Stories And Tales - Truth, Lies, and Wild Exaggerations

This is a collection of short stories - some are true, some are fabricated, and some are wild exaggerations.Contents:Empty Shadows,A Lot of Bull,Brother and the BB Gun,Fishing with Dad,Flasher on the Mountain,Saving Mom’s Life,Man in Restaurant,My Son the Construction Engineer,Learning the ABC’s and Counting,Mom Doesn’t go Fishing With Dad Anymore,Watching the Buffalo10 horror stories that will not give you sleepless nights. They include ghosts, zombies, werewolves and other scary creatures all woven into daily events. Like trick or treat, first day of school or walking through the woods. Each story can be read within five to ten minutes and are meant for young adults and teens. The contents include1. Trick or Treat?2. The Demon with my Brother's Face3. Lake of Bones4. The Forest of Death5. Dead Mine6. The Haunted Book7. My Teacher's Grave8. Let's Play Hide and Seek9. Painting of the Dead10. The Haunted Doll
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Agent Jack Knight: The Beginning

Jack Knight never went looking for trouble, it found him...corrupt foster parents, school bullies, and an insidious disease that Jack can't fight. After joining the Marines at seventeen, the CIA sends him on a covert op, and Jack finds himself alone in the midst of a South American jungle operating in a country rife with political unrest and the beginnings of a drug war, unsure who to trust.Jack Knight never went looking for trouble...it found him.Orphaned at a young age--his brother Nicky the only family he has left--Jack struggles to protect him, but the deck is stacked against him from the start...corrupt foster parents, school bullies, and eventually the insidious disease that Jack can't fight no matter how hard he tries.Nicky calls him a superhero, dubbing him ‘Jackknife’. Jack, however, knows superheroes aren't real and that he can never live up to his brother's image of him.But he has to try.After joining the Marines and successfully completing boot camp, Private Jack Knight, on a secret mission for the CIA, finds himself alone in the midst of a South American jungle operating in a country rife with political unrest and the beginnings of a drug war, unsure who to trust.This is the first book in the Agent Jack Knight Series.
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The Seventh Immortal (Hearts of Amaranth #1)

Waking in a hospital room with no memory, Kait Selias is thrust into a middle of a centuries-old conflict between the six seductive and powerful immortals who rule the city of St. Louis. Discipline. Suffering. Peace. Freedom. Desire. Pandemonium. What will she choose? The first novella in the Hearts of Amaranth series.A woman awakens in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there, except that she tried to kill herself. The staff is keeping her medicated--too medicated--at the behest of a mysterious man she is certain is no doctor. Her name is Kait Selias, and she quickly learns why her suicide attempt failed: she cannot die. She is an immortal, and her appearance has sparked the interest of every powerful man and woman in the city of St. Louis. With the help of a handsome doctor, Kait escapes the hospital and tries to piece together the mystery of her existence while evading the forces that seek to capture her. She discovers that her immortality is not the only thing that separates her from the rest of humanity. Her voice possesses the powerful ability to compel others to do her will, and her enhanced senses threaten to overwhelm her with desire. Who is Kait Selias? More important, what is she? In the first installment of the Hearts of Amaranth series, Kait struggles to understand her place in a world she cannot remember and she comes face to face with the Gospels, six shadowy and seductive figures who control the city of St. Louis. The Gospels may be the key to her identity, but they have plans of their own for Kait Selias.
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The Hyacinth Girl

Carl suffers from a terminal illness, but he finds a way to survive indefinitely by using his talents and a young, healthy, vulnerable woman who's made the mistake of loving him.Carl suffers from a terminal illness, but he finds a way to survive indefinitely by using his talents and a young, healthy, vulnerable woman who's made the mistake of loving him.This short story is the basis for the novel Drawn to the Grave, which won The International Horror Guild Award and was a finalist for The Bram Stoker Award.
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