Books Click each cover for more detail Absolute Porno by Wade Carter A corrupt Washington attorney discovers he has accepted kickbacks to bury a Supreme Court sex-slave-trafficking scandal. With the help of a lobbyist and a tabloid journalist, he sets out to expose the cover-up. Available winter 2007 Down to the Wire by Bob Sweeney An American businessman in China receives a mysterious package that he is instructed, at gunpoint, to drop in a trashcan when he arrives at LAX. Instead, Charles Weston opens the package and unleashes a Pandora's box that makes him the target of gangsters, international assassins — and his own government! Available winter 2007 Dreamstate by Gertrude Reichsmeid Author Gertrude Reichsmeid delivers fourteen stories that form her most complex work. Combining the concepts of magical realism with the fluidity and depravity of dreams, she takes us through a series of interconnected alternate realities that seem very much like our own, but...not quite. Available fall 2007 When the Bough Breaks by Lucy Morgan A human female impregnated with an alien baby leads Earth to the brink of interstellar war. Will the squeal of a newborn save both worlds, or will the child lead each species to mutual destruction? Available fall 2007 Princess Carlotta by Donovan Baker With her twin sister away for the summer, Lindsey Bakersfield is having a rough summer. Carlotta, a new girl in town, has managed to turn everyone in Vassey Heights against her. Will Lindsey's Machiavellian plot to manipulate her way back to the top succeed? Available August 2007 Wasteland by Carl Loutan When a stoic farmer discovers his wife in bed with another man, he takes off to nearby Omaha and, for the first time since his marriage, indulges in the vices of his past. Available August 2007 If I Did It... by Girth McDürchstein Convicted of murder in 1999, legendary rocker Girth McDürchstein spent two years in a Montana prison before new evidence uncovered his innocence. In this fictional novel by a fictional character, McDürchstein (with the help of Idle Valley ghostwriter D. B. Bates) poses the question: what if he did it? What events would have led to it? How would it have happened? Find out in If I Did It... Idle Valley American distribution released June 2007 Affirmations by Lacey Greenwood Lacey Greenwood's pitch-perfect "chick lit" satire of a graduate student living at home with her parents. Her mother has become a pole-dancer, her best friends from high school are going insane, a guy she treated badly in high school is in love with her, and Mary-Ellen Kline has to solve all their problems and finish grad school. Idle Valley reprint released June 2007 Mercy Eyes by Bob Sweeney After completing a job, a hitman discovers a big loose end: a pulli puppy left alive. Instead of killing her, he takes her as a pet, unaware that this small act of kindness toward an animal will lead to his downfall. Idle Valley reprint released May 2007 'Til I Die by Bob Sweeney A broken-hearted high school senior joins a Satanic cult in an effort to find a date to the prom. When he discovers the prom coincides with a ritual designed to bring about the rapture, he has a choice to make: go to the prom or save the world. Idle Valley reprint released May 2007 Down on 59th Avenue by DiFranco Murray In the Seattle slums, Malloy teams with a gang task force detective, known on the streets as "the Buddha," to investigate a murder. When they uncover a drug-trafficking operation, the gangsters will stop at nothing to keep their business strong, but the Buddha will stop at nothing to take them down. Salt Air by Jonathan Elston A pitch-black satire of Hollywood centered around a poor screenwriter night-managing a seedy motel. He attempts to exploit his grade-Z industry contacts to rise up and accomplish something none of his business associates have done before: make a good film. The Sunspot Murders by DiFranco Murray In a world where the rich buy justice and the poor rent despair, gumshoe Melvin Malloy walks the rainy streets of Portland searching for truth. Is there a connection between a series of seemingly unrelated murders? Only one object has the answer: the sun. Could an increase in solar activity really drive a man to murder? Ask a werewolf on a full moon. Summer Mornings by Wade Carter During the hottest summer in Arkansas history, Boyd Schaughnessy fights to balance three secret marriages. Sparks fly when one of the wives follows Boyd to the home of another and exposes his infidelity to the other two. Will Boyd be able to turn the tables when he realizes all three wives know the truth? Restricted Airspace