Terror Noir

1.  The Keeper

Noir

Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror.

Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here—from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go—will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.

1.         Drastic measures

Dark fear Could be an anthology

There was a definite bulge in the area he’d pointed to and, the girl pondered, if it were really a knife, it was a large one. She pulled on the door handle only to realize it was locked and she jiggled it as nonchalantly as possible, but was too afraid to make any other move, fearing more than that would provoke an attack. As if he were a hungry animal in the woods and she a helpless mouse that had stumbled unluckily across his path. She didn’t want to make any sudden moves. So the girl concentrated on breathing, steadying her pulse, which had become rapid, and focusing on the signs they drove past. She tried to remember each street name and turn they took. Tried to create a sort of map in her mind because that’s what a news program had taught her once, years ago, to do when you’re being kidnapped.

--From Melissa Lyon's Snow

DRASTIC MEASURES are tales of where the human mind goes when it's cornered. New discovery MELISSA LYONS is the most powerful new voice in suspense since Dean Koontz with her story, "Snow."

Editor BEN PARRIS adds two stories of his own edited by Fantasy & Science Fiction contributor KEN ALTABEF. In "Murder in Songjiang": All Brian wanted to do was teach English in China. All the U.S. State Department wanted of the CIA was a quiet investigation of how Brian got killed there. Espionage trainee Mike Spoto stood in the middle and cared about his training case too much for his own good.

ROBERT HORSEMAN presents "Déjà vu": There are two kinds of déjà vu: The kind where you remember things that never happened, and the kind Daniel has; BRAD POST gives us "The Trees": Sharon had second thoughts about her new husband Johnny. Her father detested the man, and the trees didn't like either of them.

Those tales and more by new discoveries SUSAN DAVID, CATHY DOUGLAS, KATE LARKINDALE, MICHELLE D KEYES, and GERALD VINCENT. (Note that the deluxe print edition of Drastic Measures contains a bonus story by George Clayton Johnson.)

"I found Drastic Measures to be an invigorating voyage into the macabre and mysterious, and certainly with a variety of tastes to touch one’s appetite."

--The Amazing Kreskin (July 2012)

DAVID MACK (The 4400), who wrote the foreword for this volume, says, "You're in for a wild ride.

1.                   Wraithworld

new dark fantasy novella

Discover the surreal world of the Wraethworld in Kody Boye’s new dark fantasy novella.

Mary Matthews is a sweet little autistic girl living a very ordinary life until the fish girl appeared to her one night in her bedroom. The bizarre creature’s prophecies that Mary alone can save the fish girl’s world terrifies her.

The following day, Mary is on a fieldtrip with her special needs class when a voice beckons to her from an alley. Wandering away from her classmates, she enters into a place where the worlds bridge, realities become blurred, and the most terrifying of nightmares live to wreak havoc on those unfortunate enough to enter.

Mary holds within her hands the fate of a world.

At only five years old, how can she hope to survive in Wraethworld?

1.  The Elements [Kindle Edition]

Jonas Saul

A Short Story

In a remote cabin, during one of the worst snowstorms the area has ever seen, John Stevenson is trapped. He was supposed to leave days ago, but he has no gas for the snowmobile, a bad leg and now he is seeing things. People are watching him through his own window. There are no footprints in the fresh snow, but they are there.

John receives a call on his satellite phone that his wife and one of his daughters are in the hospital after a terrible accident on the highway. His other daughter is wandering in the woods without a jacket, lost after the car accident. 

But John is trapped. The snow is too high, and the nearest road is twenty miles away.

As unknown visitors taunt him, he discovers the horror of what has become of his family and the lengths a man will go to in the face of terror.

Spy

 1.  Tree of Smoke

Give it a try you might like it!!!

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me.

This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.

Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

1.         Dark Star

Spy

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.

