Suspense/Thriller
Azreal's Ledge
David Boiani
So many tortured souls have been drawn to Azreal’s Ledge to end their lives.
After retiring from an exhausting career in Clinical Psychology, Alyson Hope Derby was looking for a peaceful retreat to settle down and write her first book. In the sleepy, coastal town of Stonington Maine, she fell in love with an obscure cabin perched above the bluffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
From the beginning it became clear there was more to this home than she could have ever imagined. Local folklore contained an ominous, cautioning narrative that would soon introduce itself through Alyson’s vivid nightmares.
Alyson embarks on a quest to uncover the cryptic history and solve the mystery of the cliff that local town folk gloomily refer to as Azreal’s Ledge…
…with so many secrets.
Mens Rea
Gary S. Kadet
Insurance Adjustor George Arrant of Elsmere, Delaware is at odds with the world.
George is suffering a mental breakdown. The pressures of economic failure in an economy benefitting only the rich have culminated in the foreclosure and seizure of his home, which George’s wife and two children know nothing about. He’s been keeping his firing and mounting destitution a secret from his family to avoid worrying them.
Hours before the police, the bank representative, and the moving men are to arrive, he unlocks his gun cabinet, takes a shotgun and blasts his wife and children into eternity. He believes he’s saving them from the humiliation and brutality of poverty in America. After the ensuing failed suicide attempt, George wanders in a fugue state to Wilmington, where he encounters Rich Simony, the young VP of his foreclosing bank. George murders Rich for his credit cards, bank accounts and his Cadillac Escalade. He then flees Delaware for Providence, Rhode Island’s Crimetown – seat of the New England La Cosa Nostra.
George takes up with lead NECLN crime boss, Sallie “Jumbo” Palumbo. With Jumbo’s help, he assembles a crew and starts robbing banks across the country, all to one purpose:
Takedown of the foreclosure king – the sitting Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
Tenebrous the Liar Series: The Leopard and the Red River, Book One
John Kevin McDonagh
Tenebrous Rasque is the last hero and the son of the devil.
Others say he is a liar.
In a strange world, full of strange souls, the stories of Tenebrous precede him wherever he goes. When drunk he exaggerates the tales, when sober he does what he must for money. He has killed many, but most deserved it. Tenebrous lingers reluctantly in this existence.
The dead will rise and Tenebrous will cross the universe to find his lost love. While searching, he is coerced into an impossible task. He must cross the vast northern desert, to rescue an aged general’s granddaughter from the zealous followers of a man that claims to have returned from the dead. Matthew, the undead god, preaches his knowledge of the afterlife.
Those that hear his words are driven mad and compelled to spread their master’s chaotic message. Matthew needs Tenebrous’ most sacred possessions, his father’s silver pistols. Matthew wants to destroy the last hero and condemn him forever…
…to a forgotten unmarked grave.
Tenebrous the Liar Series: The Land of the Blind, Book Two
John Kevin McDonagh
Tenebrous Rasque was the last hero, the son of the devil, and cursed to live forever…
…or so he claimed until he heard the truth about what followed death. Now he is just another madman, wandering the wilderness, waiting to be reunited with his lost love.
His legendary battle with Matthew, the walker-of-the-road, draws the vendetta of Matthew’s remaining acolytes and, after years of running, he is cornered in a wild frontier town, full of orphans they intend to sacrifice to resurrect their master.
Desperate, on a lonely mountain with a group of abandoned children, Tenebrous must rise again to protect the innocent from evil, and perhaps, prove himself worthy of his legend…
…and his lost love.
A Belle Bannon Novel: The Sundance Revenge
Mike Pace
Deaths are mounting at the Sundance Film Festival…
January in Park City, Utah means the streets and ski runs are jammed with Hollywood celebrities. Belle Bannon is a former combat Marine with anger issues and currently works as a bow-hunting guide and a member of the Ski Patrol to make a few extra bucks. On a normal day that quickly turns terrifying, the power goes out in a heavy windstorm, stranding skiers in chairs dangling high in the air on the ski lifts. During Belle’s harrowing attempt to extract a stranded skier, he resists, screams, “Rover!”, head-butts her, then executes a perfect back dive to the rocky ravine far below. Watching from the trees, a woman who calls herself “The Sword of Justice” is ecstatic and whispers to herself, “It begins…”
Over the next few days, more “accidents” occur, including an eighteen-year-old girl whom Belle considered a little sister. Angry and suspicious, Belle sets out to find a link connecting the accident victims in hope of proving the deaths were homicides. The search eventually leads to an event that occurred almost a hundred and fifty years earlier. The efforts trigger the killers to take aim at her and the entire town.
