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Drone: A rebel CIA director takes on China and almost turns a trade war into a real one. Thunderbolt: A US senator's scam has North Korea prepping their nukes. Condor: A shot at the intelligence jackpot of a lifetime occurs, deep in the heart of Russia. At the center of all three? Miranda Chase: Air-crash genius investigator for the NTSB, team leader, and high-functioning autistic. What's at risk if she doesn't solve the crash and the crises? Everything!

The White Top helicopters of HMX-1 are known by a much more familiar name: Marine One. The S-92A, the newest helicopter in the HMX fleet, enters service after years of testing. When their perfect safety record lies shattered across a Maryland shopping mall, Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB crash investigators go in.

When one of their own is threatened, the nation’s number-one air-crash investigation team enters a race to survive. An airliner downed on a Pacific atoll. A CIA covert strike team sent in to “clean it up.” An old enemy seeks revenge. This time, the NTSB’s autistic air-crash investigator Miranda Chase and her team are in the crosshairs. The action races around the globe as US military airbases become shooting galleries and their lives are placed on the line.

The best ground-attack support fighter jets ever built - the A-10 Thunderbolt “Warthogs” - are falling out of the sky. The Air Force brass repeatedly schemes to decommission this low-tech jet. They’ve been blocked by soldiers, pilots, and Congress…so far. The “Hog” lies at the crux of a high-tech struggle for power. An interagency skirmish that now rapidly descends into a battle fought on a global scale. Miranda Chase, air-crash savant for the National Transportation Safety Board, and her team dive in.

The US Army’s brand-new S-97 Raider reconnaissance helicopter goes down during final acceptance testing - hard. Its cause: a failure, or the latest in a series of cyberattacks by Turkey. Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB air-crash specialists tackle the challenge. They must find the flaw, save the vice president, and stop the US from being forced into the next war in the Middle East. And they have to do it now!

An AC-130J “Ghostrider” - the latest variant of America’s most lethal aerial gunship - goes down hard in the Colorado Rockies. Except the data doesn’t match the airframe. Air-crash savant, and high-functioning autistic, Miranda Chase leads her NTSB team in to investigate. But what they uncover reveals a far greater threat - sabotage. If she can’t solve the crash in time, a new type of war will erupt. One far too close to home which threatens to shatter her team.

A US Air Force C-130 transport plane, bearing top secret cargo, lies shattered in the Nevada desert at Groom Lake. China’s prototype fifth-generation jet fighter goes missing. Far above, a US supersonic stealth drone flies a very lethal black op. The CIA, the US military command, and the secretive National Reconnaissance Office are all locked in a battle for control of the nation’s future. Miranda Chase, the National Transportation Safety Board’s air-crash savant, lands in the center of the gathering maelstrom.

When the fastest and most powerful helicopters in the US Army’s fleet start falling out of the sky, autistic air crash genius Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB investigators are called in. One crash leads to another, and they are fast entangled in a Chinese conspiracy to start a war over Taiwan. Only Miranda’s team can stop the trade war from becoming a real one. 

The team must face their toughest mission yet: Take down a massive human-trafficking ring and a corrupt Venezuelan spy agency - without leaving a trace. Sofia and Duane. In common: black sheep of extremely wealthy families, renegades against the status quo. Differences: tactician vs. explosives expert, thinker vs. pure warrior.Together: fight to keep their team alive, and their love.

The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan “Condor” - the heavyweight champ among production cargo jets. Russian tanks, American firefighting helicopters, rescue submersibles, satellites, city-sized power transformers...the Condor hauls them all over the world. But when one lifts a top-secret payload rated as too dangerous, the US government decides it must take action. Untraceable action. Call Delta Force? SEAL Team Six? No. They call Miranda Chase, lead crash investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board to fake a crash. 

Audio is the up-and-coming market, but the price of entry can be a horrific 300-500 dollars per finished hour and up. M. L. Buchman has recorded and published over 30 audio titles - himself. Here he covers the basics you need to record your own audiobooks.

Major Emily Beale struggles to excel in her new role as both mother and wife. Colonel Michael Gibson’s career reaches a crisis, not that he’s talking about it. Trainee military war dog Rip naps - he was named for Rip van Winkle, after all - while awaiting inspiration. Film student turned cowboy Patrick Gallagher just keeps riding through life...until the woman of his dreams threatens to ride off into the sunset without him.

Petty Officer Jodie Jaffe brought her war dog home after they were both blown up on a SEAL patrol. But her dreams of a normal life are shattered by her dog’s PTSD nightmares. SEAL Team 6 dog-handler Stan Corman left his war dog’s ashes and a part of himself overseas. For three years, he’s been training new dogs under Montana’s Big Sky. Knowing he’ll never be whole again, he hopes his dogs can save lives even if he no longer can.  

Tim Harada, a lead smokejumper at MHA in Oregon, visits home - the quirky little town of Larch Creek, Alaska. The streets are named for Jack London books; the pickup trucks are all blue; and the residents are all too familiar, specifically Macy Tyler, helicopter pilot. Tim still sees her as his best friend’s kid sister. Before he leaves again, she must convince the guy she’s loved all her life that during his absence she transformed herself into a beautiful, competent woman.

Krista Thorson, number-two smokejumper with Mount Hood Aviation’s elite team, parachutes into wildfires for a living. Too tall, too big, too strong, she never fit in...except on the fireline. Her past lost, her future uncertain, Krista fights for the present. Special Forces veteran Evan Greene jumps fire to avoid facing his past. Some memories are too painful. Evan’s policy? Bury and move on.... Until Krista unearths what he most wants to forget. No half-measures win this firefight. Together, they must face their pasts before their love burns away in the wildfire on the Skagit.

When Sienna Arnson joins President Peter Matthews' senior staff, she feels supercharged by the challenge. If she could fly, she would. Succeeding as the best NSA ever strikes her as a good goal...with which to start. Roy Beaumont views D.C. from his sniper station atop the White House roof and has never looked further. When Senior Agent Frank Adams drags him from his high perch to protect the new NSA, he discovers a new target centered in his sights. 

Johnny Akbar Jepps, lead smokejumper for Mount Hood Aviation, is always first out of the plane, first into the fire, and first with the ladies. But the one thing he never puts on the line? His heart. Until he meets a woman who gallops away with it. Laura Jenson, wilderness guide and expert horsewoman, leads tourists from the Mount Hood Timberline Lodge into the wilds of Oregon. She knows the game and has no interest in some lady-killing, full-of-himself smokejumper. Not until Johnny lights her heart on fire. They both risk everything without getting burned in the Wildfire at Dawn. 

Sergeant Chad Hawkins: elite Delta operator - a sniper with a smile. Tanya Zimmer: Israeli Mossad operative - the ultimate loner. Three years ago, they took down a fleet of narco-submarines. Today? Chance and the Colombian Drug War throw them back together. But befriending a sexy cartel leader threatens to tear them right back apart.

Stan Corman hates waking up each morning to discover he’s lost an arm, his war dog, his teammates, and his calling. The only thing worse? Going to sleep to face the nightmare of that single, life-changing moment. Mark Henderson sends Stan to his family horse ranch beneath Montana’s Big Sky. Not even a shard of hope remains until Bertram, a Malinois puppy left on his doorstep, has different ideas about Reaching Out at Henderson’s Ranch.

An estate planning self-help guide for artists and writers. A will or trust controls who inherits what. The final letter tells your heirs ways to maintain it, even make it thrive, once they've got it. The challenge with an estate that includes Intellectual Property (books, stories, plays, films, etc.), is it has a value that can last another 70 years after your death.