When the Music Stops

By Leigh Barker

When the Music Stops – Coffee Break series. 5 Bitesize Read Short Stories
Love, Adventure, Old memories, True Stories - 5 stories to set you free.
...On a Downtown Train
...Gasoline Alley
...Talking Old Soldiers
...Leaving on a Jet Plane
...A Day in the Life of a Fool

On a Downtown Train
Aliyah was four years old when she stood with her mother and watched the Twin Towers come down right in front of them. Every year she rides the downtown train they had taken on that terrible day, and every year the journey becomes harder to bear. Her mother is lost, as are 3000 other souls. Her loss is beyond pain. But she must continue, or something bad will happen.

Gasoline Alley
This is going to be Johnny Joe Rodriguez’s year, this is the year he will win NASCAR’s Xfinity championship. If he can beat Swat, the best driver he's ever seen. And into his world of speed and competition comes a girl to set his pulse racing faster than his red Camaro. Single-minded determination to win and love make poor bedfellows. The championship will show him which is more important.

Talking Old Soldiers
Billy’s life is coming to a close, as it must for everyone. But the love of friends made so long ago on a bleak hillside in Korea eases his pain, and together they relive those days of hell and friendship.

Leaving on a Jet Plane
Joe Nelson is at the top of his game, the best surgeon in LA, respected and courted by his peers. Until he asks himself, Is this all there is? And with that question he steps onto a path that will lead him to a new life and tear his present one apart.

A Day in the Life of a Fool – True Story
On January 23rd 1822 Reverend William Buckland, Professor of Geology at Oxford University discovered a skeleton in a cave in South Wales. He believed it to be that of a witch from the time when Romans occupied the area. He was wrong.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Jan 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463409701

Leigh Barker

Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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