Books published by Pandamoon Publishing

There's a line that runs alongside our ordinary lives, just beyond the grind of things. Jason Beem's novel Southbound derails your ordinary life and shoots you into the thrill, rush, and dark brutal truths of gambling and racing. And he doesn't flinch. A glorious and visceral book. I sweat reading it.'Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase.Based on Amazon Best Selling author Jason Beem's own painful journey with a gambling addiction, Southbound follows Ryan McGuire, a horse racing announcer who faces his gambling demons on a daily basis. Just one bet could cost him everythinghis job, his friends, his fans, his girlfriend, and even his own life. Despite knowing that all he loves is on the line, he succumbs to his vices and his life quickly spirals out of control. He's on a straight path southbound to rock bottom and only he has the power to stop it.';A gritty fearless portrayal of a man in the midst of a gambling breakdown. A relapse to end all relapses. It's as horrifying as it is intense and written with a lean sharp eye.'--Willy Vlautin, author of The Free and The Motel Life';Jason Beem's Southbound begins with the drama of a close horse race and it never lets up from there. Beem has written a smart, perceptive novel one that is about the difficulties of addiction and recovery but also about the yearning for love, and the ways people fill the vacancies in their lives. It's saturated with the sensory joys of the race track, and a pleasure to read.' Pauls Toutonghi, Pushcart Prize winning author of Evel Knievel Days and Red Weather

Upon the Crimson Moon, you can expect great strife to follow…After Angelina survives her nightmarish journey into the Crimson Forest and unlocks its mysteries, she returns home with the knowledge that true magic does, in fact, exist. She now lives happily with the love of her life, Nicolai, and with time has found normality finally returning.However, nightmares foretelling of the Earth’s demise with the rise of a crimson moon begin to plague Angelina. Nicolai insists that the forest is not to blame, but soon Angelina's friend Laurana is abducted by a stranger who disappears into the forest with her. To save her friend and discover what the stranger has to do with her nightmares, Angelina must bring herself to return to the place that has already caused her so much misery.The weight of saving humanity once again rests upon Angelina’s shoulders, but time is swiftly running out. With her companions by her side, she will once again fight to save the world she loves, no matter the cost.

The Kingdom of Colonodona has been peaceful for years, and a new generation of royalty now flourishes beneath the watchful eyes of Queen Sitnalta and King Navor. Prince Lucas studies magic from his mentor, the Wizard Kralc, while his older sister, Princess Audrina, prepares for the distant day when she’ll take on the mantle of Queen. With the prince and princess preoccupied by the everyday concerns of magic and rulership, the excitement of their mother’s youth seems long past—except for the nightmares plaguing Prince Lucas’s sleep with what he fears are premonitions of a deadly future.When a young woman enters the lives of the royal family with a story of loss and a request for help, she quickly becomes Prince Lucas’ unexpected confidant and Princess Audrina gravitates toward her in ways that place her in a difficult situation for an heir. As a search unfolds for the young woman’s absent father, the prince’s nightmares become increasingly horrifying, the princess’ feelings grow more complicated, and the newcomer’s intentions are cast into doubt. The royal family must discover the secret of the stranger in their midst before hearts are irrevocably broken and events reveal whether or not Prince Lucas’ dreams are truly prophecy in ‘The Wizard’s Apprentice : Book One of the Children of Colonodona. 

Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her twelfth birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, ten years later she leaves her life in southern Michigan and heads north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek after seeing his picture in a local newspaper. Once there, she discovers her father had been leading a double life and meets the autistic brother she never knew—a young man who is mute but able to read her mind.When a local girl who looks like Justine is mysteriously murdered, she joins forces with sheriff's deputy Dylan Locke to capture the killer. But the more they dig for clues to the past, the closer they come to discovering a secret someone will kill to protect. Justine begins to show signs of supernatural power and eventually must stop an immortal enemy that has hunted her family for generations.

The end is here, and Asmodeus is out for blood.The Song of War follows the continuing adventures of Carrie and her friends. In the time since the events of The Song of Hadariah and The Song of Vengeance, Asmodeus has been growing his army and is determined to get his vengeance for all that his daughter Emilia and her friend Carrie have done to stop him. Hampered by the fact that he is now confined in a mortal body, Asmodeus fights to keep his power, and hide his limitations. All the while, he is inflicting as much death and destruction on all who dare cross his path.Meanwhile, Carrie, Lindsay, Rebecca and Emilia are all determined to live their lives in peace, ignoring the threat looming over all of them and those they love. But this peace can not last. Soon, Carrie and her friends are dealing with the pain of loss, and it is becoming increasingly clear that they may not make it out of this alive. Can they defeat Asmodeus once and for all? Can they finally bring peace to the land, and go back to their lives in one piece?

In book 4 of award winning Alisse Lee Goldenberg's Sitnalta Series, she continues to thrill readers with Princess Sitnalta's exploits.A strange illness is sweeping through the kingdom of Colonodona bringing pain and death wherever it hits. Gwendolyn, a young hedgewitch has made the startling discovery that the illness is one that has been created out of magic. Leaving her home, she makes the trip to the capitol to see the King. There, she is teamed up with Duke Ipsinki and sent out to find the wizard responsible. As they rush to find the cure, the disease strikes the capitol infecting Ipsinki's mother, Queen Aud, and Princess Sitnalta. It is now a race against the clock. Along the way, Gwendolyn realizes that Ipsinki is unlike any other man she has met, while the Duke sees that there is more to life than paperwork and duty. While the two may find love, will they find the cure in time to save their loved ones?

