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  A Middle-Sized Artist - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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  Dark Secrets (A Dana Blaze FBI...

  Katie Rush

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  This recording has been digitally produced by Katie Rush, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. The 4th amendment: search and seizure. Brilliant constitutional lawyer-turned FBI agent Dana Blaze uses her intellect to outsmart serial killers. When a mastermind killer continues his sick path through the constitutional amendments, he steals a seemingly insignificant item from each victim’s home a week in advance—and Dana finds herself in a deadly race to outwit him before the next victim falls….
  
  DARK SECRETS (A Dana Blaze FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 4) is Book #4 in a new series by mystery and suspense author Katie Rush.
  
  FBI agent Dana Blaze was once a brilliant constitutional attorney, until her world shattered when her beloved father, a revered politician, was brutally murdered in a case that remains unsolved to this day. As Dana rose through the ranks of the FBI, she emulated her father, becoming an embodiment of justice and truth. 
  
  Dana is the only one capable of stopping this killer.
  
  But will she reach him in time?
  
  A page-turning and harrowing thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured protagonist, the DANA BLAZE series is a riveting mystery, packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night.
  
  Future books in the series are also available!

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  Breakthrough

  Ana Ashley

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  A young single dad. An older man. An impossible love story. 
  Milo 
  I lost everyone I’ve ever loved, but there’s one person I’m determined to keep. The baby I was left with when tragedy struck once more. 
  Now my life is all about surviving. I don’t have time to date, or relationships. 
  That is until Ellis, the sexy, older, and kind primary school teacher who’s currently living rent free in my head with no intention of moving out, gives me the second job I desperately need. 
  But why would he want a guy from the wrong side of town, who’s barely paying the bills and comes with a plus one? 
  Ellis 
  Moving to Stillwater was the fresh start I needed after having my heart stomped on and my career practically destroyed. 
  Despite my family’s best efforts, I’m determined that nothing shall break through the walls I’ve built around myself. No more relationships. 
  That is until I meet the much younger grocery store cashier with the warm brown eyes, and accidentally give him a job. 
  As I get to know Milo, brick by brick that wall is coming down and no matter how much I resist I’m starting to run out of excuses as to why I shouldn’t give in. 
  But why would he want anything with someone much older when he could have anyone else? 
  Breakthrough is book 3 in Ana Ashley’s series, Dads of Stillwater. This story contains an age gap, a sweet nine-month-old baby everyone will coo about, all the feels and Ana Ashley’s usual happy ever after. 
  Trigger warning: the content advisory is on the first page of the book and can be seen by downloading a sample or using the Look Inside feature.

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  Awakening Souls - A Tale of Love...

  Angie K. Love

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  From award-winning author of Awakening Hearts: A Tale of Love Across Lifetimes.A serendipitous reconnection. A trip to France. A powerful attraction that never waned. Does true love grant second chances? 
  Alex: There’s my Sage, looking more beautiful than ever! What are the odds I’d run into her the first time I’m on a date—with a woman? My heart and body have always wanted her, but my faith led me to walk away seventeen months ago. 
  When she asks me to join her on a trip to France, my head spins. Is this God giving me a second chance? Will I be able to show up in the way Sage deserves if I say yes, or will my old demons and guilt come back to haunt me? 
  Sage: My body and heart respond to Alex as strongly as ever, while my mind’s apparently already on vacation. I hear myself invite her on my trip to France . . . What am I thinking?! 
  I know the pain of losing her intimately—but she’s clearly been working on herself, and I, too, have been doing my own healing. Still, is it crazy to risk my heart a second time? 
  Can love overcome all obstacles and mend old wounds? 
  Awakening Souls: A Tale of Love Recovered is a second chance, slow burn lesbian romance. It is the sequel to Awakening Hearts: A Tale of Love Across Lifetimes. It can be read as a standalone; however reading Awakening Hearts—before or after—will lend greater depth to the story.

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  The Black Arrow

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him.

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  Outlaw: Nemesis of Rome -...

  Adam Lofthouse

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  An epic action-packed adventure set outside the boundaries of Ancient Rome 🛡️ Must-read for fans of Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane ⚔️ 
  'Highly recommended!' - M J Porter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
  It takes years to build a legend. 
  It takes mere heartbeats to shatter it to dust. 
  150 AD. Alaric, once lord of the Ravensworn is no longer feared nor revered. It has been six long years since his great defeat. He now lives life in the shadows. All hopes of glory and eternal rest in the Heroes Hall are gone. Alaric is alone. An outlaw to his land. 
  When a band of horsemen appear on the horizon, eager to recruit the man they still believe to be a lord of war. And so Alaric is pulled back to a life he thought had forsaken him. For in the far north of Germania lies a tribe in desperate need of aid. 
  In the far reaches of the land, for a cause not his own, Alaric will fly the Raven banner once more. In doing so, he will show both man and Gods that his story is not yet over. 
  *Title previously published as Ravensworn 
  Praise for Adam Lofthouse: 
  'Blood, guts and glory - the life of a German renegade and outlaw during the Roman occupation - fabulous!' Michael Jecks 
  'The characters are full of the life of the period, their flaws, their doubts, their abilities all on display; a feast for the readers' Hoover Book Review 
  'No holds barred, vivid Roman entertainment, probably the next best thing to actually being there' Speesh Reads 
  'A great mix of legion comradery with a personal plot you can get invested in, add in a couple of big twists along the way and you’ve got a smashing read' David's Book Blurg 
  'An absolute roller coaster.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review 
  'It's a thoroughly un-put-down-able book!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review 
  'A very, very good book from a very, very good new, young writer.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review 
  'Brilliant!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reader review

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