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Tsarevna Belle Provonsov lived in luxury, but survived in the world of intrigue, deceit and assassinations in the Russian high courts. Daughter of the Tsar, but preceded by two older brothers, she had little hope of ascending to the top. She was bargained away to a Dutch Island's governor for marriage to strengthen the ties for shipping and trade... And found herself lost on a tiny island fifty miles offshore from Japan and a long way from home. The Japanese inhabitants thrived on very set, stable, ancient traditions, and suddenly, in their midst, there stood a woman who could run things......

The bottomland farm in Missouri is gone, stolen by Confederate renegades, as well as the bank. Lucky Hunter is alone, no hope, no help. But her middle name is Lucky, and the first indicator of a new career has landed in her lap. The Civil War is over, has been for eighteen months, yet the rebel renegades will not give it up. With no real war to fight, they turn to terror, like the Vikings of old, they pillage, they kill, and they run roughshod over the mid and southern states. Lucky kills to defend, wins a very valuable reward and is trained quite well by her Papa. Now, she will get even, ...

Angela is nearing her Doctorate in Archaeology while she waits for word from her mentor and fiancé, Dr. Rex Haldeman, lost now, two years on a dig, studying the Mayan ruins of northeastern Guatemala. Not declared dead, but surely not alive, Rex's status is unknown, and it has kept Angela a hermit for two years. But on the second anniversary of his gone missing, she receives a package from him, dated the time he disappeared, two years prior. In it is Mayan artifact, a half of a medallion, and she realizes, somehow, supernaturally, it is calling her to him. As soon as she receives her Ph.D. ...

Sergeant First Michael Crane survived a brutal war, found himself mustered out a long way from home, and knew he would have to work hard to get there. He had help and he had the helpless, and whenever called up, he stepped up. Whatever the mysteries of life, he almost stumbled over the perfect woman, the love of his life, and the two made the trek home. But not without loss, pain, headaches and heartaches, and, of course happiness, but then, that makes a good story. Enjoy. #The Storyteller.

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 ...

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!!

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, ...

In the seeds of despair, in the hopelessness of fear, pain and death, there often arises opportunity for love. And the choices are not always our own. Thrust together by circumstance, two unlikely people find themselves drawn together, literally under fire. The people are not the players we expect. But this is a love story… Asteroids come and go. Love endures all things…So they tell us… (Easy Reading Font)

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 ...

I've been repeatedly asked how it came about. High Country Terror- Chicago Fury had a startten years back, a start that made Marcy Frame famous enough, but drove her toDenver. The vignettes are a little too true, for I, or my friends and partners, lived these stories. This book is dedicated to those who made it, those who did not, and thosethat have moved on. Not all of us are still here. I hope that those who are canremember the events in a cop's life... Others can learn from them... From #TheStoryteller, G. Weldon Tucker

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 #...

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 ...

He had no idea who he was or where he came from. A cryptic note to himself from before the accident gave him clues. It might have been God who gave him a chance to rescue the woman who would stand beside him, help him, and yes, she could shoot, too. A blessing in the New Mexico desert where Mexican bandits, outlaws and Apache roamed free. The Sugaro Cactus, what he called the Bandit Cactus, stood in silent sentry over his clues, over his life, and eventually over his wealth.A strong, silent observer, a key to his destiny, the Bandit Cactus would tie all of this together, though Codger and ...

This is the anthology for the original series, High Country Terror. There is a prequel, High Country Terror- Certain Justice, that explains how this all came about. In any case, Meet Marcia Frame, a tough, ex-Chicago Detective, a survivor now of the streets of Denver. Someone is viciously killing young women, using a style almost never seen. But, like any Homicide Detective, she finds herself stretched by new cases, new challenges, and it comes to light that someone from her old Chicago Beat is hunting… her! She is first of all a Detective Sergeant, sworn to enforce the law. Secondly, a ...

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

Skye Blue was a mistake, in her family's eyes, but they came to love and even respect her as a half-sister. But they did not understand what made her tick. She had secrets, big ones. And then, in a complete surprise, she found she was far more than she thought! Far more deadly, very adept and turning the minds of men to her thinking, and she did it without much effort. Sooner or later, she must discover how this could happen. And why her sisters were oddly not surprised. In fact, the concept of home, so alien for so long, became the goal. If she could find home, she might find peace. That ...

In 1946, Yale has only recently even allowed women into their graduate program. But not so the man's world of archaeology.The smartest, most determined Ph.D candidate the University has ever known, Savanna Calloway, is the point of the spear. If she fails, women in science fields everywhere may fail.In this early era of search and discovery, Mayan Temples are not easily found in the jungle. Now, those that must stop her will do so at all costs. Where else but deep in the Yucatan jungles, far from home? Love and that determination can pull her through as one of the most famous, early ...

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....

Ginger is a well-respected, top-notch security professional in the ether of the IT and satellite world. She can fix or break whatever she chooses, but her white hat has her on the positive side of hacking. Her husband, Detective Guy Fowler needs help. An extortionist is raking hundreds of thousands from victims, through performance and threat issues. Only one person can find him. Ginger gets into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game as she alternately locks the creep’s accounts, then teases him… or her… to meet for the keys. But the focus is beginning to point to Ginger’s best friend, ...

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...