The Eye of the Morning

Book 1 of the Eye of the Morning Series

Jeff Laurent teaches night school at a downtown Seattle alternative high school?and he is dying from leukemia. While he knows he?s dying, he doesn?t know that somebody wants his soul after he dies.

Can he beat death before it turns him into a monster?

It all begins with a chance encounter at a local bar. Jeff meets a beautiful man called ?Ogre,? who looks like a cross between an angel and a demon: beautiful and powerful, but dark and sinister. He looks to Jeff like the combination of Archangel Michael, and Lucifer.

Ogre uses Jeff?s attraction to his advantage, and poisons Jeff. Now that poison is working its way through Jeff?s body, taking over, creating evil out of what was once compassion, destroying Jeff in ways the leukemia never could.

However, Ogre?s poison has an unplanned effect. Ogre?s victims, those whose lives have already been taken, are turning to Jeff for help, who somehow has the power to guide them away from their tortured existence.

What happens when a vampire crosses the line and becomes a shaman?

Read an excerpt from The Eye of the Morning.

Left Out:
What to do if You're Left Behind or Left Below

Tim LaHaye called it "Left Behind." Homer Simpson called it "Left Below." We're calling it "Left Out: What to do if You're Left Behind or Left Below."

Left Out is the story of twin brothers, Benjamin and David Bragg. Benjamin comes from the philosophy that all paths to God are sacred, and David believes that the only way to get to Heaven is to accept Jesus Christ as your Personal Savior and renounce your affiliation with the Democratic Party and declare war on anyone who would take 'Christ' out of Christmas.

The day finally arrives when nearly a billion people disappear from the Earth, most of them from the American South. Left behind are Atheists, Liberal Democrats, Secular Humanists, Feminists, and Catholics (Catholics don't believe in The Rapture). This splits the Bragg family right down the middle.

Ironically, on that day, residents of Earth make a profound discovery: those who opposed healing the environment —are gone. Those who oppose doing away with murder as a deterrent to murder —are gone. In fact, those who have stood in opposition to progress every step of Earth's evolution—are gone.

Meanwhile, in Heaven, things aren't going as expected. Despite the beauty and splendor, Heaven's new residents make a gruesome discovery. They're forced to be vegetarians (because they can't kill anything). There are no more ideological enemies (because there are no Democrats there). And they don't really like each other, but they're stuck with each other—forever and ever— hallelujah— hallelujah!

If you think the Antichrist is mad now, wait until he reads this book.

Read an excerpt from Left Out.

Check out our Everything Rapture page

My Egypt: Why I Left the Ex-Gay Movement

Can you imagine what it must feel like to know you'’ve committed the unpardonable sin by the time you’re in Junior High? What do you do when, through no fault of your own, you discover that you are at the very top of God’s Hate List?

Being a Christian was never supposed to be easy, but imagine the difficulty when the very fact that you are who you are has predestined you for hell. If you’re born gay, and gay earns you a one-way ticked “straight” to hell, what else is left to do?

Perhaps fifteen years of reparative therapy will sate God's wrath. If you work at it hard enough, and long enough, you're bound to change who you are into someone else - someone God will finally love.

My Egypt is the story of one man who set out for the Promised Land only to learn that the the Promise wasn't for him unless he became someone else... someone he wasn’t capable of becoming.

Read an excerpt from My Egypt

Visit the My Egypt page and discover:

• The Ex-Gay Pages: What we're really fighting
• What is Reparative Therapy and why do they think it's necessary
• The Lies behind NARTH and the Narthicisits and their hidden agenda
• Responses to Christian objections to homosexuality and why the Bible is unreliable as their source
• Other Resources for Gay and Lesbian Spirituality Issues

Acting Your Dreams: Using Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams

Every night after you go to sleep you become the star of a major motion picture.

In your dreams, your mind, body and imagination become intimately involved in powerful vignettes, so vivid that your brain is convinced that this is actually happening; and when you wake up you may find yourself still panting from fright, or laughing at some outrageous comedy, or puzzling at some bizarre mystery storyline.

Why not look at the dream as it is…... a movie. Learn how to script your dreams, and interpret your dreams like a movie. Use the same fun and outrageous techniques that actors use to understand your own starring roles.

Read an excerpt from Acting Your Dreams

Check out our unique Dream Dictionary.

God's Madmen

Book II in The Eye of the Morning series

Life comes with a quandary. It always ends, and it ends badly. And while you may live only a few years, you?ll be dead for millennia. Still, being dead isn?t everything it?s cracked up to be. Life is an ironic bitch and Death has no sense of humor.

