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Murder at the House of Funerals
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99It’s almost Halloween! The perfect holiday for sweet munchies, monsters, and murder! Attorney Tracy Brubaker Shane is especially looking forward to October 31, 2019, because a childhood hero will be returning to the small screen – live! Former horror host Richard George, aka Dr. Mort Itchin, comes out of retirement to again present a classic horror film from his House of Funerals, and Tracy will be in the studio audience. She even manages to be invited to rehearsals. But soon after her arrival behind the scenes, she realizes everyone is not wallowing in happy nostalgia. The thorn is everyone’s side is Carl Jeffries, who once-upon-a-time played Dr. Mort’s sidekick, Nagging Skeleton. Jeffries daughter, Megan Wallace, is producing the program. But there’s no love lost between father and child. The show’s director is in love with Megan and isn’t too pleased with the friction Jeffries is causing. Other crew members have their own reasons for despising Jeffries. When the violence finally erupts in a most appropriate, if grisly, fashion, Tracy is right there to begin her investigation, especially when her hero is charged with the crime. Not surprisingly, she discovers multiple possible motives including buried secrets, sheer hatred, and old-fashioned showmanship. But can Tracy find the truth in time so the show can go on? It’s another Tracy Brubaker mystery filled with tricks, treats, and surprises. Happy Halloween!
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Trouble in Tangiers: Islamic Incursions, Portuguese Perfidy? 1661
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 1661 Charles II put an end to the diplomatic wrangle between European powers to provide him with a wife. He announced he would marry the sister of the disabled King of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza. As part of the marriage treaty Portugal ceded the strategic north African port of Tangiers to England in return for three thousand English troops to assist Portugal maintain its independence from Spain. The instability of both Portuguese and Moroccan politics and conflict within the city itself forced Charles to send his agent Colonel Luke Tremayne to investigate the general situation and forestall any attempts by Moroccan war lords to undermine English influence. Their possession of an emerald and silver ring becomes crucial to such an end.
Geoff Quaife, born and educated in Melbourne Australia has been a university lecturer, historian and academic administrator spending most of his working life in Armidale in regional NSW. He is the author of academic works on witchcraft and sexual and the fifteen earlier Luke Tremayne adventures.
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The Irish Fiasco: Stolen Silver in Seventeenth Century Ireland
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Luke’s murder investigation and search for stolen silver is complicated by intriguing Royalists, Irish rebels, influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings, murderous charcoal burners, and devious priests.
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The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.
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The Malevolent Isle: Murder, Magic and Mystery: Yorkshire 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This marquis is undermined by a rebellious son who openly supports the work of an outlawed Catholic priest-and indulges in shady land deals.
Luke’s investigation confronts a defrocked Anglican vicar, several promiscuous women and a series of murders whose motives may lie in the present, or in the distant past.
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The Toy Store Murders: A Jolene Mystery, Book 2
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Owner of several Toy Stores which he built from scratch suddenly dies and his wife too. After careful investigation it was ruled murder. Then Several of the store managers begin to die also. They were killed or fired from their position as managers. Jolene is asked by the FBI to join them again to help close this 10-year cold case.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
The Scarpacci Files
Price range: $14.99 through $20.99A family, living in Carlentini, Sicily, is tired of living the life of a poor farmer. The countryside is beautiful. The ocean, amazing. Yet, the area is as poor as it can be. Times get hard and feeding the family becomes almost impossible. The Scarpacci family decides to move their children to the prosperous lands of America. The new world is much different than the old country. Life is harder, the work is harder, but the money comes easier. They are immigrants so they don’t make as much as an English born American. Still, the freedom that they seek is everywhere if one is willing to work for it, yet it comes with a price.
The Black hand organization runs these streets. The little Italy neighborhood on the south side of Omaha hasn’t been the same since they moved in. They terrorize the neighborhood, extorting everyone and killing anyone who resists. One man falls short of his monthly payments and began to fall behind. After months of nonpayment, he ends up paying the ultimate price, his life. Retaliation is a must. His two sons, Yano and Gino, must react. However, they are too young. Who will do something? Will other neighbors stand up against the organization and fight back, or will they continue to murder and destroy the neighborhood? Someone must stand up and stop them before it’s to late and the entire neighborhood burns to the ground.
