Murray Reynolds, an engineer and mathematician who has turned his skills to earning an income from financial markets, retires to a rented cabin at Cedar Flat, a failed resort in what may once have been a cedar forest on the coast of New South Wales. His wife, Julia, keen to further her career, stays in the city, but encourages Murray to assume responsibility for their daughter, Pim, a sullen loner with few life skills. The two are befriended by their neighbour, Laura, to whom Pim looks for support in the face of the unsettling environment of her new home, and …

This book is a chilling paranormal romance for those who love a ghost story that sets the mind to wondering if this could really happen. Samantha Porter is on vacation and meets the ghost of Charles Mariner, a shrimp boat captain who disappeared in a violent storm at sea. Now a wandering spirit, Charles is haunting his old seaside home that after his death was sold and remodeled into an inn. Samantha rents a room there and wakes in the night to find the transparent figure of a man standing at the foot of her bed. When she demands to …

During the cold war with the Soviet Union, an influential American in military intelligence rewarded Ian McGregor for saving his daughters. McGregor was enrolled in an exhausting training program to exploit his many attributes, and to further his benefactor’s career to the status of "general." The Expendable Man is a taut thriller loaded with spies and political intrigue. Old hardliners in the Kremlin form a clandestine group to oppose Gorbachev’s politics as being premature. To prove their point, they scheme with a drug cartel and other criminal gangs to undermine the American economy and make President Reagan’s idea of laying …

Ignis Fatuus: A mysterious light that tempts the weary traveler from the safe path and into peril.Bored with the ennui of everyday existence? The daily grind that propels you to a too little pension and aged decrepitude, which offers no blue-skied haven to enjoy the rewards of your labours?If you had the means to commit a crime with little or no chance of being found out, would you do it? Could such an opportunity exist? With meticulous planning and execution, total self-reliance and faith in your abilities, just such an opportunity could be engineered.But you have really got to want …

It is the Wild Wild West in South Florida during the real estate boom that starts in the early 2000s and ends in mid 2008. During this time, people rush to become homeowners and wheeler dealers. As house prices skyrocket, many buy property, driven by fear that they will be left out and remain tenants the rest of their lives. Others come to own houses or condos just to make a quick profit, sometimes selling them before the properties are even fully completed. Gooch Harrison, a middle-aged store clerk, is caught in the middle of the chaos. He doesn’t make …

The prologue for the powerful novel Contradictions begins on Nov. 9, 1938 in Berlin, Germany, on the afternoon before Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The story flashes forward to 1980, when Rachel, a young Jewish woman at the beginning of her academic career and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, has recently been hired as the first female assistant professor of American history at a prominent East Coast university. Eric, a sociology professor with a penchant for smart young women, is serving as her mentor, guiding Rachel’s research agenda and helping her understand the dynamics of the academic community. …

From elementary school to young adulthood, Luke and Manuel are always in conflict. Even from their school days, Manuel is determined to be the big man in town. He becomes obsessed with getting back at Luke, the only hindrance to his dreams. Luke, a skinny introvert, wants only to protect his sister, girlfriend, and teacher from harm. As their final showdown approaches, Luke is dealing with nightmares about Manuel’s threats and the time he spent as a juvenile in an adult jail for an assault he didn’t commit. After Luke causes the death of a criminal named Harvey to protect …

Escape from the Legion is loosely based on fact and real events. It tells the story of "Tom," a young Swede in his twenties who was shanghaied into the French Foreign Legion in the 1970s, and after surviving all manner of adventures, manages to escape. This unlikely tale of a young ex-soldier plucked unceremoniously from a conventional life in Sweden, describes how as an unwilling recruit of the FFL, he confronts the mental and physical challenges of the Legion. Tom’s narrative sustains a lively pace to keep up with everything that happens to him. A sequence of events unfolds to …

Moonstone Magic is a detective novel that takes readers along on a time travel journey from a moonstone to ghosts, and ultimately, to love. When a writer finds a link allowing her to travel in time, she discovers many things, including how to win the lottery! But she also uncovers a shocking revelation that she is unable to write about. The story unfolds as she must find her own way to handle the situation in which she has she has found herself, as well as the consequences. Stories of different themes follow, including murder, ghosts, cosmetic surgery, heartbreak, and love, …

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES …With the aid of the druids of Sparak Th’ur, Garat and his companions traverse the mountains of the west, along the river of exiled souls to arrive in the Eastlands.They escaped the wrath of the Cannatii, even as the Cannatii leader, Baylsson, rails in anger at the escape of the young priest and the creation of the great rift in his lands. A great yawning chasm, torn in the ground by the power of the mountains of the west, cuts him off from half the northern continent. He orders his minions on the eastern side of the …

Wake Me Up So I Can Dream is a disturbing story of nightmares, visions, dreams, and fears that will have you questioning everything in the confusing world of Sasha, a beautiful young woman with a tortured past. Sasha is a gentle soul, who after much hardship falls in love against the odds with Michael, who once was just a friend. Michael loves her immensely, but things change swiftly and dramatically. Without warning, Sasha starts to see strange visions and seems to be losing the man she loves to a ghostly figure who walks in and out of her life at …