2. Vanished 

Joseph Finder Spy

 3.80  ·   rating details  ·  2,220 ratings  ·  316 reviews

Nick Heller is tough, smart, and stubborn.  And in his line of work, it's essential.  Trained in the Special Forces, Nick is a high-powered intelligence investigator--exposing secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden.  He's a guy you don't want to mess with.  He's also the man you call when you need a problem fixed.
Desperate, with nowhere else to run, Nick's nephew, Gabe makes that call one night.  After being attacked in Georgetown, his mother, Lauren, lies in a coma, and his step-dad, Roger, Nick's brother, has vanished without a trace.
Nick and Roger have been on the outs since the arrest, trial, and conviction of their father, the notorious "fugitive financier," Victor Heller.  Where Nick strayed from the path, Roger followed their father's footsteps into the corporate world.  Now, as Nick searches for his brother, he's on a collision course with one of the most powerful corporations in the world--and they will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.(less)

Hardcover, 400 page

1. Falling up  ?

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Jesse is about to flee Cologne, Germany, when a beautiful social worker shows up at his door begging for help with five children. Fight as he may, he forms an attachment to the kids and their beautiful keeper. Together with an old spy, and a Jamaican ladies' man, Jesse sets in motion a bold heist to buy the children a future.

2.               Raven Strike  X

Spy shitkicker

The mission is classified . . . and illegal

In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue.On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now theultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.

As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a topsecret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash DirectorJonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency.

Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal African civil war and CIA officials desperate to keep Reid from telling what he knows, a monster re-emerges to target its creators . . .

1.  Prague Spring X

Spy shitkicker

The murder of a United States congressman's son sends Inspector Simon Wolfe of the San Francisco Police Department on a pursuit in which he is blackmailed with his past as an Israeli assassin. When Inspector Wolfe falls in love with the dead boy's psychiatrist and must protect her from a rogue Nazi operative, he is forced to come to terms with his uncompromising notions of justice that were formed when he was a prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. This gripping tale of murder and deceit interweaves history and mystery against the charged and colorful background of Berkeley in the 1960's. Wolfe is a difficult and sympathetic character who relentlessly pursues the truth in a time of desperate optimism. This is more than just a story of good versus evil; it satisfies the genre and then slips its boundaries to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the the law and the pitfalls of love.

The first-person narrative voice with its world-weary tone is masterfully rendered... evoking irresistible "hard-boiled" detectives like Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins... blessed with an engaging character and abundant intrigue. -- Kirkus Discoveries

This fast-paced detective story is distinctive in that it weaves two events in 1968--Berkeley's student protests and the Czech uprising against the Soviet Union, for which the book is named, and mixes in flashbacks by the central character to his time as a prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Inspector Simon Wolfe works for the San Francisco Police Department, and is a Holocaust survivor who was a member of the Mossad's "Nokim," a group that killed Nazis. When a congressman's son is murdered, Wolfe's attempts to solve the crime are inhibited by the police and the congressman as he is blackmailed about his past. He is further compromised by his feelings for the murder victim's psychiatrist, who is a child of Holocaust survivors herself. Wolfe is a sympathetic character, though he is a loner with unshakable opinions. Wolfe's insistence on following through with this case leads the reader to explore the ideas of political corruption, revenge, justice, and survival. -- Jewish Book Council

San Francisco police inspector Simon Wolfe is a Holocaust survivor who, as a Haganah avenger, assassinated Nazis in Europe. He originally came to the United States in 1952 as a Mossad agent sent to kill a former German mayor who had burned his town's Jews in a synagogue. That mission was aborted, but now, years later, current events infringe on the present: Why does a congressional candidate whose son died suspiciously, want the boy's death ruled an accident? And why is he using an ex-Nazi strongman to blackmail Wolfe about his past--he was a ghetto guard in Theresienstadt and originally entered the United States illegally--to stop the investigation?
When Wolfe consults with the dead boy's psychiatrist--who happens to run an oral survivor history project--they find points of commonality, especially the moral dilemma they have both faced: When is it permissible to take a life? This is an intelligent novel that has humor as well as pain. -- Hadassah Magazine

If you like detective novels, you'll love David Del Bourgo's "Prague Spring." Written as a Simon Wolfe mystery, the action of the book is set in San Francisco in the 1960s, nearly two decades after the Holocaust, and after the war that still haunts the protagonist. Wolfe, a former Mossad agent and member of its Nokim -- a group that tracked and killed former Nazis -- is now a San Francisco Police Department detective.

