Genre:
Mystery
Detective

Blurb/Logline
When compulsory education goes amok, fear, bloodshed, romance, deceit, prejudice, and revenge dominate one man's life.  Chris Samuel stoically marks off each day spent teaching in the alternative school from hell, believing it will all be over in one short year.  Blinded by love, he's totally ensnared in a deathtrap and is the last to learn the harshest lesson survival can teach.  Now it's up to a local cop to stop the bloodbath Samuel's own naiveté helped to unleash, or Chris Samuels' world as he knows it will come crashing down around him.

*     *     *

The Greatest

Genre:
Detective
Action/Adventure
Thriller

Blurb/Logline
A young American child runs away from home to Mexico and emerges years later as the world’s greatest bullfighter, only to meet his fate, but not in the bullring.  One of the countless women drawn to this ultimate hero of the corrida proves that the animals he constantly faced in the bullring can’t compare to an evil woman on a mission.

Now it’s up to two Monterrey cops to solve the mystery of who accomplished what hundreds of fierce bulls couldn’t.  Can they solve the crime while preserving the reputation of the greatest matador ever?  Unfortunately, the greatest bullfighter’s murderer isn’t done yet.  As the detectives get closer to what really happened, they are targeted for death.  The Greatest explores the darkest sides of bullfighting, greed, and revenge as it catapults the reader to its lethal climax.  Olé!

Alexander, Gregory
The Holy Mark

Genre:
Literary

Blurb/Logline
Father Tony would never have become a priest but for his grandmother's interpretation of that peculiarly shaped birthmark on his head as a sign from God.  His New Orleans family had enough money to allow him to pursue his real interests; but when the archdiocese appointed him surrogate father to a home for wayward high school students, he discovered another--darker--passion: teenaged boys.  Now Tony's uncle and the Archbishop of New Orleans conspire against him.  But the priest is determined to survive, even if he has to conceal his identity and prowl the streets of the French Quarter by night in this shocking, tell-all pseudo-memoir of a pedophile priest caught between the cynicism of his own Southern upbringing and the political machinations of the Roman Catholic Church. 

Anderson, Greg
Timbega

Genre:
Sci-Fi

Blurb/Logline
A small band of humans journey to another star system to found a new civilization.  Four of them explore the only Earthlike planet in the system.  Despite sending robots ahead, they find surprises both wondrous and deadly.   Only three leave Tembega alive, but one of them acquires a new understanding of her place in the universe.

*     *     *

First Steps

Genre:
Sci-Fi

Blurb/Logline
Kate is tormented by strange nightmares--but also driven by them. Harry becomes a charismatic leader of the New Age movement.  Kate's drive leads her into space, while Harry develops a new philosophy that gives humanity a key role in the cosmos.

*     *     *

Lasting Values

Genre:
Mystery
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
Annelle Petrov is a new editor at the Jessup Gazette-Journal.  When she and reporter Bill Glass set out to investigate a 30-year-old rumored murder by Sheriff's Department deputies, they begin to unravel a tale quite different from what they had expected.  When they finally piece the story together, they take it to their editor-in-chief.  But learning what happened, he points out, isn't the same as proving it.  Can they?

*     *     *

A Story of Values

Genre:
Mystery
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
A respected physician is charged with murder after performing an abortion, and the political world explodes.  Both sides in the abortion debate decide they must win this test case, and they pull out all the stops.  The narrator is a young reporter trying to keep his paper in the forefront of the coverage while being pushed by his editor, by events, and by his own conscience.  Before the maelstrom blows itself out, more lives have ended, and the reporter is a little wiser.

Austin, Jude
Tsunami

Genre:
Action-Adventure
Suspense
Thriller

Blurb/Logline
When Murray Tranter and his spoiled daughter Rochelle go on holiday to La Palma, unforeseen circumstances force Murray to hire Alexandra Fox, a young drifter with a turbulent past, to keep his daughter safe while he's away on business.  It isn't long before Alex discovers that looking after Rochelle is a much tougher job than she bargained for.  Events take a sinister turn for the pair when they find themselves embroiled in a terrorist plot which could spell disaster for the East Coast of America.

