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Six-hundred-thousand years ago, the largest volcano in the Western Hemisphere erupted covering much of what is now the Central United States in a thick layer of ash. The cataclysm left behind a massive caldera that today is known as Yellowstone National Park.

After volcanologist Milton Bainbridge is found dead under mysterious circumstances, USGS volcanologist Jason Trask is called in from overseas to replace his former boss and work at Yellowstone Park with Bainbridge’s assistant Carlene Carlson.

Scientists estimate the massive pool of lava beneath Yellowstone National Park is the size of one of the Great Lakes. When the super volcano erupts it will end life in the United States for millions of people. It could very well be the end of the greatest nation the world has ever known. Daily, the national park rumbles making it apparent it will soon erupt. President Merrill stares at the Top Secret document. Does he accept this as the fate of the nation? Is there anything the most powerful country on earth can do to prevent such widespread destruction? He commissions one last study and is...

Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and at the bottom rests a B-1B bomber and its cargo of 24 nuclear weapons. Scott Tanner, a former Navy SEAL, and his eccentric partner, David Stafford, are called into action to recover the plane and its deadly cargo, a mission that could determine the fate of Crater Lake National Park forever. Tanner and Stafford soon discover the horrific facts surrounding the accident and are face to face with an enemy who will do anything to prevent the safe removal of the weapons. The terrorists are on the run and with them the means to detonate the ...

During World War II, the United States suffers devastating losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea and it becomes evident that a new carrier based aircraft is needed. After seeing the performance of the Zero against our fighters, it is suspected Japan is stealing our aircraft designs before our new planes are even in production. The latest US fighter aircraft, the F6F Hellcat, is about to hit the production lines and the government desperately wants a late model Zero to test it against. In an intercepted message, Naval Intelligence learns there is one of the latest A6M Zeros undergoing tests ...

Deep in Yellowstone Park, near the Continental Divide, two scientists, Lisa, an astronomer, and Cody, a geologist, watch the sky hoping to see what Lisa has described as the biggest non-event in the history of asteroids passing by earth. But the science of tracking asteroids is not perfect. There are always unknowns. They say, “the devil is in the details.” This devil is named Demon and it is on a collision course with Dark Angel, a large asteroid that has been predicted to skirt by the moon two days before Christmas. Young and stunning Lisa Wilson and handsomely rugged Cody Street are ...

An already disastrous Thanksgiving dinner is interrupted when Daniel Tate gets a phone call, his beloved grandfather is dead. It’s September Gale’s first case as a detective. An elderly man is brutally murdered and leaves behind a baffling set of clues to his murder. Within the clues are the secrets to solving his death. The victim’s grandson was the last to see him alive, and is now her prime suspect. As she digs into the crime scene, she is drawn deep into a 500 year-old mystery, and to make matters worse, someone is trying to kill her. Against the warning of her superior officer, ...

Book two featuring Scott Tanner and David Stafford. Russia has broken the 1959 Antarctic Treaty that forbids using the continent for anything other than scientific research. sparking a hot war with the United States. Scott Tanner and David Stafford are in Antarctica testing a revolutionary new type of machine called Sub Zero that can travel through and under the Antarctic Ice and are asked by the CIA to head a rescue mission for two environmental scientists thought to be held captive at Vostok Station, a remote Russian outpost. Russian military is able to track Sub Zero as it travels under ...

After the discovery of new evidence regarding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, David Stafford and Scott Tanner attempt to use a rebuilt antique replica of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft to re-create the same flight that resulted in the disappearance of the famous flyer back in 1937, but they soon discover not everyone is thrilled with their effort to replacate the last flight of America’s sweetheart. There are those who wish to leave history alone and others who wish to use the flight as a means of changing world events. Caught between the secrets of the past that doomed Amelia ...

Three hundred years ago a massive subduction earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast. The Cascadia Subduction Zone extends approximately sixty miles off shore for six-hundred miles along the entire length of Washington and Oregon. The massive tsunami extended a mile inland along the entire coastline of Oregon and Washington and traveled 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean inundating the coastline of Japan. Indian villages along Washington and Oregon beaches were destroyed, leaving in the wake of the tsunami, ghost forests which remain to this day.Treasure hunter, Scott Tanner is trying to ...

American communication satellites are vital to the survival of the nation. When satellites are destroyed in orbit the shrapnel spreads and endangers other satellites. Destroy enough satellites and the Kessler Syndrome goes into effect. All satellites are destroyed in a never ending chain reaction rendering that position in orbit useless forever. Tax accountant Raymond Phillips is unaware he is a dead ringer for a spy who has been selling Defense Satellite secrets to an enemy. When the spy goes missing and has a target put on his back by his own handlers, Phillips winds up in their cross ...

