The Sixth Discipline

Free - 987 pages

 

Ran-Del Jahanpur is a warrior of the Sansoussy Forest, trained in both the mental and physical Disciplines of his people. He thinks he's prepared for any danger the forest might hold, but his skills prove useless when he's caught in a hi-tech trap. Soon Ran-Del finds himself in a city so alien it might as well be another world—machines speak, vehicles fly, and his captors' weapons can inflict pain without touching him. Every time Ran-Del tries to escape, he's foiled by a technology he doesn't understand. As terrifying as the city is, his kidnapper, the enigmatic Baron Hayden, exudes a jovial affability that worries the Sansoussy even more. What can such a powerful man want with a Sansoussy warrior, who can neither read nor write and knows nothing of city ways? The Baron's daughter Francesca clearly knows more than she's saying, but Ran-Del's psy sense tells him only she's being truthful, not what she's thinking. And it's only after it seems that Ran-Del has escaped the city and its dangers, that he finds out how thoroughly he has been caught. 

Town Tax

Free - 131 pages
Warning : Strong Language

 

In West Oakland it can be dangerous to jump into the Rap game, especially if the studio is playing a major scam on every new artist it signs. Juicy, the head of STFU Records is grinding every new artist he signs until the day he plays the wrong guys. When they try to sign with another label, they encounter Juicy's wrath, propelling them into a life and death struggle where only one side can win. 

Voices Beckon, Pt. 1: The Voyage

Free - 293 pages

 

The year is 1783. Passengers are swarming the Bristol quay, anxiously awaiting the call to board.

David Graham, a Scot indentured for the next six years to a Philadelphia printer, waits among them, as does Elisabeth Hale, a young Englishwoman making the passage with her father, and Liam Brock, an orphaned Scot with a dubious past and a keen eye to the future.

Thrown together despite differences of class and religion, these three forge an unwavering bond of friendship, love, and loyalty while onboard the brig Industry.

This 37,000 word NOVELLA (145 print pages) is the first of three parts of the full length novel, Voices Beckon. 

The Secret Life of Gonner Andling

Free - 30 pages

 

A traveling artist happens upon an old hermit with an incredible secret. 

The Demon Of Synar

Free - 308 pages

 

Book One of the FORCED TO SERVE Series

Being captain of his own rescue ship is the kind of life Captain Liam Synar always dreamed of living. Being a master of his family’s hereditary demon was never in his plans because his brother had been trained for the purpose. Yet what choice did his father have when Conor's evil came to light? None. So reluctant or not, Liam is the only Synar left to rule Malachi. Now his exiled brother hunts him to capture the demon while Liam stays on the run and saves Peace Alliance ambassadors in his spare time--except for one. Ambassador Ania Looren unknowingly hosts his family’s demon inside her body. He sent Malachi into her to save her life after Conor’s men almost killed her. And though Liam hadn't wanted to, there had been no choice but to abandon her two years ago. His plan of keeping both her and the demon safe from Conor has mostly worked, but his ability to hide the truth has finally reached an end. His next rescue has to be his estranged mate before Conor finally figures it out.

After accepting only one mate in her extremely long life, Ambassador Ania Looren is now wishing the number had remained at zero forever. Mating Captain Liam Synar is turning out to be the worst mistake she has made in nine hundred years. Something happened after Liam abandoned her, something more than just the pain of losing her chosen male from her life. Something about his absence has stripped away the peaceful enlightenment she struggled years to achieve. Now Ania can’t meditate or pray, and her compassion for other creatures seems to be lessening. She is becoming again the kind of person she’s spent her most of her existence trying not to be. On top of that, she’s been accused of murdering three males who attacked her and her family. She doesn’t even remember what happened that day. Now Liam is back and demanding she go with him to his ship. What choice does she have? It's a better fate than being arrested and put through social reconditioning on her planet. The half life she’s been living for two years is no more worth keeping than her mating commitment to a male who obviously hadn’t wanted her after all. 

Midnight Fire

Free - 451 pages

Phoenix Light is a typical kid living in a nice home. She has two parents who are okay and an older brother she adores. Her world collapses around her when her dad rushes in the house and switches on the television to see enemy soldiers are taking over their world as they know it. Luckily, her father knew an attack was imminent and he built a vast shelter in the mountains for their family and thousands of others. 

What the people on earth don’t know is the war is much more than a human take-over. The forces of good and evil are battling and the humans are their pawns. Jayden, A Dark Angel, is a servant of Vyco and sent in to lead the survivors to their death, but the first person he meets is Phoenix and he finds he can’t destroy her. 
Jayden and Phoenix fall in love in spite of the battles around them and lean on their friends and family along the way. Jayden has to make the decision to choose good or evil. Will Phoenix stay human, or become immortal and join Jayden? Can she give up her friends and family? Will she have to choose? 

Enjoy the new, exciting series “Midnight Fire” by best-selling author Melody Anne

Last Tales of Mercia 1: Emma the Queen

Free - 55 pages

To prove her innocence of crimes against her own son, King Edward, Emma of Normandy must walk barefoot over nine scalding ploughshares and come out unscathed.

Set in the Dark Ages of Engla-lond, the "Last Tales of Mercia" are ten short stories featuring real historical figures and characters from the "Sons of Mercia" series. Though strongly connected to the series, they can be read independently.

Lenna and the Last Dragon

Free - 475 pages

A regular day of carrying pig slop on the Icelandic dragon farm turns terrifying when twelve-year-old Lenna walks in on the old farm caretaker, Brugda, summoning up a prophetic vision of a dark future. Lenna is sent to visit the farm’s owner, deadly quiet Lady Joukka Pelata. She reveals tantalizing glimpses of the girl’s past and the possibilities for her future, hinting at how important she could become. The night gets stranger still as the world transforms into a glittering, crystalline place of wooden robots and shifting skies. But Lenna hardly sees the new, enchanted world around her as she dwells on her damaged relationships. She can’t escape the feeling that there are deeply hidden secrets surrounding Brugda and the quiet farmhands.

Ersatz: A Devil Have Mercy side story

Free - 34 pages

Death has its perks, but only for those who can keep a secret. When Malcolm is brought back to life by a benevolent reaper, he discovers a world of scythes and spirits that has always existed just beyond his reach.

"Devil Have Mercy: Hypocrite" is now available!

Dare to Bleed

Free - 424 pages

Emily is a normal girl with a nosey mother, a deadbeat father she has never met, and a vulgar outrageous best friend. Girls start dying around her apartment, and her love life is being turned upside down. On top of everything, two mysterious men have come into her life and informed her that she is the target of the killer. A vampire named Damon has stolen a book of spells and will do anything to force Emily to relinquish her powers. Powers she never realized she had. Emily must figure out what she is in order to save the life of her best friend before time runs out. 

Ghost Of A Chance

Free - 476 pages

When Natalie Scott decides to rent a seaside colonial cottage for six months after the death of her mother, she just wants peace and quiet. 

Instead she gets a barrel-load of trouble; first from Karl Messer, who want to let her rent the cottage unless she goes out with him; then from her brother, Trevor, who won’t let her take his guard dog. But worst of all is the resident ghost, Sean O’Shea, who falls in love with her. And finally from her ex-boyfriend, Rick Dalton, who marches back into her life wanting to take up where they left off. 

What’s a girl to do? Should Natalie run for cover, or stay to sort these four men out once and for all?

BOOK 2 - Giving Up the Ghost - Sean's Story - is now available.

Deepest Quiet

Free - 105 pages

This odd, darkly funny short story is approximately 2100 words.

Included with Deepest Quiet are the first three chapters of my novel, Deer Lake.

Do let me know what you think!

Dark Beach

Free - 216 pages

Dean McCarthy was born under a bad sign and trouble follows him wherever he goes. To begin with, his father was drunk when he crashed the car and fractured Dean's skull, leaving his son with the occasional brain seizure. Then Dean's mom got cancer and he had to take care of her as she died because his father "couldn't handle it." Things turned around for a bit when the huge white German shepherd Kota arrived. Kota is a talented dog. She can actually smell a seizure coming on and give warning. On the phone! She has other talents too less obvious but no less amazing. But then Dean got into gang trouble in his high school in New York City. So Dean and Kota have come to live with his aunt at the beach in Asbury Park. Life should be good on the Jersey shore, but it's October and it's freezing cold and somebody's killing the town's kids with drugs. On the bright side, there's Gloria, a girl who looks like a movie star and is so cool and who actually gets Dean and Kota. And after all, the beach is still the beach, right? But Dean was born under a bad sign and he finds trouble wherever he goes. Dean has to watch while a young student chokes out his life on the dirty floor of the high school toilet. So naturally he decides to poke around and find out who's behind the town's drug trade. If you're going to pick a fight with drug dealing killers, it helps to have somebody to watch your back, somebody like Kota, a huge white guardian and fierce defender. So trouble may follow Dean wherever he goes, but, luckily, so does Kota.

Alice Stood Up

Free - 57 pages

Alice’s boyfriend doesn’t show up for their date, and her evening takes a turn for the worse.

From the safety of a police station later that night, Alice tells her story to a Spectavi vampire interviewer.

Alice Stood Up is a short story, approximately 4,000 words long, that supplements the Vampires and the Life of Erin Rose novels. Edited by Lynn O'Dell, Red Adept Publishing.

Anathema

Free - 376 pages

Reychel is a slave girl surrounded by magic, lies, and manipulation. Her best friend disappears in the middle of the night leaving Reychel to face her fifteenth birthday, the day her master burns his brand into the back of her bald head, alone. Sheltered from the outside world and without any hope for escape, can Reychel learn to believe in herself?

