Twenty-five years after the "Immaculate Game," a perfect twenty-seven up, twenty-seven down, all strikeouts, legendary pitcher Joseph "Big Breeze" Bye hides out on a small farm in upstate New York. He paints the legends he followed, the heroes he once stood beside, and keeps to a quiet routine after a hit-and-run stole his career and left him in a wheelchair. Silence is the only game he plays now. One day, his routine is interrupted when the phone rings. A young reporter wants the real story of the night that made him a ghost in the world of professional baseball. Minutes later, he receives a second phone call, a voice from the past. The caller reveals to Joseph that the crash that killed his career wasn't an accident, and the man who ordered the hit is still at large. As quickly as his career ended, Breeze is pulled off the sidelines and back into shadows he hoped to outrun. The trail winds through studio lofts and clubhouse tunnels, back rooms and midnight highways, into the dark underbelly of America's pastime, where every secret comes high and inside. The Big Breeze is a lean noir thriller about obsession, guilt, loss, second chances-and a fallen ace stepping back on the mound for one more inning.
Demon Lover Witch
“What a deliciously dark tale of enchantment and love triangles, where a pair of ancient vampire lovers awakens the latent abilities of a born witch, their natural enemy. Lush with myth and witchery, DEMON LOVER WITCH will seduce you!”
—Lindsay Merbaum, author of VAMPIRES AT SEA and THE GOLD PERSIMMON
Two demons seduce a Witch, and reveal a mortal enemy.
Present-day. The Hudson Valley. Carmilla and Vladimir are Gallu demons. Together for eons, their love eternal, they’ve been persecuted, hanged, beaten, and burned. Finally, they learn to live among humans. But human life is so, so boring. The spark is gone. So they prey on small Hudson Valley towns, seducing sexy couples, and devouring them after.
It’s simple fun and it works. Their romance is rekindled.
Then, they meet the mysterious bookseller, Sahira. They seduce her like the rest, but the very act reveals her to be a mortal enemy. For Sahira’s veins run with the blood of the Witch. Most people think of Witch as an occupation. But Witches are powerful beings, created by the goddess Hekate at the dawn of time, for one purpose: destroying Gallu demons.
Unaware of her heritage, Sahira seeks enlightenment, power, something she feels deep inside, but cannot express. Until her new lovers show her a world of magic and myth, and awaken the Witch inside.
Carmilla’s lust for Sahira turns to obsession. Vladimir’s fear of the Witch’s power turns to terror. A tragic threesome unfolds across space and time, from the modern-day Hudson Valley, to the primordial shores of their forebears.
“...tense, engaging, sexier than I imagined, and gnarlier than I expected.
Tightly written and plotted, but with epic implications…”
—Sam Rebelein, Bram Stoker nominated author of EDENVILLE and THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS