Lou Aguilar

Lou Aguilar was born in Cuba and lived there until age six, when his anti-Castro father flew the family to America one step ahead of a firing squad (for his dad, not Lou.)

He’s the culture and arts columnist for the American Spectator and the author of five novels.

You can contact him here: lou@louaguilar.com

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Ken Miller is having a bad run of luck.

After torpedoing his career as a campaign manager, he drives through tiny Erie, Colorado, when a homeless beagle named Jake causes a series of mishaps that lands him in jail.

Ken is granted bail on two conditions: that he not leave town before his trial in three weeks and—much to his chagrin—that he not let Jake out of his sight until then.

Stuck in Erie as it prepares for a mayoral election, he’s drawn into the local politics by a waitress who vehemently opposes incumbent Charles Dunbar, the only candidate on the ticket.
Unable to resist political adventure, Ken gets a brainstorm.

If he can exploit the dog’s popularity among the townspeople and get them to elect Jake as a protest candidate, the publicity will put him back on top.

But things don’t go exactly as planned.

Ken warms to the dog, falls for the waitress, and employs her teenage son and his gang as campaign aides in a madcap battle with Mayor Dunbar … who has no intention of losing to a dog.

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Two ambitious new interns at the Washington Post, a cowboy conservative and a patrician feminist beauty, match wits and sparks while vying for a reporter slot.

But can chemistry trump ideology in the mad age of Donald Trump?

They came to the Washington Post from opposite sides. Nick Jarrett, the conservative son of a Wyoming rancher, and Laura London, an Ivy League feminist firebrand.

They are young, bright, and attractive.

Sure, they're just copy aides, glorified gophers, relegated to delivering parcels and answering phones on different news desks.

But someday, they'll be Post reporters who will save America, either from the Left or the Right...if only they can solve their "silly" romantic issues first.

Chief among them are their radically opposed politics, sexual or otherwise.

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A jaded women’s magazine writer becomes obsessed with the dynamic lighthouse keeper who rescued her at sea just before Christmas then mysteriously vanished.

She sets out to write a story on him, much to her rich fiancé’s displeasure and the Coast Guard’s discouragement.

The deeper she delves into the mystery, the more she uncovers a romantic Christmas magic she never imagined but will take all her courage to embrace.

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Only in Washington can the most routine affair escalate to a national threat…

Two young private eyes—ex-Army Ranger Mark Tristan and ex-FBI analyst Neil Cork—take on the seemingly trivial case of a gorgeous UNC student dumped by her DC-based boyfriend.

They never expected it to be wrapped in a national security threat, with the ex-boyfriend linked to a right-wing Senator racing the FBI for a mysterious time bomb known as the Apocalypse Mask.
At every step, they face professional assassins, corrupt government officials, and ideological fanatics. With the clock ticking and body count rising, each detective must rely on the other’s expertise to survive...then save the country.

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Georgetown University English Lit professor Ian Ousby fled England in fear for his life.

His championing of classic literature and manners had incensed militant feminists, radical Muslims, and a UK government subservient to both groups.

Ousby found refuge in America under a sympathetic conservative Administration.

Until he launched the Excalibur movement, inducing young men to embrace Arthurian masculinity, chivalry, and Christianity, and young women to support them as traditional housewives and mothers.

Excalibur's breakaway success has once more put Ousby in mortal danger, this time with a ghostly twist—near fatal appearances by his first and one true love, Laura.

It's a mystery only Mark Tristan and Neil Cork and their beautiful, formidable new associate, Raquel Valdez can solve while bodyguarding Ousby ahead of a massive Excalibur Rally on the Mall.

But their investigation soon rises to something far more cataclysmic: a potential war with Britain and a deadly threat against America, initiated by a fanatical mastermind.

And the key to his plot lies in a wartime trauma Tristan thought he’d buried forever, and may not survive again.