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Horror Thriller Free Today on Amazon!

This horror thriller has 109 reviews on Amazon with an average rating of 4.3 stars. Download it now and enjoy this refreshing change of pace from most horror stories.

Dead Stop by D. Nathan Hilliard

Horror ThrillerWelcome to the Textro Truck Stop…where they have hot food, hot coffee, and even hotter waitresses.

It’s a slow Friday night at the Textro, and business isn’t expected to pick up until the football game lets out in nearby Masonfield. Deke, backed up by his friend Harley, is here on a mission of romance.

Rachel Sutherland has come to unwind from a bad day at the clinic. Thomas “Grandpa Tom” Burns and “Leaping” Larry Brown are just dropping in for some diesel and coffee while, across the diner, Holly just wants to get her socially disastrous boyfriend, Gerald, home. Waitresses Stacey and Marisa are taking it easy, serving the few patrons while waiting for the game crowd to arrive.

But things are about to get busy in an unexpected and very deadly way.  There is a storm coming in and the crowd that arrives with it isn’t from Masonfield…at least, not anymore.

These unexpected guests are from the nearby Mazon County Cemetery, and they have their own idea of what should be on the menu. Now a dwindling collection of locals, waitresses, truckers, out-of-towners, and one astonished veterinarian find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against a foe they thought only existed in the movies.

And as the night wears on they discover they only have until dawn to escape with any hope to survive.

About the author of this horror thriller, D. Nathan Hilliard:

D. Nathan HilliardD. Nathan Hilliard lives in Spring, Texas with his veterinarian wife, two children, assorted rodents, and a fanatically omnivorous dachshund. He draws his inspiration from a childhood living in different small Texas towns, accented by teen years spent in western New Mexico. He has experienced life through a diverse collection of jobs ranging from meter reading and being an assistant manager at a convenience store, to working at cotton gins, window factories, and uranium mills. After coming down with Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) at the turn of the century, Mr. Hilliard now happily settles for tending house, raising his kids, and exploring the field of writing.

His adventures in writing and househusbandry can be followed at http://adarkandstormyblog.blogspot.com/

Science Fiction Fantasy Free Today!

This science fiction fantasy has 111 reviews on Amazon with an average rating of 4.5 stars.

Spiderstalk by D. Nathan Hilliard

Science Fiction FantasyLife hasn’t been kind to Adam Sellars lately…

In the past year he has broken up with his fiancee, barely survived a terrible car wreck, and had his brother’s family vanish while he lay unconscious in the hospital. Since then he has been a crippled shell going through the motions of life with nothing but the search for his brother to keep him going.

But Adam is about to discover that things can still take a turn for the worse. Much worse.

His quest for his brother has brushed up against a very dark corner of the world and something has come out of that darkness with an unholy vengeance. He can’t fight it, he can’t hide from it, and not even the police can protect him as his world descends into chaos.

His only hope lies in a mysterious pair of strangers who have appeared out of nowhere with an offer of aid. But they have their own agenda, and his survival may not be their top priority. Now Adam must keep his wits about him and learn to believe in himself again as events send him on a collision course with a monster more horrific than he ever dreamed possible.

About the author of this science fiction fantasy: D Nathan Hillard:

science fiction fantasy author, D. Nathan HilliardD. Nathan Hilliard lives in Spring, Texas with his veterinarian wife, two children, assorted rodents, and a fanatically omnivorous dachshund. He draws his inspiration from a childhood living in different small Texas towns, accented by teen years spent in western New Mexico. He has experienced life through a diverse collection of jobs ranging from meter reading and being an assistant manager at a convenience store, to working at cotton gins, window factories, and uranium mills. After coming down with Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) at the turn of the century, Mr. Hilliard now happily settles for tending house, raising his kids, and exploring the field of writing.

His adventures in writing and househusbandry can be followed at http://adarkandstormyblog.blogspot.com/

What makes this science fiction fantasy such a good story is that it covers horror from suspense and psychology to the visceral and gore with equal skill.

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Election Hackers Must Be Stopped!

The Lafayette Campaign, A Tale of Deception and Elections by Andrew Updegrove

election  America is rushing headlong into another election year, but something is wrong – the polls don’t match reality. It’s up to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the Black Hats who are trying to hack the presidential election, and stop them before they do.

The action begins when a nameless government agency recruits Adversego to find out who’s manipulating the polls, but he soon learns that the voting results are at risk as well. From then on, it’s a race against time to see who will stop who as the presidential election – and Adversego’s life – hang in the balance.

In this latest Frank Adversego thriller, you’ll meet a scheming Native American casino manager, a scrum of presidential candidates too incredible to be believed anywhere outside of a real American election, a former Secretary of Defense who will stop at nothing, and an attractive French hitchhiker that Adversego rescues in the middle of a desert, and soon wishes he hadn’t.

The Lafayette Campaign provides a satirical take on American politics and our infatuation with technology that will make readers pause and wonder: could this really happen?

