Smuggler's Rebellion: Dawn of Defiance"Blending razor-sharp action with emotional depth, Smuggler's Rebellion is a pulse-pounding ride through a galaxy on the brink. Jake Jones, a reluctant hero with a code of his own, anchors a story rich in found family, rebellion, and courage. Douglas crafts vivid worlds and weighty stakes without ever losing the thread of humanity. With a princess, a soccer bot, and a conspiracy that could shatter worlds, this is s...

NEURAL BOUNTY: A Space Western Noir ThrillerSeven years hunting the galaxy's worst. This time, she's hunting herself...Kassidy Reyez doesn't ask questions about her past. She hunts bounties, collects payment, and keeps her demons locked down tight. But when a corporate contract sends her after a simple tech thief, her carefully constructed life starts unraveling faster than a hyperdrive in a plasma storm.Her target...

BLOOD TIDE: A Harbor Noir ThrillerLos Angeles, 1950. The harbor keeps two kinds of secrets: the kind that make men rich, and the kind that make them dead.Private detective Jack Morrison doesn't give a damn about either anymore. The ex-LAPD detective drowns his mornings in black coffee at Cooper's Diner and his nights in bourbon, trying to forget why he traded his badge for a bottle. Then the newspaper drops a bomb: his war...

Finalist, 2026 ProWritingAid Novel Beginnings Contest (selected from 14,570 entries).A dead janitor. A notebook nobody read. A Cold War operation running through the cracks of a country that cannot see its own citizens.Long Beach, 1951. The Douglas Aircraft plant on Lakewood Boulevard is half a mile of windowless concrete, building C-124 Globemasters for a Korean War seven months old. A Black night-shift janitor named Ezekiel Wilki...

Sometimes the greatest fight is to discover ourselves...In the year 2247, Cosmic Law Force Detectant Maxo Magnaveer yearns for the promotion that will validate his twenty years of service. His chance arrives when flamboyant space pirate Colonel Zaza D'Rump—complete with orange complexion, peculiar hair, and promises to ***"Make Mars Great Again"***—hijacks a vital food shipment bound for Martian colonists.As D'Rump threatens millions with starvatio...

Thirty-nine stories. Infinite directions. No two turns alike.From alien deserters selling vacuums in 1950s Roswell to weather gods learning about love, from frontier stagecoach mysteries to a grief-eater who discovers that consuming others' pain has consequences—Sharp Turns Ahead delivers genre-defying fiction that refuses to stay in one lane.What's inside:A scientist who helped engi...

"She's not dead. She's owned."Three years ago, Kerstin Ahlers was one of the best hackers in known space. She siphoned twelve million Geld from a Galactic Federation black budget repository before they caught her. Now she is Asset Nightfall, a coerced operative wearing a technological leash she cannot remove. The AI surveillance device fused to her nervous system monitors her thoughts, tracks her location, and reports to handlers ...

"A masterful work of suspenseful western storytelling... a scintillating read." — KC Finn, Readers' Favorite"Rough, gritty, uninhibitedly violent, and a tad sentimental... unsurpassed for readers of this genre." — Michael Miller, Readers' Favorite"Kept me immersed and vested from the first page until the last… If you love westerns with a great story and amazing, memorable characters, give this book a shot." — Nicholus Schroeder, Readers' Favorite