MY BOOKS
Welcome to My Books page. I hope you find a story or two worth your leisure time to read and enjoy. My books are written with a message about life and living but are mainly written for my readers enjoyment. I take pleasure in building these stories with a variety of characters and situations with a goal to have you turn the page, read one more chapter and hopefully, look forward to reading another story I have written. Please contact me or write a review, your critiques and encouragement are appreciated.
Savages Sinners and Saints
Jesus said “Go into all the world and preach the gospel” so in the spring of 1940, Connor and Aislinn Kilpatrick along with their four friends embark on their first missionary journey to Africa. Driven by their desire to bring the gospel to the lost, they befriend the captain and crew only to find out they are not what they seem. Their peaceful journey deteriorates from a delightful cruise in a peaceful ocean, to a perilous voyage in a darkened sea. Now fearing for their lives, facing a moral dilemma they cannot avoid, they must decide whom they can trust aboard the Charlotte. Should they do nothing and hope God will intervene, or take action and pray God will spare their lives.
When the Charlotte takes berth in Bathurst, the missionaries step ashore placing their feet on African soil for the first time. Enthralled by their new surroundings, they begin a new adventure in a foreign land, hunting, eating and celebrating their new adventure. Their final destination is Abidjan a few days away. However, one day into the final leg, the Charlotte has engine trouble, compounding the difficulties with an injured man. Always willing to serve, the missionaries pitch in to help, but when they do they make a ghastly discovery. Now, too many innocent lives hang in the balance. They now have no choice but to do the right thing. Threatened with kidnapping or death, the missionaries must struggle to survive. Forced by the awful truth they must take great risks to stop a psychopath bent on evil. Moreover, it may very well cost them everything including their lives.
My Day to Die
Max Little with ‘The Jewish Holocaust Justice Fund’ has a job to do and he’s not going to stop until he finds the next Nazi war criminal. Along with his assistant, Colby Fromage, they travel to Berlin where it doesn’t take long before they find a man willing to talk. When Klaus Sankt volunteers to share his story, Max and Colby are taken on a whirlwind tour into the darkness and treachery of the Nazi’s final solution.
In 1936 London, Klaus Sankt is a new college student from Berlin; his roommate Darby Oakley is a vocal opinionated Brit studying political science. Despite their differences, Klaus and Darby become fast friends. When Klaus is suddenly enscripted into the Wehrmacht and forced to leave school early, their lives begin to change in ways they can’t imagine. They are reunited during the Berlin Olympics where they find female companionship, intrigue and loathing for the Nazi party. Something must be done but neither have any power to change the world.
War comes too soon, placing these two friends and their countries in the middle of War World 2. With so much at stake and too much to lose, they both serve as patriots and warriors fighting the enemy at great peril. Finally, the time comes when Klaus Sankt and Darby Oakley meet again. Confronted with the hard truth of war that today someone is going to die can Klaus do his duty and kill Darby Oakley? Moreover Darby knows it's, “My Day to Die” and no one can change it.
Is Klaus Sankt a war hero, a patriot or a ruthless war criminal? Is he telling the truth or covering his tracks? Did he kill to save his own life and who was he willing to sacrifice? Has Max Little found his war criminal or is Klaus Sankt all that he appears to be? The answers lie in the stories Klaus tells and in the lives of those who he didn’t kill.
Truth Be Told
Steven Loleo didn’t do it; at least that’s his story. However, nine years into his prison sentence at Gate Wallace Correctional Facility even he’s not sure that’s true. A man is dead, people were injured, property was destroyed and a jury of his peers convicted him. His sister believes wholeheartedly in his innocence, as does a high-powered successful lawyer out of Lansing. Now things are looking up for Steven, with the promise of parole or even pardon in the near future, he could soon be a free man. Then just out of a church service on his way to lunch, a shank is plunged deep into his lung dropping him to the floor in a pool of his own blood. Steven drifts in and out of consciousness on his way to the hospital, finally giving in breathing just became too hard.
When Gretchen Loleo befriends Missy Ali, a college classmate and future mother to be, she finds out how difficult life can be. Their friendship and circumstances quickly spirals downward pulling Missy, her baby and Steven into a web of violence, deceit and treachery. When Steven decides Missy is in mortal danger, he places himself between her and the man who would do her harm. One bad decision leads to others which suddenly placing Steven in the position as an unlikely hero. However, the DA needs a perp, so when the right lies are told, Steven soon finds himself convicted of murder.
Steven lived nine years with bad men, in a horrible place and now he’s on top, the leader of the block. Now, he gets to decide who lives and who dies and given the circumstances who can blame him. Finally, alone with the man who lied to ruin his life will he exact his revenge and earn his place among murderers destined to live out his days in prison? After all he has been through, is he capable of mercy or is revenge all he has left.
FACES IN THE FOREST
DANIEL K. BYRUM
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FACES IN THE FOREST
The Amazon is a vast untouched wilderness with hidden secrets, untouched people and lost tribes. The adventure of a life times qucikly morphes into a search and rescue mission where best friends must face their fears. The rain forest is an unforgiving place where money doesn't matter, technology fails and man has yet to gain control. What they discover is more than they bargained for and what they must do is more than they can bare. Life is short and going to the Amazon alone is only going to make it shorter.
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