Francis W. Porretto: Curmudgeon Emeritus to the World Wide Web
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Priestesses: A novel of discovery and renewal
To Web artisan Martine Arnault, Helen Leverrier, her “neighbor” on Altamura Drive, appears to be just another Los Angeles entrepreneur, a sex shop owner no different from any other. Yet there are curiosities about Helen’s shop Naughty But Nice that set it well apart from its competitors. For one thing, there’s never more than one [...]
The Sledgehammer Concerto
Three siblings. Children of the dark. A mystic reaved of faith, who holds the power to heal the wounds of the soul and dispel the anguish of the dying; A genius warped by abuse, who strove to bring desire itself to heel, and succeeded beyond her wildest hopes; And a visionary of freedom hidden in [...]
Shadow Of A Sword: A novel of fulfillment
Three years have passed. Christine D’Alessandro has returned to Onteora County, and all is not well. She’s immediately enmeshed in two conflicts: an overt one between security entrepreneur Kevin Conway and his competitor Ernest Lawrence; and a covert one between Constitutional Party presidential nominee Stephen Graham Sumner and President Walter Coleman. But a third struggle, [...]
On Broken Wings: A novel of possibility
Christine has no memory of her past. She’s been made a sexual slave by the Butchers, a gang of vicious bikers. After ten years’ agony, she’s freed herself by committing murder and earning a faceful of hideous scars. But Tiny, the Butcher king, is obsessed with her. Her sole chance of escaping him lies in [...]
Chosen One: A novel of passion and destiny
From his earliest days, Louis Redmond proves to be a prodigy: brilliant, powerful, and great-souled, a trailblazer of the spirit and a natural leader of men. Armies would follow him into the mouth of Hell. Yet tragedy dogs his steps, depriving him of family and friends. Hammerblow follows hammerblow, giving him little time to recover. [...]
