My Book
Finding Lorena
A Time Travel Romance
Imagine being able to do it all again, going back to live with everything you’ve learned and knowing everything that’s happened in the world during your lifetime.
That’s exactly what happens to Connor Grace, a middle-aged divorced school teacher who is hit by a car in downtown Charleston and wakes up as a teenager again in the late 1980’s.
Young again, he seeks out the woman whom he knows will eventually become his true love and sets out to right the wrongs of the past. As he tries to make sense of the tumultuous times he had already lived through once before, he discovers that he isn’t the only one who has come back.
In Finding Lorena, time travel, romance, organized crime, southern charm, Israeli martial arts, and self-discovery coalesce into an action-adventure love story for the ages…well, maybe a few different ages.
BASH
Love, Madness, and Murder
While investigating a murder, illegal drugs, and corruption at the Blakemore Anderson State Hospital (BASH) for the criminally insane, Ash Roper, Charleston undercover reporter, checks in as a patient. Due to unforeseen circumstances, he gets trapped, mistaken for a real patient. His headstrong wife, Sally J, enlists the aid of her former lover Roswell, now a high powered attorney, to help spring her husband. The romantic, bureaucratic, and legal sparks fly as a powerful hurricane heads in their direction.
Bartos writes with an accomplished flair resulting in a relaxed read, his words flow easily creating memorable and engaging characters. Gritty and very realistic, BASH by Mike Bartos is highly recommended -Artisan Book Reviews
Bartos writes with an accomplished flair resulting in a relaxed read, his words flow easily creating memorable and engaging characters. Gritty and very realistic, BASH by Mike Bartos is highly recommended -Artisan Book Reviews
"Bartos' sharp writing is fast-paced and packed with detail..."
"An intriguing premise..."-Kirkus Indie,- a service of Kirkus Reviews
..."with themes that echo One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and quirky, hard-bitten characters reminiscent of Elmore Leonard's."-Blue Ink Review
"BASH is an enthralling read"
"Darkly comic and hair raising..." Napa Valley Register
"Bartos maintains a high level of reader interest by introducing numerous intriguing elements."
"Readers will be compelled to read onward and will be rewarded..." -Clarion Review
Gloriously satiric while simultaneously real, magnificently written, Bartos turns up the heat in a novel that conflagrates and sparks. - TheReviewBroads.com
Bartos surest gift is a Tarantino-esque ability to find abstract humor amidst contextual brutality.
BASH is a strong showing from a new fiction author Palmetto Review
"Vivid and immediate writing."
"I really liked BASH; it's a great story..."
"...hugely exciting... -Bookpleasures.com