in her family’s orchard, he battles guilt, danger, and growing love. Together they protect the children, discovering courage, sacrifice, and a fragile hope that outlasts the guns.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
368 pages
ISBN: 9798330489879
From Chains to Courage | A Civil War Novel
Born enslaved in Arkansas, Isaac escapes to Kansas, joins the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, and returns to the county that owned him. Ordered to burn his former master’s farm, he instead saves the planter’s family, is punished as a traitor, and discovers that mercy can ignite a new kind of freedom.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
432 pages
ISBN: 9798349641893
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense books put readers on edge, chasing answers before it’s too late. A crime, secret, or disappearance sparks the story, then twists, clues, and red herrings pull you deeper. Whether it’s a small-town whodunit, a high-stakes conspiracy, or a psychological mind game, danger and doubt drive every page. These stories thrive on tension, surprise endings, moral gray areas, and the lingering question: who can you really trust?
A Summit County Affair, Forgotten Photographs and a Sixty-Year Secret
A Denver architect develops film from a vintage camera and finds 1950s photos that shift from romance to unease. He tracks the images to Summit County, where ledgers, landmarks, and guarded memories point toward a decades-old disappearance. The closer he gets, the more the mystery becomes a test of conscience and forgiveness.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
322 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1694-5
Missing Time
The Secret of Cedar Hollow
In 2015, Alabama researcher Claire Whitaker uncovers a chilling anomaly: the town of Cedar Hollow recorded no births for two years after World War II. As she and local records clerk Thomas Reed investigate, they find not loss - but peace. Their discovery leads to love, faith, and a haunting truth about mercy and the years history couldn’t hold.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
508 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-1288-9
The Baker House Invitation
A 1915 Hamptons Wedding, a Sister’s Death, and the Cold Case Under Glass
During a Hamptons wedding weekend, bridesmaid and professional fixer Lena notices her photo of a framed 1915 wedding artifact has vanished. “Traditions” feel scripted, staff corridors feel guarded, and a velvet-gloved attorney seems to manage the entire house. With help from a local archivist, Lena uncovers signs of an old cover-up resurfacing now.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
376 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-5203-5
The Summer at the Kinderhook Inn
Love, Loss, and a 1932 Hudson Valley Mystery
After his wife’s unsolved murder in 1932 Albany, portrait painter Johnny Wyckoff retreats to the Kinderhook Inn to reclaim his art. There he meets Tess, a captivating woman who becomes both his muse and his hope. But when she vanishes, a haunting oil portrait leaves behind questions about love, memory, and justice.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
396 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-6980-4
Lottie’s Waltz
A 1910 Murder, The Driskill, and the Young Virtuoso Who Exposed the Truth
In 1910 Austin, a young pianist is murdered and her case goes cold. Nearly two decades later, at The Driskill Hotel, a teenage virtuoso performs a waltz that only the grieving widower should recognize. As buried secrets resurface, music becomes the key to exposing a long-hidden truth.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
418 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-6985-9
The Last Season at Seabrook House
A Summer of Second Chances on the Edge of Forever
When Clara Bennett inherits a fading seaside inn in 1947, she plans to sell it and leave the past behind. But a wounded naval architect arrives with plans to restore the hotel and quietly challenges her guarded heart. Over one last summer, love, loss, and second chances reshape both their futures.
