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Sword of Damocles
Book 1 of the Mark Reilly Series 
 

Ex-Ranger Mark Reilly leads a troubled life. After parting with the US Army on less than amicable terms, he finds work as a gun-for-hire in the European underworld. The pay is good, and the work is steady, but Mark’s enthusiasm sours when his employer branches out into child trafficking.

Striking out on his own, Mark forms his own mercenary company with his ex-IRA girlfriend and a veteran from his old unit. Their first job, rescuing two sisters from human traffickers, is a phenomenal success. However, soon after returning the girls to their parents, Mark and his friends find themselves kidnapped by his former Army CO, who now works for the CIA. Mark’s CO gives him a more critical and urgent assignment: recover six stolen American nuclear warheads.

Mark and his team are now in a race against time, utilizing all their contacts in the criminal underworld to find the nukes before they fall into dangerous hands. The mission soon turns ugly when Mark is confronted by a former enemy. Will his lust for vengeance blind his judgment, putting the mission—and his friends—at risk? 

 

Fallen Sparrow

Stay focused, stay alert, and never fall in love

To most people, Katie Baker is an ordinary twenty-something secretary employed at a Houston-based aerospace firm. Yet, unknown to those around her, Katie is also an expert pilot and security protection driver. She speaks several languages fluently, mastered multiple martial arts, and is skilled in a wide range of firearms and bladed weapons. Katie is also a trained assassin with four kills to her name. Above all, she can make herself drop-dead gorgeous and knows all the tricks to seduce a man.

Katie’s real name is Katerina Kuznestov, and she is a Russian spy.

Ordered by her handler to seduce a geeky software engineer working on a classified project, Katie jumps in with all the enthusiasm of her previous assignments. Soon after becoming intimate with her target, Katie begins to develop feelings for him—feelings that her training and experience do not allow.

When the mission reaches its critical stage, will Katie stay true to her training or will her affection for the engineer jeopardize the mission, risking both of their lives?

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Night of the Blood Moon

When Shines The Blood Moon On Summer’s Brief Night

Guard Well Those You Love And Plan To Take Flight

For FBI agent Patrick Taylor, life is simple: catch the bad guys and bring them to justice. Yet, unknown to him, Patrick is also the descendant of a long line of ancient mystical warriors that utilize the joined magic of fraternal twins. Ignorant of his spiritual heritage, his pedigree is blatantly revealed when he finds himself marked for assassination in an eternal battle between two rival orders.

Dark forces emerge when Patrick’s girlfriend, Dr. Courtney Hancock, inadvertently disturbs a long-buried demon during a seemingly routine archeological dig. Worse still, a lunar eclipse occurs on Summer Solstice Night, bringing the cosmic influences into the alignment needed to free this beast. Patrick suddenly finds himself drawn into an ancient crusade against a previously unknown foe and a personal battle to save Courtney from being sacrificed to this demon.

Chronicles of Alésia d'Amiens

Alésia d’Amiens is an 836-year-old French vampire. Her life has been a swinging pendulum of good and bad fortunes, dealing with the tragic death of her family and her struggle to survive.

Her tale begins when New Orleans homicide detective Jack Diemont discovers her latest victim. Believing he is on the trail of another serial killer, Jack will spare no effort to see justice served. Little does he know that another party pursues his quarry: The Knights of the Holy Order, a militant secret society dedicated to eradicating all vampires.

BREEDER

She was Born to Privilege

On September 12, 2081, the Yellowstone super-volcano finally erupted resulting in a global catastrophe that nearly drove the human species to extinction.  One group of refugees found shelter at the old NORAD command center at Cheyenne Mountain, and six hundred years later, their descendants live in the subterranean city of Norad.

Yet safety comes with a price.  The population level is strictly controlled, with food and other supplies severely rationed.  All procreation occurs at the Breeding House, and humans are genetically engineered for whatever role they will play in society.  Living at the Breeding House is an elite group of women, called the Breeders, whose sole function in society is to give birth.  The Breeders live in luxurious conditions, wanting for nothing, and they are looked upon as saints by the common people.

Drusilla is a sixteen-year old Pre-Breeder, enjoying the privileges of her rank.  Yet, in spite of her illustrious status, she begins to question the inequity of her society.  Her sheltered life is suddenly shattered when she is kidnapped by a band of dissidents and forced to look upon her world with a new perspective.  Once she learns the full truth about the injustice of her culture—and about Earth’s past disaster—can she truly be happy with her place in society?

 

The Memoirs of Marie Hebert

Complete Collection

It’s Not Easy Being a Girl and a Geek

Marie Hebert (pronounced āy-bear, thank you) is a small-town girl that dreams of pursuing a career in astrophysics. Yet her dream takes on a new complication when her friends convince her to form the rock band Vega. Marie plays weekend gigs with her friends throughout high school and college while planning to study the stars. All the while, Vega’s fame continues to grow until the day they are discovered and offered a recording contract. Instead of studying the stars, Marie is a star in an eighties hair band named Vega.

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