Kiel’s unconventional ideas on how to achieve ‘forever love’ are put to the test when he meets Alexsia.

Shy, deep-thinking Kiel and popular, pretty, and underachieving Alexsia are in different college social strata, and yet each have the same goal: finding the right person to build the rest of their life with.

Learning that fifty percent of marriages fail, hopeful romantic Kiel has created the Theory of ‘Us’, a blueprint for choosing the perfect life-partner.

Alexsia is drawn to Kiel and can’t understand why he doesn’t respond to her flirtations like every other guy she’s met. Nevertheless, tired of attracting all the wrong guys for all the wrong reasons, she enlists Kiel’s help in applying his Theory of ‘Us’.

As he gradually reveals his theory to her, each secretly fears they’re out of the other’s league. It’s going to take an act of courage to move from friends to lovers and be forever together as an ‘Us’.

Containing descriptive love scenes typical for their age and experience, this book is intended for readers 18+.

Chosen for the February 2024 BookLife spotlight on “Romance and Relationships” books.

Even a committed relationship can come unglued when others meddle.

Alexsia and Kiel have become an ‘Us’, committing completely, unconditionally, and irrevocably to their relationship. They’ve planned out the remainder of their college years and are happily stepping into their future together hand in hand.

Alexsia’s bubble of love with Kiel is perfect – on the inside. Outside the bubble, not everyone agrees. From them she hears, “You two are too different, too young. You’re in too deep, too soon.” Even as the volume and intensity of the criticisms increase, she easily ignores them. After all, she has Kiel.

When their plans get undermined, Kiel refuses to alter them and his behavior begins to change. Although Kiel denies he’s pulling away, Alexsia knows their ‘Us’ is unraveling. It’s up to her to fight off the external pressure driving them apart and refocus Kiel on being an ‘Us’, all while suppressing her increasing fears that the naysayers are right.

“Armed with only ones and zeros, computer wizard Terrance Tucker goes after revenge for the murder of his wife by the corporation that hired him – but he makes one mistake.”

Following the death of his wife in an automobile crash, incorrigibly non-conformist and impudent Terrance is free to yield to the recruitment pressure from a company located in a small town on the other side of the country.

After initially disregarding whispered rumors from co-workers and distrustful townspeople that the company is more than it appears to be, he surreptitiously pokes around in the corporate computer and discovers that his wife Maya’s death during his recruitment was not an accident.

Realizing that it’s up to him to avenge her, and ignoring that little voice in his head, Terrance turns his programming expertise against the firm. Captured in the act by the company’s security force and up against his wife’s murderer face to face, bruised and bloody Terrance must pit his brain against the firm’s guns and muscle to bring about justice for Maya while struggling to survive the efforts coercing him to shut down his digital attack.

THE SUPERIOR ARSENAL fits in the thriller genre but it isn’t dark – it actually has strains of humor, not comedic but rather in a smart-alecky way.