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Written in a tongue-in-cheek style by a teenage boy to his best buds, Birth of a Hero explores on a deeper level what it means to go on with your life, particularly after experiencing an unthinkable trauma. Even more precisely, it speaks to what a family is and how we become bonded to one another. It is part love letter to the comic book world and part coming-of-age tale.

Jack and the Giant Killers must save their beloved mentor, Abel, and round up the elements that the cruel giant, Gorgo, requires to open the terrible Hateful Gate. Failure would mean victory for Gorgo and his equally horrid family, who are more determined than ever in their relentless march to absolute power in Ooom. Jack and his young comrades are faced with countless perils as they transport a feisty talking hen to safety in the mystic northern kingdom of Glacial. By the time the novel concludes, the stage will be set for what promises to be an epic final battle for Ooom.

In book two of the series, our hero Joel Franklin and his cohort are on a supernatural scavenger hunt for an age-old amulet with incredible kingdom-building power. Joel, his on-again-off-again girlfriend Polly, his brother Jasper, and his best friend Ellis courageously outwit 19th-century buccaneers, witches, werewolves, and a gang of hapless wannabe bandits. In a deadly and desperate race to keep the wondrous treasure on the side of good, the intrepid friends learn that true power comes not from what you own, but from what you are willing to sacrifice.

This is the third book of the Longest Halloween Series.

When the cruel Thunder Giant Gorgo embarks on a quest to extract the all-powerful Horned Crown from the mystic recesses of the Hateful Gate, it falls to a poor farm boy named Jack and a ragtag bunch of teenagers known as the Giant Killers to stop him. For the Jack and the Giant Killers, stopping Gorgo will mean an adventure in the wondrous land of Ooom that none of them had ever imagined. But the biggest feat of all might be if they can find a way to get along with one another long enough to prevent Gorgo from achieving all power.

What happens when you mix together a bored teenager, his girlfriend, and his younger brother with a reckless goblin intent on making Halloween last forever, and a witch with out-of-this world culinary skills? It's The Longest Halloween, a modern day fable that celebrates belief in oneself and family togetherness.

For three-years, Jeb Benjamin and Zach Daughtry dreamed of traveling to California to gain their fortune, once released from Camp Douglas, an infamous Union POW hellhole. When the Confederate veterans reach Jeb’s sisters ranch in the Rio Grande valley, they find it in flames, his sister’s family dead and the ranch’s cattle stolen. Death and destruction haunt the veterans. A border war flares with General Juan Cortiña’s irregulars. Jeb learns Juan’s younger brother, Miguel, has raided their ranch, kidnapping his 14-year-old niece.

Seven more great chapters that reveal where we are in the last days.