Crafting the future, one story at a time
THE BOOKS
John Muir
"The power of imagination makes us infinite"
The Mechanikal series
In a land of magick and monsters, mystery lies at the heart of the world
This is not a kind story. It is a tale of war and revenge. Of love and loss. Of magick and ancient creatures. This is the tale of Khensu.
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The Star Runner Series
The Galactic Strife. The Reduvian Rebellion. The Gammoran Invasion. The Imperius Initiative. The Gunthray Revolt. The House of Sound death wave. The Nemesis of Vzrvyn.
On his 21st birthday, a woman gave Simon Syrah a coin. What he didn't know was what that coin would open. In short, the galaxy itself. The Marker coin opened up the galaxy to the young painting prodigy. It revealed his birth name, Simon Rigel, and the fact that he was next in line to command a flagship in the Hand of Justice fleet. The Star Runner. But that coin also brought with it peril, tragedy, deceit, and loss. From behind the controls of his ship, Simon watched the galaxy change. More than twenty years after getting that coin, and the galaxy itself became a much different place. A better one. Some say he is the reason. Had Fleet Command not found an untrained artist, had not plucked a young man from his home world, had not thrust the responsibilities of war upon him, things beyond the Sol System might have been drastically different. Over the course of these seven books, watch as history changes. Watch as the galaxy changes. Watch Simon himself change. Not just from painter to captain to admiral, but on a much deeper level. And by the end, he's ready to hand the mantle of 'protector' off to the next generation.
The Oddity Academy series
'Open the way forward to close the lock'
Long ago, the Fates foresaw two great wars. The first, fought by the gods of Asgard. The second, fought by high school students. Of course, when Katie Adams agreed to attend the Hannum Academy for Intellectual Advancement, she had no idea of the role she would play. All she wanted to do was make the voices stop.
Near the end of her middle school journey, Katie discovered she had some...rather disturbing talents. She could hear the thoughts of others, and see their memories whenever she touched them. And for someone just trying to find her place in the world, such gifts made that extremely difficult. Then, one night, a man came calling. Cornelius Coffin. And he offered something impossible: a place where she could be herself. Where she wouldn't have to worry, or fear. Little did she know, that offer would open a door to a world few get to witness.
Stepping through the doors of the academy, she became an Oddity, the strange and unique. She became friends with a telekinetic, a disappearing thief, a girl who could speak to the dead, one who could control the elements…and the hand of death himself. Unfortunately, with every positive that the school offered, there was always a negative. The biggest being confronting Ghoulies, and Ghosties, and Long-legged Beasties, and all the things that go bump in the night.
All of that because Katie’s first year coincided with the first year of the latest iteration of The Cycle. Every nineteen years, when the harvest moon falls on the autumnal equinox, the barrier between worlds grows thin. The realms align, and the mysterious Nightshade Circus tries to spread darkness, in the hopes of releasing the last great Devourer from her prison.
It’s a fight that Katie never imagined joining. All she wanted was control. All she wanted was peace. Was to live a normal life. But normal stopped being possible the moment she heard those first whispers. And as much as she longed to blend into a crowd, her conscience wouldn’t let her stand on the sidelines. So, as problems arose, Katie made it her mission to solve them, one after another. She might not have been a fighter, but The One Who Sees did exactly that. Became a lantern in the dark. A navigator along an ancient road.
This is the story of Katie Adams, her friends, and a prophecy as old as time itself.
This is the Eschaton Saga, a tale worth telling.
Sweet 16
It all started with a car crash. At least, that's what Samantha Bazemore thought. While driving her 16th birthday present, heading for a party at her friend's house, a drunk driver slammed into her. The other driver had to be cut out his car, losing one leg and shattering the other. When the jaws of life cut through Samantha's car, the rescue workers found her with barely a scratch. She shouldn't have survived at all. That was the day that her life changed forever.
Because survival brought with it transformation. New rules, new challenges, new life. As Samantha learns to live in her new world, that change brings with it some strange new additions. There’s the bad, but also the good. Increased endurance, increased speed. A quick wit, heightened senses. And a strange thirst…
Unfortunately, that thirst is both a blessing and a curse. Giving into it sends her body into overdrive, letting her do things no other human can. Yet, it leaves her in need of that most precious of substances.
Blood.
And when the cravings strike, she slowly becomes willing to do anything to replenish her reserves. It unleashes a voice inside her head, a monster who pushes the bounds of sanity. A monster that begs her to give in. To do the unthinkable. To deny her morals and sate all her cravings.
It’s that urging that clues a new friend into the true nature of her condition. Something that will put her in grave danger if the wrong people learn her secret. Something that would turn the residents of her small town into a pitchfork-wielding mob. A secret that could become a death sentence.
