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Science Crimes Division
. . . . . Anachron (Text)
. . . . . The Zero Signal (Text) (Audio Soon)
The Minus Faction
. . . . . Episode One - Breakout (Text) (Audio)
. . . . . Episode Two - Crossfire (Text) (Audio)
. . . . . Episode Three - Meltdown (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Episode Four - Blackout (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Episode Five - Aftershock (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Episode Six - Shockwave (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Episode Seven - Outbreak (Text) (Audio Soon)
Feast of Shadows
. . . . . Agony in Violet (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Curse of the Red Dagger (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . To the White of the Bone (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Song on the Green (Text) (Audio Soon)
. . . . . Bright Black (Text) (Audio Soon)
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In the decades after tomorrow, the intersection of emerging technologies like AI, gene editing, and 3D printing gives ordinary people unprecedented power to remake themselves and their environment, which they use for frivolous, dangerous, and even sinister ends.
After a series of high-profile calamities, the U.S. Congress passes the controversial Science and Technology Control Act, which licenses and regulates the practice of science. While serious infractions are rare, the increasing number of extraordinary threats are investigated by the Science Control Agency's secretive Section 08: Crimes Division.
The Zero Signal
After a stint in federal prison for trying to save the world, Nio is done with the spotlight. She spends her days in front of a computer, quietly helping others with problems no one else can solve.
When a case turns unexpectedly deadly, she travels to rural America to stop a hi-tech psychopath who tortures his victims via their own devices. Arrested by mistake, she's given a choice: return to prison or assist the investigation into the unexplained death of a renowned physicist—who happens to be her brother.
Shackled to a disgraced FBI agent assigned to protect her, Nio and her new partner soon discover her brother's strange obsession with the paranormal may have been a cypher for something darker still. Pursued by his shadowy enemies and dodging the twisted affections of her rival, Nio has just days to discover the truth. But in a world made plastic by technology, truth is never the same twice.
Anachron
How do you stop a killer who remembers the future?
(Blurb pending…)
Capt. John Regent returns a paraplegic after months of captivity and torture—only no one knows who took him or how he escaped.
Xana Jace strives only to be reunited with her son. She keeps her head down and stays out of trouble, which isn't easy when you stand seven feet eight inches tall.
Ian Tendo's sensible life has fallen apart. After losing his girlfriend and being arrested for terrorism, he doesn't imagine things could get any worse—until he's beset by an eleven-year-old prodigy with a foul mouth and an ambulance full of high explosives.
One by one, all four are recruited by an enigmatic mastermind, known only as Prophet, who offers them everything they want in exchange for the impossible.
But team is a four-letter word.
After a botched mission reveals a plot to hack the human race, the four unlikely companions discover a betrayal by one of their own—and realize that not all of them will survive.
THE MINUS FACTION is a super-powered speculative thriller about extraordinary abilities and how not to use them.
Episode One: BREAKOUT
Beaten. Burned. Broken.
Capt. John Regent returns a paraplegic after escaping months of captivity and torture—except no one knows who took him or what he disclosed.
When a government agent comes for answers, she discovers John's fantastical secret and sets him at war with his own country. But the veteran in the wheelchair has one last mission, and he'll fight off the powers-that-be long enough to save the life of a troubled soldier—even if it costs John his own.
Episode Two: CROSSFIRE
Xana Jace keeps her head down, which isn't easy when you stand seven feet eight inches tall. She works the night shift and stays out of trouble, striving only to be reunited with her son.
But she's running out of time. The strange disease that compels her body to grow also threatens to choke her heart.
When a masked gangster terrorizes the small community that shelters her, Xana is left with a terrible choice and just twenty-four hours to discover the truth that everything she believes is a lie.
Episode Three: MELTDOWN
After losing his girlfriend and his job, Ian Tendo's sensible life has fallen apart. When he's arrested by the FBI, he doesn't imagine things could get any worse.
That is, until dark forces recruit him to be an agent of terror. Forced to commit horrible acts in secret, Ian knows death is close—either at their hand or his own.
But unexpected help comes in the form of an eleven-year-old prodigy. Wanted by the police and pursued by a living nightmare, the pair's only hope is a mysterious organization known as the Minus Faction.
Episode Four: BLACKOUT
The gang's all here. After an early success bolsters the team's confidence, they scatter to their own ends over John's heated objections.
But when a botched mission leaves a city of millions without power, they struggle to protect the people they've put in harm's way, while under cover of darkness, their enemies strike a killer blow . . .
Episode Five: AFTERSHOCK
Team is a four-letter word.
While the wounded heal and attempt to evade capture, the Faction's mission is finally revealed and John obsesses over the identity of the Prophet.
But when his investigation uncovers a betrayal, the team must face the devastating truth of their origin, and everything they've accomplished falls apart.
