Books and Bevies

Established in 2022, Books and Bevies created a community where authors could connect with their readers on a different level, through beverages! From coffee to cocktails, writers of fiction and nonfiction alike have found their readers across the globe right here on the blog.

Rob Edmunds and Masinissa: Ally of Carthage
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Rob Edmunds and Masinissa: Ally of Carthage

Masinissa: Ally of Carthage is the first part of the story of the experiences of the Numidian Prince and later King Masinissa during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Masinissa’s involvement in the war was substantial, even pivotal, and he is still revered today across North Africa as the founding father of the Amazigh/Berber people.

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D.T. Kane and The Acktus Trials (Part 1 of The Spoken Books Uprising)
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

D.T. Kane and The Acktus Trials (Part 1 of The Spoken Books Uprising)

"Reading Books can get you killed."

In the land of Oration, magic is cast by reading aloud words of power from Spoken Books. Only a select few, the Speakers, are born with the ability to do so. But after a disaster nearly destroyed Oration, society grew to fear the Speakers' power and they were hunted and enslaved, never taught to read. Now they live in oppression, unable to use their magic unless a spell is first read aloud to them.

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Lauren Sefchik and Key of Arcandus
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Lauren Sefchik and Key of Arcandus

A bookish pariah finds her world turned upside down when a nefarious outsider leaves a trail of death in his wake. As the sole survivor of the onslaught, Siroun finds herself accused of crimes she didn’t commit and banished from her homeland.

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Casie Aufenthie and The Drift
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Casie Aufenthie and The Drift

In a future where the human race has split into three species, the mentally-evolved Illuminatos have conquered the other two in a brutal Evolutionary War. Now, the seven most powerful Illuminatos, the Council, control the Earth, ruling over the other two human species through violent oppression.

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Nikki Knight and Live, Local, and Dead
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Nikki Knight and Live, Local, and Dead

LIVE, LOCAL, AND DEAD (Crooked Lane Books) follows New York City DJ Jaye Jordan’s new start at a tiny Vermont radio station, after her husband survives cancer but their marriage doesn’t. She thinks she’s got enough trouble with protests for replacing angry talk with love songs…

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Kyrie Wang and Forbidden Ties
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Kyrie Wang and Forbidden Ties

The orphans. The outcast. In a country torn by rebellion, they will rise as heroes. 1075 A.D. England, nine years after the Norman Conquest…

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C.P. Lesley and Song of the Sinner
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

C.P. Lesley and Song of the Sinner

After surviving marriage to a brute, Solomonida Sheremeteva has sworn never to take another husband. As a boyar’s widow, she at last has the right to choose her own destiny, and she intends to devote her attention to securing a happier future for her daughter. Never mind that she has feelings for a handsome official. His inferior rank means that any association with him can only damage her own child’s prospects.

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Mark Schorr and The Master Mind
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Mark Schorr and The Master Mind

Is he crazy or really living a crazy dangerous life?

When geeky Tom Lord tries to stop an attempted assault, he is in over his head. He’s getting beatdown until he is saved with ease by the near victim’s sister, Diana Wynne. Impressed by each other’s bravery and different skill sets, the two become an awkward couple.

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Caroline Rebisz and A Mother’s Deceit
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Caroline Rebisz and A Mother’s Deceit

Set in 1840s English countryside. Mary, young and naïve, marries the local innkeeper, John. Unfortunately her husband's best friend wants her too and will stop at nothing to destroy the young couple's happiness.

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Helen Aitchison and The Dinner Club
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Helen Aitchison and The Dinner Club

Five people. Five secrets. Each needing healing, support and acceptance. Derek's life has changed suddenly. His wife of the past few decades has left him, unable to live with his secret anymore. Inspired by a TV show, he decides to start a dinner club to make new friends, the kind that might accept him if he can be brave enough to tell them the truth.

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Helen Trevorrow and New Brighton
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Helen Trevorrow and New Brighton

WHAT IF THE TRUTH ISN'T OUT THERE? WHAT IF IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND? During a vicious storm, a battered ship runs aground on Brighton beach. While the city on the sea comes to a ghostly standstill, the unusual event triggers an epic journey for young waitress, Robyn Lockhart. First, Robyn needs to find the ship’s mysterious cargo, but…

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Lucy A. McLaren and Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Lucy A. McLaren and Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1

The Kingdom of Septima is ruled in all but name by the Commune, a ruthless cult that seeks control of an ancient power that has taken root in unsuspecting children in Septima. To maintain their hold on the kingdom, the Commune will stop at nothing to capture children who show signs of this power, to be weaponized or eliminated. 18-year-old Evelyn Folksman is in hiding. Taken in by a tavern-owner, she is haunted by the horrific events that drove her from her home years before.

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Michael Westmoreland and Sons of osiris: The sword of kings
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Michael Westmoreland and Sons of osiris: The sword of kings

The kingdom of Hostellus stands along the brink of war as two Osirian royals claw at each other for an advantage. The feared Black Prince sends an expedition to retrieve his ancestor’s long-lost artifact while the king scours the lands on a similar campaign. Lost in between his brothers…

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Christina Kilbourne and The Limitless Sky
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Christina Kilbourne and The Limitless Sky

Rook and Gage live worlds apart ― but somehow they must find a way to help one another survive.

Trapped in a life she didn’t choose, Rook struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as an apprentice Keeper of ArHK. Even though her mam soothes her with legends of the Outside and her da assures her there are many interesting facts to discover in the Archives, Rook sees only endless years of tracking useless information. Then one day…

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Martin Kearns and Beneath the Veil
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Martin Kearns and Beneath the Veil

In a battle between two ancient evils, can one naïve young man become the last hope against powerful creatures of legend?

David Dolan thinks he's already got the world figured out. But when a collapsed bridge plunges him into the icy Hudson, he's pulled deep into the deadly realm that exists between life and death…

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Alan Baxter and The Fall (Tales from the Gulp 2)
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Alan Baxter and The Fall (Tales from the Gulp 2)

The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.

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Courtney Davis and A Spider in the Garden
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Courtney Davis and A Spider in the Garden

Aranha is a spider shifter who's been alone for a hundred years, living in the shadows thinking that she's the last of her kind. She hates what she has to do to survive and wonders if she deserves to exist…

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