SHOWCASE 14: Nine Indie Books For Your Consideration

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 DANGEROUS TIMES by Phillip Frey

DANGEROUS TIMES is a contemporary noir crime-thriller with strong women characters, dark humor and the pull of the unpredictable.  This book is not for the squeamish.  It begins as a creepy slow burner that leads to betrayal, sex, violence and murder.

Frank Moore is a diabolical criminal who has come up with an outrageous, malevolent plan.  After a frustrating search he has finally found the key to his plan’s success. Frank has found his look-alike, a close-enough double: John Kirk.

In the harbor city of San Pedro, John Kirk leads a troublesome life, common troubles that fall by the wayside when Frank Moore comes to town.  John Kirk, hunted down and pegged for death without knowing why.

Phillip Frey grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he performed as a child actor at The Cleveland Playhouse.  The day after he graduated high school he moved to Los Angeles and performed in local theater.  He then moved to New York where he performed with The New York Shakespeare Festival, followed by The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center.

With a change of interest Phillip wrote, directed, and edited 3 short films, all of which had international showings, including The New York Film Festival.

With yet another change of interest he returned to Los Angeles to become a produced screenwriter.  And now more recently, Phillip Frey has turned to narrative fiction with the books “Dangerous Times” and “Hym and Hur,” and a collection of short stories.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

Eternal Samurai by B.D. Heywood

Eternal Samurai—an erotic, pulse-pounding story of an eternal love between mortal enemies.

Tatsu Kurosaki Cobb, the last of an ancient samurai house, will not stop until he takes the head of the vampire that butchered his family. But his vow of revenge means he gives up on any hope for that once-and-forever love. Then he crosses swords with Saito Arisada, second-in-command of Seattle’s vampires and the most beautiful creature Tatsu has ever seen. The sexual chemistry between them is pure, hard, and undeniable. Unable to accept Arisada might be the killer, Tatsu begins a dangerous game. A game driven by the all-consuming thirst for blood that will force them to the extremes of love and hate.

From the bloody battlefields of feudal Japan to a world where humans and vampires fight for survival, Arisada and Tatsu must choose. At stake is not only love but honor.

Warning: Adult content. This book contains sexually explicit scenes, violence and adult language that may be considered offensive to some readers. This book is for sale to adults only as defined by the laws of the country in which you made your purchase,

In addition to working on Eternal Warrior, the sequel to Eternal Samurai, and an anthology of erotic gay stories, B.D. Heywood provides editorial fiction and non-fiction services for a variety of clients. Any spare time goes to his family, training horses, advocating for gay rights, and supporting several community organizations including an equine rescue operation.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE GUILTY by Gabriel Boutros

Robert Bratt is a lawyer who has always done whatever it took to win his cases. After twenty years of defending the most hardened criminals, many of whom he knew to be guilty, the only thing he can no longer do is look at himself in the mirror. Loosely based on a multiple-murder that shocked Montreal in the 1990s, this riveting story pulls the reader into the inner workings of a murder trial, and reveals what one lawyer must do when he has to defend “The Guilty.”

Gabriel Boutros lived in Montreal for almost his whole life, and this is where he found the two great loves of his life: his wife Rose, and the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.  He practiced criminal law for 24 years and during his career he saw many honest, ethical lawyers who worked hard to guarantee that anyone accused of a crime got a fair trial. These were honorable men and women who took their obligation to defend their clients to the best of their abilities very seriously. But, occasionally he would meet a lawyer who would gladly cross the ethical line, as long as he, and his client, came out winners. In writing “The Guilty” he pictured the main character, Robert Bratt, a top-notch criminal lawyer, as someone who is essentially a good person, but whose need to win has led him to forget his inherent honesty, and driven him to do things that he wished he hadn’t.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

FRACTURE GRADIENT by Jim McCulloch

1985 . . . the south Texas oilfields of the United States.  Fletcher Boyd and Hollis Cade have a serious problem. They’ve stumbled upon a green, alternative energy discovery that threatens the global oil industry and international balance of power with catastrophic fracture.  Their employer and a multinational oil company want to steal it; in fact, both want it so badly they’re willing to kill for it. Fletcher and Hollis just want to be paid. Then it becomes complicated. The governments of the United States and Saudi Arabia join the fray and the men are forced to flee.  Other OPEC member-states become involved and things really go south for the men and their families.

Treachery, dishonesty, greed, and mindless violence rock their world as they scramble for safety and a payday that may never come.  Can they withstand the onslaught?  Can they beat back the savage economic forces hell-bent on destroying their discovery . . . and live to tell the story?  One thing is certain; they’re willing to die trying.

Jim McCulloch’s  career includes multiple industries and transfers around the country.  It’s from firsthand experience that Jim draws his expert knowledge of the oil industry, finance, international business, military, firearms, and radio communications to achieve a high level of accuracy and detail in Fracture Gradient.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR by Jason Najum

A book that asks the big questions facing today’s generation

DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR is part dark and humorous memoir, part relentless cultural critique. How can a people who have so much still feel dissatisfied? How does an educated but jaded society reconcile what they know with what they see happening around them? These and other big questions are examined and updated for today. If you have ever felt that more should be happening – in your life, in this culture we give ourselves to – then this book is for you.

Using a familiar backstory and well-known cultural examples, revisiting our history to better see where we came from, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR is a passionate and personal examination of that “something” that is missing in our lives, why this something continues to eat at us, and why we need a different approach to how we deal with it.