If Jeff thought that life was complicated, his death is downright problematic. Ogre has discovered that Jeff is journeying to the door, carrying Ogre?s victims with him. Now Ogre is out for revenge. He has found a way into Jeff?s own mind and he?s determined to use that ingress to destroy everyone close to Jeff while at the same time forcing Jeff stand by helplessly and watch.

There?s only one way Jeff can save himself and those he loves. He must make the most treacherous journey he?s ever had to make. He?s got to find his own soul and convince it to return to him.

Being a vampire isn?t as romantic as it looks in the movies. Now that Jeff is dead, he has to figure out how to survive? Who knew that death was so much work? Dracula made this look so easy.

Read an excerpt from God's Madmen

Children of the Night

Book III in The Eye of the Morning series

He was too young to die, and when it was his time, he planned to do his dying all at once.

Julian was a young beggar in the medieval city of Omradam who was driven to thievery by extreme hunger? a single loaf of bread from a baker?s cart. This single act would draw the attention of Omradam?s top General, and Julian would find his arrest bittersweet.

The soldier was tall and powerfully built. The horse he sat upon was the biggest horse Julian had ever seen? and he positioned Julian directly in front of him. As they rode, Julian felt his slender body bouncing up and down amid the powerful thighs of his captor. On either side of him were the warrior?s muscular arms. And behind him, Julian wished he could just sink into that burly chest.

But life is nothing, if not ironic. It is sometimes filled with pleasure, and sometimes filled with pain?most often at the same time. Julian was about to cross the line between the living and the dead.

This is the best book yet in the series

Read an excerpt from The Children of the Night.

The Haunting of Holden Castle

Holden Castle has dark, turbulent secrets, and two innocent young men find themselves standing, reliving the roles of earlier tragic figures, long thought dead.

Tony is an attractive young man recovering from a breakup with the man he thought he would spend the rest of his life with. On the bus from the airport to Holden Castle, which is now a famous hotel, he meets Sean, who has also just ended a long-term relationship with the woman he thought he was going to marry.

It’s the legend of the castle that’s its biggest draw. Prince Holden had fallen deeply in love with a servant girl, but was being forced to marry against his will by his father, dubbed the Tyrant King. When Princess Aednat discovered the Prince'’s secret love, she exposed it, and the Prince retreated within himself. So as an act of final revenge, she pushed him off the cliffs one night during one of his lonely walks.

At least that’s how the story has been told since fourteen-hundred.

From the moment they arrive, Sean and Tony experience a profound and distinct case of déjà vu, as if they’re living their lives and the lives of someone else at the same time. They discover that they are the secret.

As they say in the story, tragedies are easy to get into, they're hard to get out of, and this castle plans to finish this story even if it's not a happy ending.

Read an excerpt from The Haunting of Holden Castle

Tiger Taylor: The Boy who Talks to His Nightmares

Tiger Taylor is a little boy who has nightmares. One night, his mommy suggests that Tiger confront his nightmares. And that’s when Tiger formally meets Dreamwright (DW for short), the creator of his dreams. DW takes Tiger on a tour of his dreams, explaining as they go how dreams work and why they can sometimes be so frightening.

DW tells Tiger his true purpose. "I'm a messenger, and what I have to say is important. I'm only scary until you get to know me."

DW changes like dreams do, all in a way that helps Tiger understand what his dreams are trying to tell him.

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Children and nightmares: Read the discussion here.

The Warrior

A Fantasy about the End of the World

It's the end of the world as they know it. The Darklands doesn't know it yet, but their days are numbered.

He's the Most notorious gang leader in Darkland City's History. He has also become a military threat as well as a threat to law enforcement. Everyone knows his name, but no one has ever seen his face and lived to describe him. After the Darklands City's Gang Wars, all of Darklands held its collective breath, wondering, hoping against hope, that Wildy had died during that massacre.

But once again Wildy has revealed himself…, and this time it isn’t just Darklands City that's in danger, but all of the Darklands.

The Warrior was first published in 1995. It has been rewritten and a new version of the book is available on Kindle.

Read an excerpt from The Warrior.

Music

If I had to define Ben Tousey's music in just one word, then I guess that word would have to be… Wonderful! Spectacular! Stupendous! Phenomenal! Incredible! It’s the impression of this critic that my son did a wonderful job.

» Anonymous

Click on any of the links below to see what the critics are raving about:
or would be raving about if we could pay them more.

1. How Can I Say (I Love You)?
2. I'm Not Walkin' Away
3. The Lady at the Door
4. Morning Star
5. Lullaby (The Rose of Sharon)