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CALLIE AWAKENS (Book I) The first book in an exciting new series I'm writing. Callie Awakens was published on June 22, 2021 and is available on Amazon. To learn more about Callie Awakens follow the Amazon link or go to my author website www.ripconverse.com. Prior to writing Callie Awakens I wrote the Maelstrom trilogy and published those in the Fall of 2019. Maelstrom was a semifinalist in the CIBA/CLUE awards for best new Mystery, Suspense, and Thriller for 2019. Callie Awakens won 1st Prize in the CIBA/CLUE Awards for 2021 as best new thriller/suspense novel. Tangled, will be the second book in the Callie series and available December 2022.
Young girls have been disappearing in Fort Myers and the hands of the police are tied. Potential witnesses either develop memory problems or end up garbage bags, chopped to pieces. Callie Babich is on her way to a Krav Maga class one evening on her Ducati. She witnesses an attempted abduction, comes to the aid of a young runaway, and takes down two of the kidnappers in the process. She has no idea of the personal consequences and the complex chain of events that she sets in motion.
Callie is an unusual young girl, full of quirks. A compulsive runner and swimmer, she also has a 162 IQ, perfect grades, a strict personal code of ethics, and an insatiable appetite for learning new things. As a result she’s socially isolated from her peers. When she’s nearly raped by one of the few people that she trusts, Callie swears she will never again allow herself to be physically intimidated and learns and practices the Israeli fighting art of Krav Maga from a powerful female mentor named Eva Dahar.
In this first book of what is planned as a long series Callie goes up against MS-13 with the help of Eva her Krav Maga instructor and Billy Rainwater from the popular Jesse McDermitt series by Wayne Stinnet. Wayne has authored 20 books in the Jesse McDermitt series and 5 books in his Charity Styles series. I highly recommend all of his books and am immensely grateful for his loan to me one of his many interesting and lethal characters, and his willingness to experiment. To purchase: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B097QPZD5K
Callie is an unusual young girl, full of quirks. A compulsive runner and swimmer, she also has a 162 IQ, perfect grades, a strict personal code of ethics, and an insatiable appetite for learning new things. As a result she’s socially isolated from her peers. When she’s nearly raped by one of the few people that she trusts, Callie swears she will never again allow herself to be physically intimidated and learns and practices the Israeli fighting art of Krav Maga from a powerful female mentor named Eva Dahar.
In this first book of what is planned as a long series Callie goes up against MS-13 with the help of Eva her Krav Maga instructor and Billy Rainwater from the popular Jesse McDermitt series by Wayne Stinnet. Wayne has authored 20 books in the Jesse McDermitt series and 5 books in his Charity Styles series. I highly recommend all of his books and am immensely grateful for his loan to me one of his many interesting and lethal characters, and his willingness to experiment. To purchase: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B097QPZD5K
MAELSTROM Parts I, II, III was published in the Fall of 2019. A sailing adventure from NE to the Caribbean turns into a nightmare In part 1 of Maelstrom. Ryan Cunningham wakes up one day and realizes that the dreams and values he’s pursued and emulated for 37 years are those of his parents and grandparents. There’s nothing wrong with them, they simply aren't his. He sells his house, moves onto his sailboat and decides to go on an aquatic walkabout; sailing first from New England to the Caribbean and then wherever the wind blows him.
Just prior to his departure he meets a beautiful, younger, mother of two in recovery, who is trying to put her life back together. When he leaves the dock several weeks later his crew has grown by three to include Tory McCane, her 12-year-old daughter Jan and her 5-year-old son Willy. On the first leg of their trip they survive a two-day storm of hurricane force winds on the way to Bermuda.
In Bermuda, they run afoul of an amoral, international drug smuggler named Edward and his mega-yacht full of misfits. Edward is transporting over 180 kilos of premium blow and Ryan vocalizes his suspicions about them to a customs inspector who attempts to take them down. Edward gets a serious resentment and decides to make their lives a living hell; something he excels at. It will take everything they have to survive his attentions.
Maelstrom is a breathtaking, epic story, offered in three parts. It’s about the sea, new love, loss, addiction, recovery, moral quandaries, evil, pursuit and retribution. It takes place in coastal New England, Bermuda, The Atlantic Ocean, Miami and Key West. The reader will ride an emotional roller coaster exploring good and evil, weakness and strength, right and wrong. Sometimes the only way to survive is to reach deep inside to a dark and primitive place that resides in all of us. Available on Amazon.
Just prior to his departure he meets a beautiful, younger, mother of two in recovery, who is trying to put her life back together. When he leaves the dock several weeks later his crew has grown by three to include Tory McCane, her 12-year-old daughter Jan and her 5-year-old son Willy. On the first leg of their trip they survive a two-day storm of hurricane force winds on the way to Bermuda.
In Bermuda, they run afoul of an amoral, international drug smuggler named Edward and his mega-yacht full of misfits. Edward is transporting over 180 kilos of premium blow and Ryan vocalizes his suspicions about them to a customs inspector who attempts to take them down. Edward gets a serious resentment and decides to make their lives a living hell; something he excels at. It will take everything they have to survive his attentions.
Maelstrom is a breathtaking, epic story, offered in three parts. It’s about the sea, new love, loss, addiction, recovery, moral quandaries, evil, pursuit and retribution. It takes place in coastal New England, Bermuda, The Atlantic Ocean, Miami and Key West. The reader will ride an emotional roller coaster exploring good and evil, weakness and strength, right and wrong. Sometimes the only way to survive is to reach deep inside to a dark and primitive place that resides in all of us. Available on Amazon.
