At last, the much awaited sequel to last year's blockbuster hit, “A Secret Life.” Tony Hance was a good kid, two years out of high school and grappling with his future. He had a job, and while it wasn't glamorous, it paid his bills and kept him in shape. He had a loving family and great friends. The Vietnam War was finally over, and the country was more concerned with disco dancing than fighting wars. Life was good. But things sometimes change in a hurry, and one bad decision can sometimes destroy a future. Sharon was a looker who accepted Tony's advances a bit too quickly. A man with more experience might have seen that as a red flag. But Tony was still innocent and naïve to many of the ways of the world. He considered Sharon not as a threat, but as a lonely woman who wanted his company, and he was more than happy to oblige. It was over in a flash in a seedy motel room. A drunken Tony was attacked from behind by Sharon's partner and hit in the head. When it was over, Sharon and her partner both lay dead by Tony's hand. He panicked, and he ran. His brother Mark was the first to find him, at a military base just outside of Anchorage. The FBI was not far behind him. But as the authorities closed in on him, Tony was able to slip through their grasp. It was only temporary, he knew. But it bought him enough time to disappear into the Alaskan wilderness. Mark helped Tony get away, assuming his brother's identity when boarding a jet back to Seattle, and drawing the feds with him. Then the trail went cold. The FBI assumed Tony landed in Seattle and then disappeared into parts unknown. His family knew he was still in Alaska, but not exactly where. And Tony did his level best to disappear from everybody. Here, in “The Hunted,” is Book 2 of the series.
Tony Hance was a good man who made a very bad mistake. Now he's on the run. He left behind everyone and everything he ever loved. This is a story of one man's struggle: against his past, his own personal demons, and those who would lock him away for life. Author Darrell Maloney brings back some of the characters from his best selling novel "The Secession of Texas" for "A Secret Life," the first of four installments in the Secret Life series.
As a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, Randy Maloney was ready to prove his worth. What he finds is a different world than the ones in generations past. He is forced to confront the biggest catastrophe man kind has ever faced.
A sequel to last year's success "Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine," this book is a light-hearted look at simpler times. Growing up in the 1960s wasn't always fun, but it was a great adventure. Join the author as he goes back to a better time, before the fast paced technology of our modern world came along and ruined everything.
Growing up in Texas in the 1960s wasn't always fun. But it was an incredible adventure. Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine is a series of short stories that document one boy's journey through adolescence and the teen years. It's sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and sometimes outrageous. But it's nostalgic and entertaining from the first page through the last.
In 2013 the author asked the citizens of Lubbock to share their personal stories of ghosts in and around the Hub City. The only stipulation was that they be true stories; things that either happened to them, or to someone close to them. The author expected a handful of responses. Instead, he got dozens. It turns out there are a lot of Lubbockites who have had eerie encounters with ghostly spirits, or of things they do not understand and which seemingly cannot be explained. These are their stories. -- From p. [4] of cover.
Dave and Sarah Anna Speer had been preparing for Armageddon for years. They thought they'd covered all the bases, and had planned for everything. It never occurred to them that the single thing they had no control over was the timing. Sarah was on an airplane with her young daughters when solar storms bombarded the earth with electromagnetic pulses. Everything powered by electricity or batteries was instantly shorted out and would never work again. Dave was suddenly alone. He was also unsure whether his family was dead or alive. He assumed that the airplane stopped working and plunged from the sky. But it was scheduled to land in Kansas City at almost the exact time everything stopped working. Had they landed in time? Was it possible they survived? This is the story of a man facing Armageddon alone. It chronicles the things he does to survive in a newly vicious world. It also includes Dave's desperate and poignant diary entries to his wife. Just in case she did survive, and somehow makes it back to him to find he didn't make it himself. From the author of last year's best sellers “Final Dawn” and “Countdown to Armageddon” comes a new tale of one man's journey through hell… alone.
In the first book of the series, Scott Harter and his family evacuated the city of San Antonio. They picked up and moved ninety miles away when disaster struck as a result of the solar storms that destroyed all technology. In this book, Scott and his group are struggling with the new reality in a very changed world. It is now a vicious and dangerous place, but San Antonio keeps call them back.
The plot continues as the lives of the survivors of the solar storm and the ensuing plague begin to get back to normal. In San Antonio, Robbie a police officer driven to the edge of insanity by the aftermath of the plague plots to kill his best friend John. Sara with Tom's helps embarks on her own plans to locate her mother who she once thought was involved in the abuse she had suffered as a child, but now aware that her mother was a victim herself. Meanwhile far away from earth, the storms are beginning to brew again on the face of the sun.
There were some things that weren't in dispute. Before Tony Hance assumed another man's identity and went on the run, he did indeed shoot and kill two people. The evidence was irrefutable. In his mind, he had no choice. It was him or them, and he shot and killed him to survive. To others, it wasn't quite so cut and dry. Tony said he shot in self defense. So why, then, did he shoot each of them twice? The first shot to each of them was fatal. The second shot was overkill. In the words of the veteran police detective on Tony's trail, “a self-defense excuse ends when the threat no longer exists. Shooting people who are already dying is nothing but murder.” But even the detective felt there was more to the story. Something about it gnawed at him. Tony was a good kid, with a bright future. It made no sense for him to throw it away. If there was a side of the story that remained untold, only Tony Hance himself could tell it. And would the jury believe it? Tony successfully evaded capture for the better part of two years, first by joining the Air Force and then by disappearing into the Alaska wilderness. But now, captured and jailed, he was on his way back to Texas to stand trial. Would telling his version of the story make a difference and save him from the gas chamber? Would it fix the damage he'd done to the women he loved, the family he destroyed, and the dying father who wanted nothing more in the world than to vindicate his son? Every accused has his day in court. This was Tony's…
It's now been two years since the power went out. No one thought it would take this long to return to normal. But there has been some progress. Cities are starting to restore power to a limited degree. People need their cars and car parts. And manufacturers can now make them in limited numbers. But to make them they need workers. And without cars, workers cannot get to the factories. It's a Catch-22 situation if there ever was one. The Spear family is now back in San Antonio, crammed into their house with four young strangers and trying hard to make it work. Lindsey's in love, Kristy finishes her vigilante mission and things are looking up. All of them, even the little ones, think the dying and the misery are over. That they can lay low and bide their time and wait for the world to be whole once again. But they couldn't be more wrong.
Scott Harter discovered what the Mayans really meant about the world ending on December 21, 2012 -- the day marked the beginning of a period that would see the end of civilization as we know it. Scott understood that big changes were coming, but he didn't know if he had two days to prepare, or two years. To protect his family, he threw every resource he had, plus some resources he didn't have, into preparing for the end.
Dave should have known better. He'd accomplished his mission. He'd found his family and rescued them. They were together again. There'd been nothing easy about it. He'd been shot at, beaten almost to death and had to detour two thousand miles to California and back. But he'd accomplished his mission. Now he made a major blunder: he let himself relax. He let himself believe the worst was over. That the trip back to Texas would be easy by comparison.Nothing's ever easy in the new world. The thousand mile journey ahead is full of traps. Death awaits and bad men hide around every corner. After everything he's been through, he should know better.
Scott Harter had planned for Armageddon and his family is once again safe, ninety miles from the place they once called home. In this fifth book of the series, the plague continues to wreak havoc, even in its waning days. Nearing the end of his self-imposed exile, Scott learns that Becky has been keeping a secret, but it looks like Becky isn't the only one with a secret.
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