*     *     *

"Three Words" Trilogy
Danshi

Genre:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Blurb/Logline
Abducted to serve as a test subject for a new, top secret branch of technology allowing for interstellar travel, Jerome Cuillon is sent to the world called Danshi.  Following his shuttle's crash, Jerome is written off for dead.  Only one thing keeps him going; a burning thirst for revenge on the agency that abandoned him there.  With the help of the native Shiiran, Jerome must try to find his way across Danshi to the touchdown point for the ship before it leaves and he is truly stranded on this alien world.  But one thing he is about to find out very soon; on Danshi, nothing is ever what it seems...

Kheshen

Genre:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Blurb/Logline
Jerome Cuillon is a semi-failed actor, recently back from the secret world of Danshi and looking forward to returning to his normal life.  Some hope.

Following a cryptic message from his one-time ally, Acheron, Jerome is manipulated into visiting the woman on her home turf, the subterranean area of Khéshênalong with his companion from Danshi, Christine Smith.  With Acheron is Jerome's old nemesis, Jon Vaughan, determined to destroy him once and for all. 

Any thoughts of further revenge are rapidly driven from Jerome's head as he struggles to come to terms with the harsh brutality of life in Khéshên.  With predators and hired knives at every turn, and every region in Khéshên on the verge of declaring war on the others, Jerome is going to need all the strength and ingenuity he can muster just to stay alive...

Tluor

Genre:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Blurb/Logline
Jerome has survived the Khéshên war, barely.  Now he just wants to go back home, back to his old life, to look after his girlfriend Christine and their baby.   There's just one problem with that.  Jerome and Christine are currently on a ship heading away from both Khéshên and Earth, along with a handful of fellow survivors.  Crash-landing on a strange planet, tensions rapidly mount among the group, causing allies and friends to turn into bitter enemies.  There's only one slender hope; the native tribes have a legend about the Sky People, and are each guarding a piece of a map left behind that might just point to a way out.  With only Ja'arn, Rrasska and Christine sticking with him, Jerome must somehow find all the pieces and put them together.  But with traps and guards surrounding every piece of the map, that's not going to be easy...

*     *     *

Project Tau

Genre:
Sci-Fi
Psychological Drama
Action/Adventure

Blurb/Logline
Project Tau is a top-secret, highly classified scientific experiment.  Kalin Taylor is a college student who turns up in the wrong place at the wrong time and is forced into signing a contract giving the scientific company GenTech permission to run a series of tests on him while, unbeknown to him, GenTech fakes his death with the use of an illegal clone.  Trapped, mutated almost beyond recognition, Kalin discovers the truth behind GenTech and the Projects; the brutal, sadistic 'training', the abuse, the 'punishments' in the form of powerful electric shocks.  With only Project Tau and the one scientist who believes in him as allies, Kalin has to escape before GenTech's training kills him.

Ayala, Eric
Will You Be Made Whole

Genre:
Inspirational
Action/Adventure

Blurb/Logline
Two teenagers from two very different backgrounds get caught up in a cesspool of drugs, prostitution, and murder while fighting to survive in a world over which they have no control.  Their battle to break free will eventually cost them everything!

*     *     *

Alabaster Box

Genre:
Inspirational
Action/Adventure

Blurb/Logline
Two women trying to escape their unrelenting personal demons start new lives despite the censure of an unforgiving society and discover that second chances are hard won as they fight their pasts and themselves.  One will be forced to face her mortality, while the other will be pushed to kill in order to survive.

Genre:
Western

Blurb/Logline
An Apache war Chief roams the hills outside Camp Grant waiting to fulfill a blood-oath to find and kill the Cavalry scout. Will the scout realize he is being stalked in time and will he be able to rescue the beautiful Colonel's daughter the Apache took in time to save her from a terrible death?
 

