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Mark Rouse
THE BOOKS
This is a list of my works and (not all) of my works in progress. On top of these, I have at least twenty more up and coming! The majority of my work will be in the genres of horror/thriller. There are a few tragedies and yes, even a little romance. Please check out a short story I wrote recently for a contest. It is on my news & events page here, titled Haha’s little treasure. It is just a sample of my style. Thank you for reading and visit my Facebook page to leave any comments or contact me.
Soulless
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For him, there has never been love. His world has always been empty and soulless. He was just a vessel of discord, lost in a black and white existence.
Numbly making his way through life. He was content, even cherished his distance from true reality. But his entire mediocre existence was thrown into the winds of uncertainty when she entered his life. Her arrival will force him from his comfortable cocoon of cacophony and ignite the burning inside of him. Their connection is so deep that it produces its own music. They share in their past hardships and try to stay off their own resistance to this new found love.
Even with the interference of another’s bitter jealousy the light they have will shine through. But that light will awaken something that should have stayed hidden. A demon born from true loves kiss. A dark path lies before one of them. It will end in the pain of the not so innocent and in an eternal hell custom prepared by an angel.
Heartless
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The glue that put him back together has dried, faded and flaked away, leaving him more fragmented than ever before. The trials of Soulless have left him a husk of his former self, broken in body and spirit. Even the potential of a new romance may be shattered by his own obsessive need to see his fallen love avenged.
The hallucinations, the demonic inner voices, and the unwavering thirst for vengeance are now substance for a mental infection that is leading him down a dark path to madness. What was once strived for, now hinders him in his voyage of self-destruction and inner torment. For him, fame and fortune are just an obstacle on the road to retribution, hindrances that need to be dealt with or avoided. The end of that road holds the entirety of his attention, and he will reach it, no matter who needs to fall for him to get there.
Truths unknown in Soulless come into the light, and it becomes ostensible that even angels can tell lies and hoard dark secrets. But, is it all the dream of a still sleeping madman, or just the personal hell one has made for himself?
Coming Soon!
Relentless
In Progress
The third and final instalment in the Soulless series. Surprises, twists, turns and all new delusions! How will it all end? Not the way you would think…
Lillie
In Progress
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This is a brief synopsis of Lillie. This story still has a lot of growing to do, so this may change as it does. This is the genre that I like to write in, thrillers. Here it is:
Lillie is lost in a new world now that her father has passed away, leaving her alone. And foster care for this ten-year-old, in the home of her churches minister and his family, makes her life hell. But her new ‘friends’ that only she can see will help return her to her daddy. They know it’s all a lie, and these people have him trapped somewhere. So she and her new friends will deal with them, and save her daddy, no matter what.
Emanuella
In Progress
Tonya needs a change. Years of taking care of her whore mother and ungrateful little sister have turned her bitter and cold. Dad is no help from his prison cell, and the men her mother brings home often lose interest in the ailing, drug using prostitute and direct their attention to the young and no longer innocent she was meant to protect. So, Tonya needs a change. Not just her name, but her entire life.
Mysteries of a far off land with different beliefs and traditions seems the only answer. She is too young to travel alone. However, thanks to her mother’s seedy friends, and a man that seems to know the answers, she is able to obtain what she needs to get away. No matter what it costs her, she will leave this foul world behind.
She has no idea what awaits her, or what she must put herself through to get there. With that, she learns that the military is unsafe for a young girl pretending to be older than she really is, so she will need to use the grit and underhanded ways she learned from the difficult streets that raised her to survive it. And, once she finally gets to that far off land that beckoned her, she finds it’s not the heaven she thought it to be. Just a different form of the same hell she already knew.
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