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A Future Fiction Detective Series Drake Blast is a Master Detective with the Washington D.C. Metro Police Force. He is also a detective and international spy for the United Nations Capital Security Service, so he has two bosses. As you would expect, their priorities don't always coincide. In The Joystick Murders, Candidates for World President are being assassinated by law-abiding citizens. But what’s a detective to do when the assassin’s head immediately explodes? Even in the hi-tech 2040s, it’s hard to get information out of a dead man. With D.C. Mayor Charles Cantrell screaming for...

SOMETIMES THE GOOD GUYS DON’T FIGHT FAIR... Jack Wheat was a Rhino hunter. At sixteen years old, he started roaming the planet in search of the monstrous creatures that burst from the ground and ripped humans to shreds with their great serrated horn. He and his horse, Killer, knew the land well: every desert oasis, every rock, every hill and mountain and forest. They were a team, and Jack was a hero… Until he and his lady, Sheffie Jarrett, were lured to New Lisbon to help “solve” the worsening Rhino problem in Agrilot’s largest city. While scientists in Lisbon worked to recreate a...

You’re old. Almost eighty. No wonder that beautiful young lady rejected you. But you discover there is an option you can afford. It will take all your retirement savings and then some, but you can shave years away from your looks and your body. You can be a spry, energetic thirty-year-old again. Would you? Jeffrey Corbin did. With the help of the First American Brain Bank, Jeffrey emerges into the world young, virile, and handsome again. The young lady who rejected him now falls for him. Life is wonderful. Or is it? This beautiful young lady, Sheenah, comes with a group of questionable ...

Future Fiction Detective Series The small Arab village of Ascoa, Naseria, is destroyed. Every man, woman, and child is murdered. In a tit-for-tat move, the nearby African village of Latriki, Fazerique, is also destroyed. Then, like a freshly lit string of firecrackers going off, a brutal war explodes. Master Detective Drake Blast is sent under the cover of being an ambassador for peace. His covert duty is to find something hidden by the prior UN Ambassador shortly before he was murdered. Drake knows the item is significant, but he does not know what it is or why it matters. His ...

Future Fiction Detective Series Someone is using a chainsaw to steal implant chips… out of the heads of hi-tech CEOs. Leaders of cutting-edge technology firms are found with their heads mutilated and their implant chips missing. Then, the design for a Cosmic Top Secret military implant chip disappears from an ‘unhackable’ server, leaving the fate of the entire free world hanging in the balance. Sue Li, the CEO of a Chinese Chemical Company, is the next person marked for death. As danger lurks at every turn and from every direction, it may take more skills than Master Detective Drake ...

What would you do if a naked alien materialized in front of you amid a ball of swirling winds and colored lights? Would you freeze, run away, scream, hit it, or try to communicate? And what would you think if you discovered these aliens not only come from a different universe but are also far more intelligent than humans and vastly superior technologically? Martin O’Brien leaves his native Ireland to chase the dream of love, but things go awry. Before he can return home, he becomes involved with the sudden appearance of aliens. This strange anomaly begins with a few “lightshows,” as ...

Bronze Medal winner, 2020 eLit Literary Awards, Historical Fiction. Emily Rose roams through a country ravaged by war, a damaged land where the very grass blades drink the blood of brothers, cousins, and friends. Protected only by her wits and Nathaniel Whiteeagle, a slave with Cherokee blood, Emily swears she will find her fiancé and buy his freedom. Facing danger at each turn, every clue she follows leaves her another step behind. Will she ever find Caleb? Can Caleb endure the unthinkable cruelty of civil war prisons long enough for her to rescue him? Or will she and Nathaniel meet a ...

Private Lewis Freeman has a problem. The treasure map passed down through generations of family, from slavery to modern day, shows his legendary ancestral fortune is buried in the dead center of the war zone. Corporal Vince Masini has several problems. He is struggling to keep a ragtag group of outcasts and misfits together as a military unit. He must also keep them out of the clutches of Captain Nikki Christopoulos, war regulation enforcement, while making it look as though they are obeying the orders of a blood and guts veteran commander, Colonel Thaddeus T. Fattingham.

Innocence doesn’t matter. With the evidence stacked against him, Joey is going to prison. But the universe takes a detour before he gets to the courthouse. A strange purple alien named Fursdohr uses the power of The Crystal Shell to transport Joey halfway across the galaxy to the planet Levari, where war is brewing between the tiny thimdalun and the warlike hanori. The hanori have one objective, genocide. To protect themselves, the thimdalun built a huge fort-city named Walsdon. With both species still in the bow and arrow stage, the city seems safe until the hanori arrive at the gates ...