[Kane and Thorne 01.0] Creatures of Appetite
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“I think I’m starting to like you, Kane,” Thorne knelt back down behind the bar and unlocked another, much larger cabinet located underneath.
“You are? You’re starting to like me?”
“Yep,” Thorne replied, his head buried deep inside the lower cabinet.
“And is that a good thing?”
Inside the large cabinet were rows and rows of small jars, each one labeled and filled with medical alcohol. There were over two hundred of the tiny jars labeled with names and dates lined up in the cabinet.
Human tongues floated inside of them.
On the end of one of the top rows there were empty jars. One of the empty jars was labeled FORSYTHE. Another empty was labeled PETE.
Thorne grabbed an empty jar labeled KANE, took it out, locked the cabinet and stood back up.
“What’s that you said?” Thorne asked.
“I said, is that a good thing, you liking me?”
“It’s a good thing.”
Thorne tore the “KANE” label off the jar and tossed it into a waste can. He set the jar aside, picked up the bottle of scotch and brought it back to the table.
“An extremely good thing. I don’t like most people,” Thorne poured both of them a drink.
“Yeah, I’ve noticed that about you.”
They tapped each other’s glass in a silent toast and sipped their scotch.
“This is good hooch,” Kane said, savoring the scotch. “I’m beginning to think that you might actually have some taste, Thorne.”
Thorne smiled gently at Kane.
“White moves first, Emma.”
Kane made her opening move with a pawn. Thorne countered her immediately. Kane made another quick move and Thorne again countered quickly. Emma Kane smiled at Jacob Thorne.
“I can see that this is going to be really interesting,” Kane said.
“You have no idea.”
The Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Thrillers
Creatures of Appetite - Emma Kane/Jacob Thorne Book 1
Trophies - Emma Kane/Jacob Thorne Book 2
Talents - Emma Kane/Jacob Thorne Book 3
The Hail Mary - Emma Kane/Jacob Thorne Book 4
Todd Travis is an independently published author. He created Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne because he has always been a serious fan of psychological thrillers and serial killer fiction. He wrote Creatures of Appetite in his spare time on a dare from a friend, as a result the worm escaped the Tequila bottle and his life has been forever changed. There are currently four books in this series… the next three are:
TROPHIES - Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Book 2
TALENTS - Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Book 3
THE HAIL MARY - Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Book 4
More of their adventures are on the way. If you enjoy Emma and Jacob’s adventures, you can pitch in and support his work. Todd accepts donations, just go to:
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Emma Kane & Jacob Thorne return in…
TROPHIES...
Young beautiful women are disappearing. Different types, with different backgrounds, most with a lot of debt, few friends and no close family to speak of. Gone.
Someone is collecting trophies. Only one person can see it. Special Agent Emma Kane.
Kane knows she'll need help on this ordeal. But the only man who can help her, famed profiler Jacob Thorne, is no longer speaking to her. The clock is ticking and Kane is now a target of whomever is doing this.
As Kane gets closer to unlocking true cruel purpose the abducted women serve, the real question is not only will she survive what she finds, but can she handle what she discovers about Thorne and herself?
Emma Kane and Jacob Thorne are back in this thrilling sequel to Todd Travis' pulse-pounding debut novel CREATURES OF APPETITE.
TROPHIES - Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Book 2
a novel by Todd Travis.
More Emma Kane & Jacob Thorne in…
TALENTS
In 1989, a school bus filled with young children disappears. It drove into a tunnel, a tunnel with no exits, and did not drive out. Witnesses saw the bus go in. No one saw it come out. It vanished into thin air as a community panics. Everyone panics.
Everyone except for a twenty-four year old college dropout named Jacob Thorne.
In 2004, three people are brutally murdered, two of them in a sealed panic room, a room locked from the inside.
The only trace evidence is a single hair from the suspect. A suspect that has been dead for three months, killed by the same people who were just murdered in the panic room.
Everyone is convinced a ghost has come back from the grave to avenge a murder.
Everyone except for a young PTSD-suffering homicide detective named Emma Kane.
To be a profiler, it takes more than just research and hard work. It takes more than simply brains.
It takes... TALENT.
And you need to have it from the very beginning.
TALENTS - Emma Kane / Jacob Thorne Book 3.
An origin story of two very unique people.
Also By Todd Travis:
A geek. A fat chick. A slow learner. A psycho suicide girl. A wannabe criminal. Five outcast high school kids with nothing in common except that nobody liked them. Five losers with nothing to look forward to but torment and harassment every day; nothing, that is, until they were introduced to the game.
SEX, MARRY, KILL.
An online game that would change their lives and give them power over others. They could do anything they wanted, sleep with anyone they wanted to, kill anyone who got in their way. Their every fantasy fulfilled. But at a mortal price. They soon discover that game will consume and destroy them unless they find some way to stop it before it’s too late.
For fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill, a dark tale of horror, revenge and gaming gone lethally wrong. SEX, MARRY, KILL.
Also by Todd Travis
For fans of STEPHEN KING and DEAN KOONTZ … author TODD TRAVIS (Creatures of Appetite) has gathered a haunting collection of suspense stories exploring the monsters, both living and dead, which surround us all.
- A brilliant biophysicist on the verge of proving there is no life after death discovers, to his horror, that the dead are determined to stop him …
- An abused small town boy finds a special friend in the woods next to his trailer, but his friend isn’t like other children and cannot leave the woods, not ever …
- A group of determined graduate students seek Bigfoot on a remote Alaskan range seek but discover a monster far more deadly than they ever imagined …
- An elderly store manager, disturbed by a stranger eyeing the armored truck deliveries to his store, decides to take matters into his own hands …
- A beautiful young woman walks the streets of Manhattan at night seeking men, but for her own dark purposes, because for her, night is for hunting …
- A mysterious little girl somehow “invites” herself along on an abduction, leading her captors to wonder who really is in charge …
Five stories of suspense and terror and a short novel exploring the darkness everyone eventually faces when it’s their time to die, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD is a collection one may want to read with all the lights in the house on …
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Also by Todd Travis
DERELICT
All Kathleen Castle cares about is making the latest payment on her beloved boat, a salvager named DADDY'S GIRL, and not falling back into a bottle of vodka.
But when she and her all-female crew answer a mysterious dis
tress call during a tropical storm, they stumble across an abandoned yacht worth millions.
It seems like a dream come true, the Lotto, the Big Ticket to all their dreams...
Until they discover what's waiting for them inside the ship...
DERELICT
A horror novella
by
Todd Travis
About the Author
Todd Travis’ interests include conspiracy theories, the poetry of Michael O’Donoghue and pop music and movies of the 80s. He is single and moves around a lot. His current whereabouts are at this time unknown. He dislikes cable news, views cell phones with suspicion and don’t even get him started on email. He also believes poker is not a sport and therefore should never be allowed on ESPN.
CREATURES OF APPETITE is his first novel. The sequel, TROPHIES, launched in 2016, and another Kane / Thorne novel TALENTS arrived in 2017 and THE HAIL MARY in 2018.
More are on the way. There is a Facebook fan page started by one of his very few friends. Check there for updates or messages. Novelist Todd Travis.
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