Welcome to a reality in which young women compete to the death in blood sports. But these deaths are not the end. Genetic engineering allows women unlimited rebirths until the age of 25. It takes a mere two weeks in an artificial womb to be reborn as an adult with all the memories and experience from the previous life. Lucy… (more…)
Mick was hired at online dating site Matchmakers 2.0 on the basis of her graduate thesis in mate selection. Clients don’t need to know that it was actually on mate selection in guppies. For $99 the site promises “web 2.0 algorithms plus personal touch.” Mick and her two department coworkers, Derrick and Miri, are the personal touch. If the computer… (more…)
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom Book One Prince Temmin has spent his first eighteen years being raised by his mother at Whithorse, a country estate. He has been raised in complete innocence both sexually and socially. There have been no young women on the estate save for his sisters and his best friend has been a groom named… (more…)
The description on Amazon says that this is the story of the heroine’s magical, life-changing week on the shores of Lake Winnebago where she meets a fishing guide, launching her on an emotional journey she never could have predicted or foreseen. That last is true—none of us can claim to predict or foresee the future with any accuracy and it… (more…)
Wanna-be vampires beware! You have been misled by Bram Stoker and all those paranormal vampire series that abound these days. Throw out everything you’ve ever learned and heard about these creatures of the night and immerse yourself in the truth… Once upon a time there was a guy named Marcus. His last name doesn’t matter, he’s forgotten it anyway and… (more…)
A Mick and Casey McKee Mystery Mick and Casey McKee ride into Newton to find it filled to the brim with donkeys and hopeful miners. Before they can do more than stable their horses a group of gunmen ride into town shooting everything they see, beginning with the man who gave them corral space and ending up at the town’s… (more…)
This title contains two short stories, but the sample only covers the one entitled “Intoxication.” As the Amazon sample is very short, I asked the author to send me a longer one. The story concerns a woman named Leslie who becomes convinced that a co-worker tried to poison her when her boyfriend becomes ill after drinking coffee that was meant… (more…)
Book I of The Douglas Trilogy This is a well-written and almost totally accurate work of historical fiction told from the point of view of James Douglas, the oldest son of Sir William Douglas the Hardy. Artistic license, of course, is taken for the sake of the story and in order to keep it from reading like a history text.… (more…)
Jolie Wilkins is odd. She is terminably single and owns a shop where she does tarot readings and has visions that are as erratic as weathermen. But that isn’t what makes her odd. You see, Jolie has to remind herself that the bright streetlamps outside her shop aren’t alien spacecraft coming to whisk her away. When she’s afraid dread climbs… (more…)