Envision being alone, armed only with your resilience and principles. While we all could face such a challenge in our daily lives, for one young woman, the situation is far more critical — her life hinges on her willingness to persevere.

Desert Brave

In Gin Coleman’s novel, “Desert Brave,” the first book in the Desert Born series, geologist and heroine Kira Fontaine embarks on an epic quest for a legendary underground river in post-WW1 Arabia, only to find herself forsaken in a vast desert. Cast adrift without friend or family, she must rely on her Native American teachings, her scientific knowledge, and her faith to survive in a barbaric land where women serve but one purpose. However, this proves challenging as she is thrust into a world filled with treachery, murder, lust, and love.

Kira now faces a perilous journey that leads her to two men: one who wishes her dead and another who remains unaware of her existence — will she discover a path home, or will she choose to stay and become one of the desert born?

How the Critics Responded

Readers’ Favorite, 5-Star review: “Author Gin Coleman expertly blends adventure with rich cultural detail and emotional depth, creating a story that is both thrilling and educational… Desert Brave is a must-read for fans of moving personal journeys of discovery, nature, and survival.” 

Author, Suzanne Groves: “Full of mysteries, both mystical and magical, this story is not one to be gulped, but to be sipped, as you cheer Kira on with the hopes that she will overcome her fears and learn to trust herself as she seeks to find a way home to America.”

 Author, Susan Sage: “ I was absolutely wowed by this unique novel! If a movie version is ever made, it will surely be a box-office hit. There is enough tension-filled, high drama here that elevates this novel from narrative to something larger, something grander…” 

While Gin Coleman loves all things Texas, she currently parks her trusty computer in the wilds of Mississippi. She is described as a story-telling tumbleweed, a lifelong lover of horses and dogs, and as someone who was raised by wolves. Above all, she is the proud mother of the Desert Born Series and will soon give birth to the Lost and Found in the Lone Star State Series. You can learn more about Gin and her writing at www.gincoleman.com.

BREAKAGE

“BREAKAGE reads like an instant classic, delivering the crackling mobster bravado of Goodfellas with the emotional heft of A Beautiful Mind.” – BestThrillers

Donnie Chariot is the most gifted horse racing handicapper in the country. He’s a human computer, able to manipulate data with mind-boggling speed, which has made himself and his clients very rich. His ruthlessness is well-known and greatly feared. But when early onset Alzheimer’s causes his unique gift to fail him, his house of cards is deeply threatened. Las Vegas mobsters aren’t happy. Chariot needs his estranged daughter, who shares the same otherworldly ability with numbers, to help him, but she’s not having it. When Donnie’s granddaughter is kidnapped to force his daughter into the game, he controls everyone. Until he doesn’t. His mind failing, his daughter getting wise, and Vegas wiser still, it’s a race to save a family before the momentum of the past destroys their future.

BREAKAGE is a thriller with a difference, where nothing is cut and dried. It takes the reader into an underworld of horse race gambling versus family loyalties where the distinction between good and evil is unclear. A contemporary novel set in NYC with a strong yet flawed female protagonist and her well-meaning, but criminal father, BREAKAGE creates a brittle family dynamic that will appeal to many readers.

The author, David-Michael Harding, a past PEN International winner, grew up with horses in the netherworld of gamblers and bookmakers, leaving him uniquely qualified to pen BREAKAGE.  Readers are always eager to peek behind the curtain of a world with a real element of danger. The senior protagonist’s painful Alzheimer’s diagnosis is cloaked within that criminal element and leaves blurred lines of morality in its wake.

“Perfectly coordinated, from the characters to the dialogue and beyond, to deliver a chilling, hard to-put-down read.” – Sublime

David-Michael Harding is a former collegiate writing instructor, ex-con, semi-professional football player and criminal investigator whose experiences provide readers with well researched, passionate, and crushing fast-paced action. A native New Yorker, he now resides in Tampa, Florida, with two vocal writing critics – his parakeets, Elvis & Amy. Most of his days are spent writing from the cockpit of his sailboat, Pegasus, somewhere off the Nature Coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” ― Stephen King

Until It Was Gone

When Laney announces to Franklin at their fortieth wedding anniversary dinner that she is leaving him, the lives of every member of the family are changed. Through conflict, Covid, a mass shooting, abortion, and more, this family will find forgiveness, acceptance, and hope.

Laney leaves for the Oklahoma panhandle in search of Roz, their estranged daughter, who left home at sixteen, and the nineteen-year-old granddaughter, Maggie, Laney has never met.

Shortly after she leaves, Franklin contracts Covid which morphs into the long-haul form. His episodes of fogginess and disorientation awaken memories of abuse at the hands of his father.

Gretchen, his sister, comes to take care of him. Four years earlier her husband was killed in a mass shooting in their small town. Soon she will return home to give her victim impact statement at the murderer’s sentencing.

Maggie, the granddaughter, becomes pregnant and due to medical complications needs an abortion, but she lives in a state where it is outlawed. What will she do? Where will she go? Will the family find the resilience to come together for everyone’s sake?

David B. Seaburn’s tenth novel, “Until It Was Gone”, will be released by Black Rose Writing on December 12, 2024. Seaburn is a retired marriage and family therapist, family psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine (University of Rochester Medical Center) and minister. He and his wife live near Rochester, NY. They have two married daughters and five wonderful grandchildren.

His first novel was published in 2005. Subsequently, his novels have received numerous honors:  Short Listed, Hawthorne Prize (2024); Finalist, General Fiction, American Writing Awards (2023); Third Place, Bookfest, Literary Fiction/Coming-of-Age (2023); Short-listed, American Writing Awards Hawthorne Prize (2023); Finalist, Maxy Award, Literary and Humor Fiction (2023); Short-listed, Somerset Award, Literary and Contemporary Fiction (2022); Runner-up, Pencraft Award, General Fiction (2022); Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award, General Fiction (2021); Semi-finalist, Somerset Award, Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction (2019); American Bookfest Finalist, “Best Book” in General Fiction (2019); Short-listed, Somerset Award for Fiction (2018); Runner-up, TAZ Award for Fiction (2017); Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award in General Fiction (2011).

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