Title: Nothing Can Stop Love and Murder
Author: A.E.S. O’Neill
Publisher: AESON Publications
ISBN: 979-8993648422
Pages: 314
Genre: Romance / Thriller
Synopsis
Nothing Can Stop Love and Murder is a romantic thriller about trust under pressure. The novel explores grief, survival, political manipulation, climate anxiety, and the terrifying power of wealth and technology. Yet beneath the suspense and danger is a deeply human love story about two damaged people who have survived a mob hitman, Jihadists, successionists and climate destruction, trying to hold onto each other while the world around them spirals toward chaos.
In the third volume of this romantic thriller Love and Murder series, Ginger and Alby desperately try to keep their relationship alive while being pulled into a world collapsing in fear, corruption, and death. Set in Sedona, the novel follows the two as they become entangled in a deadly conspiracy anchored in climate politics and masterminded by mysterious and powerful outsiders determined to control the future.
After a disastrous climate event that shattered Sedona, Ginger, owner of a dance studio and a survivor of past traumas, had reinvented herself as a passionate city council member dedicated to developing climate-safe housing for Sedona’s residents. Ginger is intelligent and fiercely independent, with an easy charm and an often-sarcastic temper. With a that Western deep distrust of the Federal government, once government funding steps in, public opinion of her goals begins to shift—at great cost to her dance school attendance and her patience with the relationship that she and Alby had been building.
Alby, her loyal but also troubled partner, is emotionally haunted. He possesses an unusual sensitivity to danger—an inner warning system that he cannot fully explain but has learned not to ignore. Ginger both fears and hates it and urges him to purge himself of it. Alby knows better, as Vance, a good friend who is wrapped in mystery, begins to teach him about his ability to predict the near future.
As Ginger’s young students are pulled out of her classes under negative parental responses to her political presence, violence appears elsewhere, beginning with the suspicious death of Old Joe, their wealthy, father-figure friend who gave them their beloved home, the Saloon. Though authorities label Old Joe’s death a heart attack, Alby’s intuitive voice immediately identifies it as murder. And the deaths don’t stop there.
Given the murder threats surrounding Ginger’s climate initiative, an FBI agent, Castor, arrives to protect her. When another climate chaos event occurs, it is used to cover a terrorist attempt on Ginger’s life. At the moment of greatest threat, she mistakes Castor for a long-ago lover, beginning a journey into her past that is a corrosive shock to Alby and their relationship.
Among the characters disrupting their lives are LALA, a manipulative celebrity influencer with her own agenda, Billy, her enthusiastic, seemingly naïve husband who runs the climate construction company at the core of the story, and DB, a picture-perfect, reclusive billionaire whose reach extends into politics, surveillance, and murder.
As the couple becomes the target of intimidation, betrayal, and escalating attacks, friends become suspects and allies disappear. Every revelation pushes Ginger and Alby deeper into a maze that threatens to make their flee for their lives — but Ginger is determined that is not going to happen.
About the Author
After several decades of a highly successful New York marketing career, film school,
professional writing, public speaking, and travel blogging experience, Alfred O’Neill
(THAT’S ME!) has always been a collector of stories and dreamed of writing novels.
But it took the tragedy of losing his wife to cancer — and homage to their love — to
push him to finally get around to writing novels.
His debut novel, Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Love and Murder, is a romance/thriller
that takes place in the mid-2020s and is based on a true story. It was highly reviewed
by Kirkus, among others. Told to O’Neill by his father years before, the plot centers on
a robbery at a mob-owned bank and the violent consequences that follow. Reviewers
were torn between which they liked more: the wit and banter of the romance between
Ginger and Alby or the dark and evil mundanity of the killer, Jagger.
Even Climate Change Can’t Stop Love and Murder, Vol. 2: Paying the Price continues
the adventures of Ginger and Alby, as they fall in love while always immersed in
troubles that just seem to find them. With their search for love at the story’s core, they
face the realities of their journey crossing America in 2026, including insurrectionists,
white supremacists, and a hitman they believed was dead. This story of the forces of
evil and good, and love and murder culminates in a violent climax at Tuzigoot, the
national Pueblo monument in Arizona. Unfolding in Vol. 2 is the unveiling of Ginger’s
dark past and a close-call look at how the destruction caused by climate chaos impacts
many of the current societal and personal divisions — two themes that will continue as
parts of the upcoming Vol. 3 of this trilogy.
Funeral of Lies, a stand-alone psychological thriller, is O’Neill’s newest published
novel and like Vol. 1 of the Love and Murder series is also based on a true story —
though heavily fictionalized. After being banished by his family for a dubious crime, a
man returns home years later to help his uncle run for mayor, only to fall deep into a
mire of dirty politics and family lies.
