Mostrando resultados por autor "Robert Woodard" en Todas las categorías

From Morro Bay to a peaceful valley in Oregon Pete and April's journey has proven that survival is possible. But can peace survive when power threatens to destroy everything they've built? Pete and April's odyssey began with nothing but determination at Morro Bay in what was once California. Their path led them through the trials of Lake Shasta and finally to a tranquil lakeside valley in Oregon, where their seven grown children have thrived. Joined by Colby and his three adult children, they've created something miraculous in this post-apocalyptic world: a quiet, peaceful village where two...

She just wanted to go home. The universe had other plans. Captain Linda Eccles thought her mission was over. After months establishing an environmental station for future mining operations on a brutal, distant world, she's ready to take her crew back to the space station Rapatine. Then Command changed everything. A company probe vanished. No signal. No trace. Just gone. Find it. Retrieve it. Return home. Linda didn't question the orders. She redirected her ship to the probe's last known coordinates, expecting equipment failure or spatial interference. Something explainable. Something ...

A New Chapter in a World Reclaimed by Nature The world has changed. After years of peace by Lake Shasta, Pete and April’s family faces a new challenge. Their seven children, now adults, have inherited the strength and values that carried their parents through the collapse of civilization. Life has found its rhythm in this new world until April's haunting premonition begins to stir: something is coming that will bring both sorrow and unexpected joy. No one could have imagined how violently that change would arrive. When a raging forest fire forces them from their lakeside home, the Gibbons...

The world is gone, but their fight to survive continues. Three years after the world collapsed, Pete and April have created a new life for their family, but the post-apocalyptic landscape is far from forgiving. Now, with seven children to raise, they face new challenges that test the strength of their bond, their resolve, and their ability to survive in a world that no longer resembles the one they knew. In this gripping post-apocalyptic fiction story, the Gibbons family ventures inland to Lake Shasta, hoping to escape the dangers of the coast. When a devastating storm forces them to ...

What would you do if you woke up 108 years after the world ended and humanity was gone? Pete is a young, athletic, college educated man who volunteers for a 90-day cryogenic suspension experiment at a research facility in the Arizona desert. But when the trial ends, he awakens in a world ravaged by a deadly virus, and civilization has collapsed. With no one around, Pete must face the overwhelming truth: he’s completely alone in a post apocalyptic world. As nature slowly reclaims the earth, Pete is forced to adapt, making his way to the California coast to begin a new life among the ruins....

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. ...

Volume three of the When Jill Becomes Sandra series, Changing Times is another upheaval in Jill Simpson's life. Her time as a member of a kill team for an agency that is never revealed to her is splitting up. Jill now sees this as her opportunity to walk away to become her own person again. The only problem is, she has no idea what the next phase in her life really means. Lost to her now is the support she has grown to rely on. She will no longer have the intelligence gathering, weaponry, and support team at her side. It is now time for Jill to restart her life all over again, and she has ...

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.

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 ...

She thought she understood the game. Then the true players revealed themselves. Captain Linda Eccles and Admiral Philip Litton travel to the Curanian homeworld on a mission built on deception, convincing a ruthless alien ruler that humanity has developed technology powerful enough to stop him. But when they arrive, everything they believed collapses. Then everything changes. The ship she stole? Never hers to take. The technology she controlled? It was controlling her. The mission she planned? Worthless, the Supreme Kold no longer wants war. Someone else has been watching from the shadows. ...

Book 2 of the Linda Eccles Series, where trust is the mission and understanding is survival. Three years ago, she barely survived humanity’s first contact with alien life. Now they’re asking her to go back. After The Chance Encounter, Linda Eccles lost everything: her command, her career, her future. Now she pilots a short-range freighter, trying to forget. She can't. The alien buoy from her first encounter has revealed its secrets: the Kracks were never finished with humanity. Admiral Philip Litton returns with an impossible offer. Earth Defense has decoded enough to know communication...

They made peace with one alien species. Then they found a ship that changes everything. On the Krack homeworld sits a vessel unlike anything humanity has encountered. Technology that shouldn't exist. Systems beyond comprehension. A ship waiting, as if it knew they would come. Scientist Peggy Hopkins sees humanity's future. Captain Linda Eccles sees the danger. Earth's orders are clear: Retrieve it. Study it. Control it. Fatal mistake. Because the Curanians were watching. This brutal alien race, the same species Admiral Philip barely defeated before, has been lurking in Krack space, waiting ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...