There's sex. There's lust. There's blackmail. Of course, there is a lot of suspense. It is one of those novels that the reader just can't put down. -- Baltimore Jewish Times

The sory goes through numerous twists and turns before the ultimate conclusion. The crime drama... is very satisfying, with the various plot twists coming fast and furious and never predictably. -- ABNA Publisher Weekley Review

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1.                   Al Kibar  ~

SPY

6 September 2007. A non-descript building in the Syrian desert is destroyed in a midnight air strike by jets from the Israeli Air Force. In the days following the attack, the governments in Tel Aviv and Damascus say nothing.

24 April 2008. In a public statement, the Director of the CIA announces that the destroyed building contained a reactor that would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. He adds that Syria had constructed the building with help from North Korea.

He was wrong. It was something worse.

Major Charlie King is a U.S. intelligence officer, working in Seoul. When he find out that North Korea is preparng to send a suspicious shipment overseas he alerts his superior officers. His reward - to be scorned and kicked out of South Korea in disgrace.

From across the mountains of North Korea, inside Iranian military bases, and the corridors of his own government, Charlie King's enemies are arrayed against him. But in a story that blends real-world and fictional events, places and people, Al Kibar follows Major King as he seeks out new allies while attempting to stop one of the worst weapons ever created from falling into the hands of the most dangerous people in the world.

Sea

1.                  Voices Beckon, Pt. 1: The Voyage

Novella, Sea & Romance

She's not of his class, not of his religion, and not in his plans . . . will she fill his future as she fills his dreams?

England, 1783. Passengers swarm the bustling quay, anxiously awaiting their call to a new beginning. On the cusp of womanhood, the wealthy Elisabeth Hale stands among them, as does David Graham, a Scot apprenticed to a Philadelphia printer, and Liam Brock, an orphaned Scot with a dubious past and a keen eye to his future.

Tossed together despite differences of class and religion, the three forge an unwavering bond of friendship, love, and loyalty while aboard the brig Industry. Join them on their journey.

This 37,000 word NOVELLA (145 print pages) is the first of three parts of the full length novel, Voices Beckon, a heartwarming story about growing up and finding love--against all odds.

1.  Hell Around the Horn

Sea

Hell Around the Horn is a nautical thriller set in the last days of the great age of sail. In 1905, a young ship’s captain and his family set sail on the windjammer, Lady Rebecca, from Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of coal bound for Chile, by way of Cape Horn. Before they reach the Southern Ocean, the cargo catches fire, the mate threatens mutiny and one of the crew may be going mad, yet the greatest challenge will prove to be surviving the vicious westerly winds and mountainous seas of the worst Cape Horn winter in memory. Based on an actual voyage, Hell Around the Horn is a story of survival and the human spirit against overwhelming odds.

Praise for Hell Around the Horn:

Rick Spilman brings alive the rough and tumble world of the windjammer with authentic and well-chosen detail, in a voice that is at once historically authentic, yet fresh as a salty gale. One hand for yourself and one for the ship on this fast-paced and gripping ride. – Linda Collison, author of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures.

Battling against endless contrary gales, constantly struck with disaster and tragedy, the crew of the Lady Rebecca encountered the same privations that hundreds of unsung sailors endured. As well as a story that grips with gathering tension, this book memorializes the gallant windjammer sailors of a largely forgotten era – Joan Druett, award winning nautical historian, novelist and author of Tupaia

A much neglected period of sailing history is brought to life by Spilman's fast-moving narrative and apt use of fact and detail. – Alaric Bond, author of the Fighting Sail series of novels.

