Publication Date: December 20, 2016
In The Facility by Brandon Ford, Holly Vogel discovers that her husband has been violating their five-year-old daughter, she takes the child and goes on the run. With no one to turn to, she finds a website known as “The Facility.” Will it be the answer to her prayers or a new beginning to her nightmare? Continue reading The Facility by Brandon Ford
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden & Leroy Phillips
Genre: nonfiction, human rights, political science, African-American studies
In 1906, a white woman was brutally raped in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ed Johnson, a black man, was working at his restaurant job when the attack happened but was arrested and charged with the crime. When his lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay of execution and that stay was granted, local folks, led by officials, took the law into their own hands. In a history-changing move, the lynch mob faced federal legal repercussions. Ed Johnson cleared of the rape charges 100 years later. You can read the review of a “Contempt of Court” here.
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Publication Date: July 12, 2011 | Audio Release Date: September 29, 2015
After years of physical abuse, Babylon escapes her father’s home and sets out to find the people she’s heard on the radio. In Relative Sanity by Martin Reaves, Purdy Fallon is a child trapped in a man’s body waiting for his mama to come home when Babylon knocks at his door. Detective Nick Grimmer is investigating a case but his heart is at home with his wife from whom he’s becoming increasingly distant.
Publication Date: April 20, 2014
Fourteen-year-old Kate Montgomery and her mother move across the country when Kate’s father becomes abusive. Kate’s life takes a turn for the worse in Philadelphia and she soon finds herself cutting as a release from the emotional pain.
Continue reading Open Wounds by Brandon Ford
Publication Date: August 21, 2014
In a shooting rampage, Monroe Song’s husband took several innocent lives including the lives of three of her sons. In the wake of the devastation, she is less living life than managing to stay alive. Involving herself with a 24-year-old is perhaps not her best option, especially when her surviving son needs her so desperately. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00MUWOL7Y” locale=”US” tag=”rabidreaders-20″]Like Shards of Glass[/easyazon_link] is a tale of love, loss, betrayal and murder.
Publication Date: May 20, 2014
In Mazie Baby by Julie Frayn, Mazie Reynolds married one man but is living with another. She covers herself head to toe to hide the bruises and has a plan to escape knowing that each outburst has the potential to be the last she endures. When Cullen turns his anger toward their young daughter, Mazie knows it’s time to run. Can she keep ahead of Cullen and save herself and her young daughter?
Publication Date: December 16, 2013
In Provoke Not the Children by Michael W. Anderson, The people of the future United States are focused on personal development maximization. Parenting is a distraction for its growth, so when the children are infants they’re given to Proxies to raise to adulthood. So who is watching the Proxies? Chase Sterm is a Proxy Review Officer who exposes widespread abuse in the Proxy system. When that system fails, the Government is forced to send children to reprogramming centers. What comes at the end of the reprogramming may surprise everyone.
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Publication Date: November 21, 2013
Is a free-form book containing short stories and excerpts from Ramsey’s novels [easyazon-link asin=”0615857167″ locale=”us”]Just Beneath the Surface, I[/easyazon-link], [easyazon-link asin=”0615945066″ locale=”us”]Just Beneath the Surface II: Landon’s Story (Volume 2)[/easyazon-link] and “Where Were You.”
Continue reading Undone: Excerpts, Short Stories and Other Musings by R.H. Ramsey
Publication Date: May 30, 2013
In Shadowlands by Alan Steven Kessler, Steve Goldblatt has had a rough childhood. His parents are abusive and his view of trusted friends is shaped by that treatment. Shadowlands is a dark journey into the soul of an abused child.
Publication Date: September 27, 2013
In A Door Unlocked by Calvin Dean, Bobby Ray, a brutal recently released ex-con in need of ready cash, thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he finds an unlocked door in the upscale Memphis suburb of Olive Branch, Mississippi. After killing her father and seriously injuring her mother, Bobby Ray takes 8-year-old Lydia Fitzgerald on the run. When Lydia’s mother comes out of her medically induced coma three days later, she has a tale to tell of help from her husband on the other side. Can a renowned doctor of parapsychology help Vanessa Fitzgerald save her daughter in time?