Fiction Books

This fiction-short story is the biography of my special little brother from his birth 'til manhood. I describe how life threw challenges at him and how he retreated into his shell. Yet with love and regard for his dream wishes, he could be recovered, and in the process he not only survived but...

By 2045, the autonomous country of Alataria is a place plagued with crime, corruption and greed. Everyone wants something. Those smart enough get to have it. The rest either die or live a miserable life. In this grim reality, gangs and crime organizations rose to power and now rule the...

This story is a rare one in my collections. It describes the bonds we grew with people foreign to us, yet kept sharing our moments with them until the very end. Yes, in short, it describes how our own family bonds got strengthened where we stayed for six whole months near the Mediterranean Sea...

The third story in the Sean Linehan series, set in the year 2021. Linehan brings over his dead boss to Hong Kong to open Asia’s finest sports venue, the SplattaDome. Captivated by the alluring Hypatia, Sean gets kidnapped by Maoist guerrillas and help prisoner in a safe house. His government...

This is a part factual, part fictional story of a 'vodkaholic'. From serious to zany it follows the main character, Mac, who lives in Lakewood, Colorado (Green Mountain Neighborhood). After the protagonist receives his second DUI a chance encounter leads to an initiative combating obesity; and...

Pushpa, a feisty little girl from a tribal village in Odisha, India, is taken to the city of Kolkata, where she is forced to learn the art of street survival. Through a series of misadventures, she eventually finds herself at the mercy of pimps and panderers who plan to exploit her in the sex...

Seventeen-year-old Daphne has no idea that her parents have sent their suicidal daughter to an island off the coast of California, not for a getaway retreat, but for experimental therapy. Dr. Hortense Gray's patients come to the island wanting to die, and they leave fighting to live.

Fifteen-year-old Therese watches her parents die. While in a coma, she meets the twin sons of Hades—Hypnos, the god of sleep, and Thanatos, the god of death. She thinks she's manipulating a dream, not kissing the god of death and totally rocking his world. Than makes a deal with Hades and goes...

Walter Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn...

One young woman's war keeps her from experiencing the life she yearns to have. Other than the ensuing depression and the struggle to learn who she really is, Sophie Monroe finds herself in a conflict with an unseen enemy. Until this unseen enemy is defeated, Sophie feels she will never...