Ash Phoenix Books

Title: Crows on the Cross
Author: Kristy Tallman

Franz Kafka, in his Letter to Oskar Pollak, said, “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us…We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Crows on the Cross has been deemed such a book.

Drew and Rainey, two rebels with a cause wake up a thousand miles apart disturbed by a past that won’t rest. Both abused as children by more than just predators of the skin, their very faith in the person who should save them is shot to hell. Now the two of them are speeding toward each other down hell’s highway in Rainey’s mysterious ‘69 Caddie, Baby who seemingly awakens the ghosts of their past. Revelations, unfold as the miles click down steering each of them toward the other but not without paying heed to the monsters who destroyed both their lives.

Title: Fall On Me
Author: Rowan Lore

Fall On Me picks up where Orange left off.
Demen owns a successful magazine. She’s business savvy, but makes poor choices in men. Her latest flame is Adam, a shallow, insecure musician who proves to be another bad choice. Her ex-boyfriend, Bob, pops back in the scene, and she’s both delighted and weary. Demen questions what she really wants while tending to some friends in need. Dollar, her close friend, has returned from a road trip where he’s been beaten by three guys, and she worries how it will affect him. Her best friend, Karyn, is in an abusive relationship, which leaves her feeling helpless in trying to support her. Patience is hard to come by with Karyn, but necessary. She sees Dollar in a new light when he defends her from an unwelcome pass with his newfound strength and maturity. She runs into Bob again, only this time she knows what she wants, and it’s not him.

Title: Orange
Author: Rowan Lore

Orange is the story of a young woman at a crossroad in her life. Orphaned in her teen years she has spent the last 8 years running her own magazine that is about to go national and she has to decide if that is what she really wants.

The great dialogue between the characters, ranging from popular culture and modern music to the same fears and dreams we all face, really made the book for me. It reminded me of the dialogue in The Breakfast Club, only more mature. Dan C. -reviewer

Title: The All-Souls Faire
Author: Kristy Tallman

Author Kristy Tallman released her first full-length novel titled The All-Souls Faire in 2006.

A goat’s head staring back at Detective Cole Bryant from within the bowels of his latest victim sets forth a string of unnatural deaths among the teenagers that live in the shadow of the cursed North Mountain. Trying to solve the case only brings Cole closer to dark side where temptation, sex and sinful ways lure him into the world of a family whose backwoods morals aren’t simply a symptom of a forgotten age in time but the consequence of a centuries old pact made with the devil himself.

Ash Phoenix Books is a small press. We currently publish general fiction which consists of: contemporary fiction, crime thrillers, psychological thrillers, speculative fiction, and selective poetry.

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