Author: Eliza M. Caldwell
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
412 pages
ISBN:
The Snow Globe at The Davenport Hotel
A 1947 Spokane Mystery
In 1947 Spokane, five-year-old Marilyn Wagner vanishes without a trace. Twelve years later, a hotel busboy unknowingly repeats her favorite phrase and reveals a snow globe bearing her initials. As grief resurfaces, her parents follow faint clues to a riverside secret, and confront a mystery that defies explanation.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
500 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-6995-8
The Jefferson Hotel Mirror
Room 202 and a 1920s Murder
In 1928 Richmond, a young socialite staying at the Jefferson Hotel begins seeing visions in Room 202’s mirror—visions tied to a forgotten 1920s murder. As political tensions rise during an election year, she uncovers secrets that threaten her family’s legacy and force her to confront a past her city tried to bury.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
384 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-6967-5
The Lost Floor at the St. Regis
A 1946 Elevator to a 1921 Murder
A postwar hotel stay becomes an investigation into a decades-old death when an elevator opens onto a hidden Prohibition-era floor where the past still unfolds. As secrets of wealth, influence, and betrayal surface between 1921 and 1946, one woman discovers how private rooms and quiet deals can shape history as much as public events.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
364 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-8457-9
The Savannah Gambit
The De Soto Hotel and the Mystery of a 1920s Murder
In 1923, Charles Whitaker travels from Augusta to Savannah’s Hotel De Soto seeking relief from a bitter divorce and writer’s block. After meeting Clara Ashford at the hotel bar, the two begin investigating the mysterious death of Charles’s father. Guided by clues that appear through a strange chessboard, they uncover secrets hidden in 1920s Savannah.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
426 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-8816-4
Lucinda’s Song at the Don CeSar
A Prohibition-Era Mystery of Two Murders and a Haunted Florida Hotel
Set between 1928 and 1940, this historical mystery unfolds inside a glamorous Gulf Coast resort whose hidden corridors conceal crime, secrets, and a lingering ghost. When a curious guest begins uncovering clues tied to two long forgotten deaths, the hotel’s past slowly resurfaces, revealing how ambition, love, and corruption shaped one of America’s most storied places.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
380 pages
ISBN: 9
Staff of Moses
A Race Through Europe for Heaven’s Weapon
When an ancient staff awakens in a Birmingham museum, a scholar, Vatican paleographer, and ex-agent race across Europe to stop a mystic financier from wielding biblical power. Pursuing the relic through crypts, canals, and forbidden archives, they face miracles and plagues and a final choice: reveal it—or hide it forever.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
318 pages
ISBN: 9798349641794
Kentucky Whiskey Barons
Empire, Betrayal, and the War on Drink
In bourbon-soaked Kentucky, the Reddings and Boones build a whiskey empire on barrels, horses, and betrayal. From Gilded Age boom through Prohibition, they battle temperance crusaders, crooked sheriffs, and Washington fixers as alliances shift and the Derby crowns winners. In Kentucky Whiskey Barons, every debt—family or financial—is paid in blood.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
346 pages
ISBN: 9798349559792
Hitler Lives
Witness at the Water's Edge
From 1946–1988, Adolf Hitler survives in a German-loyalist network in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, posing as a quiet tool-and-die retiree. A wary nun, a New York lawyer tied to Simon Wiesenthal, and echoes of Müller and Kammler converge on Lake Michigan, where his bunker-to-Atlantic escape meets final reckoning.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
314 pages
ISBN: 9798349641534
Twenty Lives At War Series
Twenty Lives at War is a multi-volume short story series that explores the world’s great conflicts through ordinary lives. Each book gathers 20 stand-alone stories from a single war—soldiers, nurses, chaplains, factory girls, prisoners, partisans, and families at home. The series moves from the American Revolution, Civil War, and World War I through three World War II volumes (U.S. Home Front, Europe, Pacific) to Vietnam’s marches, jungles, and homecomings, offering a panoramic, character-drive
Book I
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Step into muddy fields, crowded taverns, and cold cabins where the American Revolution was truly fought. Twenty Lives at War shares twenty gripping, stand-alone stories—farmers, sailors, mothers, and enslaved people—forced to choose between safety and liberty. Perfect for book clubs and history lovers who crave fast-paced, emotionally rich fiction tonight.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
436 Pages
ISBN: 9798295477522
Book II
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
This novel presents twenty vivid, stand-alone stories from both Union and Confederate sides—soldiers, nurses, enslaved families, freed people, and those left waiting at home. Through their eyes, the war becomes heartbreakingly personal, revealing divided loyalties, quiet resistance, and stubborn hope in a shattered nation.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
