It's the first
Thursday in October, which means debut releases. Please take a look and let’s
celebrate their success!
Mark Bacon - Death in Nostalgia City (Black Opal
Books) October 1, 2014
Ex-cop Lyle
Deming is on edge. That’s been his default setting for years, but his new
job, driving a cab in a theme park, promises to cure his chronic
anxieties. Nostalgia City is the ultimate resort for anyone who wants to
visit the past. A meticulous recreation of an entire small town from the
early 1970s, it’s complete with period, cars, music, clothes, shops, restaurants,
hotels--the works.
The relaxed,
theme-park atmosphere is just what Lyle needs--until rides are sabotaged and
tourists killed. Then park founder, billionaire “Max” Maxwell, drafts
Lyle into investigating—unofficially. As the violence escalates and
employees get rattled, Lyle gets help. Kate Sorensen, the park’s PR
director--and former college basketball player--becomes another incognito
investigator. Except that she’s 6’ 2½” and drop-dead gorgeous. So
much for incognito.
Together, Lyle
and Kate unravel a conspiracy of corporate greed and murder.
Ethan Reid – The Undying – (Simon 451 ~ Simon &
Schuster) October 7, 2014
THEY HAVE COME
FROM THE STARS…
In this riveting apocalyptic thriller for fans of The
Passage and The Walking Dead, a mysterious event plunges
Paris into darkness and a young American must lead her friends to safety—and
escape the ravenous “undying” who now roam the crumbling city.
Jeanie and Ben
arrive in Paris just in time for a festive New Year’s Eve celebration with
local friends. They eat and drink and carry on until suddenly, at midnight, all
the lights go out. Everywhere they look, buildings and streets are dark, as
though the legendary Parisian revelry has somehow short circuited the entire
city.
By the next
morning, all hell has broken loose. Fireballs rain down from the sky, the
temperatures are rising, and people run screaming through the streets. Whatever
has happened in Paris—rumors are of a comet striking the earth—Jeanie and Ben
have no way of knowing how far it has spread, or how much worse it will get. As
they attempt to flee the burning Latin Quarter—a harrowing journey that takes
them across the city, descending deep into the catacombs, and eventually to a
makeshift barracks at the Louvre Museum—Jeanie knows the worst is yet to come.
So far, only she has witnessed pale, vampiric survivors who seem to exert a
powerful hold on her whenever she catches them in her sights.
These cunning,
ravenous beings will come to be known as les moribund—the
undying—and their numbers increase by the hour. When fate places a newborn boy
in her care, Jeanie will stop at nothing to keep the infant safe and get out of
Paris—even if it means facing off against the moribund and leaving Ben—and any
hope of rescue—behind.
Steve P Vincent – The Foundation (Momentum) September 11
2014
He who holds
the pen holds the power.
When a corrupt
think tank, The Foundation for a New America, enlists a Taiwanese terrorist to
bomb a World Trade Organization conference, the US and China are put on the
path to war.
Star journalist
Jack Emery is pulled into a story far more dangerous than he could have
imagined. Because the Foundation's deputy director, the ruthless Michelle
Dominique, recognizes that whoever controls the message controls the world. And
she will take control, no matter the price.
Enter Jack's
boss, Ernest McDowell, owner and chairman of the largest media empire on the
planet. In the midst of political upheaval, EMCorp is about to become the final
play in the Foundation's plan. When Dominique traps the EMCorp owner in her
web, Jack's the only one left to expose the conspiracy before it's too late.
As the world
powers smash each other against the anvil of Taiwan, Jack will risk everything
to battle the Foundation and prevent them from taking control amid the
devastation of a global war.
John White – Prodigious Savant (Black Opal Books) 10/11/2014
According to Dr.
Darold A. Treffert of the University of Wisconsin, there are fewer than one
hundred reported cases of prodigious savants in the world. Those few who
possess the savant syndrome all have an island of brilliance that allows them
to excel in some remarkable talent. Unfortunately, they all share various
developmental disabilities.
Burlington,
Vermont, 1962. Seventeen-year-old Gavin Weaver survives a dreadful explosion,
six hours of brain surgery, and thirty days in a coma, to awake possessing not
just one savant talent, but several, including art, music, mathematics, and
memory, and all without suffering any of the usual mental disabilities
associated with head trauma.
The odds are
slim Gavin will survive both the internal and external conflicts that keep him
from the one thing he wants most, the girl he’s loved since childhood.
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Congrats to all the October Debuts!
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