In August 2001 - one month before 9/11 - a gang of Southern California car thieves find themselves blackmailed by a band of Asian insurgents into smuggling guns for gold and eventually leading a charge against a prison garrison in Western China. Their most formidable adversary is not the Chinese Army guarding the garrison, but the American F-16s attacking from above, dispatched by the president of the United States. Hunted by the FBI, infiltrated by the CIA, and compromised by an international network of espionage operatives and assassins, these street-wise G-Riders must navigate through the perils of an entire world …

France, July 1918. Nineteen-year-old Roland Massey, fresh out of grammar school, has been conscripted into the British Army and sent to the Western Front. His overriding aim is to see out the remainder of the war and return unscathed to the comfortable middle-class life he left behind in Cheshire. Following a battle near Rheims, he is given temporary charge of Paul Sondheim, a captured German soldier. Their brief conversation results in a reunion after the war … and Roland’s introduction to Paul’s sister, the beautiful Stefanie Sondheim. A Chance Encounter is a tale of friendship, romance, and betrayal set in …

As human ambassadors for the Tall White Beings, Tashi and Althea’s current assignment takes them to Mayan country in Mexico. Petra, a recent ambassador graduate from the Hidden City who lives on a famous horse-breeding ranch, is overwhelmed with the ignorance and blatant corruption taking over her homeland in the mountains near Mexico City; she needs Tashi and Althea’s help. Althea finds that her past life at the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan has come back like a karmic slap in the face. She is facing her ancient adversaries in her current lifetime. With Petra, Althea meets El Diablo, a modern-day …

Lady Renata LeSabitine is a mortal witch who comes from a long lineage of Gypsies. Kidnapped and adopted at birth by an evil vampire coven, Renata is forced into a cruel and corrupt life. Renata’s adopted father arranges for her to marry a fellow vampire who holds tight reins on Renata and demands she give up her religion and practicing witchcraft. Hoping to seek divine help, Renata meets Lord Lane Deluca. They fall in love and vow to be together, but Renata’s fiancée has other plans in store for the couple. Can Lane save Renata from the evil vampire, or …

Embittered by disparaging "raghead" put-downs while a student at Harvard University, brilliant scholar Mohammed Hassan returns to Iran, leaving behind in America his wife, Germaine Phillips, and their son, Ali. Renaming himself Timur-Osman, he sets out to consolidate power throughout the Moslem world. Years later, Ali goes to Iran to visit his father. Assistant Secretary of State James Parrish is tasked to find ways to influence Timur-Osman, Iran’s new leader. With growing instability across the world, James seeks out Mohammed’s ex-wife, Germaine, to influence the men in her family. Military and political figures appear throughout this story of survival. The …

Jenny Parker was a very young and happy girl from Florida and an only child to her loving parents. Her grandparents live in Texas, where the family gathers once a year to celebrate her birthday together with Thanksgiving. On the trip to Texas when she was going to be 15, they had a fatal motor accident that took her father's life, which he blamed on her delays. She was also struck with strange psychological trauma. After progressive medical therapy, she and her mother relocated to California, where she met Tom who looks like her father. Her relationship with him was …

In a perfect world, the carousel of life should be a beautiful thing. It should turn with beauty and grace in peaceful, joyous revolutions. In reality, sometimes, this is just not the case! Regardless of our reaching for happiness, the ride can still grind on, spin uncontrollably, and leave bruises in its wake. Circling Carousels is such a story. In these pages, you will fall in love with Candice and her lovely twin girls, Sienna and Crystal. As the story unfolds, you’ll ride their carousel with them in convoluted circles full of murderous intrigue, life-threatening danger, deceit, not-so-innocent love, hatred, …

The King Not Lost is a historical legend that tells of a simple but clever shepherd named Dara. Set in a west Asian country in the sixteenth century, the high minister travels to Dara’s small village to inform the shepherd that he has been chosen as king of his country.Dara doesn’t want to leave his village, but he is now king and must go to the palace. There the ministers begin training the shepherd to become king. But in reality, they have taken him to the palace to be killed.The court jester and the historian inform the new king of …

Kiss Me, Love Me, Kill Me! is the whole package. Full of tension, life, love, passion, deceit, and ultimately death, it has all the twists and turns of a roller coaster ride! Join the teenage characters, Skye and Marco, as they find themselves in love, long passionately for their first kiss, and uncover a murderous plot in Wunderland, an exciting and thrilling theme park that’s their choice of fun! Meet Shontelle, Skye’s sister, who will love and lose love, hope and have hope dashed, and hope again. Get to know Roger, Clarke, and Joshua, the men in her life, and …

This is my story. It’s the unvarnished truth about my cultural heritage and it starts in the countryside of southeastern North Carolina. My parents and my entire family have always found things to laugh about in life. When I married my husband, we spent our first 15 months together in Casablanca, which proved a wonderful opportunity to explore another culture.Faye Lanier Gardner grew up on a small farm in Pender County, North Carolina, about 30 miles from the well-known beaches. This book is about her many unusual experiences growing up. As a very young child, she had typhoid fever, and …

An intrepid minority shareholder, Chase Michaels, undertakes a heroic campaign to protect fellow minority shareholders as well as the public from two national wireless service companies that have adopted a merger plan to exploit a predicted trillion dollar venture in advanced technologies. He finds himself trapped in a labyrinth created by official Washington’s dark corridors of lies, loss, lust, and murder. The corporate megamerger parties know they have an insurmountable advantage navigating these corridors, owing to the endemic indifference of official Washington to corrupt forces borne of addiction to power and money. When Michaels discovers the plan to cut out …

Ray Martin is an Englishman living and working in the U.S. Following a divorce he takes a new job and moves to a new city where he meets Grace, a much younger woman, and he falls in love. After two happy years together, Ray and Grace relocate again, this time to Washington, D.C., where Grace can pursue her career in the defense industry. The couple rent a condo owned by a secret service agent away on assignment. Ray discovers a 35-millimeter camera with film still inside, hidden in the back of a cabinet. When he jokes that they should develop …