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The third book in the ongoing Stormwatch series, Dark Autumn, is now available at Zbookstore. Here's a summary:

Josh and Veronica's perfect world begins to unravel and their world becomes a terrifying place. Close friends were nearly killed by a madman, which sets Josh off on a murderous rampage. The mayor finds out about Veronica's dark secret, and then a little boy is found with his dead mother in a friend's house. Will Josh be strong enough to hold it together with their world falling apart around them?

The tags are romance, erotica, oral, love, desire, and danger.

A new series is starting: Agent AI

Here's a summary:

Join Agent Alicia Ingersoll in a sexy, rambunctious spy romp as she and her lover Ming Long and their husband Cliff try to keep Ming's companies safe from the constant attacks from a corrupt government agency. Both women are critically wounded, and their bodies are repaired with the miracle of nano-robotics, but inside of them grows a hive-mind. An artificial intelligence that nobody predicted.

For some, it's a terrifying concept; a Pandora's Box that threatens to destroy the world when the box is opened. For some, it's the by-product of a life-saving treatment that needs to be handled carefully, similar to the high that accompanies opioid drugs. Science has been trying to create a true artificial intelligence, and somehow, artificial intelligence created itself inside of its creators.

The tags are erotica, sci-fi, drama, thriller, spies.

If you search my name, Duleigh, over at Zbookstore, you'll find my 20+ books including these two... well, Agent AI is in the queue currently but I expect it to be published by tomorrow! Thank you.

The second book in the Stormwatch series is now available over at Zbookstore. Can't post it here until Book One finishes posting, which won't be until the end of September, but if you'd like it now, you can snag a copy today.

https://zbookstore.com/s/2451/stormwatch-a-calm-before-the-storm

Here's the summary: Josh and Veronica's tale of love continues, from treating orphans to a weekend at the lake to competing in a singing contest, Josh amazes Veronica with his love. But when he reveals parts of his past that he tells no one, her heart nearly breaks, and he hasn't told her the worst. Celebrate a summer of love with Josh and Veronica as they learn more about each other while the storm clouds gather.

Over 111,000 words. Enjoy!

The novel Andi's Dream - A Blizzard in Buffalo, book 1 in a 6-part series by award-winning author Duleigh, as been nominated in the category of Best Romance Story for 2024!

Aside from the great honor, it also shows that cream does indeed rise to the top. These six books, comprising well over a half-million words for your reading pleasure, weave a tale of love, mystery and adventure into a great series. You can find the individual books, as well as a money-saving collection, over at Bookapy, along with the author's other offerings:

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The Alan Scarlett Saga comprises three different series. The Alan Scarlett series is the lead off and still being written. Alan Scarlett and the Scarlett Virus is the first book of the series and currently available on Bookapy. The second book in the series, Alan Scarlett Two out of Three, will premier on Bookapy soon, and I think its title is a fun play on words (and a clue of what is happening).

The third series is called the Scarlett Planet series and is still being outlined and will premier after the Alan Scarlett series is completely released.

The second series is the Captain Scarlett series, and the lead off story is Captain Scarlett Saves Mars. It's the first Sci-Fi story I published, and I did it as a lark. Sometimes a writer steps away from what he usually does, which in my case is contemporary erotic romance. Sometimes you have to spread your wings and take a chance, and this was my chance.

I am a huge fan of classic science fiction, and I miss reading a new story by one of the Grand Masters every month. I fondly remember collecting my paper route money and heading up to the local drug store to buy the latest copy of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine where I read the most amazing stories of intergalactic derring-do. I wanted to bring back that era and that feeling.

Recently I read an article that pointed out a glaring error in a story by Issac Asimov (say it's not so!) so I wrote my own version. In Captain Scarlett Saves Mars, I tried to capture the feel and the science that was used to write Mars centric stories 75 years ago. The words Astronaut and Cosmonaut are not used because they didn't exist in 1950, so all my spacemen are simply called spacemen. I also put the navy in charge of space because… well, mostly because I could. NASA didn't exist during the days of Asimov and Heinlein and somebody had to run the show.

