Fiction

About Ambush Road by C.W. Schutter

Golden Scroll Finalist 2015 Novel of the Year, Awards presented July 2015

Ambush Road on Mount Tantalus is a mystical place hiding secrets that destroy lives. In the summer of 1965, fourteen-year-old Didi Nakaoka’s life changes forever when she moves to the rainforest in the middle of Honolulu. Shadows of the past reach into the present shattering her childhood, and shoving her into realities she’s emotionally unprepared for. As she and her two best friends, Benny and Milo, explore the rainforest along with urban legends like the lady with no face and menehune marches, superstition merges with reality. Didi discovers she cannot hide from the ugly truths and consequences of evil and hate.

Didi’s first love, Benny, is a shy, awkward, handsome sixteen-year-old. His superstar athlete older brother and their dad, bully him. Unable to deal with life, his agoraphobic mom lives in a tool shed.

Didi admires sixteen-year-old Milo who lives up the street. The sexy, beautiful, and bold free spirit appears unafraid of crossing moral and legal lines. Until crossing the line leads all three of them to a dangerous point of no return.

Amidst a backdrop of multi-ethnic superstition, Didi faces dark truths at a time when revolt simmered among an entire generation of young adults who wanted to find themselves and their own truth. Didi wonders if she can emotionally survive the world she has been cruelly thrust into.

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About A Life Singular by Lorraine Pestell

Winner of a New Apple Award for literary fiction in 2015 and a Shelf Unbound Notable Book of 2014, the first of a seven-part serial tells the story of a celebrity rock star writing his autobiography after his wife is murdered by a bullet meant for him.

Featured twice as a winner in the WILDsound Festival Review (http://alifesingular.com/2016/02/two-more-performance-readings-from-the-wildsound-festival/), “A Life Singular” is a contemporary fiction serial dealing with today’s complex social issues through the universal themes of love and our endless fascination for celebrity.

When Lynn is gunned down in the lobby of a Sydney hotel, twenty years of success and happiness come crashing down for Jeff, his two teenaged children and their millions of fans all over the world. The reader has a ring-side seat beside the charismatic superstar at the murder trial and travels in style while the couple’s eagerly-awaited autobiography takes shape.

Against a backdrop of community outrage at the senseless act of violence perpetrated against Australia’s most revered celebrities, the widower and his children battle with their grief and use the wealth of happy memories to paint a path to a future without their missing loved one.

One Amazon 5* review says: “A Wonderful Series Begins Here! There’s a strong romantic element at the beginning of this story that really sets the stage nicely for the reader to understand the two characters ( Jeff and his wife Lynn). When there is a tragic turn to their 20 year anniversary, the author smoothly takes us into the mystery of what happened and also the matter of how one person moves on after a tragic loss. The characters are well created and there is plenty of details to give this story the layers needed to keep one reading. The author has the ability to move the reader through the emotions being experienced – from love to anguish to feelings raked raw – the reader has his finger on the pulse of what is going on (said and unsaid) with each character. This book definitely hooked me on wanting to know what would happen next and I’ll say now – I liked the second and third book too.”

Fasten your seatbelt for the rollercoaster of life! Sales proceeds go to two Australian charities assisting disadvantaged young people with their education: The Smith Family and EdConnect Australia.

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