Author Robin Tzivanis
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My Story
WELCOME! I write sexy & sophisticated books for grown-ups using mixed genres, with everything from psychological thrillers, time travel, romance, and earthy humor. Please take a moment and find the ones that make you say "Hmm".
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When I was 40, I started using a computer, and that's when the stories I've written in my head my whole life leapt onto the screen in front of me. Now I can't stop. I can't tell you about a tortured process, hours of introspection, or writer's block, because I've never experienced any of that. Give me an idea, and I will write. Any idea. My husband makes some throwaway statement and the next thing he knows, I'm in front of the computer with my fingers flying.
How I write has not changed. I still create the characters based on the situations I'm writing about, because not every character I can imagine would be capable of everything I want from them in each situation. Though, that's an interesting idea ... what if I wrote a book that activated The Wallflower with the reserve unit in No Easy Answers?? A revenge killer in the Army? Hmmm.... later. See what I mean?
I am a good girl, a small-town kid in a town partly Mayberry, and partly Peyton Place, raised by a strict mommy who adored me. But when I write, I'm a crazy hellcat capable of anything. I might kill your favorite character if that thought works in the story and I will not feel bad about it. Margaret Mitchell has always been my inspiration and she wrote 1000 pages only to tear apart one of the most iconic couples ever conceived- and leave the end hanging. No wonder I find those things appealing!
I also create very flawed characters. After over fifty years with my psychiatric nursing background, I know that the most interesting people are not a bit one-dimensional. As I see it, my job is to create 'suspension of disbelief', so you can enjoy the story and care about the characters- even if the way you care is hoping I put them into a wood chipper. I probably felt the same way when I created them. I want to make you laugh, cry, dislike, or love the situations and people I create. Anything but boredom, and I did okay.
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Mike and Sarah are in love, even when they want to believe it’s just lust. Since Mike is already married, he struggles with his feelings a lot more than Sarah, who instead struggles with how to live without wanting the love of her life. War erupts in the mid-East, and their Army Reserve unit is activated, throwing all the relationships into chaos and putting people at risk for their lives. The pull from home provides both security and uncertainty, as does the entry of a handsome, arrogant, and disquieting Israeli Colonel who is perfectly willing to be there for Sarah if Mike isn’t. This story looks at everything we think is love and the choices we make when we gamble with life, break the rules, and still hope to win.
Original Manuscript is Still Available
Psychopathic Desires Trilogy
A Three-Part Thriller
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Psychopathic Desires
Part Two: Destruction
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In Part Two of the trilogy, the chase resumes, this time in Texas. Robert John Hamilton III is a rich man, courtesy of his grandfather, RJ1, who runs the largest oil company in Texas. Against family tradition, Bob wants to be a cop, and has achieved his desires with his high-ranking role within the Crimes Against Persons Division in Dallas. At least, he thought that, until he inherited a nightmare in the form of a botched FBI case, and a series of new high profile murders on his turf.
Florida detective Hillary Jansen is sent to help out and lend her expertise from the last task force. Before long, FBI Special Agent Robert Morrison is sent back into the fray as well, to redeem the reputation of the FBI, and try to save his own career.
The killer they seek, dubbed Dallas 180, is the most challenging kind to catch. He's organized, intelligent, and a total chameleon who changes his identity, and his MO as often as the whim strikes him.
This time he starts with the governor's daughter and it just gets more personal from there, with each victim slapping the chasers in the face with his audacity and cruelty. But, Dallas 180 has an Achilles heel, and that's Rachel Kennelly-Miller. When both women go missing, the people chasing Dallas 180 are in big trouble, though not as much as Rachel and Hillary.
Psychopathic Desires- Part Three: Unmasked
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He is evil, and he has kidnapped Hillary and Rachel. The entire task force is after him. The surprise unmasking happens when the secret from Part One combines with the secret in Part Two. The women learn it immediately after opening their eyes. Everyone else learns it through a series of information and actions.
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That's one part of the problem and the solution. For the task force, they need to track the unmaked killer and get there before he can harm anyone. For the women, it means using every psychological trick Rachel can spin, and fooling him into thinking Hillary is incapacitated and submissive.
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The final ending provides the closure needed, but still leaves the fundamental questions unanswered. How does a killer like this come to be, and how can it ever be stopped?
Survival Games
(Original Book Still in Publication)
Maria Fellini lives in 2116 and Calvin Lionel lives in 2016. They were never supposed to meet, and they were certainly never supposed to fall in love. Their worlds are drastically different, hers created because of the advancements made in his through the brilliance of his best friend Josh Hamilton, and Cal's brilliant management of the Hamilton Program through Operation Survival.
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Their meeting is precipitated by a disaster in Maria's world that necessitates her getting help from Hamilton and Lionel and keeps them all at risk from terrorists and their own desires. Manipulating the events in both worlds becomes a game with devastating consequences...and wonderful possibilities as seven people try to determine the course of history and their own fates.
Greetings From the Wallflower- Part One, REVENGE
Kimberly Michelle Anderson-Richards is an ordinary woman who endures an avalanche of stress that puts her down on the floor, hoping to be swept away into non-existence. Instead, she arises refashioned into a new woman. She's not taking anyone's crap anymore. In fact, she's going to make you pay.
