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Roy Howard is an independent author who writes suspense, thrillers, fantasy, and science fiction. His stories focus on memorable characters, dangerous situations, mystery, action, and the choices people make when everything is on the line. His books include The Last Safe Place, Alpha Vampire, Dressed for Death, and Zack Cane: The Earthborn Knight. Roy enjoys creating stories that pull readers in quickly and keep the tension building until the final pages.

HE SAW THE PUNCH BEFORE IT WAS THROWN. THE STARS SAW HIM WAKE.

Seventeen-year-old Zack Cane has always been fast. During a street fight, he realizes the truth: he is not reacting to danger—he is seeing it before it happens.

The only witness is Jimmy Smith, an old man with impossible strength, a hidden starship, and a blood connection neither of them expected.

Zack is half human, half Auren—the first Earthborn bearer of an ancient power called the Ark. That makes him stronger than the Knights hunting him and more dangerous to the enemies who murdered his father.

When a fading sun and a buried lunar city threaten Earth, Zack must master a weapon that chooses its wielder, trust Mia's fearless mind, and decide what kind of Knight he will become.

THE UNIVERSE EXPECTED A WEAPON. EARTH RAISED A PROTECTOR.

Kindle Price: $3.99

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

She came home for the truth. Someone was waiting for her.

When Eden Cross returns to her dead mother’s lake house in Briar Parish, she finds a light burning inside, a house that should be empty, and a message that makes one thing clear:

Someone knows she’s back.

Before the night is over, Eden is pulled into a nightmare of hidden journals, missing records, dead bodies, and a decades-old secret tied to Blackwater Lodge — the place where a child nearly drowned, a girl vanished, and powerful men made choices no one was supposed to survive.

The deeper Eden digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Because this was never just about her mother.
It was never just about one missing girl.
And it was never just about the past.

Now someone is hunting the last pieces of the story — and anyone connected to it.

With Sheriff Rhett Vale at her side, Eden must unravel buried bloodlines, false identities, and a ledger that could destroy everything Briar Parish was built on. But the closer they get to the truth, the clearer it becomes:

Some secrets were not meant to stay hidden.
They were meant to kill for.

The Last Safe Place is a dark, twist-filled Southern thriller packed with family secrets, dangerous obsession, missing girls, and the kind of truth that refuses to stay buried.

Kindle Price: $5.99

Category: Romance

FIVE YEARS AGO, A WOMAN DIED WHILE SAMUEL DRAKE TRIED TO SAVE HER. NOW THE KILLING HAS STARTED AGAIN.

Dallas homicide detective Samuel Drake has built his reputation on seeing what others miss. He is the department’s most reliable closer—but one case has never let him go.

Five years earlier, whistleblower Lena Morales was murdered inside an abandoned courthouse before she could expose a network of sealed settlements, missing evidence, and witnesses erased by procedure. Her final warning was simple: the dress is the file. Drake failed to understand it in time.

When Simone Vale is found poisoned in a Dallas hotel room, staged in an evening gown with fresh red stitching hidden in its hem, Drake recognizes the connection immediately. Someone has reopened Lena’s buried case—and chosen a new victim to force the truth into the open.

Alongside his partner, Detective Elena Ruiz, Drake follows a trail of coded songs, altered records, concealed witnesses, and evidence sewn into clothing. The clues lead back to the courthouse and toward powerful people who know how to turn protection into containment—and truth into guilt.

Then a message appears with a warning meant for Elena:

SAMUEL DRAKE WILL LIE TO YOU.

To end the killings, Drake must uncover who buried Lena’s evidence while confronting the choices he made as a detective. This time, solving the case may require exposing the truth about himself.

Dressed for Death is a gripping Samuel Drake thriller of murder, hidden evidence, institutional corruption, and dangerous secrets stitched into every seam.

Kindle Price: $2.99

Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense