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Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living his retirement dream in Fort Myers Beach, a little town on Florida’s Southwest Gulf Coast, where he owns a bar called the Drunken Parrot and resides on a houseboat named Phoenix. But, every now and then, life in paradise can get a bit boring, so Jack agrees to help local police departments with murder investigations. When Henry Wilberforce, an 82-year-old Chicago billionaire, is murdered execution-style in his winter home in nearby Naples, Jack takes on the case.

Experience the remarkable journey of William Wells Brown, born into the bonds of slavery in Lexington, Kentucky. With a mother who was enslaved and a father who never acknowledged him, Brown escaped at the age of 20 and forged a path as a steamboatman and conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a prominent lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, standing alongside contemporaries like Frederick Douglass. In 1849, driven by a mission to garner British support for the American anti-slavery movement, Brown set sail for Europe, where he would ...

William Wells Brown, born into slavery near Lexington, Kentucky, embarked on a remarkable journey to freedom and activism. The son of a slave mother and an unacknowledged white father, Brown escaped at around age 20 and dedicated his life to the abolitionist cause. Working as a steamboatman and a conductor on the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York, he became a prominent lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, standing alongside figures like Frederick Douglass. In 1849, he traveled to Europe to rally British support for the anti-slavery movement, returning in 1854 after ...

Discover the Texas Authors Short Story Anthology Volume 9, a captivating collection that brings together the best of diverse genres. Dive into tales of Historical Fiction that transport you to different eras, and immerse yourself in compelling Literary Fiction that explores the depths of the human experience. Celebrate love and identity with powerful LGBTQIA stories, and find hope and resilience in Inspirational Fiction.

The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity and even more so in times of war or tension. Many authors and poets have had real life incarnations as spies from Christopher Marlowe and Aphra Behn to Daniel Defoe. But it’s a dangerous game. Working in a murky, secretive world where any trust given could be at the expense of your life.

Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.