Alec Byrne was once a “taxpayer-funded lethal weapon,” an elite Air Force Special Operations Lieutenant whose career ended in a shattered spine and a wheelchair. Trapped in a purgatory of self-pity and alcohol, his only hope for redemption comes from a top-secret military project: the Exoskeleton, a revolutionary “super skin” designed to transform a paralyzed soldier into a super-warrior. But as Alec takes charge of the research team to fix the suit’s flawed neural interface, he discovers the technology is a sham, controlled by remote programs and buried under layers of government deceit. The price of walking again is a torturous spinal implant that grants Alec unimaginable strength and speed, restoring the lethal confidence he thought he had lost forever. However, the line between military advancement and global conspiracy dissolves when Alec realizes the threat isn’t just external; a trusted team member is working to sabotage the project from within. Now, he must confront a manipulative foe known as the Dark Angel and navigate a web of betrayal that reaches the highest levels of the Pentagon. In a world where technology and treason combine, Alec and his unit of outcasts—the P.H.A.N.T.O.M. Cell—become the only line of defense against L.E.G.I.O.N., a shadowy organization intent on global domination. For Alec, the deadliest threat isn’t a bullet; it’s the chilling possibility that his own identity has become the enemy’s ultimate target. He must decide if he is willing to become the weapon his country demands, even if it means losing what remains of his humanity. Free on Kindle.

If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive? Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity. With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland. Can he get there safely? Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was? This is the story of Marcus’s journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive. This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is “Ashes to Ashes”, followed by “When the First Bird Sings”. The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027. Free on Kindle.