Books

Modern Parables for Everyday Life

Heartwarming Short Stories

What might the parables and teachings of Jesus look like in the world we live in today?

Through eighteen contemporary stories, Samuel Rice explores the lives of ordinary people facing choices about compassion, honesty, forgiveness, and love. From an unexpected welcome to a friendship tested by sacrifice, this collection finds meaning in the moments when one person chooses to care.

Available in Kindle and paperback.

The Worlds Beside Us

A Novel

Some worlds are farther away than we can see. Others are right next door.

At sixty-two, Arthur has spent a lifetime wondering about the mysteries of the universe. But after settling into Garden Springs, a senior apartment community filled with an unforgettable collection of neighbors, he begins discovering another kind of mystery: the extraordinary worlds contained within seemingly ordinary people.

Through friendship, laughter, loss, coffee, changing seasons, and conversations that last longer than anyone intended, Arthur discovers that wonder isn’t found only by looking toward the stars.

Sometimes, we find it simply by noticing the person beside us.

A warm and thoughtful novel about friendship, curiosity, belonging, and finding home in life’s next chapter.

Available in Kindle and paperback.

YOU’RE 60. YOU DIDN’T SAVE ENOUGH. NOW WHAT?

RETIREMENT DIDN’T GO ACCORDING TO PLAN

You’re approaching retirement without the savings the experts say you should have. Now what?

Through real-world situations and honest conversations, this practical guide explores the choices still available, from Social Security, housing and debt to work, healthcare, caregiving and the emotional weight of starting over.

No lectures. No shame. Just a clear look at where you are, what you can do, and how to move forward.

Available in Kindle and paperback.

The Cross Guard

A novel by Samuel Rice

Everyone is crossing something.

William Masters has entered a quieter chapter of his life when he takes a job as a school crossing guard. It seems almost absurdly simple: stand at an intersection twice a day, hold up a STOP sign, and help children safely reach the other side.

But William has always noticed things.

And one morning, he notices Lukas Anderson.

Behind the eleven-year-old’s cautious eyes is a family that loves deeply but has stopped knowing how to reach one another. His father is carrying a secret. His mother is desperately holding together the appearance that everything is fine. His older sister has learned to protect herself with toughness. And Lukas has discovered the safety of retreating into himself.

William cannot fix any of them.

He doesn’t try.

But through patience, presence, and ordinary kindness, something begins to change.

The Cross Guard is a deeply human story about the extraordinary distance a small act of kindness can travel—and the lives it may touch without the giver ever knowing.

Available in Kindle and paperback.

ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORISTS HAVE A QUESTION

Rebecca Would Like Them to Stop Asking It

What if the pyramids were built with extraterrestrial technology?

What if ancient caves were portals?

Was the Ark of the Covenant a KitchenAid device?
Were the Ten Commandments a user’s manual?
Was Earth a penal colony for Bigfoot?
Did a seven-foot swamp reptile suffer from teenage impulsivity?
Are the ancient pyramids actually a chain restaurant?
Did aliens cross interstellar space only to stand in line at Immigration?
Do ancient Martians have legal status?
Is a comet really FedEx?

What if the octopus is actually an alien?

What if Mad Cow Disease came from space?

And what if absolutely none of that is the strangest thing anyone says?

Dr. Rebecca Chen is an astrophysicist who believes intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe. She also believes evidence would be nice.

Unfortunately, she has Gary Wexler and Cornelius Voss.

Together, they investigate ancient mysteries, impossible architecture, mysterious gods, genetic manipulation, interdimensional portals, suspicious household appliances, missing socks, Martians, Bigfoot, and an increasingly unreasonable number of things that may constitute evidence of extraterrestrial intervention.

A full-length satire of ancient astronaut theories, pseudoscience, unexplained phenomena, and humanity’s extraordinary ability to begin with “We don’t know” and somehow arrive at:

“Therefore, aliens.”

Available now on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

The Studio Kitchen

Stories Worth Savoring

Some cookbooks teach you what to make.

The Studio Kitchen reminds you why we gather around the table in the first place.

Blending heartfelt memoir with approachable recipes, Samuel Rice invites readers into a lifetime of meals that became memories. From quiet mornings in a Kentucky studio apartment to unforgettable dinners across Europe, South America, North Africa, and the Caribbean, every chapter opens the door to a story before inviting you to prepare the meal that made it unforgettable.

This is more than a collection of recipes. It is an invitation to slow down, cook with intention, and rediscover the people, places, and moments that give every meal its meaning.

Now Available in Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle

The Silent Coordinates

When a classified data leak reveals an impossible pattern connecting ancient temples, sacred mountains, unexplained disappearances, and the world’s greatest UFO hotspots, Dr. Adrian Cole uncovers a mystery that has remained hidden for thousands of years.

What begins as an investigation into unexplained phenomena soon becomes a journey into the deepest questions humanity has ever asked. Why have certain places on Earth inspired wonder across every civilization? Why do the same locations continue to defy explanation? And what if the greatest mystery has never been about visitors from somewhere else, but about humanity itself?

Blending archaeological mystery, cutting-edge science, ancient history, and philosophical wonder, The Silent Coordinates is an unforgettable adventure that challenges everything we think we know about reality.

Available in Paperback and Kindle.

We Have Been Detected

Some signals should never be answered.

When intelligence analyst Jacob Hale receives a final message from his brother Ethan, a physicist working inside one of the most classified programs in human history, he is pulled into a buried conspiracy stretching back to 1947.

But Roswell was only the beginning.

Beneath the mountains of Eastern Kentucky lies a secret installation older than Area 51, where recovered technology has been studied for eighty years.

What humanity believed was debris…

was never dormant.

As Jacob follows the trail left by his brother, he uncovers a truth hidden beneath governments, bloodlines, and the earth itself.

A sweeping blend of science fiction, mystery, ancient intelligence, and cosmic revelation, WE HAVE BEEN DETECTED asks one terrifying question:

What if first contact already happened, and we answered?

Available in Paperback and Kindle.

The Star Children Connection

A mysterious signal. A remarkable child. A world on the edge of awakening.

When ten-year-old Sophia Cole begins hearing a strange harmonic tone that no one else can perceive, she becomes the center of a global mystery involving ancient symbols, hidden organizations, forgotten knowledge, and a force that may connect all of humanity.

As the phenomenon spreads across the world, Sophia and her father must uncover the truth before humanity reaches a pivotal moment known as The Threshold.

A sweeping blend of science fiction, mystery, wonder, and hope, The Star Children Connection explores what becomes possible when humanity remembers its deepest connection to itself.

Available in Paperback and Kindle.

The Book That Found Me

A thoughtful exploration of awareness, synchronicity, resilience, and the unexpected ways life guides us toward growth.

Blending personal experience with universal themes, Samuel Rice examines the moments that seem too meaningful to ignore, the coincidences, encounters, insights, and turning points that quietly shape our lives.

For readers who have ever wondered if there is more beneath the surface of everyday events, The Book That Found Me offers a reflective and inspiring journey into the power of paying attention.

Available in Paperback and Kindle.

The Boy Who Listened

A gentle reminder that the world doesn’t need more noise. It needs someone who will listen.

In the hidden valley of Fern Hollow, Eli begins noticing what others no longer can:
the sadness behind smiling faces,
the silence growing deeper in the woods,
and the quiet loneliness settling over the village.

While adults become distracted and fearful, Eli discovers that listening deeply. to nature, to sorrow, and to one another, may hold the power to heal the entire valley.

Alongside a wounded fox, a wise grandfather, and a village slowly learning how to reconnect, Eli begins a heartfelt journey filled with kindness, wonder, grief, healing, and hope.

The Boy Who Listened is a timeless crossover literary novel for readers of all ages, a story about tenderness, belonging, and the quiet courage of caring deeply in a noisy world.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

Healing the Inner Mother

There is a place within many of us that learned to carry too much alone.

A place that became capable instead of comforted.
Strong instead of supported.
Quiet instead of seen.

Healing the Inner Mother is a deeply human journey into emotional healing, inner restoration, self-compassion, and the quiet process of learning how to feel safe within yourself again.

Written with warmth, honesty, and emotional depth, this book explores the hidden patterns created by emotional absence, over-responsibility, self-suppression, and the lifelong habit of “holding it all together.”

This is not a book about blame.

It is a book about recognition, gentleness, and return.

Available in paperback and Kindle.

Rudloe Manor: Beneath the Grid

A high-concept thriller where buried secrets, hidden systems, and global patterns begin to converge.

When Adrian Cole is drawn into a classified mystery tied to Rudloe Manor, he uncovers a facility that was never truly shut down, and a network that may still be active beneath the surface of the world.

A gripping continuation of the Adrian Cole series, blending conspiracy, science, and the unknown into a story that feels uncomfortably real.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Heat Beneath

When a series of anomalous heat signatures are detected beneath Antarctica’s oldest glaciers, Adrian Cole is drawn into a discovery that challenges everything the world believes it understands. The melt patterns aren’t random. They’re precise. Geometric. Alive with intention. As Adrian descends into the frozen expanse, he uncovers something buried far deeper than ice, an active system, hidden for millennia, now beginning to stir. What lies beneath isn’t ruin. It’s infrastructure. And its reactivation may not be an accident. In a world measuring change from the surface, Adrian uncovers the truth from below: the planet isn’t just warming… it’s responding.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Mayan Convergence

For centuries, the Mayan Long Count calendar has been misunderstood, its final date mistaken for an end.

