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James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. His fateful final mission in Afghanistan went south, and Hatch was left with a shattered femur from an AK-47 round and the SEAL dog who fought alongside him was dead. As a result of his horrific leg wound, his 24-year military career came to an end - and with it the only life he’d ever known. In Touching the Dragon, we witness his long road to recovery.

Lucifer’s afterlife is a nightmare of deception until he kills Miss Havana. God intervenes and sends her spirit to inhabit a six-year-old Cuban child, who matures into a flawed but beautiful high school teacher. With Miss Havana leaning to the “good side,” Lucifer sends the Princess of Darkness, Lilith, to haunt Lily, one of Miss Havana’s students. Lilith rains comical torment on Miss Havana. Natural enemies, Lilith and Miss Havana ratchet up the level of destructiveness as they discover more of their underworld power…until murder becomes an option. Despite dips into horror and ...

Ten billion ancient Endol flee their dying sun in sixty-four fleets of gigantic starships. For 5.6 trillion years they scatter outward, spreading intelligent life to thousands of Universes. As the population flees they are enslaved by a reasoning glyph known as Marid. Marid heads a fanatical technological religion called The Covenant. Over trillions of years he becomes the all-powerful God of all known Universes. He has indentured his people, and war between Eve and Marid becomes inevitable. Eve’s husband is tortured to death during battles with Marid, and ten billion Endol remain ...

A Brief History of Sin: Miss Havana experiences horrific nightmares as she tries to overcome her dark history. Grasping for redemption she commits an unforgivable sin that lands her in hell … where she kills Lucifer and the Princess of Darkness and takes control of the underworld once again. A Brief History of Sin Blurb: Unable to sleep, Miss Havana sees a psychiatrist to help explain frightening nightmares. From Adam and Eve to the present, she has brought sin and suffering into the world. She has recently made peace with God, but that peace came at the expense of her ex-mate, Lucifer. ...

The Training Bra After Miss Havana is reincarnated into the body of an 11-year-old girl, daughter Lilith and hubby Lucifer are determined to steer her onto hell’s wide and wicked path … while also plotting against each other. The Training Bra Blurb: Starting as an innocent young girl, Miss Havana creeps toward the evil side of life before being murdered at age eighteen. In death she reconnects with the supreme ruler of hell and is given an assignment that will lead to the enslavement of mankind. Driven by ambition, Miss Havana plots the devil’s overthrow while expanding her knowledge ...

"Ordinary People; Extraordinary Lives" chronicles the struggles of Harold Whittington and his brother, Otto, from birth through the Great Depression and on to WW II. Otto joined the Army and subsequently endured the surrender of Bataan and the Bataan Death March. During Otto’s 3.5 years as a Japanese POW, he was a slave conscript for building roads in the Philippines. Few POWs survived that duty. Later, after a harrowing trip from the Philippines to Japan on a “Death Ship,” Otto was a slave in the Japanese steel mills. Somehow Otto survived two near beheadings, beriberi, malnutrition,...

Having performed a single selfless act, Miss Havana finds herself on probation in heaven. After many missteps, she discovers she still retains the powers she had as The Queen of Darkness, and realizes she’s on probation as much to keep her from joining forces with her daughter, The Princess of Darkness, as anything else. The Brazilian, a large black man with a dreadlocks beard who waxes regularly, is her “guide”, but she ignores his advice until he’s taken off her case. Guideless and in a foreign environment, she consorts with evil spirits from her former realm, especially Waldo, a ...

Miss Havana’s public persona was far from the truth because, in her capacity as substitute teacher, the small community where she lived knew her as the breathtakingly beautiful young woman who demanded every student learn, but in her private life, ostensibly caring for aging parents in Chicago, she raced through the lives of powerful men, leaving a wake of destruction…and a deep desire for revenge. Little did she realize her conflicted life would end in a chaotic death at an early age, and to an eternal conflict with the devil. Clever and witty, the reader will not guess the conclusion ...

One hundred and eighty-three years after biological warfare eradicated all but a trace of mankind, Beth Gooding graduates from basic training as a Cultural Anthropologist with a Linguist subcategory. For intermediate training, she is sent to Hope, a remote outpost near Old Boston. She is assigned to Professor David James and required to learn Old Persian, a language she considers useless in a society recovering from near extinction. Despite their age difference, romance develops as Beth and Dr. James endure austere lives typical of the early 1800’s frontier. Dr. James eventually ...