Dark Secret in London

In a story packed with adventure and suspense, Alban Christopher III bravely faces and overcomes every situation thrown at him. When his father commits him to a mental institution, he finds a way to escape - and in the process, he discovers a dark secret. The men of London's high society are capturing and killing poor boys, then discarding the bodies. A cat and mouse game begins - their wealth and power against Alban's instinct and intelligence. In this deeply felt and vividly written narrative, the reader feels what Alban feels. The world becomes as it is through his eyes. That world is often filled with bad men committing crimes against innocent people but, even in the darkest times, Alban sees hope.

Darkly Dickinson

Some called her “Crazy Beth”, others called her the “Myth of Amherst,” and some called her simply a gifted genius. She was stunning and intelligent and was ahead of her time when it came to advocating change for society regarding women’s rights and minorities’ equality. Who is the girl behind the poetry? Why were so many of Emily Dickinson’s 1,800+ poems about death? What was the true meaning behind her cryptic poems? Who were the Master poems written to?

Join B. D. Watson as she welcomes her debut novel, Darkly Dickinson: The Untold Story of Poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, revealing all the mysteries that wrap around the most loved and read literary genius of all time. Darkly Dickinson will walk you through the life of poet Emily Dickinson from her childhood abuse to her teenage years of being bullied by her teachers and classmates, and then to her college years at Mount Holyoke when she was grabbed out of her bed to be a part of sinister acts performed by the girls who taught her how to dabble in witchcraft, and finally to her adult years with her cat-and-mouse chases with men. Darkly Dickinson will take you through the heartbreaking deaths of all her loved ones including her romantic interests, and finally you will be led to Dickinson’s mental breakdown that led to her isolation from society for over 30 years.

Read Darkly Dickinson and you decide for yourself, was ‘it’ fact or fiction? Were her imaginary friends demons or simply a figment of her imagination? Be prepared for an immense amount of pulled heartstrings, leaving you begging for more.

Darkness Without Limits

Darkness Without Limits is a poetic, haunting and unforgettable novel about a boy’s upbringing in a small rural village from the age of ten until he is twenty. He lives a life in constant fear, of other people, of not having any future and of a darkness inside him that makes his world increasingly unreal.

After high school, the boy spends a restless summer with a group of outsiders that challenges his worldview and sanity. The novel follows his slow descent into darkness and his attempt to fight the evil inside him. Peter Legård writes with great insight into the world of children and youth and with the feeling that there are no ‘ordinary people’.

Despite the dark themes, this novel ultimately concerns our shared humanity and that there is always hope.

Darla

In Cat on a Black Moon, television anchorwoman Garner Olsen found herself ensnared in a deadly game when deranged ex-flower child Darla Dare targeted her. Darla’s vendetta was sparked when Garner’s husband, a federal prosecutor, moved to take Darla’s lover, Carlo, to trial for drug trafficking. After enduring stalking, kidnapping, and murder, Garner vowed to bring down the woman who shattered her life.

Now, in the thrilling sequel, Darla – an escaped felon with nothing to lose – leaves a trail of death across two states. But when she steals a truck, she unwittingly picks up an unexpected passenger: an 11-year-old runaway. Will the boy become her next victim, her accomplice, or the key to her downfall?

Darwin Was Right

Beautiful and brilliant FBI Supervisory Agent Emmanuelle Blanchet, known as Emmie to friends and family, was embroiled in the most difficult and challenging case of her life. She and her dedicated team were rushing against time to find and stop a serial killer before he found his next victim. Making the task even more daunting, evidence was piling up suggesting that these murders were somehow related to a cold case that her father had been involved in, and solved, 30 years ago. When one of the victim’s mutilated body is found in the Shenandoah National Park, Emmie encounters National Park Ranger Chief Joel McNeil. The attraction was mutual and intense.  But could she risk getting involved in a romance during an investigation? With her focus being primarily on her career, personal relationships were always put on hold. Would she be able to resist her powerful feelings? As Joel and her team work closely with her against time to find the killer, it becomes clear that she herself may be a target. Will they be able to find the killer before it is too late? Or will it be, as Darwin suggested, the survival of the fittest?

