Today's Featured Books

Today, LitNuts is shining a spotlight on The Breach Cycle series from author David Welch...books that follow the adventures of two former soldiers who provide security for scientists who are opening breaches into other universes to see what’s out there and what they can learn. 

★★★★★ "Rip-roaring adventure with a little philosophy and romance." ~Amazon Review

The Boys of the Breach

Easton Keller and Breck Everett wanted nothing more than to serve their country. But when budget cuts cause them to be "prematurely retired" from the Special Forces, these two warriors find themselves embarking on a new adventure: Provide security for scientists working at a facility that explores the multiverse, opening breaches into other universes to see what’s out there and what they can learn.

Given the infinite span of the multiverse, there are endless discoveries waiting for mankind. But with every possible eventuality existing in one parallel universe or another, the scientists are bound to run into danger…lots of danger. That’s where the Easton and Breck come in.

Leading a guard company of other former military and police veterans, Easton and Breck take on everything the multiverse can throw at them: Pissed-off sentient dinosaurs, alien critters who feed off body-horror, prehistoric bears with a grudge, interdimensional corsair slavers, wild west madmen bent on refighting the civil war, genius scientists who completely lack common sense, parallel versions of themselves who cheat at cards…even ex-wives they may or may not still be hung up on.

Their job is to face them all and bring the egg-heads home safe—and they’re among the few who might actually be able to do it. The multiverse may be a dangerous place, but these are dangerous men…

The Men of the Breach

Former soldiers Easton Keller and Breck Everett didn’t know what to expect when they first signed up for jobs exploring the multiverse. But after a year they’ve become old hands at taking on the countless dangers that parallel universes dish up.

Recovering from a slave raid on their own home base, they face new challenges as they try to rebuild following the devastating attack. Their staff is traumatized, the people of Earth paranoid about the possibility of another attack, and the politicos worried all of this will cost them their careers. Meanwhile, Easton is busy trying to make things work with his guilt-ridden ex-wife, while Breck faces an unexpected life change that nobody saw coming. But despite the new realities, the job must continue...too much has been invested by too many for it to stop.

Rex and his Guard Company are going back out into the multiverse, taking on power-hungry Romans, pupating kaiju, post-apocalyptic wastelands, cannibalistic monsters who absorb the wisdom of their enemies, and perhaps worst of all…bureaucrats. As if all that is enough, the corsairs who have caused so much damage are still out there, and they are not taking their loss quietly.

The multiverse offers infinite possibilities—and infinite dangers. These are the tales of the men who deal with it.

    

Free online: Dueling Detectives author talk. Presented by the New York Public Library, UK author Tom Mead (who specializes in locked room mysteries) will discuss his writing career and his recent mystery titles, Death and the Conjuror and The Murder Wheel. Tuesday, December 19, 3-4 PM EST. 

"This man was poisoned! Oh, wait, is that blood? That is blood. This man was poisoned in the chest with a knife!" ~Hercule Poirot

Happy holidays from LitNuts and from the authors of today's featured books...a selection of 13 titles with holiday-related themes!

"The holiday season is a time for storytelling." ~Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal