by J. J. Franck
Into the Darkness – Psychological Thriller
Lydia refused to die. After being brutally beaten and buried in a backwoods swamp. A lightning bolt striking a tree nearby jolts her back from the dead. The problem is she has no memory of who or why anyone wanted her dead. In the hospital another attempt is made on her life but no one believes her. Rather than go home, she voluntarily admits herself into St. Lucia Psychiatric Hospital in order to be safe and allow herself to uncover what she doesn’t want to remember.
Through her therapy sessions, Lydia soon uncovers a family in turmoil, and greed. Where murder is the only way out of past deeds done.
Shadows in the Night – Mystery (coming soon)
This story is about a terminally ill woman who is befriended by an undercover detective. When the detective is brutally killed and haunts the woman, she tries to uncover who it was who killed him so that his spirit can pass over. This is a touching story about two spirits who find love in the afterlife.
Under the name: Lillian Francken
A Family Christmas Story – Family Drama
A Family Christmas Story is a novella about one families dysfunctional Christmas celebration.
Megan Montgomery works in Chicago and is faced with her boyfriend, Robert Murphy wanting to meet her family over the Christmas holiday.
Unknown to her Robert is planning to ask her to marry him on New Years Eve, but first wants to ask her father for her hand in marriage.
Robert surprises Megan on her flight home. She is then unprepared for him meeting her dysfunctional family.
All About Love – Romantic Comedy
All About Love is a modern day version of Taming of the Shrew. If you liked Shakespeare’s take on this romantic comedy you will enjoy my version as I try to follow the plot line closely.
My version has Katherine being the daughter of an ad executive, Edward Kincaid. While Edward is having lunch with his younger daughter Belinda, he offers Katherine’s hand in marriage as a flip remark to Peter Roditis, who Edward assumes is just a waiter at a Greek restaurant he frequents.
Peter is actually the son of the owner of the restaurant. Once Katherine joins her father and sister for lunch. Peter sees her and is immediately struck by her beauty. Before leaving the restaurant, Katherine accidentally drops her wallet while dining. Peter tries returning the wallet and is mistakenly hired as Katherine’s administrative assistant.
Peter uses this to get close to Katherine and proceeds to tame the shrew with kindness. And in the end gain her love.
Blue Moon Rising – Thriller
Blue Moon Rising is a thriller about a small town sheriff, Dan Harter who is a widower raising a teenage daughter in a town that nothing seems to happen out of the ordinary. His major task in life so far has been keeping the single women in town at bay, while fielding calls about a marauding herd of razorbacks that had been terrorizing a local farmer.
It all changes when he gets a call to investigate the brutal death of a young teen. With the help of the new coroner, Nancy Davie, they uncover the possibility that a serial killer had been hiding in their little community for twenty years.
While investigating the case, Dan comes to realize that his dead wife might have been on the trail of the serial killer.
As the body count grows, he is drawn closer to Nancy Davie and comes to realize that his libido didn’t die with his wife.
Omega Factor – Suspense Thriller
Omega Factor is a suspense/thriller about an ex-CIA agent, Sara Blaine, who is trying to hide from her past. Unknown to her the brother of her ex-lover, Mitch Winthrup was sent to protect her because an international terrorist is on a mission to kill the remaining members of the elite CIA group she was a member of.
After a failed mission years earlier, Sara was badly injured and with the help of her uncle, she faked her death and now hides with her son at her uncle’s resort in a small rural community in northern Wisconsin.
This story moves back and forth between northern Wisconsin and Langley headquarters where Prescott Sinclair, a statistician at the CIA uncovers a link between a terrorist searching out and killing members the elite CIA team known as Omega, he notifies his supervisor who is more interested in advancing his own career than protecting former agents. Prescott takes it upon himself to save the last remaining member of the Omega group.
There is a race against time to find the terrorist while protecting Sara from harm.
Rustic Roads – Suspense Thriller
Rustic Roads is a suspenseful story about Susan Jessup who travels to a small rural community for a week long vacation in the hopes to put her life back together after a failed relationship. Her mother is also concerned about Susan’s stepsister who was on a bike tour of Rustic Roads around the state and headed for an aunts summer home on Half Moon Lake. Susan’s stepsister was last heard from heading for Half Moon Lake on the final leg of her bike tour and hadn’t been heard from for over a week.
Susan is swept up into the lives of the local town people and finds herself attracted to a local man who could possibly be involved in her sister’s disappearance along with his own sister’s death.
