This is the story of Elijah Dove, who is said to have driven all the snakes out of Appalachia just like St. Patrick did from Ireland. He is also said to have called down fire from the sun.His grandmother was a wild preacher woman who handled snakes. She's the one who prophesied that the child would move in the spirit of Elijah of old. But, Elijah's beginnings were that of an ordinary barefoot hillbilly boy from the hills of Harlan County, Kentucky.After his grandmother died...

A comet is about to hit the planet, ending all life. Evacuation plans go awry as communications fail. A chartered space-ship that was supposed to pick up the wealthy elite, instead, rescues a low income community - thugs, street kids and all. Captain Steinberg is okay with that option. He believes, "The poor and the down-and-outs have as much right to life as those who think they can buy it."Things happen that would make one consider that perhaps there was wisdom i...

When humans went to space, rats stowed away on their ships, and are now found in every part of the galaxy.With help from a feral child, a sympathetic alien and a space-time anomaly, they evolved higher intelligence.They are now humanity's hope for survival.During the Galactic war on humanity, the planet that Elton lived on was about to be destroyed. Elton was one of the lucky few to be given a ticket off-world, as a killer asteroid was about to hit. In the rush to e...

Third in The Rat Queen series: It starts in the same place as the first, but outside the ship, as it took off prematurely. The family that missed the flight were relations to the Grand Duke Olav Volkovitch. The baby, who eventually became the Rat Queen, had been destined for a grand future as queen of Moskovi, the Russian planet. Everyone but Ivan, the pilot, thinks that Elton deliberately hijacked the ship, kidnapping the princess.The story begins from the narrative point of view ...

Sequel to The Rat Queen: Humans and Rats from the ill fated planet of Malvern arrive on Old Earth, and find it only a shadow of its old self, due to not only an EMP that cut them off from the rest of the galaxy, but also another Ice Age.They come with the tools to help, but standing in their way is human nature, and the ill intent of certain Galactic beings.

"...It's like a chapter from Foxe's Book of Martyrs rewritten by the scriptwriters from The Lion King with a dash - just a dash - of Animal Farm..." -- a GoodReads reviewerDr. Catrick is a professor at the Feline University in Catropolis. As a young cat, he had a life changing experience that set him on his mission in life, to proclaim that animal species can and should live in harmony. But his timing couldn't be worse: the rodents are rising up against cat rule and every self-resp...

Eetoo knows that humanity didn't begin on this planet - the tablets tell him so. His people live simply in small villages dotting the arid landscape, carrying on their tribal traditions. Eetoo, an orphan, raises the sheep he inherited from his parents.Now, Venerable Too Dah, the Keeper of the Tablets says that Eetoo is the one that the tablets say must go in search of the planet of humanity's birth to bring back the writings from another set of tablets, which will complete their kn...

The final part of the Rats In The Cellar trillogy: In the first part, we met nine-year-old Oscar Wild Daugherty, who stumbled into a network of multiple universes, accessible via mysterious stairs at the top of his house and down in the cellar. He met various other instances of himself, and a cat, who is more than just a cat.In the sequel, the cat takes special interest in Louis the "bad boy" of the lot. After making sure he does good by people he's hurt, he helps him find Blake ye...

In Rats In The Cellar, we met nine-year-old Oscar Wild Daugherty, who stumbled into a network of multiple universes, accessible via mysterious stairs at the top of his house and down in the cellar. He met various other instances of himself, and a cat, who is more than just a cat. This sequel picks up the story following the climax of Rats in the Cellar; this time, following Louis, the bad boy, in whom the cat takes a special interest. After making sure Louis makes up for some of his nastie...

Many boys, all look more closely alike than twins, all named Oscar Wild Daugherty, are, in fact, the same boy from different parallel universes. In their house, are two sets of stairs, one up in the top floor, one in the cellar, that appear to go nowhere, but they are portals to the different universes. Each boy has discovered that once one has taken the stairs, getting back into one's own universe isn't straightforward - so they're lost. They wander from house to house - universe to unive...

Sequel to The Rat Queen: Humans and Rats from the ill fated planet of Malvern arrive on Old Earth, and find it only a shadow of its old self, due to not only an EMP that cut them off from the rest of the galaxy, but also another Ice Age.They come with the tools to help, but standing in their way is human nature, and the ill intent of certain Galactic beings.

This series has been about the many instances of the same boy, Oscar Wild Daugherty who got lost in the network of parallel worlds accessible via the two mysterious sets of stairs in their house. You thought that the series had come to a close. It has - almost…The time has come to shut down the parallel worlds portal in the big house on Oldhouse Road. Dr. James McSporran has arrived from the distant past to perform the task. He asks Oscar Wild Daugherty, also known as Justin, to he...