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Japanese Detective Sergeant Tokito Kolihishi has about had all of the dismal death investigations he can stand. One more pushes him too far. He might be from ancient Samurai stock, but it is time to leave the battlefield to others. He obeys his father's summons to America, there to restore to its original beauty, an crumbling, falling down Japanese Temple and open a Steakhouse within. But there is much more than meets the eye. The Temple is carrying some kind of curse. His instinctive nature is to investigate it and stop it. With the help of a lovely Japanese woman, or two, he finds the ...

It started innocently enough. A beau calling his girl to Denver. A working girl finding a new life. A gambler scooting out from angry drunks who lost. A rancher heading home after a successful sale of a prize bull. Yes, innocent enough. But as the days rolled by, slowly, there seemed to be an awful lot of attention from bandits on this one Wells Fargo Stagecoach. Even the Apache are harassing them half the time. It is like they cannot trust anybody! Along the way, skills no woman should bring to the trail arise. They will be needed, and soon. It does not become clear until the twelfth day, ...

Leo is a drifter, a man looking for opportunity. Always. He has a fascinating background, but not exactly the salt of the earth. Ducking the law, traveling the desert, he stumbles onto a town war, where one side or the other wants control of the silver mines. Ugly, black silver. Or is it? Leo sees opportunity, all right. Whoever is the last man or the last woman left in town, owns it all. Will it be him? Maybe one of the professional gunslingers? No one can tell until the last battle is fought. And it runs for better than ten years! Adventure and romance, the heart of any good story. Enjoy!...

Scientists and explorers have known of the Richat Structure, the Eye of the Sahara, for nearly a century. But those early explorers in the late nineteen thirties, had no idea of the shape, for from the ground, it is just too massive too understand. It was in 2005 that an astronaut on a spacewalk, the first to see the thing in such detail, brought real attention to it. It was not just a patch of rocks in the Sahara. It was a series of concentric circles some forty kilometers in diameter, or about twenty-five miles. The question became, "What is it?" or, "Is it dangerous to the locale, or to ...

Ethiopia is a mixed environment for exploration... and survival. It has had its grand moments, tied in with Jewish history, temples, world wide travel and such. But there are far too many pockets where none of that reached and had not for centuries. Verona Romero is an established archaeologist with a second doctorate in anthropology and Ethiopia calls to her to prove her worth beyond the constant search for treasure. No, the promise, this time, was fame, finding the very beginning of humanity on the dark continent, following in the footsteps of giants like world-renowned ...

There was a Blackfoot so important that it boggles the mind to have him buried in obscurity, lost among the wild tales of success and triumph, regardless of how inaccurate. A non-violet leader, a damned good warrior, and not afraid to kill, if he had to. But he was one of the very few who saw the futility of war against the white man. They tried to kill him, to wipe his People from the face of the earth, but he stood resolute and prevailed. And so, the Blackfoot remain unto this day. Fun to research, fun to write, but the truth herein may be stretched, too. Fodder for #TheStoryteller, right?

Kassidy Nkosa pulled herself up from her bushman roots with the determination her Gerrman mother gave her. No stopping her in anything she tries. As a successful paleoanthropologist, she is fascinated by bones. Old ones. But to find the holy grail, she will have to descend into some of the darkest, most dangerous places in the South African volcanic shield fields. Luckily, she finds just the right partner, a chance to learn about love and life, and have an expert along for the thrills and chills. Follow Kassidy along as she learns to live, and more important for a logical scientist, she ...

Victoria had not planned for this. A nice, comfortable home in the city, plenty of money, a husband who either loved her or loved to show her off. Now, on his 1941 mission to one of the most dangerous places in the world, he had a companion. A reluctant one, and in fact, dubbed an Angel out of Place by the locals. All but one. It took years, for the Amazon is a crucible of life. She came into her own, took no bull from anyone, and learned to be the woman she should have been all along, the Baroness of Brazil. Herald of the Lost Rubber Soldiers… A fast paced ride brought to you by #...

John Colt has done it all. He's been a sheriff a Texas Ranger and even a US Marshal. And all he learned in all of those successful careers is that he worked himself to death, faced down and killed many outlaws who needed killing, and for what? A mere pittance. It is not enough. He pulls out, after a bad injury where he nearly lost his life. Cared for by a lovely nurse, he finds he has a part of himself that somehow will struggle to change him. A strong, determined, stubborn man, he cannot be controlled by a woman with a strong streak of right from wrong, and he must move on. Those two were ...

