Steven D Malone

To know the future is the end of freedom.To know the future is to know the day and hour of your death.Mesmerist Price Purcell, claims to the see the future. Ruthless people want to know what he knows.Conner Miles, ex-bootlegger turned mob sleuth, is charged with protecting the Mesmerist. That means danger to Conner, and all he holds dear.GANGSTERS, FLAPPERS, JAZZ, AND MURDER IN THE WIDE OPEN FREE STATE OF GALVESTON 1926

Gangsters, Flappers, Jazz, and Murder in the wide open Free State of Galveston, 1926Who killed Victoria Yeats?Casino owner, Donny Colleta, wants retribution. Someone has murdered his mistress. The killer must be found. The killer must pay.Conner Miles, bootlegger turned mob sleuth, gets the job. He doesn't want it. But nobody refuses Donny Colleta.Grabbing his fedora and his revolver, Conner hunts the suspects.Somebody has to pay.There is a price to pay for Conner as well.

Beach Gang bootlegger, Conner Miles, must clean up a mess and protect the fiery prostitute, Livia.The mess is a body piled like dirty laundry in a puddle of blood in Madam Dianne Starr's brothel garden.Conner's boss gives him a wad of hundreds to clean up the mess. You don't say no to the boss. The madam wants the murderer found. She wants Conner to protect one of her girls, Livia. You don't say no to her either.Maybe Livia's a witness. Maybe she's the murderer. Livia won't say. But she smiles so pretty and promises so much.Then bullets start flying. Someone wants Conner dead.Can Conner find the murder? Can he protect Livia? Can he keep himself alive?Gangsters, Flappers, Jazz, and Murder in the wide open Free State of Galveston, 1925

The Confederacy crushed. The South ruined. Three men must escape or hang for their actions during the war. Sanctuary is offered in far off Brazil. In those dark days between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, Liam Conner, Gabe Luna, and Telamon Simms run for their lives. Enlisting aid from a notorious "fixer", an ex-blockade runner, and a motley crew of gunfighters, they attempt to flee. Possibly, a new start as "Confederados," the term for Rebel expatriates settling in Brazil, awaits for them. Their lives, and the lives of their families, are in the hands of others. Their plight is desperate. Can they escape? Will they make it?