The Light at the End of the Tunnel (30 page)

Devin (second
detective)

First Detective (not
named)

Riley Stokes (owner of
survivalist school)

Sheldon & Tucker
(trainers)

Sadie (trainee becomes
instructor)

Jasper (older boy in
foster care, Les Paul’s first teacher)

Pierce (older boy at
Juvie, Les Paul’s second teacher)

Edsel (another boy at
Juvie)

Places

Bradleyville (prison,
state not named)

St. Winston Hospital, 1430
Gardenia Blvd., Wayne Ridge, Nebraska

(where the Markum’s
abandoned the infant, Les Paul)

Earnestburg, Kansas
(family services that handled Cassandra’s case)

Marble Falls, Kansas
(Cassandra’s foster home)

Brentwood, Kansas (police
and juvenile detention)

(where the chaplain &
Nicole caught up with nine-year-old Les Paul)

The National Infamies
(news magazine where Les Paul’s baby story caught the chaplain’s
attention)

“There is a sacredness in
tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep
contrition and of unspeakable love.”
 
―
 
Washington
Irving

5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening and
enthralling.
By Rhonda Lytle (Liverpool, TX United States (Kindle Edition)
This book is engrossing. It’s not what I would call a warm, fuzzy
type of read, but rather a real glimpse into some of the major
issues facing society such as the atrocities committed upon
children, consequences of the death penalty, and the ever declining
social conditions regarding families and relationships in general
all wrapped up in some addicting fiction.
The author, James W. Nelson, has an easy to read style that makes
putting the book down difficult. His characters are rich, the
storyline multi-layered, and the action moves at a good pace. One
of the things I really enjoyed was that it was not predictable at
all and there were surprises all the way up to the very end. I feel
he has earned an all around five stars!

5.0 out of 5 stars Un-put-downable, absolutely gripping!
By Carolee Samuda (Kingston, Jamaica (Paperback)
The most unique tale of the criminal mind. The story is scary but
you don’t want to stop reading it because you have to know what
happens. This book is thrilling and is wonderfully crafted. The
author is definitely a mastermind at creating such stories and this
is very believable. It has you wondering who the next Les Paul is
or if he is right beside you!

Novels

Winter in July

(The doomsday clock is ticking…it
will
reach midnight)

Callipygia

(A place, or maybe just a state of mind,

for if you go there, and partake, you will be
changed…
forever
)

Pharmacological Research Gone Berserk

(Needed: volunteers)

Daughters Book 1

(The heartbreak of human trafficking)

Daughters Book 2

(Emma gets payback)

Daughters Book 3

(The Lure of Pornography)

Daughters Book 4

(The Little Girl From Down the Street)

Daughters Book 5

(Sorority Animal House)

Boat Sailors

(Vietnam War action by fleet submarines)

The Bellwether

(The mother of all disasters)

The Light at the End of the tunnel

(A supernatural thriller)

New World Order Rising Book 1

(The Abduction)

New World Order Rising Book 2

(The New Civil War)

New World Order Rising Book 3

(The Next Generation Fights On)

The Short Stories

Strange & Weird Stories

(The unknown: as close as beside you)

A Collection of Short Contemporary
Stories

(Stories about people just like you)

Nonfiction

Dying to Live (memoirs)

(The life & times of Jimmy Nelson)

****

Digital Only

One Morning Nature Series

(For children, 3-103)

Book 1 One Morning at Boxelder Cove
(Tamius, the Red Squirrel)

Book 2 One Morning at Juneberry Row
(Sybil, the Cottontail Rabbit)

Short Stories

To the Nineteenth Century (fantasy,
time-travel)

He had it Coming (crime, mystery)

Waiting to Die (the new pandemic)

Into Tilovia (war, romance, adventure)

The Commons (environment, time-travel)

30 Seconds to the Ground (a skydive gone
wrong)

Descriptions of Books by James W.
Nelson

From the author:
In
my fiction I do not try to create super-heroes, but rather bring
alive common and regular people who try to find love, survive, and
react to circumstances as best they can, and, usually, try to do
the right thing. The books are more than one genre,
from
war to sex and violence to romance to humor to horror to fantasy to
science fiction to adventure,
I write in
third-person with viewpoints by men, women, and
children.

For more detailed descriptions, synopses,
reviews, please go to:

https://jameswnelsonblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/books-by-james-w-nelson-samples-synopses-reviews/

Novels

Winter in July
(65,500 words)
(The
doomsday clock is ticking…it
will
reach
midnight)
(nuclear war drama) In 2019, many more nations than
the superpowers have nuclear weapons and dependable delivery
systems. Kirby Yates, 40, helps his town prepare for the ultimate
war, which nobody believes will ever happen.

Callipygia
(66,100 words) (love, sex,
violence, sexual violence)
(A place, or maybe just a state of
mind, for if you go there, and partake, you will become
changed…
forever
.
Stephanie Daniels,
29, journalist, goes on the undercover assignment of her life, and
finally finds true love, with another woman.

Pharmacological Research Gone Berserk
(82,500 words)
(Needed: volunteers)
(medical mystery drama)
Shea McTory, 31, homeless, volunteers to be locked up six months
for a human nutrition research study, learns to deal with nine
other volunteers—one a psychopath—and—the good part—meets the love
of his life.

Daughters
Book 1
(40,200
words)
(The heartbreak of human trafficking)
(abduction,
crime, prostitution, love of a father) Emotion and love in the
house where Emma, 18, grew up was rare. When she was abducted into
prostitution she was hardly missed, until the one person who truly
cared about her finds out.

