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A young, idealistic CIA agent is assigned his first big case--cracking a gun ring in Bangkok, Thailand. First Assignment is an action-packed espionage thriller played out on the murky streets of one of the world's most exciting cities. Kyle Jordan is flanked by a solid partner, Robert Jackson—whom he iniatially misjudges; supervised by a hardened team leader—Roger Petty, whom he cannot stand but must respect; and coaxed deeper into head-spinning mayhem by his sole contact, Carla Kwon—an intriguing beauty who is everything but what she seems. First Assignment is a rich confluence of events and players brought about by a single directive: bring down one Lin Chu, the most legendary arms smuggler, and prolific killer, east of the Atlantic Ocean.

Go ahead...if you've ever dreamed of publishing, you really can. With a company like iUniverse behind you, you can actually sell your work.

In the town of Bellegarden, Virginia, Samuel West has become the youngest African-American commonwealth attorney in Virginia’s history. But after one of the councilmen is found brutally murdered on Sam’s first day, Sam will find out that Bellegarden is not the idyllic town he thought. With the mayor pushing for closure and the police department bungling the case, Sam must decide who holds the key to the truth. And when his wife, Shelby, is kidnapped while he investigates the most important murder of his career, he gains an unlikely friend while he uncovers a secret so shocking, it will ruin Bellegarden’s reputation and may even kill him and his wife.

All the characters in this fine novel are beautifully drawn; in the best sense of the word. A sophisticated novel and painfully memorable.

This novel, The Five Points, finished in the top five, out of over 7,000 entries, in the 1997 HarperCollins Best Seller Contest. The Five Points neighborhood of 19th Century New York City was undoubtedly the most crime-ridden, impoverished, and dangerous places of its day. While people tend to think of this era as a glossy, golden age, it was, unfortunately, a world of unparalleled corruption, intrigue, and violence. Dominated by thieves, murderers, swindlers, brothels, and gangs with such colorful names as The Dead Rabbits, The Whyos, and The Plug Uglies, the neighborhood had long been a symbol of urban misery and toughness. This work, through two stories, attempts to bring this world back to life. You will meet: Petey Daley, the shrewd and fierce leader of The Dead Rabbits; Police Superintendent Connery, an honest cop struggling with a dishonest system; and Rudy and Ted, two con artists who know just what to do. Whenever novels and Hollywood try to tackle 19th Century America, they always seem to focus on the wild, wild west. Welcome, everyone, to the wild, wild Lower East Side.

A man who falls in love with a woman he passes on the highway during his daily commute. An amusement park attraction that comes to life. A young biracial man forced to choose sides when a not-so-United States erupts in racial civil war. A love affair between the ghost of a dead woman and the new owner of the house she haunts. And a down-on-his-luck salesman who embarks on a crusade of revenge against everyone he believes has wronged him.

Fliegelman's Desire is a modern San Francisco version of the European urban wnderer. When Fliegelman's desire abandons him, he searches the city for her, only to discover that desire is everywhere, and as treacherous and lovely as ever. Calvino meets Kafka, translated by Elkin.

The novel's strength lies in the development and psychology of its characters. Set in the fictional town of Stoneridge, Forgiving Judas is narrated in first person by eighteen year old Neal McLean. The story takes place over three days and several months after the death of his best friend, Brandt Stradleiter.

Gas (and other liquids) is a quirky collection of humorous and offbeat stories ranging from a gas station attendant's customer-induced murderous rage, to potato-based science fiction, to a Cormac McCarthy re-write of one of the author's previously published short stories, to a small-town golf tournament whose participants include Jesus, Satan, J.S. Bach, and Attila the Hun.

Buck Davis, a half Indian, is marshal of Red Creek, Texas. The time setting is 1994. A woman named Courtney Waters enters his office. She looks exactly like the Indian woman he met six months earlier his "dream".

"Bob Kody, an up-and-coming new writer, will hold you spellbound with the page turner The Ghost of Little Fawn, a time-travel western filled with Indian lore, history, love, mystery and action."

