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FREE READS

I hope you enjoy the following selection of free electronic reads. All are available in PDF format. And don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of the page and post a comment to let me know what you think!

PLEASE NOTE: The following titles contain adult content and are intended for mature audiences. You must be at least eighteen (18) years or older to download the following ebooks. By clicking on any of the links below, you are acknowledging that you are at least 18 years of age.

COMING SUMMER, 2009:

TETHERS
Science-fiction thriller

It's time to cut the ties that bind.

Kathryn Emmente must decide who is friend and who is foe when her spaceship explodes under mysterious circumstances. Many among her crew are killed and the rest are left helpless and stranded on a terra-farming colony moon of Jupiter. They have no means of communicating with Earth or even the nearest stellar platform for aid. Kat soon learns that the detonations aboard her ship and the deaths of her fellow crewmates may not have been as accidental or incidental as they first appeared. She begins to suspect that one among the survivors may be operating on a hidden, sinister agenda—and that she and her young daughter may be the next victims.

HEART'S RANSOM
A FREE novel-length historical romance

Not every pirate lives in the Caribbean...

"Wounded souls, passionate romance and swashbuckling adventure combine to make a remarkable love story."-- Kelley Hartsell, CK's Kwips and Kritiques

"4 out of 5 Hearts: Readers will thoroughly enjoy this moving account of an honorable man unwittingly set on a dastardly course and the resourceful woman intent upon changing his direction... Humor, tenderness, adventure, betrayal and misunderstandings will keep readers hooked from beginning to end... Reinke continues to deliver the goods." -- Love Romances & More

When Kitty Ransom, daughter one of the most celebrated captains in the English Royal Navy, is abducted by pirates, she finds herself an unwitting pawn in a seafaring game of cat-and-mouse.To make matters worse, the longer she is held, the more Kitty finds herself drawn to her captor -- and the less against her will her circumstances seem.

When Rafe Serrano Beltran finally has the chance to seek revenge against John Ransom, the legendary "Hawk of the High Seas," he seizes it. A physician by trade, and unwilling pirate by honor bound, he agrees to kidnap Ransom's only daughter. How could he have known she was blind? Or beautiful? Or clever enough to find the pair of manacles hidden in his shipboard stateroom -- the pair without a key? Or that once inadvertently chained to her side, he might not want to leave?

Add in a vengeful younger brother, a scorned former lover and a sadistic rival pirate with plans of his own for Kitty and her father, and you have a true swashbuckling, seafaring, romantic adventure!

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HIGHWAYMAN LOVER

Historical romance

"This is historical romance the way it should be written. I loved it!" - New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Karen Robards

Charlotte Engle finds herself on the wrong end of a pistol when her coach is stopped by notorious highwaymen, the Black Trio. Although Charlotte survives the encounter none the worse for wear, her mother, Lady Epping, decides Charlotte is in need of a husband to protect her. Charlotte is inclined to agree only when introduced to Kenley Fairfax. Kenley is charming and handsome, a young lord with a sordid past and a reputation for trouble. He’s just the sort to strike Charlotte’s fancy—and horrify her mother. When Lady Epping arranges a marriage to an insufferable cad, however, Kenley comes to her rescue declaring she has already agreed to marry him.

Kenley charms and excites Charlotte more than any man she has ever met, but can she really marry someone she has known less than a week? A man with secrets in his life he keeps fiercely guarded? Not to mention one her mother despises? The closer Charlotte draws to the truth about Kenley, the more she realizes he might be capable of far more treachery than she had believed possible, and the more she finds herself involved in a web of deceit that includes late-night conspiracies, highway robbery, cold-blooded murder, and—most unexpected of all—love.

* Previously published under the title, An Unexpected Engagement.

To download your FREE PDF copy of Highwayman Lover, click the title above.

RESURRECTION (NOVELLA)
A FREE novella-length paranormal thriller

All Hell is about to be raised...

"Resurrection works from a fascinating premise: a hero who can bring people back to the dead versus a maniac serial killer. Sara Reinke doesn't flinch from all the implications of her plot, much to the delight of those who crave love on the dark side. It's a rare joy when a cross-genre romance works its speculative ideas so well. The final confrontation was emotionally wrenching, the perfect pay-off for the various characters, the romance and the speculative premise."-- Speculative Romance Online

"5 out of 5 Books: In this thrilling romance, the reader is pulled through a suspenseful journey of love, trust and danger... A masterful work." -- Wantz Upon A Time Review


Jay Frances can resurrect the dead. One touch is all it takes to restore life to even long-since cold flesh. Jay has always considered this ability more of a curse than a gift -- that is, until the night he finds JoBeth Montgomery brutally murdered in a darkened stairwell and raises her.

Jo is the first he is able to restore fully, body, mind and soul. She is also bright, beautiful and before long, Jay finds that Jo fills the void that has been in his heart since the death of his wife. As a mutual attraction grows into something far deeper and more tender between them, so, too, does someone else's interest in them. Jo had not been the victim of a random act of violence. Her assailant had been someone far more methodical, a sadistic serial killer the police call the Watcher.

Jay's brother, Paul, knows about the Watcher's methods all-too well. A seasoned homocide investigator, he's also the lead detective charged with catching him. When he learns about Jo, and what had happened to her during her assault, Paul recognizes the modus operandi of the Watcher. He also sees the chance to use Jo as bait, to try and lure the elusive killer out of hiding.
Paul and his quarry have more in common than he can ever imagine. Paul knows of Jay's extraordinary abilities; he's seen them firsthand. But so has the Watcher. He knows Jo is alive, but that's not what tempts him any longer. He's watched something else that has fixated him: Jay and his ability to raise the dead. And now the Watcher embarks on a personal quest to see Jay do it again. And again. And again.

