Mark Love



    Mark Love has always enjoyed a good story.  After working as a freelance reporter, he turned his creative efforts to fiction and successfully published several short stories, including one that began “It was a dark and stormy night. No, really, it was!” Mark continues to find inspiration for a story, a character or a scene in the strangest places and times, like at the gym, riding his motorcycle or standing in line at a restaurant.  “Desperate Measures” is his third published novel with Agora International.  He is currently working on a sequel for “Balancing Act”.  Mark resides in Michigan with his wife, Kim and sons Travis and Cameron.

Write to him at: ContactMarkLove@yahoo.com
Other titles by Mark Love
“Balancing Act”
“Fade Away”
Fade Away    What begins as a routine experiment at a research facility in idyllic North Carolina suddenly tears apart the night, leaving death and destruction in its wakeFormer soldier Vince Tyrell, working as a security guard at the site, finds himself the subject of an intense search. Blamed for the explosion and the loss of life, the police are pursuing him. His recent employers are also searching, anxious to silence his claims of innocence. But Tyrell has his own agenda. Injured in the chemical blast, he discovers that his wounds heal quickly, but with a remarkable side effect. Now he's undertaking a cross country search, seeking out those responsible, determined to find a way to reverse the process before it is too late. Before he "Fades Away."
Balancing Act    Jamie Richmond, a former reporter turned novelist, is doing research for a character in an upcoming book, when she witnesses the shooting of a police officer. Suddenly her quiet routine world is torn apart. Despite the encouragement of others to put the incident behind her, Jamie feels compelled to unravel the mystery of the shooting. At the same time she becomes romantically involved with Malone, another police officer who may not be all he appears to be. Determined to find the answers, Jamie unknowingly puts things into motion that cannot end cleanly.
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    Some writers never catch a break.  Nicholas Burr is one of those writers.  His only publications are as a ghostwriter for a dead man's children's series.  His paychecks are slender, his life is in a rut and his marriage is beyond repair.

Nicholas decides to write a book no one can refuse, a "How to Kill Your Wife" story. 

    Three days after he submits it to his publisher, his wife disappears.Soon the police are involved.  Did he really kill his wife to get his book into print?  Would someone like Nicholas Burr go to such lengths, hoping that the payoff of a bestseller might just be worth the risk?  Could such desperate times really lead to . . . Desperate Measures