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It could be a game, but if it is, it is a deadly serious one. The players are not what we expect, but the damage they can do is very real. AI is not the threat. People are.. Since the first computer built connected to the early stage internet, there have been people who think their only game in life is how to steal money or expensive programs. Dr. Margaret Treadson is aware of these people and is convinced she can stop them, but at peril to her own life. Several vignettes put that belief to the test. Even US Army Counterintelligence steps in, but will it be enough? You anger enough whacko ...

There be monsters out there in the Great Southwest. There be lawbreakers, vagrants, and all out bad people. Someone has to stop them. Start with the monsters and the rest may follow. Rangers have always braved the unknown... Even against monsters...A mix of Vampire and 'Shifter worlds... with a vengeance.

He was put out here because he qualified: Braniac, Electrical Engineer, and definitely a nerdy loner. Psyche report so stamped in red. A twenty year contract. A chance to get rich, waiting to be paid. Then, the aliens got creative. Alone no more. Another engineer, as smart as himself, and a hell of a lot better looking! The aliens want what he is developing. He has to bring her around to his side, and the two have to get the hell off this damned needle, somehow. They cannot lose themselves doing it. They cannot let the aliens kill them. Will love help them through or hold them back? No one ...

Cat is a determined, talented, crime fighting machine. But she has an odd ability… and she has caught the eye of the CIA. But, is it for her benefit… or theirs? Her handsome, helpful training partner is a force onto himself, and he can show her the ropes. He can also keep those who would kill her at bay… inside or outside the CIA. Still, he is drawn to her though she scares him, at times. He has never seen anything like her. But, out of her heritage comes an ancient evil god from Central America. He wants to set up the sacrifices, the killing, all over again. Like it or not, she is ...

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......

In the days of the western frontier, where mining companies put up towns, paid workers a pittance and hired their own security, they often hired a Marshal. Similar to a Sheriff, but with no town council or mayor getting in the way. But mines have their draw for outlaws. If it is not the silver or gold bullion, it is always the pay wagons. Marshal Cord Loninger, ex-Texas Ranger was lured to such a position in Cactus City, NM. But he soon discovered that the mining company would not hire deputies. So, it was his job to stand the front line and stop the threats. He was good at it. But somehow,...

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.

The wild southwest was fraught with difficulties. Disease, heat, Indians, drought, why it took a determined, tough man to hold onto his family and his ranch. And did not happen, all too often. In that transition period of 1876, some of the Native Americans took to the reservations, while many did not. Some put up one hell of a fight. When a Comanche raid stole Brody's sister, he vowed to his dying mother, he would find her. But we know that life will happen when we make plans. Let's go see if he can fulfill that promise... #TheStoryteller

Texas Ranger John Miller is not who he seems to be. He has an odd history stretching back 200 years! But he has managed to conceal his Sorcerer persona for those years under different names, often behind different badges. Until he meets the woman he rescues from a miserable existence, and she seems able to see right through him. And she likes the good man she sees. It progresses from there to one hell of a partnership, as close as two people can get! And it might last forever, if they can just get a most deadly entity off their backs!!

A half-finished sorceress is not quite a pitiful thing. Two hundred years of masking, outliving every husband, moving from city to city, it all runs together. Then, her son calls her to Oregon City, along the Oregon Trail by wagon train. Headaches, heartaches, and hope! Every skill she has will be called upon, and the only man she will ever love forever comes into her life. Survival, infinite love, it is the way of the sorcerer. Even then.

This is story about a coming of age girl, heading west with her family, but the train is set upon by Comanches and outlaws working together. Alexandria is literally thrown from the Conestoga by an unseen force, held helpless, hiding in the brush, while the Indians kill the train and capture all girls under twelve, including Julia, her sister. From that uncanny circumstance arises a determined woman who gains skills as she finds weapons and help and begins to know that she is not alone. Evil lurks in the Comanche village and young Alex realizes that in her mission to rescue Julia and the ...

Master Sorcerer Morgan had been around too many people with a hand out, seeking what he possessed. But it could not be shared, and he could not grant three wishes. He headed for the islands to find a home where he would be unknown and live a quiet life. By nearly a disastrous accident, he found isolation. He shipwrecked on a near perfectly round island well away from the mainland and south of Bermuda. But fate, or whatever, would not let him enjoy isolation. It was not long, another shipwreck hit his island. She is not what she appears to be. Of course, neither is he. It will be a hell of a...

Nature can be unkind. The death of a den is a traumatic event to any wolf. No matter that the wolf is the apex predator, like any form of killer, there is sometimes something bigger, stronger, and just as deadly. So, the little pup is on his own. Maybe nature, maybe the Great Spirit, even God, might have taken notice. The little guy had gone through hell. He had not eaten in two days and his chance of survival ran right between slim and none. Red Bird Singing, Red to her white man’s family who raised her, has an affinity for animals, for healing and for a lot more she does not yet ...

Far into the future, Dr. Chase Haller firmly believes that a black hole can be conquered. The estimates of size and power, to him, are just that, guesses. He wants to prove it can be done. However, if it were not for the kind recue by a completely alien species, he would not have proof, even if he and his lovely mate, Melissa, did make it through. Eventually, with the odd help of the alien, they return home, and begin immediately preparing for a return trip with better equipment, and serious determination, for these are multi-year experienced, going forth in a relatively small sphere. ...

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)

Robin is a coming of age swamp witch, growing up under the tutelage of her mother and grandmother, powerful witches in their own right, learning her responsibility to keep evil out of this world, and hold the line for good. Relocated by the sudden, violent death of Robin's grandfather, they must leave their home turf in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp to fix up the old man's cabin in the Florida Everglades. The initial thought is to sell it and return, but, once there, it is apparent that Robin and her mother have new challenges, a sudden awareness that they are in the end game fight! They have ...

In the golden age of piracy, roughly the early 1700s, there was the romance of piracy. Blood, thrilling, even, weirdly romanticized over time. This tale is not about them. It is about Reece Bonny Roberts who is a direct, but far down the line descendent that gets caught up in the hunt for treasure. She finds the right partner, nearly a pirate’s look on his own, and together, they make it a point to hunt down her ancestor’s treasure So, why on earth would anyone deposit gold, silver and jewels at the bottom of a sea cylinder, so far down, they will never see it again? It is the hunt, the...

A sniper is a lonely, introspective hunter. Danny Copczyk, a tragic widower, is out of the military family, recruiting the talented beauty, Ajax, to him into his own PI firm. He is feeling his age, depressed, and burning out. Seen it all. He has done too much. Killed too many. Suddenly, with Ajax's help, they must stop a sniper off the reservation, rescue a General under threat and take down a known Chicago Strongman. It's a triple play that will test their limits... (Easy reading font)

The secrets of Nicaragua were kept hidden for decades. The first ruin discovered brought puzzlement with no agreement. It would take a pair of serious, curious explorers to make sense of it. Then, they get wind of something even more intriguing, and it is a long hike into nowhere to find it. If they can find it. And all this time, Volcano Row, only partly extinct, requires the same over-the-shoulder watch as if looking for bandits or Indio. Life is cheap in the mid-twentieth century, true for most explorers of that era.

In the summer, Maui's north shore will throw up sixty foot waves. Those are more than dangerous enough. In the winter, those can reach one hundred feet and they are all too often, deadly. Now, what faces the best detectives in all of Hawaii is the combination of huge waves, crazy surfers and killers who have learned to use both to their own advantage. It takes loss, love, determination, and in the end, more courage than either could imagine to stop this threat. For the first time in a hundred and fifty years, the name vampire has a distinct meaning. In 1875, it was a splashy tale to tickle ...