&#8220;If you could have a one time affair with someone you&#8217;ve never seen before and would never see again and there was no way that anyone could ever find out, would you?&#8221; 
If you can answer no without having to think about the question for even a moment then you probably won&#8217;t have a lot in common with the characters portrayed in TimeDonors Wanted. If you&#8217;re not so sure, then you may want to at least have a peek and see what happens to some folks that took that chance and said yes. 
	Jarvis Sloan was an Internet success story. He&#8217;d left a thriving private practice as a psychiatrist specializing in sexual medicine in San Diego to form LifeSolutions Seminars, an on-line counseling site for unhappy people looking for an alternative to classical counseling. Ironically, it isn&#8217;t just Jarvis&#8217;s patients that are suffering. His own marriage is a hollow shell. He loves his wife Sharon, when he isn&#8217;t hating her, and he loves his sons unconditionally. 
	Jarvis convinces himself that there&#8217;s only one way to deal with his growing frustration, affairs. But the affairs pose a risk to his family he&#8217;s not willing to take. To minimize the risk Jarvis takes a step in an unexpected direction. A site devoted to pairing people to meet one another&#8217;s sexual needs on a one-time basis. 
Jarvis with the help of Brooke Werner, a brilliant young computer engineer, establishes a registry inside LifeSolutions, which allows members to enter a high-security area, in which they can locate anonymous sexual partners for a single meeting, no commitments, no attachments, no threat to either party&#8217;s marriage. To ensure confidentiality, all information about both parties is erased from the embedded server every seventy-two hours. Making any connections made inside the server impossible to trace. 
 Little did Jarvis suspect, when he created the TimeDonors sub-site, that at the height of its success, it would inextricably link his own life to seven others in a web of death and betrayal. Over a two-month period, all eight of them would have their worlds irreversibly changed. More than half of them wouldn&#8217;t survive, and one woman would be forced to find reserves of courage she never knew she had.

Time Donors Wanted

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Scott, Russell

Mystery

Isolibris/China Grove Press

The Hard Times is first and foremost a novel about how men love.  Not simple lust nor affection, but the complex web of expectations, loyalty, duty, and desire that define the society of men, how they love women, how they love their families, and how they bind themselves to one another in friendship and in war.  Taken from the news, declassified CIA documents, and personal experiences in Africa and Namibia this is a fictional story superimposed on a factually based account of what's happening in the illegal diamond trade, today. It begins in Mississippi.  Ray Moffett is an ER doc and Ray is facing an abyss. When his best friend and former partner comes into the Emergency Department dead, six weeks after his retirement party, Ray finds himself thrown into a search for some semblance of meaning in his own life. His conclusions are not encouraging. For all practical purposes, a white coat is all he has left.  Everything else, fallen away, and while medicine is a good thing and medicine is a fine thing, medicine is not a substitute for a life.  His marriage gone, he’d left his wife, Lisa, for Anne, a young nurse he had thought he was in love with.  His children gone, grown, with lives of their own and no time for a father determined to play the fool.  And Anne, was gone too, fled when he'd told her he loved her and asked her to leave her husband.  She's simply quit her job and moved to another state without a word.  Not really the reaction Ray had expected. All Ray had left was work.  Work, punctuated only by the occasional round of golf.  And that wasn't enough to fill the days he had left until he took his own trip to the grave. A chance meeting with an African hunting guide, Fritz Dietrich, shows Ray a door.  A way to fulfill the adventures he’d dreamed about as a boy.  Dreams fueled by the books he’d always loved, the stories he’d grown up reading.  Written by men like Hemmingway, Ruark, and Capstick.  Unfortunately, Fritz isn’t exactly what he seems.  His past accomplishments include murder, theft, and running guns across international borders.  Wanted in several neighboring countries, Fritz is out of prison only because his older brother, Manfred is the head of security for Namibia’s national mining consortium.  But, Manfred has problems of his own.  He needs to find a way to hide two hundred million dollars worth of illegal diamonds out of Zimbabwe from the United Nations’ inspectors...and he’s just been diagnosed with lung cancer.  Manfred needs Fritz to move the diamonds and Fritz is prohibited from entering the Restricted Zone because of his criminal past. Manfred arrives at a plan that requires Fritz to assume someone else’s identity in order to smuggle the diamonds out of Namibia, someone without a family to miss him, and time is running out.   Ray finds himself hunting desert Oryx in the Namib with Fritz, both men trapped.  For Fritz to help his brother he must kill Ray and use his papers to smuggle the illegal diamonds into Europe.  For Ray to get home alive, he’s going to have to kill Fritz and then, somehow find his way out of the most hostile desert on the face of the earth.    

The Hard Times

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

China Grove #4 is a literary collection featuring an interview with Shelby Foote, a look at Eudora Welty's friendship with Frank Lyle, a new essay by Ellen Gilchrist, a short story from Charley Henley's new book "The Deep Code,some new poetry by Patricia Henley, the award of the first China Grove Prize for Excellence in Poetry, won this year by Ian Ganassi, and our usual collection of essays, fiction, and poetry.

China Grove #4

Literary

Ian Ganassi is the inaugural winner of the China Grove Prize in Poetry. His poetry and prose have appeared in more than 50 literary journals, and New England Review has published his translations of Books 1-7 of Virgil's Aeneid. Critical essays have appeared in Octopus, American Letters &amp; Commentary, The Gettysburg Review, and Boulevard, among others. Selections from "The Corpses,"a collage series in collaboration with painter Laura Bell, have been included in art and literary publications and exhibited in galleries in New York City, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere. Ganassi has worked as a percussionist, accompanying Modern, Caribbean, and African dance in New Haven, and as a teacher of writing and literature. He is a longtime resident of New Haven.

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Ganassi, Ian

Poetry

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Time Donors Wanted

The Hard Times

China Grove #4

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