Graphic designer Rachel Calloway is devastated when her father's restaurant is destroyed by an arsonist. Just when she thinks the situation can't possibly get worse, her father is charged with the unspeakable crime. Rachel knows he's innocent and she'll do anything to prove it. Little does she know how soon her loyalty will be tested when she crosses paths with Nicholas Hunter, the notoriously ruthless attorney prosecuting her father's case…

Her lifelong friend lying in a coffin, Annie O’Neil snatches Cissy Raven’s topaz brooch before the lid is shut. Julia Devlin, another friend, is shocked at Annie’s action. Later, Annie recalls the dream they had in their teens when they planned to become cat burglars. Hesitant at first, Julia finally joins forces in the planned ventures after a hellish ten days of babysitting.Velvel Chavivi is cursed by a personal devil. Disaster has followed him from his earliest years when he accidentally shattered a ten carat diamond he was about to cleave. He follows the women home after their first successful major theft and gains their sympathy after an accident. Both women are drawn to the pitiful man with no friends.The second heist involves Sukie Mae Fremont’s rubies in Dallas, then Claudia Fanchon’s sapphires in New Orleans. They insist on emeralds for their collection and snatch Sam Cunigdorio’s emeralds in New York but Sam is a high ranking mafia figure. The women learn the hard way that their luck can only last so long.

With the unwanted assistance of a bumbling diamond merchant, two senior ladies decide to follow a lifelong dream and become jewel thieves.

It was outright lunacy, Rachel realized. A Peruvian expedition, based on a Moroccan map, to find a fabled city that almost certainly did not exist. A destination smack in the middle of some of the most inhospitable territory that Mother Nature had to offer. Poison darts, bushmaster serpents, vampire bats, unknown creatures straight from a nightmare...and Rachel’s missing twin. Despite the drawbacks, she had to get to her twin as soon as possible. Only ancient myths and native legends hint at the fantastic secret Rachel is about to unlock.

A refreshingly irreverent humorous adventure in a land where vampires aren't dark, brooding, androgynous enigmas. Instead, they are grotesquely crass, sensationally snarky, have way too much money and time on their hands.

Vampires have secretly grown wealthy behind the scenes for centuries, involved in monumental tasks such as overthrowing governments, and mundane ones like running local strip clubs. But instead of viewing things from afar, they like to plunging headfirst into debauchery themselves.

A funny, scandalous novel about two determined Black women, about the torrid relationship between two African-American sisters.

What was the evil that lingered in the decaying mansion, lonely and dark in the middle of Gospel Swamp, the vast, wild, watery morass that harbored outlaws, revival preachers, and rumors of a lost fortune in silver? Annabel Dean, young turn-of-the-century teacher, come there on an errand of mercy, would find out—if she lived.

"An epic tale of the BaNare people, the Kalahari Desert, and the coming of the twentieth century. William Duggan turns history into legend and myth as he spins this yarn...rich and full of wonderful characters too good to be missed, a beautiful first novel."

"Captures the courage, imagination, wit, and warmth that have sustained black Africa through its tumultuous passage."

At once low-key and bizarre, these stories mingle satire and sympathy; their dialogue is not always what it seems on the printed page; their setting are simultaneously fantastic and all too actual. Their shock goes beyond recognition to linger in the consciousness of their readers.

An uproariously, raunchy, randy romp thru the rhubarb somewhere between Tobacco Road and Dogpatch. Grizzly Gunther is by far the handsomest man in Plethora County, and that's why he has to pay child support to Vera May. It ain't fair since any one of a dozen yahoos in the county might have fathered the little bastard, including, but not limited to, the judge, the sheriff, his deputies, the preacher, and the town doctor - all of whom will have to stop banging Vera May if she gets married.

In a time when earth and middle earth were at battle with the evils that poisoned them one man was brought out of the darkness to protect and preserve the world. Fighting to stem off the spread of the evil conjured up by Morgana on her deathbed, Valdroc and his servant, Damian, travel the earth to do battle. Their duty to King and country drive them on throughout the centuries to guard the world, while attempting to educate those brave enough to travel their path. They must reveal the truth while trying to destroy the very thing that helps them survive.

Haunched Twilight is a novel about the sexual and personality excesses of two individuals in the latter days of a post-modern world. The stories of the principal characters are introduced separately, but soon interact with dramatic intensity.

