**Your choices determine survival.**

*Lanista of the Iron Sand* is an **interactive historical adventure**—a modern gamebook where **you decide what happens next**.

Enter the Roman arena as a former soldier forced to fight, scheme, and endure as every decision shapes your fate.

This is not a traditional novel.
It is a **choice-driven narrative** inspired by classic adventure gamebooks, where the reader is an active participant in the story.

**Features:**
- Interactive, choice-based storytelling
- Multiple story paths and endings
- Historically grounded Roman setting
- Designed for readers who enjoy agency, consequence, and replayability

Your fate is not predetermined.
Your survival depends on the choices you make.

Long before treaties and boundaries, the Creek people lived in harmony with the land. At the heart of this story is Shinbone, a young Creek with quiet strength and wisdom who becomes Chief. Hue a young white settler and Nizhoni, Shinbone’s daughter

Squeezed out of her summer plans with her friends by the Briars estate’s new owners, thirteen-year-old Emily must now care for that little boy from Canada’s West—while dealing with her own anxieties.
Emily throws herself into the challenge, and her friendship with Jackie blossoms.
But when following up on leads in a book, they discover a threat to their home. Emily and Jackie dig in to fix it.
Hmmm … When’s a win not a winner?
And those pesky Indigenous spirits Emily picked up last winter—they’re going wild.

The Briars Believed may be enjoyed as a standalone novel. It picks up from the end of The Briars Between in July 1919 and builds on the author’s family and Jackson’s Point lore.
This heartfelt coming-of-age tale, set against the backdrop of a turbulent time in Canadian history.
If you love shows like CBC’s Anne with an E and the works of Louise Erdrich, you’ll feel right at home in this series.
“Readers will enjoy history brought to life with warm

Hitler's Blitzkrieg erupts across Western Europe, thrusting British Private Bill Brooks into the hellish maw of modern war. Commanded by his elder brother, Lieutenant Jameson Brooks, Bill confronts staggering German assaults in the blood-soaked fields of Belgium and France. As the war darkens, Bill's hopes of making it to his French bride, Augusta, and keeping her safe from the Nazi wave, look more impossible.

In London, Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister on the very day the German offensive begins. Haunted by the ghosts of his Gallipoli failure, he battles a fractious Parliament, a contentious War Cabinet, wavering French allies, and the German steamroller.

As Bill claws for survival on the front lines, Winston fights to keep Britain in the war. Torn between conflicting duties, doubts and desires, both men wrestle with soul-crushing decisions that alter their lives and the course of history.

The ring is the key to Hannah’s future, but first she must unlock its past

1645: A widow of nearly two years, Catherine is content with a quiet life looking after her young daughter, until she catches the eye of a wealthy Royalist. He gives her a unique, engraved ring as a talisman for good luck, but these are turbulent times. As she is drawn into a secret relationship she finds herself pitted against his family and her own father, caught in a deadly battle of wills driven by the ambitions of men, from which no-one can emerge victorious.

2019: When Hannah finds the ring buried in her garden, she is fascinated and intrigued. Who had owned it and how had they lost it? Focused on peeling back the layers of history, Hannah doesn’t realise that a web of deceit is tightening around her. Then a series of events threaten her security and warn her that she may not be the only one interested in the ring.

1560, Berwick-upon-Tweed, northern England

Following the unexpected death of her father, a series of startling discoveries about the business she inherits forces Isabella Gillhespy to re-evaluate everything she understands about her past and expects from her future.
Facing financial ruin, let down by people on whom she thought she could rely, and suspected of crimes that threaten her freedom, Isabella struggles to prove her innocence.
But the stakes are even higher than she realises. In a town where tension between England and her Scottish neighbours is never far from the surface, it isn’t long before developments attract the interest of the highest authority in the land, Sir William Cecil, and soon Isabella is fighting, not just for her freedom, but her life. She must use her wits and trust her own instincts to survive.
Lady of the Quay introduces an enticing new heroine who refuses to be beaten, even as it becomes clear that her life will never be the same again.