Eden, Hunter
Mr. Incan Empire

Genre:
Ethnic/Multicultural
Experimental
Fantasy
Humor
Literary
Occult
Psychological Drama
Stream-of-Consciousness

Blurb/Logline
In an alternate New World unconquered by Europe, Manco Puma is Mr. Incan Empire--a trendy young model and actor with a handsome face, a bad boy reputation, and a managing contract with notorious Aztec mob boss Moxex Pen Nama.  But when Moxex asks Manco to marry the leader of a deadly, all-female Iroquois biker gang, it's the beginning of a descent into insane worlds of organized crime, bloodthirsty gods, and a hallucinatory quest upon which the destiny of all mankind may depend.
 

Gates, Pamela
The Brothers
Young Adult

Genre
Fantasy
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
Present Day, Scotland.  A ghostly Thomas has had three centuries to think: about the woman he failed to rescue, the brother he betrayed, and the friends he killed.  Aided by his ghostly brother, Francis, he will seek the mystical stallion that brought him to the girl, return to the Room of the Lost and all the horrors it holds.  Back to that fateful day he will travel, but will he make the same mistakes, mistakes that forever haunt him in The Brothers?

Gwin, Julie
The Red Earth

Genre:
Women's
Feminist
Psychological Drama

Blurb/Logline
Pecan Mountain is a beautiful, secluded bastion of the South.  Sidney Weaver leaves New York, hoping to find peace in the small town, but is rejected by the people there, who disapprove of her.  Lonely, she wanders daily through the woods behind her home, where one day she finds a weeping woman, her face bloody and bruised.  Shocked, Sidney realizes the woman is Gwen Johnson, a classmate from high school, who is now married to a terrifying man.  As Sidney and Gwen become friends, Sidney becomes determined to help her escape from her husband.  She enlists the aid of the town sheriff, but he is unable to help, and Gwen is too afraid to run away.  She refuses to leave her husband, sure he will stop hurting her some day, until one terrible night, when her husband assaults her in such a horrifying way that she and Sidney finally take matters into their own hands.
 

Genre:
Mystery
Humor
Psychological Drama
Political Intrigue

Blurb/Logline
Elvis Presley is bored with life within the confines of Graceland. But when he travels to Washington to offer the president his services as an undercover federal agent, he gets more than he bargained for—a badge from the head of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs; a rogue cop out to destroy him; a jealous guitar player and Elvis look-alike bent on exacting revenge; and an awakening to his own growing penchant for self-destruction. Along the way, things really get weird.

*     *     *

Genre:
Thriller
Psychological Drama
Romance

Blurb/Logline
When an investigative reporter falls head-over-heels in love, it’s a good thing.  When the target of his affections is a classy/sassy blonde charged with protecting the world’s most valuable book, it’s a bad thing.  Or, at least, it is if the reporter is determined to steal the book from under her nose.

"Carlotta" Series
Bk. 1 - Bound for Carlotta

Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Mystery
Erotic
 
Blurb/Logline
When Dean Janus stumbles across an Internet promotion for a professional Domme, his curiosity is piqued.  By the time he decides to check it out, he is already ensnared in an ever-widening web of drugs, money laundering, BDSM, and murder.  Only the tenacious love of a woman nearly ten years younger can save him.  But is that love strong enough to go head-to-head with Mistress Carlotta?  And can Dean overcome the prejudices he has against his young, headstrong lover?  His very life may depend upon it!

Bk. 2 - Carlotta’s Revenge

Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Mystery
Erotic

Blurb/Logline
When Domme Mistress Carlotta escapes from prison, Dean Janus bears the brunt of her wrath.  Taken into bondage to a small adobe outside Ensenada, he is broken of his will and forced to do her bidding.  He returns to the states, where under orders from Carlotta he drugs and kidnaps his own fiancé, and returns with her to Carlotta's adobe, where she too is eventually turned into a devoted slave.  But when M.C. introduces a young peasant girl to become Lynn's charge, Dean turns the tables on the Domme and sets the stage for a supercharged ending.

Bk. 3 - The Unbroken

Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Mystery
Erotica

Blurb/Logline
Mistress Carlotta is released from prison and rehabilitated from a life of depravity and sado-masochism.  In atonement for her sins, she agrees to help set up a home for abused submissives—men and women.  But the temptations prove too strong, and before long, Carlotta has fallen back into her evil ways with a hauntingly frightening twist.  She breaks, then sells her slaves to the underground, where they are forced into the alternative-sex trade or made to perform in alternative snuff flicks.  When Lynne turns up dead, Dean turns up the heat and presses authorities to take up the chase.  As the trail turns cold, he springs into action, enlisting the aid of Lynne’s younger sister—who turns out to be more than Carlotta can resist!

