In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics.
Daron Turner leads his small army of thermal war survivors in a cross-country battle to Big Springs, Nebraska. Their hope is to rebuild America as members of a larger human colony known as The New Frontier. The colony is led by megalomaniacal J.D. Cooks, who has other plans: To male himself the ruler of a burgeoning world empire. Cooks and Turner engage in an epic clash of wills, and when Daron reveals that his nemesis is collaborating with aliens to destroy human life, the MMD again prepare for war.
This bittersweet collection of tales shows just how messy and complicated life can be, and that sometimes there just aren’t any neat and easy solutions at all.
All he wanted was to love… But falling in love was his one mstake. Dumped by his fiancee, self made art entrepreneur, Jasson Vaughn, hides behind his work until his best friend, Ramon introduces him to beautiful hotel executive, Marisa Saunders. But the passonate love affair soon becomes a race against time when his new love is kidnapped. Now Jasson must decide to help drug enforcement agents or give a ruthless drug lord what he wants. With the help of his best friend, Jasson sets out to save the woman he loves. Circumstances however, are not what they seem as Jasson comes face to face again with love’s treachery.
Dmytryk was a respectable man…once. College educated, happily married, a stable job at a car factory in Detroit. He’s the king of the world with nowhere to go but up. But when a crippling recession annihilates the auto industry, Dmytryk and his wife Cora suddenly find themselves without jobs. And after two years of trying to live honestly, they begin to realize that honesty just doesn’t pay the bills.
Robert Greer’s latest novel—a prequel to his CJ Floyd mystery series—takes readers back in time to a very young CJ Floyd. It’s 1972, and the 22-year-old decorated war vet has recently returned to Denver from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. Navigating depression, he finds a friend in World War II vet and amputee Wiley Ames, who shares his passion for rare and valuable western memorabilia.
When fifteen-year-old Krystal Bentley moves to Lincoln, Connecticut, her mom’s hometown, she assumes her biggest drama will be adjusting to the burbs after living in New York City. But Lincoln is nothing like Krystal imagined.
The daughters of the emperor, Jahangir and Roshanara, conspire and scheme against one another in an attempt to gain power over their father’s harem. As royal princesses, they are confined in the imperial harem and not allowed to marry. However, this does not stop them from having illicit affairs or plotting who will be the next heir to the throne.
The story of Will and Dena is that of one couple among millions of young lovers caught in the snare of World War II. Along their journey, they met friends who sacrificed for them and they met others who would rather see them dead. Their struggle begins in the Central Piedmont of North Carolina and passes through Massachusetts, Virginia, and Indiana before ending Italy’s Tuscany
For ten years succesful attorney Rianne Hazelton lived her life in the shadow of her disatrous marriage to oil tycoon, Xavier Osei. Her carefully constructed life comes crashing down when she comes face to face with him at her estranged sister’s wedding.
