Just 5 More Minutes??

Private detective Joe Grabarz is finally a success.

A new office, his own staff, and expensive clients. Then one night he receives a message from a rival detective asking to meet at an abandoned farm house in the Sussex hills. When Joe arrives he finds the detective dead, and the evidence makes him the number one suspect.

To avoid jail, Joe will have to become a fugitive, track down a mysterious criminal known only as Mr X, tangle with a feisty female detective, and face his ultimate nemesis.

This could be Joe’s last case.

Breathe, smile, and move on.
When you’re writing the next chapter in your rags-to-riches-to-rags story, you need about a million quotes like that. I might have been short on inspiration, but I had determination. That was it, except for a very young cousin and a very old campervan, but I was all about starting over. Nobody knew me in New Zealand other than a series of café and motel managers, and anonymity suited me fine. Manlessness suited me even finer.

Until the day when that campervan rolled down a South Island hillside in a tropical cyclone and trapped my cousin Delilah inside, and an extremely rude stranger helped me get her out. Now, I had no campervan and possibly even less inspiration. I still had determination, though. Determination not to let one Roman D’Angelo, no matter how rich or bossy he might be, run my life or mess with my inner peace. I was serene. I was independent. I was in control.

I was in so much trouble.

Paris, 1914. American adventurer Sam Carter boards the Orient Express, departing France in style after an impulsive decision to desert the Foreign Legion. British diplomat Lucas Avery is already nursing a drink in the smoking car, resenting his assignment to the distant Ottoman Empire. Neither man expects anything more from the next three days and three thousand miles than rich food, expensive champagne and fine cigars.

But something dangerous is lurking aboard the train, hiding in plain sight among French aristocrats and German businessmen. Through fire and darkness, through blood and ice, the Orient Express is bearing an ancient evil across the continent – and not all its passengers will live to see Constantinople…

It’s the original Redstone.

Mike Redstone is elated when his small accounting firm lands a contract with a trendy Los Angeles tech company. As he goes to work for his new client, the twin suicide and drug epidemics sweeping Los Angeles are little more than regrettable distractions.

But Redstone’s enthusiasm turns to confusion, and then fear, as he reluctantly realizes that his new client is at the center of a plot to subjugate his city, trapping its population in a web of drug-suffused thought control.

With one eye turned to the dysfunction gradually engulfing Los Angeles and the other to his firm’s deteriorating finances, Redstone stumbles from one caffeine-fueled mishap to the next, refusing to acknowledge the international conspiracy unfolding before him.

Finally left with no choice but to confront an evil of unimaginable proportions, he and a resolute group of friends concoct a desperate scheme so ill-conceived, so poorly planned, and so ineptly executed that it just might save the soul of a city.

The Balkans, 1371

After conquering the Serbian army in battle, bands of Ottoman warriors terrorize the land, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. As one of the few survivors of a deadly attack on her village, Magdalena is determined to protect her newly orphaned niece. When a group of battle-weary Serb warriors offers to lead Magdalena and her charge to safety, a flame of hope flickers to life for the desperate woman, burning brighter when she spots a familiar face among the group: Miladin, the man she once loved — and lost.

Following a devastating defeat on the battlefield, Miladin resolves to return home to Rivak and pledge his loyalty to the new ?upan, Konstantin, the young son of the slain leader who led Miladin to war. As Miladin travels back from the Maritsa River Valley to offer aid and allegiance to the inexperienced youth, he expects the way will be fraught with danger, but he never dreams that the journey will reunite him with his first love.

Even as Magdalena and Miladin rekindle a romance once doomed by youth and circumstance, hidden threats draw ever closer. Before they can truly be safe, they must face a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to seize power.

Finn Tanner, captain of the ore ship Daedalus, accidentally discovers a rift in space that hurls his wrecked ship forward forty-three years. Everyone he knew is either dead or far older, including his former fiancée, Riva. Enemies conspire to take what little he has left, but new friends help him in his attempt to rebuild his ship and pull off a time-bending experiment to return him and his ship to the past. Don’t miss this fast paced novella that one reviewer called, “one of the best time travel adventures I’ve ever read.”

Escape the noise. Rediscover yourself.

Walden is Henry David Thoreau’s enduring reflection on simple living, nature, and the human spirit. More than just a memoir, it’s a bold philosophical statement — a call to live deliberately, to question conformity, and to find meaning in solitude.

One man. One cabin. One powerful experiment in living.
In 1845, Thoreau retreated to the woods of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, where he built a modest cabin and lived for two years. From this experience emerged one of the most influential works in American literature — an ode to nature, personal freedom, and the spiritual benefits of a life stripped of excess.