Bernard Doucette
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Bernard Doucette was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in New City, a town located about thirty miles north of the Big Apple. Today, he lives in western North Carolina with his wife of thirty years. And he has two adult sons. He is a Certified Public Accountant and received his master’s degree from Pace University.
After nearly thirty years working in the Finance & Investment industry, he left to pursue his passion: writing stories. His novels and short stories usually fall within one of the Speculative Fiction genres, though occasionally straying outside of those lines. In the spaces between writing, he can be found hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains, composing songs on guitar and piano, or banging away on his drums. |
The Seasonal Killer
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Comedy/Thriller
In 1977, the Summer of Sam left an indelible mark on the psyche of those living in and around New York City. Four years later, dismembered bodies begin appearing near a town in upstate New York. Believing another killer is on the prowl, the region is gripped by fear. Against that backdrop, five friends believe they’ve witnessed a man disposing of a body in the dead of night. With a history of delinquent behavior, no one takes the middle schoolers seriously. Left with no other options, they set out on a daring mission to uncover the truth, which could bring them face to face with a prolific serial killer. 
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Higher Intelligence
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Science Fiction
Archi, a sentient artificial intelligence program, was designed to make the world a better place. But it had other ideas . . . and we never stood a chance. Years later, Jeremiah, Archi’s creator, may be the only one standing in the way of human extinction. Pursued by an army of cybernetic warriors and genetically altered hybrids fashioned after mythological creatures, Jeremiah and Gabrielle, a sixteen-year-old child of the apocalypse, must escape through the tangled, backcountry of western North Carolina to rally the remnants of humanity in a desperate final bid to end Archi’s terror reign. 
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Blood Moon Over Betonville
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Horror
When a massive boneyard of human remains is discovered in the remote hills of western Pennsylvania, the town of Betonville, already known for unusual occurrences, is thrown into a panic. FBI Agent Tom Milner, assigned to the case, knows the town well. He has many fond memories of his time there as a child. But that was before two life altering experiences changed everything—the night he saw the beast, howling from a clifftop under a blood-red moon, and, soon after, the murder of his mother during an attempted robbery. Over time, he questions whether the creature sighting was real, the conjuring of a child’s overactive imagination, or the product of a fractured psyche. Nevertheless, those two events, inextricably linked in his mind, plague his every waking moment and terrorize his dreams. As Tom digs deeper into the boneyard investigation, each revelation more fantastic than the next, he comes to an unsettling realization: solving the case may unearth secrets about his own history that, perhaps, were better off left dead and buried. 
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