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The most recent novel by Derrick Cutter, a novelist who, haunted by his own inner demons as a teenager, met and ran away with the girl of his dreams. Little did he know that he would soon be thrust into a world even darker than his own, filled with ritual abuse and murder, the aftermath of which may ironically prove to be good fodder for his best novel yet. In The Runaway Heart, author Derrick Cutter examines the human condition from the every-man's point of view: from teenage angst and rebellion, to love lost and found and lost again.

Katherine is a dissatisfied wife who wants to make over her husband. She goes into counseling with a psychologist named Dr. Richards in the hopes of getting helpful hints on how she can make her husband sexier...but instead the psychologist flips the script on her and convinces the prudish wife that she is the problem...the doctor then seduces her and sends her home to her husband a changed woman.

One day during his ninth-grade speech class, Kelly Daniels's outlaw, soul-surfer father appears at school unannounced and pulls the boy from class. Speeding down the freeway, Daniels's father admits that he has been involved in a crime, but he does not remember how it happened. He'd been up for days on cocaine and booze, he explains, and the next thing he knew he woke up in jail with a bad feeling.

Recently divorced and out, David is ready to learn the ropes of the gay dating scene, but he doesn't know where to start. Making changes in his life, he joins a new karate class while he's at it. A rising MMA star, Hunter has been traveling from dojo to dojo, both learning new fighting skills and earning his keep by making guest instructor appearances. But his recent Alexandria, Virginia post is turning tits-up. He's in the way of his host's cramped family, sleeping in the truck is uncomfortable, and his new MMA buddies still don't know his name.

Mark is the first detective on the scene when a dead body has washed ashore on the beach. He identifies the man as his old childhood friend, Brian, and he suspects suicide until another childhood friend is shot to the death nearby. With two homicides to solve, he attempts to unravel the riddles left behind by his two old friends as he tries to make sense of where and how their lives went wrong since their childhood.

This story sells itself by inference as it goes along and relies for its context upon the clues scattered within its generalities and has as its bearing the vagaries of the human condition in confluence with life as it flows and so should not be mistaken for anything else but what you feel after listening to it.

Scarpete Stories is set in southern Alabama. It is the tale of A. J. Waters, a man whose life has spiraled so out of control and disconnected that he creates a fictional detective to first moderate, then inhabit, and finally subsume that life. The detective, Scarpete, is left to try and find some explanation for the necessity of his existence. With nothing but a bundle of scrawled pages on a series of legal pads, Scarpete investigates the life and death of the author who created him.

A college psychology professor in Austin has apparently murdered almost his entire class of 35 students. Five students have survived, although they remember nothing. Chase, a cop who is a local hero from catching the "Sorority Killer" a few years earlier, is on the case. He's trying to locate Bill, the professor's teaching assistant who has disappeared, especially now that it seems he's still assisting - by killing off the remaining five students. It's a race against the clock to find Bill, and the visits to Professor Holland in jail aren't helping anyone but him.

What Primary Colors by Anonymous did for the Clintons, Schopenhauer's Maxim by Formichella does for the politics of the religious right. Part political intrigue, part fairy tale, and all humor at its darkest and most noir.

Rumi said the wound is where the light gets in and this is a book about that.

On a chilly evening in fall of 1966, Annie Jean Barnes left her home in East Brewton, Alabama, to spend time at a secluded fishing camp owned by a local doctor. Less than 48 hours later she was hospitalized - beaten and abused. Within a week, she was dead. And, it would seem, willfully forgotten by the citizens of Brewton - the more prosperous area on the west side of Murder Creek - who soon came to refer to the fate of Jean Barnes as an "unfortunate incident."

Where do you turn when there's no one left to trust...? At sleepy Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, the Commanding General's wife Bunny Harris has been murdered, her head decapitated, and the Arabic word for "dust" scrawled in blood over the bed. Jack Garrett, a Los Angeles lawyer and former special ops soldier who is grieving after the recent death of his wife, starts working on the case with Cameron Wells, a beautiful, ambitious attorney who began her career in military intelligence.

Fifteen years ago Sam Dunne was the lead guitarist and singer for the popular rock band Gin Sing. But Dunne's bandmates, Eddie Shay and Danny Barton, kicked him to the curb and went chasing after rock stardom without him. Dunne now teaches English literature at a community college. He's let the past go and learned to accept things as they are. Then he turns the radio on one morning to learn Shay has been murdered: shot to death in his private home studio. Soon the police start focusing their attention on Dunne as a "person of interest"....

After a three-year search, the CIA has finally captured the head of a terrorist cell in Yemen, Ameen Asal. CIA Agent Cole Parker is offered five minutes alone with Ameen, the man who killed his fiancée. For a man trained to kill, Cole's choice is obvious. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. An agreement, approved by the President, has been made to secretly trade Ameen for three high-profile American hostages. Cole must decide if acting on his revenge is worth the lives of three Americans.

In 1989 Karl Blaine and his wife Fiona traveled to Nepal to climb Mt. Everest with their college friend Zachary. Only Zachary came back alive. Two decades later, in 2009, a French climbing expedition discovers Karl's frozen remains. Of the five man party who finds Karl, only the Sherpa guide makes it down alive. He brings with him a whooper of a ghost story no one can believe.

Situated in the rural back country of Edwardian England is an old, mysterious house whose unique owner earns his living as a Spirit-Breaker, a hunter of ghosts. A former military veteran, Sgt. Roman Janus has devoted his life to aid those haunted, both emotionally and physically by obsessive wraiths whose spirits are still anchored to our world.

Jim Beard's original occult investigator, Sgt. Roman Janus, returns in a second all-new collection of suspenseful adventures. Or does he? At the end of the first book, Sgt. Janus: Spirit Breaker, our intrepid hero mysteriously vanished into another realm never to be seen again. Now, almost a full year later, a dark-haired beauty, with no memory of her own identity, suddenly appears and begins assuming Janus' role in seeking out troublesome poltergeist and laying them to rest.

Handsome cowboy, meet ravishing ballet dancer. Hunky cowboy Clyde Walker grew up on a horse ranch working side by side with the rough and tough men who ran the place. When Clyde moved east for grad school, he didn't expect to find romance with the type of guy more comfortable in tights and ballet slippers than in jeans and work boots.

Professor Ulysses King and his companions travel the foldspace between alternate realities to thwart nefarious history-twisting plots from his homeworld Olympus. With Amazonian arena-warrior Pandora, out-of-his-depth reporter Jake Gannon, marked-for-death scientist Crystal Lee, and worlds-spanning travel machine NotTA,

Dave's agreement with Doc and Sally is to help the two adventurous scientists disappear into the future. But being left behind by the closest people Dave has to family isn't the bargain the 18-year-old expected. When Dave follows after his mentors, calibration issues place him centuries past his target date. Countless years and miles of wilderness separate him from Doc and Sally. Dave must survive in a primitive new world that has been waiting for him for a very...long...time....