Ken Spears

The Flowers of Peggotty Beach is a coming of age story where two cousins, Lisa and Felicity, are forced to spend a summer vacation together with their mothers. Set in the early 1990's, the mothers (Patty and Debbie) have rented the very cottage on Peggotty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts where they themselves had spent family summers in their now lost youth. The estranged cousins soon become close as they discover more about each other than they ever expected to. Felicity, recently becoming a teenager, is struggling with socializing with her peers while the younger Lisa is not only recovering from the death of her father but was born with tics and stereotypies that ostracize her. Enter the local pre-teen boys and with them fun, excitement, curiosity and, eventually, bullying. Again and again, the girls put the boys in their place and become even closer to each other in doing so. Summer near the ocean proves to be an adventure until a massive storm changes everything forever. The Flowers of Peggotty Beach is a story of family and friendship, dreams and danger, and a young girl that learns to believe in herself.

Finlay Waters, PI, and Detective Merola of the Leighton Police are chasing a cold blooded killer. One murder leads to another as the pair digs through the evidence. Their contact at the FBI, Special Agent Rampart, lends a hand on the case. What they are led to believe to be the White Rabbit assassin, a spy from cold war Russia, turns out to be a legend and a phantom. Or is it? Finlay Waters must lead his band of investigators through this difficult case in order to find someone who is deadly and ruthless before Finlay himself becomes the next target. Fast paced and full of action, this Finlay Waters adventure picks up speed until Fin is finally confronted with life or death in The Tides of Time. This is the third story in the Finlay Waters series.

Stephen 'Step' Patrick has found and destroyed monsters and demons before. Now, he finds himself the hunted. Mister Midnight is out to revenge his longtime companion, Gurdy, who was destroyed by Step. With the help of the Leighton Historical Society, Step must stop Mister Midnight to save his friends, his family and himself. This is the third book in the Step Patrick series.

Variety can be the spice of life but, for many of us, our lives have always been mundane. The monotonous cycle of our daily routines remain undisturbed and unchanging. For a select few, fate offers challenges and obstacles that can be exhilarating or terrifying. For the people of these stories, their experiences are far above challenging; they are everyday people in unexpected circumstances. What do ghosts, a conspiracy theorist, a glutton, bullies, a meteorite, a well, a French speaking doctor and a simple man all have in common? They all find themselves in this new short story collection by Ken Spears.

Twelve-year old Step (Stephen) Patrick is an only child struggling with Aspergers. With his high IQ, he's already in high school. But, fitting in is the least of his problems. Step has a monster named Tony under his bed and Tony is becoming more dangerous every day. Set in the 1980s in a New England home built atop a holy site for the Native-American Namtuxets, Carved in Stone is a YA supernatural thriller about a boy who learns to work with friends, family and community members to solve a mystery and right a past wrong by doing so. Step's problem lies in his own closet where he finds a portal into the afterlife. But his search for answers forces him into the neighborhood, to the public library, and to the local historical society, where he discovers the monster's secret. If he can rid the netherworld of an evil creature, Step can protect his family and friends and a world he comes to realize he loves much more than he knew.