Star Cloud Press: 179 books

“Big Brother goes stark raving mad in Harvesting Ashwood,     Cynthia Kraack's engrossing drama about family love versus an unfeeling bureaucracy. The author paints a dystopian future that's scary as hell. It makes Ayn Rand's Anthem and Jack ­London's The Iron Heel look like a day at the beach.” -- David Housewright, Edgar Award winning author of Curse of the Jade Lily

Baby-boomer Meggie Moore finds life in the small town of Pine Lake, Minnesota, a little too mundane even with her part-time job at a local gift shop. Always up for an adventure, Meggie accepts a housesitting position on Spirit Lake knowing full well there has been a rash of burglaries in that...

Abby is a nobody. That is, she was a nobody. Until a ­horrifyingly embarrassing thing happened to her. Now she’s the laughingstock of St. Theodore High. Abby is desperate to get her life back to the way it was, and after meeting a ­mysterious and unlikely ally, it seems she will get her wish....

Zach Sutton’s little brother has been missing for over a year. His parents have divorced. The police have found no clues. But it isn’t until Zach takes a field trip to Minnesota’s north woods that the mystery really begins. Faced with supernatural visions and ghostly images, Zach finds himself in a scary adventure he couldn’t have dreamed.

When a new judge disappears, everyone assumes he’s simply ran away. Only one person knows differently: his killer. With the body dumped where no one can ever find it, the killer can relax. Is this the perfect crime? Only Tim Olson seems to be curious about the whereabouts of the judge. It doesn’t...

Reporter Emerald Malloy is back at the Hot Dish Heaven Café. This time she’s in Kennedy, a small Scandinavian farm community in Minnesota’s Red River Valley, for a wedding, although the festivities are quickly muddled by a murder. While vacillating between steering clear of police business and...

A young man is found beaten to death, a radical reverend runs a suspect commune, the most sacred areas of a Catholic church are desecrated, a sabotaged railroad track leads to a deadly derailment, and a Jewish holocaust survivor is hung in effigy. All happen in too short a time span to say they are...

Deidre experiences what all parents dread: the disappearance of one of her children. A number of suspects emerge, including a convicted sex offender, an out-of-place vagabond, a rapist, and even a wife abuser. One by one, the usual suspects are crossed off the list of those who might be responsible,...

Summer of Elves is an enchanting fantasy about a twelve-year-old girl thrust into a magical world she knew nothing about. Trained by her grandmother, Aly must learn how her new-found talent and embrace the responsibility of seeing a mythical world that most humans never will see. In this coming-of-age novel, our heroine needs to embrace these powers so that good conquers evil.

A summer boating excursion on Lake Pepin takes a nasty turn when the five members of the No Ordinary Women book club discover a body aboard the Wayward Wind.  Louise and Robin begin to suspect murder, but only after unwittingly destroying evidence on the ill-fated sailboat.  A local paranormal investigator...

Father Louis Hennepin and the La Salle expedition to the Upper Mississippi have been recorded in our history books, but in Spirit Lake, we see the expedition from the view of those who lived it: the intrepid French-Canadian voyageurs. Risking their lives to explore the Upper Mississippi, these men...

Quinn Sullivan, fresh from his first year of college, returns for yet another summer to the North Shore of Minnesota, working for minimum wage at an off-season ski resort. A resort for wizards. Wizards like Quinn. Like most “mages” his age, Quinn's got no car, no money, isn't keeping up on his...

This sequel to Eye of the Wolf finds Melora St. James working to restore the piping plover, an endangered shorebird, to Lake Superior. When her former boyfriend, Drew, shows up and they find a mysterious boy lost on the beach, the story takes a surprising turn. In helping the boy, Melora and Drew learn secrets about themselves, building community, and coming to terms with the past.

A tryst of bondage.  A lover's murder.  Investigator Jon Frederick returns in a search to uncover the identity of a killer creeping through communities along I-94 in Minnesota, targeting couples who store their fetish photos online.  The killer taunts Jon with hidden messages embedded  in local...