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Education Of A Native Son
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends.
Thomas, a Black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he is known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student, being Black at an all-white university and being Black in America. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parent’s past, a past the could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life. What takes him from a proud feeling of triumph when entering the university to feelings of betrayal, abandonment, self-hatred and the brink of self-destruction.
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The Spanish Relation: Murder in Cromwellian England
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Luke, Cromwell’s top agent spends late 1654 and much of 1655 in Somerset inquiring into the murder of an obscure squire. The victim’s family and village are deeply divided revealing a multitude of suspects-feuding relatives, corrupt politicians, Royalist supporters, Spanish agents, religious fanatics, a wanton witch, and a mysterious man in a golden cape
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The Frown of Fortune: A French Affair
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. They are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry, who reaches the royal court attempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting, while a disabled Luke investigates the death of an aristocrat’s wife. The investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, an unscrupulous courtier, a Canadian adventurer, and a rampaging bear. Thee search for English Catholic treasure focusses everybody’s attention.
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The Lighter Side of Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The LSD is a supernatural thriller based on actions taken by GOD to extinguish evil for evermore. In this story ironically GOD commission sinners to rid Hell of Satan by answering the final prayer of Protagonist, (Dimitrius Steele, aka The Redeemer) an Ex- Marine now condemned death row prisoner; by sending him to Hell to save the souls of his family. Unlike (Dante’s Inferno or What Dreams May come) In order to do this, Dimitrius must recruit the souls of the damned; who wish to be redeemed, which causes a rebellion in Hell. While forming a Divine Militia to lead out of the depths of Hell and delivering them to the Kingdom of Heaven, they are faced with the unorthodox complexities only sinners may frequent. Thus, their faith is tested as the destruction of Hell commence. Meanwhile back in the Material World Protagonist, (Father Gabriel) frequently plagued by unexplainable premonitions of the Crucifixion must organize the (New Disciples), together their mission is to unite the 12 Tribes of Israel and the various religions of true believers into 1 prayer in order for GOD to send us his true blessing: The return of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, the true Redeemer. This in turn may prove not to be an easy task due to unforeseen dark forces plotting against Gabriel’s path. Although the two men are fighting different battles, they realize that they are fighting the same war in different places, space and time…. In retaliation, fully aware of the Redeemer’s quest; Antagonist, (Belial, aka Satan) welcomes the challenge by unveiling his powers to destroy the Material World via the unleashing of his Army of Demons causing the beginning of the Apocalypse and the final battle: Armageddon. It’s a requiem of our FAITH, Good vs. Evil and Heaven vs. Hell.
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Divided We Fall
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99What will the American people do when tyranny and political correctness become the law of the land? Where are the George Washingtons and Benjamin Franklins that we need today? Liberal leftist educators deliberately ignore the tyranny of the increasingly socialist movement of government under the guise of political correctness. What freedoms are we willing to surrender? Who of our youth are willing to serve in the armed forces?
Politicians continue to consolidate political power in their hands under the banner of political correctness and socialism, of spreading the wealth for everyone. The tyranny of socialism is being whitewashed by liberal educators who ignore the loss of freedoms it requires. The armed forces are controlled by the politicians which can become tools of repression. Will individual patriots rise to protect the Constitution as written by the Founding Fathers? Where are the George Washingtons and Benjamin Franklins of today?
As the tyranny of political correctness grows to become the law of the land at the expense of individual thought, liberty, and justice, who will abide by it? Who will resist it? As politicians concentrate political power in their own hands, disarming the American people to deny them the means of physical resistance, where will the armed forces, allegedly under civilian control and commanded by the President, stand? What price are we, as individuals, willing to pay for our God-given freedoms?
