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The Last Dream Before Dawn by D.V. Bernard
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A haunting psychological thriller, The Last Dream Before Dawn is a chilling tale of a man who has it all -- until his past catches up with him.
A powerful, handsome attorney, Roland was one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. Famous for his successful career and on the fast track to further greatness, he has everything a young man could desire. With such envious attributes, Roland seems untouchable...until a chance meeting with a prophet named Kain. The mysterious seer shares his ominous prediction with Roland -- the world is going to end -- and this strange introduction turns Roland's life upside down. Soon a string of random acts of violence seizes the city, and Roland finds himself accused of crimes he did not commit. To prove his innocence he must separate himself from the incriminating shadow of his father, a man executed for a vicious crime when Roland was a child.

Suspenseful and intriguing, The Last Dream Before Dawn is an evocative novel guaranteed to set minds reeling and pulses racing.

About the Author
D.V. Bernard holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh. He emigrated from the Caribbean to New York City when he was nine years old.
God in the Image of Woman by D.V. Bernard
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A haunting novel about a future where women are disappearing from the Earth—and where the human soul is on the verge of disappearing from humankind.

DV Bernard presents a gripping and powerful novel in which readers are introduced to a diverse cast of characters living in a futuristic New York City—all of whom are struggling desperately to retain their humanity and save their threatened world.

In Bernard’s future, readers learn that men have lost their ability to have daughters, throwing the human race into chaos. As society reels from the realization that the end of the world is at hand, a ten-year-old black girl is seen as a Messiah. As women start fading from the Earth, a determined and diverse set of characters emerges, bent on protecting the Messiah and fighting for the future of the human race. There is the Jewish doctor whose inventions caused the disaster to begin with; the Chinese-American protagonist whose soul has become scrambled with that of another man; the African-American industrial magnate whose telecommunications can beam information into men’s minds; and the Latino revolutionary dedicated to defending his city against chaos and corruption. Also, a strange military superpower is systematically destroying towns and cities in a quest to collect the last of the women on Earth. All these characters must come together before the superpower destroys the planet and their chances of again becoming human beings.

Packed with nail-biting action and unforgettable characters, God in the Image of Woman is a poignant science fiction treat—a chilling and enlightening rendering of a final struggle for the hearts and minds of the human race.

DV Bernard emigrated from the Caribbean to New York City when he was nine years old. He is the author of The Last Dream Before Dawn and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Intimate Relations With Strangers by David Valentine Bernard
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this profoundly disturbing debut, Bernard, a native of Grenada who moved to New York City as a child, uses elements of time travel, fantasy and classic mystery to tell a love story set in an age of terrorism. The U.S. is enmeshed in an endless, unwinnable war in Africa, the president has been assassinated and the citizenry deceived. One day, Bernard's African protagonist, known only as the little boy, witnesses a beaten and bloody young girl seemingly being born from the very bowels of the earth, a horrifying event that will haunt him throughout his life. Sent to war upon graduation from high school, the boy (now the soldier) is taken prisoner. He eventually escapes, and the government touts him as a hero—which the soldier resists. Meanwhile, the soldier instinctively understands that he has always loved the girl he saw born now that she's grown, that she's somehow connected to him from another life, another world. Readers will remember this powerful, fable-like work of protest long after they've turned the last page. (Sept.)
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"In this profoundly disturbing debut, Bernard...uses elements of time travel, fantasy and classic mystery to tell a love story set in an age of terrorism...Readers will remember this powerful, fable-like work of protest long after they've turned the last page."

-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

If September 11, 2001, changed everything for America, then Intimate Relations with Strangers explores the long-term consequences of that change.


Set in a future where the threat of terrorism has seeped into everything, an American soldier finds himself at the vanguard of America's latest war. After a terrorist attack on the White House, America invades an African country in the Sahara. In the desert, the soldier begins to realize that memory itself can be used as a form of terrorism. There is love within him, but it is love for a woman he is not entirely sure is real. She had appeared miraculously when he was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Long Island, telling him things that turned his world upside-down. She had disappeared just as miraculously, leaving him to question his recollections and his sanity.


Years later, as a soldier in the war, he finds himself yearning for the woman and the impossible paradise she had described. In the Sahara, he sees horrors that seem to be the work of demons. After a year of war, his mind and soul are on the verge of collapse; by the time he sees the woman from his childhood marching through the desert, he has no choice but to surrender to his fantasies. In a world devastated by war and terrorism, only she gives him hope. When she again disappears, he is ready to move heaven and earth to find her. However, it is a quest that seems to have consequences for both his soul and America's.


Intimate Relations with Strangers is at once a twisted puzzle and a brutally honest exploration of the nature of reality, war, and love.
How to Kill Your Boyfriend by D.V. Bernard
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If you could kill your boyfriend and get away with it, would you? In How to Kill Your Boyfriend (in Ten Easy Steps) a young, beautiful woman abducts a complete stranger, so that they can kill her boyfriend. The stranger -- a famous radio call-in host -- is terrified at first; but before she knows it, her beautiful abductor whisks her into a world of amazing possibilities. A sisterhood is forged in blood. They find themselves living and laughing like never before. Yet, all is not as it seems; and before they know it, their quest to kill the boyfriend begins to uncover a mystery that may cost them their own lives.

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"A stunning, imaginative walk along the wild side, with a deliciously twisted premise that you won't soon forget. Readers tired of the same old-same old would do well to pick up this book."
-- Brandon Massey, author of The Other Brother




"This story will leave you howling, 'Oh no he didn't!'"

-- Tina Brooks McKinney, Author of All That Drama and Lawd, Mo' Drama




"This ain't your mama's chick-lit. But it's sisterhood, all right -- with an edge -- and D.V. Bernard has cleverly combined the feminine mystique of Diabolique with the wit of Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys."

-- Christopher Chambers, author of Sympathy for the Devil and A Prayer for Deliverance




"This is the most humorous book of the decade and D.V. Bernard is destined for greatness!"

-- Zane, NY Times Bestselling Author of Afterburn