If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current’s last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order.Accompanying him during his final hours is a dollar store notebook. The Drunk Log. In it, he documents the evening, ruminates on his existence and remembers his 7-year-old nephew, who died exactly a year earlier. It is a loss for which Jack feels resp...

A Novel of Destiny and DelusionEx-Marine Matthew Obrodnick lives with two roommates in an apartment near campus in Oxford, Ohio. One is gentle and philosophical, the other aspires to be King of Peru. One is real, the other a figment of Matt’s imagination.The arrangement can be challenging.Walk with Matt as he navigates the complexities of living with a ruthless, power-hungry ghost, dealing with poisoned tap water, and managing the relationship with his chain-smoking...

First Date, Book Two, the continuation of Drunk Log: It was a dark and snowy night, and Jack and Aria should have been dead. Instead, they find themselves shivering on a riverbank, having survived a fall from the bridge into the currents and debris of the Ohio River. Lucky enough to slam into an anchored barge, they emerge from the water stunned, bruised and still somewhat drunk. Now they must work their way through the muck of the riverside to solid ground. Fully intent on ending it all j...

Free Will, Book Three, the final installment of A Day in the Life series, the tumultuous 24-hour story of Jack and Aria, two would-be lovers haunted by the guilt of past failures, real and perceived.Having survived drunken pub crawls, a tumble off a bridge into a freezing river, relentless intrusions by police, and a long night lurking in the hospital, Free Will begins as our heroes emerge from the clutches of the medical system to a morning of brilliant sunshine and freshly fallen...

Reese Conlon, Lt.Col USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions.Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again.Brianna Parker, the teenaged daughter of Reese's chief, fears her father's wrath when he learns that she loves another girl.As these three women struggle to live and love in freedom, they risk their hearts and souls to give one anoth...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by Time Out, Bustle, The Atlantic, Electric Literature, Kobo, Kirkus and more..."Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isn't afraid to ask the deepest questions." The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice"A...

Love runs wild on the Appalachian Trail in the latest from the author of Out of Frame and Focus on Me...Levi Grainger needs a break. As a reality show star, he’s had enough of the spotlight and being edited into a walking stereotype. When he returns home after the last season of Trip League, he expects to spend time with his family, only to learn his sister is coming back from her deployment in a flag-draped casket. Devastated, Levi decid...

"They say the Jackal Man lives in that house..."Months after a family is forced to flee the beachfront property on 100 Winthrop Road, three young travelers lost outside of Cutler, Maine find themselves taking shelter in it. Strapped for cash, the three of them spend a night in the house, wondering why the lovely old building has been left abandoned.They don't have to wonder for long.Strange things take place in the empty house. Noises come from behi...

Cheetah shifter, Selena Niles, has her plate full working toward becoming a detective with the Hidden Hills Sheriff's Department and can't chance having anyone or anything messing with her road to success.But Fate doesn't give a hoot about ambition. The moment former DEA agent, Jackson Kenner, is hired she takes one whiff and goes wild with the mating call. Not. Good. Hell, she'd rather declaw herself than give into the hotshot panther. So what if he has silky dark hair, an easy sm...

Everyone’s got secrets. Some are just harder to hide.With his father’s ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. After months sleeping in his car and driving a pirate taxi for cash, he’s ready to do just that.But his new, older-student housing comes with an unapologetically gay roommate. Tom doesn’t ask why Reese Anders has been separated from the rest of the student population. He’s just hap...