JERALINE'S ALLEY
BY BECCA C. SMITH

It’s all well and good that Jeraline’s favorite storybook characters come to life to give her great advice–although it isn’t so helpful when she’s trying to compose herself around her workplace crush. But then her grandma gives her a gun for protection, and Jeraline accidentally shoots an attacker in the one place that embodies every one of her nightmares: the alley.

Trying to figure out what’s real and what isn’t, Jeraline embarks on a journey that changes her life forever. Will her hopeless infatuation ever be anything more than a fantasy? Did she kill someone? Will she ever live a life without fear? All because of an alley, all because of a gun. But through it all, Jeraline realizes her life is in fact full of whimsy, self-discovery and love, and even through the darkness she finds the light she’s been looking for: herself.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
BY ROBERT C. FLEET

1989. The undercover Los Angeles police team of Sam Williams and Jenny Luck witness a “righteous kill” by a fellow officer in Chinatown – a kill with problems they need to hide to protect the innocent. Then, overseas, the massacre in China at Tien An Men Square hits home in the U.S.A. when a dissident refugee lands in L. A. and stirs up trouble on Sam and Jenny’s patch. Still, he’s on the right side of things and the two undercover cops need to protect him. The problem is, he’s stirred up enough trouble to bring in a former Italian Red Brigade terrorist turned loose by the Soviets and now freelancing for the CIA, hired to bring the dissident back to China to avoid an international incident. Add to that a Hong Kong martial arts thug visiting Chinatown for a little extortion racket, plus a drug-sniffing police dog with an addiction, and L. A.’s warm-weather winter offers Sam Williams, Jenny Luck and everyone in Chinatown a very special, comic, violent and tragic Happy New Year.

SALT CITY
BY ROBERT C. FLEET

Syracuse, upstate New York. The “Salt City.” An apartment building on the edge of The Projects - and Anne Malloy dies, flying out of a sixth floor window, an apparent suicide, while Mark Cornell watches. Mark was there for a purpose, his part-time gig being to snap incriminating photos for a divorce lawyer who happily takes cases over the phone. Watching the apartment was Mark’s assignment. But this assignment has a problem: Mark learns that “Anne Malloy” had died months before, leaving behind a grieving husband. So who is this woman? It’s 1976, before cell phones, internet, and all the easy ways of satisfying curiosities, so Mark Cornell’s search for a name to give the victim makes him a foot soldier slogging personally through the facts. And, as those facts pile up, Mark discovers that he really shouldn’t be playing detective, stumbling across the thin line between commerce and crime . . . in the Salt City.

THE LAKEBRIDGE CYCLE
BY NATASHA TROOP

SPRING

Vermont, picturesque and lovely, attracts visitors from across the country in search for the perfect picture, the perfect fall foliage or perhaps a taste of maple syrup. Stansbury is best known for the odd covered bridge that spans Stansbury Lake and goes nowhere, connecting no roads and serving no known purpose. The locals call it the Lakebridge. Very few know of its mysterious origins and fewer care to know more. Those visiting the town perhaps take a few snapshots and leave, their curiosity quelled by an uneasy feeling that they shouldn’t think on it anymore. 

The tourists will eventually leave Stansbury, but its residents strangely linger, seemingly held captive by a force they barely recognize...

SUMMER

In the aftermath of a tragic spring day, the people of Stansbury, Vermont, are unable to forget what happened, as they have all the tragedies of their past. After the media exploited their pain, they have become uneasy with the world beyond their town and with any outsiders. 

In the aftermath of the media deluge, latecomers straggle into Stansbury looking to pick up the scraps of stories left behind. What they find, however, is that the powerful forces that have guided the destinies of the people of the town for hundreds of years are now at war with one another and in need of pawns. 

In the aftermath of Spring, there is Summer.

AUTUMN

The town of Stansbury, Vermont has survived over four hundred years of tragic events. The town survived because the otherworldly beings and powerful humans that have always controlled the lives of the people willed them to forget each terrible event. 

As the bloody conflict between those forces has been raging, the people have stopped forgetting. Fear and grief have replaced peaceful ignorance and the powers that be no longer care.  

In Lakebridge: Autumn, Stansbury will fall.

WINTER

Long after the autumn leaves have turned, the final curtain of winter descends upon the last residents of Stansbury, Vermont. Lakebridge: Winter is the fourth and final book of The Lakebridge Cycle.

WHITE HORSE, DARK DRAGON
BY ROBERT C. FLEET

Jim Marlowe and his young son came to Central Europe on a routine scientific assignment: to study the environmental impact of a planned mining operation. But nothing in the mountains of Karistan is quite what it seems – from the village witch with her mysterious past to the intrigues of Jim’s employer. And hidden in ageless caverns and towering hills is a myth come to life, an awesome inspiring legend that will change the lives of all who enter its domain.

HEART OF STONE
BY ROBERT C. FLEET

When 18-year-old Sam Williams was drafted in 1972, he expected to end up in Vietnam, not West Germany, where he stumbles into the Europe of the political terrorist, tradition, and revenge for WWII concentration camps. A violent tale, a moral odyssey. And Motown music.