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Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever. The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay. Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.

Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor? A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

Thomas Higgins works for the state of California in the Climate Agency. Numerous complications interrupt his relatively happy life. Foremost among them is his recurring dream that is set in the Middle East. Also high on the complication list is one of Thomas’ rules: he should never become intimate with a co-worker. However, sleeping with a woman prevents the dream from recurring. With that as a solution, he relents and takes a co-worker, Christie, as a roommate. Like Thomas, Christie is a bike-riding enthusiast. Aside from that shared interest she poses numerous challenges to his personal...

What if a Teaching Assistant witnessed a murder in the university cafeteria? What if he were preparing the last session for a class in the Experimental College that dealt with shamans and witchcraft? What if the murderer read the same book the T.A. is going to use for his X-college class? What if the T.A. asked an art student to make an illustration of Astaroth, a demon from the book the T.A. was going to use during his final X-college class? What if the art student hanged himself in the venue the T.A. was going to use for his last X-college class? What if Astaroth's words became a refrain ...

Frank Berg, rescued from Kerguelen Archipelago, receives another commission in the US Navy with the express task of seeking out one of the aces of the German submarine command with a newly commissioned Liberty ship with improved anti-submarine capability. Kurt Stein, a U-boat ace follows Admiral Doenitz' orders to lie in wait for American merchant ships on the East coast. When these intrepid captains meet what will be the outcome? Only extreme skill and luck will determine the victor.

Susan Fields and her friend Jeffrey Hatton camp out on Skedaddle Mountain, the eastern edge of Honey Lake Valley. Sometime after dark with a camp fire going, they look up at the starry night. Commenting on how many more stars can be seen, Susan sees five lights suddenly appear. Jeffrey looks at them and comments that they must be UFOs. Susan hopes they aren’t going to be taken up into one of the space ships. As soon as she says that the lights dip toward Honey Lake and with incredible speed vanish.

Jim McClain passes the Social Worker One test, completes orientation and reports for work in the Welfare building. He is tasked with two caseloads of Ward 10 self-committed patients. It is an unfair situation and one that Jim is willing to accept to keep his job. Ultimately, it will be one of the factors in his decision about continuing to work in the department. He meets Raney McLeod, another welfare worker, and they hit it off. She’s from Mississippi while Jim is from California. That geographic difference will impact their relationship. Jim’s first three weeks on the job go smoothly,...

Peter Piper and his friends David Duncan and Clarissa Camp,The Dragon Trio, have seen the Coyote King and been warned of other animals seeking to turn them into wraiths.

Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally ...

After the terrible experience of surviving the sinking of the ship Pequod, Ishmael goes to sea again in search of Moby Dick. He is Chief Mate aboard Pilgrim, captained by a man who is terrified of small boats and will not emulate Captain Ahab in sinking a harpoon iron into the white whale. Through calms and storms, Ishmael welds the crew into a formidable weapon against what he comes to see as not only an implacable foe but one that may not deserve the fate that he has been tasked to give it. Ishmael finds love from an unusual revelation aboard the ship that also makes the voyage one of ...

Action, adventure, mystery are all part of Peter Monocot and the Sea Devils. The action comes from building and flying model airplanes. The adventure comes from building the biggest model airplanes Peter has ever built. The mystery comes from the nefarious plan of a band of terrorists. Peter Monocot is a 12-year-old whose military pilot father taught him how to build model airplanes. His father's death in an Air Force jet crash left Peter's Uncle Jim as the "man of the family," although Peter's mother, Estelle, wields the real power in the household. Peter and his uncle find themselves ...

What four men and two women had in common was The Antique Bazaar, a historic bar in Sacramento, California. Before the time of the story, Jack Higgins was wounded in Korea and taken to the 8088 MASH; James “Sailor” Fornoy was assigned to the 8088; Mark sat out the Korean War with a student deferment; and Rick was medically unfit for service in Korea. At the time of the story, Addie Booker and Mark were fired from the Welfare Department for striking. Lydia Prentiss continued working, opting not to strike. To get survival money, Jack, Sailor and Mark worked part-time at the ports of ...

Sophie Drucker, a career criminal who recently changed from Carl Drucker, opts for transportation to the penal complex Luna on the Moon rather than have her DNA “aligned” to remove all thoughts and images of violence. On Luna inmates are housed in individual pods. There are ten pods to a canister overseen by a warden. The warden reports to a commander who, in turn, reports to a Deputy Director on Earth. Rebecca Fordyce is the warden for Canister 1, a pod of which becomes Sophie’s new residence. Fordyce also becomes romantically involved with the captain of Lunik 2, one of the ...

James Bowan, the first victim, is on the hunt for sexual gratification in 1979. He meets a strange woman in a bar. In his apartment she is quite interested in a scrapbook in which he's collected a variety of memorabilia. Raymond Turko is an inspector with San Francisco PD. He is assigned the Bowan murder even though it's technically his day off. His partner, Dominic Mazuti and he go to the scene of the murder to find out there isn't much there besides Bowan's corpse. As the story progresses we learn how Turko tries to fit information about Bowan into some sort of pattern. We also get a ...

Peter Piper and his friends David Duncan and Clarissa Camp,The Dragon Trio, have contacted two of the rulers in the landof Faunia: the Coyote King and the Rattlesnake Queen. KingCoyote wants their help to ward off the threats to his throne and the Rattlesnake Queen wants them for her army of wraiths. So far in their adventures they have successfullyavoided become wraiths.

Kurt Lederer’s study grant to observe Patas Monkeys in the Central African Republic has been approved. His grant also includes his friend Ted Simmons, an artist who will provide illustrations of the field study. They drive to the Metropolitan Airport in Sacramento. There they board a private jet that will take them to Washington, D.C. where Kurt hopes to meet with National Science representatives and obtain the necessary items to make their field study successful. A surprise awaits them as they are driven to Langley, Virginia where they meet Hector Guajalva, a CIA agent. After a ...

A play in one act. One day in the life of William Tecumseh Sherman.

Sweet Drop in Africa: Hope takes Emily Hobhouse from England to America, Mexico and back to England. She reforms the town of Virginia, Minnesota falling in love with Mayor John Jackson. Jackson convinces Emily that ranching in Mexico will make their fortune. Waiting in Mexico for John Jackson to arrive and propose marriage Emily finds out that she built her hopes on the same sinking ground that Mexico City sits on. When he does arrive Jackson has eyes for the Mexican ladies, which destroys any thought of marriage. Emily returns to England to find that the Empire she loves has become cruel ...

In the bathyscaphe named Quetzalcoatl Mike Slater and his diving partner Manfred Richter hear pings from more than one source. They are retrieving a tube from a sunken submarine and have experienced a desperate ordeal before hearing the sonar sounds that are both mysterious and unsettling. All they want to do is return to the surface and exit the steel sphere that has taken them down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire. Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine.