Books with author W. D. Reynolds

The action is hot in Kansas City during the 1960s. Gordon Reynolds happens to be a vicious criminal who has served prison time in five different states over a period of twenty-five years. Gordon is determined to muscle his way into major rackets such as prostitution, bootlegging whiskey, robbery, hijacking and contraband cigarettes. He eventually meets up with Alla Mae Briggs. She knows the prostitution racket very well, since she worked the Kansas City streets for several years. She too has a lengthy rap sheet of twenty-five criminal convictions for the solicitation of prostitution. Gordon needs someone to help him operate his main bawdy house.Alla Mae is the perfect recruit to help him forge stronger relations between his hookers and their customers. The collaboration of their experiences on the streets proves highly profitable. But unforeseen danger causes things to come crashing down all around them. Racist cops, ruthless gangsters, a white supremacist group, jealous pimps and rival hookers are the opposing forces that this interracial couple are destined to face. Crossing the racial line puts them at incredible odds with the law and fellow criminals alike. Based on the true story of how a white man and a black woman fell in love and broke all the rules in order to make their living together illegally.

This is a collection of short stories written with the sole purpose of providing scream out scares, as well as creepy chills all the way down your spine. Plain and simple, monsters, ghosts and horror.This book is split into 3 sections. 'Monsters' features a strange young girl who Daniel encounters at a Cosplay Convention. She has only one question to ask him, ‘Do you believe in monsters?’ Her tales of horrifying terror will defy the most sceptical of critics to suggest that they don’t!Meanwhile, 'Gilbert' is the new kid at Bellows Boys High School. The boys don’t exactly make him feel entirely welcome. However, there’s a camping trip coming up and the boys are eager to share their usual round of spine chillingly spooky ghost stories. Who can provide the biggest fright?And lastly we come to 'The Cleaner.' It’s the end of the show and time to leave. He doesn’t seem like he’s anyone special, as he sweeps the floor and clears up after everyone else. But this man might just blow your mind with a final story that will bewilder you and challenge you to believe in the impossible. Excerpts:"Slowly the head turned. Anna almost screamed out aloud, as it seemed to be looking directly at her! For a moment that terrible ugly face stared towards her. She was sure it could see her. A long time it seemed to stay there, sniffing the air, grunting and squinting. Then its eyes narrowed even more and it seemed to edge that little bit closer; so near that the smell became so strong, Anna actually imagined that she could taste it. She wanted to vomit, she felt so nauseous and scared. Could it see her? Could it hear her? It seemed to be leaning closer and closer..." (Monsters - Anna)"Just then from behind her, she heard the slightest little snap. It was the noise of a stick cracking. She half turned to catch a brief glimpse of the man creeping up toward her. But another sound made her spin sharply back round. It was the dog. Big, black and furry, snarling ferociously, all teeth and fangs; lunging straight for her! She screamed out in horror, screwed her eyes tight shut and fell to her knees in the soft gritty damp mud. She flung her arms up in front of her face, waited for the monstrous looking dog to sink its long sharp fangs deep into her. The moment of anticipation seemed long and agonizing." (Monsters - Lucky Devil) "As Daniel squinted to focus his vision better, he could see that her eyes were glazing over. It was as if a film was forming over her irises. The pupils too seemed to melt away into her eyes until they were completely white. Then suddenly a huge pair of thick muscular arms, with gigantic hands and clawed fingers, reached out from beyond the hoarding, gripped hold of both her shoulders and yanked her backwards off her seat. “Woah!” exclaimed Daniel in disbelief, “Did anyone see that?” " (Monsters)"There were a couple of boxes piled one on top of the other, encrusted with ancient dirt and cobwebs. The creaking seemed to be coming from behind them, heehawing in a lulling tempo that rose and fell. Sid’s hands began to tremble, as he contemplated whatever could be beyond those boxes. He crept towards them, his heart beating fast and his nerves jangling. He held the lighter shakily before him, peeped anxiously around the boxes. To his utter surprise, the swell of light fell upon a slippered pair of feet! Sid gasped in startled fright. Then the feeble wavering flame illuminated wrinkly legs riddled with varicose veins and liver spots, a white frilly night gown, aged gnarled hands wrung tightly together lying on a lap, an ashen face crowned by a wild shock of unruly grey hair. There was an old lady swaying to and fro..." (Gilbert - The Attic)Recommended - Read alone. At night. In the dark. Prepare to be chilled to the bone!T. D Reynolds is also the author of another collection of short stories 'Urban Legends - Totally Mythed!'