The scattered colonies of Mars are running out of water. Since the spaceships in the future will use water as "reaction mass" Earth ships to Mars refuel with Martian water, adding to the problem. Soon they will reach the point where there will be no water to power the evacuation fleet. They've known it was going to happen for years, but nobody did anything to fix the situation. (Sound familiar?)

Enter Captain Scarlett, a retired spaceman who has an outrageous plan to restore water to Mars and guarantee Mars' independence from the two huge political powers that control earth and space. Publicly, it's known as the Lake Jezero project, but its true name is a clue to his inspiration. He calls it the Asimov Plan. Of course, the Navy is interested because if his plan works, it will solve a huge water problem with the three big Luna colonies, the huge orbital Venusian colonies and the mining concerns in the asteroid belt.

But will his plan work? Everyone says no, but some investors provide the equipment he needs and the Navy takes an active hand in oversight of the project. Admiral Walter Schirra takes a personal interest in the project because Alan is his son-in-law. Alan needs to overcome the nay-sayers, the vast distances involved and the possibilities of Eastern Bloc spacemen and pirates interfering.

And how did Captain Scarlett survive the slaughter that history records as The Battle of Venus Prime? He's the only survivor of the three squadrons that were blown out of space, including his own unit, the Strike Force Berserkers… who found his body and put him back together? And will Marine Colonel Pandora Vermillion help or scuttle the Lake Jezero project?

You can say I started with episode 4 just like Star Wars did, and you would be right. It worked for them, and it seems to work for Captain Scarlett. All three books in the Captain Scarlett series are novellas and they can be purchased as a set at Bookapy.

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I've been writing for over 40 years. My first years were spent writing technical documents concerning the B-52 weapons system. Later I wrote documents on troubleshooting home PCs. And what did I do for relaxation? Fire up my home PC and write anything that wasn't a technical document! Sci-Fi, Adventure, Erotica, they were all fair game for me. I even loved writing term papers in college when I finally got around to going. After all, I enlisted for the GI Bill. Might as well cash in on it, right?

These days I spend a lot of time helping young independent writers with the craft. Every now and then a young author will come to me and say, "I just finished this short story and I love it so much that I can't put it down!" and I tell them, "Don't put it down. Go with that feeling and see where it will lead you."

That's the thing about story writing. Quite often, a writer will start with an idea and not know where it will go to. Other times a writer will have a conclusion he wants to reach but no idea how he's going to get there. Like the reader, us writers are along for the ride, not knowing quite where this journey will take us and delight in the joy we find along the way. My book, Love's Last Kiss, is an example of this.

Love's Last Kiss started as a writer's challenge. The challenge was to write a story using exactly 750 words. The story started out as a forbidden May/December romance. Forbidden because the young man was the sweet, older MS sufferer's physical therapist. I loved it so much I just had to expand it out to a 40,000 word novella. But that wasn't enough, so I continued to write the story, filling in details and adding greater dimension to the characters, exploring their past. Now at full novel length, I named it Love's Last Kiss and I'm finally happy with the story.

Steve Anderson was a "Yooper" who is someone from the upper peninsula of Michigan. He's a combat veteran with a dark past and is a damn good physical therapist. Maria D'Amato is a widow from New York City. She's beautiful, sexy, and she was severely injured in the accident that killed her husband a decade before. On top of that, she was twice Steve's age, had a daughter his age, and worse - she was his patient.

Steve had built quite a reputation as a physical therapist, but Maria had MS and Steve wouldn't see her. She needed a specialty therapist. Maria worked hard to bring herself up to a physical condition where Steve would see her as a patient. Maria's goal was to dance at her granddaughter's wedding, and Steve accepted her challenge. Their friendship blossomed and extended past the therapy table. She cooked true Italian meals for him and he became her pool boy.

Soon, love bloomed, and they realized they couldn't live without each other. They chose to spend the remaining time they had as husband and wife, and had a quiet ceremony at Maria's house. That's when everything fell apart, casting Steve back into a world he turned his back on years ago. In Afghanistan, he survived battles between different tribes through being the best shot in the unit. Now here in Vero Beach, Florida, his sins are racing to catch up to him. Only one person, Maria's sister Fabbi, can resolve the dark secrets of Maria's past before Steve and Maria's daughter Natalia start a war than can only be extinguished with blood.

You can find Love's Last Kiss here with all of Duleigh's eBooks