Young New Mexico archaeology professor Buck Tyler is a media-hound, pot-hunter, and womanizer. When a grizzled publisher of treasure-hunting stories hires him to persuade an organization of psychic forensic investigators to use their powers to locate ancient Anasazi healing sites, they are joined by beautiful Pueblo Indian psychic-touch-reader Sharon Hightower on an expedition to a tiny village in southern New Mexico. There they discover the story-within-a-story psychic record of a tale of betrayal, murder, a wrongfully-acquired Indian healing spring, and an Anasazi ceremonial treasure cave, wherein they encounter a radical Indian traditionalist, an obsessed priest, a tonic-peddling quack, and El Cacique, a long-dead medicine chief. When it becomes apparent that someone among the principals is involved in that long-past deception, the story is driven to its exciting conclusion.

A masterful story of the Santa Fe Trail in 1846 during a time of fierce competition between traders who hauled goods past Bent's Fort to Talvarez Hacienda near Taos in New Mexico Territory at the dawn of the Mexican American War. Kate Willingham must hand-carry a locked chest to an unknown aunt in Taos. To cross the unforgiving wilderness, Kate hires on as Thomas McCann's personal cook, never suspecting that he is President Polk's secret emissary. Kate's journey becomes a test of endurance and honor. Trouble befalls her at the hands of villainous Henry Nave. But she blames freighter Luke Beckhart, a mercenary, bent on making a profit on the coming war with Mexico. Determined to buy Talvarez Hacienda, Beckhart and his partner Don Jacinto, suspect there is a spy in their midst. They do not realize a villain other than Nave, wants the chest, and will kill to get it. Love, loss, death and birth color the tightly woven fabric of this classic human saga, as each traveler faces circumstances that tries their soul and changes their heart.

"This superior historical romance rings true all the way, thanks to convincing characters and plot, plus loads of information about life in Arizona Territory circa 1880& The suspense and action are not retarded by striking descriptions of scenery, flora, and fauna."—Library Journal

