Michael D. Lynes

The shelf

Books & series

Every title below links to Amazon for Kindle and print, and to Audible when there’s an audio edition. Most of the catalog is also sold wide through Draft2Digital and Smashwords, so you can find it at Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and in libraries through OverDrive and cloudLibrary. There Is a Reaper and The Fat Man Gets Out of Bed are on Amazon only.

Amazon author store All Audible titles D2D / Smashwords catalog
Murder by Moonlight coming soon

Coming soon

Murder by Moonlight

Cozy Crystal Mysteries · Book 2

Maggie and Mike Hartstone are not done with Hamilton. And private detective Moon, of Moon Agencies, isn't done with them either! Murder by Moonlight is coming soon, late 2026.

It's In The Blood

Blood Series · Book 0

It's In The Blood

Meet Dev and Betrayer before Olympus calls. A master thief, a Titan father, and a gift that will not stay buried. The door into the series — often free on Amazon — with the first chapters of Destroyer’s Blood thrown in.

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Destroyer's Blood

Blood Series · Book 1 · Awards

Destroyer's Blood

Dev and Tray are climbing Half Dome when Hermes arrives with a summons from Zeus. He does not finish the sentence. Readers’ Favorite: “a gripping fantasy with strong hints of Greek myth.” Silver Medal. B.R.A.G. New Apple Solo. IAN Fantasy selection.

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First Blood

Blood Series · Book 2

First Blood

Gaia is gone. Something in Olympus has turned. Dev and Tray hunt the Heart of Creation against an enemy who has been patient for millennia. The question in the title is not metaphorical.

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Time For Blood

Blood Series · Book 3

Time For Blood

Cronos holds every card. Even Gaia may not be enough. The last Blood novel asks whether Dev and Tray still have time — or whether the old Titan has already spent it.

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There Is a Reaper

Memoir · 4.6 stars

There Is a Reaper

Five-year-old Christopher Aaron, a whirlwind of heroic mischief, meets a foe that does not bargain. 4.6 on Amazon from 450+ readers. “You will need a box of tissues.” B.R.A.G. Gold. Readers’ Favorite Silver. TISBA Winner.

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Moonstones and Murder

Cozy Crystal Mysteries · Book 1

Moonstones and Murder

Maggie runs the Cozy Crystal shop. Mike is a retired chief who thought the empty nest would be quieter. Then the Springfield Park Rockshow leaves a body behind. Book two, Murder by Moonlight, is coming soon, late 2026.

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The Fat Man Gets Out of Bed

Collection · New Apple Solo Medalist 2017

The Fat Man Gets Out of Bed

Thirteen tales: fathers and sons, gods and demi-gods, aliens, a seductive AI, and the living leaning toward the dead. New Apple Solo Medalist, 2017. The short-form companion to everything else on this shelf.

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AngelStories

AngelStories

AngelStories collection

Visitations, last conversations, a tree house that remembers, a father teaching a son how to hold on. The AngelStories collection and its Audible square edition — quiet stories that do not stay quiet.

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Ghost Stories Collection

Ghost Stories · Dead Cold

Ghost stories

November light, a grave that is also a business, a blueberry birthday, a Halloween trick that costs. Dead Cold / November Tales plus the Ghostly Rites anthology years. Bradbury’s weather, New Jersey ground.

Amazon Audible
East of East of Eden

SciFi

East of East of Eden

A far-future short that keeps the mythic bite of the longer work — one of the Fundamental Nonsense shelf.

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Dust Above

SciFi

Dust Above

Also published as Above All Dust. Short science fiction from the same drawer as Life Slice and East of East of Eden.

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Life Slice

SciFi

Life Slice

A compact, sharp science-fiction tale — print and ACX editions from the SciFi-Horror shelf.

Amazon Audible
Christmas Planet

SciFi · Holiday

Merry Ex-mas / Christmas Planet

All was quiet aboard the deep — a holiday science-fiction short with its own ACX edition.

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A Grave Business

Ghost stories

A Grave Business

The story that opened Ghostly Writes 2017 for more than a few readers. A trade practiced after dark, and a cost that does not stay in the ground.

Amazon Wide
Heart of Gold

Ghost stories

Heart of Gold

From the 2018 Ghostly Writes year. Warm title. Cold ending. The kind of short that belongs in November.

Amazon Wide
Memories to Treasure

AngelStories

Memories to Treasure

What we keep when someone is gone. The AngelStories entry readers mention when they write about family.

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My Angel Comes

AngelStories

My Angel Comes

Help arrives. It does not always look like help. A short that sits next to the memoir more closely than it first appears.

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My Father's Hands

AngelStories

My Father’s Hands

Fathers and sons. What is taught without being said. The AngelStories title that belongs beside There Is a Reaper.

Amazon Wide
Spirit

AngelStories

Spirit

A visitation that will not explain itself. One of the quieter AngelStories — and one of the ones people reread.

Amazon Wide
Sunset Beach

AngelStories

Sunset Beach

Light on water, a last conversation, and the hour when the day gives up. Book 5 of the AngelStories shorts.

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The Tree House

AngelStories

The Tree House

A tree house that remembers the children who built it — and the one who never came back down the same.

Amazon Wide
Ghostly Writes Anthology 2017

Anthology · Plaisted

Ghostly Writes 2017

Submission: A Grave Business.

Amazon
Ghostly Writes Anthology 2018

Anthology · Plaisted

Ghostly Writes 2018

Submission: Heart of Gold.

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Ghostly Rites 2019

Anthology · Plaisted

Ghostly Rites 2019

Submission: The Lighthouse.

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Ghostly Romance Anthology Volume One

Anthology · Plaisted

Ghostly Romance Vol. 1

Submission: Frost of Heart.

Amazon