Jason Najum is a writer living and working in Montreal, Canada. He writes and blogs about current events with a focus on cultural commentary. His aim is to bring a fresh perspective and deeper look to today’s issues. His work has been featured in the Montreal Gazette, Canada’s oldest daily newspaper.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

A TRIO OF BLUES by Andrew Scorah

Andrew Scorah’s Jimmy Dalton series, all three books in one collection.

Dalton’s Blues –  It was a night to end all nights. The night Jimmy Dalton’s life changed forever. Will Jimmy walk away unscathed or will he sink to the depraved depths of those around him? What started as a night out with the boys, soon descends into a drug fuelled ride of madness and mayhem.

Homecoming Blues – Coming home from war can be hell. All Jimmy Dalton wanted after fighting for his country was to escape his demons and live a quiet life. But a notorious gangster has other ideas and Jimmy finds himself in a war of a different kind. The daughter of Phil Duggan has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia and Dalton is coerced into rescuing her. What he finds out sees Dalton set on a path of revenge that may turn the streets of London red with blood, a path that may not only destroy those he cares about; but also his sanity and his very soul.

Border Town Blues –  Dalton’s on the run with a gal, and a gun! What begins as a search for missing D.E.A agents turns into a race against time, through the Sonoran Desert. Jimmy Dalton & Jamie Duggan uncover a plot to unleash a terrible Biological weapon. Suicide bombers loaded with viral death are on their way to unleash hell, only Dalton & Jamie stand in their way.

Andrew Scorah’s  writing has appeared in Action Pulse Pounding Tales alongside best selling thriller authors Matt Hilton, Stephen Leather, Adrian Magson, Zoe Sharpe and Joe McCoubrey. He also has a couple of books published on Amazon, A Collection in Time, Eastern Fury and Other Tales, The Beast, which is a short story, and Homecoming Blues a tale of revenge and redemption set in gangland London, and the sequel Border Town Blues. He is currently working on the third book in his Blues series, Jericho Blues which will be published April/May 2013.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

CANCER ON THE BRAIN by Jay Lefevers

Lefevers has written a compelling memoir titled Cancer on the Brain, which chronicles a rollercoaster five-year period of his life in Phoenix, Ariz., during which he coached a rough-and-tumble Little League All-Star team to victory, saw his appraisal company named to the “Inc. 5000″ list and raised three children with his wife — all while battling a brain tumor, surviving multiple operations and then unexpectedly being diagnosed with cancer (lymphoma).

In Cancer on the Brain, Lefevers takes readers through the bewildering world of surgeries and treatments, and endless rounds of doctor visits and hospital stays with humor, irreverence and a no-nonsense, no-self-pity attitude. While grateful for the doctors and medical professionals who helped save his life, he doesn’t pull any punches in describing how easy it can be to rely unwisely on time-crunched and over-burdened physicians

Jay Lefevers is a businessman, a baseball coach, and a brain tumor and cancer (lymphoma) survivor.” Cancer on the Brain — a memoir — is his first book.

A proud Longhorn, Jay Lefevers graduated with a business degree from the University of Texas, and holds an M.B.A. from Baylor University. He lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Cancer on the Brain is the true story of his battles with a brain tumor and cancer … while running a business, being a husband and father, and coaching an inner-city Little League team to baseball victory.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

SAVING BEN by Ashley Farley

Life is sweet for Katherine Langley. A freshman at the University of Virginia, she is free from the drama of her parents’ dysfunctional marriage and ready to focus on studying to become a nurse. Her brother, Ben, belongs to the hottest fraternity on campus, and her new roommate, Emma, is beautiful and charming, a party girl whose answer for a hangover is happy hour. She is also a psychopath.

When Katherine’s obsessive-compulsive overprotective brother succumbs to Emma’s charms and falls dangerously off-track, Katherine must save Ben from himself. Lives are threatened and someone disappears on New Year’s Day. The only evidence left: a single set of footprints in the snow.

From the university campus to a cozy cottage on Carter’s Creek, Virginia, Saving Ben is a haunting tale of love and loyalty, anger management, substance abuse, and betrayal.

Ashley Farley  wrote  SAVING BEN in honor of my brother, the boy she worshipped, the man she could not save. It’s not a memoir, but a story about the special bond between siblings.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

MOVE by Sherri Fulmer Moorer

All Ruby Josen wanted was to get ahead in life. After a decade of lost relationships and missed opportunities, she’s ready to move on and desperate to do whatever it takes to get out of her rut. When Ruby meets Bryce, a handsome stranger at the town’s spring festival, his offer to turn fate to her favor seems too good to be true. But nothing comes without a price, and Ruby learns that interfering with fate has bigger consequences than she realized. It leaves her to wonder who’s really controlling her life and who – or what – Bryce really is.

Sherri Fulmer Moorer is an independent author who has published several books, short stories, and articles. Sherri writes in a number of genres including mystery, urban fantasy, science-fiction, and non-fiction. Her latest novel, Move, is a urban fantasy mystery about a young woman that can’t decide whether she’s more scared of her life rut or of what it will take to break free and is available at Amazon and Smashwords.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

I hope you’ve enjoyed this Showcase, and I look forward to publishing another one soon, with books from Florence Osmund, Linda Lang, Kelly Samarah, Keith Dixon, Zoe McNight, Lorna Lee, Kenneth C. Ryland and Craig Iglis.

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