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The Devil's Purpose - (Now seeking REPRESENTATION)

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When Chicago’s chief of police turns up dead, Sebastian Hunt is on the run. And it gets worse: not only is this young actor the perfect patsy for the murder, but he'll also have to bargain for asylum from the dead man’s pseudo-son, forensic sketch-artist Joe Kincaid, if he wants to survive--a proposition Joe's estranged wife, Mary, isn’t about to make without a fight. But, as another death rattles their household, the three are pressed into a dangerous game of trust—one that will make Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the key to a sin long-buried in the city’s sordid past and will prove, once and for all, that even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose…

The Devil's Purpose, at approximately 105,000 words,  is set up as a play - with five acts, each chapter corresponding to a scene, and each character corresponding to another from The Merchant of Venice.

***Prior knowledge of Shakespeare's work is not essential to enjoy the story, but may add texture to the piece.***

                                                                                    Sample Chapters: (FREE!)
                                                                                  Act I, Scene I - The Theatre
                                                                Act I, Scene II - The Superintendent's House
                                                                           Act I, Scene III - The Holding Cell


A Sparrow's Fall - (Now seeking REPRESENTATION)

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While auditioning for the title role in Hamlet at DePaul, a ghost from Sebastian Hunt’s murky past at last returns to haunt him. His father, wanted by Interpol, offers him a deal: help him recover a young woman’s diary from the Chicago Police…or else. But when the diary’s author turns out to be Sebastian’s only girlfriend—and his foster mother’s latest mental patient—there’s barely time to breathe before ex-detective Joe Kincaid unearths Chicago's freshest homicide: a U.S. marine, killed by none other than Sebastian’s very kin...

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