First Assignment by Christopher F Falcone ISBN 0-595-23342-2 Paperback $14.95	First Assignment is an action-packed espionage thriller played out on the murky streets of one of the world's most exciting cities--Bangkok, Thailand. A young, idealistic CIA agent is assigned his first big case--cracking a gun ring in Bangkok, Thailand. First Assignment is an action-packed espionage thriller played out on the murky streets of one of the world's most exciting cities. Kyle Jordan is flanked by a solid partner, Robert Jackson—whom he iniatially misjudges; supervised by a hardened team leader—Roger Petty, whom he cannot stand but must respect; and coaxed deeper into head-spinning mayhem by his sole contact, Carla Kwon—an intriguing beauty who is everything but what she seems. First Assignment is a rich confluence of events and players brought about by a single directive: bring down one Lin Chu, the most legendary arms smuggler, and prolific killer, east of the Atlantic Ocean.	Go ahead...if you've ever dreamed of publishing, you really can. With a company like iUniverse behind you, you can actually sell your work.
First Begotten Sin by William W Marrow, Jr., S. D. Wyted ISBN 0-595-25632-5 Format: Paperback Our Price: $14.95	Corruption, violence, passion, and romance all intertwine in an African-American town where exposing the corruption could kill you. In the town of Bellegarden, Virginia, Samuel West has become the youngest African-American commonwealth attorney in Virginia’s history. But after one of the councilmen is found brutally murdered on Sam’s first day, Sam will find out that Bellegarden is not the idyllic town he thought. With the mayor pushing for closure and the police department bungling the case, Sam must decide who holds the key to the truth. And when his wife, Shelby, is kidnapped while he investigates the most important murder of his career, he gains an unlikely friend while he uncovers a secret so shocking, it will ruin Bellegarden’s reputation and may even kill him and his wife.
First Family by Christopher Davis ISBN 0-595-17209-1 Format: Paperback Our Price: $17.95	“Skillfully written and emotionally wrenching.” —Time Breaking the color barrier in 1960's white suburbia. It is impossible to read it and to remain untouched; or unchanged —Newsday All the characters in this fine novel are beautifully drawn; in the best sense of the word. A sophisticated novel and painfully memorable. —The Sunday Times (London) Year's Best. —Time
The Five Points by Rocco Dormarunno ISBN 0-595-20446-5 Paperback $14.95	Two gritty tales from gaslamp era New York. This novel, The Five Points, finished in the top five, out of over 7,000 entries, in the 1997 HarperCollins Best Seller Contest. The Five Points neighborhood of 19th Century New York City was undoubtedly the most crime-ridden, impoverished, and dangerous places of its day. While people tend to think of this era as a glossy, golden age, it was, unfortunately, a world of unparalleled corruption, intrigue, and violence. Dominated by thieves, murderers, swindlers, brothels, and gangs with such colorful names as The Dead Rabbits, The Whyos, and The Plug Uglies, the neighborhood had long been a symbol of urban misery and toughness. This work, through two stories, attempts to bring this world back to life. You will meet: Petey Daley, the shrewd and fierce leader of The Dead Rabbits; Police Superintendent Connery, an honest cop struggling with a dishonest system; and Rudy and Ted, two con artists who know just what to do. Whenever novels and Hollywood try to tackle 19th Century America, they always seem to focus on the wild, wild west. Welcome, everyone, to the wild, wild Lower East Side.	This novel, The Five Points, finished in the top five, out of over 7,000 entries, in the 1997 HarperCollins Best Seller Contest.
Five Trips to the Edge by Jim Lyke ISBN 0-595-17459-0 Paperback: $14.95	A man who falls in love with a woman he passes on the highway during his daily commute. An amusement park attraction that comes to life. A young biracial man forced to choose sides when a not-so-United States erupts in racial civil war. A love affair between the ghost of a dead woman and the new owner of the house she haunts. And a down-on-his-luck salesman who embarks on a crusade of revenge against everyone he believes has wronged him. This is what you will find among the five short stories that make up Five Trips To The Edge. In Segregation Anxiety, Jordan Jefferson finds himself literally caught in the middle when racial tensions spiral out of control in the USA of the future. In Presidents Day, Geoff Underwood gets more than he bargained for when he visits Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents. Dave Franken decides in The Big Hate that if you can't join;em, beat;em. And in both Stan's Not My Name and Mirror Image, men and women fall in love under extremely unusual circumstances. Quirky, funny, thought-provoking, and even shocking, buckle your seat belt and drive the twisted roads in Five Trips To The Edge.
