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Each of us has a life to live
and a story to tell.
       ​I just decided to jump off the bus
and tell mine now. 
Robert Stephen 
MY NOVELS

NEW NOVEL COMING OCTOBER 15TH, 2018

Fishermen don’t go out in a boat expecting to encounter a Great White nor do hikers purposely go looking for Grizzly bears.
​I never thought responding to these four innocent words would be as deadly.
William Haler
LAYERS OF DECEIT-LIES HAVE CONSEQUENCES-AUDIOBOOK COMING MID AUGUST
"LAYER OF DECEIT-LIES HAVE CONSEQUENCES​"
   HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO GET BACK THE ONE YOU LOVE
 
Five years have passed since Jonathan Dunsmore's last and only best seller. Forgotten, he's lost everything including beautiful Nisha, the only woman he loved.
Dangling on the brink of insanity a stranger appears in the author’s life. A person who knows Jonathan will do anything to get Nisha back.

"Do you want to write another best seller," says Beckett Reed. "To write about a killer you must become a killer."
Torn between his fear of Beckett Reed and his desire to hold Nisha again in his arms Jonathan must become a character in his next book.

Jonathan randomly stalks and kills a man and makes it look like a robbery-homicide. However, hidden in the dead man’s wallet is a piece of paper, which his brother, the leader of a Russian gang, will do anything and kill anyone to get it back.

Jonathan’s old college roommate and friend, Glen Barton, is a homicide detective. He discovers Jonathan is a murderer, but it’s too late. Glen must choose between upholding the law or breaking it.
                  MY BEST FRIEND IS

Through the eyes of a child their world is full of endless imagination and new discoveries. A world with many possibilities. The way the world should be.
 
When I was a child, Monday mornings were full of weekend memories past.
The five days til the next upcoming Saturday, was a lifetime away.
It was a time when friendships were simple.
 
Remembering being ten years old, my best friend convinced me that a simple piece of string and a cheap bag of lunch meat was the sure-fire combination
to catch Crawdads in a stream.
 
We would stand by the stream’s edge and never catch a single Crawdad.
Two things, though, as children. The first, we always blamed the small crustaceans for our failure, and two, we agreed next time we'd stand on the other side of the stream.
 
In MY BEST FRIEND IS, I wrote two stories about friendship. Joey, bored with summer's endless August days, convinces Jamison that adventure and riches are waiting to be found up at Lightning Lake. The two venture out, unbeknownst to their families, and soon encounter far more than they asked for.
 
In "Three Strikes," Eddy is only eleven years old. It all begins on a late fall afternoon in Eddie's backyard. After several months of unselfish determination the boy is ready. It’s the Fourth of July, time for the annual County Fair. Eddie and his parents go to the Fair, but unbeknownst to everyone including his parents, Eddie on a mission. His selfless act captures the hearts of a whole town.
 
True friendship is a rare gift and should never be taken for granted.
Nurtured and watered constantly, over time, it will grow and become a beautiful treasure.
 THE MOUSE THAT BECAME THE CAT
              evil is like nitroglycerin, shake it and it will kill you
 
It is Los Angeles in the 1960’s, a turbulent decade of assassinations, riots, and war.
 
George Blurth is a thirteen-year-old loner. In one brief moment, a confrontation with the school bully changes everything in his life. Unable to forgive and forget, George retaliates resulting in an incident that gains national attention. He and his alcoholic father run away.

But life has other plans for George. Months afterward, he is confronted with a far deadlier incident. George barely survives an attack by Hank Calner, a serial killer. Believing he himself a fugitive, George is reluctant to go to the police.

In Hank’s mind, the monster’s deranged secrets won’t allow him to spare the boy. He sets out to stalk and terrify George. Hank plays with the boy like a large cat playing with a mouse before killing its prey.

However, George is not prey. He has hidden dangerous secrets of his own.
SHORT STORIES
Early one night a fast moving winter storm cripples New York City.

​Of all the places to be trapped Frank, Doug, Manny, and Billy are stuck for the night in their favorite place, Vinnie's Bar. 

As the evening progresses each, along with Vinnie, has a story to tell about the enigmatic Jimmy.

Suddenly the door bursts open and a stranger, covered in snow, enters. He's carrying a message from Jimmy.
What if someone is not who you think they are?
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WRITING-SHORT ESSAYS