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So brilliant and quirky is the future's leading genius, Mithrose, that he believes he's become an all-powerful God. As a personality trait, that belief is bad enough, but then he reports to the Impersator, the galaxy's current tyrant and mass murderer, for a second round of torture. There's method to his madness, though, as he's found a way to revive the rightful leader, the Chingress, through the technological magic of a robe, and now must deliver her to her people to begin the revolution. The Impersator has burned the Chingress to death in Plasmine once, and will not hesitate to do so again. He's immolated entire planets of humans, since he's opposed to Mithrose's implantation of human variants to colonize the galaxy. Mithrose brings the Chingress back to life and the star battles begin, with Mithrose's technology and love opposing the Impersator's madness and mass murders. There's a man sent by Mithrose that the Chingress covets, but the process of dying and living again through technology takes its toll on the very human personalities of these characters, and many strange difficulties ensue. The war looks hopeless until Mithrose finds a way to bring the billions of walking dead into the fray against the Impersator.
Resurrection In Vampire Valley is the long-awaited second volume in the popular Vampire Valley series. It begins where The Hostage of Vampire Valley left off, with Maggie's lover Mabin still dead but about to be exhumed by her little brother Tommy after a year of healing resurrection in the grave. Oddly, black blood begins seeping out of the mountain where Mabin is buried, and when Maggie appears to be teetering on the brink of madness, Tommy decides to take action. The black blood has no intention of allowing the boy to rob Mabin's grave of its victim, and instead inflicts on Tommy a horrible condition that has to be rectified with a terrible ritual by his step-parents, Stephanovich and Elsa. Aghast that Tommy is unable to perform his duty of the resurrection of Mabin, Maggie follows her lover into his strange and magical world, where she, too, must undergo resurrection and rebirth, despite the fact that Mabin is only half alive. While these rituals are performed inside the mountain, the black blood is polluting the world outside it and drawing the entire town back into the vampire's nest. Elsa and Stephanovich must deal with the hundreds of resurrected vampires of the Montana town before they can save Maggie, Mabin and Tommy, but they make the attempt to save their children with a ferocity that can be born only of love.
Now We Know Why You Died, a play, is a dark psychological crime thriller in three acts set in New York City before the Twin Towers fell, when everybody seemed to be their own worst enemies. Allie Slayton, a disturbed and burnt-out private detective and veteran working by fax, phone and computer from an apartment he is afraid to death to leave, sets a trap for a young, psychotic criminal, Joey Narducci. When the police fail to nab Narducci, he turns the tables and shows up at the Slayton apartment to terrorize Slayton's dysfunctional family of idiots. Narducci is seemingly put under control, but with a foul mouth and an arrogant personal charm he victimizes and violates Slayton, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's beautiful teenage daughter and his best friend, who's a brutal flake himself. All the crazed personalities of the Slayton clan turn out to be nearly as much a danger to each other as the knife-wielding, gun-toting, foul-mouthed Narducci. They prove your lunatic friends and weirdo family can get you killed just about as easily as a violent criminal can.
Based on the Odyssey, D'eannuosity, A Woman Warrior's Odyssey in Iraq, is the story of D'eannu Christensen, a spy dropped into Iraq two years before that conflict began. The novel starts ten years later when her daughter, T'Deannu, begins a search for the mother lost to her ever since her childhood. Through the intervention of some powerful people, D'eannu is released from years of slavery but still has to make the long, tortuous journey home across the Pacific. She is shipwrecked and lands on the island of Fakia, where she recounts the horrors she faced in Iraq and enlists the aid of the Fakians in getting her home. After what she learned of death and economic exploitation in the war, she comes home intent on revenge and slaughter. She targets the lobbyists who control congress and acts on a hatred of those who profited from war and inflicted unnecessary deaths for money. Beyond fiction, D'eannuosity is an American myth.
Dirty Girl, Broken Woman is an erotic tragedy set in Ronald Reagan's 1980s America, when the Sexual Revolution was dying and the AIDS epidemic drove a final spike into love's heart. Narrated by Tucker Brophy, a confused bartender/journalist/writer, it tells the story of Kay Weatherby, a stunning and highly sexual figure who is the dirty girl and broken woman of the tale. She breathes life into Tucker and brings him hope, as the flame of an orgiastic affair ignites between them in the small artists' town of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Kay, a teacher, is about to receive her master's in education and has a handsome boyfriend and house in the country, but she is dissatisfied with a certain aspect of her life. She turns to Tucker for fulfillment with the complete agreement of her boyfriend. Their passion burns so fiercely that she and Tucker get more than they bargain for, as the affair again and again turns even more wildly torrid and the relationship between them deepens. But there are ulterior motives lurking, and unseen intentions, and friends who have their own insoluble problems who impede and enable the affair, all while driving the story toward its shocking conclusion.
During the Iraq War, a squad of soldiers comes upon some collateral damage , a little girl dressed in a white burqa at the bottom of a blast crater. When they discover she speaks English and Arabic, they decide to take her with them on a rogue combat mission, despite the danger that presents to her and others. As soon as they find her, one soldier is maimed suddenly and horribly, but despite that the reputation for survival of their mad Captain, who decided to entrust the squad to the little girl, is not questioned. She becomes an object of luck and their hope of survival. While kicking down doors in search of terrorists, while fighting and dying and killing, two of the soldiers who are lovers take the little girl to their hearts and plan on saving her after the war. Fate has another plan. The violence and untrustworthy nature of war take over, and while thinking they've found a way to end the conflict that day, a very different result ensues. Still, that does not shake the belief and trust and love one soldier develops for the lucky little girl. This book contains extreme violence and very strong language.
After a devastating divorce, a man in late middle age travels to Amsterdam to experience all the lusts and pleasures he can in that city's famous red-light district. Charles Ranier wants to discover if a broken heart can be overcome by pure animal passion and throws himself into his quest with anger, humor, lust, doubt and a desire for revenge against the past. At night, he experiences one prostitute after another, always cataloging his feelings and watching his broken heart mend as his passions return. During the day, he drinks in the gorgeous city and its sights, all the while preserving himself for his nightly debaucheries. Red Lights for Six Nights a kind of Last Tango in Amsterdam, describing the secrets of the red-light district there explicitly and detailing his sexual encounters carefully. Charles is a man on the mend, mentally and spiritually, but his healing doesn't come without a cost. This novel contains a great deal of adult content, as Charles visits one prostitute after another and lets them work their magic on him