Darwin's Progress

What would a future traveler discover in an America that has taken its money-based society to the extreme? Michael Brown, our hero from the first book of the trilogy, is now 35 and sets out to explore this new world. In America, he encounters ‘pecuniocracy,’ a system where the rationality of money governs all aspects of life: contract marriages, commercial families, custody battles with financial stakes, and other bizarre phenomena stemming from the belief that money is the cornerstone of humanity and society. Through a series of thrilling adventures and unexpected twists, Michael must navigate and ultimately escape from this dystopian future America.

“A monumentally amazing story…”

– Ellen Balthazor, University of Wisconsin.

de Luna: The Light in My Darkness

As the moon’s gravity controls the waves at sea, so does de Luna grasp the intensifying emotions of power plus constraint. Submerging deeply in the darkness of pain, de Luna seeks to convey the experience of transitioning from a place of uncertainty to a place of serenity. Only to rise to the empowerment of newfound identity.

Deadly Assumption

When a young man witnesses the rescue of a woman’s body from the ocean, he is shocked to recognize the tattoo on her shoulder as belonging to his prospective fiancé, Sarah. Traumatized, he flees the scene, unaware of the ensuing homicide investigation into the suspicious drowning and its findings.

Having arranged his business schedule hoping for a reconciliation following their disagreement in England, he had planned on proposing to Sarah during her visit to Vancouver Island. Devastated by her loss, he relocates to Germany, committing to a life without his soulmate. Struggling with grief, he is persistently tormented by the circumstances of her death and how her body came to be floating off Vancouver, more than 100 miles from her intended destination. Homesickness eventually drives him back to England, where he learns the shocking truth about the homicide investigation and the twist of fate that forever changes his chosen path.

As the story unfolds, it reveals the dramatic impact the deceased woman had on those whose lives she touched, particularly the man suspected of murdering her. The characters are tightly intertwined in this generational, multicultural saga of suspected homicide, enduring love, emotional trauma, and the fight to recapture those closest to the heart. With its roots set in England, Deadly Assumption is a tale rich in history, encompassing Canada, Germany, and France, and spanning the period from the years prior to World War II into the 1980s.

Dear Mr. President

Scarlett Smith was the average suburban California mother with a loving home, family, and friends. Her life was finally starting to fall into place as she started her full-time job, counseling others, but things took a turn for the worst after the shooting at Pandora High. Scarlett has taken it upon herself to help the parents who lost a child during the awful event that took place on June 8, 2018. She is spending her Tuesday evenings at the Pandora High's gymnasium, working with the adults who have decided to reach out for her expertise. Ultimately, Scarlett has come to realize and accept what has happened over the past year, and what she must do to grieve for her loss.

Dear Reader

An impressive, moving, and assured debut collection of poems about the richness of nature, human emotion, and the human condition in general. Innovative and fresh, at times playful at times serious always with a keen eye for the tell-tale detail. Rooted in personal experience, the reader is exposed to and invited to share in the poet’s intimate emotional journey, joy, elation, wonder and sometimes fragile memories as well as his iconoclastic take on common Western myths.

Beginning with a welcoming message to the reader in the opening poem ‘Dear Reader’ that any personal interpretation is as valid as the author’s to the challenge of the last poem of the collection ‘My Ode to Joy’ to find the personal ‘addition to the sum of creation,’ this collection is sure to delight the reader.

Death Among the Pines

BJ Gleeson is sitting at a South Jersey bar with his new girlfriend when an old woman totters in and sits down next to them. Crying and mumbling, she opens a small box to show a bloodied severed finger. “It’s my daughter!” she sobs.

Follow Gleeson, a divorced family man and washed up baseball player turned teacher and amateur detective, as this event catapults him into a labyrinth of bizarre murders (which could be historical, gang related, or cult based) in the middle of a cold winter in the New Jersey Pine Barrens at the turn of the 21^st Century.

Watch as this complex and troubled man uses his historical savvy to point toward the solution of several vicious and bloody murders that have all occurred between the dawning of the new millennium and Easter of 2000.

Delirium

The horrors of the pandemic’s sickness, death, and the incomprehensible long shut-ins that people have had to endure, along with the strife of Black Lives Matter and political turmoil, were unrelenting in their multiple waves of despair. It kept slamming us down over and over again, not letting us rise to our feet or get a mental grip of what is right and wrong, who is friend or foe, spinning us out of control with ourselves and others.

Putting pieces of my soul on paper during these last 10 months, making words try to find answers to this frenzy we are going through, was a quest as confusing as the events happening all around us right now. But I had to try.

The result was Delirium. Please absorb and enjoy.