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Miranda Hope was raised at her daddy's knee, learning poker from the ground up. When most girls were playing with dolls and hoping for boyfriends, she was learning how to detect a short deck, how to set one and how to slip or bottom deal. Her daddy did not want her to cheat, he wanted her to know how it's done, because the gift he gave her would make her rich, but, if she failed, destroy her. With the sudden, violent death of her father, she is thrust out into the world, perhaps too soon, or maybe, just at the right time. Calling on reserves and instincts she did not even know she possesses...

The secrets of Nicaragua were kept hidden for decades. The first ruin discovered brought puzzlement with no agreement. It would take a pair of serious, curious explorers to make sense of it. Then, they get wind of something even more intriguing, and it is a long hike into nowhere to find it. If they can find it. And all this time, Volcano Row, only partly extinct, requires the same over-the-shoulder watch as if looking for bandits or Indio. Life is cheap in the mid-twentieth century, true for most explorers of that era.

Dissatisfied with the slow plodding investigative work of the police, Arnold Dirkson strikes out on his own to be proactive in crime stopping as a very dangerous PI in the WWII era. With the right friends, the love of a pretty writer, even the arrival of the FBI when he most needed them, he makes a difference. Whether the Fates or God, someone should reward him for his efforts, tilting at windmills. We wish him luck. He will need it. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

The Mayans lived there for more that 2,000 years. Discovered in the sixteenth century by Spaniards, within a very short time span, they were gone. Moved? Disease? There are people who want to know. But now, the Copán River is erasing it! What pays for these field trips to such dangerous places is treasure. Lots of it. The noble mind will yearn for the answers, but gold calls to every heart. Anna Marie Requelle and James Kilroy find they are soon caught up in the temple searches, but they are well-trained archaeologists, too. No gold, no funding. It must balance. However, the place is ...

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, ...

Derinkuyu is a location built over a mystery. Under that city are hundreds of underground chambers, big and small. It held the interest of archaeologists in its discovery in 1963 for a short time. No treasure, no artifacts, nothing much of interest. But not all of the scientific community is willing to write it off as a hideaway for Christians in a Muslim world. Dr. Laurin Thorner is willing to put her money where her mouth is in order to solve the mystery. She will manage to throw contemporary expert opinion right out of the window. If she survives it. Tag along. Lots of adventure and ...

She would have gone on her own if she could have funded it, but then Dr. Zack Adilone stepped in to help out. As often happens when millions of dollars are at stake, be it artifacts or gold, weaknesses in men are brought to the fore. But Gabriela and Zack are a formidable team, and they have been in the trenches, killed even, yet this will be their greatest adventure, their most dangerous yet. Grab a pack, a pith helmet and explore forgotten temples...

It was just a rock. A pretty one, and it intrigued the Incas as a bauble, a trade item. It helped keep the Inca Empire afloat. The Spanish made the first recorded find back in 1600. It was still just a rock. And it subsided into the history ofthe western Amazon Basin for more than 300 years. However, it took a man of vision to see what really layinside that rock. Perhaps, therein, lies a story. Such legends, rumors, and sometimes successes, are the fodder for #TheStoryteller.

Before the Roman Emperor turned his focus to the east, the Arabic lands were a place of life, death, magic, and constant struggle to make ends meet. Or, meet your end. There were those who could help, either way. Sorcerers understood life, dismissed death as an inconvenience in those they lost, but they developed, over time, an uncanny skill to survive. And, already, there was a Church Order, not of Christianity, Muslim or anything recognizable who were determined to destroy the ‘evil’ Sorcerers. Of course, it helped that the Sorcerers were men, the Church Order all women hoping, or ...

A semi-fictional warning told in Police vignettes. In the wilderness, any hunter with any common sense knows the rule. If you do not represent a threat, the animals, even the predators, will leave you alone. If you must interface with them, you have to understand that they do not trust mankind and their hackles rise, forcing a violent confrontation. The hunter does not always win that fight. Now, replace the 'Hunter' with 'Police Officer' and the 'predators' are those people who do not have their civilized behavior as containment walls in place, so the animal is loose. But unfortunately, ...

There are angels and demons. Anyone remotely familiar with the Bible knows that. We cannot just choose what we want to believe. Occasionally, they meet, right here on earth, and Hell breaks loose. But Michael, a gunslinger & a bounty hunters knows how to handle it. He even knows how to call in help. But if demons learn from their brethren’s past mistakes, this one is a master, and everyone has to sharpen up. First, save the ranch, save the woman, save the town, and if it confines the demon, maybe that is a win. Maybe. #TheStoryteller- Enjoy!

This is a tongue in cheek tale of a highly romantic but very illogical song written forty plus years ago, Seven Spanish Angels. Perhaps if we look over the players, one will go with God, and perhaps, one will not. But the song relays the wrong message. Tragic, but the west and Mexico were full of this dichotomy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

Raven is a woman on a mission. She has little room for a man in her busy life. True, she wins at all things. It is her personality, her determination and her skills that get her what she wants. However, they can get her in trouble, too. Those are lessons. She will tell you her story. Perhaps, it will save you your own hard learned lessons. Wisdom comes from mistakes. It is not easily passed on. But, she can try... Enjoy. She is waiting...

The young Count-Heir was not much different than a lot of his late teen generation in 1866. But he had it made if he stayed put and paid his dues learning his father's company. But he was a dreamer. Far, rugged wilderness called. Being Frenchy the fur trapper seemed so romantic. Or, changing one out for another, perhaps a ranch? Maybe a steamboat Captain shipping furs. A gunman? Maybe. Hell, why not a mink farm? Yeah, that seemed great! But life is what happens when we make plans. Especially if you have a good woman by your side.. #TheStoryteller.

A Texas Ranger in the late 1880s had a poor life expectancy. Too many outlaws, too lonely a vigil, and too many times, complacency. This last, the band of all law enforcement right up into this era. Billy Verde had a lonely trail to ride on patrol, and through he faced down many outlaws and Mexican trespassers, it was a dull job. Mostly. Until, one day, it was not. Then he discovered the afterlife. Maybe Purgatory, where the good and bad are somehow sorted out. He discovered Chance, an old Ranger who had been on the job in this odd world for more than fifty years, with a history no one can ...

Four snippets of history from the richest boomtown silver producing territory in the USA. But under the history were the human tales, some of love, some outlaws, and yes, the law. Learn a little history, and yes, #TheStoryteller will make it very interesting. Most now are almost ghost towns, some tourist traps, but life goes on.

Sometimes being lucky is better than being good. Even if it stings a little. He should be a vampire. He should be dead. He is a vampire, in a way. But then, from the depths of despair and loss, even rage,. he finds friends, a badge, a mission, and yes, love.Can she save him when the vampires go down? And, with his determination, they must go down, even if it means the end of himself. Fingers crossed. It could be luck. Maybe God's plan to save the west. Either will work. A #DarkWestern Vampire Tale by #TheStoryteller, G. Weldon Tucker

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...

It is a dangerous damned business, and only the strongest survive. But the enemy is not one man, but hundreds, and they are like the Hydra, with plenty of backup candidates to fill in behind them. There are talented agents sent out against that tide of traffickers and drug cartels, but they know the chances they take. If the CIA is smart, they will not let the best be ground down to nothing. There has to be a way out, but that, too, is not easy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller.

You have heard about the huge snake hunts in the swamps of Florida. As a contest, it has been successful... to a point… Hundreds of female snakes lay more than a hundred eggs a year. Hunters kill a thousand snakes each year. It is a no-win situation. And now, the Louisiana Bayous face a similar problem with the Rougarou, a kind of werewolf that works 24-7 and does not care about the moon. It can replicate itself with any clumsy hunter in moments. But then, for some, that is the adventure in itself, is it not? Enjoy, but hang on for a wild ride! #TheStoryteller