Jennex, Steve
"The Old Spies Club" Series
Bk. 1 -
The Old Spies
Club
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary
Blurb/Logline
When a private jet crashes in the mountainous
wilds of Colombia's Los Katios Park, wheels are set in motion to reassemble
a veteran team of CIA field agents to find the wreckage and one important
passenger. Paired with feuding counterparts from the Drug Enforcement Agency,
they must contend with the extreme terrain, rival paramilitary soldiers
and volatile rain forest natives, all the while asking themselves Does the
Old Spies Club still have what it takes to get the job done?
Bk. 2 - Reverb
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary
Blurb/Logline
Forced from his comfy retirement by the discovery
of a corpse floating off the coast of the Dominican Republic, former CIA
operative Frank Spezzio decides to follow the trail of clues left behind
by the drowned sailor. His chase leads him from the street festivals
and naval bases of Puerto Rico to the steamy jungles of the Dominican Republic.
Along the way, as he uncovers the impact of the U.S. military machine on
fragile island ecosystems, he ultimately discovers within himself the things
that really matter.
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On Assignment
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary
Blurb/Logline
It
was supposed to be a dream job: a couple of weeks in the Caribbean, jiggling
bikinis and pina coladas, looking for a news correspondent gone missing.
But for private investigator Marty Kowlanko, what initially seemed like
a paid vacation quickly spirals into a conspiracy of murder, corrupt politicians,
and sleazy big business. Out of his element, Marty has to pull things
together before time runs out.
*Under Review
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The King of Maicao
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary
Blurb/Logline
Armed with little more than a Spanish-English dictionary, mining
engineer Ben Murdock travels to the savanna of Colombia to restore the operations
of his company’s flagging coal mine. Plunged into a violent confrontation
between corrupt government troops, left-wing rebels and desperate natives,
Murdock finds refuge in the arms of a young woman--a free-spirited Colombian
reactionary. His back to the wall, he has to question his values and
whether he can trust the motives of his new love.
Kaplan, Bruce
Seeds
Genre:
Horror
Thriller
Mystery
Blurb/Logline
The corpses pile up as an unspeakable terror
stalks a quiet seaside town. Does a strange child hold the secret
behind death, blackmail, and corruption? Gripping, non-stop horror
from start to finish.
Lee, Lissa
Empress of
Gold Mountain
Genre:
Women's
Historical Romance
Ethnic
Blurb/Logline
Madam
Ah Toy, San Francisco’s first Chinese “lady of joy,” accumulated unprecedented
wealth given her circumstances. What if she had borne a daughter –
would she have subjected the child to her same fate, with its attendant
power as well as perils, or would she have challenged her daughter’s destiny
at a time when the options were either to become servant... or a prostitute?
Lin, raised by a Reverend and his wife, sets out to find her birth mother
against their wishes. Along her journey, she is aided by an earnest
cowpoke, an emotionally cruel benefactor, a clever cook, and the scheming
Madam Ah Toy. In being manipulated and learning to manipulate, she
finds a way out of servitude and into great wealth, but learns what her
ambition and stubbornness wreak. Is Lin the Madam’s daughter?
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Concubine of
Gold Mountain
Genre:
Women's
Ethnic
Historical
Multicultural
Blurb/Logline
In the first novel of this series, Empress of Gold Mountain,
we followed Lin on her journey from life as indentured Texas servant to
exclusive San Francisco consort and finally powerful Los Angeles business
owner. In this combined sequel/prequel, Concubine of Gold Mountain,
we meet her descendant, Lila, who is juggling career and relationships in
the boundless post-feminist era; as well as her ancestor, Ah Ling, who is
weighing equally opposing forces in a time when women had no choices.
Long, Laird
Clint Magnum, CA
Genre:
Black Comedy
Humor
Parody
Mystery
Blurb/Logline
“I’m a Chartered Accountant-in-training with
a head full of numbers and fists full of dynamite. I make the numbers
crunch, and, baby, if they don’t, I become the biggest liability on the
balance sheet of your life.”
That’s Clint Magnum – CA wannabe,
a hard-rock behemoth with a gung-ho attitude and a quick-draw calculator.
