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James Robert Scott was 13 when his parents died in an aircar crash and two years later his last remaining immediate family member, his grandfather a Nobel prize-winning physicist disappeared without a trace. On the day of his 19th birthday, a man with a stainless steel briefcase cabled to his wrist waited outside his classroom door. The letter contained in the case was addressed to James and was postmarked March of 1888, 157 years in the past. The letter indicated that the elder Scott was lost somewhere in time and contained the location of the Time Machine and access codes to the ...

The Year is 2166: To the people of Earth, the universe seemed to be a very lonely place. Astronomers had discovered tens of thousands of planets and many had indications of organic life. SETI had been searching for signals for over 200 years. There had been a few tantalizing bits of radio or radar energy received but nothing was ever proven to be of intelligent origin. But there was an alien civilization out there, in fact, many of them linked together in a Web of Worlds. They were watching us quietly, carefully and patiently. It had long been the prime directive of the Web that no ...

The orbital debris salvage ship THX-1138 and its Commander Lieutenant Joachim Lee and his young crew are tasked to de-orbit an abandoned space station from the early 21st century. Something very unusual was going on with the derelict Long March of the People-7. They discover that the station has had a visitor from somewhere in the Deep Dark. Was this event the real First Contact? Earthrise 2115: First Contact is a novella that tells the tale of an event that took place approximately 50 years before the adventures of the crew of the starship Richard P. Feynman and is part of the Earthrise ...

Charlotte Janssen was an Air Force C-17 pilot. She had been raised by her grandparents and returned home to care for her ailing grandfather. After his passing, she inherited his old House in Boise and started a new job as a pilot for Alaska Airlines. After a middle-of-the-night plumbing failure, she was determined to do a full renovation of her 100-year-old house. Luckily for Charlotte, her BFF Lena had a handsome and talented younger brother who specialized in restoring old houses. The beautiful pilot and handsome contractor hit it off immediately, but she couldn't date him while he worked...

Lizzie was on the run but not from bad guys, international criminals or terrorists. She was hiding from her mother! At age 20, she had left her grand house in England in the middle of the night with only a short note to dear mum. She had attended Oxford for two years until Lizzie's well-meaning family had tried one more time to arrange a marriage with the right kind of man from the right kind of family. Lizzie's mother did not believe that Ladies of her Station needed a University education. Lizzie railed against that kind of tradition and simply wanted to finish her business degree and ...

This story begins on the day 17-year-old Cassandra died. She was only dead for 28 seconds. Nonetheless, she had been quite dead. Luckily for her, except for a few nightmares now and again, Cassandra didn't remember any of her voyage almost into the light. Her Hindu Father and Christian Mother were supportive in her long recovery but eventually, she had to get on with her life. She attended a small State College where she met her three best friends in the world Jenny, Suzi and the love of her life, Mark. The Boy with Glue in his Hair is a fun, sexy contemporary novel that follows Cassandra ...

Johnny and Kimi are two young lovers who witness a brutal gangland-style double murder. From a secluded spot in the woods, they watch the killers weigh the bodies down and dump them in the deep part of a Colorado lake. Johnny recognizes one of the killers as the Chief of Staff of a local member of Congress. Two nights later, Johnny and Kimi are running from the burning wreckage of the Safe House the FBI had put them in. All they have are their wits and the clothes on their backs. Kimi's computer hacking skills and Johnny's ingenuity are key to taking down the killers. To stay alive, they ...

Michael Lee was born in San Francisco and worked as a ghost writer of best selling Romance Novels. As much as he liked the vibrant and sometimes chaotic life of The City by the Bay, the noise, traffic and overall craziness had become a distraction. He was working on his own version of the Great American Novel, and needed a quiet place to finish it. Luckily for him, his college roommate owned an old cabin in the small Sierra Nevada Foothills town of Grass Valley where he could stay for as long as he wanted. That's where Michael met Sam: ...Michael smiled and said. "Hi, I'm having a little ...