Oubliette (Book 2), Severed (Book 3).

Ages 14+

Dead End

Free - 504 pages

Dead End
They found Henry Gibson shot dead in his abandoned car on a dirt road. DEAD END.
Then George Horner…and Noah Hamberger. Wait a minute…who’s depleting the population of Northeastern Ohio? Are these random murders or a sicko with an agenda? DEAD END.
That was the problem facing homicide detective Al Maharos. He ran out of ideas. DEAD END.
Maharos had never worked with a woman partner until Karen Vandergrift. Attractive, brilliant Vandergrift. Together, they uncovered other bodies, and a pattern unique in the annals of crime. The problem: who was linked to the murders? DEAD END.
They knew their path would converge with that of the killer. They knew when…But where? DEAD END.
DEAD END. A rapid-paced police procedural that grabs and won’t let go.

A Darkened Landscape

Free - 76 pages

Three short stories of horror in the Old West:

Darkness in the West – A raven-haired woman is being hanged for a killing spree that would have required supernatural ability to carry out.

A Mouth So Dark – Traveling in search of the girl he lost, a young ranch hand finds her in the bleak heart of a remote ghost town.

The Flood – A troublesome young man appears at the unlikeliest moment to lead an undeserving town to safety from the ravages of a flood.

Algor X. Dennison brings you tales of the macabre in a setting turned black where it once was dusty brown. Courage blends with terrifying darkness and innocence bleeds into horrific revenge. Will you be able to read on?

Crime in the Community

Free - 433 pages

Christopher's illusion of having his life under control is shattered when the mysterious Amaryllis appears in his small town in Fife, bringing new ideas, confusion and ultimately chaos in her wake.

Alice and the Rabbit

Free - 54 pages

Alice knew she wasn't anywhere near drunk enough to be sitting on the manicured lawn in a quaint little garden looking at a large white rabbit, especially one quite so well dressed. She had been at the wedding rehearsal, now left wondering if Brian had been spiking her drinks. Alice could only wonder what her therapist in Toronto was going to make out of this...

Bewitching Kisses

Free - 667 pages

Betrayed by a greedy half-brother who coveted her inheritance, then accused by her superstitious Salem neighbors of practicing witchcraft, Sarah Townsend found herself kidnapped, sold into bondage, and thrown into the hold of a ship bound for Williamsburg Virginia. A Puritan who believes to show one's bare arm is a sin, now finds herself in Williamsburg where the residents strive to follow the latest fashions in London.

Sissy!

Free - 851 pages

While it is a historically accurate portrayal of the times of the Civil War, Sissy! is not your typical novel of that period. It focuses more on the hearts and minds and fears and hopes of people caught up in the war--the newly-freed slave, the woman who is desperate enough to disguise herself as a male Union soldier, a rebel with enough hatred he is willing to destroy an entire town, a soldier in love with a woman who is not certain about her own feelings toward him, soldiers caught up in one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and an "angel" whom a young black slave girl depends on to pull her through hardship. The Quantrill raid that killed 200 unarmed and innocent men and boys in 1863 Lawrence, Kansas is vividly told from both the perspective of the terrorists as well as the victims. Also accurately detailed through the eyes of officers and soldiers is the battle at Stones River, Tennessee. Woven throughout this book is the pain and suffering endured by the slaves and the women caught up in this brutality. Fortunately, a young black girl's belief in Sissy, her guardian angel, sheds a light of spirituality into this dark moment of American history.

Some Summonings Are Suspect

Free - 29 pages

Here's a short story about a hill, some guys, some other guys, and some things that want to eat those guys. There's a bit of occult chanting, too, so you know this is definitely a Fantasy story.

Stoneweaver

Free - 483 pages

In a flooded world only small peaks dot the seas, with civilization confined to waterborne cities. Society is ruled by tyrannous bosses, enforcing their will with an army of thugs and Stoneweavers, those able to use the remnants of magic. Resources are conserved by selling the poor into slavery. With such a cleansing due, what danger do an escaped slave and thief pose to this fragile society?

Save the Unicorn!

Free -32 pages

A short fantasy book with a humorous twist. 

Kia finds a unicorn in the forest near her village - the first anyone has seen there for twenty years. But when she tells people the news, Sir Crabcut immediately announces his intention to hunt it down and put its head on his wall as a trophy. 
So Kia jumps on her old horse, Molly, and sets off into the forest to save the unicorn. However, the unicorn has other ideas...

This easy chapter book is suitable for children aged 7 upwards.

Red Moon

Free - 477 pages

Jane's life follows a path of rejection and despair. She eventually meets Terry who cares for her, but things go wrong while he is posted overseas. She marries the wrong man, but then Aliens from a distant planet enter her life and help her to achieve happiness.