WOWIO New Releases - Fiction

Beyond the Sacred Page

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:55:48 CST

Jack Cavanaugh

Meg Foxe has stumbled upon a book so powerful that it changes her life. Its words comfort and soothe her like nothing else. But there’s a problem. The book is banned and Pernell, her husband, has devoted himself to its annihilation. Beyond the Sacred Page is a thrilling espionage game of cat and mouse set in the turbulent world of sixteenth-century England and King Henry VIII where politics and religion mean life and death.

JACK CAVANAUGH, author of twenty-five novels, has received...

Glimpses of Truth

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:35:39 CST

Jack Cavanaugh

An extraordinary intellect, the love of a beautiful woman, and a remarkable mission — life holds great promise for Thomas Torr. Chosen by John Wycliffe to assist in translating the Latin Vulgate into English, the young peasant senses God calling him to an incredible, but dangerous, destiny. Thus begins a thrilling adventure, leading from the catacombs of Rome to the hinterlands of Britain. Here are characters to fall in love with, exotic settings, drama, intrigue...and an ending that will stir...

The City of Fire

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:05:12 CST

G.L. Hill

A Kidnapping, A Murder, and a Genuine Test of Faith in..."The City of Fire"!

Lynn, the beautiful daughter of a small town minister, is deeply troubled by the barrier which has come between her and her former playmate, Mark.

When Billy engages in a thoughtless prank in which Mark is mistaken for the son of a wealthy family, he is kidnapped and taken to a secluded house in the mountains.

But that same night, when the lover of Mark's friend Cherry is shot and killed, Mark is accused of...

The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:03 CST

Zane Grey

American author Zane Grey is best remembered for his American “wild west” tales published as periodical series and books. His 1910 novel “Heritage of the Desert” attracted much attention and his 1912 novel “Riders of the Purple Sage” established him as a wildly popular writer. Zane’s successful writing career allowed him to emerge as one of the first millionaire authors.

But the young Grey was a talented baseball player. The University of Pennsylvania awarded him a baseball scholarship...

Echo Detained

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:37:30 CST

Joshua Cochran

A satirical, black-humored tale, Echo Detained revolves around Caleb Nell, an everyday American, who is snatched off the streets after another boring day at his copy shop job and whisked away into the bowels of a secreted, corporate-run prison. There, he finds himself succumbing to the ludicrous and logical rationale of an extended "War on Terror."

From delicious meals, to forced prostate exams, to guards that seem to love him as much as hate him, Caleb tries to make sense of his newfound...

Etheldreda

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:18:44 CST

Moyra Caldecott

Etheldreda, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria and Abbess of Ely, was a remarkable woman who lived in restless, violent times when old beliefs were dying and new ones were struggling to emerge. Pagan clashed with Christian as the seven kingdoms of the Germanic tribes warred against each other and against the native Celts. Occasionally an uneasy peace was bought by the skilful use of the 'diplomatic marriage', and twice Etheldreda, though vowed to chastity, submitted to marriage for...

The Winged Man

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:15:15 CST

Moyra Caldecott

To this day, throughout the ancient city of Bath, there exist statues and images of the man who was the legendary founder of the city, and the father of King Lear. A leper and a swineherd... a necromancer and a wise king... his memory lives on.

King Bladud.

Restless at the royal court, the young Prince Bladud sets off to consult an oracle in the west country — a wild wooded place near a mysterious hot spring that gushes from a cave. There the priestess tells him that he will be a great...

The Waters of Sul

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:25:53 CST

Moyra Caldecott

It is 72 AD, and most of Britain is under Roman domination. At Aquae Sulis, a place of pilgrimage and healing, hot waters gush ceaselessly from the earth. Since ancient times the waters have been associated with the supernatural, and are under the protection of the Celtic Goddess Sul. The Romans have renamed her Sulis Minerva, and have tamed the steaming waters to form a complex of public baths.

A statue of the hated Emperor Claudius is being erected in the precincts of the Temple of Sulis...