438 Pages
ISBN: 9798295477522
Book III
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Book Two of Twenty Lives at War presents twenty vivid, stand-alone stories from both Union and Confederate sides—soldiers, nurses, enslaved families, freed people, and those left waiting at home. Through their eyes, the war becomes heartbreakingly personal, revealing divided loyalties, quiet resistance, and stubborn hope in a shattered nation.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
434 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-1443-2
Book IV
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Book Four of Twenty Lives at War follows 20 Americans from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day as the war reshapes kitchens, factories, prisons, churches, and coastlines. A switchboard operator, nurse, spotter, riveter, journalist, priest, and grieving parents confront rationing, sabotage, telegrams, and temptation—finding courage, rebellion, and hard-earned hope at home.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
470 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-1692-4
Book V
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Twenty stand-alone stories trace the Pacific war through ordinary lives: a sailor in a burning harbor, a Marine on a rain-soaked ridge, a nurse in a ward, a clerk under occupation, a family waiting on telegrams. Each vignette turns battles into intimate choices—courage, compromise, grief, and grit—revealing what survival costs when oceans become front lines.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
394 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-4139-1
Book VI
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Twenty stand-alone stories carry readers across wartime Europe through the eyes of ordinary people. A courier on ruined streets, a pilot in the early air war, a mother sheltering underground, medics, partisans, and infantrymen face occupation, bombardment, and impossible choices. Read in any order, these lives form one sweeping, intimate portrait of survival.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
416 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-4143-8
Book VII
20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope
Twenty ordinary people reveal one war from every angle: jungle patrols, clinics, prisons, ships, and streets. A sailor, tunnel scout, interpreter, and allied soldier face impossible choices, while mothers on both sides fight to keep families alive. At home, protest, factory work, and grief collide. These voices deliver a portrait of courage and cost.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
378 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-6405-5
Near-Future Sci-Fi
Near-future sci-fi peers just over tomorrow’s horizon. Our stories unfold in the next few decades, where emerging tech, climate shifts, and social upheaval reshape ordinary lives. Grounded in real science yet rich with heart, these books ask what happens when today’s choices become tomorrow’s world.
The Clearborn Society
First Generation of Synthetic Life
In near-future D.C., widower Eric Knox and Mara, a witty Lysa-9 synthetic, use preserved embryos to have daughter Mellie, igniting a national brawl over “natural” children and machine parents. As activists, pastors, and politicians clash up to the Supreme Court, the family’s quiet, everyday love becomes the most radical argument for expanded personhood.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
442 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3495-8084-0
Identity Reassignment
Where criminals don’t hide – they are reborn
A homicide detective recognizes a tattoo on a dead man the databases call “unknown.” The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes: someone can now buy a clean identity that defeats modern forensics. The trail points to a prestigious NGO running a covert criminal service with a lethal warranty clause.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
372 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-3362-1
PROJECT IRONHELIX
A World-Class Fertility Clinic, a Black Budget, and the Children They Built
From 2025 to 2046, a high-end fertility clinic produces children who perform at astonishing physical and mental levels, drawing early attention from U.S. military recruiters. When a father digs into the paper trail, he uncovers mismatched consent, aggressive surveillance, and a hidden pipeline that suggests the program may be protected at the very top.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
374 pages
ISBN: 979-8-8692-
Dustwings: Black Ops
Weaponized Micro-Drones | A Secret Consortium | Corporate Espionage
When grain-sized drones called Dustwings turn Victor Hale’s lifesaving micro-tech into covert weapons, he joins relentless reporter Eliza Marlowe and agent Michael Kearney to expose the Veil Consortium. As cities become test beds and witnesses vanish, they must burn Victor’s work and risk everything to drag the truth into daylight.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
410 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3303-7842-5
SPACE FORCE : DAY ZERO
The First War in Low Earth Orbit
In 2036, the United States and China fight the first war in Low Earth Orbit. When military spacecraft converge over a critical satellite network, the world watches what becomes known as The Orbital Brink. As both sides race to control timing and targeting systems, a few pilots and analysts must stop victory from triggering World War III.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
