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THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS France, 1440 The clerk wrote many confessions before, but never one that made his hand hesitate. Ink was meant to record certainty. Dates. Names. Charges. It was designed to trap truth on paper so that it could not escape into rumor. Yet as he sat beneath the vaulted ceiling of the ecclesiastical court, quill hovering above parchment, he felt the familiar betrayal of his craft: that words could also be used to hide what they named. Gilles de Rais stood a few paces away, unchained. He wasn't required to be restrained. That alone unsettled the room. A man accused ...

A city built on memory. A killer exploiting what it wants to forget. When a young woman is found murdered in Congo Square, her body staged with symbols meant to provoke fear rather than faith, FBI Special Agent Reggie Arnold is called back to New Orleans, a city that knows how to bury its sins beneath celebration and silence. As the investigation unfolds, Reggie joins forces with State Police detective Jacques Boudreaux and private investigator Jules Benoit, uncovering a series of killings deliberately designed to mimic ritual while desecrating the very traditions they pretend to invoke. ...

Truth can be stolen. Memory can be rewritten. And belief can be weaponized. When Loli Rosalie, a young woman from an insular Afro-Romani community in rural Louisiana, publicly challenges a powerful figure inside her own world, she disappears without a trace. No ransom. No witnesses. Only silence, and a growing fear speaking out has made her vanish. FBI agent Reggie Arnold is drawn into the search alongside investigator Jules Benoit, whose distant family ties give him limited access to a community that has survived for generations by keeping outsiders at arm’s length. What they uncover is ...

Eight women are dead. No one in Jefferson Davis Parish seems interested in why. When FBI agent Reggie Arnold is summoned back to Louisiana, he expects resistance. What he doesn’t expect is silence, case files buried, witnesses ignored, and a sheriff’s department that treats murdered young women as inconveniences rather than victims. Partnering with State Police detective Jacques Boudreaux, Reggie begins pulling at a thread the town has worked hard to hide. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that the killings aren’t random, and that the rot runs straight through the people ...

Book One: Bayou Shadows A state buried in secrets. A case that unearths them all. When FBI agent Reggie Arnold is called to a remote Louisiana parish to consult on a string of murders, he expects local resistance. What he doesn’t expect is a swamp of corruption, silence, and fear rooted in generations of abuse and cover-ups. Partnered with Cajun detective Jacques Boudreaux and the resourceful Jules Baptiste, Reggie begins to peel back the layers of a case . The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truths become. In a place where sacred ground has been paved over, where the dead whisper...

After a professional boxer sustains partial memory loss due to a brain injury during his final bout, he must reevaluate his life, his past actions, his friends, his family, and his future. In the midst of this, someone goes missing. He enlists friend and foe to try to find them.

Book One: Haley’s Comet: A Novel of Bill Haley and the Birth of Rock and Roll He didn’t look like a rebel. But he changed the world with a backbeat. From the smoky dance halls of postwar Texas to the screaming stadiums of Europe, The Man Who Brought the Beat follows Bill Haley’s quiet, complex journey as the man who helped ignite a musical revolution—and then lived long enough to watch it move on without him. Told with intimacy, restraint, and fierce emotional clarity, this is not just the story of a song. It’s the story of the man behind it—his triumphs, regrets, the family who...

A thriller of deception, love, betrayal, and revenge during The Troubles in Northern Ireland from the perspective of a young American caught up in the upheaval.

THE BITTER GROUND Hector Ramirez has spent years disappearing, off the grid, off the radar, and out of the systems that once claimed him. When a violent extremist movement begins organizing across rural America, Hector is pulled back into a world he swore he left behind. Operating alone and without backup, he moves through a fractured country where ideology has replaced loyalty and silence has become survival. The Bitter Ground introduces Hector Ramirez in a standalone novel of resistance, consequence, and the quiet cost of doing the right thing when there are no clean choices left. BLOOD &...

ALIEN RIK AND THE INTERGALACTIC WAFFLE PROTOCOL Meet Rik. He’s not from around here. When a waffle-obsessed alien crash-lands in rural Arizona, he doesn’t start an invasion, he starts a movement. Accidentally. Between misreading a Waffle House as a temple, becoming a viral life coach, and forming an unlikely alliance with a sarcastic diner cashier, a conspiracy-loving porch philosopher, and a goat with unrelenting ambition, Rik must navigate the weirdest terrain in the galaxy. The human heart. Alien Rik and the Intergalactic Waffle Protocol is a cosmic comedy about snacks, feelings, and...

UNFORGIVEN A taut, emotionally charged feminist crime thriller from TJ Buck FBI Special Agent Janis Sullivan hunts predators for a living. But someone else is hunting them, too, and she’s not interested in arrests. In Buffalo, a series of brutal murders targets known sexual predators. The victims are men with sealed records, forgotten crimes, and no real consequences. They’re dying one by one, executed with a traditional Filipino bolo knife. There’s no message. No fingerprints. Just blood, silence, and a growing sense of purpose. As Janis investigates, she’s pulled into a case that ...

Where the Water Holds Weight Claire Redmond went under once, and the lake never let go. Marked with a scar and a hunger she cannot name, she returns to Blackwater when her father disappears, only to find herself drawn back to the water and the three sisters who rule beneath it: Selene, Lilith, and Celeste, the youngest. In the struggle for power and survival, it is Celeste who turns against her elder sisters, killing Selene and Lilith in the depths, and reshaping the legacy of the lake forever. Mother Bone In 1884, a freed woman and healer was accused of witchcraft, erased from the records,...

The sequel to Of Bloody Deeds And Death continues the story of a law-enforcement family's generations-long struggle to keep their county and themselves safe.

Sequel to Here Be Lions

When the government experiments on humans, they create something they cannot control. Former FBI agent Marco Fernandez and his best friend, former Special Forces soldier, Hector Ramirez get caught up in the conspiracy while searching for Marco's twin sister, Eva, who disappeared when they were sixteen. They find an unlikely ally in Anton, a vampire the government created and tried to control.

A cold case murder investigation from multiple perspectives.

The Great Twitch is the story of a man coming to terms with his past as a child prodigy and his struggle to restart his life after a series of events change his world.

Isn't It Pretty To Think So? is a novel which explores the nature of violence in man. Can a person released from death row after a life filled with violence adjust to the outside world or will the violence inherent in his life be too much to overcome?

An ex-priest and a former porn star move to a small lake town where a serial killer is at large. A sheriff's department detective leads the investigation as the lives of more young girls and the future of the tourist town hang in the balance. Will evil be stopped? - Good cops, bad cops, love, murder, and a priest’s redemption. Father Joe—part Francis Mulcahy, part Pale Rider. Love him. Buck has written a gem." - Douglas Osgood, Western short story writer. - “A wild ride of murder, suspense, a priest and a porn star. This novel hits all the feels and keeps you guessing! A must read.”...

The Girl Who Walked Out of Time In 1985, eighteen-year-old Lena Carbone left her house in Jamestown, New York, to take a walk in the woods. She never came back. Forty years later, on the morning of the same date, October 10th, Lena steps out of those same woods, unchanged. To her, the walk lasted an hour and a half. To everyone else, it was a lifetime. Her mother is an old woman. Her friends are grandparents. The town that mourned her has moved on—or thinks it has. The world she knew is gone, replaced by smartphones, streaming, and a thousand unanswered questions. DNA proves she is who ...