*     *     *

"Eastern Glow" Trilogy
Bk. 1 - Afghani Skies

Genre:
Suspense
Action/Adventure
Contemporary Romance

Blurb/Logline
Paula is young, intelligent, and hauntingly beautiful--a woman of strong will and unbreakable spirit.  Restless and eager for adventure, she and her husband strike out for Afghanistan, where they have been enlisted to help rebuild the new democratic regime.  Paula wants a different life for the two of them: a renewed love for her husband and a renewed sense of well-being for herself.  But what she finds are turmoil and upheaval.  As the countryside around her erupts into guerrilla warfare, her devotion to her husband is challenged by his need for drugs until finally she meets a passionate Afghan rebel willing to help.  But his help proves futile, driving Paula further into desperation until her rebel companion steps in to save her from the forces of pending doom. 

Bk. 2 - Mistress of the East

Genre:
Suspense
Action-Adventure
Contemporary Romance

Blurb/Logline
A young American woman and her Afghan-born husband take on new and ominous overtone when Paula suddenly finds herself attacked in her home by two Iraqi thugs. When she learns that Shadar has disappeared on his return from business in Hong Kong, she sets out to find him.  Along the way, she uncovers a sordid trail of human bondage, gun smuggling, and Al Qaeda terrorists.  All nearly ends in a deadly fire-fight with outlawed Islamic fanatics.  But what happens to Paula ... and will she really confront the Butcher of Baghdad about the whereabouts of Shadar?

Bk. 3 - Underground Opera

Genre:
Suspense
Action-Adventure
Contemporary Romance
 
Blurb/Logline
A cozy night at the opera turns deadly as Paula and Shadar stand by helplessly. Their investigation into the death of Shadar's closest friend soon leads them to Kabul, where Shadar is charged with the task of helping to set up the underground Iraqi Resistance Movement to ferret out and destroy opponents of Coalition Forces and the newly elected Iraqi Free Parliament.  From there, they wend their way to the Tigris, when Shadar suddenly disappears.  Fearing the worst, Paula tries desperately to contact the underground and finally manages to reach the head of the movement ... of the wrong underground! As the Republican Guard and the dreaded Iranian secret police close in on her, she faces the dilemma of her life: should she flee ... or stay and fight against all odds to find Shadar?

*     *     *

"Hymie Stiehl" Series
Bk. 1 - Crazy as a Loon - The Death and Life of Hymie Stiehl

Genre:
Mystery
Humor

Blurb/Logline
When Yiddish Bulldog Hymie Stiehl learns that his friend, Jungle Jim Alavera of the Chicago White Sox, has disappeared, he knows he has to act fast.  Realizing that Alavera is still alive but in great danger, Stiehl and his young, rakish college-professor sidekick seek to locate him before the Mob does.  But when bodies begin turning up like dead flies at a bad delicatessen, Stiehl calls upon the local D.A. and the members of the venerable Twelfth Precinct to step in to help solve the case ... and very nearly ends up a statistic, himself.  

Bk. 2 - Murder in the Court

Genre:
Mystery
Humor
 
Blurb/Logline
As Hymie Stiehl and sidekick D. J. Shanahan arrive in Trinidad, Colorado, to ensnare whoever sent Stiehl's close contractor friend to prison, Stiehl has a revelation.  He sets the kid up as a contractor to work underground.  But when the "kid" gets charged with passing bad checks, contractor fraud, and finally murder, things get ugly.  Stiehl goes underground while the kid bails out, and the two of them meet to uncover the worst in human society--from a dirty District Court Judge right on down to drug-pushing, drug-crazed local vice cops gone wild. 

