Balloon: Altitude (The Balloon Series Book 1) by Christopher Keith

Great things never come from comfort zones. In an era of exploration like never before, they must rise to the challenge. And dare to fall.

Fable Sky, the world’s largest zero-pressure helium balloon, embarks on its inaugural flight into the stratosphere.

The space tourism project has taken many years, the assembly of a highly trained crew and a small fortune to get off the ground. If everything goes well, it will be a flight of discovery and transformation, a triumph of the human imagination. Furthermore, the commercial possibilities will ensure a prosperous future, targeting people yearning for a taste of space.

When the mission is turned upside down at 138,000 feet, things quickly spin out of control, putting the crew’s lives in danger. It will need the project leader and captain, Will, to draw on all his experience and pull them together for what will be an event that could change the course of human history – and possibly end it.

Balloon is a masterful, fast-paced adventure with a crisis that cannot be resolved, action that never slows down, and a world like you’ve never seen before.

The Edge Of The Woods by Ceinwen Langley

The odds are stacked against Emma.

Fatherless and poor in a remote village where men, money and faith determine everything, her only hope for a decent life is to marry before her eighteenth birthday. Though her prospects aren’t good and her options aren’t appealing, to live as an unmarried woman is a life sentence of silence and solitude.

Emma has to try to make a match. But when a beautiful, antlered boy appears in her dreams and tempts her to join him in the forbidden woods, another path opens to her. Finally, after a life devoid of possibilities, Emma has a choice to make: to run from her future, or fight for it.

Awakened in Blood by Daniel Volpe

From horror author, Daniel J. Volpe, comes a book of erotic horror, full of blood and other bodily fluids.

Shane and Veronica’s relationship is on the rocks. In an effort to save it, they head to an old lodge for a couple’s therapy session. They soon discover something isn’t right with the old building, or their hosts.

Uncontrollable sexual desires and visions of violence burn into the psyche of the guests. Will the guests be overwhelmed by their urges, or will they fight the entity trying to ensnare them for its own evil doings?

Find out why it’s sometimes better to die, than to be Awakened in Blood!

Lethal Perilby Emily Jane Trent

Can a Navy SEAL save her from the lethal conspiracy?

Her life is in jeopardy.
Heiress Elizabeth Foster is a rebel, living on the fringes of her wealthy family’s influence. After witnessing an alarming subway accident, Elizabeth fears that she was the killer’s actual target. She turns to the one man she trusts, a former SEAL turned bodyguard. He is a childhood friend, and after ten years, she’s back under his protection.

˃˃˃ Who has a motive to kill her?
Ex-SEAL Wyatt Mercer’s new assignment at Stealth Security brings his past back to haunt him. A woman he doesn’t expect appears in his life, and reaches out for his protection. He is sure that she isn’t telling him everything, but when the threats escalate he rises to the challenge of protecting her from the claws of her powerful enemies.

˃˃˃ Can Wyatt rescue her in time?
Elizabeth stumbles across deadly secrets, and her enemies will stop at nothing to silence her. The fight against danger keeps Wyatt close, and he discovers a powerful attraction to Elizabeth. Will the forces of greed steal the one woman he desires, and wipe out any chance for a future?

˃˃˃ Lethal Peril (Stealth Security Book 2) has no cliffhanger.

Stealth Security Series:

Cold Peril (Garrett and Marlene)

Lethal Peril (Wyatt and Beth)

Ruthless Peril (Hunter and Tessa)

Grave Peril (Rip and Lela)

Deadly Peril (Thaddeus and Jana)

Stealth Security is a Military Romantic Suspense series with ex-Navy SEAL heroes employed as bodyguards to celebrity and VIP clients. The characters you love make appearances in future stories.

50 States by Richard R Becker

An Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area.

These and 46 more shorts make up an anthology that will surprise readers with each new thought-provoking story as they skip across different genres, moods, and states of mind. Together, they provide a character-driven sampling of the American experience over the last 60 years — the kind and the cruel, the heroic and criminal — in unpredictable and exciting ways.

50 States is a debut collection of short stories that captures the human condition and how perception shapes destiny. The book spans several literary genres with each short story set in a different state across America.

The collection continues to receive high praise from editorial reviewers and interest from a growing community of readers who wonder how Richard R. Becker will expand upon and weave together more stories and full-length works.