Alisse Lee Goldenberg's Dybbuk Scrolls Trilogy is based on Yiddish and Eastern European Folk tales and mythology set in contemporary times and the alternative world of Hadariah.It has been nearly two years since the events in The Song of Hadariah, and Carrie has adjusted to life as a university student far from her friends. However, when the path to Hadariah is sealed, she starts to fear malevolent forces may be behind the other strange occurrences around her. Trying to contact Lindsay and Rebecca to get help in unraveling the mystery, Carrie discovers that her friends are in fact missing. With no way of knowing who to trust, Carrie must find a way back to the land she once saved to rescue her friends from the dybbuks' clutches. Reuniting with the dybbuk princess Emilia, and finding a new friend in the mysterious farmer Mikhail, Carrie must once again do battle with Asmodeus's forces, and help stop the chaos that threatens to overtake the land while striving to save both Lindsay and Rebecca. For the first time, Carrie is working without the two friends who have helped her through every major decision in her life. Carrie must learn to rely on herself, and find her own strengths to save those she holds dear.

A child is wounded, a teenage girl goes missing, and a man is kidnapped…In this story about clashing values and the search for connection in a multicultural world, the drummer wakes the faithful during Ramadan in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood of Little Mecca so that they can eat before beginning their daily fast. But in this culturally diverse American city, the Ramadan drummer wakes believers and nonbelievers alike.As anti-Muslim activists picket a community fair, shots ring out and a child is gravely wounded. Police detective Ezra Kaufman-who is dealing with the loss of his wife and seeking some kind of spiritual solace from his Jewish tradition-is assigned to investigate. In the course of his investigation he meets reporter Aisha Hassan, an observant though liberal-minded Muslim who is covering the same story.At a party, the young daughter of a prominent Muslim family initiates a sexual encounter with an older teenage boy. Somebody posts photos of the incident on Facebook, and the girl disappears. Both Ezra and Aisha get involved. Confronting misogyny, homophobia, and the tyranny of teenage cliques, rejecting both fundamentalism and intolerance, Ezra, Aisha, and the others learn that they must chart their own paths toward spiritual meaning and personal connection.

In Alisse Lee Goldenberg's fifth and final book in her award winning Sitnalta series, we find a mature Princess Sitnalta facing intrigue, revolution, murder, redemption, and an upcoming marriage in one final story. It is a must read for the followers of this series. Desperate for revenge over the death of his friend, the Duke Sparrow finds himself in the possession of some information that will rock the foundation of Colonodona's monarchy. As the Princess Sitnalta comes of age, Sparrow unleashes his plan for chaos, throwing everyone Sitnalta loves into danger, as he questions whether or not she is fit to rule. Seeing the mistrust and mutiny in her subjects, Sitnalta questions everything she thinks she knows about herself and her past as she makes some hard choices and sacrifices to keep her family safe, and to secure the future of her kingdom.

Sometimes the difference between trash and treasure is a matter of life and death Welcome back to New Royal, Ohio, where the last descendent of its founding family, ninety-seven-year-old Viola Horup, has been bludgeoned to death in her mansion on an icy December night, leaving behind boxes of treasure and garbage. Detective Steve Rasmussen isn't a stupid man, but he likes simple solutions, meaning he's destined to butt heads with Crocus Rowe, a punk ex-con alumna of the University's Crime Writing Program, who doesn't believe that Viola's murder is just a "robbery-gone-wrong." Crocus' theory is proven correct in the most gruesome way possible when she discovers the broken body of an estate agent in Viola's cellar. Against the backdrop of a community obsessed with a mysterious game involving the sudden appearance of words and phrases scattered all over town, Crocus seeks answers in the dark history of New Royal where all roads lead to Crybaby Lane. New Royal is the place to be for lovers of great crime and mysteries...

In the tradition of Asimov, Heinlein, H.G. Wells, and Lewis Carroll; Elgon Williams has created a universe where imagination rules and reality is not what it seems.Leave your world behind and enter an adventure forever lost but never forgotten. Where only magic is real, and anything is possible.When Brent Woods, a middle-aged computer technician delivers a new computer system to an eccentric woman who lives in a strange house with no windows, she offers to reconnect him with his childhood dreams and fantastic imagination. Alongside his best friend Lucy, Brent explores the seemingly infinite possibilities of the ';Inworld' where she lives, a place where everything about anything can change with a thought. Nevertheless, in the process of remembering his past as Carlos, Lord of Bartoul in the Interrealm, Brent exposes a dark potential that threatens his family and his life as he knows it.When his youngest daughter is attacked in her dreams by the same forces that took away his kingdom, and Lucy's. Brent seeks answers that lie somewhere in the truth of what happened in his past, and how he lost his connection to the Interrealm. He must find a way to correct his mistakes and solve the puzzle of his best friend's life.Fried Windows: In a Light White Sauce is an unforgettable journey into imaginationa feast of delightful characters whose perspective of their worlds will change the way you think about yoursforever.