Tetris – Murder Mystery
Tetris is a paranormal story about a computer illiterate woman, Anna Webster, who is trust into the world of industrial espionage when she receives a copy of a game disk, Tetris and accidentally pulls up a spreadsheet tied to the game.
Anna is troubled when one of her co-workers is killed and her roommate beaten to near death. This forces Anna to seek shelter at a cottage owned by her employer, Edward Armbruster.
It isn’t until the next generation computer she has access to at the cottage she is renting, helps her uncover the spreadsheets hidden in the Tetris directories on the disk. Anna along with the computer, uncovers the lengths someone has taken to siphon the company profits and bring it to near total collapse.
While communicating with this next generation computer Anna finds herself strangely attracted to the artificial intelligence that seems to have a mind of its own.
The Curiosity Shop – Romantic Comedy
Witches can be found in the most mundane place. The Curiosity Shop is a story about Cassandra Sinclair who is a dutiful niece helping an elderly aunt through a medical crisis by managing her aunt’s oddities emporium, The Curiosity Shop. For years the rumors that her aunt was a witch haunted Cassandra, but they were rumors she never allowed herself to believe. That was until Mitch Westfield, a local beat cop, enters the picture along with thugs demanding protection money.
THE CURIOSITY SHOP is a comedy of errors that’s a family-oriented mystical story reminiscent of Bell, Book and Candle. Digging into the belief, people have powers beyond our comprehension, where good overcomes evil.
The Twelfth of Never – Espionage Thriller
The Twelfth of Never is about Gideon LaMont’s struggle to control the demons hiding beneath the surface of his subconscious. The only thing he had to ease the pain was a picture of a woman he knew not how he came to having it or if she was real person, but it was the only thing he had to hang onto when the demons surfaced and the memories of a war long forgotten came back with a vengeance.
That all changed the day John Hamilton contacted the agency and wanted to turn over evidence of an attempt on the presidents’ life. The floodgates of suppressed memories come hurtling back along with the knowledge that the woman in the picture he carried was real.
THE TWELFTH OF NEVER is a fast-paced, thriller with more twists and turns than a roller coaster ride as it rockets you towards a surprising climax. It is the story of a man suppressing atrocities of war until his survival depends on his coming to terms with what happened to him years earlier. It’s also a story about love and forgiveness.
Till Death Do Us Part – Murder Mystery
Marriage can be a real killer. Till Death Do Us Part is a twisted tale about love, marriage and infidelity.
Two lives are changed forever because of a chance meeting in a park on a h
ot summer night. It started out innocent enough, but when Megan Montgomery succumbed to a moment of passion with Thomas Fitzgerald, it wouldn’t be long when her world starts tumbling in around her.
It was only through a twist of faith that the one thing Megan and Thomas wanted most in life would become a reality. But the price was dear to both, and soon Megan’s life was in jeopardy because of it.
We Come In Peace – Coming of Age Comedy
We Come in Peace is a story about two aliens Zolar and Jupel who crash land in the desert near Area 51 in Nevada. They are searching for their comrade who disappeared years earlier when he was on an exploratory mission on earth. Lucky for them they are rescued by Bobby Drews, a pot-smoking teenager, who takes them home to his dysfunctional family. Bobby introduces them as Jane and John.
Because of the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, Jane and John fit in well with the strangers that have come into town for the convention.
Complicating the situation, graduation is just months away and it is doubtful if Bobby will graduate even with a perfect SAT score.
Bobby is kept busy hiding the aliens from the commander of the base at Area 51. To fit in, Jane takes a job at a local café while John delivers newspapers.
Bobby in desperation enlists the aid of John to alter his school grades but things go haywire when the potion John creates and gives to the faculty has adverse side affects.
Wednesday’s Child - Drama
Wednesday’s Child is the child who is abandoned by life. This is a coming of age story about Jimmy Brewster, a homeless boy, who had been living on the streets because his father abandoned him.
When the story begins Jimmy has to make a decision about joining a local street gang. After living on the streets for months and seeing no end to his misery, he is about to give up on all the principles his mother taught him. That is until Don Rhodes, a down on his luck horse rancher steps in and forces him to make the choice to fight to live.
Together the two must find a common ground and in the end conquer the demon that haunts them both. Don is a recovering alcoholic who caused the death of his wife and son years earlier. Jimmy must finally come to terms with his mother’s death. This story is about their struggle to become a family against all odds.
