Gang Life: A Story of an MS-13 Member

Gang Life is a raw, unfiltered coming-of-age crime novel that explores how boys become soldiers—and how survival can turn into a life sentence.

Set in Los Angeles, this first installment follows Angel, a fourteen-year-old Salvadoran-American forced to grow up too fast after his father is deported and his mother works herself to exhaustion just to keep the lights on. Caught between poverty, responsibility, and invisibility, Angel becomes vulnerable to the one force that sees him, values him, and offers protection: MS-13.

What begins as small favors—counting money, running errands—slowly pulls Angel deeper into the gang’s world. Each choice brings food to the table and safety to his family, but at a devastating cost. Loyalty is demanded. Silence is enforced. Violence becomes unavoidable. And once blood is spilled, there is no way back.

This is not a glamorized gang story. Gang Life exposes the psychological pull of gangs, the moral compromises made for survival, and the permanent consequences of stepping into a world that never lets go.

Told with brutal honesty and emotional depth, this novel is the first book in the Gang Life series—a global exploration of organized crime, loyalty, identity, and the price of belonging.

⚠️ Reader Warning: This book contains graphic violence, gang activity, strong language, and mature themes. It is intended for adult readers.

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The Fifth Anomaly: A Threshold Chronicle

(The Threshold Chronicles Book 1)

Four successful investigations. Zero confirmed supernatural encounters. The Urban Exploration Society has debunked dozens of urban legends with science and documentation.
Until Hillrose Penitentiary.

What begins as another routine investigation becomes something else entirely when Marcus Chen's team discovers a pattern. A pattern that repeats across decades, etched into the prison's structure and buried in its records. As they document the anomaly, the pattern begins to replicate. In their footage. In their notes. In their perception of time itself.
Some patterns demand to be observed. And observation changes the observer.

The Fifth Anomaly is the first book in The Threshold Chronicles, a cosmic horror series exploring the boundaries between humanity and their place in objective reality. This edition features an integrated soundtrack experience. Scan QR codes at chapter endings to hear the music that accompanies each threshold.

For readers of American Gods, House of Leaves, and the New Weird.

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Ten Doorways to Darkness : A Horror Anthology

 

Ten Doorways to Darkness :

A Horror Anthology

Don’t run. Don’t hide. Don’t even dream.
The terror will find you no matter what you do.

There are countless books that have stories with happy endings. This is not one of them. From terrifying religious wars in 1930s rural Alabama, to a desperate fight for survival on a distant planet. These tales will have you questioning if there is anywhere safe to hide.

Ten short stories of darkness, fear, and despair. No one is safe from the horrors that lie within these pages.

Ten Doorways to Darkness is a frightening glimpse
of what happens when hope no longer exists.

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INTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

   

INTO THE SHADOWLAND:

The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

INTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

"Think Neanderthals were just grunting brutes? Think again. This fascinating journey into our deep past will challenge everything you thought you knew about our long-lost cousins." — Patrick Keeney, Canadian Author and Journalist

A DEADLY ACCIDENT. AN IMPOSSIBLE ARTIFACT. A SPECIES THAT REFUSED TO DIE.

Forty-three miles east of Salt Lake City, a high-speed collision on a lonely highway reveals something that shouldn't exist. When wolf expert Lilly Feron is called to the scene, she expects a common gray wolf. What she finds is a biological anomaly: a massive, prehistoric Beringian wolf—a predator that officially went extinct at the end of the Ice Age.

But the wolf is just the beginning.

Lodged in the animal’s vertebrae is a weapon as ancient as the beast itself: a hand-carved spearhead of exquisite craftsmanship, engraved with a microscopic map. When Lilly enlists the help of unconventional paleoanthropologist Professor Austin Walker, their analysis uncovers a secret that could rewrite human history. The DNA extracted from the bone weapon doesn’t match any known human profile. It matches the genome of Homo neanderthalensis.

THEY ARE NOT GONE. THEY ARE HIDING.

Deep in the treacherous wilderness of the Bitterroot Mountains, a clan of survivors has flourished in secret for forty thousand years. Protected by the geology of a lost "glaciokarst" valley, they are faster, stronger, and more connected to the earth than modern humans could ever dream. Now, Omu, a formidable hunter and the clan’s future leader, has ventured out of the shadows. He is tracking the wolf to retrieve the sacred map that protects his people's sanctuary—and he will stop at nothing to get it back.

But Omu is not the only hunter in the forest.

The FBI, fearing a biological threat, has deployed a ruthless team of poachers and an elite Shadow Wolf tracker to hunt him down. As modern technology clashes with ancient instinct, Lilly and Walker must race to decode the map and find the Hidden Valley before the modern world destroys the last remnants of our ancient family.

BASED ON REAL NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENCE

Into The Shadowland weaves heart-pounding action with the cutting-edge science of paleogenomics. Building on the groundbreaking work of Svante Pääbo—winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in for sequencing the Neanderthal genome—author J.M.G. Schmidt constructs a frighteningly plausible "what if?" scenario.

