Tom McGuire, a retired U.S. Army Military Police colonel and retired local sheriff, is enjoying having his four daughters home for Christmas. Tammy is a Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent; Kelly is a Navy Criminal Investigative Service special agent; Megan is an Army Criminal Investigation Command special agent; and Sarah is an Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent. The Secretary of Defense has ordered Tom back to active duty to take command of a terrorism task force investigating a possible nuclear attack on America. Tom has his daughters assigned to the task force, and they learn that …

Shadows of Yesterday: The Singer and His Philandering Ways will grab you from its first erotic passage. Guy Devlin is a singer/private eye on his way to audition at the Blue Square Gentleman?s Club. Even as Guy remembers his sexual encounters in the park with the delectable Cindy, he comes on to his client, Olive Green, who wants to make an honest man of him, proposing marriage. But first Guy must deal with some members of the erotic police force, including meetings with Officer Dick Cox. Can Guy dig up the man Olive hired him to find, or will he …

David Monroe is the would-be beneficiary of his father's multimillion-dollar enterprise. Avaricious and sadistic, Mr. Monroe creates an evil plot to secure his inheritance by using another human being to sow his seed and bear the children his barren wife cannot. Bodies begin to disappear one after another. Helen Avery, seemingly a victim of these mysterious disappearances, manages to escape the gruesome nightmare and survives. Rescued from the outback of Australia, Helen begins her own investigation of the past, uncovering more and more evidence that ultimately points to David Monroe. Set in 1980?s Australia, The Planting is a chilling novel …

Larsson's Legend is the story of one man's journey from boyhood to manhood. Lars Larsson is a fourteen-year-old terrorized by his tyrant of a father. His father wants him to carry on the family tradition and apprentice as a tailor.When Lars is sent by ship to Stockholm from his small hometown in Sweden to begin his apprenticeship, instead of checking in as a passenger, he signs on as a cabin boy. The ship's master befriends Lars and helps him escape the wrath of his father by arranging a berth on another ship that takes him to England and a life …

Tough as Fine Silk is a fast-paced, intricate and subtly alluring tale of love, betrayal and a journey through China's colorful, fascinating and monumental history.Michael Sorensen, a young Californian, has a serendipitous as well as frightening encounter on China's Great Wall. A beautiful young Chinese woman, Li Juan, trips on a steep stairway above him and falls literally into his arms. If he hadn't caught her, Juan could have been killed.Michael works in Beijing as an electronics engineer. Juan is the star attraction at Beijing's elegant Blue Moon night club. The club owners' most precious asset is Juan--gorgeous, sociable, self-educated …

It's Maria Levy’s tenth birthday, February 27th 1933. Her little brother, Fritz, and her parents are anxious to help celebrate her special day. But what would otherwise be a happy occasion for a little girl becomes marred by the burning of Reichstag, the German Parliament in Berlin. The rise of Hitler's Nazi party bodes ill for many citizens, including Maria and Fritz's parents. Their Uncle Herbert decides to immigrate to America with his family, but the Levy family chooses to stay, hoping that the madness which surrounds them will soon come to an end. No work and little food puts …

We all have choices to make. Choices: The Beginning of the Sheridan Saga begins when Jackie Hardaway, a recent graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, marries Brian Sheridan, a Texas A&M Aggie, and joins him on his family’s ranch in Concho County, Texas. Jackie is ready for the ranch, but the ranch is not ready for her. She runs into resentment and conflict at every turn with Brian’s family. The tension becomes unbearable, and Brian must try to make his new bride happy, while keeping peace in his family. Brian’s older brother, Harold, is the heir apparent. As …

The setting for No Greater Freedom encompasses South Africa and those East African countries as far up as Kenya. Some of the action takes place in the Comores and the Maldive Islands and parts of Asia. Police investigations are initiated after the discovery that weapons are being stockpiled in various townships in and around Natal. It is suspected that moves are afoot in the Zulu nation to separate from the Republic and create a separate homeland. The savage killing of a police investigator in the Cape Town dock area throws suspicion on an ancient tramping passenger ship, the SS Galatea. …

Tyler Fox, from Goessel, Kansas, is a sophomore at St. Alfanus, a private Catholic college near Hooks in Bowie County, Texas. Tyler is an up-and-coming golfer who will hopefully lead the St. Alfanus team to a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship. One day as he is practicing prior to the start of fall semester, the editor of the St. Alfanus Clarion, Charlie Harrison, shows up to do a story about Tyler’s golfing prowess. Charlie convinces Tyler, who is an English major, to come work for The Clarion. Days before the fall semester is to begin, Tyler takes an evening …

Although Dr. Allyson Brittmore is a well-trained emergency room physician, nothing has prepared her for the mysterious chain of events following the death of a teenager from the highly contagious disease of meningitis. In the medical thriller Meningitis, Allyson is the newest physician on staff at Houston's Memorial Hospital. She becomes the target of a peer review committee when it investigates the deadly spread of meningitis within the hospital staff. The facts in each death, Allyson's close observations, and her involvement in each case provide hospital administrators with all the evidence needed to bar Dr. Brittmore from treating any more …

It's1940. Americans struggle to escape the economic despair of the Thirties. A gnawing sense of anxiety grips the nation as Europe explodes in conflict. With the 20th Century's most traumatic events as background, When the music stops follows Johnny Miller, a talented musician intent on making the big time; Jean, the beautiful, devious girl who walks into his life to become his obsession; and his cousin, Herman, a naive union organizer. Jean cares for Johnny but desperately desires financial security. Convinced by her false promise to be true, Johnny leaves drab Northeast Pennsylvania to seek fame in glittering New York …