{"id":5730,"date":"2021-09-09T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?page_id=5730"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:43:40","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Review%3A%20Passage%20to%20Moorea%20by%20B.R.%20O%27Hagan\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><div  id=\"books\" class=\"features-image-cards-section stripped-features-image-cards-section content-relative\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; background-size: cover; background-position: center top;\" data-label=\"Books\" data-id=\"stripped-features-image-cards-section\" data-category=\"overlapable\" data-=\"\" data-overlap=\"true\" data-ovid=\"ovid-overlapable-3-6970\">\n<h2  style=\"text-align: center;\"><span  style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Transit Series<\/span><span  id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><span  style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\ufeff<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p  style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n\n<div  class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-innerrow flexbox-list\" data-type=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/445d9Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWG_hb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">THE WIDENING GYRE: TRANSITS OF POWER<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><span  style=\"font-style: italic;\">Abel, recently exiled, teams up with a New Emilian and the great-grandson of his people\u2019s founder to bridge the divide between their societies, but a new threat from the technologically advanced Zhanshi tribe tests their partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/445d9Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/twg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LG2gLk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AWLB_hb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">ALL WE LEAVE BEHIND: TRANSITS OF THREE<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><span  style=\"font-style: italic;\">As the transits of three different groups get underway, new dangers and surprises emerge from within the rainforests, mountains, and deserts of the planet\u2026and one of those may have followed them from Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LG2gLk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/awlb\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/401L5bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAS_hb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">SUNSHINE AND SHADOW: EXODUS, OR THE SECOND TRANSIT<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><span  style=\"font-style: italic;\">After Father Elijah Jonas convinced his followers to abandon the purgatory that was Earth and travel on faith to a new world, life seems great.<\/span><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">But dangers lurk under the surface, forcing the colony to make difficult choices.<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/401L5bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/sas\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Z9icsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/OODS_hb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">OUT OF DUE SEASON: THE FIRST TRANSIT<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >Would we make the same mistakes if society started over? Elijah Jonas is willing to take 311 others with him to find out.<\/i><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">The genesis of a new world\u2013and a new series\u2013is underway.<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Z9icsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/oods\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  id=\"books\" class=\"features-image-cards-section stripped-features-image-cards-section content-relative\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; background-size: cover; background-position: center top;\" data-label=\"Books\" data-id=\"stripped-features-image-cards-section\" data-category=\"overlapable\" data-=\"\" data-overlap=\"true\" data-ovid=\"ovid-overlapable-3-6970\">\n<h2  style=\"text-align: center;\">Novels &amp; Novellas<\/h2>\n<p  style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n\n<div  class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-innerrow flexbox-list\" data-type=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Jpu8k8\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BG_3d_cover.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">BENEATH GEHENNA<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >One world preys on trauma. Another creates it. Choose wisely.<\/i><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">A&nbsp;Lovecraftian steampunk apocalyptic sci-fi horror like no other!<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Jpu8k8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/bg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46ovHJC\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CASTLES_pb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">CASTLES<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >Maggie doesn\u2019t know if her latest actions are the only bricks left to her castle in the sky, she hopes you\u2019ll understand if they\u2019re not.<\/i><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">How far would you go to build a castle in the sky?<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46ovHJC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/castles\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NoPdgz\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BOA_pb.png\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">BEANS OF ANAFI<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >Alexandros Iraklidis, a timid farm boy on the Greek island of Anafi, yearns for adventure and a new life away from his family farm and the routine in which he feels trapped.\n<br ><br >As Alexandros is to learn, life is not found where you are but in what you do.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NoPdgz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/beans-of-anafi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42uM9q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DM_pb.png\" alt=\"A Difficult Mirror\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">DIFFICULT MIRRORS<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><span  style=\"font-style: italic;\">Everyone has a void.&nbsp;Who \u2013 or what \u2013 will fill it?\n<\/span><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sometimes the question is too painful to ask, the answer too painful to hear.&nbsp;When the past becomes the present, how difficult is your mirror?<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42uM9q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info-circle\">Available Now<\/a>\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/a-difficult-mirror\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sunset-Maior-Pales-Western-Novella-ebook\/dp\/B09K4MGRRQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642357704-e1642358464668.png\" alt=\"Sunset at Maior Pales\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">SUNSET ON MAIOR PALES \u2013 A SCI-FI WESTERN NOVELLA<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >How do you follow orders when doing so would break one law but not doing so would break another?<\/i><\/p>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">How does a robot gain a soul?<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sunset-Maior-Pales-Western-Novella-ebook\/dp\/B09K4MGRRQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/sunset-on-maior-pales\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43g5awb\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sketches_combined.jpg\" alt=\"Out of Due Season: The First Transit\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\" data-read-aloud-multi-block=\"true\">\n<h4  class=\"\">THE SKETCHES FROM THE SPANISH MUSTANG<\/h4>\n<p  class=\"\"><i >A collection of novellas that offer an intimate glimpse into the fictional lives of the characters of Cripple Creek, Colorado.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3OQ2fWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"\">Available Now<\/a>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/the-sketches-from-the-spanish-mustang\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  id=\"books\" class=\"features-image-cards-section stripped-features-image-cards-section content-relative\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; background-size: cover; background-position: center top;\" data-label=\"Books\" data-id=\"stripped-features-image-cards-section\" data-category=\"overlapable\" data-=\"\" data-overlap=\"true\" data-ovid=\"ovid-overlapable-3-6970\">\n<h2  style=\"text-align: center;\">Collections &amp; Anthology Appearances<\/h2>\n<p  style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n\n<div  class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-innerrow flexbox-list\" data-type=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3lmrkMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BTW_pb.png\" alt=\"Regarding Dead Things on the Side of the Road\"><\/a>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardtextrow\" data-type=\"column\">\n<h4  class=\"\">BEYOND THE WILDWOOD: A COLLECTION OF THE CREATIVE<\/h4>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">From a desert between worlds to a newly inhabited planet light years from Earth, Beyond the Wildwood presents an eclectic collection of 16 short stories, 2 novellas, 10 works of art, 2 essays and 2 articles.<\/span>\n\n<hr  class=\"features-image-cards-separator\">\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3lmrkMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"\">Available Now<\/a>\n\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/beyond-the-wildwood-a-collection-of-the-creative\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-icon=\"fa-info\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardcol cp6cols-tablet cp3cols\">\n<div  class=\"features-image-cards-cardrow\"><a  class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3JzeZg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img  decoding=\"async\" class=\"features-image-cards-featimg\" 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