Putting a contemporary spin on her favorite themes of St. George, the dragon, knights and all things medieval, Ellen Ekstrom, author of The Legacy and Armor of Light, brings us A Knight on Horseback. Meet Violet Ellison - a working mother, faithful, supportive wife, aspiring author, history student and pretty much burned-out and fed up with life. Just when she thinks she can’t fit another thing on her plate, she’s put to the test where it concerns love and finding happiness. But one thing: Violet doesn’t need a knight in shining armor. Just some personal space. And maybe some sleep.

ISBN: 978-1-926760-19-3
Word Count: 125,000
Published: November 2009

Frank Denali is just Denali - a gritty, unflappable, balding man. He's headed out to get some beer, but his short trip leads to a much longer journey of self discovery...

ISBN: 978-0-9812737-8-5
Word Count: 80,600
Published: May 2009

Crooked Moon, first and foremost, is a human drama, an emotional journey into the lives of two women and those closest to them.

As children, Frankie Cavalese and Callie Mason were the very best of friends, growing up together behind opposite walls of a row home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Philadelphia called Rainytown. The friendship they shared was special - the kind that storybook heroines had - and neither ever considered the possibility of it not lasting forever. But after high school, life interfered and circumstances separated them as they each went on to live in drastically different worlds.

Twenty-three years later, one hot unsettled summer, their lives come crashing back together when Callie, who has led a life of privilege, returns to Rainytown and finds her old friend still living in her childhood home, unmarried, and caring for her angry dying mother, Ruby. Frankie is faded. Her signature tenacity is threadbare as she routinely implores her playboy brother, Paulie, to help ease the burden of being their mother’s sole caregiver.

As the two women reconnect, Frankie tries to forgive Callie for abandoning the friendship, while Callie wrestles with the guilt of having disappeared.

To complicate the fragile reunion, Callie's marriage to her husband, Jackson, is suddenly at risk, further muddled by the affections of (and attraction to) Paulie. Tensions and passions explode in the sweltering heat, and amid pain and tragedy, each woman not only ends up with a life-altering secret regarding the other, but the burning question of what to do with it.

ISBN: 978-0-9815836-5-5
Word Count: 119,800
Published: June 2009 (Digital edition)

Julia Becker is a 25-year-old elementary school librarian living in upstate New York with her successful journalist husband, Jim. Up until the moment Jim is involved in an accident while away on business, Julia’s life is comfortable, secure, and hardly exciting. While tending to Jim, however, Julia uncovers some hard truths about herself, her husband, and their marriage. And when a new teacher begins at Carson Elementary, Julia finds her allegiance to both her husband and her best friend, Kris, being put to the test.

ISBN: 978-1-926760-16-2
Word Count: 61,500
Published: November 2009

A lonely, yet content mall security guard is about to have his life turned upside down. He never anticipated finding a soul mate, and in a short period of time learns the joy and pain that love brings. He recounts his tale in a series of journal entries in this modern day tragedy.

ISBN: 978-1-926760-10-0
Word Count: 18,000
Published: October 2009

Australian Denny Banister had it all; a successful career, a passion for the guitar, and Sonya - the love of his life. Tragically, Denny is struck down with inoperable cancer. Andy DeVries has almost nothing; alienated from his family, moving through a dangerous Chicago underworld dealing in drugs, battling addiction while keeping a wavering hold on the only thing that matters to him: a place at a prestigious conservatory for classical guitar in Chicago. As Andy recovers from a near fatal overdose, he is plagued by dreams - memories of a love he has never felt, and a life he's never lived. Driven by the need for redemption and by the love for a woman he's never met, he begins a quest to find her, knowing her only by the memories of a stranger and the dreams of a place called Hambledown...

ISBN: 978-1-926760-27-8 (Digital) 978-1-926760-30-8 (Print)
Word Count: 80,000
Published: January 20, 2010
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