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Just Killing Time
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Wrongly incarcerated for borrowing a vehicle, young Brent “Buzz” Galen is moved to Glen Cove Correctional Institution on the rural coast of North Carolina, where he meets Chuck Charles, a man who suffers from medical ailments. Within the prison, the two become good friends and work to find ways to fill the idleness of prison life, killing time any way that they can.
Not long into his prison stay, Buzz witnesses a number of illegal activities, primarily with the staff who are bringing in serious items of contraband. The ringleader of all of this activity is an inmate who’s serving time for a man-slaughter charge.
Secrets began to reveal themselves at Glen Cove, and long-standing illegal arrangements begin to unravel. But nothing is safe in the world of prison. As the culprits are being exposed, the level of danger rises, and many within Glen Cove are forced to make life-changing decisions…
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Deacon’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Deacon’s Promise is an action thriller set in South Africa. In the midst of his own crisis of faith, Deacon Adelius receives a letter from a murdered friend, pleading with him to go to South Africa to rescue his children, whose lives are in danger from international drug smugglers led by a villain who is clever, ruthless, and beautiful. What his friend asks from the grave, Deacon must grant. To honor his dying friend’s request, he will have to rely on fellow members of a secret society of Gabrians, of close friends, of a retired colonel of the South African police, and of a unique trio of honorary uncles. Deacon becomes a hunter and hunted, as he weaves his way from Cape Town to Zimbabwe in a trail of violence in which he must call upon all his Chicago street smarts and previous military experience to survive and accomplish his mission.
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Murder in Mellifont
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99“The blood splattered chancel stone glistened as if the life force spread across the limestone could tell a story of its own…”
And so begins the mystery of the Lady in Black and the quest for what she sought. Once again two friends on leave from the sessions of the Vatican Council in 1965 find themselves embroiled in murder, mystery and ancient prophecies. This time the detective duo of Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz is joined by a girl from Georgia, Susan, and Ron’s sister Jan not to mention their new friends on a research holiday in Ireland. There amongst the ruins of Mellifont and ancient castles and Hermitage of Medieval Monks a story as old as the mystical Nuatha who came to settle the Emerald Isle and as new as greed possessing mere humans is discovered. There amongst the footsteps of St. Patrick, St. Malachy and St. Erc they find themselves struggling with their own feelings of who they are and what they are called to be. There in Ron’s arms a dying woman sends him on a journey to find the truth.
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Murder at the World’s Fair
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Vatican has given permission for one of its greatest treasures to be exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. As America prepares to receive one of the most revered works of art in the world, others are planning for the greatest heist of the century. Into this mix of celebration and theft planning come, two buddies, Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz who are studying for the priesthood. With them is a girl from Georgia, Susan Liguori, who fancies one of them. Together they find themselves searching for a dead body, matching wits with a police detective, trapping mobsters, spying in the United Nations and finding justice for a murder victim and an accused murderer.
“Murder at the World’s Fair” will have you rubbing elbows with diplomas and prelates, escaping the clutches of henchmen out to kill, uncovering a secret love, witnessing faith come to life, entering the realm of the underworld, revealing plots, clues, and true identifies while combating rage which turns the white Carrara marble red with innocent blood.
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Suspicion
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When Ivan’s Jewish parents smuggle him out of Germany during World War II, they leave him a letter with two pieces of advice: work hard, and be wary of those offering help. Taking this counsel to heart, Ivan studies diligently and becomes an internationally recognized neuroscientist. He marries and has a son, but his intrinsic distrust of others pushes his family away.
When the US government offers him a top-secret assignment working with German and Russian scientists in Iran to develop a new weaponized drug—along with a significant pay raise—Ivan jumps at the opportunity. Soon, however, his suspicious nature forces him to question the work’s real purpose. He discovers the German-Russian team are creating a weapon of mass destruction, and his suspicions are confirmed: the CIA didn’t plant him as a scientist but as a spy.
Meanwhile, Ivan’s son, Michael, has become a member of a US Special Operations team. Michael hasn’t spoken to his estranged father in years, and he never expects them to meet again. When they do, the circumstances will demand that they rediscover their ability to trust in each other. Their lives may depend on it.
