The Steel City Affair (A Val Buchanan Investigation Book 1)A Pinkerton detective. A nation divided. A case that could shatter his oath.1910, Pennsylvania. The coalfields burn with strikes and suspicion, and Val Buchanan is sent to keep order where there is none. Raised in the smoke of Pittsburgh's mills, he knows both sides of the fight—the men who sweat in the shafts and the owners who profit from their labor. But in the valley of steel an...

Johnny Calypso has a problem. Well, a few actually—he's broke, in debt to a sadistic gangster, and the cash he owes just got jacked.With a big poker game on the line and Hugo Copperpot breathing down his neck, Johnny's running out of time—and luck. Alongside his sharp-tongued new flame, Hot Rhonda, he'll have to hustle through the underbelly of Metropolisville to get the money back, or end up bleeding out in a gutter with a smile carved into his face.FAT CA...

Revenge is a powerful drug—especially for a man who's lost everything.After the death of his wife and child in a suspicious crash, Dr. Sidney Matrux is done saving lives. The respected oncologist turns hunter, chasing the shadowy figure behind the wheel that shattered his world. But Metropolisville isn't built for clean justice—especially when the trail leads to the doorstep of the Italian mob.As the city drowns in corruption, Matrux must decide how far he'...

The Gascon: The Marshal Jean Lannes Saga Book OneThe revolution forged him. The empire will break him.France, 1777. Jean Lannes is a dyer's son from Gascony with the soul of a soldier and the temper of a storm.Years later, when war ignites across Europe, he rises from the mud of the Pyrenees to the battlefields of Italy—fighting not for kings or riches, but for the idea of a nation reborn.At the bridge of Arcole, he meets a ...

Boz Holliday has a reputation—and a kill count to match. They call him the Pig Killer, and he's not done yet.Two dirty cops are already dead. But for Boz, that's just the beginning. Driven by the murder of his close friend Lester Malahide, Holliday is on a ruthless mission to purge Metropolisville's police force of its worst elements. He doesn't know their names yet—Detective William Spence and Lieutenant Randall Moore—but he knows they're working with the Colombia...

The Mayans were right. The end of the world has begun — and it's hungry.December 21st, 2012. After fleeing the media-fuelled doomsday panic for a cave-diving trip in the Polish mountains, Patrick Kowalski resurfaces to find the real apocalypse waiting aboveground. The world has collapsed — and the dead are walking.Now, armed with little more than instinct and determination, Patrick must fight his way back to Warsaw in a desperate search for his family. The ...

East Berlin, 1986. The Wall casts its long shadow over a city of surveillance, secrets, and fear. When young women begin to vanish, their bodies found ritually mutilated, whispers spread of a man in a blue Trabant prowling the streets.Assigned to the case is Lisanne Senß, a sharp but compromised Stasi officer with her own dark past. Paired with Tobias Engel, a weary detective who has lost faith in the Party, and aided by Anja Richt...

The California Gold Rush has begun—and the world surges west. Across America, farmers abandon their fields, convicts dream of escape, and families sell everything they own for the promise of fortune. From the prison blocks of Missouri to the rough frontier towns of California, ambition and desperation collide in a land on the edge of transformation.In Dog Station, law and order unravel as greed, violence, and hope shape a new nation. This sweeping historical epic captures ...

Farzin, a simple man of simple faith, finds the end of the world has come - nuclear war has spread across the Middle East, and now he must escape with his family and find refuge.Mushroom is a 3000-word alternate history short story set in Iran twenty years in the future.

In a city that chews up good men and spits them out, one detective is chasing a killer who butchers women—and leaves no trail.Metropolisville is the kind of place where darkness leaks from the cracks in the pavement and death is just another headline. When a string of brutal murders terrifies the city, the press dubs the killer "Butcher Boy." After the lead detective cracks under pressure, grizzled cop Leo Lyons is handed the case. Haunted by his past and driven by...

The circus has come to Transylvania… and something ancient is watching. When the Russian circus rolls into a mist-shrouded Transylvanian town, no one expects blood to be spilled—least of all Igor Shabalin, a weary circus worker looking for one more drink and one less worry.But after a strange sound in the forest and a night of heavy drinking, Igor awakens to horror: his two companions are found dead, their necks punctured in a way that chills the soul....

In the underworld of Birmingham, one wrong move can get you killed—and one right one might start a war.Miles Li is a Chinese immigrant and restaurant owner drowning in debt and fear. The Triads want their money—and they don't ask twice. With extortion escalating and time running out, Miles turns to a dangerous associate, Ragnar Polizzi, a fixer with connections that run deep and deadly.The solution? A contract killer. Not just any assassin, but a former KLA...