The prodigal son returns home... and picks up a new chore.William Koopman could never get off the family farm, while his younger brother John Koopman had no other place to go.As adults, the two brothers find themselves living together again, to their dismay.John must not only straighten up his life, but provide for the one hundred and eighty baby chickens his father just bought home for John to raise on their farm.A story featuring one of the main c...

I drank until I was full, then I drank more for those waiting for us back home.There are Elders, and then there are Drinkers.As a Drinker on his frozen home planet, our hero travels long, painful miles--more each year--across the frozen tundra. Through fields of sharp black rocks and over endless, featureless blue ice.His mission: gather water from the shrinking oceans, and carry it back to his waiting people. In his belly.If he su...

The ship and the planet were his… for now.As a man with a past he'd rather forget, Jaret Lazarus cares little for history.But at the present, he must lead his ten-creature crew of alien conscripts onto a dying planet to clear the place of any "remainders" still living there.On the mission, Jaret finds that he can't run from his past in this hard-edged, prize-winning science fiction story.

Sometimes you have to spin up a little trouble...On remote Ocracoke Island, Melissa can feel her dream of owning her own pottery shop slipping away from her. Just like her mother did earlier that year.At the same time, Rob visits the island on a mission to help someone he loves. What he didn't plan for are all the ghosts he keeps encountering, every time he turns around.Melissa and Rob circle around each other, getting closer and closer, until they...

She was broken by the dawn… but not forever*.*Juliana waits for her lover to return, shivering in the cold, waiting, waiting…Until she can wait no longer and she takes matters — and her family's buried sword — into her own hands.A journey full of danger, surprises, and heart-wrenching twists of fate await her in the unmapped territories…A high-fantasy tale of innocence, power, and the hidden places inside where these two things battle.

A curse--and a lover*--that cannot be outrun...*A mysterious hulk of a man, a tragic romance, and a violent life among a band of criminals and outcasts.The Outriders carry out the tasks that nobody else in the land dares to do. They take an Oath to never ask another rider's story.Until the rider known only as Fist begins talking the rider called Seeker.A tale of a distant land and a curse that shattered two lives, and one man's hope for their reunio...

With Augie Shepherd, no good deed ever goes unpunished...When an old man tries to cut down an ancient chestnut nearly ten feet wide, odds are the tree is going to win that battle. In this case, mountain man Augie Shepherd nearly cuts his leg off in the process. Only to be saved by a big man wearing too many layers of clothes for the summer, and big black boots.The accident sets off a series of events in the remote town of Boone, North Carolina. And Bim Mayer and Hanky J Joh...

Those who whisper are lost. For now…They claim they want to save the world. They came to town looking for recruits. And they managed to split up Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer from the Finder Team.With help from a trio of friends, old and new, the three remaining members of the team begin a frantic hunt for their missing friends.A hunt that might require the use of something—or someone—more… supernatural. Someone named Tommy Roling, a young man from Io...

You know what they say: if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.A group of misfits pile into their souped-up '75 Firebird and travel the world in search of false Buddhas.This band of anti-establishment punks have also stumbled across the secrets of time travel (hint: it involves bridges).Strap on your seat belt for a violent ride through time and space, in search of Buddhas on the road..."You don't have to be young and fiery to feel th...

They're not gonna grow up without a fight…1974. Ozzy's going to be a father. Augie's got a huge house to build. Just a few years out of high school, neither of them want to work this hard. They'd rather live outside the law and stick it to the Man, man.Over the course of this turbulent year, lifelong friends Ozzy and Augie have no choice but to face adulthood.It might take more than a little "hoodoo voodoo", a surly pregnant wife, a few ghosts, str...

Some kids are just born with it…1974 turned out to be a helluva year for Augie Shepherd. A rollercoaster of highs and lows.He almost lost his best friend, Ozzy. He also lost his lucky aluminum penny—one of just a few created that year. His lucky charm.On the first day of the new year, 1975, Augie pays his old buddy Ozzy a visit. And he meets Ozzy's newborn son for the first time. Augie's godson.Their first interaction is nearly... magical. ...

A hunt for ginseng takes a dark and dangerous turn...Ozzy immediately regrets taking his hapless brother Harry on his hunt for ginseng in the woods. But he forgets all about his brother when he finds the mother lode of 'sang plants.Unfortunately, his brother finds something even more sinister and problematic in the same woods. Decisions must be made, and both brothers must what the right thing to do is when there's nobody watching...A prequel story to the F...