Lovefullness, a new adult romance by Bruce AllsmanAfter being rudely dumped by her boyfriend, Winnie Osler, an overworked corporate executive, receives an unusual invitation from an office colleague, Tara Winston, to attend a ten-day meditation retreat. Thinking that it might help her get over the devastating breakup and get back on track with her life, she agrees to join Tara. However, things are not as expected. Guided by Michael Eastman, a charming and charismat...

The Ghostwriter, a Malaysian supernatural horror novella by Bruce AllsmanTo a struggling freelance writer, a hundred thousand ringgit ghostwriting contract is an extremely lucky break. Is it too good to be true? Although true, it is really not good at all. This is because the final sacrifice is far greater than a mere hundred thousand ringgit.When offered a lucrative contract to ghostwrite the memoirs of Datuk Ong Kim Siew, a recently deceased eccentric business tycoon, Viv...

Dive of Truth, a thriller by Bruce AllsmanAfter being paralyzed from the waist down in a tandem jump accident, Jackson Tagger, chief skydiving instructor, is furious when he learns from Dean Cameron, his billionaire friend, that their so-called accident was no accident at all. Someone wants either him or Dean dead. But Dean says that, Cory Sanders, the best private investigator he knows and hired, had investigated and ruled out the possibility of anyone wanting to ...

Their Last Vacation, a suspense noir by Bruce AllsmanAs a reward for her work at a recent charity drive, Allison McCain, a psychiatrist in her mid-thirties, accepts an invitation from Robert Yates, a billionaire, to an all-expense-paid vacation at a remote tropical island, somewhere off the coast of Central America. At the island, she stifles an uneasy surprise when she meets the other guests: Christine Lambert, Steve Allen, and Dan Morrison, her old college friend...

A Broken Wok, a Malaysian family drama by Bruce AllsmanFreelance writer, Lim Siew Bee, a single mother with her eight-year-old son, Jason, lives next door to Madam Ong, an octogenarian living alone in single story link house. One morning, upon returning home from sending her son to school, Siew Bee hears a cry for help next door and she goes over to check. She finds the old lady, clad in a sarong lying on the floor just outside the bathroom, groaning in pain, unabl...

Exit Plan, a family drama by Bruce AllsmanSteven Langford, a twenty-two-year-old American, lives a bohemian lifestyle with a promiscuous Thai teenage girl, Isaree. When Isaree quits her trivial job in Bangkok to return to her hometown, Steven, not willing to risk losing her, decides to go with her. There trouble arises when he meets, Andrew, a fellow farang who is overtly cold toward him. Isaree, however, is friendly toward Andrew, a close friend of the family. One...

Deana Fallows, an erotic suspense novel by Bruce AllsmanWhen small town girl Deana Fallows, a freelance fashion designer, accepts the fact that her newlywed husband William, an investment banker, has to put in long hours at his new job in the city, she learns to embrace a luxurious lifestyle but resigns herself to a life of loneliness. Besides Gina Landers, a model who works with her, she has no other friends.Except for an occasional night out with Gina, De...

The Auto Shop Case, a crime mystery by Bruce AllsmanA gruesome discovery in the trunk of a white sedan in an auto repair shop, draws homicide detectives John Allen and Chris Davidson into a murder mystery. The victim, Susan Baldwin, is the young wife of a middle-aged real estate developer, Steven Baldwin, a respectable member of the city's business community and a close friend of the police commissioner. Starting the investigation by interviewing anyone who had any...

The Museum Curator, a suspense thriller novel by Bruce AllsmanWhen accompanying her husband on a business trip to a city in Eastern Europe, Serena Crown and her four-year-old daughter Allison spend a day at a vast private museum while her husband, Tom Crown, attends a business meeting. At the museum, Serena and Allison enjoy a wonderful time together until a sudden power outage disrupts them. Seconds later when the power resumes, Serena finds Allison missing.

When the Student is Ready, a horror story by Bruce AllsmanWhen an angel of death incarnate comes to town to meet a fourteen-year-old boy in a bus station, he tells the boy, "You will never be caught. You will be truly free to do whatever you desire. I will show you the way. I will guide you and protect you. You have no soul. You were born without a soul." The boy, however, desires to just run away, to be free from any form of oppression, especially physical abuse. ...

The Hikikomori, a romance by Bruce AllsmanA factory manager in Bayan Lepas, Hideo Saito, a bachelor in his mid fifties, is a hikikomori and a porn addict who is a Japanese expatriate living in Penang. One day, he meets a lovely Japanese woman in her early forties who had just moved into a condominium unit on the same floor as his unit, and he feels that the woman bears a strong resemblance to his favorite AV idol, Mariko Ozawa. When he finds out that she is the AV ...

Alley of Betrayal, a suspense noir by Bruce AllsmanWhen a man with a history of violence walks into the bank, Leonard Marten, a mild-mannered bank employee trembled with fury. The man, released early from prison, was convicted five years ago for a heinous crime against Leonard's wife. Frustrated with the flawed justice system, Leonard seizes this long awaited opportunity to exact his revenge. In his tormented mind, a deluge of rage impels him to buy a gun and stalk...