Karen is a free-range comet in a compact car, roaming the Pacific Northwest in an attempt to escape her life. She winds up in Jackpot, Nevada, a “veritable Brigadoon of a town” on the Idaho border. Gerry is Jackpot’s resident photographer, condemned to a lonely existence by a ten-year-old tragedy. Should the comet and the dark star meet, they will weave an extraordinary and odd friendship, chipping away at each other’s guilt and working their way to the path of totality. Michael J. Vaughn is the author of twenty-one novels, including the acclaimed psychological thriller, The Popcorn...

A wide-ranging journey through atheism and its surprising digressions by Michael J. Vaughn, author of the best-selling atheist novel, The Popcorn Girl. The book goes from the author's lightweight California Methodist past into the rethinking that inspired his call for the human species to drop religion like a bad habit. Steps along the way include a visit to the radical Deists who founded America and the radical fundamentalists who intend to tear it down, as well as humorous takes on the Catholic church's new cannibalism and the Ten Commandments on a pizza box.

Do unto others before they do it to you. Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces soldiers return to Britain in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf conflict to discover an increasingly corrupt judiciary. Smirking miscreants walk free whilst the innocent suffer. Aided by a Scotland Yard informant, the trio embark on a brutal, covert crusade to rid Britain of its nefarious untouchables. Drug dealers, paedophiles and various other lawbreakers are targeted as the morgues fill and the courts empty. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan, a former military policeman, investigates, suspecting that the deaths ...

Two years after the victory at Saffron Valley, a new menace threatens Dux Wortigern's domain: the Picts are raiding the coast, razing the cities and looting the churches and villas of the southern provinces. Ash, now a Councillor at Wortigern's court, joins a Iute war band dispatched to deal with the invaders - but the real threat to Londin's safety and Wortigern's rule may be coming from within the Council itself... ◆◆◆ The Saxon Knives is the second volume of the Song of Ash, a fast-paced, gripping historical fiction trilogy, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell's "The Last Kingdom"...

After escaping an abusive marriage to an Idaho white-power militiaman, Susan Blaine takes a job selling vintage autos in Santa Cruz, California. There she runs into Benjamin Hancock, the man who, three years previous, shared a wild weekend with her in Salt Lake City. The two seem a natural pair, but their respective traumas keep getting in the way. Benjamin is obviously musical but weirdly reluctant to admit it, while Susan's PTSD drives her to disappear for a month after a seemingly mild argument. Once these things finally settle down, Benjamin finds out that Susan's ex-husband is actually...