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A war veteran applies his combat skills to the challenges of corporate management. Supply-side economics is a chef’s secret ingredient for the success of a fast food giant’s new menu item. A hobbyist’s pastime wreaks havoc. Siblings thought they’d inherited a house of death; they were wrong: they’d been bequeathed something far, far worse! What the new kid in school found in The Locked Room was nothing less than a balance of power. Sometimes bookmarks are more than just placeholders––a lot more! We never know what we may find at the end of the road. A superhero chooses to ...

As a college and university instructor and the author of flash fiction, novellas, and the five-book series of novels comprising An Adventure of the Old West, the three-book series A Charlotte Hastings Paranormal Exposé, and the two-book series Vikings: An Epic Adventure, I share a lifetime of learning about writing satisfying, entertaining, fast-paced fiction. Learn to transform an idea for a story into a full-fledged story. Learn forty-two types of characters and how to make them come alive on the page. Learn the one-act, two-act, three-act, four-act, and five-act, character functions, ...

After years as a bounty hunter and a sheriff, Bane Messenger wants to enjoy a quiet life with his family. They buy land in Nevada's Great Basin, planning to build a remote family retreat, but when they visit the property, armed men attack them, intent upon forcing them to vacate the premises, claiming Bane and his family are trespassing on private property. Before this new nightmare ends, Bane will strike it rich, be tried for kidnapping and murder, and take on an "army" of veteran soldiers determined to kill him and his entire family. Q: The climactic battle at the end of Blood Mountain is...

A prequel to the series An Adventure of the Old West, this action-packed short story introduces Bane Messenger, a Union veteran of the Civil War who teams with former Confederate commander Colonel Jake Miller, to become a bounty hunter. On the trail of a vicious outlaw wanted for kidnapping and murder during a series of robberies, Bane hones his tracking, reconnaissance, and fighting skills. His final showdown with his deadly quarry will show him just how good he is with a gun and launch his career as a man who makes his living bringing killers to justice, dead or alive.

Having completed the quest assigned to him by Odin, the Aesir's All-Father, Viking chieftain Erik Olafsson returns in triumph to Kaupangen, Norge. Expecting to celebrate his victory, he is instead summoned by King Thorgrim Easterling. The wealthy, treacherous merchant's son Hrafn Gunnarson has charged Erik with heinous crimes, but Erik claims that Hrafn is the true villain. To determine which party is guilty, the king orders the litigants to undertake a trial by ordeal. They must recover three scrolls, written by the Norns and hidden by the king's men throughout the kingdom. The parchments ...

Bounty hunter Bane Messenger is good with a gun, but he wants more out of life than hunting down fugitives from the law. He wants a wife and children. He wants a home of his own. He wants to know why his father abandoned him. But all he knows is how to track and capture or kill the worst sort of men who roam the West, taking what they want, whether money, property, or women, at the point of a gun. When he meets the right woman, though, he vows his life will change, he will change . . . if he can. Q: What sets your Westerns apart from others? A: I show my main character's inner life as well ...

Killing ground: 64,000 square-miles. Six states. 150 rivers and streams. Can Charlotte Hastings survive her latest paranormal investigation?

When notorious killer Spencer Rowelings escapes from the Nevada State Prison, along with twenty-eight fellow inmates, only U. S. Marshal Bane Messenger and his deputies stand in the ruthless madman’s way. Using unconventional sources of intelligence and his own shrewd powers of deduction, Bane tracks the elusive killer and his gang, by horse and by train, from Carson City, Nevada, to Bodie, California, the wide-open Wild West boomtown in the treacherous Sierra Nevada Mountains. Having twice avoided the hangman’s noose, Rowelings plans to terrorize the West. But, first, he has a personal...

The runaway action never stops in On the Track of Vengeance, the fourth book in An Adventure of the Old West series. When outlaw gangs sabotage railroads, resulting in the deaths of innocent passengers and crew members, the president of the United States becomes directly involved, appointing Bane Messenger a U.S. marshal answerable to him alone. Teamed with trustworthy deputies, Bane takes on the desperate men, who care only for vengeance and are willing to do anything to strike back at the railroads and the government they blame for their misfortunes. But the stakes soar when Bane learns ...

Erik must avenge his father Olaf's death and recover the treasure the late chieftain sought. To do so, he must build and equip a ship and vanquish firstlings, trolls, and monsters, all while commanding fierce, stalwart warriors. His risks increase dramatically when his mother Mjoll is kidnapped by ruthless adversaries and wizards and the very gods themselves take sides.

Mysterious strangers. Big money. Corrupt politicians. Murder. Mayhem. Hired guns. After a drunk is broken out of Excelsior, Nevada's, jailhouse, former bounty hunter Bane Messenger joins a posse to hunt down the escaped prisoner and his accomplices. Surviving an ambush in which the sheriff and deputy are killed, Bane tracks down the assassins. But, when he returns to Excelsior, he finds that the town's last lawman has also been murdered. Now, a cartel controls the town, using paid gunmen to enforce new laws for their own benefit. Determined to bring law and order back to his hometown, Bane ...

Kolchak meets Buffy! When the owner of The World Today offers journalism intern Charlotte Hastings a full-time position upon her graduation from college and allows her to choose her columns’ topic, she’s over the moon. But, when he ties her earnings to the number of new subscribers her articles land, the weight of The World is on her shoulders. Her handsome colleague, photographer Dave Edwards, is certainly a huge perk, though, despite the paper’s no-fraternization policy. Book I: Secrets of Sea Island: Charlotte’s first assignment takes her and Dave to a luxurious island resort–...

Sometimes, doing the right thing brings a whole world full of hurt. Seeking meaning in life, Raven Westbrook joins a coven, becoming an accomplished witch. When Abigail, the witches' high priestess, intent upon ruling the world, mistakenly suspects Raven of treachery and the coven turns on her, Raven joins forces with a government agent to stop the horde of demons Abigail has summoned. Can Raven gather a troop of angels in time to stop Abigail and save the world?

An all-expenses-paid trip to a fabulous island resort seems too good to be true to investigative reporter Charlotte Hastings, especially when its dark paranormal past catches up with her! On her way to her destination, she's warned not to go there, and a bizarre incident occurs even before she leaves the mainland. Worse yet, the eerie paranormal phenomena keep on coming after she arrives at her home away from home. Determined to discover the island's centuries-old secrets, Charlotte and her photographer Dave Edwards, joined by online influencer Luna Moon, set out to find and expose the ...

Back in The Big Apple after their eerie trip to the allegedly haunted Sea Island, Charlotte and Dave check out rumors of bizarre creatures living in the city's abandoned subway tunnels. Charlotte's investigation leads to a mind-boggling discovery that could cost them their lives. Can they warn the world of the peril threatening the planet before they fall victim to the monsters of New York?