Thriller

1.         Deadwood

Thriller

Dani Amore's writing reminds me of the great thriller writers --
lean, mean, no nonsense prose that gets straight to the point and keeps
you turning those pages."--author Robert Gregory Browne

In the exclusive enclave of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a woman who builds custom guitars is murdered. A disgraced ex-cop turned private investigator is hired by the dead woman's father and immediately becomes the target of a violent ex-convict. An enigmatic music star performs damage control on her links to the dead woman. And a professional killer who idolizes Keith Richards is brought into town by a mysterious employer.

Dead Wood is what great mysteries are all about: love, hate, faith and vengeance, all wrapped up in an explosive story that simply refuses to let up.

"As gritty as the Detroit streets where it's set, DEAD WOOD grabs you earlyon and doesn't let go. As fine a a debut as you'll come across this
year, maybe any year." --author Tom Schreck

2.         Brain Rush II

Thriller

Former combat pilot Jake Bronson believed the worst was behind him. But when a sophisticated terrorist cell shows up in his home town, he's drawn into a conflict that threatens the heart and soul of every mother in America. The bonds of love and loyalty are tested as Jake and his friends are swept into a deadly chase that takes them from the beaches of California, to the depths of the world's longest underground river, and finally to the remote jungles of the Venezuelan rain forest--where Jake discovers that it will take far more than his enhanced abilities to prevent what is coming.

3.         The moonlight mind

Dark thriller

In this chilling original stand-alone novella, available exclusively as an eBook, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz offers a taste of what’s to come in his new novel, 77 Shadow Street, with a mesmerizing tale of a homeless boy at large in a city fraught with threats . . . both human and otherwise.

Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nine—with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend. He is always on the move, never lingering in any one place long enough to risk being discovered. Still, there are certain places he returns to. In the midst of the tumultuous city, they are havens of solitude: like the hushed environs of St. Mary Salome Cemetery, a place where Crispin can feel at peace—safe, at least for a while, from the fearsome memories that plague him . . . and seep into his darkest nightmares. But not only his dreams are haunted. The city he roams with Harley has secrets and mysteries, things unexplainable and maybe unimaginable. Crispin has seen ghosts in the dead of night, and sensed dimensions beyond reason in broad daylight. Hints of things disturbing and strange nibble at the edges of his existence, even as dangers wholly natural and earthbound cast their shadows across his path. Alone, drifting, and scavenging to survive is no life for a boy. But the life Crispin has left behind, and is still running scared from, is an unspeakable alternative . . . that may yet catch up with him.

There is more to this world, and its darkest corners yet to be encountered, in this eBook’s special bonus: a spine-tingling excerpt from Dean Koontz’s forthcoming novel, 77 Shadow Street.

4.         The immortalist

Medical thriller

Dr. Richard Draman is trying desperately to discover a cure for a disease that causes children to age at a wildly accelerated rate—a rare genetic condition that is killing his own daughter. When the husband of a colleague quietly gives him a copy of the classified work she was doing before her mysterious suicide, Draman finally sees a glimmer of hope. The conclusions are stunning, with the potential to not only turn the field of biology on its head, but reshape the world. Soon, though, he finds himself on the run, relentlessly pursued by a seemingly omnipotent group of men who will do whatever it takes to silence him.

5.         Open Source XXX

Geo political thriller

What if a ship carrying a cargo of stolen Russian missiles bound for Iran was mysteriously hijacked? What if Israel was secretly behind the hijacking? What if the guy who fills the vending machines in the office break room figured the whole thing out?
Based on actual events, OPEN SOURCE is a geopolitical thriller that follows Casey Shenk, a Savannah, Georgia, vending route driver with an insatiable curiosity, as he uncovers a black-market arms deal-gone-bad and the truth behind a high-level plot to shape world politics. Casey draws his evidence from open sources; by reading beyond the headlines. When his theorizing catches the attention of the wrong people and anonymous threats turn deadly, Casey looks to Susan Williams, an intelligent, but insecure, analyst for the New York-based consulting firm Intelligence Watch Group for help. The two soon find themselves in the crosshairs and fighting to save their own lives, while preventing an even greater injustice that could affect the balance of power in the Middle East and plunge the world headlong into the next Great War

1. Life blood  

Medical thriller

It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America.