Fliegelman's Desire by Lewis Buzbee ISBN 0-595-09013-3 Format: Paperback Our Price: $12.95	"A stately, moving first novel."—Kirkus Reviews Fliegelman's Desire is a modern San Francisco version of the European urban wnderer. When Fliegelman's desire abandons him, he searches the city for her, only to discover that desire is everywhere, and as treacherous and lovely as ever. Calvino meets Kafka, translated by Elkin. "Simple, voluptuous language…readers will eagerly await the next installment from this language lover."—Booklist "A playful imagination and a charming way of animating the ordinary."— Publishers Weekly
Forgiving Judas by Walt Marquardt ISBN 0-595-22582-9 Format: Paperback Our Price: $15.95	An intense coming-of-age novel. The novel's strength lies in the development and psychology of its characters. Set in the fictional town of Stoneridge, Forgiving Judas is narrated in first person by eighteen year old Neal McLean. The story takes place over three days and several months after the death of his best friend, Brandt Stradleiter. Although the death has been ruled accidental, Neal is convinced that the single vehicle crash was suicide. Isolating himself from family, friends, and church; Neal embarks on a journey of penance and self-examination, as he attempts to deal not only with the loss of a friend, but also feelings of guilt and betrayal.
Gas (and other liquids) by Nicholas Barnes ISBN 0-595-20052-4 Paperback $13.95	The weirdest collection of short humor ever published. Gas (and other liquids) is a quirky collection of humorous and offbeat stories ranging from a gas station attendant's customer-induced murderous rage, to potato-based science fiction, to a Cormac McCarthy re-write of one of the author's previously published short stories, to a small-town golf tournament whose participants include Jesus, Satan, J.S. Bach, and Attila the Hun. Utterly ridiculous. Utterly hilarious. Utterly odd.
The Ghost of Little Fawn by Bob Kody ISBN 1-893652-75-0 Format: Paperback Our Price: $15.95	Buck Davis, a half Indian, is marshal of Red Creek, Texas. The time setting is 1994. A woman named Courtney Waters enters his office. She looks exactly like the Indian woman he met six months earlier his "dream". On impulse, Buck asks if her Indian name is Little Fawn and she says yes. She has come to him to solve a murder that took place over a hundred years ago in this very town. Buck begins to relate to her his "dream" experience of traveling back in time to when the town was truly wild. He believes he was called from the future to help solve the murder of a woman whose spirit contacts him from the grave.	"Bob Kody, an up-and-coming new writer, will hold you spellbound with the page turner The Ghost of Little Fawn, a time-travel western filled with Indian lore, history, love, mystery and action." —Earle Adkins, author of seven western novels.
Ghosts of Fire by Maureen Morah Smith ISBN 0-595-22976-X Format: Paperback Our Price: $18.95	Graphic designer Rachel Calloway is devastated when her father's restaurant is destroyed by an arsonist. Just when she thinks the situation can't possibly get worse, her father is charged with the unspeakable crime. Rachel knows he's innocent and she'll do anything to prove it. Little does she know how soon her loyalty will be tested when she crosses paths with Nicholas Hunter, the notoriously ruthless attorney prosecuting her father's case… Nick Hunter is bloodthirsty for justice, a man made cynical by the horrors he experienced early in life. He believes in the absolute guilt of each criminal he prosecutes, shows mercy to none…until he encounters Rachel Calloway, the first woman ever to make him question his convictions. From the moment they meet, a forbidden attraction sizzles between them that neither can ignore. But danger lurks in the shadows and clings to the fog that drifts in from the Eastern Shore. A stranger lies in the darkness, watching and waiting. Suddenly, nothing in Rachel's world is as it seems, and it isn't long before she finds herself in the biggest fight for her heart…and her life.
The Glitter Box by Pat Tito, Patricia Bellavia ISBN 0-595-13876-4 Format: Paperback Our Price: $16.95	Her lifelong friend lying in a coffin, Annie O’Neil snatches Cissy Raven’s topaz brooch before the lid is shut. Julia Devlin, another friend, is shocked at Annie’s action. Later, Annie recalls the dream they had in their teens when they planned to become cat burglars. Hesitant at first, Julia finally joins forces in the planned ventures after a hellish ten days of babysitting.Velvel Chavivi is cursed by a personal devil. Disaster has followed him from his earliest years when he accidentally shattered a ten carat diamond he was about to cleave. He follows the women home after their first successful major theft and gains their sympathy after an accident. Both women are drawn to the pitiful man with no friends.The second heist involves Sukie Mae Fremont’s rubies in Dallas, then Claudia Fanchon’s sapphires in New Orleans. They insist on emeralds for their collection and snatch Sam Cunigdorio’s emeralds in New York but Sam is a high ranking mafia figure. The women learn the hard way that their luck can only last so long.	I guess you would call this a story of geriatric thievery... With the unwanted assistance of a bumbling diamond merchant, two senior ladies decide to follow a lifelong dream and become jewel thieves.
