R. D. Chapman

ALLi Author Member

Location: United States of America (the)

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Mystery

Originally from the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, I'm now an empty nester living quietly in Nebraska with my husband. I've worked in numerous sectors during my lifetime, everything from cook to software developer. I love to crochet and make my own patterns. My publishing career didn't start until I retired out of the "8 to 5" arena, so I have many years' worth of ideas and notes to carry me forward.

R. D. Chapman's books

Blurring Reality

Normalcy for Jem Wilmont was shattered in the nightmare that cursed her with the ability to go invisible. She doesn’t want it or the complications it’s created. She’s drifting between star systems, hiding her secret. Hunted by the ruthless sociopath who would weaponize her ability in his ambitious plans. But life in the shadows is no life. Lonely, miserable, until a steel-eyed man tracks her down.

The woman Thane Baron is hired to find is nothing like he had expected. Or was told. Deceived, betrayed and nearly killed, he learns Wilmont’s secret when she uses it to aid their escape. Now, he is determined to both help and protect her as the enemy spins a devastating web of lies around her. A web that attracts even worse predators.

To survive and regain control of her life, Jem must fully embrace who and what she is. But can she do so without revealing all her secrets?

Tangled Reality

The past year has been hard for Jem Wilmont, catapulting her out of the quiet life she prefers. She’s endured lies, truths, broken ribs, kidnapping, and the news media. She has also gained allies, friends, and a home. But the new life she’s building is threatened now.

Thane Baron and his family are under attack. Someone from his past wants him dead and his family destroyed. Even as they struggle to learn who—and more importantly why—the attacks are escalating. To save Thane and his family, Jem uses every means available, including her most shocking and dangerous secret. A secret that exposes her past and puts her on a collision course with influential and powerful people…some of whom feel she is too dangerous to live.

While Jem navigates the minefield between acceptance and fear, Thane seeks to unravel the mystery behind his attacker. To have a future, Jem and Thane must survive their past and present.

At Any Cost

Tabitha Chandler: a seagoing hermit that harmed no one and didn’t have an enemy in the world. Yet died in a hail of bullets.

Private Investigator Curt D’Accio was hired by wolf-shifter Russell Chandler to track his wayward half-sister down and convince her to return home. After weeks of chasing Tabitha’s boat wake, he found her. He found love. Then he lost both.

Curt barely survived the ambush outside their hotel. Who attacked them? Why? The police are stymied: no motive, no leads, no suspects, and their case quickly goes cold. Curt refuses to give up, determined to find the answers and the one responsible for her murder.

But he is pitted against a cunning adversary who thinks of others only as pawns, disposable chess pieces. Curt’s search will illuminate a long-buried secret and the dark heart of a killer that will do anything to keep it hidden.

Reality Kicked

“Leave me and mine alone, I leave you alone.” A simple message. A fateful decision.

Jem Wilmont’s secret phasing ability allows her to circumvent any security system, earning her a stealthy reputation and a nickname: the Ghost. This has drawn unwanted attention, especially from certain quarters. Like Reginald Kurzvall, her years-long stalker. He is determined to exploit her ability for his own personal gain.

Jem has escaped her latest kidnapping attempt. Furious, fed up, and determined it never happens again, Jem decides to fight back. To protect both herself and others, she resolves to prove once and for all, do not mess with the Ghost.

When Jem confidently confronts the Consortium’s co-leaders—Kurzvall’s political partners—she did not expect their organized and aggressive response. It turns into a disaster of galactic proportions, the true power of her ability exposed in the most devastating way possible when she fights her way free.

Jem’s life is in turmoil. The highest military and political levels are in turmoil. And powerful new enemies want her eliminated.

Shattered Reality

Jem Wilmont had a quiet, easy-going life. She roamed around Earth, working various jobs and indulging her curiosity about people and places. Occasionally, she stopped in to visit with an old friend.

That was before she’s mutated by a horrible event that turns her world on its head. That was before she’s forced to flee Earth to escape the predator who covets her new ability for his own gain. That was before she’s afraid to have friends.

Jem has learned several painful lessons over the past months. Don’t trust anyone and don’t draw attention have become her two most important rules. Faced with an uncertain future, Jem forges a new life with dogged determination and a smidgen of luck…inasmuch as a fickle universe and a murderous stalker allows.

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