A place where a brilliant doctor fulfills dreams for some – and creates chilling nightmares for others.


New York filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy hidden deep in the mist-shrouded Maya rain forest of Central America, to a re-created Mayan town where a bizarre human experiment (including a baby factory) comes at a terrible price. And where she may be the next to pay with her . . . Life Blood

TAGS: Medical Thriller, In Vitro, Independent Film, Adoption, Fertility, Human Eggs, Guatemala, Peten, Maya, Mayan Pyramid, Vision Serpent, Jaguar, Baalum, Mayan Mothers, Movie Making, Copal

1.Harmonics

SciFi shitkicker

Samantha Montgomery of Academy City 676 always dreamed of life outside of school. Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for…

A rogue weapons manufacturer, a ruthless killer, and a schoolgirl converge as a weapon so advanced it defies the laws of physics is a mere breath away from being unleashed on the world. Now it’s up to Sam and some unexpected allies to keep it out of the wrong hands or risk loosing everything, and everyone, they hold dear.

A defense contractor on the rampage, an assassin out for blood, and Sam caught in the middle.

When the reality you know ceases to be, can you live with the reality yet to come?

Shitkicker

1.  Sunda Cloud

In the new Cold War battlefield of Indonesia , two old comrades conspire to topple the fledgling democracy. The weapons of this war are not nuclear missiles, but a far more deadly weapon. Money. But without the help of capitalist Anton Zelman their plot will fail. Anton's help comes at a price. But who will pay?

Multiverse

1.        Other Earths

Looks interesting although 11 short stories one world among many... eleven stories about them all

What if Lincoln never became president, and the Civil War never took place? What if Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologicallyadvanced empire? What if magic was real and a half-faerie queen ruled England? What if an author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself?

These are just some of the possible pathways that readers can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting just one page away.

1.  Crossing Lives

Multi-verse

Skip Taylor, a lost soul living on the dangerous streets of Atlanta, discovers that in another life he was a writer, and now someone is publishing his work as their own. Determined to stop the theft of his life's work, Skip treks to the thief's isolated island mansion intent on murder, but then finds himself caught up in an even bigger adventure.

2. Times hidden dimension

Science or something else

Does time exist, or do we make it up? Everyone is aware of time, but what is it? Time is consciouness. As time goes into infinity, consciousnes becomes eternal. Why is this such a mystery? Because time has a hidden dimension.

The projections of science, like digital technology, are happening so fast you can barely keep up. Rather than be dazzled or daunted by new horizons, one must start thinking what it is possible to think. The hidden dimension of time opens into critical and physical, multiple and alternate worlds. Do we dare to go there? And what happens if we do not?

1.  Coming Home ☻

AltU

What if we were the creators of the reality we live in? What if we found that this life was just a dream and every dream another mirror of ourselves? 

The protagonists of this novel, a physician and a homeless man, are dreamers of a new reality. They overcome their deepest fears as they break through customs, give up safety, lose themselves - and thus get in touch with a deeper sense of self. They dare to escape from the madness of normality in order to enter a new world. 

Yet, as much as they already live on the new earth, it is the old earth they encounter, the individual and collective madness of a doomed world that they must deal with. It is the challenge of all mystics of our times: to be mystics without monasteries, to remain sane in the midst of insanity. Not to get caught in the nightmare but to remember the world is all nothing but a dream. Thus bring the world home. 

If you have any interest in spirituality and mysticism, or in integral philosophy or the evolution of human consciousness, then this book would interest you. It is a book of spiritual practice and practical philosophy. It is the experiment to live through a deeper, a higher self. It is the experiment to move truth from the head into the heart. Once you arrive there, an entirely new game begins…

1.                   A Magic Triangle

Time—Alternate worlds

It was just another ordinary day, in the ordinary life of school boy Dylan Jones. But the strange happenings on that day would begin a chain of events that, in later years, will see him on a journey into the spirit world, following a meeting with a girl from another time, who helps him stop the destruction of two worlds
This book is a fantastic story for teens and adults alike.