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:41:21 CST

Moyra Caldecott

The dramatic and passionate story of Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt during the Eighteenth dynasty.

Ancient Egypt 3500 years ago — a land ruled by the all-powerful female king, Hatshepsut. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly: a woman who established Amun as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power. This is a story of vision and obsession, of mighty projects and heartbreaking failures — the story of a woman possessed by the desire for power and the need to...

The Oswald Chronicles Volume 2

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:42:54 CST

J.D. Calderon, Matthew Lunsford, Eric Blumrich and Mike Dubisch

Created and written by JD Calderon (Tall Tails, Dream Weavers) THE OSWALD CHRONICLES features the adventures of a not-so-ordinary mouse and the fantastic characters he comes across (and who come across him!) while living in the heart of New York’s Manhattan isle.

This second volume collects five illustrated short stories of urban fantasy: “A Hero in the Eye”, “Daddy, They Come”, “My Friend Rylex”, “A Warder’s Fee”, and “The Darkness that is My Love”.

Guantanamo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:45:54 CST

Dorothea Dieckmann, translated by Tom Mohr

Characterized as "one of the best...German novels to be published since the dawn of the new millennium," by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Guantanamo is a modern classic prison novel, an implicit indictment of the Guantanamo gulag, and a novel of fierce moral and descriptive clarity.

Rashid, age twenty, was born in Hamburg as the son of a Muslim Indian father and a German mother. When he travels to India, just after the Afghan war, to claim the inheritance of his grandmother he...

The City in Crimson Cloak

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:18:23 CST

Asli Erdogan, translated by Amy Spangler

A young woman on fire in Rio de Janeiro on the last day of her life -- a remarkable novel from a writer named by Lire one of the top 50 writers to watch out for in the 21st century.

"Asli Erdogan is an exceptionally sensitive and perceptive writer who gives us perfect literary texts." Orhan Pamuk

"The description in Asli Erdogan's novel is breathtaking. The work is so much like its setting. Deep. Complicated. Raw. Difficult. Musical. I never wanted to leave a scene yet I couldn't wait for...

The Pisstown Chaos

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:09:29 CST

David Ohle

The Pisstown Chaos tells the story of one family's journey in the midst of environmental and political crisis, disease and forced relocation. Power is concentrated in the hands of the Reverend Herman Hooker, an "American Divine," who revels in the sufferings of others as he spouts platitudes to the masses.

When the Reverend attempts to overcome a rampant parasite infestation by decreeing population "shifts," the members of Balls family find themselves subject to relocation at a moment's...

Long Distance

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:10:33 CST

Thomas F. Zahler

When Carter and Lee meet while stranded at an airport, they hit it off immediately. The problem is, he's a cartoonist who lives in Cleveland, and she's an aspiring model who lives in Chicago. Can they manage to have a relationship, separated by three hundred miles, a time zone, and the entire state of Indiana? "Long Distance" is the pilot script for a never-produced romantic-comedy sitcom. Check out what could have been!

10th Muse: Blade of Medusa (Prose Novel)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:50:45 CST

Darren G. Davis and Tom Misuraca

Who is Gloria Merrick? This new transfer student has a secret that will effect Emma and her friends forever. The Muse's oldest foe is back and ready to take her on again...this time only one will come out alive. While the Muse has to come to grips of where her powers came from. What else can go wrong in Emma's life except that she has taken on an internship at the courts and she has to help her father on a case that is too close to home.

Note: This is a prose novel, not a comic.

Zak Raven, Esq: CODE BETA (Prose Novel)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:27:22 CST

Darren G. Davis and Victor Poon

Zak Raven is your typical 15-year old boy living in Bluffside. He wakes up, goes to school, comes home and does his homework. But somewhere between dinner and curfew, while most of his friends are playing video games — Zak can be found battling real life robots and his very own arch-enemy, Professor Dimitri Raine.

Once a super-powered hero, Zak fought to save the world as Kid Ranger! Now his superhuman abilities have diminished and he's just ordinary Zak, a regular 15-year old who strives to...

