Ashley's Tale – Making Jake

Ashley's Tale
62 Pages
ISBN B01GDHHOFM

If you haven't read Ashley's Tale, go buy it and read it BEFORE reading Making Jake! Making Jake has SPOILERS that will reduce the impact of the twists in Ashley's Tale.

Because the fans of Ashley’s Tale demanded it, Making Jake will give you the backstory of how an unpredictable killer was made.

As a child Jack saw the violent abuse his mother suffered and, himself, experienced the heavy hands of abuse. Barely a teen, Jack lashed out at his mother’s current abuser, spawning a ripple effect that would follow him into adulthood.

Now Jack’s actions that day are culminating with a plan to abolish abuse in the life of his best friend, and unrequited love interest, April. April, who cycles from one despicable boyfriend to another, who won’t say no when abused and won’t stand up for herself.

Jack means to conduct a brutal intervention. But can he navigate the obstacles and pull it off without going to jail? And, more importantly, can he navigate the psychological obstacles that April clings to so dearly and bring about lasting change?

Jack is all in, but this course of action will change him as much as April. The darkness he embraces will mold him, transform him and, eventually, make him into the nihilistic adversary of weakness named Jake.

If you haven't read Ashley's Tale..GO BUY IT NOW AND READ IT FIRST!!!

Mike Duke

About Mike Duke (Hampton Roads, Virginia Author)

Mike Duke

Mike was a cop for almost 12 years, but the last 12 years he’s been teaching Military, Law Enforcement and Bodyguards hand to hand Combatives as well as how to drive fast and do bad ass tactical driving maneuvers. He enjoys martial arts and has been a practitioner since 1989 of various styles. Filipino blade arts are his current favorite. Since he was a teenager he’s loved reading, writing, and watching movies...particularly in the horror and sci-fi genre. He’s also been a prolific reader of theology and studied quite extensively for a layman. He has a beautiful wife who is very supportive and a son and daughter who are both graduated. His baby girl now is a German Shepherd named Ziva, and she's a Daddy's girl who loves to play...even when he’s writing. Mike is a lover of music as well and it is an integral part of his writing ritual.

Mike writes an eclectic mix of horror stories. He explores dark supernatural entities, cosmic terrors, and natural monstrosities. However, the wicked deeds the human heart can conceive and inflict on others as well as our capacity to act against such things pervades much of his work. According to Chris Hall, at DLS Reviews, Mike is “a master of utterly uncompromising hardboiled revenge-thrillers.” He has a way of provoking a significant response from his readers – whether shock, terror, dread, an uneasy sense of empathy, Heebie Jeebie crawlies or surprise at unexpected twists. Mike will make you feel while you read his words. Afterwards, the potential horrors of twisted moral visions, the deplorable nature of humanity’s vices and weaknesses, the possibility of unearthly and supernatural threats and the plausibility of the hideous within the normal; all these things will consciously disturb and haunt you, attempting to take root in your mind and make you question what you know and believe. For how long? Take a read and find out.

His latest works are the novel LOW from Stitched Smiles Publications and the novella ‘Warm, Dark Places are Best’, which he self-published. His most well-known work thus far is his first, a novella entitled Ashley’s Tale.