What Day??

Theo Matthews has always believed one thing: she’s better off alone.

Leaving Faircloud, Texas, behind was supposed to be her escape — a life filled with adventure and zero ties. But one fateful night changed everything. Now, she’s back in her hometown, rebuilding a life she never planned for, grappling with grief, and preparing to face the future on her own.

That is, until Rhodes Dunn walks into her world.

Rhodes knows heartbreak all too well. After losing everything that mattered, he hit rock bottom. But instead of giving up, he chose to rebuild — one day, one step at a time. When Theo returns to town, her strength and internal struggles mirror his own, drawing him in like nothing else ever has.

Neither expected to fall this hard, this fast.

Together, Theo and Rhodes embark on a heartfelt journey of healing, hope, and second chances. In a town that knows their secrets and a world that’s thrown them curveballs, can they learn to trust in love again?

Porter, Oklahoma holds a dark secret, and troublesome dreams plague Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot, who grew up in the small town. When a bizarre murder catapults Elliot into his past, he’s brought face-to-face with the fabric of his nightmares. A shiny necklace dangles from the rearview mirror of the vehicle where Lagayle Zimmerman, the victim, is discovered. Nine years earlier, in Porter, a similar necklace swung from the mirror of a Mustang that harbored the mutilated bodies of Elliot’s friends, Jonathan Alexander (Johnnie Boy), and Marcia Barnes. Most of the town believed Elliot killed his classmates, but no arrest was made. Risking his job and his sanity, Elliot digs into his past to solve the murders and expose the truth.

A cantankerous former mayor
A dead man with a secret.
A midlife magic gift with a murder mystery that keeps you guessing.

When forty-nine year old Eleanor Rockwell was laid off from her soul-crushing corporate job, she moved a few miles north of Austin with her daughter, Evie, and opened Silver Circle Cat Rescue in the small town of Tablerock, Texas.

Five years later, SCCR is Wildebridge County’s largest shelter for lost kitties, so it’s no surprise when Deputy Markham brings Belladonna — former mayor Fiona Blackwell’s cat — to the shelter after she’s arrested for murdering her husband, Beau. But why, Eleanor wonders, did the Deputy bring a silver drink tray with the sullen cat — and why is Belladonna talking when she walks on it?

Something strange is going on in Tablerock, and Eleanor is determined to get to the bottom of it. Can she unravel the mystery before it’s too late, or will she fall victim to the town’s sinister spell?

Join Ellie, Evie, and all the cats at Silver Circle Cat Rescue in this new cozy paranormal midlife mystery series!

Gone Mia: Deadly Deception

In Gone Mia: Deadly Deception, Tess Raynes masterfully unravels a heart-pounding psychological thriller where love, lies, and deadly secrets collide. When Mia’s seemingly ordinary life takes a dark turn after a roadside encounter, she becomes entangled in a web of deceit and manipulation she never saw coming. What begins as a simple act of kindness spirals into a dangerous relationship fueled by obsession, control, and betrayal. Mia’s instincts tell her something isn’t right, but can she trust her intuition? Or is the man she’s growing close to hiding a sinister agenda?

As Mia delves deeper into her relationship, she must confront chilling truths, unravel hidden agendas, and summon the strength to escape from a love that threatens her very existence. The stakes escalate as Mia realizes that her life may depend on uncovering the truth — and breaking free before it’s too late. Gone Mia: Deadly Deception is a suspense-filled journey of survival, resilience, and the terrifying realization that the line between love and danger is razor-thin.

Wok Time!

Get your copy of the best and most unique Wok recipes from BookSumo Press!

Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

In this book we focus on Wok. The Wok Recipes is a complete set of simple but very unique Wok recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing.

So will you join us in an adventure of simple cooking?

Discovering ancient shipwrecks hasn’t been a novelty for thousands of years, but when artifacts were salvaged from a Roman shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900, the discovery of one set off one of the great mysteries of antiquity.

When sponge divers investigated the shipwreck, they found the kind of items often associated with such discoveries, including marble statues, pottery, jewelry, and coins, but they also discovered a strange object, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before. Initially assumed to be pieces of rock, it turned out that the item, soon to be dubbed the Antikythera mechanism, consisted of dozens of pieces, many of which had gears. In fact, while scholars quickly deduced that it had an astronomical purpose, many believed the mechanism was too advanced to actually date back to antiquity.

As it turned out, of course, the Antikythera mechanism did date back to the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and as scholars began to more fully comprehend its abilities, fascination over the device grew. In conjunction with the determination that the mechanism was an analog computer of sorts that could predict astronomical phenomena like the positions of stars and eclipses, conjecture over the origins of the device led to theories over what the Romans were going to do with it, and whether the device was created by the Greek genius Archimedes himself. To this day, debate continues over whether there were predecessors to the model, where the astronomical observations that went into creating the model were taken, and whether the ultimate origins of the device might even be Babylonian.

A disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness.

From the Bram Stoker Award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing and the editing duo who brought you the critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories.