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Speculative Fiction author.

Born in the desert heat of the American Southwest, but currently living in the rain-drenched Pacific Northwest.


Spanner Jack
by Keith Melton

A free serialized Urban Fantasy novel...

How can you heal, when the monsters won’t leave you alone?

Brenna McClain, an unlicensed engineer and Jack-of-all-trades, has carved out a place for herself working with Dr. Annabel Price on a highly unorthodox, highly dangerous project. The job keeps her wrench busy, and food in her dog Tau’s dish. She doesn’t think they have mu... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 20, 2013 07:46 Tags: free-fantasy-online-read, free-urban-fantasy, keith-melton, spanner-jack, uf, urban-fantasy
Average rating: 3.75 · 232 ratings · 87 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
The Zero Dog War (Zero Dog ...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Blood Vice (Nightfall Syndi...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Run, Wolf (Nightfall Wolf C...
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Ghost Soldiers
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9mm Blues
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The Zero Dog War (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 26, 2012 06:00pm
Description: The first bullet is always free. After that, you gotta pay. Zero Dog Missions, Book 1 After accidentally blowing up both a client facility and a cushy city contract in the same day, pyromancer and mercenary captain Andrea Walker is scrambling to save her Zero Dogs. A team including (but not limited to) a sexually repressed succubus, a werewolf with a thing for health food, a sarcastic tank driver/aspiring romance novelist, a three-hundred-pound calico cat, and a massive demon who really loves to blow stuff up. With the bankruptcy vultures circling, Homeland Security throws her a high-paying, short-term contract even the Zero Dogs can’t screw up: destroy a capitalist necromancer bent on dominating the gelatin industry with an all-zombie workforce. The catch? She has to take on Special Forces Captain Jake Sanders, a man who threatens both the existence of the team and Andrea’s deliberate avoidance of romantic entanglements. As Andrea strains to hold her dysfunctional team together long enough to derail the corporate zombie apocalypse, the prospect of getting her heart run over by a tank tread is the least of her worries. The government never does anything without an ulterior motive. Jake could be the key to success…or just another bad day at the office for the Zeroes. Product Warnings Contains explicit language, intense action and violence, rampaging zombie hordes, a heroine with an attitude and flamethrower, Special Forces commandos, ninjas, apocalyptic necromancer capitalist machinations, absurd parody and mayhem, self-deluded humor, irreverence, geek humor, mutant cats, low-brow comedy, and banana-kiwi-flavored gelatin.
Ghost Soldiers (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 26, 2012 05:49pm
Description: Get in. Do the job. Get out. If only it were that easy. The Nightfall Syndicate, Book 2 Vampire hit man Karl Vance has a new target: a rogue, charismatic sorcerer building an army of paranormal creatures in Eastern Europe. The stakes have never been higher, nor the odds so long, but he’s in too deep to turn back. If Karl fails to kill, the powerful Order of the Thorn will hunt down Maria Ricardi, the vampire he loves, and destroy everything he’s fighting for. When Karl is cut off in enemy badlands, he’s reduced to survival mode, doing the kinds of things he’d sworn would never be part of his vampire existence. Things that will forever color his relationship with Maria...if he survives to see her again. In Boston, Maria is haunted by disturbing dreams of Karl as she struggles to keep control of her mafia syndicate against a growing tide of threats—traitors, FBI agents, hostile crime families, and the fear that power will turn her into a creature like her hated Master, Delgado. Then she discovers Karl is walking straight into a deadly trap…and there may be nothing she can do to stop it in time. Product Warnings Explicit language and intense, violent content. Assassinations, betrayals, paranormal warfare, explosions, gangland slayings, chaos, calamity, rampant pandemonium, and an occasional fiery explosion.
Blood Vice (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Aug 14, 2011 11:08pm
Description: Mafia hit man. Vampire. The criminal underworld just got a whole lot darker. The Nightfall Syndicate, Book 1 Business has never been better for hit man Karl Vance. Boston is awash in mafia blood, and Vance has a certain fondness for blood. He’s a master vampire—one of the most powerful of his kind. Having sworn to never again feed on the blood of innocents, Karl preys instead on Boston’s criminal underworld. Which makes him a valuable asset to those who deal in death. Maria Ricardi intends to use that asset to its full extent in order to gain power within her patriarchal crime family. Vance thinks he’s been hired to keep track of the family’s princess, but she’s got a plan to get her hands dirty and earn the respect she deserves. And she’s not above using their instant attraction to get what she wants. That driving ambition draws the attention of a rival clan’s newest and most dangerous “consultant.” Alejandro Delgado, Vance’s centuries-old nemesis. Delgado zeroes in on the one chink in Vance’s armor—his fondness for the headstrong Maria. When she becomes enslaved by Delgado’s unnatural kiss, only one thing is certain. Vance has to decide which he wants more. To settle the score—or rescue her soul. Product Warnings Intense, graphic mafia-related violence, profanity, gangster slang, assassinations, fang punctures, explicit vampire sex, betrayal, greed, murder, gangland warfare, pervasive supernatural mayhem, large-scale explosions, and extremely expensive Italian suits.

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“The sun to me is dark
And silent as the moon…”

—Milton, Paradise Lost

Waiting in the darkness to kill a man was the hardest thing Maria Ricardi had ever done.

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"Thanks Yvette! This will be the big finale. :D"
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Publication Date: 02-17-2009
Copyright 2009 Keith Melton


“Add thy name, O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell…”
—Milton, Paradise Lost

It was a beautiful night..." Read more of this chapter »
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