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.

Dylan West and Scribes’ Descent
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Dylan West and Scribes’ Descent

People worship technology on Planet Daishon.

With inventions that prolong life and eradicate disease, it’s little wonder. Death seems obsolete until an earthquake kills thousands, including Mallory’s parents. They should have lived for a thousand years, not just fifty. Mallory scrambles for answers. Such a disaster shouldn’t be possible.

Quakes have never happened on this world before.

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Victoria L Short and Through the Water, Darkly
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Victoria L Short and Through the Water, Darkly

What if their future lay in her past?

Caroline Curtis is an avid horticulturalist, who is injured during the restoration of a local country estate. She wakes in a familiar body, but a different time, and with mixed memories of her twenty-first century life and those of a seventeenth century lady, which causes difficult conflicts not only in herself but the people around her.

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Leani M. Lopez and Lost in the Dark
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Leani M. Lopez and Lost in the Dark

After a mass extinction lays waste to the world, Dr. Ivy Solis finds herself on her own. Two years of solitude and struggling to survive in the harsh snowy wilderness have taken their toll. She’s convinced she’s the last person alive until a freezing and delirious mountain man named Simon stumbles into her cabin.

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Michael Steward and Harvest
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Michael Steward and Harvest

A young British teacher goes missing in Beijing and two private detectives are sent to the Chinese capital to hunt for her…

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Rachel Le Mesurier and Artie’s Courage
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Rachel Le Mesurier and Artie’s Courage

Esperanza lives a charmed life. The daughter of a wealthy landowner, her family is thrilled when she attracts the attentions of the handsome and mysterious Don Raúl, opening the door to a glittering life of opulence for them all.

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Kyle Bentley and The Nightmare Schematic
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Kyle Bentley and The Nightmare Schematic

The book tells the story of Connor, who has dreamt of horrible machines ever since he was a child. Years of nightmares have left the young inventor clinging desperately to his unravelling sanity, but the worst part is the gnawing certainty he could build those mechanical terrors, no matter how impossible they might seem.

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Barry Ryerson and The Magic Circle
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Barry Ryerson and The Magic Circle

Three strangers—an art student in Paris, a Russian spy, and a South African programmer—find their lives intertwine as magic returns to Earth.

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Benjamin J. Ryan and Beckoning of the Gate
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Benjamin J. Ryan and Beckoning of the Gate

The only life Santha Lathagin has ever known has become her prison. Vicious gossip is everywhere. Whispers of a scandal have turned to accusations of murder, and fingers are pointing her way. Feeling powerless and alone, she yearns for escape.

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Mallory Smart and The Only Living Girl In Chicago
Kerry Freeman Kerry Freeman

Mallory Smart and The Only Living Girl In Chicago

Zoe Clark is back in Chicago, and she already wants to run. But she can never turn her back on her monstrous hometown again. Grief, technology, isolation, and emptiness keep her up at night. Or maybe it's the coffee…

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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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