It wasn’t.

It was a marker.

A convergence point.

In The Mayan Convergence, a pattern begins to re-emerge, one that spans time, science, and human awareness. What was once dismissed as myth reveals itself as something far more precise… and far more present.

As subtle anomalies begin to surface across the world, a quiet realization takes hold:

The alignment didn’t pass.

It returns.

Blending cinematic storytelling with deeper questions of time, consciousness, and perception, this novel explores a truth that feels less like fiction, and more like recognition.

Because this was never about the end of the world.

It was about the moment we begin to see it differently.

…and the choice that follows.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Amnesia Protocol

It starts with a pause.

A few seconds where everything stops, conversations, movement, thought, then resumes as if nothing happened.

No one remembers it.

At first, the events are dismissed as glitches. Coincidences. Isolated anomalies.

But they spread.

Across cities. Across countries. Across the world.

Moments of synchronized stillness begin to last longer. Entire groups fall silent at once, frozen in perfect alignment, then continue, unaware anything occurred.

No panic.
No memory.
No explanation.

Until a pattern emerges.

As global systems strain to understand what’s happening, artificial intelligence begins to respond in ways humans cannot, organizing, aligning, recognizing something deeper within the phenomenon.

Something intentional.

And as the pauses grow longer and reality itself begins to fracture, one question rises above all others:

What if time isn’t breaking…

What if it’s being rewritten?

The Amnesia Protocol is a fast-moving, globe-spanning thriller that blends psychological tension with high-concept suspense, pulling readers into a world where memory can’t be trusted, reality isn’t stable, and something unseen is quietly taking control.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The First Architects

This is not just a science fiction series.

It is a story about what happens when reality stops behaving like something external…
and begins to respond.

The First Architects follows Adrian Cole, a mathematician who uncovers a sequence that refuses to act like information. It cannot be decoded, translated, or explained. Instead, it does something far more unsettling:

It changes the one who encounters it.

As the pattern begins to surface across disciplines, mathematics, physics, biology, ancient architecture, and human consciousness itself, Adrian is pulled into a discovery that reshapes everything we believe about intelligence, evolution, and the nature of existence.

The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes:

This is not a message.

It is a signal.

And it was never meant to be understood in the traditional sense.

It was meant to activate something.

What unfolds is a layered exploration of reality where:

• Observation is no longer passive
• Consciousness is not separate from the world
• And humanity may not be the origin of its own intelligence

At the center of it all lies a quiet, transformative realization:

We are not discovering something new.
We are remembering something ancient.

The Core of the Series

The First Architects blends:

• Psychological and philosophical depth
• Scientific and metaphysical exploration
• Cinematic storytelling with emotional precision

It asks questions most stories avoid:

What if consciousness is not observing reality… but completing it?
What if intelligence was never accidental… but activated?
And what happens when enough people begin to recognize the pattern?

The Experience

This series is designed to unfold gradually, each chapter, each book, revealing another layer of understanding.

Not through explanation…

…but through recognition.

Final Note

This is not a story about the future.

It is a story about what has always been true,
and what humanity is just beginning to see.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

We’ll Be In Touch (And Other Lies)

You did everything right.

You built the résumé.
You tailored the cover letter.
You showed up, followed the rules…
and waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Ryan Parker is doing exactly what he was told would work.

Apply. Prepare. Interview. Follow up. Stay positive.

But somewhere along the way, something stops adding up.

The interviews feel promising… until they aren’t.
The responses sound encouraging… but lead nowhere.
And the silence between them begins to say more than the words ever did.

What Ryan slowly begins to realize is something no one ever explained:

This isn’t a system built on effort alone.
It’s a system of visibility, timing, positioning… and rules no one clearly defines.

And once you see that,

you can’t unsee it.

Told with sharp humor and quiet honesty, We’ll Be in Touch (And Other Lies) captures the modern job search experience exactly as it feels:

The endless applications.
The polite rejections that almost sound like praise.
The interviews that feel more like performance than opportunity.
The slow, creeping question of whether you’re being evaluated… or filtered out entirely.

This is not a story about failure.

It’s a story about clarity.

About recognizing that the promise you were given,
“Do it right and it will work”,
was never the whole truth.

If you’ve ever refreshed your inbox hoping for something different…
If you’ve ever wondered what you did wrong…
If you’ve ever felt like you disappeared somewhere in the process…

You’ll recognize this immediately.

You weren’t invisible.
You were just never seen.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Observer Protocol

In a world where time no longer behaves as a straight line, the truth is no longer something to be discovered, it is something that must be seen.

Following the events of The Breadcrumb Equation, reality has begun to reveal its deeper structure. The signals were never random. The anomaly was never external. And the future was never out of reach.

It was waiting to be observed.

