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Mack McCormick : Terrorists At The Bus Stop

Derek Haines — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:12 +0000

Terrorists At The Bus Stop

Terrorists have kidnapped thirty four children during the past two weeks from across the US. They are the children of the most powerful families in the country. The children were all taken in broad daylight. They vanish into thin air leaving virtually no clues.

The lack of contact from the kidnappers makes the Terrorist Task Force worry about the kidnapper’s motives. The lack of clues and intense pressure from the public and media has frayed the nerves of the leadership of Homeland Security’s Terrorist Task Force.

A body is discovered floating in Charleston SC harbor by Ray Gomez, the 13 year old son of Gabriel Gomez, the new Chief of Detectives of the Charleston SC Police Department. As Gabby follows a clue in the murder case she is thrust into a gun battle that leaves a landmark Charleston restaurant littered with the dead and wounded.

Their only clue is in a locked FBI file. Gabby’s boss, Police Chief O’Malley, battles with the Director of the FBI over the identity of one of perpetrators. Chief O’Malley learns from the Director of the FBI that the violence in Charleston is part of a terrorist campaign. The man that Gabby Gomez killed in the in the restaurant is the first substantial clue in the kidnapping cases. As the FBI Director briefs Chief O’Malley about the danger Gabby and her son Ray are in from the dead man’s family, a powerful explosion rocks Charleston Harbor.

Can Gabby and the Terrorism Task Force save the children from a fate worse than death?

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Shadir Keene : Gemma’s Story

Derek Haines — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:00:46 +0000

Gemma’s Story

Married, middle aged, bored and feeling totally undesirable, Gemma decides enough is enough and sets her mind to finding a radical and very dangerous solution to her problem. Watching her husband fall lower and lower into a pit of routine, television and a complete disinterest in her, and with the admission that she has herself become boringly dreary and suburban, she takes matters into her own hands and soon finds a willing allly in Maggie.

At first she believes she wil light a fire in her husband that will rekindle the passion in their marriage she so desires, but suddenly has doubts about the intentions of her sexy ally, and the direction of the new found lust Maggie ignites in her husband. Soon, feelings of jealousy rage within her along with a loss of self respect and disgust as she discovers the dangers in playing with sex, primal desires and the confused passions that come with having sex with strangers.

Faced with choice between retreat or attack, Gemma ignores her fears and finds what she has craved for so many years. Intense excitement, insatiable desire and then most surprisingly of all, compassion, love and warmth from her husband – and Maggie.

Only read Gemma’s story if you are ready to take a wild and erotic ride as she throws all caution to the wind in her quest to satiate her husband, and her own deep, secret and most carnal of desires.

Note: This book is not suitable for readers under 18.

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Ed Benjamin : Harry’s War

Derek Haines — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:00:05 +0000

Harry’s War

This novella deals with an epic air battle over Iraq between Iranian Air Force Su-27 Flanker aircraft and United States Air Force F-15C Eagles in the skies over Iraq. The author has divided this book into three basic parts: first, the prelude to this spine-tingling fighter clash, second, the nail biting air battle itself and third, the aftermath. These three parts constitute the war experienced by Harry Miles, ace fighter pilot. Which will prevail, the F-15C Eagle fighter or the Su-27 Flanker? What is the real war?

Harry finds himself medically retired from the USAF and faced with the demons which haunted him during his formative years. He soon realizes he must re-learn life lessons.

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Jack Sussek : Manhattan Affair

Derek Haines — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:00:41 +0000

Manhattan Affair

In late ’90s Manhattan, Jared “Jed” Chase confesses to his lawyer the snaky, illicit route that landed him in trouble and possibly in jail. Jed led a mundane life working in advertising-sales for The New York Times until he reconnected with recently divorced Katherine Cahill. Her ex-husband, Steve, who happens to be Jed’s college friend, introduced the two 10 years earlier—since then, Jed has been obsessed with her. When she approaches Jed looking for help, he understandably jumps at the chance, despite the sordid details.

She hatches a plan to murder Steve and take what she believes is rightfully hers. Blinded by adoration and passion, Jed agrees to do whatever Katherine asks; he even buys the gun.

Within Sussek’s strong, captivating narrative, Katherine paints an awful picture of Steve’s behavior, going so far as to detail his secret sex-tape business, which, she tells Jed, she was pressured into participating. Katherine, ever the conniving seductress, successfully manipulates Jed, but when the plan falls apart, Jed faces a life or death situation. He realizes that the woman he fantasized about for more than a decade could not be the woman intent on having her ex-husband murdered.

