The world of writers, readers, and reviewers is a close-knit family of friends, fans, and fiction fanatics. That's the world Milo Cook and Logan Hunter reside in—thriving on the give and take of creativity, the sharing of stories and ideas, and forever glorying in their boundless love of books and the words that make them breathe.But sometimes words can cut too deep. And when they do, there is inevitably a price to pay.What begins for Milo and Logan as a time of new love an...

When Jamie Roma and Derek Lee find their blossoming love affair interrupted by dual invitations to a house party from a mysterious unnamed host, they think, Sounds like fun. The next thing they know they are caught up in a game of cat and mouse that quickly starts racking up a lot of dead mice. Yikes, they think. Not so fun.Trapped inside a spooky old house in the middle of nowhere, with the body count rising among their fellow guests, they begin to wonde...

Robert Johnny just turned thirty, and his life is pretty much in the toilet. His writing career is on the skids. His love life is nonexistent. A stalker is driving him crazy. And his cat is a pain in the ass.Then Robert orders a chimichanga platter at a neighborhood restaurant, and his life changes—just like that.Dario Martinez isn't having such a great existence either. He needs money for college. His shoes are falling apart. His boyfriend's a dick. And he has a crap job a...

Kenny Long is living a new life. Blinded in an accident, he has taken control of his unexpected reality the best way he can, and it's working out better than he hoped.Of course Larry Boots doesn't know any of that. All he sees is a beautiful man sitting on a park bench.Larry has a few problems of his own: his mother. His job. The lack of romance in his life.His job. In the course of that job, Larry strikes up a friendship with Kenny. The next thing he knows, he's so...

Jim Brandon has a new house, and boy, is it a pip. Built high on the side of the San Diego mountains by a legendary B-movie actor of the 1930s, Nigel Letters, the house is not only gorgeous, but supposedly haunted. As a writer of horror novels, Jim couldn't be happier.But after a string of ghostly events sets Jim's teeth on edge and scares the bejesus out of his dog, Jim begins to dig into the house's history. What he finds is enough to creep out anybody. Even Jim. It seems long-de...

Reverend Brian Lucas has a secret his congregation in the Nine Mile Methodist Church knows nothing about, and he'd really like to keep it that way. But even his earth-shattering secret takes a backseat to what else is happening in his tiny hometown.Murders usually do that.Brian's "close friend," Sam, is urging a resolution to their little problem, but Brian's brother, Boyd, the County Sheriff, is more caught up in chasing down a homicidal maniac who is slaughtering little o...

Joe Chase and Ned Bowden are damaged men. They each bear scars from surviving the world they were born in. Deep scars, both physical and emotional.When fate offers its first kind act by bringing the two together, suddenly their scars don't seem so bad, and their lives don't feel so empty.Yet that kindness comes at a price.Just as Joe and Ned begin to experience true happiness for the very first time, the world turns on them again.But this time it turns on ev...

Wyeth Becker is a quiet man. Staid, serious, calm. A librarian. When he meets preschool teacher Deeze Long, he discovers joy for the first time in his life. With joy comes laughter, excitement, and a new way to look at the world through the eyes of the kindest, most loving man he has ever met.When tragedy strikes and Deeze loses his joy, it is Wyeth who helps him find it again. It is Wyeth, the man who never truly understood happiness, who pays that gift back. Giving all he can of ...

It's not easy breaking into show biz. Especially when you aren't exactly loaded with talent. But Malcolm Fox won't let a little thing like that hold him back.Actually, it isn't the show-business part of his life that bothers him as much as the romantic part—or the lack thereof. At twenty-six, Malcolm has never been in love. He lives in San Diego with his roommate, Beth, another struggling actor, and each of them is just as unsuccessful as the other. While Malcolm toddles off to thi...

It's funny how love nails you when you least expect it.Dilly Jones has pretty much given up on romance ever finding him. Boz Jenkins, his neighbor, is recently out of a bad relationship but has definitely noticed the cutie across the street. When Dilly drops a bag of donuts on the sidewalk, it sets a chain of events into motion. And suddenly both men's hearts are lost.But Boz's ex is still hanging around, and he'll do whatever it takes to get Boz back.With a brand-new roman...

A Belladonna Arms NovelWelcome to the Belladonna Arms, a rundown little apartment building perched atop a hill in downtown San Diego, home to the city's lost and lovelorn. Shy archaeology student Stanley Sternbaum has just moved in and fills his time quietly observing his eccentric neighbors, avoiding his hellion mother, and trying his best to go unnoticed… which proves to be a problem when it comes to fellow tenant Roger Jane. Smitten, the hunky nurse wit...

This book is the story of my lifelong 2e Journey Informed by Traditional Indigenous LearningTo address the daunting challenges we face as a global community, we need people who can see the world beyond an "either-or" dualistic perspective. This book presumes such a dualistic perspective has been especially damaging to the twice-exceptional (2e) or gifted and learning disabled (Gifted and LD or GLD) children of the world, children who are growing up like I did, gift...