The Clock Is Ticking!

“As I watch the wake of the boat melt into the rolling waves, I feel I’m watching my entire past slip away behind me. Only the present remains. The terrible, poisoned present… “

I’m a second-rate artist living a solitary existence in my late parents’ rundown house. So why would a team of killers want to murder me and frame it as a suicide? Seems a fact worth knowing.

I survive the ordeal only to discover my would-be executioners left behind a suicide note written in words that sound uncannily like mine. But that’s not the most disturbing part. The note reveals a secret from my past nobody could possibly know about — one that’s been haunting my life for eighteen years.

I escape to Musqasset Island, Maine, my former home, to seek refuge with my best friend Miles (and okay, maybe to see if my old flame still carries an ember for me). But a powerful coastal storm is about to strike. And no sooner does the ferry dock than I realize I’m trapped on the island with the very psychos I’m running from — and with old debts that need to be paid. In O negative.

My only hope for survival, and redemption, is to figure out who’s trying to kill me and why they’ve waited eighteen years to act — no easy task in a raging nor’easter, where nothing is on solid ground. Including my own mind.

But there’s one thing my attackers don’t know. When they failed to kill me, they brought me back to life.

He’s in love with her, but will she ever see him as more than a friend?

Molly Hill refuses to become a spinster. Fearing she’ll spend her life working in her brother’s store in Cañon City, Colorado–where every man sees her as a little sister–for the rest of her life, she decides a change of location is in order. Before she knows it, her mother has arranged for Molly to spend a few months with relatives in Denver. Surely a larger town will yield a marriageable man — or even two!

Sheriff’s Deputy Eli Jennings has been sweet on Molly for months, ever since he was charged with keeping her safe from the man who threatened her brother’s store. But he’s never had the courage to tell her how he feels. When his mother requests his help in Denver with a mysterious man who’s been demanding repayment of unknown debts, Eli agrees. When he finds Molly on the same train, he hopes this will be the opportunity he’s waited for.

Soon after they arrive, Molly finds an entire bevy of suitors. With more attention than she can handle, visiting with Eli is like a breath of fresh air. And better yet, she can help him with his mother’s problem. After all, several of her new suitors are suspects in Eli’s investigation. As they spend more time together, Molly realizes how much she cares for Eli.

If Eli doesn’t confess his feelings for her soon, Molly fears she’ll find herself trapped in a loveless marriage far from home — and far from the man she truly loves.

Of Monsters And Planes is a heartfelt story about two brothers grappling with severe autism… and the apocalypse. After miraculously surviving a global nuclear meltdown, Mikey and his autistic brother Alby must travel across the scorched Earth, avoiding the perils of this dangerous new world as they attempt to reach the last outpost of human survivors. It is a thrilling adventure about a brotherly bond forged in the most trying of circumstances…

Welcome to the Breezy Spoon Diner, where murder is served up hot!

Halloween is coming to the quirky little town of East Spoon Creek City, and Dani O’Shea is serving up great food, great conversation and down-home hospitality at the Breezy Spoon Diner to hungry guests and trick-or-treaters alike. But it’s not ghosts or vampires that are getting everyone in town spooked; it’s a famous writer who has returned to town to write a tell-all book exposing the townsfolk’s darkest secrets!

When murder puts an end to the writer and his book, and the Breezy Spoon’s famous pineapple upside-down cake is found at the crime scene, Dani must find out who is willing to kill– and kill again to keep their deadly secret from coming to light! Dani’s landlord, hunky and flirty fireman Mark Adams wants her to stay safe at home with him before she becomes a ghost for Halloween, but with time running out before an innocent person goes to jail for the crime, Dani will have to deal with hit men, bodybuilders and maybe even a lake monster to catch the real killer!

The much-anticipated origin story of Nate Grisham
Deep in the heart of Mississippi, Nate was born into slavery. Even as a child, the intelligent and compassionate Nate understood his fate. He would live and die by the harsh conditions of his plantation existence.

While Nate had never known anything different, it didn’t stop him from feeling a deep sorrow and anger at the cruel punishment and despicable living conditions every slave endured. Nor could Nate fathom the suffering and brutal physical damage done to those brave but foolish souls who dared to disobey the Master.

When Nate is chosen for a solo errand into the town, he suddenly sees a chance for a better life. It’s not often a slave can venture out alone, and even less often that they can be granted a few hours before they will be missed. Nate knew an opportunity like this might not come again, and it presented his best, and perhaps only chance for freedom.

Understanding only that he must head North, Nate really has no other idea of where he should go. In a dangerous journey he eventually reaches the bustling and rough-edged city of St. Louis. There, by chance, he meets two mountain men, Zee and Teacher. The pair are in town to sell their furs and Nate strikes up a conversation with them about their unusual outfits and way of life. After some discussion, they agree to teach Nate how to become a trapper… as they tell him it was probably the only way a young black runaway could slip away and avoid having to work for someone else.

Soon they are on their way to the high mountains in search of beaver, but nothing in Nate’s sheltered life has prepared him for what comes next…