408 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-5193-9
The Paper Candidate
Deepfakes | Dark Money | Senate Race
In Maryland’s Senate race, FEC investigator Maren Holt uncovers that frontrunner Kiernan Shore—an unseen, “immune-fragile” widower adored in viral memories—is a synthetic candidate built by SignalShore Labs to pass a green-resilience bill funnelling billions to defense contractors. With whistleblower Mina Park, she risks everything to expose him.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
308 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3304-3158-8
Vision Protocol
A Miracle Technology | A Hidden Agenda
In near-future Seattle, a neural implant lets blind violinist Maya see through AI-driven glasses, tagging people and places with data-rich overlays. When labels glitch, secrets appear, and a whistleblower vanishes, she uncovers a system quietly rewriting reality. Hunted by its creators, Maya must choose between liberating truth or preserving borrowed sight.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
362 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3495-6955-5
The Ravenshaw Chronicles
The Ravenshaw Chronicles is a high-stakes historical adventure series where fortunes are small enough to carry—and easy enough to steal. It begins with Providence Betrayed, set in a pressure-cooker span from January 1720 to June 1721, moving from mourning-black London into the claustrophobic Atlantic crossing and the velvet-gloved danger of colonial society. At its heart is Elizabeth Fairchild, a goldsmith’s daughter who can read ledgers and spot a forged hand, suddenly left with a portable fort
Providence Betrayed
Book I
Pirates, Gold, and a Stolen Fortune
In 1720, Elizabeth Fairchild boards the Providence believing marriage to Edmund Ravenshaw will secure her future—and a portable fortune tied to her family’s trade. But the Atlantic crossing turns sinister as sickness, secrets, and sabotage mount. When pirates strike with frightening precision, Elizabeth learns betrayal is deadlier than the sea.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
536 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-3484-3226-3
Harbor or Lies
Book II
A Boston Heist. A Stolen Manifest. A Trap Set in Shadows
Boston, 1722: Edmund reinvents himself as a polished shipping agent and steals fortunes with ink, timing, and seduction. Elizabeth Fairchild tracks the pattern, while Mary Read and Sir Thomas Harrington help lay a quiet trap. It fails—ending in murder, scandal, and Edmund’s escape into rumor.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
532 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-2955-0031-2
Sugar Wharf Secrets
Book III
A Widow’s Empire - A Smuggler’s Silver A Reckoning in Kingston
In 1725 Kingston, thief-turned-agent Edmund Ravenshaw hides behind ledgers and sugar cargo, chasing a clean fortune through bribes, manifests, and charm. He targets Old Sugar Wharf and its sharp-eyed owner, Abigail Cavendish, a merchant widow who treats grief as camouflage and love as leverage. As rivals close in, every signature becomes a trap.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
418 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-3482-4550-4
The Levee Syndicate
Book IV
Eighteenth-Century New Orleans and the Business of Fear
In 1728 New Orleans, Edmund Ravenshaw arrives sick, broke, and unknown—saved by the Ursuline sisters’ strict mercy. Rebuilt as a clerk, he discovers the colony’s real power is paper: seals, manifests, ledgers, and rumor. With the sharp, watchful Celeste Arnaud, he navigates taverns, river routes, and predators—where every favor has a hook.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
518 Pages
ISBN:
The Caravello Family Saga
In 1959, Havana is “saved” from revolution not by armies, but by a smoke-filled bargain between a Cuban strongman, a CIA operator, and an American syndicate willing to purchase stability. Dominic “Dom” Caravello arrives after his wife’s murder, determined to build a sanctuary for his three sons—only to watch refuge harden into a sleek empire of nightclubs, ports, politicians, and quiet terror. As Washington’s favor shifts and insurgent symbols spread, Dom’s brother Enzo becomes the family’s stab
Havana Empire: The Rise of New Crime Boss
Book One of The Caravello Family Saga.
1959–1964 Havana becomes an American-backed kingdom of neon, cash, and fear. Mob boss-in-the-making Dom Caravello seeks safety for his sons, while a nightclub queen, a PR fixer, and a relentless journalist circle the truth. Insurgents stir, Washington pressures, and a November 1963 assassination sends shockwaves through every back room—catnip for JFK-conspiracy enthusiasts.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
498 Pages
ISBN:
Havana Empire: Blood in the Water
Book Two of The Caravello Family Saga.
In 1964 Havana, Dom Caravello’s carefully managed casino-and-port empire is threatened by Dallas rumors, U.S. pressure, and a betrayal that invites outside consolidation. With Enzo, Isabela, and PR strategist Helena, Dom fights to stay invisible as security chief Ortega tightens the net. Then his family becomes the leverage point. As 1968 nears, rumor may become law
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
402 Pages
ISBN:
Havana Empire: An Italian Vendetta
Book Three of The Caravello Family Saga.