Katarina was sold away to a man she did not know. Such was the fate of many a young girl in the 17th century.The marriage would combine the power of two families. Fate has other ideas. Not only is she saved from the old, wicked Count, she is found by a powerful man. But there is much more to her than she knows. Heinrich is going to save her - just in time. #TheStoryTeller

They came from extremely opposite poles. She, the revered Mother of an Eastern Orthodox Church, in a bad place among the squabbles that were tearing Yugoslavia apart. He, from eight hundred years as a practiced Master Sorcerer. His skills saved her and yes, in time, her skills saved him. They learned to team up to rescue the hapless refugees in her land, the Serbs. She learned to be a strong, right-hand woman to help her Sorcerer partner deal with her to finish her work. God works in mysterious ways. #TheStoryteller Enjoy!!

Xindy is a Hunter. The most feared, most dangerous creature on her little moon. But times are tough, the population is failing, and opportunity comes her way. Men, on the hunt for women to trade, have come to her small corner of primitive land. Unwittingly, they give her the key to space. Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is not. Taking advantage of opportunity is a sign of intelligence, usually. But now, she and her family are out of place and out of time. Can this backwoods savage learn fast enough to stay ahead of all those lasers meant to kill her? Can she change her philosophy about Men....

Sky Light, pure Comanche, was too strong and too wild for the mission to hold her. In her ill-planned escape, she tangled with a man she would never have even thought about. He was a proud man, a strong man, and he looked the part, as Apache as they come. But he stepped up and helped. With his training and his love, he won her heart. As mismatched as they could be, they were not welcome in any Comanche village, but soon, she found herself, found her calling, and vowed to be free. Told from her last years, her memoirs. This is what our elders are made of: memories. A fascinating tale of love...

Fearless explorer, Dr. Jon Ashbury, lives for that next find. The one that will bring him fame and fortune. Already successful with several behind him, he wants more. But what he does not realize is that what he really misses is right before him, when his chopper goes down in the Sahara Desert. Rescued, brought back to life, he discovers that he was mere kilometers from that very find, both in riches and in love. He is held firmly by both. But then it escalates. However, with fame and fortune come those who would steal, even kill for it. Can he hold what he has, keep his village innocent, ...

Detective Sergeant of Miami PD was thrust violently out of 1999. Held in a life sustaining coma, a subject of experiments and bold attempts for hundreds of years, her brain remained alive. Alive yes, but not aware through it all. Two centuries later, though the medical community was demanding she be unplugged, a very specialized Doctor of Cybernetics, a relatively new field in the late twenty second century, made a daring decision. Valerie Harper endured some terrifying times, some dreadful therapy, and eventually, she walked out of the Grogain Institute of Cybenetics, a new woman… inside...

I am a hard-nosed, experienced Detective First. I have solved some of the most viscious murders you can imagine. But something changed. Suddenly the recently dead reached out to me, handing me what I needed to solve cases. However, that is not easy. How do I explain that I discovered the name of the killer from a ghost? As if a key had turned, I loosened up, found the lover I was missing, and then, even more surprising, she soon had the same skill. Not sure how that happened, but we welcomed it. The trick was somehow masking that ability while benefitting with it. We got very good at it, ...

The single most despicable crime is against humanity, i, particular women and children, is what is called "trafficking." It is insidioius, as old as mankind himself, and damned hard to stop. Though Frost is not trained a killer, and barely trained a cop, she has a sensitivity toward the victims that is unmatched. Somehow, the Feds pick up on it and see a potential Knight Errant, one who can tilt at windmills, and maybe make a difference. They are proven right. Headaches, heartaches, hope and happiness are the four H's of a good story. All here and more! Enjoy!

Even the most determined space sailor will grow tired of the endless search for a habitable planet. And this one looks really good. Earth-like, but it is exactly mirrored. There is no sign of life, at first which might mean a silent world, theirs for the taking. Good air, water, land, and all they need. Except for the damned roaches. Remember the warning? When all else is gone, who or what will rule the world? Yeah, cockroaches. Then it is proven that life died as we know it more than twenty to thirty thousand years ago! Is this the world we are heading for on Earth? Could be. Now they ...

It started as a better way to enhance the James Webb Space Telescope. A unit that looked the other way. It needed a team of people, and it needed a helpful AI system. Artificial Intelligence took over most of the work, but it did not rule out the need for human hands and minds. Then came a devastating discovery. A civilization of cyborgs, AI driven units in an expanding, circular wave, carefully harvesting only the warm planets like Earth, in a rapidly growing flat plane right toward Earth itself. It will take the combined minds of man and AI alike to stop the scourge, before it is too late...

Bush pilot Jon Francisco for Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska gets lost in a storm. Plane crash. semi-modern era, 1970ish.. Man meets odd family, one old man, one old woman, one lovely Indian mix daughter, living on a small island that connects to British Columbia, Canada, via an almost always under water rocky bridge called Wolf Narrows. No harbor, no boats, no nothing. No radio. The people are self sufficient, no need to seek help or supplies, nothing. Simple lives, dangerous ground. Like Wolverton Mountain (1969) Claude King, the old man will tolerate no man near his daughter. Gonna be tough...