Lou Aguilar

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

He attended the University of Maryland, where he majored in English, minored in film, and found both to be dependent on great writing.

He became a journalist for "The Washington Post" and "USA Today," then a screenwriter, and finally a novelist.

Lou has had three small movies produced, including the cult science-fiction film "Electra" (33rd on Maxim's list of "The 50 Coolest 'B' Films of All Time").

He presently writes only "A" scripts and has a television legal drama and military thriller feature in development.

Lou's last short story, "The Mirror Cracked," was published in a prestigious horror anthology, "Kolchak: the Night Stalker Chronicles," which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

You can contact him here: lou@louaguilar.com

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.