Patrice Stanton: 11 books

They say misery loves company but that’s not my motive. My probably-already-cold corpse doesn’t need to steer you (dead) wrong. I’m confident there’s plenty of “company” in the Rings of Purgatory, where I’ll spend eternity - no doubt insufficient prayers will be going up for me. But...

Ari Dunsmore’s new little adopted-sister is sick. The 7-year-old has been on a kind of hunger strike and lost a great deal of weight since she’s been with her new family. The teen has seen prayer fail, medicine fail, and now she’s willing to risk the wrath of not only her mega-preacher father,...

Yoshi’s got a Master’s in Journalism so of course he was an aspiring political correspondent. Finally employed, he thought his nightmares were over. Although the 26-year-old D.C. native didn't get his dream job at the Post, at least he got something "in the newspaper business." Could move...

If Brett has to believe in magic to get a pet companion - or two - she will. Of course she’d rather do it the normal way: by asking. Which of course she’s tried. Over and over again. And continually failed. But she always comes back to try again. Like today. Already scanned the area for alligators,...

The old man had lived there, on that plot of farm land, all his life. His parents before that, and on back to the days not but a few generations beyond the original Bay Colony. Well, there'd been the years when “duty-to-save-some-foreign-nation called” and he and the family's men before...

Ever gotten to the point where you've had-enough-and-just-aren't-going-to-take-it-any-more? Well, meet Hereford Bolton. He's over-worked, under-appreciated, and paid a lot less than nearby school districts' head-honcho computer geeks are. Oh, and to top it off, his boss has been...

When Jamison’s date bails he’s sure he knows why, and it has nothing to do with Fate. He’s certain it’s got frat-brothers’ fingerprints all over it. The last laugh will be on them, though. Their housemother has just made the 21-year-old an eleventh hour offer he wouldn’t dream of refusing....

Now, Mel “to hell with cooperation” Dobson’s devised his own plan.But why would the lowliest of Afterworld operatives risk going off script, risk taking his assignment into his own two suddenly very pudgy hands, especially - for starters - the potential wrath that could rain down from...

Man-trouble is never a good thing, but for Julia, this time it’s just plain confusing. Her guy was all over her at the start, but now? She thought he was on the brink of popping-“the”-question. But so far there’s been no pop, only a slow fizzle. She’s decided it’s up to her; she’s going...

For 20-year-old Hennessey Pict's upcoming fractured family drama, the roles were cast when she was a kid, long ago and in a far different City: the one on the Hudson, 105 miles away from Paradiso Island. So...she's still seen as the prep-school runaway. 70-year-old Trace Pict remains typecast...

Behind secure, blast-proof walls in Washington, D.C., a regime minion is burning the midnight oil...literally. This night, she’ll risk everything, to complete a task she suddenly sees could be the only honest contribution of her entire life.Trained throughout that female-privileged life to...