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The League of Delphi: Book 1 of the Delphi Trilogy
He wants to know the past. She wants to forget the future. They both could die trying.
The first book of the gripping DELPHI TRILOGY, The League of Delphi, draws you in, takes you on a tense and thrilling ride, and leaves you wanting more.
17-year-old Zach is breaking a promise. After ten years in hiding, he has returned to his wealthy hometown and a way of life that cost his parents their lives. But the local obsession with secrecy frustrates his search for belonging and answers.
Ashley has spent much of her 15 years tortured by troubling visions of the future. Fresh from another trip to the psych ward, she plans to follow the rules and be a normal American teenager. When a high-achieving teen commits suicide, though, she agrees to help Zach investigate the sinister force influencing in their lives.
Determined to expose the town’s corruption, they penetrate its forbidden stronghold and discover a terrifying truth—an ages-old program of teen exploitation linked to Ancient Greece and the Oracle at Delphi.
Faced with a legacy that threatens to consume their entire lives, Zach and Ashley try to run for freedom. But the League of Delphi’s investment in her prophetic gift is not so easily escaped. They’re about to learn how far the League will go to keep two rogue teens from exposing their secrets to the world.
The League of Delphi is "...suspenseful, engaging, imaginative.” If you love Young Adult Thrillers and Urban Fantasy, this series is for you. Get Book I now and join the conspiracy!
The Delphi Deception: Book II of the Delphi Trilogy
The gripping Delphi Trilogy continues with Book II, The Delphi Deception, plunging readers deeper into a dark world of conspiracy and danger.
17-year-old Zach should never have returned to his corrupt hometown. His pursuit of the truth about his parents’ deaths nearly cost him everything, and he’s fallen in love with a doomed girl.
Ashley’s gift for prophecy was a problem before. It’s a danger now. Her attempt with Zach to break the League of Delphi’s sinister grip on the town has gotten her locked up again and pushed even closer to the edge of insanity.
Desperate to free her, Zach enters an alliance with Ashley’s ambitious sister who’ll help—for a price—but refuses to believe rumors of links to Ancient Greece’s Oracle at Delphi and teen exploitation that threatens their lives.
As the League of Delphi tightens its noose, Zach follows a cryptic command from beyond this world back into the jaws of danger. Will his misguided quest save Ashley? Or will it get them both killed?
Chase Zach and Ashley deeper into the darkness. Get The Delphi Deception now!
The Delphi Revelation: Book III of the Delphi Trilogy
The spellbinding Delphi Trilogy hurtles to a gripping conclusion with The Delphi Revelation, a thriller that keeps you enthralled to the end.
After ten years in hiding, 17-year-old Zach returned to his mysterious hometown hoping for answers and belonging. Instead, he’s heartbroken, imprisoned, and tortured by the town’s sinister elites.
Last he saw Ashley, she was strapped to a hospital bed, drugged beyond reason, and muttering cryptic messages from beyond this world. His attempt to free her brought the weight of the League of Delphi down on him and created a disaster he can’t recover from.
His family is now the League’s number-one target. His ill-conceived alliance with Ashley’s sister brought only betrayal. And his first love is bound for Greece, where she’ll be exploited into permanent madness or death.
With unexpected help, Zach escapes the League’s clutches. But his last, desperate act of defiance puts everyone around him in the gravest danger. If he fails, Ashley is doomed, and thousands will die.
Join in Zach and Ashley’s desperate race for the truth, and their final run for freedom. Get The Delphi Revelation now!
Seti's Charm
Fourteen-year-old Max Carter has grown up in his grandfather's museum, training to be the world's youngest archaeologist. When the museum is robbed and burned by greedy smugglers, Grandpa begs Max to return their prized possession to Egypt and break the curse that caused this disaster. But Seti's Charm--a priceless funeral amulet from the mummy of Pharaoh Seti I-- is in the hands of murderous thugs.
While Grandpa lies in a hospital bed and Max's wicked step-grandmother schemes to turn their life upside down, Max enlists the help of a giant Frenchman with a shady past. Together, they chase Seti's Charm to a tropical island where Max braves shark-infested waters, machine gun fire, explosions, capture, and torture to learn the shocking true reason that Seti's Charm was stolen. But will he get the legendary object back and return it to its rightful owners in time to save Grandpa and the only life he's ever known?
"Alex Rider meets Young Indiana Jones. Seti's Charm is a smash-bang teen adventure with brains!"
- Paul Aertker, author of the "Crime Travelers" series
Badass Girl saves the world comic book series
Orphaned in the aftermath of an alien invasion, this girl was raised in the forest by a mysterious Chinese woman who turned her into a weapon for justice. Now, she walks the earth defending vulnerable people from bullies, thugs, and tyrants.