Set against the terminal decline of the Qing Dynasty, The House of He follows a visionary patriarch in Guangzhou who executes a strategic dispersal of his six children across the globe to establish a borderless infrastructure of capital and intelligence. From the boardrooms of New York and the military-industrial machine of Tokyo to the high-stakes 1935 Silver Crisis in Hong Kong and the pivotal OCBC merger in Singapore, the He siblings navigate the existential tension between national allegiance and the cold, technical maneuvers of familial survival.

This is a work of "Financial Noir"—a chronicle of a lineage that transcends the nation-state to emerge as a clandestine architect of the nascent global order. For the thinking reader who prizes geopolitical strategy and the "Hard History" of the twentieth century, The House of He is a definitive narrative concerning the winning, losing, and ultimate auditing of an era.

Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life...and a purpose that will heal her heart. Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle's. Together they embark on a remarkable journey: to inspire the animal welfare movement in America and endure an unforgettable voyage abord the RMS Titanic.

"I loved this book! From the beginning I was totally engrossed. A wonderful story with beautifully detailed and meaningful characterizations. I felt as though I was there on the Titanic with the vivid descriptions of the decor of the ship and the passengers. Absolutely a must read for anyone with a heart that has experienced the love of a dog and if you haven't had that, you will want it after reading this heart warming book."- Amazon reviewer.

Rook is a gripping historical crime novel inspired by the real-life bank robber Al Nussbaum. To his wife Lolly, Al is a loving, chess‑obsessed family man; to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, he’s a calculating mastermind whose meticulously planned heists have turned deadly. When a guard is killed and a cop is shot, Al rockets onto the Most Wanted list and is forced to vanish from Buffalo, leaving Lolly to face the fallout as “the bank robber’s wife.” While Al hides under aliases, plotting new scores and a desperate escape plan, Lolly must support their baby, endure FBI pressure, and decide whether loyalty to the man she loves is worth sacrificing her future. Told in taut, alternating perspectives, Rook explores the thin line between devotion and betrayal, and how far a man—and a marriage—will go when the noose starts to tighten.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!

Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger?

It’s 1930s Buffalo, New York and the Great Depression rages. Playwright Fran Striker needs to write the pilot for a new radio show but, first, he must overcome writer’s block, defeat a magical curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an alcoholic boxing champion.

Who was that masked man? Based on the controversial true-life story of Lone Ranger creator Fran Striker, Yesteryear takes us on a magical journey leading to an icon’s debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during the country’s darkest days.

1942. War rages in Europe. Pearl Harbor’s still smoldering. And alcoholic private eye Nicholas Bishop wakes up on the floor with two missing slugs from his fired .38. The cops think he murdered lounge singer Pearl DuGaye, the mob thinks he saw something he shouldn’t have, and Bishop remembers none of it. Together with Gia, his assistant he may or may not have fired, a WW1 veteran who sometimes thinks it’s 1918, and a one-eyed female dog named Jake, Bishop tries to piece together the events that took place during his six-day bender.

After Pearl is not only a wartime murder mystery, but also one man’s struggle with reclaiming his life and sobriety. Along the way, Bishop stumbles across a dirty politician, a socialite and her cheating husband, and a cadre of American Nazis who are certainly up to no good. Written in the spirit of Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett, Eoannou adds his own unique flair and voice to this genre.

Louisa Bennett, ship's photographer, meets the handsome Ukrainian, Gennadi Potenko, electrician and balalaika player, at a Russian crew party, on board M.S Ukraina in 1981. These are Cold War times and any close contact between East and West crew members, is strictly forbidden.
After an evening of music and vodka, Louisa wakes the next morning with a massive hangover and cannot remember how she returned to her cabin. But a pink rose by her bed gives her a clue. Disregarding the advice of her colleague, Dermot, to remember the Soviet regulations, Louisa experiences a series of tempting encounters ashore with Gennadi, leading to an illicit, secret love affair.
Inevitably, they are discovered and brutally separated, with severe consequences. Louisa is terrified that Gennadi will be punished further when he reaches the Soviet Union. With the help of Dermot, she decides to fly to Odessa and search for Gennadi. Maybe she can save him and discover the truth about his secret past.,