Fiction

Science fiction with, like “The Martian”, a touch of real science, and in this case, some of what would be involved in asteroid mining.When a trial to cover-up a corporate failure ends Captain Jonas Stryker's career, he is invited by a very rich but dying man to humour his desire to go asteroid mining. Stryker soon learns this is really an expedition to expose a ruthless, shadowy organization with limitless funds called The Board, which aims to overthrow the Federal government or corrupt them so badly The Board can manipulate the economy for their own benefit. The first step of The Board is to control space, and to do this they employ space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroid...

'Would you recognise Hitler in the digital age?'A disgraced businessman's chance encounter with an enigmatic stranger leads to a journey of political awakening and redemption.Set in a murky world of anarchist computer hackers, sinister secret societies, the Deepnet, quantum computing and ultimately a struggle for world domination, nothing is as it seems and no one is who they claim to be. 'Richly detailed with colourful characters facing twists and turns, the plot's scenario of the ascension of a strongman is altogether credible. A reader will say again and again, 'Yes, this could happen!' Krill is a helluva satisfying and scary read.' Amazon review. 'A vibrant and engaging read, w...

A man watches people come off a cruise ship and identifies a passenger who looks a lot like himself. He lures him to a place, drugs him and kills him. He assumes his identity and returns to the ship to continue the cruise. Since each island is a different country, he is almost impossible to catch. Follow him as he eludes the FBI while they chase him all over the Caribbean.

He strikes gold when he discovers that one of his victim's iPad contains critical information. Using a high-tech connection, he becomes an overnight millionaire. Will that become his undoing?

From their first dance to the last word, an epic love story spanning fifty years. A lifelong affair filled with humor, passion, and abiding devotion.

Through triumphs and trials, and bonds stretched to the breaking point, love endures. Through fortune and misfortune, love flourishes.

A life. A whole life. Told in words and music.

 Unrue's storytelling is a beacon of understanding for the human condition. AllAuthor

This book contains nongraphic scenes of marital sexual encounters and innuendo.

--A sprawling movie production in the desert outside Abu Dhabi.--A high-profile missing person--An unknown reason for killing himTom Curran, former special ops warrior, never dreamed of acting as crew on a movie set while searching for a politician’s missing son. JT Jacobs had a bit part in the movie, but he was into far more sinister things. A search uncovers drugs, guns, gifts from foreign governments, and the movie’s financial records. Then Curran finds him dead in the desert. Now it’s a murder mystery Curran can’t let go. Shady movie people, intrusive foreign agents, and a sudden injury to one of Curran’s guys complicate a mission that stretches from the vast Abu Dhabi desert t...

"Shades of Douglas Adams..." Meet Earl Grey, a luckless, small-time newspaper reporter with delusions of mediocrity. So far, Earl's pre-mid-life crisis has consisted of a nasty divorce, a dead-end job, and a shit-ton of psychological baggage leftover from childhood. So the sudden news of his appointment as Media Liaison for God Himself was less than surprising - just another typical day in hell, complete with panic attacks, self-doubt, and 5 a.m. wake-up calls.             It's 2005, and the Almighty's earth-shattering arrival in Phoenix, Arizona, has ignited worldwide debate. Found near death in the Arizona desert, this elderly, foul-mouthed...

Please read 5-Star Reviews at Amazon Books. Inspired by one of William Wordsworth’s 5 Lucy poems. Global 1st Place eBook Award Winner!“BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR!” (ERA 1500-1940) One of the great untold love stories in English literature is the love affair between 28-year-old British poet, William Wordsworth (1770-1850), and the mysterious 17-year-old Lucy Sims.Lucy was the subject of the poet’s famous Lucy poems, a series of five poems composed by Wordsworth that are credited with ushering in the Age of Romanticism in English Literature.To this day Lucy remains a subject of debate among literary scholars. Who was she? Where did she come from? Was she a ...

An alarm tech is called out to investigate unexplained alarms occurring at night in the Egyptian Gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum. Finding no fault with the system, he decides to spend the night to determine the cause. During the night a mysterious woman appears claiming to be the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. She explains she is the victim of a curse cast upon her by the evil snake god, Apep, and is trapped in the mummy of a cat. She pleads with the tech to carry the mummy back to Egypt and release her from the curse.Against his better judgment, the tech decides to steal the mummy and smuggle it back into Egypt. Little does he know the trip entails traveling back three thousand years in t...

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...