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Review: The New Lease by John Stryder
★★★★½ 
The New Lease by John Stryder is a riveting conspiracy thriller following Fae Cunningham, who is being shadowed by a mysterious benefactor who rescued her many years before. Suffering from a history of mental illness, she follows her benefactor to the Middle East, only to find his control extends far beyond her own life. He has the power to bend minds at will.
Traveling from the halls of academia to the Persian Gulf, India, and other locales, this is a true globetrotting novel with enough cultural detail to give the novel increased depth and realism. Stryder seems to know […]
It is often said that humans turn to religion because they cannot cope with the fact that one day they will cease to exist. Knowledge of our own eventual deaths is enough to drive otherwise rational people into magical beliefs about an afterlife, or so the argument goes.
All is not well in Kensrik, the largest kingdom of the known world. With the passing of one royal, and then the other, fate conspires on two young people unexpectedly bound for greatness in affairs far greater than they might ever have anticipated. Chandra, born of the now-late King Jonnecht but not of his queen, inherits the throne in an unusual succession devoid of the usual sons; and Derek, a man carrying a dead birthright of nobility stricken from honorable mention in the empire, fighting his own personal battle with furtive, yet increasing doubts. These two aimless wanderers, each of […]
Gabe McAllister, former Marine and Texas State Trooper is accused of raping a six-year-old Annie Bridges – the daughter of his ex-partner. With the DEA, Border Control, and the police coming down on him with an investigation seemingly watertight, with his supposed victim’s testimony taken on its word, Gabe is faced with the unimaginable: life in prison at Huntsville.
