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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. ...

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.

The Search for Kracks is the second volume in the Linda Eccles Series that began with The Chance Encounter. It has been three years since Captain Linda Eccles lost her job with UMU and command of the Privateer. Now commanding a short-range freighter through the Shipping Guild, she once again contemplates retirement. Unknown to Linda, the buoy recovered after her encounter with the Kracks has begun to spill its secrets. Earth Defense is ready to return to find the Kracks and try to communicate with them. Admiral Philip Litton would like to have Linda command the science ship that will ...

The Curanian Dominance is the third volume in the Linda Eccles Series. Scientist Peggy Hopkins has convinced her bosses and the representatives of the Governments to go back to the planet of the alien species known as Kracks to retrieve a strange alien ship that is far superior to anything human minds could have produced. Captain Linda Eccles is recruited to come along to pilot the alien ship up to the science ship to being back to Earth for study. Admiral Philip Litton becomes aware of the mission and has the science ship redirected to the space station Rapatine. Having already battled a ...

The Chance Encounter is the first book in the Linda Eccles Series that follows the exploits of Captain Eccles. In The Chance Encounter, Linda is ready to take her ship and crew home after completing her mission of setting up an environmental station for future mining operations on a harsh, distant planet. Her orders are superseded when a company probe goes missing. Ordered to head for the probes last known location to investigate its disappearance, Linda quickly finds that she is not alone in this section of space, and the ship she encounters does not like her there. What follows is ...

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...

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....

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 ...

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.

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. ...

In this fourth volume within the Linda Eccles Series, Captain Linda Eccles and Admiral Philip Litton are tasked with going to the Curanian planet in an attempt to deceive the powerful leader, Supreme Kold, into believing the Humans have created a new, highly advance ship that will easily defeat anything the Supreme can send against them. However, everything has changed. Supreme Kold has no further interest in attacking the human fleet or finding their home planet. The true builders of the strange alien ship found on Kracks make their presence known. Linda is about to take a strange and ...

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 ...

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 ...