Steve Johnson, a forty year old Special Operations Sergeant Major, is badly wounded while on Operations. He leans back against the stone wall, knowing that this time out will probably be his last. Just as he begins to feel himself slipping away, he is astonished to see a brilliant light opening and hands reaching out from it, dragging him into the light itself. Only snippets of memory remain: pain, of course, and the sound of people talking. He vaguely hears, “he’s going to make it” before he falls into a deep sleep, full of odd learning sessions and confusing dreams. Two years later, Steve is brought out of his sleep, completely healed and his body regenerated into that of his twenty year old self. Most shocking, however, is that he finds himself in an alternate universe, on a planet called Midgard.
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The Purloined Dagger
As teenagers, Sir William Throck-Morton and Sir Percy Monmouth were friends. Now, over fifteen years later, they negotiate an arranged marriage between William’s daughter Avrill and Percy’s son Cedric. The marriage contract will be signed when the Monmouths arrive. William plans to wear his treasured family dagger during the handfasting ceremony to celebrate the occasion.
When the families meet, the sparks between Avrill and Cedric are not about love. The next morning William’s dagger has disappeared from a locked office. Battle-hardened Sheriff James is called to investigate and quickly arrests the valet. As new facts are revealed, the valet is released, leaving the real criminal in doubt. Lady Ellene, William’s sister, sets out to solve the mystery and joins forces with Sheriff James. As they investigate, secrets about the Throck-Morton and Monmouth families are exposed, and one mishap after another threatens the safety of both families.
This is a locked-room mystery occurring against the background of political and religious strife during the Elizabethan/Tudor era. The story provides twists and turns and a surprise ending.
More Than Enough
Food is far more than satisfying the appetite. It is the great unifier for all occasions. Food brings people together. In almost all cultures, people come together to share a meal. Celebrations center around food. When people gather with family and friends, not only are our bodies nourished but our spirits are also nourished.
Boats: The story of Billy Lee Telliot and the “Bay Blaster” Shootout
Buckle up Motorsports fans! Put on your life preservers, raise your anchors, and hop inside this book! Now Behold! Known as one of the toughest and most exciting races in the Fast Boat Series: The “Bay Blaster” Shootout is about to begin! Packed with tight turns, lightning-fast straightaways, enormous rocks, and waterfalls, the event brings some of the greatest excitement throughout the land and seas in boating.
Land of Honey
Anuli is unwittingly thrown unto a path with difficult choices she is unprepared for and must find her voice – muted by the old ways. An unlikely alliance with Ryan blindsides her, and Kathy, her older friend, is unable to help as she is caught up in a dilemma of her own.
The Mystery of Sarah Slater
Hired by the Confederate government in Richmond when it was already in its death throes, Sarah Slater was the perfect agent for a courier between Richmond and the Confederate outpost in Montreal, Canada. Beautiful of face, curvaceous in form, spunky, flirtatious, and fluent in French she was the ideal candidate for a role that saw women often better suited for courier. Male agents faced hanging, women far less punishment. An additional benefit of her French fluency, she could claim protection as a Canadian citizen during casual interrogation. On her third and final trip to Canada in April of 1865 as Richmond lay in ashes, Sarah disappeared in New York. The messages for the Montreal office and the Confederate gold she was supposedly carrying also vanished. That mystery has fascinated historians for over 150 years. The Mystery of Sarah Slater…solved?
Tattletales
A celebrated philosopher once said that in order to understand anything human we must tell a story. He spoke a profound truth, and it is important to understand some of its implications.
Tides of Fortune
These are tales of fortune and forfeiture, happiness and hazard, love and deceit. Some stories are set in specific times and places but not confined to them. Others arise in the mere vastness of the world and belong anywhere applicable or nowhere definitive. For wherever there is human life, there are the yearnings, dreams, possibilities and impossibilities we call tales and stories. For this reason, I do not think of myself as their creator, but only their author or perhaps their channeler. I say this because the people who come to life in this book do not always behave as I wish and plan. I push and they push back. Which is why I am as surprised as the next person by what they decide to do and who they choose to be. Perhaps their way is best. For if the decisions were left up to me, most likely I would be their tyrant. As it is, I end up being their friend.
I Love The Flower Girl
Ryan Richards should have listened to intuition which screamed not to try the séance, he thought while running through the abandoned house. Desperate to find a way out of the house, he hurried toward a metal door at the end of a narrow corridor, which opened into a dark forbidding room. But there was no turning back. An evil presence pursued him.
When Dreams Come True ~ Sort Of
This is the second novel in the new Barlow Adams series.
The year is 1970. Barlow Adams is a young deputy sheriff in a rural county in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. He’s a rookie still learning the ropes. Up until now, his experience has been limited to working in the jail and performing routine patrol work that is anything but routine when bad men decide to exert themselves in furtherance of their wicked ways.