ZomProm: A high school zombie romance
Prom is doomed and it’s all Candy’s fault. All she wanted was a date with Ryan for the big night. Instead, she unleashed a plague that turned the world's teen boys into zombies. Facing a school full of angry girls with paid-for prom dresses and no dates, Candy has to prove that undead Ryan is still a good guy. Then she needs to convince him and the other zomboys to help her save prom.
Concrete Gallery
When Keena goes missing before her big art show, Xriss knows something is wrong. He follows clues to find her and quickly discovers that he's not the only one looking. Her abusive father and a local gang are both on her trail. Xriss needs to find Keena before it's too late.
sprint
Filming a sprint car race on the local track, Dylan Clarke captures racer Carlee Martin's fiery accident. The more Dylan replays the video, the more he believes that there's something suspicious about the crash. As he investigates, Dylan discovers that some of Carlee's fellow racers might have wanted to hurt her. And now, they're after him too.
Three chords and a beat
Joey Madden knows his brother’s death wasn’t his fault. But, since Trey died several months ago, things aren’t getting any easier. Joey’s newfound anger leads to a fight at school that results in Joey being expelled. Looking for answers to his brother’s death and his own issues, Joey finds his brother’s guitar. Could the old guitar provide the answers Joey seeks?
Flicker: a short psycho-thriller
It won't take you long to consume this short story - it will take even less time for it to consume you.
In a high school crowded with kids, Ben fights a solitary battle against a sadistic bully, crushing pressure to achieve... and a gruesome, menacing shadow bent on stealing his soul.
"[It's] like looking at a painting that unsettles you but you don't know what to say about it, you just can't stop thinking about it." - David B. Nemeth
"... it speaks volumes on the angst that could afflict and drive insane a young person today. The particular shadow in Flicker was supernatural, but, unfortunately, it has possible 'relatives' in the real world that assume other forms." - Michael J Toro
REcon Academy: Volumes 1 & 2
Born into a world of rising threats, four young people witnessed terror strike the safety of their town. As they grew up, each one developed a unique ability: forensics, martial arts, computers, and gadgetry. In the halls of Seaside High, the four of them united. They combined their skills and brains and formed the youngest, and most high-tech and secret security force on Earth, The Recon Academy.
Toys of Terror (Superman)
Christmas dreams become nightmares when toys turn deadly. Tiny helicopters attack holiday shoppers. Cannons shoot out rubber duckies. Even a bouncing soccer ball is transformed into a deadly weapon. SUPERMAN must save LOIS LANE and a group of children trapped on a runaway holiday parade float. But when the float hides inside a giant tunnel made of lead, even SUPERMAN'S super-vision cannot find the victims. Only one person can be behind all the mayhem, the TOYMAN!
Hub’s adventures
In a future where people and robots live side-by-side, Hub starts middle school and earns his first robot friend, Crank. Together, they navigate a new school, new kids, new bullies, and new adventures.
Around the World in 80 Days (graphic novel adaptation)
In this classic by Jules Verne, eccentric English inventor Phileas Fogg and his newly employed French valet Passepartout set out to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. When Fogg gets into an argument at the Reform Club over an article in “The Daily Telegraph,” which posits that the building of a new railway section in India may now make it possible to circle the earth in eighty days, he hastily accepts a wager with his fellow club members to attempt the feat. In a mad dash he hurries off at once, with Passepartout, in a voyage around the world. Encountering many obstacles and misadventures along the way the two must make numerous accommodations when things do not go as planned. Matters are further complicated by the pursuit of a Scotland Yard detective named Fix, who mistakenly believes Fogg to be a bank robber on the run.
twin cities noir (contributor
Part of the acclaimed Akashic Noir series, Twin Cities Noir exposes the dark and dangerous underbelly of mild-mannered Minneapolis-St. Paul. What trouble you can find when you look deeply into the Noir!
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense (editor, contributor)
In Once Upon a Crime, some of the best mystery and crime writers in the nation offer up tales of tragedy and revenge, suspicion and intrigue. Among the award-winning contributors are S.J. Rozan, Sujata Massey, C.J. Box, William Kent Krueger, Pete Hautman, David Housewright, Lois Greiman and Mary Logue.
The collection includes a Christmas tale that is not full of good cheer and the misadventures of a car thief who has stolen the wrong car. One humorous story involves a Botswana police detective who finds an unusual way to track down a murder suspect; another offers a chilling tale of the Holocaust.
Writes of Spring: Stories and Prose (Contributor)
These short stories were written by authors asked only to use springtime as a setting and to make crime an important element of their stories. Some abandon reality a bit and delve into different genres. A few are nonfiction. Others are preview chapters from novels in progress. In short, there is something here for every taste!
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