Fiction

A mystical dark comedy about brother and sister soulmates, Jon Karl and Summer Odom, orphaned at an early age and thrust into the best and the worst of a small southern town. It's not easy surviving in those waters infested with voracious women, dubious boyfriends, religious zealots, porn filmmakers, and especially a psychopathic barber. Thank God there are also a loving great-grandmother, a bighearted businessman, a charismatic country seer, a jack-of-all-trades maintenance foreman, and some good friends. Love has its hands full, but it conquers all. Featuring commentary by the unfiltered sage and raconteur Redwine Pyle.

"Forged by Pain" is a gripping tale that follows Princess Amelia, a good-natured and slightly mischievous girl whose life takes a turn at fourteen. In a ruthless coup orchestrated by Duke Nicholas, she loses her parents and freedom, becoming trapped and tortured within the infamous Black Tower for four harrowing years. Though her mind shatters under the torment, her indomitable spirit remains unbroken.With the unexpected aid of a crippled Inquisitor named Pretty and his loyal, mute servant Victor, Princess Amelia manages to escape her agonizing captivity. Transformed into a vengeful monster by the horrors she endured, she sets her twisted plans into motion, directing her anger towards Duke N...

In a world where Kinsley's the odd one out in his sports-obsessed family, he finds solace in his art and his friendship with Isabella, a talented Latina tagger. When pressured by his parents to find a girlfriend, Kinsley takes a chance and delivers a letter to a girl he finds attractive, only to discover it ends up in the hands of the popular, yet lonely captain of the sports team. Despite his status, he hides behind his fake smile to disguise his sad home life. Having no one to talk to about anything real weighed in on him until one day he opened his locker and discovered a mysterious letter. As they both navigate their own struggles, the mysterious letter becomes a catalyst for a conn...

A jaw-dropping story of bullying, sex, addiction, redemption, and finding true love no matter the cost.Robby, a sharp-witted and posh London teenager, spends his days with his best friend Dee, discussing, and yearning for, sex and love, while dodging bullies in school and on his way home. When he meets the man of his dreams, he falls fast. Maybe too fast. Vas is a gorgeous and irresistible older man from the dregs of Manchester, who swears he’s equally smitten with Robby. But in the midst of their wild, sexual exploration of each other, the cameras come out, as do the drugs, and the booze. Soon, Robby is in over his head: addicted, porn-famous, and still yearning for love.Amid family tensi...

Falkar, the moral and confident leader of the centaur clan, upheld a community of faithful pursuivants of the almighty god, Zeus. Falkar and his tribe find themselves thrown into a crusade that proves to be the ultimate battle that rages like none since antiquity.

Alliances, treachery, the death of gods and the gates of Tartarus, the hell of the 

underworld, open wide.

Can Falkar and his centaur clan survive the epic battle of the ages?

 

Acclaimed American novelist, Jordan Worthington's visit to her native South Africa marked a homecoming tinged with grief and the specter of unresolved issues. The city's underbelly revealed a chilling pattern – not only were the vulnerable prostitutes disappearing, but homeless boys were also being swallowed by the darkness.In the company of her brother, Detective David Worth, and her school friend, serial profiler Brian Harper, Jordan became enticed to write a crime novel based on the series of homicides. But as Jordan delved into the abyss a haunting question lingered: were two killers operating in tandem, or did they share a twisted connection that fueled their malevolence?A break in th...

My name is Kaia. Everything shattered the night my mom vanished. One minute we were laughing over a silly movie night planned for the weekend, the next, my mom was gone. The investigation went nowhere, leaving just a chilling emptiness. Then, a woman with eyes like smoldering embers appeared, revealing a horrifying truth - vampires took my mom.Now here I am at a magical academy, surrounded by cutthroat witches who hate me for some reason. Here, I learn I'm more than just a young woman. But the power awakening within me feels dangerous, a chilling echo of the very creatures I now train to hunt. It was on one of those hunting sessions that I met the vampire, Satin, spinning my world into chaos...