Andrew Updegrove brings a rare combination of drama, satire and technical accuracy to his writing. The result is a book you can’t put down that tells you things you might wish you didn’t know. – Admiral James G. Stavridis, retired Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and current Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

About the author of this election satire, Andrew Updegrove:

Andrew UpdegroveAndrew Updegrove, an attorney, has been representing technology companies, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for more than thirty years and works with many of the organizations seeking to thwart cyber-attacks before they occur. When he isn’t writing or predicting the next cyber-disaster, he’s likely to be roaming the back country of the American southwest in his Jeep, scouting out settings for his next book. A graduate of Yale University and the Cornell University Law School, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Paranormal Romance Free Today!

In this action-packed, paranormal romance about two coming-of-age would-be lovers, Kyra and Sebastian’s union and strength of character will be put to the ultimate test.

Moorigad: Complete Age of the Hybrid Series (A Paranormal Romance) by Debra Kristi

Paranormal RomanceWhen Kyra, the Moorigad dragon-shifter, unwittingly finds herself at Mystic’s Carnival, a supernatural world between realms, she believes her runaway days are finished.

Amidst the carnies and never-ending magic, she begins falling for her all-too-secretive best friend, Sebastian. And as she delves deeper into his mysteries, her goodwill sabotages their future and her very existence.

Read the Complete Age of the Hybrid Series:
* The Moorigad Dragon
* Reap Not the Dragon
* Plight of the Dragon

About the author of this paranormal romance, Debra Kristi:

Debra KristiBorn and raised a Southern California girl, Debra Kristi still resides in the sunny state with her husband, two kids, and four schizophrenic cats. Her love for the fantastical began at a very young age when her imagination magically transformed the backyard swing set into the U.S.S. Enterprise. Since then she’s had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, and creative storytelling. Unlike the characters she often writes, Debra is not immortal and her only superpower is letting the dishes and laundry pile up. When not writing, she is usually creating memories with her family, geeking out to sci-fi and fantasy television, and tossing out movie quotes.

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Jacob Whaler’s new novel is free today!

Jacob Whaler is the best seller author of Stones, a four book series. Book one in the series has 158 Amazon reviews with an average of 4.2 stars.

Suri Five by Jacob Whaler

jacob whaler  A monster lurks inside Suri.
Consumed with grief and rage at the death of her mother, Suri channels her anger into a mysterious virtual reality war zone called the Game where she quickly rises to the top. A covert government unit is watching. Using a deep copy of Suri’s brain, they build Five, the ultimate artificial intelligence.
As the digital embodiment of the monster inside Suri, Five is the perfect weapon for the cyberwar with China. But when Five is unleashed online, she slips off her chains, turns against her creators and, with all of Suri’s rage boiling inside, vows to annihilate humankind.
Only Suri can stop Five.
But will she?

About the author, Jacob Whaler:

Jacob WhalerI remember reading Ray Bradbury’s horror stories as a teenager into the dark hours of the night, afraid to move for fear that I’d stir up something evil. I consumed Alan Dean Foster’s Alien in one sitting, glued to the La-Z-Boy recliner in our family room, heart beating in unison with the characters on the page as they pursued, and were pursued by, the nightmare aboard their starship. I sat in a secret corner of our house with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat as I savored the end of The Lord of the Rings and Watership Down.

I have experienced the power of words in my own life, and my belief in that power to fire our imaginations and lift our minds to new heights pushes me to write.

My favorite places are near oceans or mountains. I love to spend time in Japan exploring its unique culture, history and language.

As a six-year-old on a fishing trip with my dad and grandpa, I found an obsidian rock half buried in the mud, blunt on one end and pointed on the other, about the size of an adult fist. My grandpa, a lifelong rock hound, tried in vain to get it away from me. He begged, threatened and offered me money. He told me what a perfect addition it would make to his collection. But I refused to let it part from my fingers.

For some reason, I felt an immediate bond to that rock.

I took it home, washed it off and put it on the window ledge above my bed. (There’s a photo of it on my website.)

Decades later, I still keep that rock close by and often pick it up to feel the way it naturally fits the curve of my palm. I like to stare into its glassy surface and daydream about where it came from and the secrets it might hold.

It was on such a day, as I looked into my Stone, the seed of an idea took shape in my mind. Little by little, that idea grew and sprouted tentacles until it got such a hold on my brain that I was left with no choice but to start writing it down.

The result was four long books that became the STONES series of novels.

In a way, I think of the STONES novels as keeping a promise to my six-year-old self, a promise to always keep room in my heart for child-like wonder. A promise to stay who I am.

In my professional life, I’ve used words to build meaning into arcane corporate documents that control the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars around the globe. But I’ve grown tired of using words to control something as mundane as money.

So I’ve become a writer of novels.

Back in high school, I learned to program computers. It’s a different kind of writing, a different kind of language, a different kind of control. But like any good writing, it’s a string of written instructions that has an effect on the real world.

I’d like to think that the words of my novels are like computer code for human brains.

I hope you will plug in and enjoy.

Jacob Whaler