The top four clothing models cause a near riot when they modeled clothing other than the Paris Clothing House's garments at their Paris show. Only the four models and the stage director was aware of what they were going to do after the last model in the show left the cat-walk. The Paris's House had no idea what was about to happen.After the Paris show there is the standard gala celebration. But it is only heightened by the unannounced 'walk.' This celebration is w...

Someone or some group is out to remove Detective Rage from the playing field permanently. Several earlier attempts were cheap shots because that is what they could afford. But the last one was an expensive attempt to bring down an FBI jet with her in it.Detective Rage and Sergeant Jones find a bomb under her jeep in the police garage. That had the Inspector Strong sending her and Sergeant Jones away, far away. Searching through about 100 cases Detective Rage had worked on only adds...

Janette Wanda Rage was raised in a small Idaho farming community. Her three older brothers all married and moved back onto the farm. Graduating from college, Janette moves to Seattle to seek her new life.The Seattle police department hires her as a police cadet. After months of training at the police academy she becomes a patrolman. Her farm growing up is very useful in police work. The hours of hunting and shooting places her high in marksmanship and physical conditioning.Sh...

In the Asteroids an English team has been mapping the asteroid belt for several years. Their goal is to know where every asteroid will be for the next 100 years. Except, they can no longer find the asteroids they have already mapped. They are no place to be found in their calculated error window. They need more computing power than there is in the UK.Dr. CT writes on her cheerios' box where she thinks the asteroids are going. Sir Clive finds more computing power in Area 51 in the US...

The Sickness is in the year 2041. Rebekka Lindgren, better known as Rebe is a newly board-certified medical doctor in Denmark. She is also awarded two PhDs in mathematics.Unknown to Rebe her medical advisor applied in her name to the only larger medical school in Denmark. The President of the medical school believes he will be interviewing for an internship.In the hospital Rebe starts to come across patients with very unusual symptoms. Their age and sex vary, and she does not...

These two books cover the little-known history of Roma where their records were lost or never recorded. Even oral tradition is lacking.The first book is when Roma was small but growing.The Road North First Step is when the Roman Empire's total army was about 10 legions. There is a desperate need to expand the road north through land not Roman to Port Quid on the northern sea. Goods can be moved to Rome during the winter storms. Some welcome the road through their lands, othe...

What could possibly be so important that a TV network would consider helping their closest competitor get a bigger market share, if even for only two days? Would they ever get their viewers back?Can anyone believe the scrolling message at the bottom of their TVs, from the #2 late-night talk show coming from the east coast?It reads, "This network encourages its loyal viewers to turn into the late-night show at 11:30 pm from the west coast on the other network on Thursday and ...

A new naval ship is under construction. It is one of many in this class. A small engine room change may help a leaking shaft, which is on every ship of this class. A light switch is out on the lathe as they turn the shafts, but well within specs. Quality control approves the shafts as they have high values but still within the limits.During sea trails the Valiant is requested to help in a commercial aircraft forced to ditch in the ocean. The Chief of the engine room and the lead eng...

Galileo is credited with the first telescope, but there were many people involved before him. However, he made it into a science.Metal mirrors were first used to reflect the star light. They worked but had problems. When glass could be formed into mirrors and then silvered to reflect the star light, astronomy became a true science. In England in the 1850-90 a small university had the money and telescope to do leading edge astronomy. Unfortunately, over time the money ran out and oth...

A young couple on vacation stops at a 'pan your own gold' place in central Idaho. Jill is a natural and recovers $50 in gold. He buys a very old Spanish book in the next college town They go to see Jill's friend, Sally who is going to college. She is trying to map what the Mexican border will look like in 500 years.Sally becomes friend with a computer guy that tries to help with free computer time and personal help. He has a desk that acts like a keyboard if you are not careful.

A fellow in a sport coat from England is looking for four ancient vases. He is the only person aware of what they might mean. He brings one of the four with him from England. He has leads on where the others may be.The sport coat sneaks into several places, checking out vases looking for the next one.His search leads to the world's vase collector of all collectors. He may have one of the remaking three.The sport coat brought with him two Chinese vases and all their do...

In Frisco there is a Billiard Emporium with three floors. Most anyone can use the first-floor tables. The second floor is still for general use. But the third floor is by invitation only. It is almost guarded by an old Japanese man. There is floor director at the front door. He knows where you will be welcome.A large cowgirl in boots and hat visited once and played a little pool. After several visits the old man had here bring her own stick and play on the second floor.She is...