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.
Capone's North Road
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
Hanna's Room - Secrets Sealed Since 1942
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
Between to Flags
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
Rafters of the Plains
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
The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward
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
Promise in the Sky
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
Orchard of Silence:
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
Mercy in the Fire
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
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
Twenty Lives at War: The American Revolution
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
Twenty Lives at War: The American Civil War
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
Twenty Lives at War: The Great War
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
Twenty Lives at War: World War II Home Front
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, farmer’s wife, priest, and grieving parents confront rationing, prejudice, sabotage, telegrams, and temptation—finding courage, rebellion, and hard-earned hope at home.
Author: Scott Hamele
Paperback
6 x 9 inches
470 Pa
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 Whard Secrest
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:
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:
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?
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
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
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
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
The Cornelius-Gilley Saga
The Cornelius–Gilley Saga follows one American family from an 18th-century Belgian village to the wide skies of Kansas, through the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, and two World Wars. Inspired by real people and events, these novels celebrate ordinary men and women who face history’s storms with grit, faith, humor, and enduring love—asking what it truly means to build a life, keep a promise, and leave a legacy in America.
House of Dox
Book I
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
More to come