His life’s mission is to bring order to the capital markets and garner an
accounting designation in the process; and swing low sweet chariot for those
who stand in his way! He sees accounting as neither an art nor a science,
but rather a contact sport. This is his brutal story.
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Raw Meat
Genre:
Anthology of Short Fiction
Hard-Boiled Crime
Mystery
Adventure
Blurb/Logline
Raw Meat. Twenty-three tales of murder,
betrayal, lust, greed, and violence; hammered together with lean, mean,
white-hot prose painted black with a cynical humor. Hardboiled stories
of the deadly ambitions and desperate dreams which boil in all of us --
just below the surface. No quarter given -- none asked."
*Under Review
McKeown, Edward
Sha’Daa
A
Shared-World Anthology in which
each stand-alone story take place within the same 48-hour framework.
Set in the near future, each deals with a different aspect of an invasion
from another dimension, all of which take place once every ten thousand years
on earth. A common character, The Salesman, appears in each story and
plays a major role in the outcome of each conflict. - Edited by Edward McKeown
and Mike Hanson
Genre:
Horror
Anthology
Blurb/Logline
Every 10,000 years comes the Sha'Daa, a two-day stretch of time when
evil is permitted to cross the dimensional barriers and attack the Earth.
This shared-world anthology featuring a dozen top-ranked Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
writers is a collection of exciting and frightening tales which run the
gamut from true soul-shaking horror to a wry and ironic look at the end
of reality as we know it. Unlikely heroes in unusual locations around
the globe battle not only for their own survival, but also for all of humanity.
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Was Once a Hero
Genre:
Science Fiction
Blurb/Logline Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the
stars for his lost love. He’s joined by the genetically engineered
assassin, Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks a dark past.
Both are blackmailed by government spymaster, Mandela, into a suicidal mission
to a doomed planet. Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they
must unravel the mystery of a planet’s death before an ancient force reaches
out to destroy them.
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Fearful Symmetry
Genre:
Science Fiction
Blurb/Logline
Having survived the nightmare world of Enshar,
Robert Fenaday abandons privateering and his quest for his lost wife to
begin life anew with the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell.
But spymaster Mandela has other plans for the pair, intrigue and murder
on Shasti’s home planet of Olympia. Fenaday must fight his way to
Shasti, facing her deadly creator and an alien mystery that could destroy
the Confederacy.
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Points of Departure
Genre:
Science Fiction
Blurb/Logline
Robert Fenaday must drive the starship Sidhe
across uncharted space to rescue his wife before war breaks out. But can
he keep his command from mutiny and his former lover Shasti Rainhell from
murder as well?
McQuillin, Mahlon B.
Sapiosaurus
Genre:
Science Fiction
Blurb/Logline
Deep
under the ice of Antarctica lies a city, lost for millions of years, and
now discovered by a research team. It clearly can't be of human design.
Who built it? Where were they from, and where did they go? Sapiosaurus
takes the reader on a journey of discovery and wonder as an ancient civilization
is revealed.
* Under Review
Nielsen, Soren
Writing as Sean Warner
Circle
of Wholes
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Spiritual
Blurb/Logline
Amanda McGee faces two challenges in life.
First, she must reconcile how a stranger got invited to her dinner table
and then into her heart. At the same time, the family's small-town
newspaper must decide how to report on a third miracle cure at the local
hospital. Love and miracles? They happen every day. Just
ask Amanda.
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Mackenzie's Universe
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Blurb/Logline
Joe Mackenzie is living the good life near Houston.
He's doing exactly what he wants to do. He's living exactly where
he wants to live. He credits his good fortune to an uncanny ability
to get what he wants when he wants it ... whenever he wants it. Now
he wants to know how.
During his search for an answer,
Mackenzie meets three women. He's attracted to them all--Alexis, the
owner of a weekly newspaper in the Texas hill country; Lorraine, a wealthy
ranch owner who works at the newspaper for kicks while looking for a man;
and Kate, the high-powered president of a Houston public relations firm.
As Mac works frantically to bring his life-long fantasy relationship to
fruition, a life-threatening tumor in Alexis turns his world—and his fantasy--upside
down.
