The London Cheque (2024)
“Longstreet’s debut horror invites readers on a journey through darkness and redemption, where secrets lurk around every corner and the sins of the past cast a long, haunting shadow over the present.“
Synopsis:
In the sleepy Scottish village of Catrine, the peaceful summer of 1964 is shattered when 12-year-old Arun Khan, his best friend Craig, and two orphans, James and Gavin, all go missing on the same day without a trace.
Little do the police know, the four boys are trapped in the home of Albert “Al” Reid, a respected local benefactor who harbors a dark secret beneath his charming facade—he’s a serial killer who keeps children in his basement as frozen works of art.
When Arun’s mother, Aniqa, has a chance encounter with Al that rouses her suspicions, she begins an obsessive hunt to discover the twisted truths surrounding Al’s mysterious origin in the town. But Aniqa must first reckon with her own past; being an immigrant in a distant land, navigating life as a single parent, and the haunting visions of her late mother plaguing her since Arun’s disappearance.
With atmospheric prose and spine-chilling suspense, The London Cheque tells the story of two mothers separated by time, class, and power—but bound by fate—as they both fight to break the chains of circumstance to get their sons back in their arms again.
The Gambit (2015)
Seven People. One Lie.
Owen Marina, co-founder of the Convergence Party, stands on the brink of making history. With the American public rallying behind him, his party’s landslide victory seems inevitable—until a terrorist attack at the final presidential debate leaves seventeen dead and many more injured. The next morning, Owen wakes to a nightmare: he’s been framed for the attack.
Across the country, six others are drawn into the chaos. At MIT, two nuclear engineers uncover unsettling discrepancies in government reports. A frustrated journalist longs for her big break, while a humble hacker gets a knock at his door that will change his life forever. Meanwhile, a CIA agent helplessly watches the nation unravel, an Editor-in-Chief questions the media’s bias against Owen, and a thirteen-year-old boy stumbles upon a horrifying truth just by switching TV channels.
With less than a month until the election, these seven individuals find themselves connected by a single, monstrous lie. Together, they may be the only hope to uncover the truth before it’s too late—for Owen, and for America.
In this high-stakes political thriller, deception runs deep, and the future of a nation hangs in the balance.