With a target on her back, she must race a ticking clock to both rescue the next victim, before it’s too late, and save the residents and visitors of the town…
…from a deadly catastrophe.
A Belle Bannon Novel: The Comanche Code
Mike Pace
Belle Bannon’s younger sister works as an intern at a western artifacts museum in the Texas panhandle. Two rogue Chinese agents mistake her for Nora Yates, the curator of the museum, and kidnap her. The kidnappers give Belle and Nora seventy-two hours to decode a series of obscure Comanche symbols on Chief Quanah Parker’s war lance, or Belle’s sister will die.
The search for clues necessary to decode the symbols takes them across the dusty plains of west Texas, through New Mexico’s labyrinth of caverns, and deep into the fetid Louisiana bayou. What they discover along their journey is that the symbols lead to the location of a mysterious jade box, the contents of which can make the kidnappers filthy rich. Belle and Nora not only have to deal with the kidnappers, but also fight off an opposing force—lethal Chinese agents who are willing to do anything, including killing innocent people, to prevent the contents of the jade box from surfacing.
It’s then that Belle realizes she faces an impossible dilemma: If she and Nora survive, beat the ticking clock, and save her sister . . .
. . . the end result could be nuclear war with China.
A Belle Bannon Novel: Full Circle
Mike Pace
Former combat Marine and current bow-hunting guide Belle Bannon faces her most dangerous challenge yet…
Belle’s persuaded to join an off-the-books government black-ops unit to find and terminate the world’s most lethal paid assassin, a killer who’s eluded world authorities for decades. Known as “The Claw,” the assassin slays his victims by ripping open their throats with a bear claw device.
The pursuit takes Belle to Italy’s Cinque Terre region where she learns that the Claw’s target is an aged Italian nun, and his client is a revered U.S. senator whose secret, vile past emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz.
Belle faces near insurmountable odds as she tries to protect the nun before the old woman falls prey to the assassin. But The Claw has plans for her a well…
And it involves him watching her breathe her last breath.
Deception
Laura Ranger
Izzy has had a long line of liars make up her past. It’s her history that makes her in high demand as an Art Authenticator. She can spot a fraud, as well as a forgery with little effort. Izzy no longer makes room in her life for men since she knows all men lie. She would rather have a dog. That is until Caleb Matthews sweeps her off her feet with his genuine, sincere, no-nonsense way. Over time, she allows him to break down her walls of mistrust. She learns how to make allowances for people that may be flawed, and not always entirely honest. But is that wise? After 25 years of marriage she begins to suspect there’s more to her husband then what she’s known. No matter how she tries, she can’t find anything amiss. Is her paranoia from being deceived in her past sabotaging her future or is there something more she’s missing? Whatever you imagine the end will be may have a bit of truth, but you won’t see the twist until it’s too late.
Rogue
Laura Ranger and Steve Soderquist
Chris and Lexi Denton led what they considered a normal life. Lexi worked as a dance instructor at a local studio, and Chris was a successful broker at a firm in downtown Miami, Florida. When Chris gets entangled with a crime boss who utilizes his talent for numbers to cover up deadly secrets, the pair soon discover much more than just Carlos Mandini’s dark secrets, they discover their own. Chris and Lexi Denton are not who they believed.
The Poe Predicament
Phil Thomas
Stuck in another time, Richard Langley just wants to find his way back home.
Richard, a former college professor, wanders a local neighborhood bookstore where he stumbles upon the find of a lifetime: a signed copy of Tamerlane and Other Poems. He’s then swept to another era where he is alone, confused, and his only mission is to get back to where he came from.
While struggling to adapt to his nineteenth-century environment, Richard meets a man he must help exonerate from false accusations in order to restore history’s original timeline and, ultimately, find his way back.
What Richard did not count on, was that man being the owner of the signature…
Edgar Allan Poe.