1. Death Ray Butterfly (Rays and Nights)

Alt U  Interesting

Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20,000 year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin, subatomic-particle sniffing butterflies, and much, much more. This time it's not just his reputation that's on the line. This time it's more than personal.

Misc

1.  It could be anything Keith Laumer

SS

"The body shifted, rotating stiffly, then tilted upright. "The sun struck through the amber shape that flowed down to form itself into the crested wave." IT COULD BE ANYTHING

2.               The Yillian Way kieth Laumer

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Junior Terran diplomat Jame Retief visits a government whose members seem determined to insult their delegation. This'll take some sharp thinking....

Keith Laumer (who spent time as a diplomat himself) is best known for his Retief and Bolo series. He combined humor with a sharp, even acrid view of humans as political creatures. Few stories by him have fallen into the public domain; I am honored to present this one.

The Leper

Good

John Eric Severson is a veteran of the First World War - a branded Marine Corps captain who once got lost in a forest and unknowingly led his bedraggled men into a leper colony. Now, five years later, he is an idealistic schoolteacher in a tough, working-class neighborhood where earning a high school diploma is something most of his students can only dream about. Severson vows to educate every one of them, but he quickly learns there is one student the tall, handsome Swede canno control. The lovely Bernice DuFresne. Her wit and charm are no match for him, and halfway through the school year he swears at himself for falling in love with one of his students. His love affair is of the highest risk, but they manage to hold on to their secret until that fateful day he is diagnosed with the dreaded disease and literally chased from the school.

Stalked by the ghosts of his past, Severson begins an odyssey that takes him down the Mississippi River into the swamps of Louisiana - to a colony so miserable its existence is only rumored. His desperate escapes from tis hellhole become murderous as he tries to return to a place and time, and to a woman, that he loves. Finally, banished to the island of Molokai, he becomes a leprosy settlement sheriff - and a living legend.

The Leper

Good

John Eric Severson is a veteran of the First World War - a branded Marine Corps captain who once got lost in a forest and unknowingly led his bedraggled men into a leper colony. Now, five years later, he is an idealistic schoolteacher in a tough, working-class neighborhood where earning a high school diploma is something most of his students can only dream about. Severson vows to educate every one of them, but he quickly learns there is one student the tall, handsome Swede canno control. The lovely Bernice DuFresne. Her wit and charm are no match for him, and halfway through the school year he swears at himself for falling in love with one of his students. His love affair is of the highest risk, but they manage to hold on to their secret until that fateful day he is diagnosed with the dreaded disease and literally chased from the school.

Stalked by the ghosts of his past, Severson begins an odyssey that takes him down the Mississippi River into the swamps of Louisiana - to a colony so miserable its existence is only rumored. His desperate escapes from tis hellhole become murderous as he tries to return to a place and time, and to a woman, that he loves. Finally, banished to the island of Molokai, he becomes a leprosy settlement sheriff - and a living legend.

1.         Aeturnus Ille Discordia  look at book, no info onit

1.                   The letter X

Anthology??

The Letter “My gut feeling was that I should not be here. I didn’t like the look of the hallway that led to the door. The letter I carried said Room 303 Wednesday at 2 AM. The building should have been quiet but it wasn’t.”

Tony Waterfall has become an expert at gracing the masses with his penchant for descriptive writing and haunting stories. Wielding the English language like a Knight would wield a sword, Tony Waterfall captures the imagination and takes it to another place; a place of his creation. His short stories are full of imagery, thought provoking nuances, and exceptional writing. Each story has its own meaning that can be taken in different ways by different people.

Extraordinarily detailed descriptions of each scene give the sensation of actually being present as an unseen third party in these stories. Tony Waterfall has a true gift with words and a keen understanding of how to use them. His Another Ordinary Day audio-book is by far one of the best spoken word albums in existence. He allows us to vacate the lives we currently inhabit and journey, however briefly, into another. Rhonda Readence, ReviewYou

1.    The Dark Earth

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Eric's dreams were shattered when his wife was taken from him by a reckless driver on a snowy Alaskan road. All that remained was his newborn daughter, Jessica. Uprooting to provide a safer life for his child, Eric moved back home to northern Michigan.

Thirteen years later with Jessica raising the bar in everything she does, darkness returns to the Baxter's life in the form of a crazed gunman. Surviving the assassin and seeking answers, Eric has to dig into the secrets of an unbelievable past hidden between the pages of history.

Check out Devil's Icebox, the second book in the Dark Earth series.

1.               The P-Plate Factor

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Statistics show that a 17 year old driver with a P1 license is four times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than a driver over 26 years. Driving at night, with friends, significantly increases the risk. 17 year old Elias Yousif was involved in a high speed crash on the evening of the 19th of July, 2008. He was critically injured and snatched from the jaws of death by paramedics and medical experts. He beat The P Plate Factor. Many others don’t.

Supernatural

 When do I See God?

Soul view after death

When a flood claims Steven Drilach's life, he finds that existence does not end with the death of the body. He steps into an afterlife where anything he imagines can be his. Utilizing connections between the physical world and the spiritual realm, he discovers lost souls trapped on earth and unwilling to accept their death. Through their experiences, he learns what truly separates him from God.(

1.         Lethe X

Death

Dan Tompkins, dead of supernatural causes at age 22, washes up on Lethe, where reluctant souls go to forget life and strive for Elysium. Pining for Gina, the love he left behind, Dan wants out. He teams with rogue soul Marco Sabonis to find a way back to the land of life. The Elysial powers are not amused. There may be Hell to pay.

2.         Sonant X

Supernatural

Something strange lurks in a vacuum-sealed bell jar in a wealthy eccentric's parlor, feeding on the unearthly sounds his musical mercenaries create. When suicide attempt survivor Aerie Walker passes his audition, her life takes a major turn for the weird.

Aerie plays upright bass, and plays it very well. She's won awards and acclaim, but can't manage a living. Her odyssey in professional jazz ends with a failed suicide attempt in Tokyo and she retreats to Ithaca, NY where she hopes to pursue a new career in the culinary arts.

One night after work, a passing glance at a guitar shop 'musicians wanted' posting intrigues her. She can't help herself. She hauls her bass out of storage and out to Aaron Levine's place in the wilds of Connecticut Hill.

But the hellish sounds emanating from Aaron's bizarre house are disturbing Aaron's fundamentalist Christian neighbors, Cindy and John, particularly after multiple sightings of swirly, shadowy creatures that the music seems to draw out of the surrounding forest.

Cindy, who happens to be having an affair with her minister, contacts a high tech Deliverance Ministry in Athens, Georgia specializing in the most arcane and extreme methods of supernatural eradication.

And then, when Aaron leaves town on business, Aerie's bandmates take it upon themselves to try a little alchemy of their own. It seems that the thing in Aaron's bell jar can do some interesting things with carbon when the right sort of dissonance sends it resonating.

Needless to say, this convergence of desires wreaks havoc on the alchemist's designs as well as Aerie's musical comeback, not to mention her love life. You see, John, Aaron's cuckold neighbor, seems to have taken a fancy to her.

Western

1.  The Jailor’s son

Western

A preternaturally talented boy fights evil in the Dakota Territory in this thrilling tale of boy against evil.

Maxwell Beck is no average boy. Thanks to his pa’s insistence, he’s a sharpshooter, sleight of hand artist, acrobat, and cardsharp – handy, yet highly unusual skills for the son of a traveling salesman. 

Even so, young Max leads a somewhat normal life until days before his fifteenth birthday when his pa is accidentally wounded during one of Max’s lessons. Not only does Max learn the shocking truth about his birth, he also learns about an ominous past that seems linked to his future. 

