When eighteen-year-old Christopher Myers' parents are murdered, something is written on his bedroom door, a mark in his parents' blood that convinces the police the killer has targeted Christopher as the next victim. To keep him safe, he travels away with his estranged grandmother and uncle to the small town of Bridgton, New York. And it's in Bridgton that he meets an extraordinary young man who has come with his father to stop an unrelenting evil. Soon Christopher learns of the town's deep dark secret, and how his parents' murder was no accident, and how he has been brought to Bridgton by forces beyond his power -- forces that just may threaten the destruction of all mankind. Praise for The Calling:"The Calling is a powerful, gripping and terrifying novel, the sort that possesses your whole life while you're reading it; it'll stalk you through the day, and inform your dreams. Swartwood has delivered a novel that will become a classic."-- Tim Lebbon, author of Echo City "Robert Swartwood's The Calling is a diabolical rocket sled of a psychological thriller. Told through the vivid, almost druggy point of view of a young man on the edge, tangled in a web of tragedy and surreal horror, Swartwood's novel gets under the skin and stays there. Highly recommended."-- Jay Bonansinga, co-author of The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor"This novel is small town horror at its best."-- HellnotesAbout the Author Robert Swartwood's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Daily Beast, ChiZine, Postscripts, Space and Time, and PANK. He is the author of several novels and the editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. Visit him online at robertswartwood.com. Views: 58
CEO hotel mogul Barbara Jennings
has three months to decide whether to close her Manhattan hotel or cut
costs by firing some of her employees. She meets her much-younger
employee, Jennifer Caffey and is instantly smitten. Now Barbara has
another mission, and that is to seduce the innocent Jenny.
Jenny is also attracted to the powerful and beautiful Barbara, but
has never really had a steamy love affair with another woman.
Unwittingly, she allows herself to be swept away by her passion for this
older woman who may ruin her life. Views: 58
Victor Bayne, the psychic half a PsyCop team, is a gay medium
who’s more concerned with flying under the radar than in making
waves.
He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or “Stiff”)
from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner’s retirement party and
it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better.
But then a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. surfaces--and no one
agrees what he looks like.
Solving murders is a snap when
you can ask the victims whodunit, but this killer’s not leaving
any spirits behind. Views: 58
An amethyst stone draws him to his past. An elusive maiden draws him to his future. Alexander is born into slavery under an abusive master: a master of his own flesh and blood • a man he will never call Father. Determined to break away from his master’s hold, Alexander devises a plan to purchase his freedom. But what’s he to do when he finds himself shipped off in shackles to Egypt, disappearing from the lives of everyone he knows and loves? Views: 58
TOO MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. Erin Fleming couldn't live with her constant fear of losing Lee McGrey to his perilous police work. Yet living without him was torture ...not to mention dangerous. Newly single, Erin had stumbled onto a murder mystery. Now she was in jeopardy--and only her ex could save her. T00 MANY LONELY MORNINGS. Just when Lee had grown accustomed to an empty bed, Erin invaded his world--and his senses--again. This time, he knew, he should walk away. Convince himself he didn't ache for her. Tell her to find another bodyguard. Instead, he agreed to protect the woman he still loved-and damn the emotional consequences .... Views: 58
AS MILLIONS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN THE WASTELAND THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, A YOUNG MAN FIGHTS TO MAINTAIN ITS FOUNDING PROMISE.Starvation, violence and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps.When the military transforms Washington's life-saving food bank into a gun collection center in order to disarm all but the soldiers themselves, riots ensue. Weary of the militaristic government's intent to render the citizens defenseless, America's remaining patriots begin a mass migration out of the camps in search of refuge.American Apocalypse Wastelands tells of a young man discovering the role he must play to defend himself, others and his country as everything around him crumbles. Views: 58
Julia Heath is experiencing a tree-change nightmare; a dismal country town with no decent coffee, a yoga teacher husband who is having an affair with the butcher's wife and slowly sending them bankrupt, a mother-in-law coming to stay and a son obsessed with flies. But she soon falls under the spell of Tom, a handsome, but troubled, dairy farmer who experiences the world through extraordinary eyes. As Julia and her husband become involved with Tom, their lives and marriage are inexorably changed and Julia is forced to heal the wounds of her past and abandon all ideas of the perfect family. Views: 58
A sweet short western romance story.Callie McCade travels west to meet the intended husband her Uncle Ned has arranged for her to marry. What she didn't count on was Clint West shooting at the stage to stop it so he could collect his future bride. She finds she is attracted to him and he is a kind and gentle man. She truly wants to be a good wife and please him, but has no idea what goes on in the marriage bed. Views: 58
Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there is no alternative but to wait for vessels sent out at sub-light speed decades previously to find somewhere worth going. Unfortunately, when a worthwhile planet finally turns up, it doesn’t take long for political conflicts to materialize over its exploitation. Then, when an entire survey team perishes, the problems intensify. Lee Caretta is the man most likely to solve the problem—if his conflict-ridden employers will let him, if he can keep his tendencey to suffer unexplained blackouts under control, and if the world really is sufficiently Earth-like not to be deadly to the explorers. And then the humans begin to die once more! Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there is no alternative but to wait for vessels sent out at sub-light speed decades previously to find somewhere worth going. Unfortunately, when a worthwhile planet finally turns up, it doesn’t take long for political conflicts to materialize over its exploitation. Then, when an entire survey team perishes, the problems intensify. Lee Caretta is the man most likely to solve the problem—if his conflict-ridden employers will let him, if he can keep his tendencey to suffer unexplained blackouts under control, and if the world really is sufficiently Earth-like not to be deadly to the explorers. And then the humans begin to die once more! Views: 58
