Bruce Bookiversaries, April 2024
Three books in Bruce’s bibliography celebrate publishing anniversaries this month. Join us in celebration of these three great titles. All links go to their listing in the Brick Cave Media publishing catalog, unless otherwise noted.
April 03- Gold Magic (on Amazon)
The follow up to the enormously successful Platinum Magic novel published by Brick Cave Books. The Hollows are a tinderbox. Rival drug gangs struggle for supremacy in the Orc dominated slum of Cymbeline. Poverty and prejudice keep thousands of Orcs locked in a cycle of misery and despair.
When four Orc children are found dead in a vacant lot, victims of a foul Blood magic ritual, Simon Buckley and his Magic Enforcement team know they have to solve the case quickly before the Hollows explode into violence.
Their investigation takes them from the mean streets of Cymbeline to the bucolic farmlands of the Grey Havens and ultimately to the Royal Palace and a secret so volatile that it threatens to destroy the Commonwealth and all that Simon holds dear.
April 24- Thieves Profit (on Amazon)
The story of Zack Mbele and crew continues in the second book of the Profit Logbooks Series.
Zack Mbele has a problem. His ship, the Profit, is in deep hock and the notorious mobster, Kwai Chang Wu, has bought the bank that holds the note.
Either he does a job for Wu, or he’ll lose his ship.To make matters worse, his friend, Rabbit, is kidnapped, his crewmember’s family is brutally attacked, and his ex-wife, Cleo, is acting suspiciously. When Zack and his crew find themselves facing off with vicious crime bosses, criminal conspirators, deadly gangsters and a sinister goon with a bent for torture and killing, it isn’t a question of how high the body count will go, but who will make it out alive.
April 25- Glowgems for Profit (on Amazon)
The first book of the Profit Logbooks Series sets the stage for a whole new universe of adventure in the stars.
Zack Mbele, captain of the independent freighter Profit, needs cash fast. There’s a loan payment due on the ship, not to mention a bogus Customs duty imposed by a crooked official. They’ll seize his ship if he doesn’t pay up and he has few prospects.
When an old friend calls with a lead on a job, Zack isn’t too picky about obeying the letter of the law. All he has to do is smuggle someone out of Highpoint, a huge space station orbiting between the Earth and the Moon.
It’s not all that easy, as a beautiful assassin and the Red Dragons gang complicate things. Suddenly Zack is involved in a maze of double-cross and murder as he races the Dragons and a shadowy para-military army for the greatest prize of all.