Havana thrives behind velvet ropes, but expansion invites new predators. Dom chases footholds in Rome and New York while Sandro keeps the empire running, shielding routes with glamour, discipline, and a risky love. Rivals, investigators, and power brokers converge, testing whether the Caravellos can stay invisible—or be forced into a mistake before the decade turns deadly.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
406 Pages
ISBN:
Back Rooms That Shaped America
Back Rooms That Shaped America is a narrative series about how the nation was shaped offstage—in taverns, hotels, boarding houses, offices, parlors, and locked record rooms where decisions formed before headlines did. From Boston rebellion rooms to Lincoln’s late-night telegraph war and Willard Hotel bargaining; from Richmond’s Confederate corridors and Tredegar ledgers to Bleeding Kansas safe houses; from Newspaper Row’s press engines to WWI propaganda offices, Prohibition speakeasy “boardroo
Lanterns, Liberty, and the Green Dragon
Boston’s Secret War of Revolution
1772–1776: At Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern, commerce and conspiracy share the same door. As Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere move through its back rooms, the tavernkeeper is pulled from practiced neutrality into a secret war. The Boston Tea Party erupts as a carefully staged night—while British surveillance tightens.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
444 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1670-9
The City Tavern Papers
Philadelphia and the Conversations That Forged a Nation
1774 to 1789: Philadelphia’s City Tavern becomes the hidden engine of revolution and nation-making, where coded dinners, discreet corridors, and controlled ledgers let powerful men speak without leaving proof. As rumor, money, and betrayal tighten around the staff who keep the doors open, private rooms shape public history.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
480 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1677-8
Whispers at the Willard
Lincoln’s Quiet War of Votes, Spies, and the Price of Union
Set in Washington from 1861 to 1865, a grand hotel becomes the capital’s unofficial back room. A meticulous proprietor tracks keys, guests, and whispers as politicians and officers bargain beyond public view. Two shadowed operatives trade in access and “harmless” facts that turn dangerous. Here, discretion shapes outcomes long before history is announced.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
490 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1675-4
The Eldridge Witnesses
Jayhawkers, Quantrill, and the Road to the Civil War
1856 to 1865. In Lawrence, Kansas, a hotel’s keys and ledgers become weapons as Free-State fighters and Jayhawkers battle for ground and information. Under John Brown’s rising legend and the threat of Quantrill’s raiders, a small circle navigates coded letters, false names, and back-room meetings. Survival depends on controlling paper and controlling access.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
488 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1666-2
The House of Spotswood
Intrigue, Corruption, and Survival in the Confederacy
February 1861 to May 1865: In wartime Richmond, The Spotswood Hotel becomes the hidden switchboard of power. While Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert E. Lee steer the Confederacy in public, the hotel’s back rooms decide access, movement, and information through favors, lists, and locked doors.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
414 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2956-1691-4
The Eliza Hart Chronicles
The Eliza Hart Chronicles is a historical fiction series about a woman caught in turbulent birth of America. In Book One, The Divided Frontier, Eliza is torn from her English immigrant family and taken in by a Cherokee clan, gaining a new name and home. As Revolution looms, she walks between colonial settlements, Cherokee villages, and borderlands, confronting love, loss, and divided loyalties as she becomes a living bridge between two peoples and two futures.