Gold in the Shadow by Michael L Marcotte ISBN 0-595-09414-7 Format: Paperback Our Price: $18.95	It was outright lunacy, Rachel realized. A Peruvian expedition, based on a Moroccan map, to find a fabled city that almost certainly did not exist. A destination smack in the middle of some of the most inhospitable territory that Mother Nature had to offer. Poison darts, bushmaster serpents, vampire bats, unknown creatures straight from a nightmare...and Rachel’s missing twin. Despite the drawbacks, she had to get to her twin as soon as possible. Only ancient myths and native legends hint at the fantastic secret Rachel is about to unlock.
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Christopher Morrill ISBN 0-595-26145-0 Paperback $22.95	A refreshingly irreverent humorous adventure in a land where vampires aren't dark, brooding, androgynous enigmas. Instead, they are grotesquely crass, sensationally snarky, have way too much money and time on their hands. Vampires have secretly grown wealthy behind the scenes for centuries, involved in monumental tasks such as overthrowing governments, and mundane ones like running local strip clubs. But instead of viewing things from afar, they like to plunging headfirst into debauchery themselves. In modern times, the sexy unofficial vampire boss gets in deep trouble after her group s move to St. Louis. Along with her right hand vamp "Scummy" (who battles an eternal hangover, an everlasting erection and extreme lack of couth) and a cast of other assorted degenerates, they must prepare for one last battle against an old antagonist from days past. None of this is made easier by the training of new "rookie" vampire, a local St. Louis "hoosier", along the way.
The Goode Sisters by Takesha D Powell ISBN 0-595-21411-8 Format: Paperback Our Price: $14.95	A funny, scandalous novel about two determined Black women, about the torrid relationship between two African-American sisters.
Gospel Swamp by Louise OFlaherty ISBN 0-595-14399-7 Format: Paperback Our Price: $11.95	What was the evil that lingered in the decaying mansion, lonely and dark in the middle of Gospel Swamp, the vast, wild, watery morass that harbored outlaws, revival preachers, and rumors of a lost fortune in silver? Annabel Dean, young turn-of-the-century teacher, come there on an errand of mercy, would find out—if she lived.
The Great Thirst by William R Duggan ISBN 0-595-21956-X Format: Paperback Our Price: $21.95	"Brims with adventure" -- Publishers Weekly "An epic tale of the BaNare people, the Kalahari Desert, and the coming of the twentieth century. William Duggan turns history into legend and myth as he spins this yarn...rich and full of wonderful characters too good to be missed, a beautiful first novel." -- UPI "Captures the courage, imagination, wit, and warmth that have sustained black Africa through its tumultuous passage." -- New York Times Book Review "Utterly original" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Duggan is a genuine storyteller...here is a good story, cleverly told." -- Houston Post
Greengroundtown by Christopher Fahy ISBN 0-595-00690-6 Format: Paperback Our Price: $9.95	At once low-key and bizarre, these stories mingle satire and sympathy; their dialogue is not always what it seems on the printed page; their setting are simultaneously fantastic and all too actual. Their shock goes beyond recognition to linger in the consciousness of their readers.	"The eleven stories in Greengroundtown, like prose poems, delight ear, mind, and heart together." —Puckerbrush Review
The Grey Ghost by Colleen Affeld ISBN 0-595-12861-0 Format: Paperback Our Price: $9.9	It’s 1959. Nine year old Cally and brother, Bud befriend a colored man, Isaac Washington, caretaker of a rundown cemetary, and boathouse along the St. John’s River in Florida; an unusual friendship, given it’s during a time of segregation. Through cirmcumstances beginning Halloween, Cally and Bud are swept into a frightening world, of deadly, dark secrets, hidden in the seemingly peaceful pine forests and groves surrounding the river; secrets of hatred, disguised inside “The River Hunt Club” that meets in a ramshackle hotel thought to be haunted. Cally and Bud, with their two sisters and friends, Larry and Gloria, aren’t sure who to trust or where to turn. Kate asks, “If there’s going to be trouble, don’t you think we should tell the police? “Tell them what?” Bud answers, “Tell them that a bunch of kids were watching a Klan meeting and we think they’re going to do something, but we don’t know what, or to who, or where. We don’t know anything. Besides, who do we tell; that Billy Bob cop that threatened Isaac?” The kids take matters into their own hands and the reader embarks on a suspenseful and action packed ride with these unforgettable young heroes.
Grizzly Gunther by Carkan Moil ISBN 0-595-23136-5 Paperback $15.95	An uproariously, raunchy, randy romp thru the rhubarb somewhere between Tobacco Road and Dogpatch. Grizzly Gunther is by far the handsomest man in Plethora County, and that's why he has to pay child support to Vera May. It ain't fair since any one of a dozen yahoos in the county might have fathered the little bastard, including, but not limited to, the judge, the sheriff, his deputies, the preacher, and the town doctor - all of whom will have to stop banging Vera May if she gets married. Grizzly figures the only way out of this mess is to help Vera May have herself a right smart accident. Then put the titty-toad up for adoption. Of course nothing goes as planned in this corn pone planet, and not everybody likes the way things turn out. But what the heck!
Guardians of the Realm by A James Richards ISBN 0-595-12455-0 Paperback $16.95	The fight between good and evil just got nasty. In a time when earth and middle earth were at battle with the evils that poisoned them one man was brought out of the darkness to protect and preserve the world. Fighting to stem off the spread of the evil conjured up by Morgana on her deathbed, Valdroc and his servant, Damian, travel the earth to do battle. Their duty to King and country drive them on throughout the centuries to guard the world, while attempting to educate those brave enough to travel their path. They must reveal the truth while trying to destroy the very thing that helps them survive.
Haunched Twilight Eluding Pity Parties by Patrick R. Penland ISBN 1-58348-989-4 Paperback $12.95	Haunched Twilight is a novel about the sexual and personality excesses of two individuals in the latter days of a post-modern world. The stories of the principal characters are introduced separately, but soon interact with dramatic intensity. In the late spring and early summer months, Jean Lewis is given to sleeping naked on the flat roof of her dwelling while her lesbian mistress, now a run-away, sleeps below. One early morning, she is threatened by the traumatic appearance of a rapist catapulted onto her rooftop from a police helicopter. Parallel with these developments, Jonathan Hooker becomes acquainted in a proximity relationship by force of circumstances. Initially distanced from one another, each is almost completely self-absorbed in particularly singular hang-ups and patterns of addiction. After happenstance involvement in a sex-anon group, each cagily watches the other until some semblance of interpersonal interest develops. Dire warnings by the self-appointed coordinator against intra-group fraternizing to the contrary, they continue to bump into each other's space. Eventually, twelve stepping together brings them to the possibility of a scarcely believable heterosexual solidarity and connubial maturation.
The Healing Waters of Cacique Spring by James Nathan Post ISBN 0-595-19314-5 Format: Paperback Our Price: $12.95	Young New Mexico archaeology professor Buck Tyler is a media-hound, pot-hunter, and womanizer. When a grizzled publisher of treasure-hunting stories hires him to persuade an organization of psychic forensic investigators to use their powers to locate ancient Anasazi healing sites, they are joined by beautiful Pueblo Indian psychic-touch-reader Sharon Hightower on an expedition to a tiny village in southern New Mexico. There they discover the story-within-a-story psychic record of a tale of betrayal, murder, a wrongfully-acquired Indian healing spring, and an Anasazi ceremonial treasure cave, wherein they encounter a radical Indian traditionalist, an obsessed priest, a tonic-peddling quack, and El Cacique, a long-dead medicine chief. When it becomes apparent that someone among the principals is involved in that long-past deception, the story is driven to its exciting conclusion.
Hearts of the Talvarez by Jane A. Westwood ISBN 0-595-25797-6 Paperback $20.95 Hard Cover $30.95	A masterful story of the Santa Fe Trail in 1846 during a time of fierce competition between traders who hauled goods past Bent's Fort to Talvarez Hacienda near Taos in New Mexico Territory at the dawn of the Mexican American War. Kate Willingham must hand-carry a locked chest to an unknown aunt in Taos. To cross the unforgiving wilderness, Kate hires on as Thomas McCann's personal cook, never suspecting that he is President Polk's secret emissary. Kate's journey becomes a test of endurance and honor. Trouble befalls her at the hands of villainous Henry Nave. But she blames freighter Luke Beckhart, a mercenary, bent on making a profit on the coming war with Mexico. Determined to buy Talvarez Hacienda, Beckhart and his partner Don Jacinto, suspect there is a spy in their midst. They do not realize a villain other than Nave, wants the chest, and will kill to get it. Love, loss, death and birth color the tightly woven fabric of this classic human saga, as each traveler faces circumstances that tries their soul and changes their heart.
Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams ISBN 0-595-09583-6 Format: Paperback Our Price: $23.95	A historically detailed, neatly constructed, charming romance."—Publishers Weekly "This superior historical romance rings true all the way, thanks to convincing characters and plot, plus loads of information about life in Arizona Territory circa 1880& The suspense and action are not retarded by striking descriptions of scenery, flora, and fauna."—Library Journal Home Mountain was awarded the award for Best Western Historical Novel of 1990 by the Western Writers of America.