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Product: UMO: A Chilling Tale of First Contact (The Rorschach Explorer Missions)
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Buckle up for this chilling novella tale of first contact!
When three probes sent to Mars suffer suspicious catastrophic failures, a clandestine manned mission is dispatched to investigate the probes' wreckage for clues to explain their demise.
A skeleton crew of three, led by Lt. Col Avery Lockett, embarks on the mission aboard the spaceship Cetus Prime knowing full well the danger awaiting them. UMOs, or unidentified magnetic objects.
Disavowed for decades by space officials as nothing more than harmless, amoeba-like blobs of electromagnetic energy, UMOs are far more lethal than they appear. For if they sense a threat, they swarm and attack. And Cetus Prime is ill-equipped to fend them off and too slow to escape.
UMO, a novella, is the prequel to Skywave, book 1 of The Rorschach Explorer Missions, a new sci-fi thriller series from mystery-thriller author K. Patrick Donoghue. The prologue from Skywave is included as a free bonus chapter in UMO.

Product: Curse of the Painted Lady (The Anlon Cully Chronicles Book 3)
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When an acquaintance is robbed and murdered, scientist Anlon Cully and detective Jennifer Stevens suspect they know the motive for the crimes. But then Anlon's companion Pebbles McCarver is kidnapped, changing everything.

For the puppet master behind Pebbles' capture is a ten-thousand-year-old tyrant who demands an impossible ransom -- the return of an ancient relic lost to the ages -- leading Anlon and Jennifer on a desperate quest to find the relic and rescue Pebbles before the tyrant adds Pebbles to her long list of victims.

Part murder mystery, part fantasy adventure, Curse of the Painted Lady is a continuation of the archaeological mystery explored in Shadows of the Stone Benders and Race for the Flash Stone, the first two books in the Anlon Cully Chronicles series.

Product: Race for the Flash Stone (The Anlon Cully Chronicles Book 2)
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Scientist Anlon Cully clashes with savage villains in the hunt to unearth a fearsome ancient weapon, the Flash Stone.
Forged as a building tool, the Flash Stone can cut and shape rock with astounding precision. In the wrong hands, however, it can be wielded as a horrifying weapon. And it is endowed with yet another gift, a secret power known only to those who unravel its mysteries.
But deciphering the Flash Stone's secrets and whereabouts will not be easy, for the only clues at Anlon's disposal are an ancient map, a curious statue and three cryptic journals left behind by his murdered archaeologist uncle.
And time is not on Anlon's side...for there are others seeking to solve the same riddles...heartless fiends who crave the powers of the Flash Stone enough to kill for it.
Race for the Flash Stone is book 2 in the Anlon Cully Chronicles series, and is a continuation of the archaeological mystery first explored in book 1 of the series, Shadows of the Stone Benders.