An object found over 150 years ago now becomes the center of a murder and kidnapping story. A young woman traces her history and finds out something about all of us.

Urban Fantasy meets Future NoirOnce people have messed with a man's DNA, what can he do but become a private eye? And when a gorgeous thing like Elizabeth Savoy comes gliding into his office and blinks her big baby blues, what can PI Mike Heller do but say sure—even though he sees just what she is, and knows what a bad idea it could be? Not that Heller has a clue just how bad. But by the time he suspects that Lizzie's troubles might bring the end of life as he knows it, he's already...

Through November, the complete season of The Cutting Room is just $0.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/the-cutting-room-5~In the future, there are many parallel Earths--but only one of them has time travel. Its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police.Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. But on a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he steps into ...

What would you do if you had the power?Detective Dan Lake has been given the power to heal. But whenever he heals someone, he has to give the condition to someone else or Dan dies.This dark thriller short story by the bestselling author of The Dane Maddock Adventures and The Zombie Driven Life was originally published in the You Don't Know What You've Got... anthology.

Married to an uncaring, workaholic husband, Shylia Allred walks to alleviate stress and to consider her divorce. Typical of many abused spouses, she dreams of escape but always comes up with a reason to thwart her own plans. Then, as she's walking past the local parish hall just as an AA meeting is letting out, she literally bumps into Randall Sly. As they get to know each other, she comes to trust him completely. He's the one man who can bring a huge change to her life. But change isn't a...

When a ghost haunts the mountain getaway of a doctor recovering from a gunshot wound, he thinks he's going crazy until he starts to dig deeper and finds the truth. Will he be able to find her body and the killer and bring the murderer to justice, or will the killer succeed in making the doctor the next victim?A supernatural thriller short story of murder and mystery.

Teenager Joe Ferris was raised to help guests--he was third generation in his family's motel business--but once he connected with mute Judith, they were off on a thousand-mile road trip through the Southwest to help out the most unique guests of all--the aliens stranded far from home since 1947. With the Men in Black hot on their trail, and discovering that the aliens had more tricks up their sleeves than they'd ever let on, Joe and Judith have to wonder just who is taking whom on the ride...

While driving through Georgia to Houston a young man gives a girl a ride only to discover she is being pursued by a maniac. He race away from the maniac in a vehicle that's on its last legs, the tires are bald, the transmission is slipping. Everything he tries the would be assailant is one step behind him. one step closer to catching them.

Im a firm believer that to write about the truth sometimes you have to write outside the box. When you follow all the rules in writing and do the same thing that everyone else does, sometimes the real truth takes a slight turn toward the not so realistic but more toward the right way to author a book. Since my book is about actual calls that I responded to as they occurred and so as to keep them as factual as possible, I do use some of the actual language, graphic and raw as it was, in try...

We have all experienced loneliness at some stage in our life. Whether it is sitting alone in a doctor's office or witnessing some poor soul sleeping on a flattened carton, loneliness is there in different degrees. Why not read this collection of eleven short stories and see how loneliness appears to others?

Four Stories puts the spotlight on revelations of clarity and epiphanies of character in the face of emotional challenges.ABOUT FOUR STORIESEach work of fiction is accompanied by a brief essay exploring the formative experiences, memories, and themes that inspired the work, making this a very personal and intimate collection.The book opens with “You Got Me,” in which the way two people each get through one particularly rough day mig...

This book contains actual 911 emergency and non-emergency calls that came into the San Diego Police Department Communications Division during my 19 years as a Police 911 Dispatcher.This book represents the calls received as accurately as possible. I did not embellish them to make them funnier or more exciting. These are actual calls, often unbelievable, but they are real calls.This book is a way for me to portray the "real world" of a 911 dispatcher. As you read through the...