Books with author JD Patrick

Life is looking up for Xavier. Things are good with Jennie, his baseball coach believes in him, he's earned the role of closer, and his dad's coming home after serving ten years. But making up for lost time with his dad doesn't go as Xavier had hoped. It seems his dad's always angry with him. Or drinking. Or out. Or lecturing Xavier on what it means to be a man. When the tension at home builds, Xavier's own hot temper flares, threatening to send him down the same path as his father. Xavier is determined to make a different life. Can he figure out how to control his actions to keep his baseball dreams alive?

After serving time for assault, Jada lands in foster care and a new school to try to turn her life around. She knows she has to control her bursts of anger if she wants to go home to her mom. But the Markhams' house rules are unbearable. And what makes the staff at Rondo Alternative High School any different from the teachers who've written her off before? When tensions flare, Jada is put to the test. Can she find the strength to make the right decisions and regain her mom's trust―before it's too late?

Mick, Brody and Aaron spend most of their free time drinking and commiserating about the raw deal they have in life. One night, instead of going to the high school football game, they start on a drinking binge that spirals down farther and farther until it ends with a deadly mistake. Although he's not part of the violence, Mick helps his friends cover up their terrible actions. When they get caught, Mick must decide whether to trust his friends not to talk to the police or to choose to be the one tha t makes a deal to get himself off the hook. An exploration of class, opportunity-or the lack thereof-and the consequences of taking the wrong path.

Tanya gets a mysterious phone call from a stranger who has kidnapped her younger sister and seems to be knowing everything about her. He is not willing to negotiate in anyway. All he wants is Tanya to suffer. In a series of places that the mysterious caller asks Tanya to visit, Tanya inches closer to the identity of the caller with evil intentions.will Tanya be able to figure out who this kidnapper is and what is his intentions are? 'Requital: your crimes seek you' , is the abridged version of the full length book by the name and also authored by Patrick jones. he plans a worldwide release of the full length novel by the end of February this year.Patrick jones is the pen name of an author who uses many such names to publish.

Deja's mom has never been there when Deja needed her. She's lied, run off, and gotten into trouble with the law more times than anyone can count. She always promises to change―and always breaks those promises. Now―seventeen years after Deja was born in prison―her mom is back behind bars and having another baby. Deja agrees to raise baby Heaven until her mother returns home. She's determined to give Heaven the loving family life Deja never had. But being a substitute parent is harder than Deja expected. She'll need help from her friends, her grandmother, and even the mother she stopped trusting a long time ago. And she hopes that maybe―just maybe―she can keep her promises to Heaven.

Point guard Mercedes Morgan is on track to set the all-state record for three-pointers. She's even caught the attention of a big-time college recruiter. But her sister has fallen in with a gang from the old neighborhood, and a drive-by shooting lands her in a coma. Now their little brother might be headed down the same dangerous path. Can the star player help her family leave the past behind them while also saving her season, or will they always be on guard?

Meghan lived through the car crash that killed her mom, but it left her with injuries that ruined her school sports career. Now she's the dojo's toughest female fighter. She just has to avoid getting kicked out for her pain pill habit. As her first amateur fight approaches, Meghan will have to decide if she's ready to move on from the crash and the secrets. Can she find the courage to choose her moves wisely―inside the cage and out?

Jackson James wants three things: to succeed in MMA, to join the military like his father, and to protect his little brother from ending up in trouble like he did. But it's a challenge to stay in control of his life at school, at home, and at the dojo―especially with the distraction of Tyresha Harris, one of the new female fighters. When faced with tough choices, can Jackson learn to make the right ones inside the cage and out?

Fans of urban fantasy should prepare for a new kind of vampire-one that feeds off of tears instead of blood. Descended from an ancient line of creatures that gain their energy from human tears, Cassandra Gray depends on human sorrow to live. Her job as a grief counselor at the hospital provides the perfect cover to keep this secret safe, and any time a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, she's there. Only Cass has grown tired of living a lie and wants to live like a human, especially now that she's found someone worth fighting for. With a perfect blend of supernatural and romance, Patrick Jones treats his current fans to a different taste of storytelling and will have new ones scrambling to devour this unique offering.

Malik Ashcroft is an eighteen-year-old Black teenager who is made into a soul vampire the night he finishes studying for final exams. Xavier, the vampire who creates him, tells him that vampires must bury their human bodies deep underground to protect the soul still within. Xavier calls him a “rarity” and that he is “beautiful”, but Malik cringes at the thought of joining Xavier’s family of vampires.Xavier, created by a wayward, traveling soul vampire who only kills the workers of iniquity, was born in 1820s America. Birthed on a small slave plantation in antebellum Alabama, Xavier suffers mentally and physically because he is Sam Carroll’s son, the white master of the plantation. Although his mother, Sarah, initially tells him to be proud of his heritage as the son of slave-owner, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Carroll’s wife, succeeds at getting him sent to the fields to toil as a field slave. Depressed at the loss of her children, Sarah becomes unattached from her son and Xavier has to find solace within a slave girl his age, Alexandria. With no other recourse, Xavier wishes to die and his wish is granted, but not in the ways in which he expected.With Malik turned into a soul vampire, he must deal with burying his human body, protecting his best friend, Jeremiah, from his own memories of death and bloodshed, Xavier’s coven of vampires, and holding on to a shred of his humanity. As a soul vampire, he experiences his own memories and the memories of others in ways that he never expected. In attempting to resist Xavier’s overtures to join his family, Malik decides to leave his hometown with Jeremiah in search of Xavier’s past. In his search, he stumbles across the soulless, or vampires who have desecrated their human bodies in order to fully obtain and control their vampire abilities at the expense of their humanity. Malik must decide if he is willing to destroy Xavier, continue to fall in love with Jeremiah, or grant Jeremiah’s wish to become a soul vampire.

Moving off the reservation and enrolling at Rondo Alternative High School is supposed to give Frankie a new start. But leaving gang life proves harder than Frankie ever imagined, as his cousins are set on bringing him into the family's dirty business. When Frankie's father is brutalized in prison by a rival gang, Frankie is faced with a decision. Will he take revenge and prove his loyalty to his people? Or can he keep his promise to his mother and find a way out?

Hector's father used to be a Golden Gloves champion boxer. Now he's an unemployed alcoholic. Hector is trying to stay focused on winning his first amateur MMA fight, but it's not easy when his dad is MIA, his mom is against his training, and his best friend and girlfriend have betrayed him. Can he find the right moves to win over his opponents inside the cage and out?