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The Insomniac

Damon Flynn can’t sleep.
Not until he gets to the bottom of a grisly murder of a family that left only one member, Gabrielle Cota, alive.
But Damon isn’t a cop or a special agent. In a former life, he was a journalist.

Then his life was turned upside down by the chaos of 21st Century America.
With the help of his longtime friend, Portland Police Detective Ezekiel Young, Damon is determined to solve the mystery, no matter how long it takes, or even if it kills him.

Terminal Offender

In the near future, humanity will have found a way to identify and measure our capacity for inhumanity as soon as we’re born.

As a result, society is redivided into three colors – Green, Yellow and Red.
Anyone who tests Red is officially designated as a “Terminal Offender.”

Kyle Brandon Parker is one of these cases – a man who the world assumes will become a monster.

Question is, how long can he deny genetics and the seemingly inevitable, who will be the target, and does he have the power to stop it?

Sir Gideon of Ionia Book I : The Dread Warlock

Ten-year-old Christopher Grogan has a secret in the woods behind his house. A door that opens to an amazing land full of strange creatures, gallant knights, incredible magic and adventures he could only dream of.

A land where he is known as Sir Gideon, Knight Errant of Ionia.

When someone discovers his secret and steps through the door, Christopher must find her before the Dread Warlock harnesses the power she doesn’t even know she has to leave it all in ruin and darkness.

 

Night School

In his high school, Ben Havilend is considered the butt of jokes, the target of bullies and a potential lost cause by his teachers.

In Night School, however, he’s nearly a god…and he’s starting to lose control.

Now his two friends have to enter the digital world they helped him create and stop him before someone gets hurt…or worse.

Wrath

Someone is brutally killing priests along the East Coast.
He calls himself ‘Michael, the Sword of God.’
FBI agent Jonah Miller is tasked with stopping him, but he’s not who he once was, his world shattered by unbearable tragedy.
Now his faith in himself and the idea of justice will be pushed to a limit as he pursues a man who believes he’s been charged by ‘God’ to punish those who used their power to harm the most innocent of His children.

20/20

The man who could very well be the next President, John Michael Chamberlain, has been assassinated.
Eric Longfellow is an ordinary man who’s been blind since birth, but gets the call that a pair of artificial eyes have become available.

Then one night, his eyes show him the men who assassinated John Michael Chamberlain and two opposing forces spring into action with a singular purpose – save Eric Longfellow, or kill him.

Novellas/Short Stories

Pink Slip

In the 21st Century global economy, everyone is expendable.
If you fiund yourself on the wrong end of a ‘Pink Slip,’ trust me, clearing out your desk is the least of your worries.

I work for a company that specializes in ‘turnover’ and have been given a contract that could earn me a massive payday and a corner office.
All I have to do is kill an ambituous and very well-protected executive who aspires to be CEO before the stock prices begin to drop.
What could possibly go wrong…?

The Mongoose and the Cobra

Berlin: 1960
A city split in two in the heart of a country split in two, with the world around it still recovering from World War II and under the constant threat of nuclear armageddon.
On one side: KGB agent Nikolai Gogunov.
His codename: MONGOOSE
On the other side: CIA agent Jeremy Douglas.
His codename: COBRA
These two men are about to enter a game that will span the world and the decades to decide which superpower will win the Cold War.
These are the stories of the Mongoose and the Cobra.