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01/01/23. This will be my last day of regularly posting books. I will post on occasion and then only a few.

Currently Free.

Metal Bones: A Thrilling Space Opera (Book 1)

Leo Spearman cares about one thing: finding a cure for his brother Gaeth's "Steel Elbow," a deadly disease that is slowly turning his bones into metal. Yet when they decide to leave Earth to cure him, they find themselves breaking galactic law to get it.

Tank has always dreamed of escaping his village and finding his father, but the only way anyone can leave the village is to win the Ceremony, a bloodthirsty competition with a sole survivor.
After surviving at a terrible cost, the bargain for his independence takes a dark turn, and Tank must decide if the price of his safety is too high to pay.

Neither Leo nor Tank knows it, but their paths will collide in the middle of a galaxy wide plot, and only their combined knowledge and experience have a chance of destroying it.

 

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13 Minutes Before Midnight

Imagine, you are lounging on your couch, sipping coffee, and suddenly from nowhere a naked corpse of a woman appears in front of you. You get rid of the corpse somehow, without informing the police, but a few days later, you meet the same woman, alive and thriving.

This is exactly what happens to Rehan.

There is a serial killer on the loose with the means to dump his victims across time and space. Rehan makes saving the woman and catching the killer his mission. What's more, the police have an inkling that he is involved in the case somehow.

All Rehan needs to do is make the right decisions and tread carefully. The stakes are high, however, time too less. The past, future, and present are all connected. The only question is whether you can change it.

Will Rehan be able to save the woman and catch the killer? Will he sail through all the obstacles? Will he succeed in changing the future, thereby changing his past?

13 Minutes Before Midnight is a thrilling tale of a man fighting his destiny while running in the dark against forces which seem easy to reach but untouchable at the same time.

 

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Run from Ruin: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller (Final Update Book 1)

They’re not undead; they’re just angry…

The DataMind meditation app has revolutionized the world, making people smarter, happier, and more productive. But a programming glitch in the final update causes billions of users to experience uncontrollable rage and aggression.

Nick, an ordinary high school senior in Fairbanks Alaska, is suddenly thrust into this life or death arena. He and his brother must escape the zombie-like hordes of blood-thirsty maniacs and seek refuge north of the arctic circle.

The four-hundred-mile journey tests the boys, their wits, and their trust in each other. They think they’re fighting to stay alive; but little do they know, they’re fighting to save mankind.

 

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Last Refuge (Final Update Book 2)

Opportunity doesn’t knock twice, but death can…

After making it through the long Alaskan winter, Nick and Jimmy begin building their hard-earned new lives.

But the spring thaw has revived more than trees and green grass. For the two brothers, killing crazies has once again become an everyday reality.

Their lives change forever when Nick receives Lusa’s call for help and a new threat is revealed.

Launched into a world worse than the one they escaped from a year ago, Nick and Jimmy must face a new enemy, one which promises to wipe out the rest of humanity…one bite at a time.

 

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Tomorrow's Cost (Final Update Book 3)

There are worse things than death. Some things you don’t come back from.

After the siege on Fairbanks, Nick wants to relax and allow Vaughn’s drone army to complete their mission.

But when Lusa comes under attack and Vaughn is unwilling to send drones to rescue her, Nick must take matters into his own hands.

Deep in the arctic tundra, Nick and Lusa make a discovery that launches them into a headlong collision with a seemingly undefeatable foe. Lies, betrayal, and heroic battles fill this exciting conclusion to the Final Update series.

 

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Nest Egg (Aloha Chicken Mysteries Book 1)

Hens and homicides in a cozy slice of paradise.

Saffron Skye has inherited a little piece of Hawaiian paradise. Only it's filled with the leftovers of her late uncle's life and overrun with his enormous flock of chickens.

When her new friend, the oldest man in town, dies, no one else finds it suspicious. But as the town's newest poultry keeper Saffron recognizes fowl play when she sees it.

Saffron is a tetrachromat and can see colors nobody else can see. If only she could do the same with killers.
To find the culprit--and the victim's hidden fortune--Saffron will have to look in some surprising places. Even her new flock will lend a wing.

With scrumptious island food galore and two handsome men vying for her attention, Saffron has to focus, crack a few eggs . . . and crack the case.

Featuring Beautiful illustrations by Richard Russell. Use the Amazon "Look Inside" feature to see the first few.

2019 Whitney Awards Finalist!

 

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Black's Beach Shuffle: A Rolly Waters Mystery

A fast-rising Internet startup. A computer programmer found dead in his swimming pool. When guitar-playing detective Rolly Waters investigates a secretive dot.com company, he discovers a deadly secret at the heart of its its success.

The first novel in the award-winning mystery series from "A powerful new voice on the crime-fiction scene"

Rolly Waters is a recovering rock musician and part-time private eye. One night his band performs at a blowout party for EyeBitz.com, a fast-rising Internet startup that has the city of San Diego talking. When Rolly returns after hours to retrieve his guitar from the host’s mansion, he finds a dead body floating in the swimming pool. His discovery sets in motion a series of intrigues that drag him into the surreal world of dot.com culture, as well as the dark heart of his own uneven past.

