O'Neil de Noux Standalone Novels
When twenty-four year old twins Laurie and Joseph Ercolani inherit a bundle upon the death of their estranged father, they learn their sailing-enthusiast father also left each an identical sailing yacht. The twins have different ideas about what to do with their inheritance. Laurie sees it as an opportunity to fulfill her dream of making a movie. Joe sees it as seed-money for a get-rich-quick scheme. While one twin films a sexy movie against the backdrop of the beautiful Caribbean Sea, the other figures a felonious way of making a couple million bucks in pre-Katrina New Orleans. SLICK TIME is a sexy caper novel with a kidnapping, an extortion, the filming of an erotic movie, bungling FBI agents, a savvy NOPD detective, a private-eye known as the most dangerous man in New Orleans, as well as the Lusca - a sea monster inhabiting the Atlantis Blue Hole outside Kemps Bay, The Bahamas. There is a ruthless criminal who calls himself Hardacre, a sly mastermind who calls himself Slick, a host of pretty women and an alluring special agent with long brown hair, dark brown eyes and the intelligence to figure it all out. Too bad no one will listen to her. The story is fast-paced with wit, humor, sex and sharp dialogue.
Take a walk on the wild side along the beaches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast before Katrina with Lucy Incanto, daughter of a Mafia boss who is about to inherit millions, along with the freedom she's never had. Lucy Incanto is hot. At twenty-three she is about to inherit a fortune – money, property and the family business – the Incanto Family – La Cosa Nostra, Mafia. The lone offspring of Boss ‘Big Luke’ Incanto, who is dying in a hospital bed, the life of this pampered, porcelain-doll Mafia Princess is about to change. Lucy is slim, sleek, gorgeous. Yet men avoid her once they discover Big Luke is her Daddy. She seethes with repressed energy, repressed sexuality. Lucy Incanto is a classic Italian beauty with luxurious, long, dark brown hair, Mediterranean-brown eyes and fair, almost pale-white skin, full lips, probably her best feature, perfectly sculptured, her top lip rising to a slight point in the center. Everyone is about to discover this beauty is more intelligent than any of the men running the family and she will finally free herself to explore her sexual fantasies in the real world as a Mafia Aphrodite. Power. And sex. And a woman sharp enough to handle both. Lucy Incanto is hot.
In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and The Battle of New Orleans in 2015, New Orleans writer O’Neil De Noux spent the two years researching and writing an epic historical novel set during that titanic struggle. BATTLE KISS (320,000 words) is an intense, accurate depiction of the battle and life in and around New Orleans in the days and nights preceding and following the monumental event. It is a saga of love and war, of battlefield heroes and lovers – a tale of spies and privateers, ladies and rogues, patriots and traitors, sudden passion and sudden violence as the battle unfolds in stages until the cataclysm of January 8, 1815, when a rag-tag army of Creoles, free-men of color, pirates, American backwoodsmen, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Attakapas braves, fortified by a limited number of U.S. army regulars and marines and led by a general whose only experience was fighting insurgent Creeks, stands between New Orleans and a battle-hardened army of British soldiers, led by one of the Duke of Wellington’s finest field commanders and hero of the Peninsula War against Napoleon – Major General Sir Edward Pakenham. Centered around two Creole families (one of French descent, the other Spanish), BATTLE KISS chronicles the tumultuous events preceding the battle as frantic citizens argue over surrendering New Orleans to the British in order to save the city from destruction. They are pitted against the rock-hard determination of General Andrew Jackson and the Americans who would burn the city rather than let the British have her. During this turbulent time, two young women recognize their growing affection for several young men caught in the battle, young men vying for their love yet willing to sacrifice their lives for their new country. The story climaxes at the battle where rivals for the affections of the women stand side-by-side on that frosty January morning as the British come across the cane fields of the Chalmette Plantation. O’Neil De Noux, award-winning, international author of eight novels, seven short story collections and over two hundred published stories, was surprised when conducting his exhaustive research (forty-two source books) to learn there is no full-length saga written about the battle. Like TITANIC and GONE WITH THE WIND, De Noux’s epic is a love story set against a stirring historical event. Native son O’Neil De Noux has penned a gripping panoramic novel destined to be the finest written of this explosive time when New Orleans changed from a Creole town into an American city. So timely is BATTLE KISS, the Louisiana Division of the Arts awarded an Artist Services CAREER ADVANCEMENT AWARD FOR 2009-2010 to O’Neil De Noux for his work on the epic. The Battle of New Orleans was the last time American and British armies met as enemies on a battlefield.
