Lamar D. Vine

Daniel Mercer never had much ambition. Garrett Vance has more than enough for both of them. After losing the factory job he'd held for nearly twelve years, Daniel retreats into the one place where he has always felt comfortable: books. He knows the work of celebrated novelists Adrian Vale and...

Some debts don't disappear. They wait. For seventy-one years, the Hollingsworth farm has kept its secrets. Gus Hollingsworth is sixty-three, widowed, sick, and determined to spend whatever time he has left on the land his family has owned for generations. Then Richard Conway arrives from the...

His first assignment should have been impossible to fail. Someone already did. Private Daniel Scott has barely unpacked when he receives his operational designation: Charlie-256. His orders are simple—relieve the soldier occupying a remote observation post, monitor the enemy sector, and report...

Some goodbyes happen long before we realize they are the last. When Trevor and Trish travel to a remote cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, they expect a weekend of cleaning, repairs, and difficult decisions about their failing marriage. Instead, they discover a spectacular greenhouse hidden...

A quiet, unassuming man carries something ancient and hungry inside him—a force that peels back the masks people wear and exposes their deepest, most shameful desires. Mark only wants to be left alone.

In the quiet winter of 1977 Ohio, 12-year-old Jacob lives in a small town with his distant mother and absent father. When he discovers a mysterious name scrawled on an old map of Bishop's Ridge—a remote, overgrown area outside town—his innocent curiosity ignites an obsession.

Panama, 1991. A broke 21-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army contract possible, fleeing divorce and fatherhood. He ends up as MP Investigator "Eagle 12" in the sticky heat post-Operation Just Cause. One brutal weekend in Coco Solo barracks changes everything. Dawn anxiety, party highs...

Twenty-five years ago, they were teenagers in love—innocent, inseparable, bound by promises they believed would last forever. Then life pulled them apart. Now, in 2008, Tammy is trapped in a numb, loveless marriage. John is divorced, lonely, and still haunted by the girl he never forgot. One...

In a secluded duplex on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thailand, acclaimed but reclusive author Victor locks himself away to finish his long-overdue novel.

In the wake of divorce and profound loss, Stewart Foster's world has shrunk to silence and decay. A retired public works employee, he tends to the remnants of a life once shared—an overgrown garden, an empty home, and the fading memory of companionship.

A heart attack at forty. Forced retirement at fifty-nine. Joe Dunning thought the story of his life was already written in quiet desperation, cubicles, and canned soup eaten alone over a kitchen sink. Then he ran.