Terry Persun

After two young boys find what they believe is a dinosaur egg, the military gets involved immediately. When aliens emerge from the eggs, Neil and Mavra are struck with a moral decision whether to allow the military to analyze the aliens or to help the aliens go free. Their travels eventually take them to Area 51, where Neil and Mavra are forced to come up with a foolproof plan to help the aliens. Neil is a detective who can think independently from both sides of his brain and Mavra is a psychic with uncanny powers. The government only wants to capture, secure, and research the aliens. Neil and Mavra know this will only put the aliens in greater danger. This is a lighthearted and fun book about what might happen if aliens were found here on Earth. It brings up morale as well as safety questions throughout that each character struggles with in his or her own way.

A bold and raw study of the human condition. Readers will instantly see themselves and their friends and family in this bravely written novel. Because it explores love, hate, sex, and passion in a way that exposes the truth, this book is hard to put down once you've started reading. When Jack and Silvia introduce their workmates and their spouses and girlfriends at a party, they have no idea what problems will transpire. And when a mentally unstable man acts out his sexual fantasies for one woman while threatening the life of another, only one thing can happen. IPPY AWARD WINNER ("Sweet Song", 2012) For fans of Joyce Carol Oats, James Salter, Jim Harrison, and E.L. Doctorow

"Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel Doublesight does both and more. Richly textural, complicated in character, and presenting a world unlike any other, this debut imbues new blood into the genre. It is a stunning fantasy for the new millennium."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series"Persun's captivating new fantasy raises the art of shape shifting to a new level. Enter the world of Doublesight where man and animal are one. A fresh adventure awaits "-- Janet Lee Carey, bestselling author of DragonswoodNow part of Kindle Worlds' fan fiction site. After the Doublesight Wars, dangerous and cruel shape shifters were killed off by the humans. To protect themselves, the other doublesight decided to hide their gifts and congregate into their own villages or clans, and avoid humans. Now new rumors, of violent and dangerous doublesight--gryphons, harpys, dragons--have again riled the humans. The twin granddaughters of the crow clan's sage, Zimp and Zora, are the last descendants of their powerful shapeshifting family and must help guide their clan. The reticent Zimp is relieved when her sister is chosen to take her grandmother's position instead of herself. When the clan is attacked, Zimp finds Zora murdered. Now Zimp is forced to take over her sisters responsibilities and lead the clan. The doublesight council assembles to assess the situation with the rumors and they decide to send a team to investigate. This team the council decides will be led by Zimp, and now Zimp must find a way to lead four strong and difficult men in order to help save her people. Struggling with her own shamanic visions and astute intuition, and trying to hold a stable position as leader, Zimp finds herself in the center of a changing world full of sorcery and must decide on her real place within it...

Time traveling robots, a walking medical experiment turned detective genius, and a kidnapped psychic combine in a story that will tear at your heart and get your adrenaline pumping.the problem...When it comes to investigating missing objects, Neil Altman stands out. After all, his parents severed the two halves of his brain when he was a child and then trained him to use each half independently. The problem is that he doesn't believe in time machines, so Dr. Eric Steffenbraun's project, stolen or not, already sounds far-fetched.the proof...Video is hard to deny, but Neil isn't sure if the beings coming through the time machine are humans with masks or illegal humanoid robots. Besides, Dr. Steffenbraun could have faked the video if he feared the project was about to be cancelled.the complication...Neil's wife, Mavra, is a well-known psychic in the area, and believes that Neil could be in danger. Knowing how she can get involved even when asked not to, he includes her in on the investigation. His plan is to keep her out of harm's way. That is until she's kidnapped.the wildcard...Miles away from Neil and the time machine, Fenny is trained to think on his own. He's a utility robot with little understanding of what's going on around him except what Dr. Smedley Klein has taught him--for now. Things are about to change for Fenny once Revision 7 is installed.

The life of a New York advertising executive, Llewellyn Smith, is turned inside out when he is forced to experience a Native American vision quest. Accused of murder after the experience, he confronts the damage done to family and friends by his former self.

Unchecked emotions made the world outside Newcity dangerous, unruly, and violent. At least, that's the official story in Newcity....Within Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed. To ensure harmony, a monitoring implant alerts the police to bring out-of-control residents in for treatment. Getting better is mandatory.Keith senses something is wrong, especially when he starts having some very unusual visions. Escaping Newcity, he finds freedom and friendship -- but learns the outside world isn't a safe haven, either. As things spin wildly out of control on all sides, someone has to figure out what's behind the insidious social control in Newcity before the outsiders really do turn destructive. Keith has leadership thrust upon him with only his visions for guidance. Can he and his friends stay alive long enough to save both Newcity and the outside world? "Cathedral of Dreams is a compelling tale of a dystopian future and personal heroism."

Secrets from the past overtake a young man who never knew his father. Will old wrongs destroy him or will he rebuild his life? Billy Maynard, raised by his mother and grandparents, comes home from college for the summer and meets Jack, an ex-con. When Billy's mother forbids him to speak with Jack, Billy wants to know why. The answers he unravels lead from deception to deception leading back to a terrible incident at the creek bend one spring night long ago. The truth about what happened, once uncovered, still has toxic effect on everything that Billy cares about. He will lose everything unless he can find the strength to transform a malignant past into a future of reconciliation and hope.Terry Persun is the recipient of the 2012 IPPY Award for his novel SWEET SONG.

Dying of cancer, lost in a snowy forest, Jim mysteriously connects with a deer and rediscovers love and nature's grace. A lyrical and insightful meditation on mortality and spiritual life, Giver of Gifts tells the story of a schoolteacher who has lost his daughter and becomes estranged from his family and his life. Now, facing untreatable cancer, he needs to rediscover how to give of himself. Alone in the forest on a winter's day, Jim has a mysterious encounter with a deer that gives him the key to reopen his heart to his wife and son, to reconnect with his own feelings and to share his deepened appreciation of nature and life.Terry Persun is the recipient of the 2012 IPPY Award for his novel SWEET SONG

WINNER of the Silver IPPY AWARD Sweet Song is an archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post - Civil War America. Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own -- and passing for white. Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists -- a vivid panorama from America's past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we've come from and who we are.