To download your FREE PDF copy of Resurrection, click the title above.

(Please note: This title was previously published.)

RESURRECTION (NOVEL)
A FREE novel-length paranormal thriller

All Hell is about to be raised...again

In 2007, I took the novella, Resurrection and decided to rework it into a novel-length manuscript. This meant adding on about 20,000 words or so. Easy enough, or so I thought. What was supposed to be mostly minor revisions, some additions here and there, turned out to be a major overhaul -- in the end, nothing short of an almost complete rewrite. Now for the first time, you can check out both versions of the story -- the original novella-length incarnation, and this, the never-before-released novel-length version. If you've read one, you definitely haven't read them both, because the novel-length version has new twists and turns, new characters and even more suspense.

To download your FREE PDF copy of the novel-length version of Resurrection, click the title above.

EYE OF THE STORM
A FREE paranormal thriller, category-length (approx. 60,000 words)

Hell hath no fury...

In this never-before published sequel to Resurrection,* Paul Frances hunts for monsters. A seasoned veteran of the Metro Police Department, Paul's made a renowned career out of tracking down serial killers. It should have given him the life of his dreams, with fame, notoriety and respect, but instead, it's given him nightmares―literally.

He dreams of torturing young women, driving them to the brink of death and beyond, over and over. These visions plague his nights and haunt his days, and when he discovers he'd been sleepwalking, disappearing for unaccounted hours at a time, he can't help but beg the question: has the monster-hunter become a monster himself?

Only with Brenda Wheaton does Paul feel like his life isn't falling apart. An assistant medical examiner, Brenda is a confidant Paulfinds himself turning to again and again. She shares his passion for investigating and the pursuit of justice. They also discover they share another mutual passion―for each other. But when Paul's teen-aged daughters turn up missing, abducted by the sadistic killer from his dreams, there is no solace he can turn to, no one to trust with his grimmest, deepest, darkest secret. Because as Paul races to save his children from the gruesome fate he's witnessed in his mind, he fears that they may really need saving from him.

To download your FREE PDF copy of Eye of the Storm, click the title above.

* Please note: Eye of the Storm works better as a sequel to the novella-length version of Resurrection than the novel-length one. Some of the changes I made in the novel version of Resurrection revolved chiefly around the character of Emma, who is important in both Resurrection and Eye of the Storm, and some of the things I changed for the novel no longer match the previous novella, or fit well with events in Eye of the Storm.

SON OF SPARTA
A FREE novel-length historical epic (non-romance)

Legends are born, not made...

Echelas was born in fifth-century Sparta, with the golden hair said to herald favor from the gods. However, if his life has been divinely blessed, Echelas would not have believed it. From his brutal childhood in the wilds to an adolescence spent mastering the art of war, Echelas has constantly struggled to prove himself a true son of Sparta. Framed for murder and awaiting the inevitable moment of his execution, Echelas is left dependent on the word of a mad, deposed king to see him vindicated.

From his prison cell, Echelas recounts his life and those who have graced it, including Elara, a young woman heis forbidden to love but who he is helpless to resist. Even as he tells his tale, a new threat is rising in the east. The massive armies of the Persian empire are advancing and they mean to conquer not only Sparta, but the entire Greek world with it. Echelas soon finds himself faced with an even greater challenge as he must join the Greek forces in their valiant, defiant stand against the Persian invasion, taking his place along the front lines and shield walls of one of the most heroic and bloody battles in history.

To download your FREE PDF copy of Son of Sparta, click the title above.

PANTERA
A FREE novel-length historical epic (non-romance)

His name has been stricken from any Biblical record, maligned throughout history ― a Roman soldier called Pantera who some allege was the father of Jesus, either through rape or an adulterous liaison with Mary.

A first-century tombstone exists in Bingerbrück, Germany, dedicated to a Roman named Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera, a native of Phoenicia, a neighboring province of Galilee and Judea. What if this man, a centurion and archer, was the Pantera of legends? And what if the legends were true?

In Pantera,Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera ― or Abdes, as he is called ― is a seventeen-year-old soldier undergoing training to join the Seventh Cohort of the Third Gallicauxiliary, stationed just outside of the ancient city of Sepphoris in Galilee. While on leave in the bustling city, Abdes stumbles upon a shocking scene: two Roman soldiers raping a young Jewish woman. Abdes fends them off, but is stabbed in the process and left for dead. When Abdes awakens, he is in the protective custody of the Roman urban cohort, or police force, in Sepphoris. He is told that the young woman had been discovered brutally murdered near his body and that his Roman name ― Pantera ― had been leaked as the culprit. The Jewish citizens of Sepphoris clamor daily for Pantera’s execution. It’s a tremendous strain to the already-weak relationship between the Romans, who govern the city in the stead of King Herod, and the mostly Jewish population.

The urban cohort believes Abdes is innocent, and puts him to work as a scribe. Through his endeavors, he uncovers a conspiracy among some of the leading city officials, Jewish clergy and radical clerics eager for revolution against the Romans. The conspiracy stretches deep, and, as Abdes discovers, even includes Roman officers ― possibly the Prefect of Sepphoris himself.

Along the way, Abdes falls in love with a beautiful prostitute named Salome, and vows to free her from her servitude. He also befriends a young Jewish woman named Maryam and her husband, a local artisan named Yoseph. When Maryam’s son, Yeshua, is born, Abdes learns of a trail of violent, murderous acts undertaken by King Herod in Jerusalem, leading northward to his new friends in Nazareth and tries to save them from certain harm.

All along, his identity as the hated and falsely accused Pantera has been kept a secret, but when it is revealed, it may cost him his life -- if not from the mob determined to overthrow Sepphoris and see him crucified, then from the conspirator within the Roman city cohort itself.

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