Coming soon: Greetings From the Wallflower- Part Two, Re-Awakening
OUR FIRM
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Original Manuscript is Still Available
When Morgan and Jason met, it was a match made in Hell. Jason is a charismatic man destined for greatness- but with a dark and dangerous side that haunts him. Morgan is a brilliant, spoiled, young beauty, used to being the center of attention and getting her way with men. Jason sees her, wants her and claims her for his own, and she is captivated. She is the air in his lungs, the blood beating in his veins and he can’t- and won’t live without her. Morgan is mesmerized by his addiction to her, and she returns it unconditionally.
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Together they move deeper and deeper into a sexually charged, volatile, and dangerous existence- a double life. One of service to their country that takes them to the pinnacle of success, and one of selfish, indulgent excess that takes them to the depths of depravity. Whether they are taking lovers of either sex into their bed, money-laundering, or issuing pay-to-play ‘favors’, they do it with impunity. They become their own creation- a myth even they begin to believe- the ‘new Camelot’. They are the couple with great ideas to change the country, the couple every other couple wants to be.
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Using a sensual web of lies, sex, and the lure of easy money, Morgan and Jason can seduce people into getting anything they want. The concept of ‘mutually assured destruction’, and the dirt they have or create on them, keeps their minions in line. When it doesn’t, Jason’s old CIA comrade is available to take them out of the picture in creative ways.
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As their power and influence expands, so too does their lust for more- and their determination to protect the myth. Their corruption grows like rust, eating away at their lives and souls, leaving few ways out as their victims pile up. No one can touch them. No one can stop them. Unless that rust corrodes enough of their souls for them to self-destruct, nothing else will ever stop them.
Mountain Madness
Original Manuscript is Still Available
Samantha and Joe Weatherly are law enforcement officers who have earned the right to a quiet life in a small city in Montana, where they can raise their son in peace, but it appears that they aren’t going to get it when a resident is brutally murdered and leaves clues about counterfeiting and arms trafficking. Carefully, with the help of Secret Service Senior Detective Justin Gordon, they follow the breadcrumbs and discover a world of organized crime with its roots in Vietnam, and it’s governance right out of Greek mythology.
For fifty years, KOSMOS has spread its tentacles into all aspects of crime, weaving the participants into a generational web of wealth for reward and death for punishment. Plutus, the god of wealth, stands alone as the leader, and his power is enforced by Thanatos, the god of death.
The original men of KOSMOS are all aging now and come to realize that retirement from KOSMOS comes with enough money to support a small country, but they aren’t likely to live long enough to spend it. The closer law enforcement gets to the code name players, the more people die.
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Many of the deaths occur at the hands of a female assassin, a dark Tinkerbell who is dubbed ‘Audrey’. Audrey is profane, outspoken, and as she puts it to Thanatos, ‘I’m not housebroken’, meaning that Thanatos might be in charge of death, but Audrey administers it her own way and with her own unique vision of justice.
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As things unravel, it finally become clear that there is sabotage within the ranks of KOSMOS, which just might solve the case. Sam, Joe, and Justin can’t help but feel relief because taking the organization apart from the outside appears to come at a cost they are not willing to pay.
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THE FALL
(coming soon)
In 2005, John Harrington became the man who single-handedly holds the record for initiating indictments and securing convictions against any organized crime family in the country. If the bad guys had a 'Most Wanted' picture wall, he would be their 'Ace of Spades'.
When John turned on the Irish mob in Boston, he was a hotshot lawyer and partner in a prestigious firm. He was married to another hotshot lawyer and partner of the same firm, and had a 15 year-old son. His family were taken by surprise when John first contacted the FBI and they wanted to put them all into the federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC). So, John, Joyce, and Michael Harrington became Samuel, Judith and Marcus Crandall of Sacramento, California where they struggle to create a new life.
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Marcus in particular is resentful and has an enduring anger towards his father. The story begins thirteen years later and is told from Marcus's perspective. He has experience as a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, and and now has a successful business as a bodyguard. Judith has changed her appearance and is a successful real estate agent for high-end homes. John is a CPA but Marcus has no clear understanding of his father and is still resentful of what happened thirteen years ago. Age has brought some perspective and Marcus wants to try harder to get to know his dad.
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Within twenty-four hours of his arrival in Sacramento, Judith is late coming home. Then, Sam's phone rings, and a strange male voice announces, "We don't want Joyce." That one sentence destroys the Crandalls and starts a cross-country trip that can only succeed if both men learn to listen to and trust the other.
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However, Joyce is no shrinking violet. She manages to escape from her captors and reunite with John and Michael. Together, they decide they are finished with the WITSEC Program. Their handler, federal marshal Harry Jenkins, had become a trusted friend, but his mission does not align with theirs now. They tried to do the right thing. They followed everyone's rules but their own forthirteen years. Now that the right thing has failed them, they want their lives back, and they are willing to do the wrong thing to make that happen.
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Thirteen years ago, because the bottom fell out of their world, they called it THE FALL. Now, they call it that, because other people are going down.
