Novels!
Armageddon’s Princess | Mystery (Science Fiction)
Status: Looking for an agent!
After breakfast, Investigator Lexus Toulouse, ex-soldier extreme, learns she must track down a war-era serial killer.
Before lunch, she finds her Libido Generator is on the fritz, her old warship wants to “get back together” and her impromptu partner, Scott, seems to be displaying very peculiar mental abilities while stirring the odd romantic feelings in her. She doesn’t want odd romantic feelings. She already has four husbands!
Her world spirals out of control when she mistakenly plugs herself into a simulation of the murders. As memories of the war surface, it all comes crashing down on her sanity. She struggles to do the right thing, but if the right thing is bringing back the soldier she buried deep within herself, can postwar Lexus ever return?
By dinner, she is lucky to be alive…
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Bunny Trouble | Near-Future Science Fiction
Status: Draft Three in proofreading before final review. Here’s a first take at a query (a bit long, still working on that). Also, I may rename this book Bunny Noir.
Dealing with a blood sucking over-sexed alien that snacks on women was not in the job description when Terrance ran for Mayor of his little coastal town on the rainy northern Washington Coast. He thought the hardest part of his job would be bringing the neighboring Native American tribe and the local towns folk together to attract a foreign investor to save them from the recession.
First, he has staffing problems. After firing everyone except the Town Clerk, Terrance learns the girl is nothing but trouble. Bunny, the clerk, is a not a normal teenager: a girl with an eidetic memory and a polymath, her intellectual capacity is limitless. She is a great boon to his new office. Yet the wholesome and athletic Bunny proves to be a handful, and it is all Terrance can do to keep the underage girl out of his pants.
Meanwhile, the alien, a hidden benefactor for the populous despite her penchant for snacking on local nubile teens, quietly manipulates events until she is close to Terrance and her potential next victim, Bunny.
All of these small town folks personal plans are for naught. Soon Terrance is embroiled in the local drug war, and a murderer is loose, coldly selecting victims, using a bio-weapon to do the deed. Suddenly nobody knows what is important, only that people have started to die.
All they know is that their little town could be the epicenter of doom.
Bunny Trouble is near-future science fiction, complete at 120K words. It is the first of three novels, followed by Bunny Theory and Killer Bunny.
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They Baby Dancers | Young Adult Fantasy
Status: 20,000 words of pure non-pretentious action goodness. Four words: Goblin Ninjas. On Fire.
Zeke and Josh are brothers, and lead a quiet existence: training in a monastery in the mountainous reaches of northern Idaho. They learn their martial training since birth has a noble purpose, and soon the two are walking across a foreign landscape fraught with peril, provocation, and pixies.
Their quest is simple: Find their niece, kidnapped as a baby, and bring her back home. Failure is dishonor. Failure is shattering their family. Failure is not an option but if they do fail, then they are on a quest of a different sort.
A quest for retribution.
The brothers’ path before them is clear: Complete their quest. They are desperate to succeed in their mission.
And they suffer no man’s evil—at any cost, even unto their very lives and their sacred honor.
Ex-pilot and former soldier extreme, Investigator Lexus Toulouse avoided homicides, but the case referral her agency receives one morning threatens to unravel all her carefully repaired sanity.
Lexus left the military patched up with cyber-tech, leaving behind her warship and never looking back. She deserved days of pleasant, easy feelings, and with the help of four husbands, that’s what she got. A lively domestic life coupled with dodging bodies let her keep it together.
So the morning when Husband Four is stirring up trouble as he often does, she receives a double-homicide, and passing the case to another agency is not an option. The murders have the same characteristics of a prior civilian killing she encountered in the war long ago.
Then she finds out her Libido Generator is on the fritz, her old warship wants to “get back together” and her impromptu partner, Scott, seems to be displaying very peculiar mental abilities while stirring the odd romantic feelings in her. She doesn’t want odd romantic feelings. She already has four husbands!
Now a serial killer, a prewar anachronism, is loose, and her world spirals out of control when she mistakenly plugs herself into a simulation of the murders. As memories of the war surface, it all comes crashing down on her sanity. She struggles to do the right thing, but if the right thing is bringing back the soldier she buried deep within herself, can postwar Lexus ever return?
Armageddon’s Princess is character-driven science fiction at 102,000 words.
