Welcome to Sunset Villages, where golden age retirees tough it out as the century nears its end. Their retirement community is gated, razor-wired, and watched over by drones. But will they escape extinction? Evangelicals heading to an Orlando environmental protest crash land on a golf course in their AI-flown hybrid airliner. Centered in Florida's severed peninsula with previous shorelines gone, Sunset Villagers have isolated themselves from interlopers. Residents golf, have social events, and shop at malls. But these days they survive on protein grown in vertical farms, micro-filtered hydration drinks, and booze. They've created a community subsection reserved for service workers. After the crash landing we're treated to a microcosm of a world on the brink. An injured married couple interrelates with another couple, their rescuers, and medical center personnel. The airline harasses the cockpit attendant assigned to the flight, an Arab-American woman put there to stave off lawsuits. Passengers and retirees of various persuasions chronicle the past and present world outside the gates. Oligarchs with strongholds on cruise ships and artificial islands run corporations. Climate refugees are constantly on the move, lives controlled, options limited. Drones are everywhere, AI running the show, keeping tabs on society. Populations head north, but not all have that option. Several US states have sought cessation. Internationally, things are just as bad. Climate refugees, starvation, migration, suicides, tribalism, anger, and distress are rampant. Having children is frowned upon and even pet ownership a rarity. As their dystopia races toward extinction, many Sunset Villagers are in denial. A group of rabble-rousers called Fossil Fuelers stockpile gasoline for their antiquated gas-powered golf carts. Their critics saying perhaps it's time Sunset Villagers and everyone else heeded the words of George Carlin. "We're going away. Pack your shit, folks."

Fossils 2084

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Beres, Michael

Science Fiction

BookBaby

When a Kiev video store is torched, the wife of the now-deceased owner—and primary suspect in the arson case—hires private investigator Janos Nagy. As he delves into the woman’s past, Janos discovers things are far more than meets the eye, and as the case is pursued further, a human trafficking plot unfolds from Kiev across the Ukraine. With mixed involvement of Eastern European and Russian mafia, the Ukraine Secret Service, and both orthodox and nonorthodox church rivalries, the race to untangle the threads of the international trafficking ring turns quickly to a matter of life and death.

Traffyck: Book Two in the Lazlo Horvath Thriller Series

Literature & Fiction

United States

Medallion Press

The year is 2040. The world is in chaos. A valiant few have taken on the struggle to help the planet through its violent, lethal pilgrimage into the future. A valiant few, dogged by evil. Paul Carter, his family forced from their home by a toxic chemical spill, becomes an environmental activist. After winning a class-action suit against the chemical company responsible, he establishes a rural commune-style community. When his wife contracts breast cancer, his hopes and dreams rest on the destiny of his daughter, Jamie. Jamie Carter, whose life has been irrevocably affected by the toxic chemical spill, is obsessed with the environment. Friends, including a Chernobyl survivor, encourage her to enter political life. Her ideas gain worldwide attention, catapulting her into a limelight that proves to be a double-edged sword. Heather West has the compulsion needed for success in a politically divided, media-driven society. After a lawsuit that destroys her family, she uses her good looks and sex appeal to enter the world of television. But it's more than fame she craves. It's revenge.

Grand Traverse

Genre Fiction

Platinum Medallion

Stanley Johnson is an ordinary man, widower, early retiree, biding his time until Social Security kicks in. An ex-prostitute, heroin junkie, just trying to hang on to life. Her Sugar Daddy is wealthy, powerful, mysterious. The couple in the apartment across from Stan. His ex-employer. His landlady. His would-be girlfriend. The ghosts of his wife and son. The upcoming presidential election. And a plot so convoluted, so sick and twisted, it will rock the world. The President’s Nemesis. They will stop him if they can.

The President's Nemesis

Contemporary

Retired government agents cling to a decades-old secret that could wreak havoc on the United States political system. When a stroke victim related to a high-profile mobster dies mysteriously at a Chicago rehabilitation facility, a fellow rehab patient and former detective launches his own investigation. But when his wife tries to help him, she is kidnapped, and soon other victims emerge. The mob, family legacies, health-care scams, a troubled environment, crooked politics, and federal agents are all linked to the escalating violence surrounding Saint Mel in the Woods Rehabilitation Facility.

Final Stroke

In a western Ukraine wine cellar in 1985, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath discloses the unnecessary risks associated with the power plant to his brother, Kiev Militia detective Lazlo. Spawned by a desire to protect his family, Lazlo investigates—irritating his superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old KGB major, and ultimately discovering his brother’s secret affair with a Chernobyl technician, Juli Popovics. After the explosion, the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but also becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power. With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their lives—and their love—in this engrossing political thriller.

Chernobyl Murders: Book One in the Lazlo Horvath Thriller Series

The Journey Home: 1917 - 1945

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Independently published

Extinction Village: a novel

Literary

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