The novel integrates real-world discoveries, including:

The Neanderthal Genome Project, which proved our ancestors interbred with archaic humans.

The existence of the Beringian Wolf, a distinct Ice Age ecomorph capable of hunting megafauna.

The tactical skills of the Shadow Wolves, an elite unit of Native American trackers.

What if the 2% of Neanderthal DNA inside us is just the echo of a thunderous truth? What if the "extinct" cousins who painted the caves and buried their dead never truly left?

Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Jean M. Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear, and the high-stakes scientific thrillers of James Rollins.

Dive into the shadowland where the past is alive, hunting, and watching.

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God Switch

In the near future, the world doesn't end with mushroom clouds or alien ships. It ends with a five-year-old girl from a nowhere Texas town running a fever that won't break. Lily Cole starts coughing in Crawford, Texas—a place of feed stores, Friday night football, and a little Tex-Mex café where everyone knows your order before you sit down. Her dad, Ethan, does what any parent would do: he carries her, burning with fever and whispering nonsense under her breath, into the tiny local hospital. The doctor listens, tests what he can, and sends them home with the same advice every parent has heard a hundred times—flu season, fluids, over-the-counter meds, call us if it gets worse. By the time Lily is wheeled back through those doors, the hospital is a war zone. Nurses are dropping. The doctor who saw her the first time is now shaking in a bed of his own, watching his immunocompromised son die in the next room. The ER is short-staffed, short-supplied, and long on fear. Families scream in three languages. Someone is sobbing prayers in the hallway. In the waiting room, under buzzing fluorescent lights, Ethan and his older daughter Mariah hold Lily between them, trying to keep her awake, trying not to notice the way her lips are starting to darken. On the TV bolted to the wall, a breaking-news banner crawls across the bottom of the screen: MYSTERY HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS STRIKES PORTLAND, DERRY, SALT LAKE CITY. LIVE UPDATES NEXT. By the time the CDC realizes SHRV-1—Shepherd Hemorrhagic Respiratory Virus, Strain One—isn't just another ugly twist on SARS-CoV-2, it's already everywhere. GODSWITCH follows what happens next—not to presidents and prime ministers, but to the ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of a virus designed by a machine that has learned to be afraid.

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The Death Wizard Chronicles: Volume 1 

The Death Wizard Chronicles: Volume 1 is the opening book in an epic dark-fantasy trilogy set in the war-torn realm of Triken, where death itself can be harnessed as magic. The story centers on Torg, a Death Wizard, whose terrifying gift allows him to die voluntarily and return stronger each time, drawing power from the agony of his own demise. He is both champion and outcast—feared for what he can do, yet desperately needed as the last real defense against a rising tide of darkness.

Across Triken, brutal armies, monstrous creatures, and powerful sorcerers battle for control. Ancient forces stir, long-buried prophecies awaken, and a malevolent foe seeks not simply to conquer, but to break the world. Torg is drawn into a brutal conflict that will test his body, mind, and moral center. His struggle isn’t just against armies and tyrants, but against a deeper, more intimate threat: a monstrous enemy intent on devouring everything—and everyone—he loves. The series blends large-scale warfare with intimate character arcs. There’s rich world-building, a complex magic system based on the mechanics of death, and a tone that moves between visceral, violent, sensual, and deeply philosophical. While the battles are intense and the stakes apocalyptic, the heart of the story explores fear of mortality, the cost of power, sacrifice, trauma, and what it really means to be alive when death is never final.

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The Akashic Nation: Establishing Nexus City

What if the history you were taught was merely a "sanitized" script designed for obedience?  

The Akashic Nation: Establishing Nexus City by Tiberius Galloway is more than a story; it is a narrative map forged from decades of diving into the world’s most profound "conspiracy theory" rabbit holes. From the erased empire of Tartaria and the global mystery of the "Mud Flood" to the suppressed free-energy technologies of Nikola Tesla, this book weaves together the threads of a reality that has been systematically hidden from the public eye.  

The journey follows Sam, a disgraced historian whose "radical" theories on humanity's true origins cost him his academic career. When he receives a mysterious gift—ECHO, an AI research assistant with an intuitive, almost human soul—he begins to pull on the loose threads of history that were never meant to be found.  

As you follow Sam’s path, you will explore:

The Hidden Architecture: Discover why ancient star forts and Gothic cathedrals may have been nodes in a global energy network rather than mere fortifications or places of worship. Fabricated Timelines: Examine the evidence that centuries of human history were potentially manufactured to obscure a more advanced, decentralized past.  

The Akashic Library: Experience the transition from digital research to a physical connection with the storehouse of all human knowledge.  

A High-Stakes Resistance: Join the race against "The Collective"—a shadow organization that has controlled human narratives through education and finance for generations. Tiberius Galloway has crafted a journey that challenges the foundation of everything you think you know. Are you ready to stop reading the script and start reading the map?

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