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In book one of this series, a unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane and come down in Southern France and they’re 2,000 years in the past where Hannibal is taking his elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans. In this second book they must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away

When Anddor Shallau is invaded by the Russnori army, Sikandar’s tribe is driven into the remote Alcina Sahar, sometimes called The Devil’s Playground. Sikandar and Monica return to the desert where they come into conflict with the invading army.

The Queen of England is 96 years old. Plans are already being made for the succession of the next monarch to the throne. Someone has a plot to alter the line of succession. Once the plan is put into motion, can it be stopped?

Two young airmen are involved in a nuclear accident during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Not only does it threaten to ignite World War III, but it sets the two men on a journey into the first engagements of an infamous war in Southeast Asia.

In this third book of the series, in the year 226 BCE, Hannibal is assigned the task of training 60 elephants for war. These elephants will then be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Iberia, there to be used in battle against the indigenous people. Liada and Tin Tin Ban Sunia are instrumental in the care and training of Obolus, the largest of the war elephants. In Andalusia, a kingdom in southern Iberia, the young Imilce Adriana Lucia Argantino, the Oretana Princess, leads a shelter life of luxury. She knows little about the world beyond Almodóvar Castle, but her adventurous ...

Ariion Sanders, a disabled teenage girl, is inspired by a homeless man she meets in a New York City jail. The man, Cameron Littleheart St. Lawrence, has been arrested for bank robbery, but without convincing evidence, the judge is forced to release him. The bumbling bank robbers have their loot stolen from them and they think Cameron took it. After they kidnap Cameron, Ariion hatches a plan for his rescue, however, her scheme goes awry, and she finds herself in deep trouble.

What happens when a couple on a small tuna boat encounters a supertanker on a collision course with their disabled craft? Jasmine and Kave shout and frantically wave their arms but there appears to be no one on board the huge ship as it plows directly toward them through the choppy North Atlantic.

The Bravant triplets, Amber, Dominique and Madeleine, apply for jobs at Tosh Scarborough’s company in the Empire State Building. Tosh discovers an open-pit mine on a satellite photo of his property in the Amazon. Oxana uses forced labor to operate the illegal mine. Tosh goes to Brazil to investigate and is captured by Oxana’s thugs. Amber and her sisters organize a search for him. Oxana is quick to punish and even murder her slave laborers, but what will happen if she gets her hands on Amber?

A unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane, but when the 13 men and women reach the ground, they are not in Afghanistan. Not only are they four thousand miles from their original destination but it appears they have descended 2,000 years into the past where primitive forces fight each other with swords and arrows. The platoon is thrown into a battle where they must choose sides quickly or die.

A misdialed phone number brings Donovan to Sandia’s front door. He thought he was to teach Braille to a blind person, but she thought he was a disability attorney. When Donovan learns of Sandia’s and her grandfather’s dreadful circumstances, the Braille lesson is forgotten and he embarks on a mission to help Sandia solve the several dilemmas that threaten to overwhelm her.

Land for the nation of Tranquility has been purchased. Monica and Sikandar, along with the others, begin to establish a new society and build the pipeline to bring seawater to the Sea of Tranquility 2.0.

Monica, Harry and Caitlion try to find a way to communicate with the Jamori nomads they left behind in the Safandel Desert. While working hard to complete their senior year of high school, they’re also finishing the details on their plans to gain funding for the Sea of Tranquility 2.0 project. As Monica works two jobs to pay for her journey back to the desert, Sikandar is searching for her, but neither of them is aware of what the other is doing.

The discovery of gold in Georgia in 1829 and political pressure from the southern plantation owners demanding more land for cotton production, caused unscrupulous politicians to force native Americans from their ancestral lands. The Treaty of New Echota was signed in December 1835. It was an agreement between the American Federal Government and a small number of Cherokee men. For the sum of 5 million dollars the Cherokee Nation ceded all their lands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, to the U. S. Government. The great majority of the Cherokee people knew nothing of the treaty...

Bell Casper is running a stealthy game in the Blue Parrot, a swanky bar in Manhattan catering to wealthy pleasure seekers. The game seems shady, and maybe it is. Leticia pretends to be his assistant. She's twenty-four and Bell's twenty-seven. Their relationship isn’t clear. Gigi is a pretty blonde, twenty-five years old. She also works out of the bar, running her own racket. She's attracted to Bell, but she can't understand why Bell and Leticia are together, or what his game is all about. She's determined to unravel both mysteries.

Monica and five other students are lazy and disobedient. Their only interests are taking selfies, texting, partying, and watching Youtube clips. Their teacher threatens to fail them which means they will have to repeat their senior year of high school unless they devise a project for the science fair. Faced with another year in high school, they use the Internet and Artificial Intelligence apps to identify critical threats and develop strategies to avert disaster. The result is the design and development of the Sea of Tranquility 2.0. This radical project to fill an enormous desert ...

Cian and Saxon’s meeting in the heart of the Amazon is more than an encounter of two people; it’s the coming together of two different worlds. Their explorations and adventures take them deep into the rain forest and then halfway around the globe in search of a peaceful place to settle down. But instead of finding peace, their shared sense of justice finds them traveling from Europe to New York and then back to Brazil where they must confront the evil network of the ambitious and heartless Oxana, who will stop at nothing to advance her trade in endangered animals as well as women and ...

Fuse returns to Burma in 1941 to look for Kayin. He left Raji behind in Virginia to recuperate from her ordeal, but she promised to join him later in Mandalay. It has been eight years since Fuse and Raji left Burma on the ill-fated training mission to Ethiopia. Since then he has not heard anything from Kayin. She is probably married by now or at least in a relationship with someone, but he has to find out, just to be sure she’s all right. What he discovers at the old hotel is something completely unexpected.

Rajiani Devaki (Raji) is a girl of 13 from India. On a cold December morning in 1925, Vincent Fusilier (Fuse) finds Raji sleeping in his parents' barn. He thinks she's a vagrant and tells her she has to go. She doesn't understand English and doesn't know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens, New York, where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant.

This is the story of my life as a young girl following Hannibal and his army from Carthage in North Africa to Iberia, and then over the Alps toward Rome. I never reached Rome, but then neither did Hannibal. I left him after the battle of Trebbia, taking with me his last remaining elephant, Obolus, and my friend, the slave girl, Tin Tin Ban Sunia. This book recounts the first month of our long journey.

October 1932. At the beginning of the Great Depression, schools and universities all over America were cutting back, and even closing their campuses. Raji and Fuse, like so many other young people, were to be cut adrift. Having concentrated on nothing but academics for the past four years, they weren’t prepared for the brutal economic realities of a world sinking into misery and hopelessness.