Daughters Book 2
(45,000 words)
(Emma gets payback)
After six months of living with her
foster father, Bailey Forbes, Emma and new best friend, Alexis,
leave the safety of Abundance, Montana, and venture 200 miles
farther west to the campus of University of Montana, Wyman, where
her past will come back to haunt her.

Daughters Book 3
(59,200 words)
(The Lure of Pornography)

Emma, in her second year of college (studying
psychology & criminal justice) goes undercover into the dark
world of pornography.

Daughters Book 4
(49,000 words
(The Little
Girl From Down the Street)

Emma is home for a visit and a little rest, but a
local nine-year-old girl in trouble. Her mother is suffering from
the early effects of Alzheimer’s. Her boyfriend and his son have
turned to the healthy daughter.

Daughters Book 5
(42,000 words)
Sorority animal House

Emma is graduated with degrees in social
work and criminal justice, working toward a black belt in
Taekwondo, and has partnered with a young lady attorney. They will
specialize in helping victims of human trafficking.

(A young woman “Little” says “No!” to the
sorority’s brutal initiation rites, starts to leave, would have
been stopped and forced, but her big sister “Big” has a change of
heart and comes to her rescue.)

Boat Sailors
(65,000 words)
(Vietnam War action by fleet submarines)
Fresh from the
farm, Brice Moser, 17, will leave his loved ones behind, pay his
dues in bootcamp, then Class A Weapons School where he’ll
experience more life in 9 weeks then the whole 17 years before,
become a Torpedoman’s Mate, Seaman Apprentice, and soon will
discover his rating covers much more than torpedoes.

The Bellwether
(229,000 words)
(The mother of all disasters)
(economic & environmental
meltdown) (love, sex, violence, drama, adventure) Aaron Hodges, 32,
has one month to take his future colonists 300 miles to northern
Minnesota wilderness…not by truck but overland across farmland and
forest by horse and wagon, but first he has to convince them to
want
to go.

The Light at the End of the Tunnel
(68,600 words)
(A supernatural thriller)
(one theory of
reincarnation) (capital punishment, horror, crime, drama, foster
care)
(if the state kills a worst-of-the-worst
criminal, does he really die?)
The prison chaplain, 35, recruits
nurse Nicole Waters, 30, to help him find and stop the reborn
worst-of-the-worst criminal, Les Paul, now rampaging through foster
home after foster home.

New World Order Rising
Book 1
(52,200 words) (
The Abduction)
Carter Banks, 47, recruits
his childhood friend (ex-army special ops) to help track the
abductors of his daughter, Chantal, 24, and granddaughter, Dodie,
6, and gets a hair-raising short course on the true goals of the
Illuminati, composed of elite politicians, CEOs, and generals, in
their quest to eliminate 85% of the world’s population and create a
one-world government:
The New World Order
.

New World Order Rising Book 2
(56,000
words)
(The New Civil War)
Carter and his
load of young girls rescued from the Satanist Illuminati (while
avoiding the black-uniformed police) takes two weeks getting home
from Kansas, to his sister’s farm, discovers she is militia leader
of southeastern North Dakota, and learns North Dakota is the front
line of resistance, among a group of states west of Interstate 29.
Seven-year-old Jocelyn by proxy takes the place of the missing
six-year-old Dodie, and brings new life to the heartbroken Carter
and Chantal.

New World Order Rising Book 3
(66,
500 words)
(The Next Generation Fights on)

Ten years pass. Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn
is now staunch at Carter’s side as his aid and lieutenant.
Sixteen-year-old Dodie escapes her abductors, returns to ND to
reclaim her birthright, joins in the fight, and is not too pleased
about Jocelyn’s position with her mom and grandpa.

James W. Nelson was born in a little
farmhouse on the prairie in eastern North Dakota in 1944. Some
doctors made house calls back in those days. He remembers kerosene
lamps, bathing in a large galvanized tub, and their phone number
was a long ring followed by four short ones, and everybody in the
neighborhood could rubberneck. (Imagine that today!)

James has been telling stories most of his
life. Some of his first memories happened during recess in a
one-room country schoolhouse near Walcott, ND. His little friends,
eyes wide, would gather round and listen to his every
hastily-imagined word. It was a beginning. Fascinated by the world
beginning to open, he remembers listening to the teacher read to
all twelve kids in the eight grades.

He was living in that same house on the land
originally homesteaded by his great grandfather, when a savage
tornado hit in 1955 and destroyed everything. They rebuilt and his
family remained until the early nineteen-seventies when diversified
farming began changing to industrial agribusiness (not necessarily
a
good
thing.) He spent four years in the US Navy during the
Vietnam War (USS Carbonero and USS Archerfish, both
submarines.)

After the navy he worked many jobs and
finally has settled on a few acres exactly two and one half miles
straight west of the original farmstead, ironically likely the very
spot where the 1955 tornado first struck, which sometimes gives him
a spooky feeling.

A little more Biography:

He lives among goldfinches, chickadees,
nuthatches, blue jays, crows, cottontails, squirrels, deer, mink,
badgers, coyotes, wallflowers, spiderworts, sunflowers, goldenrod,
big and little bluestem, switchgrass, needle & thread grass,
June berries, chokecherries, oaks, willows, boxelders and
cottonwoods, in the outback of eastern North Dakota.

Thanks for reading
for reading my
book. If you enjoyed it, won’t you please take a moment to leave me
a review at your favorite retailer?

Thanks!

James W. Nelson

Author’s notes

In my fiction I do not try
to create super-heroes, but rather bring alive common and regular
people who try to find love, survive, and react to circumstances as
best they can, and, usually, try to do the right thing. The books
are more than one genre,
from war to sex and violence to
romance to humor to horror to fantasy to science fiction to
adventure,
I write in third-person with
viewpoints by men, women, and children.