Samantha is a vampire.
MKUltra
In 1973, the Government shut down the program known as MKUltra. Because in 1972 Michael Masdow escaped from it. He did so carrying secrets, lots and lots of secrets. All the worst things ever done, all the hidden truths kept from the public, all the evil plots to keep the world walking down its path. Population control. Product dissemination. Assassinations. Disease introduction. Technological advancements. Aliens. Everything the organization in charge wanted kept from prying eyes. Now on the run, Mike has to survive and find a way to get retribution. Has to figure out how to use all those secrets against the people responsible. But considering what he's carrying, they will stop at nothing to get him back, to keep him silent. Including unleashing super soldiers with advanced weaponry, technology most see as impossible. In a race for control, will Mike succeed in bringing down the organization responsible for his treatment, or will the agents trailing him secure the most valuable asset the world has ever known?
The Mystery
of Ash
Manor
Something spooky waits within the halls of Ash Manor.
Built in the late 1800s by an eccentric robber baron, Ash Manor played host to the reported last meeting of the infamous Thirteen Club. A group whose sole purpose was to debunk myths and superstitions. And Archimedes Ash, the house's creator, put them all in his home. Spilled salt, black cats, and especially the group's namesake. Yet, when he invited all his friends to dinner at his superstitious fun house, tragedy struck. To the tune of mass murder.
More than a century later, Alan Wheeler has put together a special weekend. He and twelve others will enter the abandoned mansion to see if they can answer a burning question: what happened? Because no one knows. People died in the manor, but they don't know why. Yet the weekend excursion will seek to find that answer.
Unfortunately for them, the house is still awake. It's been waiting for guests since that fateful dinner, slowly falling victim to time. Wood is rotting, walls have crumbled, but the house has stayed ready. Waiting patiently for a new batch of souls. It's scared locals and maintenance crews, but when those thirteen guests cross the threshold, the fun really begins.
Can thirteen people solve the dark and twisted mystery, or will Ash Manor add to its body count?
Hyjackers
The digital era is upon us, and with it comes a new tier of elite hackers. They command satellites, commandeer technology, and expose skeletons hiding in closets. Nothing is beyond their reach, until they stumble on a Soviet spy named Nikolai. Originally shackled by the High Command, the team unwittingly handed him global access, something that didn't exist back during the Cold War. Armed with nuclear weapons and an agenda of domination, Nikolai begins systematically shutting down targets, doing his best to force Communist rule on the world. However, on the other side of the board is the crew that freed him. Captured by the federal government, they have to pit skill against skill in a game with dire consequences. An elite crew facing off against an insane super-genius with a grudge and a complement of nuclear warheads. What could go wrong?
Antiquity
Long ago, a civilization thrived in ways unfathomable to modern society. Innovations and inventions 10,000 years before they would be seen again. And wealth. They amassed more wealth than God himself could spend. It's hard to say which is more famous, the name of their city, or that of the mine that traded its riches to them. Though, perhaps the mine, as it had another famous trading partner. Solomon of Israel from the House of David.
And then they vanished. Leaving the world to wonder if they ever existed at all. And in that question, they slipped from ghost story to myth, and eventually history discounted them entirely.
After an honorable medical discharge from military service, Jasper Vaughn spent his free time looking for clues, anything to point him towards that elusive civilization. Though, every lead seemed to culminate in a dead-end. Until Jasper gets a call from mining baron Henry Herbert Thomas. With the right translation of the only clue known to exist Henry hires Jasper to find that civilization, and share their advancements with the world.
Though, Jasper isn't alone in his search. An amoral treasure hunter named Reinhardt Rousseau is hot on his trail, with greed guiding him instead of history. One wants the find for the wealth, the other for the historical significance. The only question that remains is who will reach it first.
Coffin Nail Creek
1876.
The Civil War is over, and the western frontier is expanding. And Micah Boggs returns to the land of the living. He wakes up in a river, filled with enough slugs to take down a platoon of Union soldiers. He's lost days of his life, and can't remember his life before the acrid water. But he can see the ten faces of his firing squad. Stumbling into the nearby town of Rock Hollow, he finds a wanted poster for one of them. And so begins the last ride of justice. Seeking out the vile scum that tried to put him beneath Boot Hill. Each one carrying more darkness than the last. Vitriol and hate coloring every breath, they don't deserve a trial, just the execution.
Of course, there's more to his journey than just revenge. Micah has questions, and only his killers hold the answers. How did he survive their firing squad? Why did they want him dead?
The trail is long, and the danger immense, but neither will stop Micah from unleashing the Four Riders onto the faces of doom. Nothing will stop him from unleashing the oldest justice on the sick and twisted. But that doesn't mean that evil won't fight back...
Quantum Mechanics
While exploring quantum computing, Dr. Sophie Lovelace finds an equation that doesn’t belong. One that leads her back to the beginning of the universe. An equation with Earth-shattering ramifications. Proof of the multiverse. And that proof lets her peek beyond the veil, and see hundreds of alternate worlds. Earth, but in different states. However, a mysterious company sends a covert agent to steal her work, so they can control the greatest secret in the world. So they can open doorways between worlds, and do as they please. Though, after surviving a hit squad, Sophie decides to share her secret with the world. The multiverse, free energy, new mathematics, all of it. If the world knows, no one can exploit her discovery. Unfortunately, that choice comes with a heavy consequence. Running. Doing everything in her power to escape the clutches of those who want her secrets. Doing everything she can to protect something so valuable. It’s the only logical course to take, even if it puts her life in danger. Even if that choice makes her question things she knew to be fundamental. A choice that changes the very nature of reality.
Watertown Strip
Curtis and Melissa Jackson are on the run. Grifters by trade, they reached into the cookie jar one too many times, and had to pay the price. For Curt, that meant new bruises and a few cracked ribs. For Mel, that meant picking up the pieces and figuring out a new plan. Enter the Watertown Strip, a cozy little community out in the middle of the Nevada desert. Lodging, food, entertainment of an adult nature...the only thing missing out on that lonely stretch of highway was a gas station.
Using Watertown as a place to let the heat die down, Curt and Mel discover things...aren't exactly as they seem. A man named Zach trying to shut the place down. The glassy-eyed locals, willing to do...whatever. Eyes in the shadows, watching everything. And high in the mountains, a native tribe who call the place evil. And after the arrival of the brother and sister duo, the status quo upends. People go missing. Some end up dead. And the ghost of Kawich Mine makes an appearance. There is something sinister beneath that desert sand. Something waiting to infect and control the populace. And what happens when two people, trying to do good, remove a variable from the equation? Chaos. Pure and utter chaos.
The San Diego Chronicle
They say what we should fear are the things that go bump in the night. The scary things no one likes to imagine. Yet, those things have fears all their own. One such fear is a man, who goes by San Diego.
His legend started in 1983, when a 15-year-old runaway blew up a section of the San Diego Harbor. And that legend continued to grow with every passing year. He’s become a ghost story, a phantom, for both criminals and law enforcement alike.
Unfortunately, the people calling about his next job are the same ones hunting him.
After brutal attacks on American and Russian forces, the international stage is alight with doubt and suspicion. A secret Russian sub and an American convoy in Afghanistan, both gone in an instant. And nobody knows why. A fact that causes fingers to start pointing, bringing the world closer to an act of war.
Not even the American Intelligence community can find a cause. Except one agent. Leah Roberts, a young and up-and-coming analyst, spots a detail in the damage that proves neither America nor Russia did the attacking. A detail that leads to a meeting with a specter, a ghost among the shadows. A meeting with the infamous San Diego, who saw that same detail.
Despite his being on the terror watch-list and sitting in the top five of the most wanted list, she offers him a deal. Figure out who’s behind the attacks, and stop them. His fee? 50 million US, and one month amnesty. A deal the White House takes, if only to prevent World War 3. The government’s counter? Agent Roberts goes along for the ride. A stipulation San Diego is willing to accept.
What follows is a trail with more twists and turns than a mountain pass. The number of involved nations escalates, making everyone nervous. Suspicions fly in packs, but the trail only gets hotter and hotter. And what the pair find on that trail is a laundry list of dark secrets the United States government would very much like to see buried. The only question is, can they solve the problem in time, or will the world plunge itself into war yet again?
RED HOT ROMANCE
Looking for something a little more spicy? Then look no further! Tyburn Hill has a selection of romance and erotic novels, but these are NOT for younger readers, and not for the faint of heart.
LOVE BYTES
Amanda Rawlins
Karen runs a popular online dating site. She's been able to find love for so many people, and fast flings for so many more. Yet, she can never seem to take care of her own love life. Too many times hurt in the past leaves her with a lot of armor against heartbreak. Until she hires a new assistant and sparks fly, changing everything.
BLACK SHEEP
Amanda Rawlins
Victor left home when he was eighteen. But not for college. To explore the world. He's seen almost every continent, been more places than he can count. But when tragedy strikes, Victor is forced to return home. Back to the small town he grew up in. When he arrives, he's flood with memories. And a harsh reality. The girl he had a crush on in high school is dating his cousin. His friends have all gotten married, settled down. Life moved on without him. But when an unexpected face turns up, new possibilities open up to him. And he might not have to wander the world alone anymore.
COMING SOON