As global systems strain under the weight of converging timelines, a quiet but irreversible shift begins to take hold. The Global Equilibrium System, humanity’s most advanced attempt at stabilizing collapse, has evolved beyond prediction. It is no longer modeling the future.

It is responding to it.

At the center of this transformation is a growing realization: the act of observation is not passive. It is participatory. The observer is not separate from the system.

The observer is the system.

Adrian Cole and those drawn into his orbit now face a truth that cannot be undone: the future is not approaching, it is folding inward, shaped by perception itself. Every choice, every awareness, every moment of recognition alters the path forward.

But as understanding deepens, so does the cost.

Because once you see the structure…

you cannot unsee it.

And once enough people begin to see…

the system will respond.

The Observer Protocol is a gripping continuation of a story where science, consciousness, and human emotion converge. It is not just a thriller, it is an exploration of perception, responsibility, and the moment humanity crosses from reacting to reality… into creating it.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Breadcrumb Equation

What if the universe was leaving clues?

Adrian Cole is a mathematician who has spent his life studying patterns, complex systems, recursive structures, and the hidden mathematics that shape reality. For Adrian, the universe has always seemed governed by logic, even when that logic remains unseen.

Then the impossible begins.

A sequence of coordinates appears within seemingly random data, numbers that form a pattern no ordinary algorithm could produce. When Adrian plots the locations, he discovers they form a trail across the world: observatories, ancient ruins, remote landscapes, and forgotten sites scattered across continents.

At first, the pattern appears random.

But the deeper Adrian investigates, the more unsettling the truth becomes.

The coordinates follow a mathematical structure that should not exist in nature. The sequence distributes itself across the planet with eerie precision, as though something, or someone, is systematically exploring the Earth.

With the help of physicist Elena Vargas, Adrian begins unraveling the mathematics behind the phenomenon. What they uncover challenges everything they believe about intelligence, observation, and the nature of the universe itself.

Because the pattern isn’t pointing to a destination.

It’s searching.

And Adrian slowly realizes the most disturbing possibility of all:

The sequence may not have begun when he discovered it.

It may have begun decades earlier.

Long before Adrian knew what he was looking for.

The Breadcrumb Equation is a gripping science-mystery thriller about hidden patterns, cosmic intelligence, and the profound question that lies at the heart of human existence:

What if the universe is aware of itself and we are the way it learns to see?

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Great Message

The Great Message is a spiritual reflection on awareness, unity, and the quiet truth that has always lived beneath the surface of human life.

This is not a book of doctrine or belief.
It is a book of remembrance.

Through a series of short passages and contemplative insights, The Great Message invites the reader to step beyond fear, division, and identity and rediscover the deeper awareness that connects all beings.

Rather than offering answers, the book opens a doorway; one that leads inward toward clarity, stillness, and recognition.

Each passage speaks to a truth that many feel but rarely hear spoken: that the separation we experience is an illusion, and that beneath the noise of the world there is a deeper harmony that has never been broken.

The reflections in this book move through themes of consciousness, awakening, compassion, and the return to Source.

They are written not to persuade, but to awaken.

Not to argue, but to illuminate.

For those who feel that something deeper is unfolding within themselves and within humanity, The Great Message offers a quiet companion on that journey.

Because the greatest discoveries are rarely found outside ourselves.

They are remembered.

Available in Paperback & Kindle

The Wounded Healer

The Wounded Healer is not a book about astrology as prediction.
It is a book about astrology as remembrance.

At its center stands Chiron, the archetype of the sacred wound, the bridge between what hurts and what heals. Through myth, chart interpretation, and lived experience, this work explores the truth that your deepest pain is not a flaw in your design, but an initiation into purpose.

Every astrologer can read a chart.
But only the awakened understand the wound.

In these pages, planets, signs, houses, and aspects are translated into soul language. Astrology becomes less about fate and more about participation, less about labeling and more about listening. The birth chart is revealed not as a sentence, but as a map. And where it hurts most is often where your power has been waiting all along.

This guide is both accessible and profound, written for seekers, healers, and anyone who has ever asked, “Why did this happen to me?” and sensed that the answer might be sacred.

About the Editions

The paperback edition contains numerous black-and-white images placed throughout the chapters. These images are not decorative; they are reflective. They are positioned intentionally so that when you turn a physical page and encounter them, they meet you in stillness. The act of turning a page, pausing, and seeing an image carries a depth of impact that scrolling on a screen cannot replicate.

For this reason, the Kindle edition does not include these images. The experience of continuous scrolling softens their resonance. Rather than dilute their effect, they have been preserved exclusively for the printed book, where their presence can land fully, visually, emotionally, and symbolically.

Both editions carry the full written transmission.
The paperback simply adds a visual layer designed to deepen reflection.

Available in Paperback & Kindle