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Hell Bent

When Goku goes down to HFIL to stop Cell causing a Ruckus...he get's more of a surprise than he would ever have believed before.

The Unusual Thief

A drug addled youth is dragged into an alternate world by a dimensional parasite. Cursing and combat abound as the anti-hero Stead joins pirates to sail on a sea of blood, the destination? Discovery.

Death and Disclosure - a London Mystery

Scotland Yard detective Paul Usher is busy: a murdered historian, his pretty but enigmatic girlfriend, lots of spies and thugs, and a very dead handsome young man. Can Paul make sense of this chaos?

Sky Riders: The Rising Sun

A young girl, rejected for her blood, must learn to find her own path despite the prophecy hanging over her head. But ending a war and raising a dragon are only the beginning of her trials, REWRITT...

Phantom Avenger

Being adopted by a famous superhero millionaire was one thing...fighting against an army of aliens from another world was a whole other ball park.

Destiny - Book One in The Bomcard Trilogy

What happens when you discover your not only from another world but must also return to it and defeat a great evil before our world gets involved? Ask Lucas, who must save two worlds from a great evil

The Forgotten Age Trilogy: Soulfire

The Forgotten Age Trilogy consists of he journals of a man with amnesia, as he writes down his dreams to try to recover his memories.

Space Brigade

Special Forces team Pierce Force are tasked to rescue an ambassador from a hostile alien planet, a mission that takes the Coalition of Planets to the brink of a costly and devastating war.

Dishonor (Book 1 of the In Search of Honor series)

I am Dishonored. I am the lowest caste in a city of honor. I live in a prison with only the promise of death. I am a mouth to feed in an overpopulated city that no one can leave. Trapped in a parad...

Blue Reaper

When the world falls slowly around him, a decision is brought to the ever optimistic Alex Kay to either fight or fall as he's taken away to become a reaper and fight in a world different from our own.

Elements: The Gifted

Spencer Mason is not your average 13-year-old. She can wield all the elements: ice, fire, air, earth, and water. Spencer faces a foe unlike no other, and eventually learns what it means to be special.

Run Flicka Run

They say crime does not pay? For shop owner Sophie Johnson it sure does. Not that speeding counts as a crime, but one look at the traffic cop approaching her car and she is ready for the handcuffs..

Henry's Re-entry

Someone banged on the door... A crazy romance adventure staring bourbon drinking Henry.

A Punk Rock Love Song

Maggie's mom is dead, her dad's broken, and all her old friends are drifting away. Now, some guy at school is starting a rock band. Maggie doesn't play an instrument, but the guy doesn't know that.

The Dangerous Experienced Youth

April Charity has an easy but boring life. She wishes she could be more. A strange man appears one day offering her that chance. Her life is then turned around and secrets are bound to be revealed.

Illiom, Daughter of Prophecy (2nd Ed)

Behind every fear lies a hidden power, just waiting to be claimed. The lands of Theregon have been at peace for nearly a thousand years; a prodigious milestone for a land that has experienced its ...

TITAN

Eric Steele is a superhero called Titan. He just doesn’t know it yet. For over a thousand years, the warriors who were called Titan fought the war between good and evil. Then Titan disappeared…

World of Disney

An adventurous tale centered on the world of Disney Animation. A young woman from the 1970s searches through the Disney Animated Universe via a reality/time-bending invention for her lost mother.

Cast In Iron

She was the victim, sentenced as a monster for a mistake made long ago. He was tasked with bringing her in, but not everything is as it seems, and love never picks a convenient target.

A Mouse's Tale

A short spin-off tale to a novel I'm working on, A Mouse's Tale follows the misadventures of Mouse, the personal servant and close friend of the Queen of Keiento, Arya Hope Everely.

Completing The List

Lizzy Sheppard suffers a terrible loss and then finds something that is incomplete, a bucket list with only 4 items crossed off. She chooses to finish this list to lift her spirits and honor the dead.

The Guardian: A Journey Begins

Twenty-year old Max Trenton's life gets turned upside-down when he suddenly discovers he possesses super-human abilities.

Darkroom

Irish detective Jack Sullivan is thrust into an twisting case of deception and fear, all the while trying to juggle life at home, a new partner and his non existent love life.