PM BOOKS
Real estate agent, Terry Cooper,, has it all—a beautiful loving wife, a young son and daughter, and a successful career which provides them with a wealthy lifestyle. However, things change when his best friend and workmate introduces him to an animated chat room. A woman he meets in the online world manages to find him in the real world, which leads to a whirlwind of disturbing internet chats, infidelities and murder. Can Terry get himself out of this mess before he loses his soul and life? Or is he too far gone to bring normal back to his life?
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7PM - Brittany
7PM is a series of 6 Ebooks, released monthly from February 7 and concluding July 7. Each short story is self contained, but forms a piece of the overall picture when all 6 are combined together with 5PM, and heading to events contained in 11PM, coming later in 2016.
Teenager, Karla Young, is forced to live with her mother after the death of her beloved grandmother. Living a dysfunctional lifestyle, she struggles to fend for herself among the chaos of her mother’s drug use and numerous boyfriends, who come and go through a proverbial revolving door. One of those men turns Karla into his unwilling plaything, almost destroying her life and soul while demanding and taking what he wants. When she finally conjures up the strength and courage to fight back and take control of her life once more, she leaves that depressing and destitute world behind her. But her unsure future is disrupted when fate intervenes and she emerges as someone new…someone with a natural talent…someone who becomes known as a trained assassin named Brittany.
7PM - Jack
After valiantly serving his country during the War in Afghanistan, Jack Griffon is living alone in New York City, one of the world’s largest metropolises. A chance encounter brings him in contact with his soul mate…the reason for his existence. But a life of bliss is not in the cards when tragedy strikes on the morning after he proposes. Grieving and on the trail of a serial killer he is determined to stop, he is befriended by his new neighbor and a cop with the NYPD. However, things aren’t always as they seem, and he finds himself being used as a pawn in someone else’s game. After extracting his revenge, he is blackmailed into working for a mysterious organization. What do they want from him? Is there any way he can break free from them? And does he want to?
7PM - Ed & Hannah
Ed Nelson is an undercover federal agent, inserted into state, city, and town police departments throughout the United States by a covert agency—the Praying Mantassassins. While masquerading as a member of the local law enforcement, his real assignment is to scout for potential agents who are willing to leave their lives behind for a greater purpose. NYPD police detective, Hannah Hall, is alerted to the existence of a clandestine organization from an online blogger calling himself DS. Convincing her superior to let her go deep undercover, her police file is expunged, and she resurfaces as a recently graduated uniformed officer, hoping to catch the eye of a scout for the organization. Partnered with the rookie, Ed has suspicions Hannah isn’t as new to law enforcement as she claims to be, but she’s perfect for what he wants to recruit her for. When she proves to him she is willing to do anything to gain his trust and approval, she finds herself preparing for the assignment of a lifetime. But will she survive it?
7PM - Talissa
Shauna Logan possesses looks that kill, a useful trait which goes hand in hand with her life as an assassin. Having been taken in by the Praying Mantassassins at a young age, she dreams of having a fulfilling relationship. One day a new member of the organisation arrives, bringing sweeping changes to the compound, and she finds herself attracted to this man almost immediately.
But as a killer for hire going by the name Talissa, she wants to be swept off her feet the old fashioned way, so she resists her desire to give in to his tacky advances. Will she use the upcoming mission with him and a young female recruit to try and get to know him better? Or are they walking into a trap which will change their lives forever?
7PM - Emily
Erica Steele Spent much of her early life growing up in a hippy commune, far away from modern society. One day a woman named Helen enters her life, showing her she doesn’t need to be the plaything of the male elders, and takes her and another young girl under her wing to show them the world.
Meeting a group of three male bikers, Erica doesn’t want anything to ruin her new perfect life, but soon finds that good things don’t always last, and finds herself with Helen heading in the direction of a place that will define her for life, the Praying Mantassassins compound. But how do they find a place that no one but a handful of people know the location to? And will they escape the law when they find themselves on the wrong side of it during their journey?
7PM - Bjorn
y.Benny Hernandez Is a Belgian party animal who does it all—sex, drugs, and travelling from place to place in his pursuit of living life to the fullest.
A drug purchase gone bad leaves two of his friends dead, and a thirst for revenge takes him to the USA in chase of those responsible.
Thinking he has the two men where he wants them, he is nearly killed by a woman from the Praying Mantassassins who is one-half of the pair of killers paid to take him out. A change of heart leads to them turning against those who hired them, and Benny is soon seduced to the Praying Mantassassin lifestyle, trained to clean up any traces of PM missions they deem need to be hidden. But when a mission comes up that requires him to take a more active role, can he be relied upon to make a necessary kill?
In the cut-throat world of assassins, The Praying Mantassassins is a mysterious organization. Basing their technique on the mating habits of the praying mantis, the group utilizes the skills of seductive beautiful women and men to make their kills…for a premium price.
Brittany, Ed, Hannah, Talissa and Emily, from 5PM, and two new characters, Jack and Bjorn, each tell their stories of sex, murder and revenge as their lives crisscross across six short tales. Who will escape the organization? Who will stay? And how will their lives as bounty hunters affect those around them?