Each copy of Violet's Pretty Purple Playground is printed in a 7.5 X 9.25 format with a glossy case laminate cover. All interior pages will be printed with premium color on 70lb white paper and will feature custom digitally hand-painted artwork completed by artist Ben Mirabelli.

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The House on Dead Man’s Curve

An American Writing Awards 2022 Finalist in LGBTQ Fiction and Fiction - Thriller Adventure - This new ghostly tale with thriller scares takes place in a haunted North Carolina Airbnb - with paranormal ghost adventures inspired by true otherworldly experiences. The team of ghost hunters encounter the Halloween investigation of a lifetime - filled with adventure, suspense, mystery, cliffhanger chapters, and the dark horror surrounding the haunted Airbnb they’ve rented for the week on Dead Man’s Curve. The haunting stories uncovered during research and the - at times - intense supernatural activity encountered during the nights, lead to extreme tensions within the seemingly possessed house.
 
 Set in the author’s hometown of Statesville, North Carolina, and broken into 7 days and nights of ghostly chatter, sounds, and unexplainable activity is intertwined with local sites, historical ghost lore, and hauntology. Their stay reaches a critical climax when the cryptic history of the house is discovered. Surrounded by a creepy solitude of darkness along a pitch-black winding country road, the investigators must decipher messages from the insubstantial evidence collected – bringing them face to face with the unexplained, murder, sacrifice, myths, and the occult.
 
 The author, a paranormal investigator himself, provides a dark captivating story that keeps readers trapped with little chance to escape.

 

The Vampire Crusades: The Acquisition – Book 1 (Spicy)

After a hundred years of having a fairly mundane vampiric life, Victor has finally fallen in love, except there's one problem - He's forbidden fruit. Things take a turn for the worse when dead bodies start washing up on the shores of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and an unexpected visitor - a five-hundred-year-old vampire named Ezra - shows up to help. He's suddenly faced with the decision of leaving everything behind, including the love of his life, or joining forces to combat one of the world's most powerful vampires.

In book one of The Vampire Crusades, this male-male vampiric paranormal romance turned adventure holds many secrets leading up to a war between vampires, werewolves, and the prey with connections to the history of NC's beautiful coastline and the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

The Swords Secret: Ancient Wonders – Book 1

This new urban fantasy adventure intertwined with a slow burning queer romance sets our adventurer on the quest of a lifetime. Closeted mythologist and museum curator Dr. Rhys Wilder has just been offered the adventure of a lifetime: a grant to recover Excalibur, sword of the fabled King Arthur, whose existence has yet to be proven. However, Rhys soon discovers he's signed up for more than he realizes after meeting the man behind the grant, a Southern oil tycoon and antiquities dealer, D'Arcy Duchesne III.

Luckily, Rhys finds help in unlikely places and some diverse voices, including a rainbow-haired frenemy, the grandson of a wealthy tight-lipped British dame, and a dashing, muscular man Rhys finds terribly sexy and extremely irritating.

In book one of the Ancient Wonders series, Rhys not only navigates the mysteries of the Arthurian Legend and the mysteries surrounding the sword, but also the current political intrigue to complete his goal - all the while wrapping himself deeper into dangerous waters from which there may be no escape.

The Purple Menace and the Tobacco Prince

The Purple Menace and the Tobacco Prince is a historical fiction novel inspired by the whirlwind romance between Winston-Salem tobacco heir Z. Smith Reynolds and sultry Broadway torch singer Libby Holman. Set against a backdrop of Jazz Age opulence and Prohibition-era decadence, the cigarette millionaire pursues his obsession across the globe by airplane, yacht, and automobile, competing for the glamourous singer's affections with a free-spirited heiress. The three become entangled in a web of lust and envy, ultimately ending in tragedy, scandal, and a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

Wright Williams has it all. Heir to the Taxi cigarette fortune, the young playboy's life is a whirligig of speed, Ziegfeld Girls, and bathtub gin. Then, he sees Broadway's sultriest torch singer, Bizzy Holt, and realizes he has nothing at all. Obsessed, Wright finds himself competing for Bizzy's affections with Allard Chemical heiress Lucy Conrad. Impervious to Prohibition and the Great Depression, the millionaire daredevil pursues the libertine chanteuse around the globe by yacht, automobile, and seaplane. From neon-lit Paris nightclubs to smoky Manhattan speakeasies to Macao opium dens, we ride shotgun with Wright on an ever-steeper spiral into paranoia, fetish, and jealousy.

Until Death: An Eric Kent Investigation – Case 1

In this paranormal investigative mystery that’s like crossing Supernatural with The Sixth Sense and The Twilight Zone, a man named Eric Kent can see ghosts and gets ‘ghosted’ by his girlfriend. As a distraction from his romantic failings, Eric’s roommate Tanner sets them up on a contract for what some would consider the greatest job in the world. They must travel to the spooky mountain town of Raven Falls, Tennessee where the ghost of a mad scientist greets them with chaos and trouble. During their adventure, the pair discovers the dark past of the town that has even the least expected intertwined with its mystery.
 
 To save her, he’ll have to save everyone…
 
Eric Kent’s girlfriend just dumped him, and his life is in shambles. Also...he can see ghosts. To say he needs a distraction would be a gross understatement. Luckily, Tanner, his roommate, best friend, and practicing witch has the perfect opportunity lined up. All they have to do is drive out to the mountain town of Raven Falls, Tennessee, exorcise a ghost, and call it a day. Simple, right?
 
Not so much.
 
Eric will soon discover that the town has a history—connecting both the ghost they are attempting to exorcise and the woman he loves. Along the way, he will discover that sometimes the only way to save someone is to let them go.

Reflections

Gold Dust Publishing brings you Reflections. A charity book featuring over forty authors, actors, musicians, entertainers, teachers, counselors, and everyday people who look back to tell a younger version of themselves what their past has taught them. Each one shares how they endured a variety of situations from verbal and physical abuse, fear, suicide, rape, and change to become the best versions of themselves. The Goal? Not to toot their own horns, but to help those who are in similar situations. To show that there can be light at the end of a narrow tunnel, and to let those afflicted know that they are not alone. Each of these contributors come from all walks of life - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and even our straight allies - and give hope that you too can make it through the things that are afflicting you. A lot can be learned from taking a glimpse at the past. Looking back reminds us of where we were, how far we've come, the things we needed to change, the things we didn't. But most importantly, the blood, sweat, and tears it took us to get here.