This tale begins in 1936, in Southern Cameroon, West Africa. A monkey ran through the jungle carrying her precious baby. She was fleeing from a tribe of male chimpanzee hunters. Eventually she climbed a tree, holding on tightly with one hand as she clutched the...

Kara Knight has been accepted at the University of North Carolina to study nursing, something she has always wanted to do. She has worked the night shift in the power plant where she lives in Williamsport, Maryland, and has just moved into her own...

Our story began in Australia in the year 1984. Adam Henderson was a sophomore in high school. Roxley was a bully and Adam was his target. The abuse went from verbal, to a push, to a beating where he was stripped naked and left tied...

Fans of Jeffery Deaver will be thrilled with his latest offering “Triple Threat: 3 Original Short Stories.” Fans will be thrilled with the return of Kathryn Dance, a police officer with a special talent for reading body language, in 'Fast'. In this short story she...

Seven years ago Lara Church had narrowly escaped becoming the Seattle Strangler's last victim. She recovers and chooses to be anonymous, moving to Austin, Texas, where she lives quietly with her German Shepherd, Lincoln, in a home she inherits from her grandmother. Men and the...

John Stallings is on a mission to find a missing college student. The detective’s task hits close to home, since his own 16 year old daughter has been missing for the past three years. Now as he finds new clues to the missing frat boy’s...

"A Touch of Silver" by Melissa R. Smith is a paranormal thriller set in an alternative Portland, Oregon, where humans and Sanguines have reached an uneasy peace. This is the second book in Smith's 'Legacy series'; however, it is well-presented enough to stand alone. It...

When we first meet Philip Adler he is in session with a troubled patient, a young woman with whom Adler is playing a sort of chess game. Who will speak first? What is the appropriate position to take in response? If you have ever wondered...

This is not a book for the faint of heart. Douglas Jacobson’s book "Katyn Order" is a fictional account based on historical facts. In 1939 the Germans invaded Poland. Soon the Soviet Union also invaded the country. Polish soldiers and policemen were taken prisoners as...

"Twoon" describes the thrill of killing others, first a drunk, then a young girl, then a couple making love in a sleeping bag on the beach. The killer loves it when the newspapers begin to refer to him/her as the "Beach Front Stabber". Meanwhile in...