The Seventeen Series · Short Story Collection 1-3

This collection includes the first three short stories in the explosive, award-winning action thriller series Seventeen.

First Death

1570. Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia.

Ten-year-old Lucas’s life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts.

Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time.

Dancing Blades

1624. Edo period. Japan.

When hunted half-breed immortal Lucas Soul hears tales of legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto during his travels in the Far East, he sails to Japan to meet the great man and convince him to take him on as an apprentice.

Musashi refuses to agree to his request, leaving Soul with no option but to shadow the samurai and repeatedly challenge him to duel, in the hope of proving his worth. But things takes a sinister turn when Soul stumbles upon a plot that threatens the life of Musashi’s son.

Can the immortal rescue the young man in time and change the master’s mind?

Join Soul as he embarks on an exciting adventure that sees him grow as a warrior and gain the respect of the greatest samurai who has ever lived.

The Meeting

On a hot summer’s day in Boston, US Marine turned Homicide Detective Reid Halsey finds himself in the middle of a deadly shootout with a murder suspect.

When Lucas Soul, a seemingly innocent victim, rises from the dead moments after a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Reid comes to the shocking realization that the world he believes in may very well be a carefully fabricated lie masking an unearthly reality.

The Meeting tells the origin of the incredible friendship between Reid Hasley and Lucas Soul, the protagonists of Soul Meaning (Book 1 in the award-winning Seventeen series).

OTHER NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES IN THE SERIES

Soul Meaning

Winner Fantasy Category National Indie Excellence Awards 2013

Finalist Adventure Category National Indie Excellence Awards 2013

Finalist Action-Adventure Category Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2013

Honorable Mention General Fiction Hollywood Book Festival 2013

King’s Crusade

Winner Action-Adventure Category Next Generation Indie Book Award 2014

Finalist Shelf Unbound Competition Best Independently Published Book 2014

Greene’s Calling

Finalist General Fiction Category Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2015

Ashstorm

The Warrior Monk

The Hunger

The Bank Job