by Lucy Morgan The alien Kr'mlac race make the innocent mistake of landing in rural Russia, and all hell breaks loose: the Russians go public with the presence of aliens, causing global panic and exposing the true existence of Area 51. With humanity divided, invasion forces from the Kr'mlac home world arrive. Can the world reunite against a common enemy? Benchpressed by Wade Carter A macho factory worker finds his sexuality and machismo in question when he falls for a female boxer. When he decides that in order to prove his masculinity, both to himself and his friends, he must box Velma, he jeopardizes their relationship and his future. Portrait of Samantha by DiFranco Murray Melvin Malloy reluctantly takes a case on behalf of his girlfriend. Soon he discovers that the client, while professing his innocence, is the man behind it all — and Malloy's the fall guy! Will he be able to nab the client before he flees the country, clear his name in the eyes of both the police and his lover, or will they send him to prison for murder? Maximum Slate by Gertrude Reichsmeid When a glowing orb is discovered in a small park in downtown Chicago, six men and women find themselves on a religious pilgrimage, a quest to seek Satan — living on Earth in a human guise — and destroy him on behalf of God. Packing complex characters and a variety of subplots into her second novel, Gertrude Reichsmeid weaves a rich tapestry of political and religious satire combined with a sharp eye for slapstick. Death in Genoa by Jonathan Elston When his wife's sudden death leads an alcoholic writer to join a support group for necrophiliacs, he finds himself giving in to impulses he has never even thought about before. Jonathan Elston uses this story as a jumping-off point to satirize an underworld of sexual fetishism and loose morals. Mirror of Pain by Gertrude Reichsmeid The matriarch of a corrupt London family begins to see a distorted, vile reflection in the mirror. Rather than acknowledge this as a symbol of her own flaws and try to change, Sarah tries to ignore it, but when the mirror image begins to speak, she can no longer ignore it... Tripwire by Jonathan Elston Staying in an isolated cabin, a recent divorcée and her daughter are kidnapped and tortured by a seemingly friendly yuppie couple. Will they stand up to their captors, or will they remain victims? Assimilation by Lucy Morgan The aliens have landed, and they want to study humanity and be studied. Instead, they are quarantined to Area 51 until the Pentagon classifies them as nonthreatening. A series of interviews, held by characters from Groom Lake, NV, give insight on this alien race, the difference between their lifestyles and human lifestyles, and inherent hypocrisies and fallacies of modern American life. Hogswallow by Wade Carter In Nigeria, circa 1954, an American anthropologist stumbles across an isolated tribe populated solely by women. He spends time with them, teaches himself their language, customs and culture. When he begins to ask questions, the answers he has sought are far more disturbing than he could have imagined. Janie's Huge Mistake by Donovan Baker The second Sweet Girls novel begins with Janie Bakersfield's spring-break sexcapades with class heartthrob Billy Kerns. When she ends up pregnant, will Janie be able to hide it from her parents until she can get an abortion? Meanwhile, twin sister Lindsey schemes to turn her clique against their de facto leader. Memories of Shoes by Carl Loutan A man awakens with two weeks of his life missing and nothing to fill in the pieces but three pairs of shows. With unusual events surrounding him, his only choice is to solve the mystery of these three pairs of shoes and, hopefully, get his life back. Hired Gun by DiFranco Murray When he's blamed for the murder of a man he's been hired to protect, Melvin Malloy has 24 hours to outwit a bounty hunter, outrun a hit man, and clear his name. She Be Dangerous by Jonathan Elston A leather-clad, motorcycle-driving assassin blasts through the Utah desert after a rough hit in Portland's Chinatown. In the tiny town of Wain, she quickly discovers that perhaps Chinese gangsters and urban hoodlums were the least of her problems... Released by DiFranco Murray Nothing is as it seems when Melvin Malloy's former cellmate shows up at his doorstep. Out on parole and insisting he was framed, Bruno Kelly wants revenge on the people who put him behind bars. The only problem? He doesn't know who did it. The Youngest Boy by DiFranco Murray An alcoholic PI is unwittingly sent on a wild goose chase for information that could clear a friend of murder. His search for the truth leads him into the dregs of Seattle society: prostitutes, crack addicts, Vietnamese gangsters. When it seems like his leads have dried out, a dying man whispers four words: "Find The Youngest Boy." Earthly Delights by Wade Carter As a successful attorney's twenty-year high school reunion approaches, she realizes that the focus on career has prevented her from experiencing all that life has to offer. While playing catch-up before the reunion, she has a series of philosophical awakenings that steer her along a strange, different course... Groom Lake, NV by Lucy Morgan Area 51 exists, and it really is a research facility searching for extraterrestrial life. They're about to make first contact, and all hell will break loose in the process. Over a 24-hour period, every side of the debate — military, scientific, religious political — will be explored. When the aliens finally arrive, how will they be greeted? Twisting the Truth by Donovan Baker The first novel in the Sweet Girls series introduces us to the world of Vassey Heights, U.S.A., and two of its residents, seventh-grade twins Janie and Lindsey Bakersfield. Janie tries to kill her longtime arch-rival in order to secure a spot on the volleyball team; Lindsey may have to do worse than that in order to join the secretive Sun Rays. In Town Tonight... by Greenfield McKenna An elegiac, largely autobiographical look at a grizzled Beat poet, exiled for decades in the American heartland, who returns to San Francisco to reunite with old friends and enemies, and rekindle lost loves. Greenfield McKenna's final novel. Couldn't Say No if I Tried by Greenfield McKenna In an odd — and by most critical accounts, unsuccessful — reversal on his previous novel, Assuage the Guilt, Greenfield McKenna takes the first-person perspective of a "sympathetic" serial rapist and attempts in vain to portray his death as a merciless tragedy. This is the novel for completists only. Assuage the Guilt by Greenfield McKenna In San Francisco, a rape victim seeks revenge on her assaulters when the police refuse to help. Although the victim does have her revenge, the guilt that haunts her is far more powerful than the horrific violations of that night... Flesh-Peddler by Greenfield McKenna The least successful prostitute of all time considers a career change but finds it more difficult than expected in a small town plagued with prejudice and stagflation. Will she resort to the offer made by her pimp, to become a ruthless assassin just to make ends meet? Regal Laugh by Greenfield McKenna Taking place in a strange hybrid of Victorian England, the modern American Midwest, and a dystopian future where machines rule mankind, an idiot-manchild has a timebomb strapped to his body and is subjected to the will of a sociopathic drug dealer. Will the manchild overcome the circumstances of his radiation-soaked birth in order to get rid of the bomb and free himself of the dealer's tyranny? West to Heatherborough by Greenfield McKenna Often called "the awkward, ghost-story version of On the Road" (© The Guardian, 1974), West to Heatherborough tells the story of two lovers traveling through the countryside of war-torn England, seeking safety in an ancient family home abandoned in the 1920s. When they arrive, the lovers discover they were safer among the landmines and soldiers. Fat Her by Greenfield McKenna A wounded, discharged Vietnam vet travels across the United States to find the lover he left behind. Along the way, he reunites with the alcoholic father who abandoned him in childhood. Together, father and son travel and discover the sacrifices families must make to endure as the veteran seeks his bride. Valiant Interest by Greenfield McKenna In a strange world that seems like ours but clearly isn't, a second civil war has broken out as a result of the African-American civil rights movement. Soldiers occupy a tiny town in a neutral state, using it as an outpost. When they're attacked by a team of rebels, all hell breaks loose — and reveals the racism locked in the hearts of even the most even-tempered, pro-equality citizens. Rain Upon My Skin by Greenfield McKenna In the mid-1950s, a Midwestern farmboy hitches to San Francisco and discovers the early Beat movement. Entranced by the rawness and fluidity of the poetry — and the beauty of one poetess — he begins to write his own poems and finds himself a laughing stock. Angered by the hypocrisy of supposed "free spirits" mocking expressions of natural emotion, the young man hatches a plot to make each poet rue the day they laughed at him.

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