"Three unlikely heroes ... struggle to stay alive in a hostile environment while plotting to retake their home planet, Earth."--Author's website.

I was born in the latter half of the twentieth century in Westgrove, Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, my family moved to Newark, Delaware where I was educated. My family and I lived in a small stone house that was probably a share croppers house, or belonged to one of the workers that help tend to the farm. I lived a basic rural life with plenty of farm animals, a huge vegetable garden, and lots of creeks and woods to explore. At twenty I joined the army. After the army I joined the work force, and worked at various jobs through the ups and downs of the vastly changing economy. I started writing poetry in the mid 80s. It seemed to come natural to me. After several prompting from my friends, I decided to put my collection in a book to share with others.

A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, “one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction” (Publishers Weekly). For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry seems heaven sent. For years now, the firm of Mills/Lake/Ryman has fought to help Cherr-o-key become the nation’s favorite fizzy cherry soda, but each time they come up with a new slogan, mascot, or jingle, AmeriCherry somehow beats them to it. There's a mole inside the agency, and only Nero Wolfe can ferret him out. Although he's as round as a cherry himself, Wolfe has no taste for soft drinks. But the question of industrial espionage is too sweet for him to resist, and so with assistant Archie Goodwin at his side, he sets out to end this vicious corporate feud. Only when the first adman dies does he realize that a marketing war can be just as dangerous as the real thing.

From the best-selling author of Pretty Killer, No Justice, and 12 comes Fade To Black, a pulse-pounding new stand-alone thriller by Nolon King. HE STOLE HER CHILDHOOD. SHE WON’T LET HIM STEAL HER DAUGHTER’S. Child actor Sloane Alexander blew up her life by accusing producer Liam Winston of trying to seduce her at the budding age of 12. Winston blacklisted her, convincing the world that she’d lied for the attention, hoping it would boost her career. Almost two decades later, after a promising start as an indie filmmaker in Europe, she’s returned to direct her first Hollywood movie -- projecting Winston’s sins on the big screen, but with a fictional ending where the producer is punished for his pedophile ways. But when tiny acts of sabotage on set snowball into terrifying threats -- against Sloane, and against her 12-year-old daughter -- she wonders if she should’ve let this secret stay buried. Will Winston silence Sloane for good this time, or will she find a way to expose the ugly truth while still protecting her daughter? A breath-stealing, suspenseful thriller, Fade To Black is perfect for fans of Darcey Bell and Harlan Coban. Warning: Fade To Black is a tense psychological thriller that includes adult language and situations. While it is all within the context of the story, some readers may find this content offensive. Intended for mature audiences.

A team of FBI agents is on the trail of the Reaper...a monster who auctions off death in a twisted cyber-game. The first book of New York Times Bestselling Author Leslie A. Kelly's thrilling BLACK CATs series! Nominated for the National Reader's Choice Award for Best Romantic Suspense Novel! A team of FBI agents are on the trail of the Reaper--a monster who auctions off means-of-death at a cyber playground for deviants. Special Agent Dean Taggert's investigation takes him to the small town of Hope Valley, Virginia, where he meets the strong and competent Sheriff Stacey Rhodes. Dean and Stacey are in a battle of wits against the Reaper, knowing he has chosen his next victim: a young child.

The story of a man who would not be a monster, a woman who became a monster and a monster that roams the streets preying on children.

Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell’s richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. Drawing on hard-to-access archival materials, Jewell chronicles the period from 1942 to the company’s demise in 1957. Towering figures associated with the studio included Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Charles Koerner, Val Lewton, Jane Russell, and Robert Mitchum. In addition to featuring an extraordinary cast of characters, the RKO story describes key aspects of entertainment history: Hollywood’s collaboration with Washington, film noir, censorship, HUAC, the rise of independent film production, and the impact of television on film. Taken as a whole, Jewell’s two-volume study represents the most substantial and insightful exploration of the Hollywood studio system to date.

Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South: the "lost cause" aspect of the Civil War, the stately mansions and gracious ladies of the antebellum South, the "happy" slaves singing in the fields. Cripps shows how these characterizations culminated in the blatantly racist attitudes of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and how this film inspired the N.A.A.C.P. to campaign vigorously--and successfully--for change. While the period of the 1920s to 1940s was one replete with Hollywood stereotypes (blacks most often appeared as domestics or "natives," or were portrayed in shiftless, cowardly "Stepin Fetchit" roles), there was also an attempt at independent black production--on the whole unsuccessful. But with the coming of World War II, increasing pressures for a wider use of blacks in films, and calls for more equitable treatment, African-Americans did begin to receive more sympathetic roles, such as that of Sam, the piano player in the 1942 classic Casablanca. A lively, thorough history of African-Americans in the movies, Slow Fade to Black is also a perceptive social commentary on evolving racial attitudes in this country during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Fade To Black, Scream For Me Series, finds Lillie dealing with her own demons as she ignores all she has learned and attempts to take on someone, something much bigger than herself. Can Sam & Angie get to her in time to save their beloved Samurai? Lillie is not just a bad-ass detective. She's Samurai, not afraid of anyone or anything. She's usually the one calling the shots, always in control, however, she messed up and let pride get in her way; she got too personal. Lillie was foolish to take on a quest of such a magnitude alone without first confiding in Sam and Angie. She's badly injured, in a strange country, there are many who would see her dead. Survival will kick in as this Samurai fights to find her way home.

MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME… Pierce Kincaid couldn't understand why his wife nearly fainted when he came home from the store—or why she is no longer pregnant…until a five-year-old boy asks Mommy who the stranger is. Terror-filled nightmares slowly reveal that the ex-secret agent had been kidnapped, his memory wiped clean. Pierce knows that Jessica still loves him. But if he wants a second chance at the life he lost, he'll need to discover the truth behind his abduction and take down the kidnappers targeting his family—before death truly does part them. Previously published