Don’t Even Start With Me

During the chaotic upheaval of his team, guys transferring, new guys coming in, and the veterans are left dealing with the loss of one of their own, Ryuu “Dragon” Shannon heads home for a visit to his Brooklyn neighborhood. He discovers that Jo is living with his mom, and to his shock, he finds his one-night stand with his tattoo artist produced a daughter, Ceri. He’d been drunk that night, and she’d been willing. As they work to navigate his newfound place in Jo and Ceri’s lives, he’s charmed by their sweet daughter and starts to fall for the girl he’d never gotten the chance to know and who has grown into a woman he can’t get off his mind.

Josephine Moretti is glad that Dragon is back for an extended leave. She remembered touching his body both when she gave him his distinctive tattoo and the night they spent together. A night that changed her life and… gave her Ceri. She’d had a thing for him, but had never gotten to know him as well as she hoped. He’d disappeared and she didn’t know how to get in touch with him. Now he was a Navy SEAL, and as far as she could tell, nothing had changed. Things were about to get complicated now that he was home and she wants her little girl to know her dad. But, Dragon has been away for a while, and Jo’s learned to take care of them both, but when a threat from Dragon’s past threatens them all, she finds that Dragon is every inch the hero she thought he was and maybe, just maybe, an amazing dad for Ceri.

A scientist filled with doubts. A four-year-old facing death. A momentous journey to save her.

For Belor, life in Cerulis City provides a myriad of comforts: endless food, a nice and warm home, and his dream job. He has life all planned out.

But when four-year-old Saya is about to be executed, Belor makes an irreversible decision that upheaves his entire life.
Soon, the pair find themselves on the run, fighting for survival. Saya is no ordinary four-year-old. She is a half-Aeterna, a race of beings banned from Cerulis City.

Will Belor be able to keep Saya alive?

A story about integrity, choices, and struggles, Severed Ties is the second prequel to the Aeterna Chronicles. Follow Belor as he meets the two protagonists, Khara and Essie, before books 3 to 6.

If you like Marissa Meyer, Veronica Rossi, Marie Rutkoski, Marie Lu, or Amie Kaufman, discover Kris Ruhler’s fantasy series and journey into new worlds today.

The Aeterna Chronicles is a complete 6-book series with two prequels following the adventures of three heroes on three different worlds.

Silver Medal Winner, Global Book Awards
A vanished CEO. A return to China. A past and a fortune that won’t stay buried.

Alice Zhu hasn’t set foot in China since emigrating as a teenager more than thirty years ago. When her best client (and childhood friend) Deckard Shen suddenly ghosts her, leaving behind a massive unpaid legal bill and unsettling rumors, Alice has no choice but to confront old wounds and return to Shanghai to find him.

What begins as a routine business trip quickly spirals into a far more emotional and perilous search for a man who may not wish to be found. Teaming up with the sharp and unpredictable Duan Lili, Alice is pulled into a world of corporate intrigue, personal secrets, political struggles, and even kidnappings. From Shanghai’s tech corridors to Nanjing’s gleaming towers to Sichuan’s remote mountain villages, every clue raises more questions. Is Deckard running from powerful enemies, or his own shadow? Is the rumored cache of bitcoin his salvation, or his undoing?

Interwoven with Alice’s search are vivid recollections of their youth in 1980s China, a time of political upheaval, teenage rebellion, and a shared misadventure that nearly ended in disaster. Now, with a crypto fortune on the line and Deckard’s mind under siege, the two friends must reckon with the beliefs that define them — and the truths they can no longer outrun.

American forces in the Pacific faced an enemy unlike any in history. Soldiers who chose death over surrender, launched suicidal banzai charges, and crashed planes into ships. This wasn’t madness. It was doctrine.

Three cultural forces created history’s most fanatical fighters. The ancient bushido code weaponized for modern war. The gyokusai belief that made surrender worse than death. And the emperor worship that convinced millions to die for a living god.

From kamikaze pilots to the mass civilian suicides at Saipan and Okinawa, this book explains why Japan fought the way it did — and why understanding this mindset was crucial to winning the Pacific War. How samurai codes were twisted into military fanaticism, the psychology behind banzai charges, and the American response to an enemy who refused to surrender.

For readers of Flags of Our Fathers and With the Old Breed, Honorable Death examines the cultural psychology that defined the Pacific War and still haunts military history.

Looking for a great new mystery series? You’ve come to the right place. Three western writers begin their journeys with tales of wide-open skies, death in the dust, Native American mysticism, greed, lust, friendship, and honor. Law enforcement agents and Native American players partner and sometimes clash on the unpredictable path toward truth and justice. R. Lawson Gamble – THE DARK ROAD – Zack Tolliver is a newly minted FBI agent assigned to the Four Corners Indian Affairs FBI liaison team on the Navajo Reservation. Raised in eastern suburbia, he is dropped into a strange land and culture where he is immediately assigned to a missing person case that may have links to sheep mutilation and a murder. A total novice in all areas of his experience, he must rely on the Navajo men with whom he is partnered, one of whom will one day become his best friend and mentor. This novella is a prequel to the Zack Tolliver, FBI, Mystery Series. Mark Reps – NATIVE ROOTS – Zeb Hanks is a modern lawman, but he had to start somewhere. This two-part novella explores Zeb’s roots as a young man and his early law enforcement career as a border patrol agent and Tucson policeman. A mysterious beating, illegal immigrants crossing the border, and a brush with the jaded world of politics mesh together to teach Zeb the meaning of justice, western style. This novella is a prequel to the Zeb Hanks Mystery Series. Felix F. Giordano – MISSING IN MONTANA – Axe Killian was a Knuckle Dragger, ex-military now undercover FBI with a Harley, an attitude, and a secret. When he stumbles upon a five-year old cold case abduction, his past coaxes him to accept the assignment. As he closes in on the missing, mixed-blood Blackfeet teenage girl, she would not only change who he was, but who he would become. This novella is an introduction to the Jim Buchanan Series, set in Montana.