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Unknown Evil
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Two NYPD Detectives get involved in a murder case that turns out to be the strangest case that Lt. Clancy and Lt. Rizzo ever tried to solve. There is a romance between Lt. Clancy and a woman named Susan Roselle who happens to be Lt. Rizzo’s cousins. The case takes the three of them on a strange chase above and below the City of New York.
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Dan Jorgensen: Teacher and Sleuth
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99General Jorgensen, a one eyed four star General has been retired as an investigator from the Army Criminal Investigation element because of the many gunshot wounds he has received. He is a teacher in the Knoxville College in Knoxville, Colorado on the west slope of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. He teaches ROTC, biology, self defense and astronomy. Even though he is retired, the President of the US, who ever is in office, keeps calling on him to help solve problems caused by traitors and other criminals. And, he still is a walking target.
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The Last Hard Man
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Matt and Becky Jensen had the perfect life, waking up every morning to the rising West Virginia sun. Their perfect life, however, would soon be interrupted by a series of earthquakes in Ecuador, with aftershocks that migrate down to the coal mine that Becky worked in, and had for all her adult life.
The small town of Hope would soon become the epicenter of a disaster that affected the lives of many families in this close-knit community. After 13 days of searching, the search for the four miners comes to an end due to safety reasons. Moving against time, and at the direction of a reclusive cold war spy, Matt has to take things into his own hands if he ever wants to see Becky in his bed anymore.
This novel tells a gripping tale about the determination and distance a man will go to save his love and his family. Come with Matt as he takes the trip of his life to the bowels of the earth to bring his beloved Becky home for Christmas.to miss this.
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In Dreams Awake
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Welcome aboard to a flight where your morning dreams are quickly turned into your worst evening nightmares. In a morning that began with Tom Jordan making plans for a lifetime with his love, Alex Sanders, brought about the next sunrise clinging to a raft, fighting for his very survival.
Alex Sanders will wake up to an empty bed, which should have been occupied by Tom, who was supposed to arrive home via a deadhead flight from Paris. Her nightmare would soon become a reality when she learns that Tom’s plane is missing, and no one seems to know where it might be.
Alex has to move fast and call in some favors when after three days the search is called off. It is by an act of faith that the famous British submarine, the H.M.S. Conqueror rounds the coast of South America and finds the doomed airliner adrift. Look through the periscope with the captain, as a covert spy operation becomes a rescue mission under the cover of darkness. You won’t want to miss this.
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Whose Coffee Is It?
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99I met June Seese in a class on writing fiction. As a teacher, one of my biggest kicks was that moment when the writers first read something they’d written. It was a nervous time-many writers shaking inside, for the first time showing their work to strangers, sympathetic, but nonetheless, strangers. June was remarkable. What has flowered since was already sturdy, strong distinct. She read with a confidence that moved beyond the personal, a faith outside herself in the certainty of her work. Here was a writer who had risen to that essential power where her work becomes necessary to her, a gift as sure and heedless as her pulse. She was right on track, and would move, beyond discouragement or criticism or even appreciation, into the strength, that difficult ease that’s the mark of a writer who will continue regardless, achieving an undeniable, unmistakable voice.
What makes a writer? Originality, a delighted care for language, a commitment to push words into new music and finally into pure emotion. June has these gifts-and her writing’s strengths- toughness, speed, lyricism, observation acuity and, ultimately, a compassion that’s never unsteady, never weak-make her the best kind of writer-impatient, hip, timely and transcending.
-Paul Evans, Editor, Southline Press
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Little Spiders Big Web
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99When Bill Robinson agreed to help the beautiful Stephanie to find who had ordered the kill shot on her father twenty-five years ago, he knew it was much more than a cold case. What he didn’t know, was how hot it would get deeper he dug into the past, or the danger that awaits him and everyone he talked to.
Jill Benoit was retired from law enforcement and had every intention of staying that way. She had put in her twenty-five years and was more than ready to become a contented Vermont recluse, if only her neighbor would let her be. And then there were those annoying calls from that guy Robinson – and soon Jill was drawn into the same web of treachery and conspiracy that would lead her and Bill to the brink of death.