Black’s Beach Shuffle updates the classic Southern California gumshoe world of Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald with contemporary technology riffs, new millennium anxieties and sun-blotted humor. It pumps out a page-turning mix of plot twists, colorful characters and laugh-out-loud humor as Rolly’s investigation ricochets him from the high-tech industrial parks of Torrey Pines Mesa to downtown blues clubs, from street taco shops to the penthouse of the La Jolla Hyatt, from the hallowed halls of academia to the sands of Black’s Beach, San Diego’s official clothing-optional playground.

 

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Sugar and Sliced: A Small Town Culinary Cozy Mystery (Maple Lane Mysteries)

From USA Today Bestselling author C. A. Phipps, comes The Maple Lane Mysteries Prequel

Did she fall or was she pushed?

A world away from small town Maple Falls where she grew up, Madeline Flynn is working in a bakery in Manhattan. Baking is her dream come true—but not everyone is happy for her.

When a body lands at her feet, Maddie is suddenly thrown into the investigation. The death is literally too close to home and things don't add up with the crime. With his uncanny sense of who is good and who isn't, even Big Red, her larger-than-life Maine ****, is seeing things in the shadows.

Will she be the next victim? And what does an angry contestant have to do with a kidnapping?
If you love Murder, She Wrote, you’ll enjoy Maddie’s style because she’s not taking no for an answer either.

The Maple Lane Mysteries are light, cozy mysteries featuring a quirky cat-loving bakery owner who discovers she’s a talented amateur sleuth.

Each book contains an easy recipe!

 

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The Promisor: A Suspense Thriller

Saying nothing in return, Reed listened as the phone cut out, the forest returning to relative silence around them.

His hands still cupping the underside of his partner’s face, he tilted his own down to match it, feeling the damp warmth of her fur against his skin.

“This girl just saved my ass,” he whispered. “That’s what the hell happened.”

For the past two months, Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner Billie were in limbo. Victims of their own success, they were plucked from their post on the graveyard shift at the 8th Precinct and thrust into a newly created role working with the governor’s office when a young woman is shot down outside her front door.

Immediately written off by some in the small town as nothing more than a tragic hunting accident, closer examination proves it to not just be a murder but an execution. A very pointed and deliberate killing Reed fears may be the start of things as he and his partner begin unraveling what is behind such a heinous act.

Motivations stretching back several years, pulling them across much of the state and placing them both in harm’s way as they’ve never experience before…

 

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The Aleutian Portal (Sam Reilly Book 8 )

A Russian cargo ship sinks in the shallow waters of the Bering Strait, and somehow vanishes without a trace.

In the Colorado Plateau Desert, a cowboy follows a river of sand into an undiscovered ruin.

A tunnel-boring operation between the Alaskan and Siberian peninsulas is stalled when its largest burrowing machine disappears into an abyss.

Sam Reilly leads a search and rescue mission for the missing ship and crew. What should be a simple operation quickly turns into something much more dangerous. He soon learns that all three strange events are irrevocably interwoven, and unlocking their connection may just hold the key to the survival of the human race.

 

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Westpac '72: Naval combat and racial animosity in the Tonkin gulf

In the latter stages of the Vietnam War it became clear that little progress had been made, and public opinion of more than 6 years of war had become even more negative. The peace talks were not progressing well, and in early 1972 a stepped up naval air offensive was ordered by President Nixon in order to further fortify the DMZ (demilitarized zone) between North and South Vietnam. This offensive was to be part of an operation known as “Linebacker”.

WESTPAC ’72 describes detailed accounts of the author’s experiences just prior to and during the deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) to Vietnam in that year. Daily life aboard ship, both routine and under combat conditions is only part of the story. Racial tensions between black and white crewmembers began to build over the course of several months, and repeated line extensions only exacerbated the problem. It ultimately came to a head, and resulted in an incident that temporarily crippled the ship's operations. And the author unknowingly found himself directly impacted.

 

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01/01/23. This will be my last day of regularly posting books. I will post on occasion and then only a few.

Currently Free.

My Vietnam Education: Or How to Conduct Original Research Without Really Trying

This book is about my 12-month tour in the Vietnam War during 1969-1970. The book begins with my decision to enlist in the U.S. Army after college and covers events during my tour and eventual homecoming. Highlights include a number of close calls, a major battle, and some of the human consequences of war. Humor appears where appropriate. The draft manuscript has 22 chapters with a prologue and epilog. Only recently have I realized how much this war experience influenced the remainder of my life which is why I decided to write the book.

 

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01/02/23.

Currently Free.

Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One

In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They're wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea ... but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he's never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn't have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions--and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

 

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Starship Waking: Archangel Project. Book 4

On an icy, barren world, a starship dreams of doom…


Throughout the galaxy, the reclusive alien race known as The One are incapacitated by terror.