Things look bleak for D.J.'s upcoming trial when suddenly Stiehl has a revelation.  Halfway through the preliminary hearing to bind the kid over for murder one, Stiehl shows up with three Federal officers--and the kid gets a change of venue ... much to the chagrin of the judge.  When the judge goes to step down and the FBI clasps him in cuffs, he pulls a gun from beneath his robes and shoots his own bailiff in the head.  As the judge is hauled away, Stiehl reveals the real savior behind the scenes in an ending as touching as it is creative.

Bk. 3 - Stiehl Stalkings

Genre:
Mystery
Humor
 
Blurb/Logline  A Caribbean cruise goes sour when a wealthy German industrialist turns up dead during an attempted robbery--murdered with his own gun.  The plot thickens when Yiddish Bulldog Hymie Stiehl learns that the man's stepson had lost more than $20 thousand at the tables the night before.  The man's wife, too, stands to gain financially from her husband's death, although she voluntarily takes a polygraph test and passes with ease.  When links to a Belizean woman emerge, Hymie grows restless.  The deceased industrialist had been having an affair, and his wife found out.  What better peg to the murder than a spurned wife?  But when the wife's own son is killed, all eyes fall elsewhere, and it's up to Hymie to unravel the most bizarre and twisted tale of murder and chicanery ever.

Bk. 4 - Murder by Default

Genre:
Mystery
Humor

Blurb/Logline
Ronald Deus has an ax to grind.  In fact, he has several.  The sharpest is reserved for his beloved mother—the only person standing between Deus and a fortune in family stocks and bonds.  But when he takes aim at committing the perfect crime, little does he realize that it’s he, himself, who is standing in his own crosshairs.

"Nick and Nora Cavender" Series
Bk. 1 - Backside Blues

Genre:
Cozy Mystery
Humor
 
Blurb/Logline  Nick and Nora Cavender set out to invest in a racehorse destined for the Kentucky Derby.  But when the horse’s jockey turns up dead—and his jockey friend, and the track steward, and the trainer—they know they're onto one helluva story.  Who will be next?  Nora very nearly finds out ... the hard way.  It isn't long before the society couple realize they're in for the crime of their lives.
 

Pre-Publication Review:  This is the best racing mystery I’ve ever read.  It’s pure dynamite, a page-turner from the first to the last.  The relationship between the characters is supercharged.  And why wouldn't it be, with Nora Cavender, herself, the great granddaughter of Dashiell Hammett's even greater Thin Man, Nick Charles.  Highly recommended! – Don Bacue, Editor-in-Chief, International Features Syndicate

Bk. 2 - Stakeout

Genre:
Cozy Mystery
Humor
 
Blurb/Logline
When one-time private eye Nicky Cavender and his reporter wife Nora take a busman's holiday skiing in Banff National Park, they soon find themselves searching for a missing Canadian heiress ... and her jewelry ... and her hotel room suite!  All vanished into thin air.

As hotel officials struggle to learn what happened to room 432, Nicky devises an ingenious plan for a reverse stakeout of the grottos outside Banff's hot springs to uncork the truth.  But before long, he discovers it is he who is being stalked in one of the most creative story lines ever.

Bk. 3 - Chameleon

Genre:
Cozy Mystery
Humor
 
Blurb/Logline
When Nora's Chicago Daily Tribune editor sends her to the U.K. to cover the Irish Darby, she soon learns that derby day is not without its inherent risks.  Within hours of landing, she finds herself the target of a mysterious stalker.  Nick lays plans and apprehends the stalker, who turns out to be anything but!  When Nora disappears, Nicky faces a blank slate for the first time in his life--why was she kidnapped?  Is she unharmed?  Where is she being held?  What clues can their new Welsh Corgi puppy provide?  And are the locals right when they claim that only the Irish moors hold the answer ... and the answer is death!

Genre:
Historical Fiction
Psychological Drama

Blurb/Logline
As Ernest Hemingway falls under J. Edgar Hoover scrutiny for defending Fidel Castro while the revolutionary leader stands poised on the outskirts of Havana, the author decides to take matters into his own hands.  Working out of the seedy Hotel Ambos Mundos, Hemingway maneuvers behind the scenes to help bring an end to the corrupt Batista regime.  On his third wife and fourth mistress--and well into a life of failing health and alcohol addiction--the author decides there might be one more story unfolding before him, one more novel to help seal his reputation in greatness.  But, as Hemingway welcomes the Cuban liberator into Havana, rumors from the Soviet Union and rumblings from the United States--pro-Batista to the bitter end--threaten the author's very reasons for living ... and very nearly threaten life, itself.

