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In this fourth volume within the Linda Eccles Series, Captain Linda Eccles and Admiral Philip Litton are tasked with going to the Curanian planet in an attempt to deceive the powerful leader, Supreme Kold, into believing the Humans have created a new, highly advance ship that will easily defeat anything the Supreme can send against them. However, everything has changed. Supreme Kold has no further interest in attacking the human fleet or finding their home planet. The true builders of the strange alien ship found on Kracks make their presence known. Linda is about to take a strange and ...

The Chance Encounter is the first book in the Linda Eccles Series that follows the exploits of Captain Eccles. In The Chance Encounter, Linda is ready to take her ship and crew home after completing her mission of setting up an environmental station for future mining operations on a harsh, distant planet. Her orders are superseded when a company probe goes missing. Ordered to head for the probes last known location to investigate its disappearance, Linda quickly finds that she is not alone in this section of space, and the ship she encounters does not like her there. What follows is ...

Disillusioned as a social worker, Jill decides that if the legal system won't protect women from abusive men, then she will, and with deadly results. Taught to protect herself at a young age by her marine father, and learning her new trade as she goes, Jill is becoming an efficient killer. When one of her personal missions goes wrong, Jill has to join her traveling father to hide herself for a while. It is during this visit that everything will change. With the help from a mysterious agency, Jill begins to receive training, weapons and the ability to operate under an alias. Where Jill was ...

In When Jill Becomes Sandra, we learn that Jill has made it her mission to relieve the suffering of innocent women and their children by eliminating the men in their lives who do evil things and skirt through the legal system to get away with it. Jill connects with a mysterious agency that seems more than happy to assist her after she struggles to subdue her latest victim. Over time, that assistance pulls her into ever more dangerous missions directed by her secret helpers. This will finally cost her the love of her life, Kevin, who had joined her cause. While convincing herself she is ...

The Search for Kracks is the second volume in the Linda Eccles Series that began with The Chance Encounter. It has been three years since Captain Linda Eccles lost her job with UMU and command of the Privateer. Now commanding a short-range freighter through the Shipping Guild, she once again contemplates retirement. Unknown to Linda, the buoy recovered after her encounter with the Kracks has begun to spill its secrets. Earth Defense is ready to return to find the Kracks and try to communicate with them. Admiral Philip Litton would like to have Linda command the science ship that will ...

The Curanian Dominance is the third volume in the Linda Eccles Series. Scientist Peggy Hopkins has convinced her bosses and the representatives of the Governments to go back to the planet of the alien species known as Kracks to retrieve a strange alien ship that is far superior to anything human minds could have produced. Captain Linda Eccles is recruited to come along to pilot the alien ship up to the science ship to being back to Earth for study. Admiral Philip Litton becomes aware of the mission and has the science ship redirected to the space station Rapatine. Having already battled a ...

The Benanan Remnant is the fifth volume in the Linda Eccles series. Linda has finally left space travel behind her and settled into her own home close to her parents in Federal Way, Washington. Now married to Philip and having had a daughter and son together, they both live a peaceful life teaching at the Boeing Space Academy. Unfortunately, for Linda and her two kids, there is a dark force lurking that is as old as time itself, and it has targeted Linda due to her mental ability. The two are about to clash in a battle for survival.

Pete, an athletic, college-educated, young man, signs on with a secure research facility located in the Arizona desert where he assists in the building of a cryogenic suspension chamber. When Pete reluctantly agrees to become the human test subject for a 90-day trial, he will come out of the chamber 108 years later when the last of the power grid, solar panels and internal storage cells gives out. What Pete discovers is that he is all alone. From a letter left in his room, he reads through the reason for his abandonment—the human population was ravage by an uncontrolled and fast spreading...

Jeff Delvry will awake from a horrible dream to find he now resides in a mental institution where he has been a patient for fifteen years, and he has no memory of his stay. The last thing Jeff remembers is attending a party with Elaine Temple, a sweet, caring, fellow college student he was just getting to know. Now, though, Jeff is a ward of the state and an accused murderer found incapable of standing trial for the horrendous death of Elaine. The evidence is overwhelming, too. Elaine was found murdered in his bed, Jeff had her blood all over him, and his DNA was under her fingernails. ...

Dylan, a young man of only twenty-three, is on his way to take on the maintenance responsibilities of a newly built, fully automated, mining complex on a desolate planet called EP111. The assignment is for a three-year contact that also requires eighteen months of space travel, each way, for a total of six years of commitment. As Dylan’s new job begins on the complex, with him as the only occupant, his life quickly turns into a boring routine. His single companion is a fifth generation of an artificial intelligence that interfaces between Dylan and the core processor for the complex. ...

Chad Westing has a troubling murder case on his hands. He is the lead detective assigned to find the person or persons involved in what is beginning to look like a serial killer on the loose on the streets of Maine. The last thing he needed was to stumble across a letter that is now pointing toward a murder of its own. The more he tries to hand that letter and its mystery off to someone else, the more it floats right back into his lap. Now, someone wants him dead for it. Why? Chad is just mad enough to go find out.

The Gibbons’ Migration is the third installment in the Gibbons’ Series. Having raised seven children in a peaceful life along the shores of Lake Shasta, April’s premonition of pending change, bringing both sorrow and happiness, is about to come true. No one could have guessed that such change would also bring such severe disruption to their lives. Are there others out there? The Gibbons are about to find out. Follow the Gibbons’ as they are forced away from Lake Shasta, over the mountains dividing California and Oregon, and into a valley that Pete recalls from his youth. Why did ...

Book two in the Gibbons’ Series, The Gibbons' Seven takes over where Sleeping Through the Nightmare ended. Now three years later, April and Pete have a two-year-old daughter and a newborn son. Washed out by a heavy storm, April, Pete and Gus make the decision to move inland, away from the shore. Pete selects Lake Shasta, just north of the decaying city of Redding, for an ideal location to build a log cabin and support his expanding family. After a harrowing journey, they find a chalet that has held up to the test of time and claimed it for their own. Over time, Pete and April will produce...

The Gibbons’ Battle for Cara is the fourth book in the Gibbons series. In a post-apocalyptic world, Pete and April have moved a long way since first coming together at Morro Bay in what was once known as California. Their adventures have led them on to Lake Shasta and eventually to a small lake in a valley in Oregon. They have raised seven children and combined with Colby and his three remaining adult children, they have become a quiet, peaceful village. While hunting, two of the young men come across a young girl named Cara who is fleeing her village. Hurt and scared, she is taken to the...