Short story collection

Plunge deep into disturbing darkness with 28 terrifying tales. Explore heartache, fleeting happiness, and horror in this fascinating collection.

Experience chills as you read these creepy stories and more:

• A pornographer’s horrific early morning ritual
• A beautiful baby boy who knows what he wants
• An engineer sees life on the other side of the tracks
• A drug run goes awry
• A family’s unique Christmas tradition
• An artist whose paintings become reality
• A man who longs to rid himself of an annoying companion
• A child terrified by things that slither and ooze in the night
• Come join a soldier on the run in the jungle
• An old man’s quest for the perfect photo
• A woman who sniffs out killers
• A life coach whose own brand of “therapy” goes way beyond cruel and unusual
• A young man who can’t let go of the past

Twisted Reunion is loved by editorial reviewers:

“Time-honored frights with innovation infused throughout.” – Kirkus Reviews 

“Disturbing and weird; unflinchingly grim at every turn, TWISTED REUNION shocks and even charms.” – IndieReader

In order to defeat a monster, one must become a monster.

Vampires live amongst us, feeding off the innocent and succumbing to the demons controlling their desires.

I tried to pretend they didn’t exist—until the government kidnapped my brother because he holds the genetic making for the cure to eradicate the vampire disease from the world.

Or so they claim.

I know their true motives, and there’s no way I’m going to let them keep him without a fight. Unfortunately, there’s only one way I can become strong enough to go up against them.

Become a vampire myself.

Except, I never expected to come across a ghost from my past who happens to hunt vampires. Now, infiltrating the hunter world, I’m surrounded by those who want to kill me and only a few who want to save me.

But I’ll do whatever it takes to save my little brother. Even become the monster I vowed to kill.

Fully UPDATED for 2019 and the NEW TAX LAW.

Mark J. Orr has been a practicing Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) since July 2000 for clients across the country and has also earned the RICP® designation (Retirement Income Certified Professional) in January 2017.

His financial planning practice is centered on the firm beliefs that 1) people should not pay a dime more in taxes that the law requires… 2) nor should they take an ounce more risk than they need to in order to reach their financial goals.

Get Me to ZERO™ describes seven synergistic tax strategies to help Americans legally get their future assets and cash-flow off the IRS’s radar screen and pay as little as ZERO income taxes during retirement – while simultaneously slashing their investment risks. This book fully explains how implementing these proven tax strategies can offer up to 20%-40% more spendable retirement income than traditional 401Ks, TSPs, 403Bs and IRAs.

Judge Learned Hand said, “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands”.

That, in a nutshell is the legal basis for the Get Me to ZERO™ strategy – proactively and systematically arranging our financial affairs so that our future income taxes will be as low as possible. The whole aim of the Get Me to ZERO™ strategy is to make as much of your retirement cash-flow legally “invisible” to the IRS using the full tax code. And the more sources of “invisible” retirement cash-flow – the better.

This book is not about tax loopholes! Author Tom Wheelwright, CPA says, “After all, the tax law is really a map – a treasure map. As you follow this map, your taxes go down”. If we can’t eliminate future income taxes in retirement, we at least want to minimize them by becoming fully informed and proactively using the tax code as it is written and intended. Using the letter and the spirit of current and longstanding tax laws for future legal “tax avoidance”… NOT “tax evasion” is simply being tax savvy. Whose retirement are you planning for, yours… OR Uncle Sams?

Wall Street doesn’t like the TRIPLE ZERO plan at all, nor they have embraced ROTH conversions (or even ROTH contributions). Why doesn’t Wall Street like ROTH conversions? Because when you convert a traditional IRA to a ROTH, income taxes get paid to the IRS and perhaps your state. That reduces the amount left that Wall Street (your broker or advisor) can make money on (fees and commissions). ROTH conversions give them a 20%-45% pay cut!

Terry is rich, attractive and all Dom.

When he sees something he likes, or more accurately, something his d**k likes, he gets it.

His women are hot, successful and experienced in BDSM.
Until, he meets Maggie.

She’s not at all his usual type. She’s round, lush and a hot-mess of a woman.

It’s obvious she doesn’t belong at La Petite Mort Club and he can’t help following her. She needs someone to look out for her. She’s a little rabbit in a club full of predators.

When she gets herself into a situation, he has no choice but to rescue her.

When he realizes that she’s a natural submissive and innocent of the kinkier side of sex, he’ll stop at nothing to have. He can’t wait to show her how good it’ll feel when she surrenders to his desires.

Maggie had no idea that the club she was going to was a “sex” club.

She tries not to look, but there are people doing it everywhere. She is not getting turned on by it. Not at all. Really, she isn’t.

All she has to do, is find her friend and get out of there.

Of course, that’s easier said than done. Not only has she bumped into just about every person in the club, but one of the men—a very handsome and extremely rude stranger—not only follows her, but suggests that they “do it” in the hallway. As if she’d ever do something like that. She’s a recently divorced, mother of three, not some wild, young woman.

She tells him, in no uncertain terms, what she thinks of his suggestion but then, she finds herself in a dangerous situation.

Will the rude stranger save her, or will he turn out to be even more dangerous than the others?

“Fast-paced action that never slows down until the end sentence.” – Amazon Reviewer

The Rally for US was meant to be a day of celebration. Instead, that crisp October morning turned into the bloodiest terror attack to strike the city of Boston in more than a decade. And the terrorists are just getting started.

To hunt down the insurgents, the New England Special Terrorist Division—NEST—turn to their most senior and capable agent, Alivia Morgan. Ripped from her home and family to join the battle, she had no idea just how deeply personal the fight would become.

Captured, alone, and armed only with her years of training and experience in Special Ops and the elite Army Rangers, Alivia realizes she’s in a race against time. Can she escape with her life and stop the impending attacks before the clock runs out?