Episode Six: SHOCKWAVE
Lost in the aftermath of betrayal, the members of the team wander alone through the ruins of their lives, searching in vain for hope. In their absence, a new enemy rises to eclipse all others.
Isolated and absent the Prophet's prescient protection, John and company fall one-by-one to their new foe as the countdown ticks to its end.
Episode Seven: OUTBREAK
The dead rise. Monsters clash. Enemies become allies. A king unleashes final Armageddon. And four unlikely friends decide the fate of the world.
T-Minus: Zero.
One part mystery.
One part savagery.
Three parts magic.
Years ago, driven by greed, men penetrated the last soft places on earth. Out of the clear-cut jungle—out of nowhere—a man appeared, eyes rimmed in blue. The last shaman. A man who could make magic.
Across five stories, five victims of the inexplicable narrate strange encounters with an enigmatic titan, a man without a past. Caught in his decades-long battle with an unseen foe, each is given the power to alter human history—or end it forever.
Part urban fantasy, part magical whodunit, FEAST OF SHADOWS is a five-course occult mystery and the most devilish meal you’ll ever read.
Agony in Violet
As his marriage crumbles around him, a brilliant medical scientist searches for the source of a horrific illness that leaves its victims ashen and wasted. With no apparent connections between them, his only clues are the strange symbols that appear near the bodies after death. When a child is stricken, old traumas resurface and the good doctor turns in desperation to a curious consultant, who reveals that not every labyrinth has walls, and that the horrors you face there are always your own.
Curse of the Red Dagger
A troubled addict, pregnant with a billionaire’s baby, disappears without a trace. Determined to save his child, he offers a bounty of one million dollars to anyone who can find her, including the down-on-her-luck art school dropout who broke into his private club on a dare. Stumbling upon a trail of death, she finds everyone connected to the disappearance has fallen to mysterious circumstances. As her own fate closes around her, her only chance to save everyone she loves is to sacrifice herself to an ancient and insatiable power.
To the White of the Bone
A mangled body floats to the surface of a reservoir with nothing to distinguish the victim save for a binding knot branded under her tongue. The case is routed to the NYPD’s resident occultist, an uncompromising homicide detective whose history of unusual and uncertain results has left her career in shambles. Dodging an inquiry into a fatal shooting and pursued by a homicidal witch, she contemplates a devil’s bargain to stop the killer, who just may be the Lord of Shadows.
The Song on the Green
One by one, the children of an upscale Pennsylvania neighborhood are found crippled and catatonic, their minds seemingly vanished. As the panicked community searches in vain for a human predator, they neglect the only witness, an eight-year-old boy with a menagerie of strays, who is left to stand alone against the very creature that hunts him.
Bright Black
After carelessly killing an innocent, a beautiful aristocrat is cursed with eternal youth. Forced to endure as waves of friends and loved ones wither and fade around her, she wanders the ages in search of meaning—from the wars of Napoleon to the Victorians in India, from the Great Depression to the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Recruited as a spy in an occult war, she soon tires of blood and loss and retreats to a small village in the mountains, where an accident reveals missing memories and the ghosts of her past rise to remind her that the mistakes of five lifetimes are not so easily fled.
WARNING: This book is intensely and intentionally violent and grotesque. Listen at your own discretion.
A scoundrel with a secret seeks the key to escaping the end of the world. An exiled gunslinger, waiting to die, is called back for one more job. A radioactive man is sold into service as an assassin by a mysterious cult. As their stories intertwine, all three are caught between rival mobs, an invincible killer, and a plot to upset an uneasy peace between once-warring nations. While far above the planet, a phantasmal apocalypse looms.
Dinosaurs. Robots. Cannibal fairies. A brain in a vat. A giant squid. Nazi Amazons. Super-soldiers. A war dragon. An assassin cult. Unicorns. Wereninjas. Animal-human hybrids. And a kaiju god of destruction. The battle for the fate of the world starts with a betrayal in a cemetery . . . and a stray phallus.
Equal parts mutant crime noir and sci-fantasy adventure, FANTASMAGORIA is a violent, unrelenting, and darkly humorous pulp novel for the 21st century.
They Eat Humans, Don’t They?
In the years after first contact, a far-flung Earth joins the community of sentient races largely clustered near the galactic center. Protected by a vast interstellar non-aggression pact, humanity thinks it's safe. But with 7.8 quadrillion individuals in the galaxy covering every conceivable form of life, some threats are almost impossible to imagine...
Scratch: a Hallow E’en Carol
After her husband dies in a car accident, Marjorie Little feels abandoned. Stuck in the remote town where he grew up, she remains a stranger to those around her and wants nothing to do with the townspeople's odd occult rituals. But when her daughter is attacked—marked with three scratches—Marjorie must face her own shortcomings and the possibility of a real and ancient evil.
"Scratch" is a short horror, a Hallow E'en Carol, about the bad things good people do.
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