Will the quiet Vermont landscape and mountains of Washington State hide their secrets for another half century? Will the truth of a decade old crime come to light – and will anyone have proof? Can anyone really break the web of fear and hate and destroy the spiders that weave it?
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The Case of Two Left Shoes
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is the story of Daniel Jorgensen, a lieutenant colonel and Chief of Investigations of the Army Criminal Investigations Element (CIE) in the Virginia area command. Dan has been working in the CIE since before the end of World War Two. His success at finding criminals and eliminating them has made the friends and family, of those he has sent to prison, very angry with him. Their attempts on his life and his family have been to kill him or stop his investigations.
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What Happens Now
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Major General Daniel Jorgensen and his family are back in Knoxville, Colorado where Dan is ROTC instructor at Knoxville College. Dan is hoping that the attacks on himself and his family are over. But having put over 200 in prison, and some on death row, for murder and a variety of other serious crimes, plus 10 dead, do you suppose that their might be a number of people after my head? Dan and his wife Grace are prepared for most attacks on their family. You would think that with the death rate of attackers during their attacks on Dan and family, that the attacks would drop off. Time will tell.
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Selectively Lawless
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is the story of the son of a sharecropping lay minister who, at age 14, walks off the Texas cotton field his family is working on and tells his brother he is never picking cotton again. For the next 18 months he travels halfway across the country and up the Pacific Coast honing his skills as a gambler. At the end of that time he returns to his family driving a new Buick Roadster with $18,000 in his pocket. The money bank rolls his bootlegging enterprise.
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The Spanish Teacher
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award
“…De la Cuesta’s novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader’s attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordóñez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading.”
-Tom Tolnay, publisher,
Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval
“Barbara de la Cuesta’s The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly-tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him… So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer, but rarely do we see a full drama like this, where every bit of the writing extends from, grows out of, is part and parcel with the author’s complete realization of and connection to her character…”
-Don Berger, judge for the Gival Press Novel Award
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Boys of Babylon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.30There is a small tourist trap in the Northern Midwest. A trap may be exactly what it is. People go for the fudge, but is it good enough to risk their lives for? In Midwestern fashion, dark secrets are covered up and disguised as quaint diners, candy shops, and beautiful vacation homes. During the summer of 2004, like every year, tourists make their way into town. However, this year, six pubescent boys take advantage of several unsuspecting vacationers, sending them to a watery grave on a popular recreational river. This rite of passage turns on the town when tragedy strikes one of their own. The children’s parents are forced to come face to face with the sadistic games of their once “sweet angels.” But how does one handle a child without coming to terms with such a twisted reality in a place where no one wants to confront their demons?
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Scheldestroom: A Century of Sailing Adventure in Resilience, Courage, Fun and Determination
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Keith Paulusse, is a Dutch-born Australian writer with a background in social psychology. Paulusse’s passion lies in social justice and helping
disadvantaged people. For the past ten years, he has operated a tuition-free School of Languages, an English language course for migrant learners, refugees and Australians with literacy handicaps.
In 2015 he published his first book Vertrek a journey of his and other Dutch families in Postwar Australia. Followed by ‘ Big Bunches At the
Jamfactory’ a vibrant chronicle of activism, spirit and perseverance during the heady days of HIV/AIDS. His best selling book India Through
Virgin Eyes, was published in 2020.
Keith Paulusse, een in Nederland geboren Australische schrijver met een achtergrond in sociale psychologie. Paulusse’s passie ligt in sociale rechtvaardigheid en het helpen van kansarme mensen. De afgelopen tien jaar heeft hij een collegegeldvrije School of Languages beheerd, een Engelse taalcursus voor migrantenleerlingen, vluchtelingen en Australiërs met alfabetiseringsproblemen.