*     *     *

Genre:
Literary
Psychological Drama
Women's

Blurb/Logline
Denise finishes high school and flies down to Miami Beach for a break.  When she fails to return, her mother suspects foul play.  But for Denise, her play is anything but foul as she finds herself mistaken for a glamorous model and hobnobbing with Miami society.  When she auditions for a bit part in a local movie financed by the mob and wakes up a week later with track marks on her arm and a guard outside her door, she knows she’s not in Kansas anymore.  Slowly she succumbs to indoctrination as a hooker who quickly becomes a top-earning call girl and, eventually, a Hollywood madam.  Along the way, she learns that falling in love can be a dangerous pastime when your boyfriend just happens to be the connected murderer of your own sister.

*     *     *
 

Genre:
Detective
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
Harry Block is just an average P.I. except for one thing.  He craves adventure.  He gets just that and more in this true story of murder, lust, torture, and resolution.  When at last he uncovers the truth about the son of the California mobster who hired him to clear his son's name, he finds himself scrambling for his very life. 

A breathtaking tale made all the more exciting by the fact that it's based on a true story.  The action is non-stop, and the characters will live in your memory for a lifetime. 

Genre:
Western

Blurb/Logline
As an Army scout, Wade Hawkins learned his job well—he is the best tracker west of the Missouri.  It is a skill that comes in handy, for he’ll need all of his wiles to overtake the murderous flesh-traders who abducted his Choctaw wife from their home several days before.  As he closes in on her captors, he finds more than he bargained for: a troop of ruthless, bloodthirsty ex-rangers with plenty of fire power and 16 Indian women—captive squaws—on their hands.  But was Tantien one of them?

Genre:
Anthology of Chicago-based Short Stories
 
Blurb/Logline
When author/editor D. J. Herda left Chicago, he took a big part of the city with him.  Now he has unleashed it in all its wild-and-wooly, sexually charged, hit-and-hit-harder glory.  These tales are hauntingly vivid, running the gamut from Crime and Punishment to Coming-of-Age in the Windy City. 

*     *     *

Places Where I've Done Time, Too

Genre:
Anthology
Memoir

Blurb/Logline
Author D. J. Herda has traveled the world several times over, first as a professional syndicated travel writer and then as a working photojournalist.  Here he assembles the most poignant, touching, uproarious, and human of all of the stories he has amassed from the different places where he’s done time. 

*     *     *

For Cat's Sake and Other Bizarre Tales from Beyond the Grave

Genre:
Anthology
Spiritual
Humor
Pets
Memoir

Blurb/Logline
Touching, humorous, ethereal, and uplifting tales about all kinds and manner of animals the author has known intimately through his life by the author whom some people call “the best short-story teller working today.” 

*     *     *

Genre:
Anthology
Detective
Mystery
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
From the master teller of short stories, here are the best mystery and suspense tales with just a touch of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. 

*     *     *

Genre:
Literary
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Fantasy

Blurb/Logline
When a man makes a pact with the devil, he does so not in exchange for untold wealth, health, love, or longevity, but in order to stimulate his mind (he loathes boredom and despises boring people).  The devil agrees to grant him superior intellect and the intelligence to survive in a hostile world, and soon the man heads up the most powerful terrorist network in history.  But he fails to anticipate his still human weaknesses and soon falls in lust bordering on love.  The only problem: the woman is a Central European Command (CEC) operative who has been assigned to paranormal investigations into terrorist links.  When she learns from her lover who he really is and where he gets his power—and, worse, that he knows who she really is--she sets out to do the only thing her conscience will allow her to do.  She must destroy him, even if it means making her own pact with the devil to do it!

*Under Review

Genre:
Detective

The story of a hard-boiled she-male undercover cop with a roving eye and a serious attitude who has a hard time staying one jump ahead of the law. 