CHAD BECKMAN MYSTERY SERIES: Leap of faith, Lesser of Two Evils, and Hot Ashes Cold Granite. All three exciting full length mysteries in one volume. Small town politics and a serial killer clash in the tiny coastal town of Bay View. This three book series brings the reader into the lives of Chad Beckman and his soon to be significant other when they cross paths with a serial killer, a corrupt city government, and in book three, a mystery hidden away for years in the town cemetery. Reader review of book 1─ LEAP OF FAITH WELL WORTH THE LEAP OF FAITH Sometimes trying out a new author in a ...

When high school junior Ron Davis, an exceptional football player, moves in next door to varsity hopeful freshman Sonny Manning they team up to bring Jackson High to its first ever State Playoff. The school and the small town of Bay City is elated with the prospect of a State Championship, but during the holiday break tragedy strikes causing Sonny’s teammates, Jackson High, and Bay City to turn against Sonny. With no friends and a seemingly hopeless future, Sonny must face the hardest decision of his life. Can he trust the one person who befriends him, a person who didn’t travel the ...

Two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese submarines are already sinking merchant ships off the Pacific Northwest coastline. The citizens of San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon are in near panic, afraid an attack will happen any minute. To be certain he is getting accurate intelligence, President Roosevelt needs a man he can trust. He chooses an unlikely candidate, Gaston Carson, a fourth year midshipman at the naval academy in Annapolis. His mission is to give Roosevelt firsthand accounts of any enemy activity in the Pacific Northwest. Gaston soon finds himself in the ...

Cody Bryant has a love life that is faltering, a brother who is dying and the toughest decision of his life staring him in the face. When he tries to do the right thing for his brother, he is rewarded by a string of events that make his life unravel before his very eyes. Before long all that Cody learned in engineering school about solving problems is turned on its head. Now, in jail on trial for his life, Cody must rely on his mentally challenged brother, the one who got him into the mess, to save him. If he could change the future, he would.

Strange things start to happen when LAPD detective Tony Lake investigates a missing person case and stumbles into an abyss so dark and tormenting that he questions his own sanity. His closest friend and partner is a witness to his tragic death, and that is the beginning of a diabolical plot hatched by Disappearing, Inc., an underground organization that causes notorious criminals to disappear off the face of the earth. His partner, his wife and son, those closest to him, all believe he is dead, and he has no means of convincing them otherwise. Worse than having his identity stolen, his ...

When two OSS agents go missing on American soil, President Roosevelt once again calls upon his trusted aide, Gaston Carson. The search takes Gaston to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he lands in a hotbed of frantic activity surrounding the top secret Manhattan Project and a remote area outside of town. Gaston soon discovers the missing agents are involved in domestic spying outside of the scope of the OSS charter. Santa Fe is the center of international spy activity and Gaston learns he cannot trust anyone, even those he is working with. When President Roosevelt suddenly dies, Gaston is left ...

A girl who wants to run in the Olympics, a doctor who has invented a new continuous flow mechanical heart, black market organ traffickers willing to murder to keep their business going, and a young man who will stop at nothing to give the girl he loves her dream. These elements come together in a heart throbbing and heart breaking journey in the life of Tracy Hill, a girl destined to die if she doesn’t get a new heart. Olympic hopeful, Tracy Hill, defies all odds when she survives a massive heart attack. But her survival looks grim as she lies in a coma on life support, waiting for a ...

It’s September, 1942. The United States is at war in Europe and in the Pacific. The people in the small town of Brookings, Oregon are terrified. Former Naval Academy student, Gaston Carson, has been assigned to serve as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal eyes and ears in the Pacific Northwest. Strange balloons are being sighted. Unexplained forest fires are springing up, a school has been bombed and a mysterious airplane, said to be Japanese has been sighted. Three months earlier Japanese Americans were ordered to inland internment camps. Most went peacefully, but some pledged ...

Veteran CIA Agent, Trevor Lloyd, is furious when he is called in from the field to a desk job at CIA Headquarters in Langley and he lets Margaret Ames, his new boss, know it. Ames has a point to prove as the first female head of the CIA and isn’t taking any guff from Lloyd and assigns him to a routine investigation with FBI Agent Terri Summers, who has yet to get her feet wet. It leads them to NASA and an international conspiracy to bring the United States into a nuclear war with Russia. In their effort to unravel the conspiracy, Lloyd and Summers discover an obscure company in California...

From his cell on death row, serial killer James Jensen closes the society page of the local paper. He has found the perfect way to exact revenge on Chad Beckman, the man who put him in prison. Chad Beckman is about to be married to artist Linda Strainer and it will be the perfect opportunity to kill Chad Beckman. Chad Beckman, newly elected mayor of Bay View, is intent on putting aside the daily hassle of fighting a corrupt city government long enough for his wedding and honeymoon. Now, instead of fighting corruption or getting married, Beckman is fighting for his life against an unknown ...