"Move over Frank Peretti, there is another Frank in town."
Andi Newberry-Tubbs, Book Reviewer and Inspy Award-Winning Blogger
— Suspense Fiction Author —
W. Franklin Lattimore
Check Out & Follow my Blog:
THE BOOKS
Welcome to my world of writing. It is my hope, that in the pages of these books, you'll find adventure, suspense, thrills, and an encounter with the One who wants to bring freedom into every area of your life. Welcome, my friends, to the Otherealm, where Heaven, Hell, and Man battle for the soul.
Book 1 of the Otherealm Saga
Deliver Us from Darkness
Evil Lurks in Unlikely Faces
Does Heaven exist?
What about Hell?
For the moment, these questions are the only things keeping Brent Lawton alive. Through temptation, depression, and unending mind games a “prime-evil” enemy persists in pressing Brent closer to the edge of suicide … and Hell.
Enter Tara Baker. A black-magic practicing witch on a self-ordained mission to destroy the lives of two “Christlings,” she will do whatever needs to be done through the use of her “craft”—and other physical means—to gain a needed victory. Yet there are forces eyeing her that are greater than any she has dealt with before.
Two lives will intersect. An unseen war will be fought. Someone or some thing will win.
"Welcome to the Otherealm, where Heaven, Hell, and Man battle for the soul."
Book 2 of the Otherealm Saga
When Darkness Comes
Sacrifices Must be Made
In this sequel to Deliver Us from Darkness, twenty-four years have passed since best friends Brent Lawton, Marta Rosales, and Karen McLaughlin, had their lives rocked and changed through an encounter with Tara Baker, a black-magic practicing witch who was bent on their destruction.
Brent has remained in his hometown of Millsville, Ohio. A police officer now, he raises his family of five within the suburban community that he has been hired to protect.
Not all is well, though. People are having premonitions.
Something is coming; something evil.
Picti High Priests, Brendan Cadeyrn and Tara Baker's former mentor, Stephanie O’Leary, have finally pieced together the fragments of a culture and religion once so powerful that it had kept the mighty legions of ancient Rome at bay. It is their intention, along with several hundred of their followers, to reclaim that religion, and with it, its power. No one will be permitted to stand in opposition to their plan to unleash an evil that has lain dormant for over a thousand years.
Yet a single family will stand. They will confront the darkness and put their own lives on the line for the sake of their God, their community, and each other.
With a twist that few will see coming, dive deep into the story of one family’s war against—and for—a mortal enemy bent on their very destruction.
Is there a darkness that exists that is too deep—too evil—for God's love penetrate?
When Darkness Comes
"Welcome to the Otherealm, where Heaven, Hell, and Man battle for the soul."
Book 3 of the Otherealm Saga
Behind the Darkness
Where Evil Gives Birth to Death
“The foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of any man’s plans.”
1 Corinthians 1:25
Brent Lawton is back in the third and most gripping story to date.
How much control will God allow any individual to wield over his own—or someone else’s— circumstances?
Brent is about to tell a story that will affect his wife's life forever. It is a tale of unfathomable power and manipulation, coupled with an anger that could destroy the life of a troubled fifteen-year-old girl.
It is also the tale of a twenty-five-year-old man who wields an array of unsought powers and is given a terrifying mission that will test virtually every aspect of his life, not the least of which will be his relationship with God.
Follow Brent on a journey into his own past—into a decades-old saga—that continues to haunt his life into the present day. Listen as Brent dives deep into an encounter with God that no one—no one on Earth, that is—will ever believe.
"Welcome to the Otherealm, where Heaven, Hell, and Man battle for the soul."
Works In Progress (WIP)
That Dark Place (2018)
The Otherealm Saga - Book 4 - The Final Story
Sometimes Only God Can Hear the Screams
From Chapter One:
Even if she had tried to remember, she wouldn’t have been able to put an exact date to when she had first crossed the line. But every once in a while, the event would flash back.
She could remember the feeling of her heart hammering in her chest, the intensity of the pulse in her neck. She had asked one last Should I do it? before clicking the “Send” button.
At that moment, it had become forever too late get it back.
From that moment, it had became forever easier to keep doing it.
One picture turned into hundreds—both as sender and receiver—each experience an adrenaline rush.
Daring. Fun. Taboo.
She tried, again, to think back to the when—to the day in which she first gave in to that man’s tantalizing request. “Just one. Just one without your shirt on.”
-----
In this final story of the Otherealm Saga, find out what happens when a preteen girl's journey into Internet pornography results in dangerous decisions that put her life on the line.
Even if she survives the calculated plans of an online predator, will she want to remain alive?
"Welcome to the Otherealm, where Heaven, Hell, and Man battle for the soul."
A Year Behind (Fall 2018)
Two couples—best friends—who went out on the town to celebrate another year of accomplishments wake to discover that they've been shoved backward in time exactly one year. They quickly learn that their situation will not just be a matter of reliving the past 365 days.
No, it couldn't be as simple as all that.
Faced with witnessing all four of their dopplegangers play out what has previously happened in their lives, they soon come face to face with the stark reality of who they really were, and are, as human beings, both in public and behind closed doors.
Each of the four has some explaining to do as secrets are revealed. Past decisions and behaviors, though, cannot be easily undone.
Or can they?
Questions develop:
-
What will happen if any of them decide to intentionally interrupt the lives of their past selves?
-
What kind of impact will manipulating the past have on all eight persons involved?
-
If those re-experiencing their lives don't do anything to keep their past selves from reaching the end of the year, will they, too, be sent back in time?
-
Is it possible that they have already been through all of this before?
-
Are they destined to go through all of this again?
-
What if, in order to prevent that possibility from occurring, they force their former selves to make different life decisions? But wouldn't that cause their present selves to cease their own existence?