Where Timeless Tales Unfold

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The Cat Came Back, Just in Time For The Holidays!

T. Lee Harris has given us the gift of a new Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet book just in time for a last minute gift (to yourself, perhaps?).

At the end of the events surrounding the Heb Sed, all young scribe Sitehuti wanted to do was grab his cat and retreat to his family home in the Place of Truth, the workers’ village for the Great Place, the Royal necropolis. That didn’t happen. Now, with the funeral and burial of Prince Amunhotep looming, he gets his wish — sort of.

The Prince’s murder brings many changes. Among those is Sitehuti’s temporary appointment as Royal Scribe in charge of the burial. However, all is not peaceful in the necropolis. Tombs are being robbed. People are disappearing — among the vanished is one of Captain Djedmose’s Royal Medjay Guards.

Things are also amiss at Mansion of Millions of Years, Ramesses II’s sprawling funerary complex and administrative center on the west bank of the river. To the Pharaoh and Crown Prince, the solution is simple: send Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet to solve the mysteries.

Captain Djedmose disagrees. Magic Cat or no, he wants Sitehuti as far away from danger as possible.

But IS it possible?

Available in print and Kindle editions.

Dreams And Nightmares from J. Paul Burroughs

The next in J. Paul Burroughs’ series about Lanyon Stevenson and Asha Christopher. The stakes are getting higher.

High school teacher Lanyon Stevenson has a gift — although he sometimes doubts “gift” is the proper term.The often terrifying dreams are flashbacks, glimpses into past lives. Times of crisis and danger. Warnings that touch people in Lan’s present day life. But now the visions are becoming ever more vivid and solid to the point of physical damage to his waking self.

Hypno-therapy psychologist Dr. Asha Christopher, once Lan’s doctor, now much, much more, is also experiencing alarming flashbacks of a different sort.

People they both care for are in danger. Can they work together to tease out the riddles and save the people they love?

Available in print and for Kindle.

Some People Just Don’t Know When To Shut Up: New Book From Marian Allen. Um, We’re Talking About The Character, Not The Author

If you’ve read Marian Allen’s SIDESHOW IN THE CENTER RING, you know that Connie Phelan has a mouth on her. In these short stories, we see how that’s affected her life — and the lives of the people around her.

Connie Phelan was born with no money, no prospects, and no filter. Her smart mouth got her into and out of trouble until she parlayed it into entertainment stardom. But that wasn’t enough. She wanted to lord it over the kind of elites who had made her childhood hell. That led her to Marner, where people are vaguely cat-like and a form of slavery is legal. Smart mouth. Trouble. Some things never change.

Available in print and Kindle editions.

More Danger From Michael Dabney

The former Philadelphia reporter Michael Dabney takes you back to Philly in the bad old days of the 80s with another David Blaise dive into danger.

David Blaise is a private eye with troubles. His girlfriend wants to have the Talk with him, Philly mobsters want to kill him, his brother-in-law lies to him, and a beautiful city official snubs him. On top of that, his lech of a landlord wants Blaise to prove his partner is cooking the books.

Blaise has to call on his Naval intelligence training and all of his North Philly street smarts if he’s going to survive 1984.

Available in print and for Kindle.

Cozy Up With Janie Franz

Janie Franz is back with Book 1 of a new series!

Sephronia Hill has spent most of her 85 years in Dark Hollow, Tennessee. A herbal healer, the local Granny Woman, Sephie forages medicinal herbs in the Appalachian foothills around her home making tinctures and salves. A peaceful way of life if you don’t count her prickly widowed sister, Agnesia, who shares the house with her.

An urgent phone call from her niece, Mandy upsets the routine. Mandy and her wife, Laura, need help urgently. Their community of Riverbend, North Dakota, is under threat by what appears to be a vampire and the resources of their metaphysical shop, the North Star, are stretched to their limit.

Sephie wastes no time. She and her protege, B.D. Travers, pack everything — including a few dozen jars of Cousin Lije’s secret ingredient — into the station wagon and head north.

Once in Riverbend, Sephie finds the vampire along with a whole host of other supernatural creatures and just maybe a bit of romance.

In print and for Kindle.

Just In Time For Your Summer Road Trip

Per Bastet Publications is delighted to offer this chilling yet somehow positive thriller from microbiologist Diana Catt.

Investigative reporter Lila Kincaid’s world is turned upside down when her oldest friend is murdered and her twelve-year-old godson is hospitalized with injuries sustained in the attack. The tragedy deepens when it becomes apparent that the boy, Mike, is his mother’s murderer. Everyone, including the detective assigned to the case, is at a loss to explain this abrupt and violent change in the boy’s behavior.

Determined to find answers and to prove Mike’s innocence, Lila launches her own investigation, uncovering a pattern of violence that leads her into a deep web of murder, corruption and deceit. Lila finds herself fighting not only for justice for Mike, but for her very life.

Available in print and Kindle versions.

New (To US) Author, New Book

We’re delighted to welcome author Janie Franz to the clowder, and proud to bring you her new paranormal mystery:

When a man is found dead near a large boulder in the back country of northern New Mexico, it seems like a simple homicide. A missing body part, cadaver dogs, and old remains turn the investigation toward the bizarre and the chilling.

Two indigenous female lawyers defend the elderly man wrongfully accused of the murder. Their PI, Allen Rodriguez, a young man with strong psychic abilities, joins the investigation as old and evil practices reach out into the present.

Can Allen use his abilities without darkness overwhelming him? Will a deadly hatred from his family’s past turn his younger brother’s manhood ceremony into a tragedy?

Available in print and for Kindle.

A Study in Quiet Courage

Brett Sander’s long-anticipated publication of two of his long stories in one volume has dropped!

A young woman named Viviana Suárez writes a series of letters to her friend in the United States, telling the story of Dorotea Bazán, “said to have been captured by Indians in the late nineteenth century,” and resistant of rescue. Years later, grown and married, Viviana finds herself in the middle of the eternal conflict between a seemingly rigid father and a rebellious teenage son.

Available at Amazon in print and for Kindle, and by order from other booksellers with the ISBN-10 1942166745, the ISBN-13 978-1942166740, or the ASIN (eBook) B09CRX8JNB.

New Title, New (to us) Author

An Untidy Affair

Struggling Philadelphia private eye David Blaise gets two routine but unrelated cases on the same day in May 1985 – the day city police firebombed the MOVE house, which killed 11 people and destroyed an entire neighborhood. When Blaise starts following a cheating husband and searching for a missing person who may not actually be missing, he also discovers his cases may be related, and that he is being followed. When his tail is murdered, implicating the P-I, Blaise must find the true killer before he is literally buried alive.

Available in print and Kindle editions.

The War Is Over, But Sylvie’s Conflicts Aren’t

Sylvie is eleven coming twelve, and about to take her scholarship place at the local grammar school. The war is over, and a new era is beginning for the family, but a sudden event pushes a young girl from another family onto the world stage, and Sylvie, her friends and relatives, become the new Elizabethans. This sequel to the novel Bottletops for Battleships follows the Ford family into the brave new world of the nineteen fifties.

The second volume of British author Andrea Gilbey has just hit Amazon. If you loved BOTTLETOPS FOR BATTLESHIPS, you’ll want to see what Sylvie, her family, and friends are up to as life transitions from war to dates and jobs. Why is nothing ever simple?

EDELWEISS FOR ELIZABETH is available in print and for Kindle.

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