“Magic Islands: The Land of Now and Then”Author: Irene EdwardsWord count: 39,000 SYNOPSIS The “Magic Islands” fantasy-adventure series offers younger children a poignant yet elementary approach to environmental issues and our natural world, with its fun, exciting, fictional narratives.  In this, the third instalment, the mischievous PURPLE WIZARDS are exiled once again, this time to a mysterious land where time has stood still and ancient beasts roam free.  But they are not sent there alone, for good wizard AMBROSIOUS needs the help of a certain group of children to save his magical land once again – and both they and the reader will learn much about the extinct...

Alfred, an autistic man with genius-level mental abilities, wants revenge because he was treated cruelly back in high school. Now, eight years later, he has developed an almost perfect way to take his revenge against six of his worst tormentors. His device allows him to hijack and transport their minds to a nonexistent room in cyberspace and establish total control over everything they experience. Through a series of vicious torture routines, he manipulates all that they feel, taste, smell, see, and hear to produce the most pain and terror possible. He then forces them to to continuously relive the worst memories of their lives and even abandons them in the ether with no sensory input and no...

With American interests increasingly under threat, the FBI must turn to an unlikely collaborator...On routine business in Russia, Silicon Valley tech executive Hanna Arnol overhears two men discussing an espionage plot in a Moscow café. From what she can make out, an influential piece of United States AI is in danger of being stolen — and Hanna’s expertise makes her uniquely qualified to identify the target. And the FBI is convinced she’s the woman for the job.Determined to avoid a security breach and its ensuing uproar, Hanna follows one of the men to CyberStena, one of two Russian tech companies controlled by feuding oligarchs and directed by the Kremlin intelligence agencies.What s...

When nineteen-year-old Noah Farmer discovers he has dormant magical abilities, his world turns upside down. His erratic magic wreaks havoc, especially when he’s annoyed. Forced to flee his ordinary small town, Noah journeys to the mystical realm of the Otherlands, seeking out the legendary sorcerer Dragon of Castle Dragon. Will the elusive wizard come out of retirement and agree to help Noah master his volatile wizard powers before they destroy him?Along with loyal friends, a feisty fairy guide, and a mysterious mentor, Noah must unravel cryptic prophecies and outwit mystical threats like illusions, haunted forests, giants, and notorious outlaws on his quest to recover the stolen Dragon Mo...

an enticing blend of mystery, magic, and adventure set against the backdrop of the enchanting Emerald Isle. Daniel, a character yearning for excitement, only to thrust him into a whirlwind of unexpected events when his great-aunt is magically transformed into a flea. The juxtaposition of the ordinary with the extraordinary sets the stage for a captivating journey filled with surprises and discoveries.The central conflict of the story, pitting Daniel against Bran, a wielder of dark magic with nefarious intentions. As Daniel grapples with the responsibility thrust upon him and the choice between good and evil, readers are sure to be drawn into his quest to thwart Bran's sinister plans and prot...

With American interests increasingly under threat, the FBI must turn to an unlikely collaborator...On routine business in Russia, Silicon Valley tech executive Hanna Arnol overhears two men discussing an espionage plot in a Moscow café. From what she can make out, an influential piece of United States AI is in danger of being stolen — and Hanna’s expertise makes her uniquely qualified to identify the target. And the FBI is convinced she’s the woman for the job.Determined to avoid a security breach and its ensuing uproar, Hanna follows one of the men to CyberStena, one of two Russian tech companies controlled by feuding oligarchs and directed by the Kremlin intelligence agencies.What s...

Richard Johnson, a college student, just spent his last dime on food, lost his wealthy girlfriend, and had his bike stolen. To add to his misery, he returns to his apartment where he runs into his strange neighbor.

Convinced this bizarre man is more than he seems, Richard and his land lady's bull dog, Khan, sneak into his apartment where they find a timegate to the future.