Peepshow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:06:36 CST

Leigh Redhead

Simone Kirsch, aka Vivien Leigh, is sexy, funny and intelligent.

And she needs it all as she goes undercover, stripping at the table dancing club, The Red Room, to find out who killed the sleazy owner, Francesco "Frank" Parisi. It's the only way to get her best friend Chloe back from Frank's underworld brother Sal who says he'll kill her unless Simone can come up with the real murderer.

After graduating top of her private investigators course and working in a peepshow, Simone has a few...

10th Muse: Maze of the Minotaur (Prose Novel)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:59:00 CST

Darren G. Davis and Tom Misuraca

In Greek mythology there were 9 Muses, the daughters of Zeus, but history forgot one - The 10th Muse - MUSE OF JUSTICE. Emma Sonnet's birthright!

Emma Sonnet is on the debate team, cheerleader and popular. Everyone in high school has secrets, hers is being a superhero. This is a tale of one girl that will make a difference. When students on the swim team are missing the 10th Muse must solve the puzzle of the Minotaur in time to save them.

Note: This is a prose novel, not a comic.

A Fine Ending

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:01:11 CST

Louis Rastelli

In his powerful debut novel, Louis Rastelli presents the story of a twentysomething struggling musician who drifts through Montreal's music scene.

It's the end of the nineties, the end of the 20th century, and the end of an era in the city's Plateau / Mile End district. Rastelli spins spontaneous tales of the artists and musicians, drunks and junkies, and punks and yuppies made neighbours by gentrification. A calamitous ice storm and the looming Y2K are pondered between rounds at the local...

Crossing Decembers

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:28:40 CST

John Booth

Those train whistles that call over the Midwest fields at night, are, most times, just trains. Sometimes they're more. Sometimes they'll stir blood, twist the universe in on itself, flatten and re-shape reality like it's a penny lying on the rails.

Ask Josh Kendall: He finds out one December night, heading out to a far corner of Ohio to Five Mile Bridge, intent on mourning his friend Kallie, seven years gone. But a jarring message and one of those world-bending locomotives wash Josh backward...

Showbiz: A Novel

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:42:42 CST

Jason Anderson

Author Jason Anderson was inspired to write Showbiz when he read an article in Entertainment Weekly about Vaughn Meader -- the most famous man no one has ever heard of. Meader was once one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time, as a Kennedy impersonator, cracking lighthearted jokes at the president's expense. On November 22, 1963, his career died along with the president. After JFK's assassination, no one wanted to hear about Kennedy, and certainly didn't want to hear any jokes...

Whatever Happens

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:29:08 CST

Tim Conley

Whatever Happens is a collection of stories for people who feel that reality is not the best deal going. Tim Conley explores the fragility of our perceptions as well as the illusions that we so badly need. Sometimes spare, these nineteen stories move between the obsessive and the disinterested, the extraordinary and the humdrum.

What Passes for Love: A Collection of Short Stories

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:29:06 CST

Stan Rogal

What Passes for Love is a collection of short stories about the dynamics of male-female relationships. These 10 short stories by Stan Rogal resonate with the many mating rituals of men and women: paranoia, obsession, voyeurism, and even assimilation. Rogal's writing reflects his honesty and brashness previously seen in two books of poetry and published stories. What Passes for Love is illustrated with the paintings of Kirsten Johnson.

Vixen

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:28:56 CST

Lynnette D'anna

Elegant and edgy, vixen is a tense tango cutting through the jungle of the urban underground. Exploding the myth of deviance while battling the demons of obsession and deception, lust and loneliness, the title character dances between the spaces of her mind and the places on earth where all is not as it appears to be.

The Mole Chronicles

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:28:08 CST

Andy Brown

In the spirit of Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor or Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, Andy Brown's first novel follows a sibling relationship told through vignettes, each story centered around the removal of a mole. From this premise, Brown's novel expands the associations of moles from skin disease, to the burrowing animal, to secret societies and espionage, to tell the story of familial dysfunction, culture-jamming, eco-terrorism, and regret in the lives of young adults in the 1990s.