Three young friends share exciting outdoor adventures. Problems arise when Purple Head, a little girl from a different planet, takes her fears to extremes. She is encouraged to take risks by her friends, Buddha Monkey and Sticky Feet who are more seasoned nature explorers. Purple Head gains confidence while having fun with her pals. A charming book for grades Pre-K through 5. The fifth in Savant's multi-award-winning "Color-Me-Please" Series.

CLEOPATRA VICTORIOUS is the alternative history sequel to Helen R. Davis' award-winning novel, CLEOPATRA UNCONQUERED (Savant 2015). Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt, has triumphed at the Battle of Actium, which in the annals of history cost her and her lover, Mark Antony, their lives. She has won the battle, but will she be able to win the war and create a new place for her, her dynasty and Egypt in the annals of history?

NAVEL OF THE SEA is a novel containing a collection of vignettes that take place in different countries during select time periods of history, embedded within an ongoing narrative about two writers, Claude and Marianne, who have just retired to the remote island of Gozo in Italy. Suddenly, mysterious postcards depicting a place and time from the past begin to arrive and inspire them to set the scene for a series of love stories. The final postcard reminds them of the day thirty years ago when they first met and fell in love, and the postcard sender is revealed.

When his mother dies, Special Agent Stephen Lanford and his alternate personality return to their small, southern hometown to find themselves confronted with forgotten secrets and repressed desires that threaten to consume and destroy them. "To stop moving meant to settle, and for Olivia, that would be a tragedy. Others might think she was crazy, but Stephen knew better. She wasn't crazy; she just wanted to change the world."

One minute, Danny Bennet is just another normal teenager. The next, she learns she comes from a family born with the power to enter people’s dreams and affect their waking lives. As if this isn’t enough to freak her out, somebody wants to steal her power and would do anything, even kill, to get it. Love. Lies. Magic. Deceit. Fighting for her life. Danny was hoping for a memorable senior year, but now she just wants to survive long enough to graduate.

VALEDICTORY is set at a university in New York in the 1980s during a student takeover that shuts down the campus for three weeks. Earl Castle is an ambitious senior trying to secure the prize of valedictorian. Brilliant and aloof, he cannot, however, stay completely above the turmoils roiling the university. Due to his affection for Calvin Reynolds, one of the student activists, Earl becomes an unwitting participant in the takeover, risking everything he has striven to achieve, and forcing him to choose between the nobility of his feelings for Calvin and his desire for the award he so dearly covets.

When her infant daughter Sarah unexpectedly dies, Claire, feeling blame, reinvents herself as a landscape gardener in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Claire imagines Sarah still alive, marking her birthdays, Christmas, first day of school—as if Sarah never died. Remarrying, Claire acquires a step-daughter, eight-year-old Mandy—about the age Sarah would be had she lived. Part vamp, part jealous, bossy and troubled, Mandy is nothing like Sarah, who still lives on in Claire's imagination. As Claire lives two lives—one real, one imagined—the clash between the two daughters threatens to destroy her, releasing the demons she has managed, so far, to hold at bay. As the story hurtles towards its harrowing ending. Claire must choose between her new life and her haunted past. "A Real Daughter is the real thing: a compelling, psychologically astute inquiry into the seismic shifts of one, uneasily blending California family haunted by the past." - Cristina Garcia, novelist, Dreaming in Cuban, National Book Award finalist "Has a Maupassant quality of horror artfully restrained—until it isn't … Masterful writing and storytelling … Deeply unnerving." - Hilary Reyl, novelist, Lessons in French "The writing is luscious and chilling. Expect to be afraid—and then horrified." - Mary Morrissey, novelist, Mother of Pearl, Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

Miles Devereaux, an ordinary, working class, family man, is thrust sixty years into the dazzling futuristic world of 2065 Bangkok, and into a life-and-death game of chess where the players and pieces' fates depend on each player's acumen. Requiring Miles to match wits and physical skills with an array of opponents while faced with solving the mystery of his time travel and how to return to his own time, ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK is a riveting adventure set in what might very well be our own future.

Bodine "Bo" Henry, a U.S. Marshal in the 1870s American west, sets out to rescue the wife of his partner, Daniel Blue, from kidnappers. Despite his lightening-fast gun and the help of Dan's quick mind, his task quickly complicates, requiring Bo to resolve several additional crimes. In the process, Bo meets the enigmatic yet lovely Rose O'Reilly.

Libido Tsunami is a collection of 40 short stories exploring human tragedy, drama, vulnerability and adventure. In them, Burns salutes the droll in life through humor. The stories are grouped into four topics: A Flood of Family, Male Amazements, The Unknown Hawaii, and The Life Divine. From surviving complicated relationships to embracing Aloha and saving wild chickens, this work has something for everyone.