The Midnight Robber
The Midnight Robber is a Science Fiction/Fantasy novel set in a Trinidad and Tobago 500 years in the future. A Trinidad and Tobago that has not only succumbed to global warming and tectonic instabilities but also to gang warfare and civil unrest. The most prevalent gang in the country is called “The Masqueraders,” and it is run by the notorious Midnight Robber.
The book follows the story of a young Trinidadian boy who, after witnessing his father’s death by the Midnight Robber, ventures to the office of the Prime Minister in the sunken city of Port of Spain with some friends who he met along the way. He does so in order to try to urge the Prime Minister to come up with a resolution for all the violence, but in the Twin Republic, plans never go smoothly.
Lost For Words: A Novel
A.K Gonzales returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about a young writer seeking inspiration to accomplish the daunting task of finding the right words to finish his first book. Ronald Baker finds himself unable to get over his unrelenting writer’s block and coffee addiction. No matter how many times he tries he is unable to finish a book but along his journey he finds inspiration from the most unlikely source; an abused 18-year-old girl named Kate Warren. She helps him finish his book and introduces him to something that he has never experienced before but his newfound inspiration seems to have been more than he had bargained for as he finds himself in the midst of tragedy and despair which makes him wonder if finishing his first book was even worth it in the end. Lost For Words was set both in Washington D.C and Trinidad and Tobago, taking the reader on an adventure across the world and on a roller coaster ride of emotions.