Strange things happen when the place you call “home” is no longer your address.Twelve-year-old Rafe Ryder’s year couldn’t get worse. His parents have shipped him off to live with his grandmother and he doesn’t know if he’ll ever see his sick father again. Arriving in Maine, Rafe plots his return to England, but the possibility of a homecoming slips further from his grasp when an adventure in a corn maze at his new school goes wrong, and he and twelve of his schoolmates are mysteriously transported to Mystfira—a realm of angels, leprechauns, gargoyles and fairies—and home to an elite angelic training school. Forced to co-exist with student angels and surrounded by more danger than he ever could have imagined, Rafe searches for a way home only to stumble upon a scheme to destroy the heavens. Can he find a way to save himself and his friends…or will they be lost forever?

A broke gamer. A deadly online world. Can Dahlia level up fast enough to keep the debt collectors at bay?Dahlia has to pay off her dead father’s bills or risk her life in the lithium mines. Which... no thank you. Besides, the world is run by tech, and this gamer girl is determined to explore the virtual world her father was so obsessed with and get rich while she’s at it. So, she sells everything and rents a premium VR pod to play Eternal Online. Enter the toughest realm available? Check.Discover the fastest way to loot without dying?… in progress. But when Dahlia finds an epic quest chain that others have overlooked, she thinks she’s struck gold. What she doesn’t expect is to make friends with two deadly warriors and one powerful creature, or find a world boss gunning for them all. Experience the start of an Epic LitRPG adventure perfect for fans of Travis Bagwell, Carrie Summers, Outspan Foster.Also available on Audible, narrated by Andrea Parsneau (The Wandering Inn, Swing Shift).

The American Nutcracker is a magical retelling of the classic Christmas children’s tale with a decidedly American twist. The American Nutcracker combines a story of nutcrackers and dolls come to life with the American log-cabin frontier ethos and the wide diversity of the American experience. A lively plot loosely based on the E.T.A. Hoffman original includes a Nutcracker, a Sugar Plum fairy, a real girl looking to put the excitement back into Christmas, and a diversity of dolls who get involved in an adventure that includes Native Americans, magical happenings, and growing up.

Trid Pothman the 14yr old with his enchanted snail Sobe has had their share of some magical adventures. Now becoming a future overseer of the magical woods that his family has been doing many years starts sooner than he has planned for. The gnome king gem has been taken and the time has come for it to be put in the wall of the kings to keep balance to magic and normal life in the world. Having some help from friends and new ones that is met along the way the adventure gets more magical. Only Trid and his friends can solve and stop this. No one can call armies or any super powers, just some young and small ones can do something this important.

The True Story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff: The Troll's Side of the Story was written by David Reynolds when he was just a young boy. Subtle and charming, this reinterpretation of the Norwegian folktale considers the perspective of the kind troll who falls prey to the prejudice of the eldest goat Gruff. Illustrations by Myles Reichel give this tale life. Plus, this edition also includes Sir George Webbe Dasent's translation of the classic folktale.

S. R. Reynolds has never forgotten the mishandled case of fifteen-year-old Michelle Anderson, a vibrant beauty who went missing from Reynolds' Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood years earlier. Aided by her old professor, famed forensic anthropologist Dr. William Bass--founder of the University of Tennessee's "Body Farm"--Reynolds picks up the trail of this long-cold case. As she presses neglected pieces of the puzzle into place, Reynolds unearths a string of heinous kidnappings and rapes across the South, crimes that span decades. She meets with victims and former investigators who worked on the case. A picture begins to form. Patterns appear. And all evidence points to one man: convicted sex offender Larry Lee Smith. As a result of Reynolds' efforts, the Knoxville Police Department reopens the cold case of Michelle's disappearance, but Larry Lee is about to be released from a Georgia prison, where he served time for a related crime--a "similar transaction." What transpires in this story is amazing on many levels. The book was recently among the top five non-fiction books named by Everything Nonfiction's Emilio Corsetti.azing on many levels.

Strange things happen when the place you call “home” is no longer your address. Twelve-year-old Rafe Ryder’s year couldn’t get worse. His parents have shipped him off to live with his grandmother and he doesn’t know if he’ll ever see his sick father again. Arriving in Maine, Rafe plots his return to England, but the possibility of a homecoming slips further from his grasp when an adventure in a corn maze at his new school goes wrong, and he and twelve of his schoolmates are mysteriously transported to Mystfira—a realm of angels, leprechauns, gargoyles and fairies—and home to an elite angelic training school. Forced to co-exist with student angels and surrounded by more danger than he ever could have imagined, Rafe searches for a way home only to stumble upon a scheme to destroy the heavens. Can he find a way to save himself and his friends…or will they be lost forever?