In exquisitely detailed New York City, Jed employs his journalist friends to help piece together a different, even more lurid story than the one Katherine led him to believe.
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Derek Haines : One Last Love

Derek Haines — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:00:26 +0000

One Last Love

Life has the habit of delivering its perverse twists at the most unexpected times.

For Bonnie his life had been lived, and the bitter sweet memories of his wife, along with the never ending sorrow of losing his son so young remain with him, but were now ebbing slowly with the passing of the years. His days of love, warmth and tenderness well past and all that was left were his last few quiet years to grow old. Alone, yet content.

What he had done, he had done and what had happened, had. All that remained was to live out the rest of his life in a new place, far away from his checkered past. His days passing with the regularity that an old man desires and deserves. Until the dark day arrives that signals an impending end to his new found life, and with it, all sense of hope.

In facing mortality, Bonnie resorts to using his crusty exterior and bravado to hide the frailty and fear he feels within himself, until he is presented with stark realities beyond his understanding and is forced to come face to face with his own prejudices and beliefs. In meeting Danny and Angeline, Bonnie begins to reshape his thoughts about his acceptance of those he had habitually admonished, and of the bigoted life he has lived. While Charlie and his daughter Beatrice realign his set concepts of how he has habitually rushed to judge people too quickly.

However, it is only when Bonnie meets Madeleine that the most unexpected eventuality turns his hard held beliefs, and his very set views about life, people and love, on their head.

Available now on the Kindle Store. Coming soon in paperback.

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J.D.Tarran : The Way in Divine Metaphysics

Derek Haines — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:00:34 +0000

The Way in Divine Metaphysics

A Comprehensive Survey of Enlightenment and Global Metaphysics.

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Lee Chambers : The Pineville Heist

Derek Haines — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:00:12 +0000

The Pineville Heist

Seventeen year old Aaron stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. Terrified, Aaron tells his shocking tale to Amanda Becker, his drama teacher, but it doesn’t take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school the pair are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back and wipe out the evidence.

The Pineville Heist, based on the award-winning screenplay by Lee Chambers and Todd Gordon, “is a young adult thriller with a slick plot, believable characters, and a breakneck pace that will no doubt appeal to adults as much as teens,” noted Walleye Magazine’s Amy Jones. “An enthusiatic five stars!”

“The Pineville Heist is the very definition of thrill, energized with edge-of-your-seat action and suspense!” claims US Review of Books reviewer Mihir Shah.

UPDATE: Twilight star Booboo Stewart (Seth Clearwater) has signed on to play Aaron Stevens in the movie version.

Follow movie and book news at www.pinevilleheist.com

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Kenneth W. Harmon : Ghost Under Foot: The Spirit Of Mary Bell

Derek Haines — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:00:36 +0000

Ghost Under Foot: The Spirit Of Mary Bell

“The knocking on the headboard boomed inside my brain. I stopped breathing, my body paralyzed with fear, as I realized I was not alone in my room.”

Ghost under Foot: the Spirit of Mary Bell is the incredible true story of one family’s journey into the realm of the paranormal. Readers are taken on an amazing adventure as retired police officer Kenneth W. Harmon struggles to understand why their house is haunted and who may be responsible. With help from the Fort Collins Museum staff, and using old records, family histories, newspapers, and maps, he learns their ghost is Mary Bell Wilson, a young woman who died from typhoid fever back in 1886. Mary Bell’s father operated a sheep farm on the land where the Harmon house is now located.

When a local couple, Duane and Susan Kniebes, who used dowsing rods to locate unmarked pioneer graves on behalf of the State, visit the Harmon’s house, they find an old gravesite in the backyard. Before leaving, the Kniebes teach Kenneth how to use the dowsing rods to communicate with spirits. Kenneth is now able to talk with Mary Bell. He asks her many questions about death and the spirit world. After learning Mary Bell knew intimate details about his family, Kenneth wondered if she used superconscious telepathy to access this information. Could ghosts call upon the collective wisdom of the human race? To test this, Kenneth asked Mary Bell questions about some of the most famous mysteries, including the JFK assassination, the identity of Jack the Ripper, and the Roswell UFO incident.

Ghost under Foot is supported by photographic and video evidence, and is the first book to offer real proof of life beyond death. It is sure to be one of the most talked about books in 2012.

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Jack Eason : Turning Point

Derek Haines — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:00:33 +0000

Turning Point

For thousands of years, man in his arrogance, has believed that he is unique in the cosmos.

During the last decade of the twentieth century, the day finally arrived when a warlike alien species called the Drana returned to our solar system, intent on re-establishing their rule over the Earth once more. The last time they were here they left a subordinate race in charge of our early ancestors. When the Drana moved on to conquer more planets in the name of their emperor, the Khaz began to create a stronghold here on Earth, hopefully large enough to one day challenge the Drana. Over countless centuries all memories of the Khaz and their masters the Drana vanished from the minds of man. However, the Khaz are still calling the shots through a secret government they set up consisting of the world’s political and military leaders, as well as the heads of all the major business cartels.

Meanwhile, our New Zealand born hero Tom is enjoying a well-earned break, hiking through the beautiful mountains of South Westland in New Zealand’s South Island, totally unaware that he is being deliberately drawn to a specific place.

In a valley somewhere in South Westland, artificially hidden from the outside world he meets a dying race of peaceful people from another world called the Nephile, who are hiding from the Drana and falls in love with one of them. Through her and others like her he is made aware that everything we have ever learned or assumed is untrue. He learns that the ancestors of all the various branches of humanity were brought here from other worlds as slaves of the Drana millennia ago.
After being enhanced, our hero is tasked with bringing in all the other human beings, chosen like him by the Nephile, to be taken back to the valley in New Zealand to form a new species of Nephile/human. While picking up the various groups of humans dotted across the world, his actions inadvertently starts World War Three, days before the Drana return to reclaim the Earth, throwing the Khaz High Command here on Earth into total panic.

How to save the Earth and humanity from this nightmare situation? What kind of earthbound weaponry could possibly defeat the Drana? The battle between the army of resistance fighters, led by our hero Tom, and the Drana in New Zealand’s South Island, ends when a worldwide cataclysmic event set in place by the Nephile living in the hidden valley occurs. Will anyone survive?

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Paul Collins : Mack Dunstan’s Inferno

Derek Haines — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:00:49 +0000

Mack Dunstan’s Inferno

My recent book is called Mack Dunstan’s Inferno and it was inspired by Bowling for Columbine, where Michael Moore challenged actor Charlton Heston on his role in gun rallies on the week of a massacre at Columbine High School.

Well, the Heston Estate forbid the use of Charlton Heston in the work, but Iuniverse has published it because I changed Charlton Heston into Mack Dunstan and the paperback is called Mack Dunstan’s Inferno. It is about a Charlton Heston type character who succumbed to Alzheimer’s, descended into hell and met victims of his pro-gun policy.

Yes, as he descended into Hades, he met oodles of Hollywood celebrities, including Kelsey Grammar, Sally Struthers, JK Rowlings, Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, and even a comical scene with Woody Allen too. In such a circumstance, look out for all the American televangelists, including Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, and Jimmy Swaggart. It is a modern day Divine Comedy!

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Staci Stallings : Deep in the Heart

Derek Haines — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:27 +0000

Deep in the Heart

Just out of college and completely alone in the world, Maggie Montgomery has one shot left to save her life from an abyss of poverty and hopelessness. Clinging to the last shred of fuel and hope, she arrives at the mansion of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayers. Although Maggie is clearly not what Mr. Ayers and his wife have in mind for a nanny, they agree to hire her temporarily until they can find someone more appropriate to fill the position. However, Maggie’s whole world is about to be up-ended by two way-over-scheduled children and one incredibly handsome hired hand. As she struggles to fit into a world she was never made to fit in, Maggie wonders if she can ever learn to become a perfect version of herself so she can keep the job, or is she doomed to always be searching for a life she can never quite grasp?

Keith Ayers despises his life. As the son of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayers and the fiance to a Senator from Texas’ daughter, it looks great on the outside, but inside, he is dying. He would vastly prefer to manage and train his father’s racehorses. However, everyone else thinks that is beneath him. He needs to get into industry and build on his father’s success. Suffocating under the constrictions of his life, he meets Maggie who begins to teach him that wealth and power is not everything in this life. But can Keith defy the most powerful men in Texas to follow his heart?

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Shampriest Bevel : Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself

Derek Haines — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:00:37 +0000

Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself

The women’s fiction book tells the untold story of single women living in a world with limited good men and unlimited drama. The characters deal with all types of men. They are all in relationships with the type of men who prove not to be ready for marriage. Talia Sands, who is the most ready for marriage, is left broken-hearted after five years by a man who she accidentally learns is having an affair with the neighborhood trick.

This becomes a turning point for Talia. Talia decides not to allow a nugatory man destroy her dreams of marriage. She has an epiphany about the root of marriage, love. She decides to marry herself as a symbol of self-commitment and self-love. Today I Marry My Best Friend, Myself tells the story of how a woman can stop tirelessly and painfully waiting for a man to ask for her hand in marriage. She can follow Talia’s lead by getting her middle finger sized, purchasing her own wedding ring, and marrying herself.

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