On the planet Luddeccea, wolf-human hybrid Volka harbors a terrible secret…a secret that must explain her nightmares.


Trapped on a luxurious asteroid, pleasure ‘bot 6T9 struggles to find purpose—until he receives a message from an Unidentified Caller.


The worlds of The One, Volka, and 6T9 are about to collide.

The galaxy will be shaken to its core.


The starship is waking.


 

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The Hunted: A Dystopian Action Adventure Thriller (Black Carbon Book 1)

Lights out. Keep still. Pray for morning.

Joule and Cage Mazur feel like prisoners in their home. With something new stalking the streets at night, their family’s only protection is bolting the door and embracing the darkness. And even though they manage to trap and kill one of the monsters, their locks won’t hold forever…

Dealing with rising panic and rage in the neighborhood, the free-spirited survivors hatch a plan to undermine the killers. But with the night hunters picking off everyone they can, Joule and Cage know time is ticking toward humanity’s extinction.

Can they kill the Night Hunters and reclaim the top of the food chain?

The Hunted is the first book in the fast-paced Black Carbon apocalyptic thriller series by a USA Today bestselling author. If you like resourceful heroes, world-ending catastrophes, and breathtaking action, you’ll love AJ Scudiere’s spine-tingling novel.

 

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Murder by the Cup: a witchy, paranormal cozy mystery (Le Doux Mysteries Book 1)

She's 30 years old and finally living her own life...

Being the president's daughter is harder than it looks, especially when your family is the most powerful witch family in all of Hex Haven.
But Wynona was born cursed and her powers are bound, making her worthless to her magic-hungry family.

On the night of the Spring Equinox, she finally manages to break free.
Wynona's dream has always been to open a tea shop in her granny's honor, but when she finds a dead body in her office, it throws a hex on everything!

Now the vampire chief of police has her at the top of his suspect list and refuses to clear the crime scene, leaving her a hard choice:

Add the title of 'sleuth' to her resume, or kiss her dreams goodbye.

She thought getting away from her family would get rid of drama and expectation in her life...she couldn't have been more wrong.

With a purple mouse, a wingless fairy and a too-handsome landlord at her side, Wynona must navigate a city of magic, mystery and danger if she's going to survive long enough to make her dreams come true.

 

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Witch's Block : The Accidental Medium Book One

At forty-three, Paige Provey is at the height of her career. As the author of a successful paranormal book series, she has a legion of fans who all believe she has powers herself. But when Paige's ex-husband reveals that she's a fraud, she quickly finds herself and her career canceled.

But Paige is still under a publishing contract, so she must put out a new book--one that will save her career. The only problem is her crippling case of writer's block. So she heads to a lakeside community to refill her creative well.

Only while she's there strange things begin to happen: Paige speaks to a woman who she swears is transparent, and everyone in town dresses as if it's Halloween. Not only that, but there's a very mysterious (and attractive) man who claims to hunt monsters.

As if that's not weird enough, when Paige's ex-husband winds up dead, she becomes the primary suspect in his murder. Can Paige write another book, figure out the mystery surrounding Willow Lake, and also prove her innocence? Or will all her dreams go up in flames?

 

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No Game for a Dame (Maggie Sullivan Mysteries Book 1)

A .38, a nip of gin and sensational legs get Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan out of most scrapes – until a stranger threatens to bust her nose, she’s hauled in on suspicion of his murder and she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a crime boss with connections at City Hall.

Moving through streets where people line up at soup kitchens, Maggie draws information from sources others overlook: The waitress at the dime store lunch counter where she has breakfast; a ragged newsboy; the other career girls at her rooming house.

Her digging gets her chloroformed and left in a ditch behind the wheel of her DeSoto. She makes her way to an upscale bordello and gets tea – and information – from the madam herself.

A gunman puts a bullet through Maggie’s hat. Her shutterbug pal on the evening paper warns her off. A new cop whose presence unsettles her thinks she’s crooked. Before she finds all the answers she needs, she faces a half-crazed man with a gun, and a far more lethal point-blank killer.

If you like Robert B. Parker's hard boiled Spencer series and strong women sleuths, don't miss this one-of-a-kind Ohio detective from a time in United States history when dames wore hats -- but seldom a Smith & Wesson.

 

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The Defendants (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller Series Book 1)

Thaddeus Murfee doesn’t trust the system to get it right, that’s why he’s decided to take the law into his own hands. When he was a young lawyer, he made an oath to do whatever it takes to help his clients, but he never thought it would lead to this…

Everything changes when he meets Christine. Now a paralegal, but once a decorated soldier who served in Iraq. She offers to teach Thaddeus how to bring the principles of war to the courtroom, so he can go toe-to-toe with those who are using the system to push their own corrupt agendas.

Together can they make things right, even if that means doing things the “wrong” way?