Max rushes his dying pa to Deadwood. It’s there that his pa breathes his final breath and Max comes face to face with his uncle, Chase “Turtle” Beck, the sheriff of Deadwood and a man he never knew existed. After Max prevents an outlaw from shooting his uncle in the back, Turtle grudgingly takes Max in with the understanding that Max must not use or put any of his special skills on display. 

Max quickly adapts to his new life as a cowboy on his uncle’s ranch. But when an outlaw gang savagely attacks Turtle and threatens to strip Max of all he holds dear, he must break his promise to his uncle and stop the outlaws by whatever means necessary.

The ensuing battle of boy against man and good against evil gives birth to a legend…the legend of the Jailer’s Son.

2.                The Bluejay Shaman (Alix Thorssen Mystery Series)

Traveling the back roads of Montana, not-quite-fearless art gallery owner Alix Thorssen is far from home and up to her Ray-bans in shaman’s secrets, mysterious deaths, madness, and – ah yes – passion among the pine needles. Whoever killed Shiloh Merkin hated her and wanted her dead. But did Wade Fraser, Alix’s brother-in-law and University of Montana anthropology professor, do the deed? What happened to the petroglyph of the bluejay shaman? Alix follows a trail of sex, moonlit rituals, and legendary artifacts as another murder leads her to a chilling confrontation with the killer. In this first novel of the Jackson Hole series about Alix Thorssen, Lise McClendon weaves a gripping tale of suspense, blending Indian lore, the timeless clash of western values, and the magnificent landscape of the Rockies. 
"Reminiscent of Tony Hillerman at his best," says James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss.

3.   Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid

Western

A band of wild west "good" outlaws known as the Wildcat Gang are led by unlikely leaders; a young girl and her grandpa. They are known as Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid. They ride thrilling trails of adventure throughout the west seeking justice.

4.           The Devil's Justice

Western

VENGEANCE 

IS

THE DEVIL’S JUSTICE!

When Jace Carlin’s family is killed by drunken marauders, he goes on a quest for vengeance until he settles the score. With his mission complete, he finds no satisfaction in what he has done. His family is still gone. He is alone and haunted by the violence and killing he has left behind him

5.                Dark Warrior: To Tame a Wild Hawk (Dark Cloth    Western

Amanda Kane has always had visions of the man she's destined to marry--a cowboy who will help her save her ranch. But Hawk is no ordinary cowboy. He carries a powerful secret. A secret that leads to betrayal.

Dark Warrior: To Tame a Wild Hawk is the first book in the Dark Cloth Series. It was 3rd in Amazon's Free Top 100 and was Amazon's paid Top 100 for over 3 weeks running. Watch for book two, Dark Warrior: Kid and Dark Gunman: Jake to be released in 2012!

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worse. This is what Daniel Tallon finds when he enlists and tries to hide in the khaki anonymity of the army. He soon realises that this is the start of his real problems.
Now he faces the bullying attention of a corrupt Regimental Sergeant Major and is led into a situation where the only way out is to go up against a champion army boxer. A boxer with the reputation of a brutal style and the frame to regularly dish out something only just short of murder.
Then, sent on Foreign Service to the India of the Raj, the challenges and action increase their draw upon him. Now on that vast subcontinent of unfamiliar sights and customs it is quicker wits as well as physical endurance that are demanded. His existing qualities are tested and others necessarily found when he inadvertently makes an enemy of a Pathan gun-runner and, in a moment of infatuation with a maharajah’s daughter, he ends up confronting a deadly tigress while armed only with an antique pistol.
And in the background to all of this are the unlikely concerns of his former aristocratic employer. Has Lord St. Keverne something to hide, and is there a connection to a Maharajah who goes to great trouble to contrive a meeting with Tallon?
Throughout these trials Tallon collects some friends as interesting, and often as dangerous, as his enemies. ‘Tallon’s Kill’ is a historical action adventure with elements of the detective novel. It is set within the British Army immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War.