New Book Releases for May

The Red Bench

Mental Health, Mental Illness, Memoir, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Mood Disorders

THE RED BENCH, a fantastical, visceral roman à clef follows International Model Cioffa’s descent into mental illness and bipolar disorder as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her fractured life after a nervous breakdown.

Committed to writing for 365 days she finds solace, hope, and strength through a red bench, imagination, the changing seasons and healing power of nature.

Starsky & Hutch Next Gen: Episodes 1-8

Mystery. Crime.

Not only are Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson young, single detectives with the Bay City Police Department in California, they’re brothers only a year apart, as they share the same mother, who died in an auto accident when the boys were young teenagers.

Other characters in Starsky & Hutch Next Gen include Captain Shaw (female superior), Tasha Brown (Huggy’s daughter), her boyfriend Tony (Phys Ed teacher), Mo (Davis and Kent’s snitch and psychic friend who runs a grungy gym), and Lucky (Davis and Kent’s hooker friend trying to go clean).

Davis drives a black Mustang with twin white stripes running down the hood, and Kent drives a white Audi.

Episodes 1-8.

EPISODE1: SCHOOL SHOOTER.
Young detectives Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson, sons of Starsky and Hutch, respond to a shooter at Bay City High School. You’ll be introduced to their other friends: Huggy’s daughter Tasha. A hooker/informant named Lucky. And a reluctant psychic named Momo.

EPISODE 2: MO’S VISIONS.
Young detective Davis Starsky is on a frantic search for his missing brother and partner Kent Hutchinson, and receives help from their friend and reluctant psychic, Mo.

EPISODE 3: JUNKIE.
Young detectives Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson receive an undercover assignment to infiltrate a motorcycle gang in order to trace fentanyl-laced heroin to its source and get it off the streets, but an unexpected setback places one of the partners in danger.

EPISODE 4: FIGHT
Young detectives Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson investigate underground death matches in the world of fighting.

EPISODE 5: TASHA’S LEGACY
Young detectives Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson try to help a close friend when she is viciously assaulted.

EPISODE 6: SNUFF
Detectives Davis Starsky and Kent Hutchinson go undercover to investigate the world of snuff films.

EPISODE 7: LUCKY’S STRIKE
Davis and Kent investigate the missing wife of a prominent pastor, while facing challenges in their own lives.

EPISODE 8: MARIA’S FREEDOM
A domestic violence altercation leads to danger for one of the partners.