Desiree Blanc wants to be a gun-moll. Born into poverty in rural northern Mississippi, Dorothy Jellnick grew into an ash-blonde beauty. Everyone told her to go to Hollywood, show the movie people a real southern belle. She made it as far as Bourbon Street, New Orleans, where she became Desiree Blanc, a white hot stripper at Hotsy Jazz Club. Determined to never be poor again, Desiree discovers a short cut to big money – crime. It is the summer of 1947. As the story opens, Desiree and her hoodlum boyfriend rob a tourist from Kansas, leaving the man in his skivvies on a rural highway just outside New Orleans. More crimes and more money follows. The ash-blond beauty surrenders to avarice – the unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep money – in a dangerous and deadly game. BOURBON STREET is a classic noir mystery with a femme fatale, arrogant criminals, La Cosa Nostra mobsters and an army veteran wounded at The Battle of the Bulge whose love for Desiree is her only chance. BOURBON STREET is a full-length novel of 64,700 words, a taught crime drama penned by an internationally-published New Orleans Writer. Much of De Noux’s writing is character-driven crime fiction, although he has written in many disciplines including historical fiction, children’s fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. At the World Mystery Convention in 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story to “The Heart Has Reasons” by O'Neil De Noux. The Shamus Award is given annually recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. “The Heart Has Reasons” features De Noux’s private eye Lucien Caye. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for Best Novelette for “Too Wise” – another Lucien Caye private eye mystery. The Derringer Awards are given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. Another De Noux story, “The Bonnie and Clyde Caper” featuring New Orleans Police Homicide Detective John Raven Beau was runner up in the Derringer Award Best Long Story category. Recognizing the future of publishing, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books in 2010, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions. Slick Time, a sexy caper novel, was published by Big Kiss Productions via amazon.com. New Orleans Nocturnal is a collection of nine crime stories featuring John Raven Beau. Big Kiss Productions released the second edition of New Orleans Confidential, adding the two award-winning private-eye stories, “The Heart Has Reasons” and “Too Wise.” In March 2011, the novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was published by Big Kiss Productions, which was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America’s eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed – New Orleans. Also in 2011, the short story collection NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL was published. In 2012, De Noux published BATTLE KISS a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux’s first private eye was published. ENAMORED, a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. In 2012, O’Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. His web page is http://www.oneildenoux.net
Being Different Is Lonely … Until You Find Another Like You A troubled, seventeen year old boy finally admits to himself he is different from other boys. Marc LeRoux is the finest athlete in his high school, but his abilities go far beyond what he’s demonstrated on the gymnastics team. On a lonely walk along the neutral ground (medians are called neutral grounds in New Orleans) not far from his home, Marc is attacked by two men, one with a gun. He turns on the muggers and uses his powers to knock both out and escape. It is exhilarating and he feels good for the first time in a long time. From his mother, he learns the family’s secret. Marc is an ‘advanced human’, a leap in human evolution which gives him super-human strength and magnifies his five senses. He can see, hear, smell, taste, and his sense of touch is better than any human. His sense of balance is most acute. Learning the family’s hereditary secret, Marc (of ancient French-Creole ancestry) must give up his dream of college athletics and the Olympics. Torn between two worlds, Marc must learn to live as an ‘advanced human’ in a world of humans. A freak, someone to be feared, Marc needs to vent his energy. He takes to the rooftops of the New Orleans French Quarter in a super-hero costume and quickly meets another ‘advanced human’, the beautiful, alluring sixteen year old Alyssa Lupo. The mutual attraction he feels for this haunting girl is challenged by others, those bent on using their powers for evil purposes. The star-crossed romance between Marc and Alyssa is the central focus of the novel. Strong on setting, our tale takes place primarily in the French Quarter, where this young super-hero in a black costume, calling himself MISTIK, prowls the roofs and lacework balconies in search of villains. A teenager, MISTIK’s powers are still evolving and he will use them to right wrongs, because he can. Born in New Orleans, O’Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux’s fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to “The Heart Has Reasons” by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for “Too Wise.” The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In 2010, De Noux teamed with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. De Noux’s novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O’Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux’s first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012. In 2012, O’Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America.
