Silver Moon is a 78,000 word Supernatural horror novel that goes like this;
Marshal Quinten Kane feels nothing but the siren call of his moral compass. The ultimate Lone Lawman stumbles into the forgotten town of Lunacy, where the townsfolk are under siege from Grey and his followers. The town desperately needs a hero, because Grey ain’t your average Outlaw.
He’s a werewolf and is expanding his pack to not only take the town, but the territory with a thirst for more. Grey has a prophecy to fulfill, a destiny that claims he’s born to rule.
Seems werewolves have been around since the dawn of time, but were hunted to near extinction by the white man. Grey had been promised to Tala, a werewolf princess from another pack. Their union would unite the Lycans like a wolfy Romeo and Juliette.
Now these werewolf Royalty have forged different paths. Tala chose kindness, love, acceptance and has embraced humanity while Grey is hell bent on destroying it.
When Q becomes entangled with the town his life is turned upside down. See, Q has a secret of his own. He was blessed or cursed by his Shaman wife as an angry mob burned her at the stake as a witch. She gave him her kujiko, her love-force that allowed him to survive his own lynching. He’s immortal, unable to feel pain, joy, fear or love.
But he’s falling for Tala and his heart is awakening again. But the more he feels, the more mortal he becomes. Loving Tala could literally be the death of him.
And with Silver Moon approaching, the clock is ticking, and the stakes could not be higher. Is Tala truly the love of his life, or is she Grey’s pawn?
Can Q and the downtrodden rise to defeat a werewolf army before the Silver Moon?
This genre-bending flick has all the hallmarks of a monster story, a Western opera, and a whole new mythology like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Captain Kids is an 60,000 word middle-grade historical adventure. In 1877 Gideon turned 13 and thought his life was over. I mean, nobody wanted to adopt a “young man.” But Fate gives him one last desperate chance and he’s willing to sail halfway around the world if it means he can finally have a family.
So here he is, part of a group of 27 orphans, misfits, every last one of ‘em, on a 3 masted clipper, heading for Australia where an eager group of ex-patriots wait to adopt them. And Gideon promises to remain the “little boy” his family will surely want.
But then Pirates attack! The kids are hidden in the bilge hold among the rats and rancid brine, helplessly listening to battle rage above. When they finally risk climbing back on deck they find a nightmare. The crew has been killed, the ship stripped bare, and the Captain left for dead.
Now our rag-tag group of urchins face harsh realities, a cruel sea, freezing weather, and worse yet, themselves. Cause if they are to survive, they have to become sailors, under a demanding Captain who hates the idea of children at sea. They are pushed to the breaking point, and if Gideon wants to see Australia and finally have a family, he has to do the one thing he vowed he couldn’t – grow up.
This coming of age story follows a boy who became a man and found the family he longed for in the Captain he hated.Somewhere between Rudyard Kiplings Captains Courageous, William Dale Jennings The Cowboys, and Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean, lies Loose Cannons.
Kingdom By The Sea is a 100,000 word magical-realism novel that’s hard to genre.
As a child, Dennis Mallory had a profound encounter with a wild dolphin, sparking his passion and sole dream: communication between our species. After dedicating his life to become a hotshot marine biologist, Dennis’ future, pension and naval career went down the tubes with a single righteous mistake.
While emcee-ing a dolphin show at McCormick Park, a mid-sized aquarium in the heart of Florida, Dennis’ world goes turvy when the love of his life, ANNABEL LEE, an 800 pound bottlenose dolphin, can apparently speak with the brain damaged WENDAL.
Determined to better the world, Dennis contacts his old acquaintance JULIAN STEWART, a well connected industrialist with fingers in many different pies. Together they assemble a team of the best minds in Cetacean research, and set up Iassos, a state-of-the-art facility where this elite group can investigate this phenom up close and personal.
Wendal gets relocated from his crowded State-run home to the newly minted Iassos that’s both hoity and toity. But as a disabled orphan, Wendal needs an occupational therapist and a guardian. He gets both in BRIANNE JENNINGS, a no-nonsense gal with her own overpowering agenda. See, Wendal’s going to turn eighteen soon, and Brianne is uber-determined to make Wendal ready for a life outside institutions. She’s hell bent on teaching Wendal to feed, dress, and care for himself so he can have a full life; one of his own choosing. She is terrier-dogged to make Wendal normal. But the Iassos team sees the boy as one-in-a-billion unique, and they’re convinced that he and the dolphin are their Rosetta Stone to breaking the delphin language.
As the tests mount, sparks fly between Brianne and Dennis as each battles to make their opposing missions come true, and the two innocents are caught in the crossfire. Love triangles form, stretch and crumble like kaleidoscope patterns. Wendal falls for Brianne who loves the man he could become, while the dolphin Annabel Lee adores him for exactly who he is now. Dennis reluctantly bonds with the hard headed Brianne while his first love Annabel Lee grows colder and more distant.
Passions and ideology collide as the tests become more grueling and Stewart presses hard for pragmatic applications to please the investors in this high tech adventure. Dolphins are treated as mere lab rats or indentured servants.
Battle lines are drawn and in the end everyone must choose sides. Brie comes to terms with Wendal’s choice to leave with Annabel Lee for a happy but extremely short life in the open seas. Knowing mankind is not ready to share our space on the food chain, Dennis chooses his soul over his dream and burns Iassos to the ground.
With Brianne by his side, he starts anew in a seaside, Mexican village, sharing his dream rather than imposing it until dolphins are ready to talk to us.
RED PIONEERS is a middle grade Scifi adventure. It’s Little House On The Prairie… on Mars.
See, 14 year old Abra Dalton is desperate to have a home, a place where she can live out of her father’s shadow. Dad is the great Everett Dalton, the scientist and geologist who will lead a hearty band of pioneers to a new frontier. Terraforming has turned the red planet blue enough to escape the bubble cities and this group of settlers is ready to stake their claim on a new frontier.
At first the journey is a breeze with the high tech vehicles doing most of the work. Abra spends her time baby sitting her annoying little brother Ben, and falling head over heels with Anders, the young vet in charge of the “Ark” of animals that will help set up a new eco-system.
But when a savage storm strikes, the pioneers are battered, beaten, and stripped of all technology. Unable to return without antigrav technology, they must push on, making the yaks pull the rovers like Abra’s ancestors did across the vast wild west. A whole new wagon train.
Abra and the others face starvation, sickness, stampedes and an unstable new planet. Abra’s relationship with her obsessed yet distant father crumbles, then explodes. But when dad dies, the dream dies with him. How can they go on without their brilliant scout? Abra alone can pick up his work, shoulder the responsibility and lead the others to food, water, and eventually their new home.
And Abra comes to love the reality that she is the daughter of Everett Dalton. She’s just the right girl to fill those big shoes.
Flip Kobler & Cindy Marcus 