In 2015 publiceerde hij zijn eerste boek Vertrek een odyssee van zijn en andere Nederlandse gezinnen in het naoorlogse Australië. Het werd gevolgd door ‘Big Bunches At the Jamfactory’, een levendige kroniek over activisme, geest en doorzettingsvermogen tijdens de onstuimige dagen van hiv / aids. Zijn bestverkopende boek India Through Virgin Eyes verscheen in 2020. -
Boston Darkens
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99The Kenyan runner was the favorite to win this year’s Boston Marathon. At least that’s what the sports broadcaster blurted on Ben’s car radio. He was on the Mass Pike, making his way through heavy traffic. Just a few more miles to go. Suddenly a shockwave of energy burst through the air. Ben’s car shut down.
Dumbfounded, he held tight to the steering wheel. What the fuck, he thought. His Honda Accord was new. He turned the ignition switch over, but there was nothing. He tried the lights, windows, and door, but again nothing. It was just dead as a doornail. “Damn,” he muttered and grinned. After a minute he looked around him. It wasn’t rush-hour traffic. He was in a huge parking lot.
Jessica, Ben’s daughter, was in her classroom. As a high school student, she was coming down the home stretch. Her whole life was ahead of her. The teacher was beginning the first lesson. Click the lights, and computers went off. “Stay calm” the teacher said. Seconds turned into minutes. A student raised his hand.
He had to go to the bathroom. Confusion and anxiety set in. The principal was beside himself. What was the protocol for this? There was no cell phone reception, and the police or fire departments weren’t showing up. Minutes turned into hours. Action was required. Would he make the wrong decision? Would he endanger lives? Would he be sued? His pay grade was high but not high enough for this.
Ben, Alice (his wife), Randy (his son), and Jessica were living the American dream. They were now confronted by an evil act of aggression, a life-changing event for this wholesome family, their neighbors, and everyone within hundreds of miles. This drama portrays a family’s efforts to survive. In their struggle, they are joined together by an unlikely collection of heroes—Ben, his shy teenage daughter, Jessica, and her friend Vivian. He has a rebellious son named Randy and an eccentric recluse of a neighbor who’s an intellectually challenged adult. There is a neighborhood construction contractor, a keen, quiet-spoken hip Native American father a fair-play, Easy Rider biker dude, a couple of “fly by the seat of their pants” local cops, the Massachusetts Turnpike, and of course Randy’s lovingly restored classic: a 1958 Buick. You’ll have to read it to believe it.
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Boston Flickers
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Jessica had been bicycling hard for two hours in a desperate attempt to be with her boyfriend Joshua. Her father had basically forbidden any further contact. With nothing else to live for, she was on a dangerous journey. It was bad enough to drive through this lawless countryside in a vintage car. Alone, on a bicycle, it was almost unthinkable. Exhausted, she laid down on the side of the road and made peace with the Lord.
An EMP blast has littered most roads in the eastern U.S. with stalled cars, their modern computer-based ignitions fried beyond repair. Ben Randall had formed a survival collaborative with his neighbors. They had to venture out for food, water and medicines while trying to avoid local gangs of thugs. Local governments were operating with skeletons crews at best. Officer Ryan was one of the few Massachusetts State Police officers who had transportation and was able to remain at his post. As a member of Ben’s collaborative, he coordinated the formation of a new collaborative. It took an hour’s drive with the non-computerized antique Buick that Ben’s son Randy had lovingly restored.
Daniel was the leader of the new collaborative. He was a talented man who spoke a number of languages, was a decent musician, and had the natural gift to be a good salesman. Trouble is, he is not a hands-on guy. Starting in the mix in the new collaborative was Daniel’s wife, who is often at odds with him, and his son Joshua. Ah, Joshua, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Leaving college early, Joshua’s dreams were like those of his dad. He was also gifted with the gab, loved sales and meeting people. He too was worldly, spoke several languages, and come across as a handsome, confident young man.
When the two collaborative meet, it is the encounter of Jessica and Joshua that sets off a tangled journey through danger, survival and love. It inflicts family wounds and eventually pushes the two lovers to leave for “tent city”. Like the first book, “Boston Darkens”, you will find this story fast paced, and captivating to the end.
“Boston Flickers” is a story of family conflict, friends, and romance, mixed-in with the wit of a unique cast of characters.