Books by L F Falconer

The dead don't always sleep. After doing his stint in the army, Don Lattimore buried his battlefield demons deep inside and settled comfortably into Diablo Springs. Serving as county sheriff, for nearly two decades he's enjoyed the tranquility of the Nevada desert until the day he discovers evidence of satanic activity inside an abandoned house. Now he's trapped in a showdown with his own nightmares. Threatening to fulfill a chilling prophesy, something inside him has clawed itself free. The good people of Diablo Springs begin to die and the only way Lattimore can put a stop to it comes with a steep price--a price he's unwilling to pay. But to save his community and family, he must. And time is running out.

After killing one of their own, Elva finds herself running from the Tillaman warriors who are now out for blood. Yet when she hides upon the moors, she is abducted by Piskies who whisk her off to their embattled kingdom in the Black Wood. Hailing her as their queen and savior, the Piskies present her to their king with the hope to end their civil war. But the king has other ideas. He condemns her to an imprisonment which can only end in her death. Elva foils the king's plan and escapes the Black Wood, followed by a small gathering of loyal Piskies. Though as her reign begins, a siren call from the mountain of Skur soon lures her to the ancient realm of the dragon--a journey which not only takes her to the edge of the netherworld, but gives her the power to make one life-changing wish. A wish her new husband comes to dread. The Legacy of Skur, Volume Two continues this dark fantasy tale of Elva's adventures as she crosses through complex junctures of loyalty, duty, and love--all under the surreptitious guidance of the ever-watchful Creators whose game for world dominance will rise to a new level. Are the players up to the challenge?

He is terrified of the dark. He doesn't like bugs. And the one thing he wants the most he cannot have. He is Adalanto, the vagabond's son. This uncommon, biographical fantasy takes an introductory glimpse into a world locked in the midst of imposed evolution, and not all the magical folk who inhabit the Black Wood are creatures of the light. Born to an outlaw and favored by the goddess, after he escapes a life of brutality with his father, Adalanto is suddenly thrust into a society he never knew existed. Struggling to adapt, he must battle the ghosts of a turbulent past in his rise to power. But when the kingdom is rent apart in the wake of a dragon's destruction, he comes to discover that no one can outrun the dark.

It is the final summer of Collie's innocence when an ill-fated romance forces her into maturity. Fast approaching the age of adulthood under the king's law, Collie, the beautiful, eldest daughter of a Middletown tinker, sets her sights upon a handsome young fisherman named Dugan, the troubled son of an unscrupulous man from the lower-class village of Ganty. A tumultuous love affair soon ensues as they attempt to cross the lines of class segregation, bigotry, and religious differences amid their own internal conflicts.Collie clings to her dreams of grandeur--- a life of unfettered leisure, travel, and excitement, for she fears to end up like her mother, tied to a kitchen and a house full of children. The rebellion against her mother and her way of life is a constant source of contention between them as she doggedly pursues Dugan, shunning the affections of the blacksmith, Arrick, a more proper, acceptable suitor, favored by Collie's parents.Down in Ganty, there are two dangerous men of power---a pub master named Barrtel, and Dugan's father, Harlo, cordial enemies that tolerate one another in an uneasy truce. Dugan spends a great deal of time drinking at Barrtel's pub in an effort to escape some of the unspeakable horrors he has been involved with at the hands of his father. As Collie resists becoming her mother, Dugan resists becoming his father while the two young lovers struggle in their rocky, forbidden relationship, and Collie slowly begins to unravel the mystery of a secret past involving Harlo and her own parents.Set in the mythical realm of Donnel by the sea in the rising spread of Christianity, Hope Flies on Broken Wings delves into two adolescent minds and their individual, personal struggles that draw them together while pushing them apart---two souls seeking redemption, each with a completely different life view of what constitutes hell on earth in this poignant tale of love and loss.

If a train leaves Boston, does it ever reach its final destination, or is it bound to roll onward to hell for eternity? Jonas Dumar is about to find out. Not trusting his lawyer to get him acquitted of the murder charge he faces, Jonas decides to run, taking his dog to flee the country on an old fishing boat under an assumed identity. But Jonas Dumar has problems, and a murder accusation is simply one of the many troubles that plague him. For one: Jonas can't stand being all alone. And two: Jonas has secrets. If a train leaves Boston, does it ever stop screaming? Making a quick stop in Newfoundland on his voyage across the Atlantic to seek out asylum with an old college chum in Scotland, Jonas takes on board two hitchhikers, Gabe and Izzy, who are trying to work their way back to Spain. Only when they get out into the open sea, does Jonas begin to suspect his passengers are not what they appear to be. After a failed plan to abandon them in Greenland, Jonas awakes one morning with the lingering memories of a nightmare, finding himself sailing all alone. Gabe and Izzy have vanished, leaving behind a subtle, haunting trace of their existence, as Jonas finds himself reunited with a long lost childhood friend. A friend he'd hoped never to see again. Then Gabe and Izzy return. Now all Jonas wants is to escape before he completely unravels, coming to realize a man really can learn more about himself than he ever wants to know.