About Michael: I’ve been lucky to be with Seventh Star Press (SSP) for five years. Stephen and Holly are beautiful people, as are all the members of the SSP family. My first novel in the SSP franchise, Tybee Island H-Bomb, won the 2020 Imadjinn Award for the best thriller. Since then, we’ve come out with two sequels, Death of Innocence, and Phantom of the Circus.
My wife of thirty years, Stephanie, and I live in Owensboro, Kentucky. Owensboro is a small town on the Ohio River in the western part of the state. We have five kids and ten grandkids, with a new one on the way. I mustn’t forget Tony, our pound puppy. Okay, he weighs in at fifty pounds, so I wouldn’t necessarily call him a puppy. The point is, I don’t want to leave him out. The last time I did, he pouted for over a week.
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Tybee Island H-Bomb
Synopsis: The government lost a hydrogen bomb around Tybee Island, Georgia, in 1958, or is that an old wives’ tale?
If it is only a tale, then why are three young men trying to find it, in hopes of selling it to make a dirty bomb?
Before the week is out, six friends from Kentucky will get caught up in kidnapping, murder, and treason, while trying to save one of their own and perhaps the citizens of Tybee Island and Savannah, Georgia.
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Death of Innocence
Synopsis: Raymond Harris has looked into the eyes of the dead before, but none ever touched him like the eyes of a sixteen-year-old girl found murdered in an abandoned house on the outskirts of Franklin, Kentucky. Her death struck a nerve, because Ray knew her.
Ray knew her likes and dislikes. He knew everything about her, because she was his Godchild. She was the granddaughter of Ray’s best friend, and Ray knew her grandpa would seek revenge.
Finding her killer would become the driving force in Ray’s life. The deceased was beautiful, kind, and caring. Everyone loved her, and she didn’t desire to die.
Her name was Innocence.
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Phantom of the Circus
Synopsis: Death has a way of drawing people together, and it’s no exception for Betty Hall and her mother, Zoe Payne. With the death of Innocence ‒ Betty’s daughter and Zoe’s granddaughter ‒ the two were again united but for only a few short weeks.
One day, not long after Zoe returned to her home with a traveling circus in California, Betty received a call from the Santa Monica police saying her mother’s body had washed up under its famous pier. The following day, Betty, her dad FJ, and his friend Ray Harris boarded a plane bound for L.A. to retrieve the body and bring her mother home.
Lucia Torres’s grandmother was concerned about her granddaughter. Why? Lucia Torres was becoming a young woman.
Unfortunately, the human monsters that occasionally invaded her little Mexican town would also take note. Their hearts would be filled with lust, and make no mistake about it, the monsters would want to pluck the little budding flower.
Call it fate. Call it destiny. Soon Betty Hall and Lucia Torres’s lives would collide, all thanks to the Phantom of the Circus.
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Death on Drakes Creek
Synopsis: “There is no backup planet for us.”
– unknown.
According to environmentalists, humans are rapidly poisoning the earth. That’s why environmentalists seek to preserve the air, land, and water that all life—humans, animals, and plants—depend upon. They strive to conserve and protect entire ecosystems found in different habitats throughout our planet.
But, in Franklin, Kentucky, aliens are the primary threat to our planet. Just ask Jed Duncan. He found his best friend, Luther, lying beside Drakes Creek, mutilated and missing vital organs. In his mind, what else could it be but aliens?
In the coming days, animals—wild and domesticated—would be found mutilated and lying along the slow-flowing stream. How long will it be before the aliens select a human to be sliced and diced?
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The Sicarii Series
Carson
Synopsis: It has always been thought, people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are born without emotions and feelings. They were a bit like Spock from Star Trek ̶ analytical and logical. To the world, it seems, they can’t love, and in turn, they can’t care for anyone. People with ASD make the best assassins.
Carolyn Johnston, the eight-year-old daughter of the recently deceased prostitute Freda Johnston, finds herself a captive of the men who murdered her mother. As fate would have it, her life now depends on an assassin with ASD.
His name is Carson.
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