The Divided Frontier
Book I
A Revolutionary War Novel
The Frontier Divided follows Eliza Hart, kidnapped in 1756 and raised as Tsula in the Cherokee Wolf Clan. Fluent in two worlds, she becomes a whispered “white Indian rider” scouting for British and Loyalists. As war ravages Charlotte, her path collides with jailer Captain Samuel Hart and the price of freedom.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
486 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3306-8140-2
Fox Between Worlds
Book II
A Cherokee Sanctuary, a Spanish Chain, and the Long Road Home
After the American Revolution, Tsula—known as Eliza Hart—vanishes from a Carolina gaol. While her parents search and a tracker follows her trail, Eliza finds sanctuary among Cherokee kin and a dangerous love. Seized by Spanish agents and imprisoned in St. Augustine, she’s forced into espionage—and fights her way home.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
548 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3306-8140-2
The Everyday Grace Series
Everyday Grace is a feel-good series celebrating the quiet good beneath life’s daily noise. Inspired by *Chicken Soup for the Soul* and Steve Hartman, its heartwarming stories unfold in coffee shops, church basements, school gyms, and front porches across America. Nurses, veterans, teachers, cashiers, and grandparents choose patience, generosity, and courage in small, luminous moments. The series acknowledges hardship but tilts our gaze toward kindness—and invites readers to notice the good, the
Miles of Good
Book I
Stories of Hope and the Heart
A collection of 50 short, true-hearted stories where ordinary people quietly step up—plowing a path for an ambulance, feeding neighbors in a blackout, helping a teacher find her voice again. Set in everyday American places, it offers unsentimental, earned hope for readers who crave gentle, read-aloud inspiration.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
310 pages
ISBN: 9798330517718
Porchlight Promises
Book II
Stories of Kindness
Fifty short, stand-alone stories spotlight ordinary people doing quiet, extraordinary good—on porches, in cafés, churches, gyms, and small-town shops. Each follows need, obstacle, action, and grace, ending on a vivid, memorable image. Gentle, cinematic, and honest, it offers bite-sized, read-aloud moments that restore hope without pretending life is easy.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
310 pages
ISBN: 9798330517718
Narrative Biographies
Narrative biographies tell true lives with the momentum of a novel and the rigor of history. Grounded in research, records, and firsthand accounts, they follow a person through pivotal moments, hard choices, and defining relationships—showing not just what happened, but why it mattered. Written in vivid scenes with clear context and strong pacing, they reveal the human drama behind the public name.
House of Dox
Book I of the Cornelius-Gilley Saga
A Revolutionary War Novel
In the 1760s, Belgian immigrants Petrus and Elisabeth Cornelius cross to Albany, where their son Peter “Dox” grows up amid whispers of revolution. At thirteen he runs to war at Fort Griswold, and decades later faces the British again at Plattsburgh, embodying one family’s gritty fight to belong in young America.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
456 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3495-4952-6
Dust and Honor - The Story of Peter Cornelius
Book II of the Cornelius-Gilley Saga
One Man's Journey Through 19th Century America
Peter Cornelius crosses nineteenth-century America from New York farms to Kansas wind, shaped by his grandfather Dox’s war stories. He aids the Underground Railroad, rides with the 2nd Indiana Cavalry, survives prison, and later brushes the Dalton Gang and Bat Masterson. Three marriages and eight children turn his journey into a family epic.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
344 pages
ISBN: 9798349566738
A Century on the Plains
Book III of the Cornelius-Gilley Saga
A Kansas Family’s Journey Through Wars, Work, and American Newsreels
Born in 1901 in Kinsley, Kansas, Dean A. Gilley comes of age amid war, raises a son and twin daughters through the Depression, World War II, and searing losses, and briefly chases big-city dreams in 1930s New York—an ordinary family enduring an extraordinary American century of upheaval and change.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
412 pages
ISBN: 979-8-2954-5198-0
From Fetterlock to Frontier
The Eight-Hundred-Year Journey of the Lockard Family
A family name travels through centuries, changing spelling, crossing borders, and surviving upheaval. From medieval Scotland to Ireland and then America, this narrative traces the Lockard line through wars, religious shifts, and westward migration, following documents, deeds, and lived context from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Canada and Iowa, history made personal and tangible.
Author: Marla Williams
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
474 pages
ISBN:
Reincarnations
Books on reincarnation explore lives lived across centuries, where souls return to settle old debts, heal unfinished loves, or correct past mistakes. These stories braid history, mystery, and spiritual wonder, following characters who glimpse former selves, repeat patterns, and ultimately discover that second chances can stretch far beyond a single lifetime.
Legion of One
The Reincarnations of General George S. Patton
Legion of One traces George S. Patton’s audacious belief in past lives and tests how those memories shaped real WWII decisions. Blending primary sources, terrain analysis, and cinematic storytelling, it follows Patton from North Africa to Europe, where myth meets method and armored warfare, leadership, and timing decide campaigns decisively.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
476 pages
ISBN: 9798330510443
Echoes of Route 66
A Reincarnation Murder Mystery
In 2025, drifter-mechanic Rhett Moore reaches Winslow, Arizona, haunted by memories that aren’t his. With local teacher Abigail, he uncovers a 1970 Route 66 hit-and-run that killed Vietnam vet Stephen Carter, forcing a senator’s secrets into the open as love, danger, and a grieving fiancée tie past and present together.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
330 pages
ISBN: 9798349641725
Time Slippage
Time-slippage novels play with the edges of reality, letting characters drift between eras without a neat time machine. A glance in a mirror, a country lane, a song on the radio—suddenly someone slips into another decade, often overlapping with their own life or ancestors. These stories blend memory, mystery, and fate, exploring how small choices ripple across time. Emotional, often romantic, they ask whether love, guilt, and second chances can reach backward—and forward—through history.
The Last Transmission
WWII 1944 and 2003 | A Radio Call Across Time
In 2003 Kentucky, a guilt-haunted ham radio operator and his wife make contact with a young radio man trapped in the 1944 siege of Bastogne. Across thirty-two nights of crackling transmissions, small comforts and hard truths pass between them, turning one doomed soldier’s fear into purpose and an old man’s regret into grace.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
434 pages
ISBN: 9798349641466
The Kincaid Doctrine Series
The Kincaid Doctrine Series is several near-future political thrillers. When decorated soldier and technologist Victor Marshall Kincaid takes the Oval Office, he rejects the decades of placid, incremental policy that let chaos metastasize. His answer is audacious and absolute: The Kincaid Doctrine—leadership through power, American interests first, in service of genuine global peace and prosperity.
Merchants of Venom
Book I
Occupation, Redemption, and the New Empire
When a drug-fueled overdose crisis pushes America to the brink, a hard-line president unleashes a global campaign to crush the cartels and the corruption behind them. A general, a humanitarian, a relentless reporter, and a repentant trafficker collide in a cinematic struggle over power, mercy, and the price of security.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
360 pages
ISBN: 9798349641961
Justice Storm
Book II
Price of Security
After an emergency order unleashes new security forces and fast-track laws against flash mobs and urban blockades, America discovers the price of “safety first.” As immunity clauses, heritage campaigns, and sky-evictions collide with civil liberties, presidents, protesters, and families battle over one question: how far should power go at home?
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
418 pages
ISBN: 9798349641855
Blue Coast Authority
Book III
A Political Thriller
After shattering cartel pipelines abroad and imposing rapid-response order at home, President Victor Marshall Kincaid turns to the Gaza Strip, launching a multinational, transparency-driven rebuild. As allies jostle, insurgents strike, and auditors uncover corruption, one displaced mother’s consent becomes the fulcrum between justice and speed, vengeance and hope.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
414 pages
ISBN: 9798349560811
Iron Halon
Book IV
The Fall of Nuclear Blackmail
In his fourth year, President Victor Marshall Kincaid orchestrates a deniable allied campaign to end nuclear blackmail without war, dismantling Russia’s arsenal and reshaping Korea and the Arctic frontier. As vengeful elites retaliate with assassination attempts and political sabotage, a brutal reelection fight tests new safeguards, global bargains, and the true cost of peace.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
508 pages
ISBN: 9798349641435
Adult Humor
Adult humor books serve up sharp, witty stories for grownups—often irreverent, sometimes raunchy, always honest. From workplace disasters to family chaos and dating misadventures, they turn everyday embarrassments into laugh-out-loud moments, offering comic relief, relatable characters, and a much-needed reminder not to take life too seriously along the way.
Area 51-1/2 : Cosmic Misfits
The Facility Nobody Asked For
A workplace sitcom in prose about a desert daycare for rejected aliens. Each chapter plays like an episode: cold open, A/B plot chaos, set-piece meltdown, deadpan cover-up, and tag. Rookie Private Jenkins wrangles Glarnock, Klop, Princess Flarnu, Zorb, maybe-human Chad, and empathic Snorf under harried Major Briggs.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
354 pages
ISBN: 979-8-3304-1292-1
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