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Fort Mackenzie
Genre:
Action-Adventure
Contemporary Romance
Blurb/Logline
Fort Mackenzie is a history buff’s dream,
a new theme camp where adults indulge their childhood game of Cowboys and
Indians. When 18 men form a new cavalry troop on Christina Blocker’s
ranch in West Texas and begin their training under Sgt. McTodd, they are
destined to get more excitement than they bargained for.
A newspaper article about the camp leads a savage man bent on revenge to
stalk the group. As Christina’s heart is stirred by the affections
of trooper Dan Cosentino, he leaves on a patrol that turns deadly before
the cavalry can come to the rescue.
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Hotel Texas
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Erotica
Blurb/Logline
After an anonymous seduction in a Corpus Christi
hotel, an architect is motivated to seek sensual encounters during his travels
across Texas. But, instead, the three women he meets in some of the
state’s best hotels teach him about trust, commitment and love.
*Under Review
Prendergast, Duffy
Johnny Be Good
Genre:
Literary
Erotica
Psychological Drama
Romance
Stream of Consciousness
Blurb/Logline
A man's wife uncovers her alcoholic
husband's erotic affair with a girl his daughter's age. After losing
his family, his career, and his lover, he finds himself struggling in a
hostile environment in a vain attempt to escape into a world of
dive-bars and booze on his way to a date with rock-bottom.
Rinehart, Steven
The Fiddler's
Call
Genre:
Suspense
Psychological Thriller
Blurb/Logline
A young man who works at a butcher store becomes
infatuated with a beautiful raven-haired stranger named Symantha who buys
extraordinary amounts of beef each month from his store. She
seems to know things about him he can’t explain. Two men who come
looking for her eventually concede they are federal law enforcement officers
acting on an extradition request from France. Instead of apprehending
her when she returns, they attempt to execute her. Ryan kills
one of them as the other flees with Symantha.
Ryan is taken into custody by the Salt Lake City Police only to discover
the two federal agents he thought he was working with were impostors.
On the verge of being charged with murder, he begins his own investigation
of the shooting and slowly is lead from strange clues to suspect that Symantha
is a part demon apocalyptic visionary, attempting to usher in the End of
Days, and may be using him to further her plans.
Rootes, Robert
Lycanthrope
Genre:
Horror
Sci-Fi
Blurb/Logline
For Chris Walker, introverted teenager, life in rural New York is mundane
until Courtney Harris moves in next door. After Courtney returns from
vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains, Chris discovers that her harrowing
escape from an animal attack has left something behind. Overcome with
preternatural sense, Courtney understands the metamorphosis within her body
will soon turn her into a werewolf.
The night of the full moon, Chris witnesses the transformation of Courtney
into a werewolf, and he knows both their lives have changed forever.
When Courtney disappears without a trace, Chris follows his heart and instinct
to rescue her from the people holding her prisoner.
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Soul Mates
Genre:
Horror
Thriller
Preternatural
Blurb/Logline
Another kiss--from the soul takers, dark beautiful creatures with
the appearance of humans who live off the souls of the ones they kiss.
Something darker has come to claim them, one by one.
Evil appears in Mantua, destroying everything Jordan ever knew. The
malevolence draws the soul takers back to the sleepy New York State village
to claim them in its embrace. Reunited with Damien and the other soul
takers, Jordan must find a way to stop the evil before it destroys the town.
And she knows that, to stop the creatures, she must become one of them.
Soul Takers
Genre
Horror
Thriller
Immortals
Blurb/Logline
At fifteen, Jordan is tired of feeling smothered, isolated, and hidden
away, when she meets the mysterious Psyche. Anxious to leave behind
the secrets that plague her past, she runs away with the Soul Takers, unaware
of their mystery. Unlike vampires, the Soul Takers don’t take blood
of their victim but instead seize the “Light” of the soul during a deep,
drawing kiss. One kiss was all it took for Jordan to be enraptured
by Psyche. She soon learns that there was more than just a kiss resting
beyond his lips. The Soul Takers reveal more dangers than she bargains
for.
