FIRST PLACE, READER VIEWS LITERARY AWARDS; CHOICE AWARD WINNER, REBECCA READS; A FIRST HORIZON AWARD FINALIST (Hoffer Awards) and a READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FINALIST. "Riveting...You don't want to put it down " S. Marie Vernon, PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW. -- When Jarret, a seasoned assassin agrees to do one last "hit" in Indonesia, and discovers his hands have gained the power to heal, his carefully planned, secret world is thrown into chaos. Desperate to understand what's happening to him, he seeks out a local mystic, a Dalang of the spiritual Shadow Puppet Theater and his mysterious,...

""Sage advice for frustrated parents."" KIRKUS REVIEWS Through their years of working with teens and their parents, Darryl Sollerh and Leslie King, LCSW, have developed a deeply compassionate yet realistic approach that takes into consideration both the parent and their teen's point of view. Filled with real-life examples, they examine the likely flashpoints for family conflicts, from teenager social lives to their homework habits and grades, from their misrepresentations to their demands for justice, from their calls for independence to their need for dependence. Sollerh and King's approach,...

"Sage advice for frustrated parents." KIRKUS REVIEWS Through their years of working with Middle Schoolers and their parents, Darryl Sollerh and Leslie King, LCSW, have developed a compassionate yet realistic approach that takes into consideration both the parent and child's point of view. Filled with real-life examples, they examine the likely flashpoints for family conflicts, from Middle Schooler social lives to their homework habits, from their misrepresentations to their calls for fairness, from their demands for independence to their need for dependence. Sollerh and King's approach, at...

FIVE STARS, Readers' Favorite Reviews; "I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN " Reader Views...What if there was a brain-altering technology capable of making a person believe he or she is somebody else, replete with implanted memories? What if this technology was being employed by US Counter Intelligence to transform common soldier into short-term "immersion" spies, "trancing" them into believing they are committed members of the Taliban to learn its secrets? Set in the Afghan mountains, TRANCER follows a Special Ops Team with an embedded female "T Tech" specialist on a mission to deploy a Trancer...

FIVE STARS, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews; RECOMMENDED, The US Review of Books ("A suspenseful must read ") When Eddy Reeves, a smart, Manhattan defense attorney with a broken past, wakes up one morning to find himself framed for the murder of a known gangland player, he knows it's only a matter of time before he's either arrested by the Police, or gunned down by a contract killer, Eddy drops out of sight, changes his appearance and goes in search of the truth. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to the only person who can help him now: his painfully-estranged ex-fiance, Sally...

SILVER MEDAL AWARD WINNER "Highly recommended... A book that will stay with you a long time." READERS' FAVORITE REVIEWS When Billy, a down-on-his-luck rodeo rider with a saddle-bag full of unrealized dreams wakes up in an emergency room to find both his legs have been broken in a freak accident, he thinks his life is over. Which is exactly how Mira, a smart, beautiful, East-Indian-bred physical therapist feels, barely surviving here on an expired visa against her family's wishes, watching her dreams fade like a Texas sunset. Yet this is exactly how Billy and Mira end up in a shotgun...

FINALIST, Readers' Favorite Book Awards ""Brilliantly entertaining "" When a suddenly divorced, big-city lawyer named Will comes South to lick his wounds and write the great American crime novel, he meets Jasmine, a mysterious, beguiling waitress whose late night, black-humored tales of Gothic crime and coldblooded murder draw him into her hazardous world. But as two new murders grip the tightly-knit swamp community, Will soon realizes that not only is he falling for Jasmine, but that her dark stories may all be true, implicating Jasmine herself. Hellbent to discover the truth, Will soon...