political thriller

Enter “An Imperialist Era” of extravagant wealth and romantic royal pagea

What happens when people learn, with medical certainty, that they are about to die in 10, 20 or 30 days? Vince Fuller, a recently retired management consultant, is among those who are about to find out. The year is the very near future. Vince and his wife, Trudi, live happily in their California bubble” with Miles, their Corgi. But their world is about to change when Vince is knocked down by a young punk in a parking lot. His sense of shame and rage, resulting from feelings of age-related vulnerability, triggers a first-time interest in guns.

Kate Brennan is devastated. After months of planning a reunion in London, the Chicago-based, award-winning investigative reporter turned novelist is shattered to learn that her dearest friend is dead. But when she realizes that the circumstances are suspicious—and that even looking into them could imperil her own life—she feels compelled to act.

Hot pink hair can't hide you from high-tech hitmen. A timid and lonely sixteen-year-old girl hides from bullying in her dream world of dashing master spy dolls, blue-haired Katy Perry Barbies, and pink Hello Kitty dresses. And she hacks her way across the Net behind the avatar of a six foot four hunk with the handle Cowabunga Dude. A presidential video falls into her laptop and puts her pink paradise in peril. When the clandestine worlds of hacking and military technology collide with her secret crush, she faces the toughest decision of her young life.

You heard nothing happened on December 21, 2012, right? Not exactly. Here’s where the cosmic shift began: As election year 2008 unfolds, Tess Vaughn’s deepest desire is to give up romance and live a quiet life in rural Arizona. But when the former investigative journalist jogs into the arms of married presidential candidate Senator Harris Cantrell Henry, she finds trouble galore.