Fiction; The ultimate mystery...Love Story for the Ages.

The Wisdom of Loons

Jeff Dennis

Nightbird Publishing

"Tracy Rud's Sea Beggar is an action-packed pirate story that alternates between present day and the early 1700s. It begins when Macy Macmillan, rebuilding her Gulf Coast home, stumbles across buried treasure in a Florida swamp. Scenes with, Keary Dunbarton, raised a proper lady on a Caribbean island in home in 1719 follow. When Keary's beloved father, Alain Dunbarton, famed ship captain and privateer, is killed in a sea battle with pirates, Keary takes over his ship and his men and sets out to return the treasure to Spain. Different and daring, Sea Beggar is filled with near misses on the high seas and a tender romance, all cleverly sliced into present-day scenes with Macy in Florida and then with Keary, sword in hand, defending her precious Spanish cargo from pirates. So well written, you can taste the salt! Pirate fans will be asking for more from Tracy Rud." -- Y. L. Harris, Author of Hindu Kush and The Vigilante's Bride........................ "Just when you believe there remains no adventure worth seeking, there appears upon the horizon the stout silhouette of the Sea Beggar-author Tracy Rud's stirring saga of lyrical larceny and love upon the high seas. As Rud so aptly pens, "If we sail far enough, we will find our dreams." Indeed, plus much, much more-pirates, both good and bad, and a king's ransom in treasure, both lost and found. Not even Cap'n Jack Sparrow could have spun a better yarn." --- Jedwin Smith, Author of Fatal Treasure and Our Brother's Keeper

Sea Beggar

Tracy Rud

The master of the pulse-pounding literary thriller is back. Heywood Gould, award-winning screenwriter and novelist, author of bestselling novels/screenplays COCKTAIL and FORT APACHE, THE BRONX, returns with his biggest tour-de-force yet-THE SERIAL KILLER'S DAUGHTER. This one is a supercharged road trip that takes our two protagonists on a dark thrill ride to some very dangerous places. Someone is stalking college student, Hannah Seeley. Somebody would very much like to see her dead. Why? No good reason other than Hannah is the daughter of Arnold Seeley, a.k.a., the Robbinsgate Killer, convicted for 11 murders and now sitting on California's Death Row. The list of suspects who might want to kill Hannah is long. The motive is less clear. Panicked, she uses her seductive charms to enlist the help of her classmate, Peter Vogel. Soon, Peter finds himself neck-deep in trouble. He's in lust with Hannah, which can only be problematic. By getting involved with Hannah, he has set himself up as a target of her pursuers. After a close encounter, they have no choice but to hit the road in Hannah's little VW Bug. The chase is on. Hannah and Peter find themselves on the run from their pursuers while trying to discover the identities of those who want to kill them. It's a cross-country thrill ride, a cat-and-mouse chase involving murder, deception, and sheer survival. You won't want to miss it.

The Serial Killer's Daughter

Heywood Gould

Our Brother's Keeper is the story of all wars, past and present.While this is an unvarnished depiction of combat and its somber compilation of battlefield casualties-those killed and wounded, as well as those who forever must live with the guilt of having survived-it is also the story of mankind's seemingly endless cycle of madness: men marching off to war, surviving and then subsequently raising their own children in the specter of war's glory, thus propelling them down the same path of destruction.Our Brother's Keeper is also the story of war's staggering list of collateral damage-the family and friends of the slain, who, but by the grace of God, are unable to escape the torment of having lost a loved one.

Our Brother's Keeper (none, none)

Biographies & Memoirs

Jedwin Smith

Professionals & Academics

"In this hardboiled suspense novel, an unwitting attorney tracks the sleazy underside of New York City into his home, where it infects his marriage and his life . . . Told in short, snappy chapters with sharp, wiseass dialogue, the story gains speed about a third of the way through as it builds into a thrilling ride to hell . . . Readers willing to enter an edgy, seamy world will enjoy this dark and fatalistic tale."   -  Kirkus Indie Reviews, July 31, 2012Synopsis:What would you do if your best friend told you his boss was going to kill him? Try to save his life because he once saved yours? Well if you're Tony Benson, and your best friend is a prankster like Leo Radigan, you'd do nothing, just laugh it off and say, "That's a novel approach to work-force reduction." If only it was that simple.Leo's boss, the mysterious Hike Muertens, is an influential businessman and philanthropist, but Leo insists he's not the man he appears to be. "With this guy you gotta give an arm to keep a leg," he insists.At first, Tony believes Leo's ever increasing paranoia is fueled by problems at home-a bad marriage, spoiled kids and rising debt. After all, why would a man of Muertens' stature commit murder? But as Tony tries to help his friend through his personal crisis, he finds himself being drawn into Leo's paranoid world, and begins to wonder if there might be something to his crazy tales, after all.As paranoia becomes reality, Tony's darker side emerges and he must successfully navigate his way through the state's mental health and criminal justice systems to save his own life.

Death Has Its Benefits

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ronald Aiken

Thrillers & Suspense

King of the Hobos

Fiction anthology that collects 17 short stories and one novella from author Jeff Dennis. Multi-genre fiction covering mainstream, fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Many stories have previously appeared in magazines and anthologies.

Daydreams and Night Screams

Summer 2003, nearly two years after the 9/11 attacks. American paranoia is at an all-time high. Long out-of-work technical writer Rena Helmsworth takes a job in Southwest Florida, documenting a highly classified terrorist tracking communications network for the newly-created Department of Homeland Security. Her third week on the job, Rena is approached by a mysterious woman known only as Blue. Blue claims she works for a domestic terror cell known as Infinity, and demands that Rena turn over top-secret database access protocols and digital encryption schemes. Blue threatens to have Rena killed if she doesn't deliver. Terrified and not trusting the police and federal agencies, Rena hires private investigator Dean Treadwell to help her. As Rena and Treadwell negotiate the labyrinthine paths leading to Infinity, the body count rises and the threats against them mount. Their search reveals Infinity to be an al-Qaida terrorist cell operating out of the Gulf of Mexico, planning an assault on the United States that promises to make 9/11 seem like child's play. What Rena and the detective discover 80 miles off the coast of Florida is truly bizarre and life changing. And for Rena Helmsworth, their discovery is much more personal than she could ever have imagined. Danger, intrigue, romance, terror . . . deception at every turn. You get it all when you enter the deadly lair of Infinity.

To Touch Infinity

The second Great Depression rages on in America. Derek Parnell-notorious vigilante and champion of the American hobo-has been living in exile in Costa Rica the past three years after having been framed for a Colorado mass murder. In the middle of the night he gets a call from his panicked daughter. Her fiancé has been murdered! The large FBI bounty on his head is not enough to keep him from rescuing her and seeking revenge against those who wronged him. Returning to the States, Parnell recruits his hobo friends, and they travel through Arizona, Utah, and Nevada dispensing their eye-for-an-eye brand of justice. HOBO JINGO continues the electrifying tale that first rode the rails in KING OF THE HOBOS. It's a rambunctious ride through the scenic American West that includes an old-fashioned gun duel, an abandoned coal mine serving as a hobo camp, and mining carts converted into a roller coaster that kills. The twists and turns are as fast and furious as a runaway freight train. The old Wild West was never this wild.

Hobo Jingo (Sequel to King of the Hobos)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Cretaceous Stones (The Cretaceous Chronicles)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dennis, Jeff

Science Fiction

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