It all started as a very warm friendship that eventually ended in marriage; once those dotted lines were signed, I was trapped and nothing on earth would have prepared me for the turmoil I was to experience. My ex-spouse’s subtle unveiling as an abuser who thrived on control and subjection, created a dark wanton aura in the home which I never understood as Domestic Violence. This book is a non-chronological narrative which recounts the horrors of domestic violence/abuse and its adverse … [Read more...] about Silent Watchers by Dot IkwerreGirl Acheru
Dark Waters by Alyssa Tearse
Dark Waters is a dual point of view story about trauma and mental illness, and learning to navigate and fall in love with someone who suffers from severe depression and suicidal ideation. Harlow and Jakob grew up together in Minters, a small city where everyone's dirty laundry and business is on display for everyone else. They meet years earlier, both trying to tread the waters of their own lives and overcome their own traumatic events in adolescence. Years after both have graduated and … [Read more...] about Dark Waters by Alyssa Tearse
Screaming In Autopilot by Kris Ball
How do you forgive someone who has wronged you so terribly, yet feels they did nothing wrong? In my latest book, Screaming In Autopilot, I take the reader with me on my life-long journey in order to answer this question. Beginning with stories of a childhood filled with turmoil, abuse, and abandonment that slowly turns into an adulthood unfortunately mired with alcoholism and dysfunction, the book follows my quest for peace. The readers are left assured that there is hope and healing is possible … [Read more...] about Screaming In Autopilot by Kris Ball
Interview with Author – Rachel Griffin
About Rachel Griffin: Hometown: Cleveland, OH Occupation: Founder/Owner/CEO of Pen & Camera My writing journey began at age thirteen when I wrote my first poem. Finally deciding to start story writing in high school, I took writing as a whole seriously enough to make it a career. There were plenty of moments where I doubted myself. Mostly during the early stages of my first book release. After seeing what I could do after regaining some determination and motivation, I’m glad I made the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rachel Griffin
Beautiful Heartbreak by Perry Kay
"Beautiful Heartbreak" is a seamlessly weaved story of Depression, PTSD, and Anorexia, depicted through a collection of poems. Perry Kay opens a little crack in the world of those who battle their minds every day. From the depths of pain and despair beautiful art was born, hence the title "Beautiful Heartbreak". Through every step in her recovery and personal journey, Perry writes poetry. Her goal with this book is to spread more Mental Health awareness and to normalize and expose the dark and … [Read more...] about Beautiful Heartbreak by Perry Kay
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz Carousel Music is a “She said, he said” mystery, set two decades before the “Me, too” era during a time when controversy raged over the validity of memories recovered during psychotherapy. As knotty as the dilemma of when to believe women who claim that they were violated as adults, what if the victim was a child and the perpetrator was her father? And what if she had no recollection of the trauma before undergoing psychotherapy as an adult and her father was … [Read more...] about Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Bargain Book: Asylum by Carly Rheilan
The child’s hand groping out of the earth is undoubtedly real. As real as Cabdi’s own hand, when it lay on the earth after the machete fell, long ago. But this hand is alive. And it isn’t in a war-zone. It’s in the playground of a school, just outside the grounds of the English psychiatric hospital where Cabdi is now held. And the man who is stamping on the moving hand is a pigeater. Pigeaters are in charge of everything. As an accidental asylum seeker, Cabdi is friendless in a country he … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Asylum by Carly Rheilan
Interview with Author – Carly Rheilan
About Carly Rheilan: Carly Rheilan was born in Malta and lives in the UK. She was educated at Oxford (which she hated and left) and then at Brunel (a small-town technological university where she stayed for a PhD). She is a psychiatric nurse. She has done research into criminal justice and taught in universities. She has children of her own and has also fostered two children with mental health problems. She has worked many years in the NHS. Her novels address issues at the edges of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Carly Rheilan
Refugee by Reece Pocock
Reece Pocock has written an authoritative and intimate story of two families brought together by war and peace; in the process, he creates a fine study of how ordinary people are swept along by political and military events over which they have no control but which continue to colour their daily lives. In North Africa in the 1940s, two men - Bill, an Australian and Rolf, a German - confront each other in a one-to-one fight in the vicious battles around Tobruk. Both are forever scared physically … [Read more...] about Refugee by Reece Pocock