Genre:
Erotica
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
Recent widower Richard Bass and his teenage daughter discover that living in a rambling home has its drawbacks.  But when they take in boarder Alicia Desiree, they soon learn that nothing is as it first appears--absolutely nothing!

*     *     *

Genre:
Historical Fiction
Drama
Women's

Blurb/Logline
As the Roaring Twenties come to an end, a new age of enlightenment greets the world.  Leading the charge is Dorothy Parker in her endless search for love, sex, and notoriety.  From her steamy back-room sexcapades with some of Hollywood’s sexiest stars and her political barnstorming for the acquittal of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti to her death among the ashes of antiquity, her story unfolds with all of the delicate satire of a five-pound mallet. 

*     *     *

Genre:
Horror
Thriller

Blurb/Logline
In the mountains of northern Colorado, a young couple live life to the fullest, sharing their good fortune, drugs, and mates with their New Age friends.  Shortly after they erect a tee-pee several hundred yards from their log cabin home, they take in a tenant who has just suffered a painful divorce.  When Donnelly’s golden retriever trots down to an all-night Bachanalian feast, he follows along to bring the dog home.  But his hosts insist that he join in the fun. 

When the next morning a Wiccan witch disappears, the dog locates her face-down in a mountain stream just behind the tee-pee with her throat ripped open.  Before long, other guests suffer similar fates, and Greg and DeeAnn begin to wonder if their decision to take in a renter was such a good idea after all.  When they approach Donnelly to suggest that he move out, he disappears suddenly, leaving only his dog behind.  Or, they wonder, did he? 

*     *     *

Genre:
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
The tell-all story of a married Catholic priest out to avenge his wife's murder; but just how deeply into the archdiocese hierarchy will he have to dig and what shocking discoveries will he make along the way? 

*     *     *

Genre:
Western

The Future Traders
Young Adult

Genre:

Sci-Fi
Action-Adventure

Blurb/Logline

A group of teenagers trapped in the year 2112 on a recently formed planet stumble upon a secret entranceway to a very special location: the future. When two of the boys disappear in a blinding flash of light, the others begin their search for them.  The two time travelers find themselves in a generation a century into the future where they meet the Hosgoths, a warlike race of mercenaries who make fortunes from enslaving Intergalactic travelers to work in the lidium-rich mines of the planet Salandra.
 

But now the travelers have another problem: they can’t return home.  They can't remain where they are, either, without risking enslavement to the Hosgoths. 

What will they do?  Where will they go?  Assuming Dahl can find a way to tame the awesome power of the Titanium Time Portal, somewhere into the future.  What will they find there?  Only time will tell. 

Street Savvy
Young Adult

Genre:
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
When two 14-year-old boys growing up on the streets of Chicago ditch class and borrow a friend’s car, they embark upon a wild and crazy day of joy riding that takes them to the Art Institute, through lower Wacker Drive, and to Fats’ Place, where they learn to drink, smoke, and shoot pool while managing to wind up on the wrong side of a Chicago Police Department’s blotter.  When one of the cousins finds himself in the crosshairs of a .44 Magnum held by the quivering hands of a notorious local junkie gang banger, they know there’s only one way out…but will they have the courage to pull it off?

To Dance with Dolphins *
Young Adult

Genre:
Mystery
Adventure
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
When Mark’s father, who had abandoned the family upon his son’s birth more than 16 years ago, learns of his ex-wife’s death, he shows up on the exotic isle of St. Lucia, masquerading as a stranger to help Mark find the murderer.  A former private investigator in California, the father soon puts together a package of suspects that leaves Mark reeling.   

Mark’s mother had been a beloved marine environmentalist who was working in the islands to save the local dolphin population from decimation.  Everybody adored her.  Well, nearly everybody. 

When Mark’s father finally fingers the closest friend his son has in the world, the boy explodes...before learning who this mystery investigator really is and how he knows what he knows.  Now all Mark has to do is to come to grips with who really murdered his mother—and why—while somehow managing to steer clear of the rifle sights, himself!

*Based on a true-life incident