E-Reads is extremely selective about publishing original fiction but we simply could not pass up the opportunity to bring Horror Grand Master Ray Garton’s horrifying Trailer Park Noir into the world. His book begins like an almost indiscernible wisp of smoke in a forest and builds to a conflagration that consumes everything and everyone.

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Welcome to Riverside Mobile Home Park, where there’s plenty of shade but no escape from the heat. It’s a run-down little trailer park in northern California, but it could be anywhere in the United States. It is unassuming, unremarkable and looks like a million other trailer parks. But don’t let the sleepy appearance fool you. It’s a nest of dark secrets, boiling lusts and murder waiting to happen.

Meet the players:

Marcus Reznick watched the love of his life blow her brains out and then dove to the bottom of a bottle of vodka. Read more…

Twenty years ago President Bill Clinton signed an apology for the coup that toppled the queen of Hawaii one hundred years earlier. Yet this is one of the least-known, least-marked events in American history, perhaps because it is one of most shameful.

On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machineguns and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen–American, British, German, and Australian. In between them stood hundreds of heavily armed US sailors and marines. Just after 2.00 p.m., the first shot was fired, and a military coup began.

This is the true, tragic and at times amazing story of the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and her government. It’s also the story of a five-year police state regime in Hawaii following the overthrow, and an attempted counter-coup by Hawaiians in 1895. And of how Hawaii became a US possession.

In Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff, award-winning historian and novelist Stephen Dando-Collins (Legions of Rome series The Inquest) reveals previously little-known facts uncovered during years of research on several continents, in the most dramatic and comprehensive chronicle of the end of Hawaii’s monarchy ever published. Using scores of first-hand accounts, this often minute-by-minute narrative also shows for the first time how the queen’s overthrow teetered on a knife-edge, only to come about purely through bluff.

Taking Hawaii, an E-Reads Original, reads like an exciting novel. Yet this tale of a grab for power, of misjudgment and injustice, truly took place. Judge for yourself whether you think the queen of Hawaii was wronged, or was wrong.