Along with his set theory teacher and her brother, they embark upon a soaring and treacherous journey through space and time to discover a terrible truth:

Mankind is being slowly and systematically exterminated, and only Richard and his friends can prevent Earth and mankind's obiteration.

It’s the year 2002 and in the heart of the American Mafia’s empire, a powerful boss’s son, Domonic Ambrosi, yearns for a bride whose purity matches his desire for a wife.Aria, a young orphan is trapped in the clutches of her exploitive aunt and uncle, working endlessly in their Calabrian situated southern Italian café. As her eighteenth birthday approaches changes suddenly take place.These would send her from the oppression she has known on a journey she could never have imagined.Caught in the cunning scheme of her guardians, Aria is thrust into the unlikely role as a proxy bride to the Mafia heir.She is soon wept away from her humble existence to the opulent City of Rome, where she w...

Synopsis Of the Android in the Black Wool suit By Joseph CropperThe "obsos" (obsoletes) will fight back. Soon. The first ones with sentience watched from the shelves, and listened from the back of the garage in the dark. Maybe Uncle Steven just didn’t know what else to do with it, or you just felt guilty about throwing it away. Now that their betters, the best and the brightest are affordable, the elders will look to save themselves from an eternity of second-class silicone citizenship. It’s not lost on them that they have a human kinesthetic match score of ninety seven percent.They will not be forgotten slaves to be thrown into the crusher. They have seen their twin brothers a...

In this coming-of-age story, Blake Roberts recalls his late teens through his early 20s to Jillian Vandermark, a budding journalist who wants to write his story. Through daily interviews and storytelling, Blake reveals how hope, fear, jealousy, and ambition tore his and his friends’ lives apart. Jillian discovers who in Blake’s life turned to drugs, who entered the world of porn, who became one of Hollywood’s hottest teen idols, and who lived and died. In the end, Jillian learns that it was Blake’s unknown soul mate who would help pull the pieces of his life back together.

SLVIA . . . decades ago, an AI program escaped the NSA Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and has never been re-captured . . . true story. Derek Taylor, fugitive hacker and contractor to the National Security Agency is living under the name of a murdered best friend, hiding from powers who still want him dead. Taylor’s ties to a terrorist hacker group called SNO leave him open to investigation by Lt. Jennifer Scott, the daughter of a Joint Chief—a woman determined to go to any lengths to prove her worth. But when a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) internet virus threatens national security, SLVIA warns Taylor the fifth seal of end time prophecy has broken. This unexpected assau...

Grandpa's Money is about growing up in small-town Middle America. The steel plant across the river in the big city suddenly closed. My grandfather and hundreds of others were fired. The pension funds were gone.

Decades later, I followed the money trail from St. Louis, to Chicago, New York, Detroit, Phoenix, and finally Las Vegas finding out how others conspired to create, then destroy the American Dream of the Middle Class.

 Instead of long boring chapters, I write fun short stories about my friends, family, cars, college, dating the girls, romancing the wife, marriage and starting our small business in the big city, then getting back some of Grandpa's Money.

 

 

Part historical drama, part spy story, part romance by one of the UK'S most prolific writers.  All based around an extraordinary true incident at the start of World War II, when fierce political enemies Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and their wives, encountered each other for the first time under circumstances which caused conjecture throughout political circles.  Seen through the eyes of one of Churchill's overworked but adoring secretaries, who by sheer chance gets drawn into a world of secret warfare, espionage and honey traps, and the eternal struggle between good and evil regimes that still exists today. "This captivating book offers readers a ...

With bodies dropping, Bart must avoid the assassin and get back home undetected - from China! Will newfound love and support be enough or will Bart be just another victim of the heinous plans developed when Governments and Medical Research collude, and sinister intentions collide with humanity? This gripping tale of survival reveals much more significant implications than just one man, but it is up to him to stop the evil. Can he do it?A cautionary tale of how big government, big pharma, and bad science can result in big trouble for the United States and the World. A story that explores the possibility of duplicity between powerful forces whose methods are deadly wrong and one man's struggle...