In 1803, a young man joins the crew of what will become the most famous frigate of the early US Navy USS Constitution. From the sands of North Africa during the first Barbary War, across the aquamarine waters of the Caribbean, we follow the exploits of a young American seaman.At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain Alain de Noux takes the ship he personally designed to sea to fight the mightiest navy in the world Britains Royal Navy. USS Relentless is the newest, largest, fastest frigate in the world, her hull coated in resin that allows her to fly across the waves, her radically-designed sails and special chute-sail that acts as a spinnaker pulls the big frigate along at nearly eighteen knots. Armed with weapons far in advance of its time steel cannons with rifled barrels that propel shells farther than any cannon on any ship, along with special binoculars that aid lookouts to see at night, USS Relentless is a most lethal ship. The ship also carries high caliber shells that explode on contact and special carcass rounds filled with white phosphorous, consuming any ship it strikes in flames.USS Relentless challenges all ships, including the huge British ships-of-the-line, contemporary battleships. Terrorizing the Atlantic for months, Relentless is sent on a more important mission, a mission with no return ticket. She will fly the American flag into combat for the first time across the Indian Ocean, attacking the fat merchant ships of Britains lucrative East India Company. America does not have the means to invade Britain, but USS Relentless can disrupt her most profitable trade routes. Alain finds success in war and finally meets the woman that will change his world, if only for a short time. In his heart, he knows he will die a young man.It is a race. How many ships can the great raider destroy or capture before the Royal Navys fleet can destroy her? Along the shoals of the Laccadive Islands, In what the world will call The Battle of the Arabian Sea, USS Relentless must fight an entire fleet in order for Alain to get back to the love of his life.
In Nazi occupied France during the autumn of 1943, an alluring young woman, two French resistance fighters and an American agent are brought together by the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Their code names are the names of archangels, including Samael, the angel of death. They call themselves Death Angels as they leave a trail of dead German officers and French collaborators from southern France all the way to Paris, as the City of Light prepares for her liberation.After derailing a German supply train, Louis and Jack set up on a rooftop above SS Headquarters to await the arrival of the Nazi commander who will be sent to coordinate the bloody reprisal for the sabotage. Expert snipers, the two manage to kill the officer sent and escape. Meanwhile, Arianne, who was a Parisian courtesan before the war, has been sleeping with the enemy, knowing her lover will brag about her and bring his friends to her where she will use her stiletto to slay a hero of the Third Reich. The OSS will team her with Louis and Jack after, along with a teen-aged compatriot Chico to form a secret cell of assassins.It does not take long for the three men to become enamored of Arianne but the team must focus on their missions as they leave bodies on their way to Paris where their most important mission awaits their expertise.Haunted by their pasts, filled with a seething hatred, they draw on their special talents for killing to form an unbreakable bond, even as the men fall in love with their most lethal member, the young woman whose passion for life is matched by her overwhelming desire to kill Nazis.Born in New Orleans, O’Neil De Noux writes character-driven crime fiction, although he has been published in many disciplines including historical fiction, children’s fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, young adult, religious, romance, humor and erotica.Writing Awards: SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story, DERRINGER AWARD and UNITED KINGDOM SHORT STORY PRIZE. The 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com. Two of his stories have been in the prestigious BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES annual anthology.