by admin | Apr 9, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
The message is murder…After ten years in the big city, accountant Christie O’Mara is back in her hometown — and thrilled to take over her deceased grandmother’s Flower Shoppe, known for its hidden floral “messages”.But while preparing for opening day, Christie finds a note that hints at a decades-old murder, taped to the underside of an antique desk drawer. Even ditzy Aunt Doris has no idea what it could mean — and she knows everyone and everythingin town.When a man is poisoned by a Flower Shoppe bouquet with a “be careful” message, the police chief turns up on Christie’s doorstep with tricky questions. But he may be the least of her worries.Someone knows what happened forty years ago. And they’re laying the past to rest — one victim at a time.
by admin | Apr 9, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
A former stripper turned suburban housewife is exposed as a brutal killer in this shocking true crime tale of a loving husband beheaded in Phoenix.Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person’s report on her husband, Jay. She claimed that the successful art dealer had left town on business after celebrating their son’s birthday more than a month before. But no one believed that Jay would abandon the family he loved. Authorities suspected foul play . . . As the search for Jay made local headlines, Marjorie’s story starting coming apart. Why did she wait so long before going to police? If Jay was away on business, why were there charges made to his credit card in Phoenix? Then, the unthinkable happened. Jay’s headless, limbless torso was discovered on the outskirts of the Phoenix desert—and all evidence pointed to Marjorie as the killer. The investigation revealed surprising details about her life—six previous marriages, an ongoing affair with a man from her gym, and alleged ties to the New York mafia.
by admin | Apr 9, 2025 | Teen & Young Adult |
A collar that defines him as property. A weapon that could set his sister free.Enslaved teen Bensin promised his mother on her deathbed that he would free his little sister from the horrors of slavery. But when an escape attempt fails, their owners separate them, and Bensin is sold—powerless to protect the sister who needs him.His new owner, a martial arts coach, trains him to fight in tournaments. As Bensin’s skills sharpen, so does his desperation, knowing each wasted moment brings Ellie closer to danger. Every plan to save her requires money—something he doesn’t have. His only asset is his growing mastery of the cavvarach, the weapon that could be his key to her freedom—or the tool of his destruction.When Bensin learns Ellie is about to be sold to a ruthless owner, his last hope to save her lies in the Grand Imperial, the empire’s most prestigious—and brutal—fighting tournament. But the best of the best compete there, and after another failed rescue attempt leaves him injured and exhausted, Bensin faces impossible odds. Can he overcome the empire’s most skilled martial artists and win his sister’s freedom before she disappears into a life of suffering and abuse?Also available as an audiobook!Grab your copy of The Collar and the Cavvarach now and dive into a pulse-pounding adventure perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Karate Kid, and Gladiator!
by admin | Apr 9, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
An Inconvenient Attraction Before leaving for a coveted two-year musical residency, cellist Bree Anderson is taking one month for a relaxing lakefront vacation. But she’s thrown off track by the instant attraction she feels for one of the resort’s instructors. The last thing local Darren Zelinsky needs is a privileged summer resident like the fiancée who jilted him. Bree’s no threat to his heart?until he uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the pristine exterior. And soon Bree is in danger of falling for the rugged outdoorsman. The clock on her stay is ticking and Bree’s facing an impossible choice?between a lifelong dream and a lifetime love.
by admin | Apr 9, 2025 | Science Fiction |
The most feared world in the galaxy: The Well of Furies. From this planet, the godlike Ulltrians waged war on all life among the stars. Long thought extinct, the Ulltrians have returned. Now all the Galaxy is in danger. Humanity faces extinction.
Amir Tarkos is one of the only humans in the Predator Corp, the most elite military force in the galaxy. With his partner Bria, a bear-like carnivore, Tarkos is given a dangerous and difficult mission. Tarkos and Bria must locate the World Hammer, a pair of co-orbiting sunless planets that are the last refuge of the Ulltrians. But to find the World Hammer, they first must brave the dangers of the Ulltrian homeworld, The Well of Furies.
To save Galactic civilization, Tarkos and Bria will have to work with a team of strange aliens and artificial intelligences, explore the perilous ruins of an ancient moon, dare the depths of an ocean that engulfs a dark planet, and fight a fierce battle in the ice rings of burning world. Can one human being save the galaxy?
The Philadelphia Free Press writes of The Predator Space Chronicles, “They are impossible to put down and filled with exciting action in an alien-filled galaxy that humans have just joined.”
Well of Furies is a stand-alone novel, but it is also the first third of the trilogy Evolution Commandos. In addition, it forms part of the seven-volume Predator Space Chronicles.
WELL OF FURIES
Novel
54,000 words
BOOKS IN THE PREDATOR SPACE CHRONICLES:
1. Well of Furies
2. World Hammer
3. Ice Sky Storm
Collected together in Evolution Commandos
4. Earthrise
5. Earthfall
Collected together in Omega Threshold
6. Question Zero
7. One Human
Collected together in World Scar
Also: the story continues after The Predator Space Chronicles in The Predator Academy series, which begins with Extinction Event, available now.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Craig DeLancey is a writer and philosopher. His novels include the Predator Space Chronicles and Gods of Earth. He has published dozens of short stories, in places like Analog, Lightspeed, Nature Physics, Shimmer, and the Mississippi Review Online. His story “Julie Is Three” won the Analog Anlab readers choice award for short story in 2012 and is under film development by Storycom. His story “RedKing” is in several of the year’s best science fiction anthologies. He is also a playwright, and his plays have received staged readings and performances in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, and elsewhere.
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