A few years back I assisted my son in producing a documentary on suicide prevention/ dealing with many mental health issues that people suffer from - and usually suffer in silence. We titled our film SHATTERED SILENCE, and I think this is where I first began to be triggered in the direction of my OWN silence. Slowly but surely through my own writings/blogging I began to shatter my own silence and unintentionally started in the direction of an actual book. In my very frail beginnings, and NOT knowing where I was even headed, my book editor asked me if I had read the story of Princess Tamar/ King David's daughter - I had not. So I did. And it wrecked me to my core, for so many reasons. Mostly because I myself was a victim of sexual abuse in my youth years. I was raped. Tamar then kind of became who I was writing the book for, like as a tribute to her or me all the other nameless faces down through history - becoming the voice NONE of us got to have. In her sexual abuse story, it speaks of a door being slammed in her face and bolted shut as she was banished and doomed to remain desolate, just her and her shame - and, I just knew. I felt it. I heard the bolt clicking - I felt the shudder of the slam - I recognized the hopelessness of a door being bolted shut. The door represents secrets, lies, coverups, and mostly - silence. So I unbolted my own door, told my own lifelong secret, and slay the dragon of shame. I faced my past and the effects and consequences of it. THAT was the story in my first book Beyond The Bolted Door. The Road Beyond The Bolted Door is what it has looked like (and felt like) on this road to freedom - the journey of the road less traveled. And it's kind of my journal for others to learn from what I learned, and maybe learn it much sooner than I did. I am just sharing sharing my journey from pain to purpose, to show others like me that they are NOT alone. We must become our own heroes and rise up on our OWN behalf. We must do this for those who come behind us. Why we should all keep going, fulfill our own purpose and never give up, is because none of our stories are finished, until ALL of our stories are finished. My first book Beyond The Bolted Door is also available online on Amazon, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Ingram Books, Baker & Taylor. My website is https: //corinechannell.com

When a door is bolted shut, it is locked to either keep someone else out or to keep someone in. It is a door that represents secrets, shame, guilt, lies, cover-ups, and devastation. The longer we don't face what is behind the door, the longer it owns us through fear and shame. Together, let's unbolt some old corroded doors in our lives and find the freedom on the other side. My book is perfect for anyone who has ever felt silenced by their shame, and ridden with guilt that was never theirs to carry. Beginnings and endings are the bookends to every life story. And the journey itself IS the chapters in between. We ALL have a story to tell. No one should ever carry the weight of a secret burden that crushes their soul and cripples their journey. No one should ever feel their story is not worth telling or not worth hearing. If you need some hope; if you need to be reminded of your worth and value; if you need YOUR story to also be heard, then this book is for you. I wrote it for me/ for you and for ALL of us that have ever felt shut out and shut down. There IS hope beyond the bolted doors in our lives.

The pupils of St. Etheldred's - a remote boarding school in the heart of the English countryside - like nothing more than to sneak out at night and play Graveyard Games in the grounds of the derelict church across the road. But for teenage twins Richard and Abigail Arkwright, everything is about to change. When their best friend John is kidnapped by a pale-faced stranger, they are sucked into a world of darkness and danger, and discover the terrifying truth that vampires are real. Caught in a web of conspiracies, the siblings must face renegade Vampire Counts, an aging hunter, and a whole reality created and populated by the bizarre beliefs of the human race. Think you know about vampires? So did they. - Beyond the Veil explores themes of bereavement, growing apart, and the nature of beliefs, against a backdrop of suspense and otherworldly schemes. It is a darkly comic, action-packed adventure containing a wealth of vampire lore that will change the way you think about the undead forever.

"Peregrine's Progress" by Jeffery Farnol is the first book in the Jasper Shrig Mystery series and follows Peregrine. Peregrine is a young man who has been coddled by a well meaning Aunt, his whole life. But, after over hearing his two uncles talking, and realizing why they don't like him, he determines to prove himself to them and show that they were wrong about him, that will account to something one day. He sets out with a handful of change and the cloths on his back to find how to become a man.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.