Ginnie Dare is the communications officer for her family's space-faring shipping company. They arrive at Eshu for a routine supply drop and discover that the entire settlement's population has vanished. Their search of the site reveals nothing out of place, except the people, but ends in a tense confrontation with the natives. During the conflict, Ginnie discovers an alien artifact that may be the key to diffusing the conflict. Can she decode the artifact before it's taken by the Sector De...

Two Esho St. Claire Mysteries The Gibbering Mr. Cravat Bearing a hideous curse, Mr. Cravat begs the help of consulting detective Esho St. Claire. The case will take St. Claire from the homes of Manhattan's wealthy to the Undercity, where creatures of legend live. Esho and a whiskey-fueled strongman named Sean Younger must stop their a sinister priesthood devoted to the Elder Gods to save, not only Mr. Cravat, but the world. The Current Killer Speaking Through Nikola Tesla's ether recording...

Esho St. Claire, consulting detective and master of the mystical arts, is once again tasked with a case that the police aren't taking seriously. Prostitutes and the poor and unfortunate, both in the Undercity and in Manhattan, are being targeted by a murderer with a taste for the gruesome. The stout-hearted Irishman, Sean Younger, and inventor extraordinaire, Nikola Tesla, will join him in the chance along with a few new companions he picks up along the way, to discover who's behind the gr...

Ginnie and the crew of the Helena are hired to bypass the Commonwealth's blockade of a rebel mining colony in orbit around the gas giant Rafe. En route, the Helena is damaged by a space mine leaving Ginnie and Jess, the ship's engineer, stranded on a barren moon. Caught between the Commonwealth and militant separatists--with no weapons and limited supplies--Ginnie and Jess must use their wits and skills to survive!

The frontier has always attracted men and women with a warrior's adventurous spirit. Steel and resolve were used to tame the wild lands and make them habitable for the people that came after. In the Way of the Gun universe, these frontiersmen bring justice with an honor code reminiscent of the samurai... Bushido. The sword and the six-shooter are their tools, but without honor, respect, and duty those tools can and will be misused. These eight stories showcase the men and women who follow ...

The Outer Banks keeps its secrets buried in sand and hidden in fog. But podcaster Dani Deveraux makes her living digging up the past. She's investigated cold cases from coast to coast, but Manteo Detective Lee Pruitt's 1992 disappearance is different. There's the cassette tape his widow hid for thirty-three years: a hypnosis session with a nameless stranger discovered on Hwy 64. The stranger told an impossible story. Lights in the sky. Abduction. A childhood stolen by something not human. ...

Dr. Emil Lazarus, town drunk and physician to the unserved Chinese in 1906 San Francisco, is able to see and speak to the town's deceased population. Long time companion and ghostly philosopher Chin Lao brings him dire news of a creature that is consuming the local spirits and may eventually jeopardize the living. Defeating it may require Doc to join his only friends prematurely. 

This book features two cases from the files of occult consulting detective Esho St. Claire.The Gibbering Mr. CravatA rich man's son isn't Detective Esho St. Claire's usual sort of client. Bearing a hideous curse, Mr. Cravat begs him to find a way to discover its cause and reverse it if he can. The case will take him from the homes of Manhattan’s wealthy to the Undercity, where creatures of legend live.The Elder Gods are using the money and power flowing through the ...

Truth is a dangerous thing. A little of it goes a long way and it can come back to bite you. That’s why our society (and most societies I would imagine) encourage the polite, little lie. Thus my title for this anthology “Caveat Veritatem” or “Beware of the Truth”. Here are five stories that tell various truths, no matter the consequences for you or for the characters.“Vicious Cycle” – Wherein a leader is forced to choose between repetition and redemption.“X Marks the Spot” –...

Captain Maximillian Blair had always hoped to discover there was life on other planets. His job at one of the government's most secure research facilities put him in the position to learn the truth, one way or another. When he met a stranger from the stars, he didn't expect to to be charged with discovering the man's secrets at any cost. Or to fall in love. How deadly would the truth prove to be? And can his love be the world's salvation or will it be its damnation?

Ginnie Dare is the communications officer for her family’s space faring shipping company. They arrive at Eshu for a routine supply drop and discover that the entire settlement’s population has vanished. Their search of the site reveals nothing out of place, except the people, but ends in a tense confrontation with the natives. During the conflict, Ginnie discovers an alien artifact that may be the key to diffusing the conflict. Can she decode the artifact before it’s taken by the Sector De...

Did you know that self-discipline is a better indicator of success than your IQ score? Did you know that the Walt Disney Company is the world’s second biggest buyer of explosives? Did you know that oxygen masks in airplanes aren't actually connected to an oxygen tank? They instead use a chemical reaction to generate it on the spot.In these 1200 facts you're going to learn more than you learned from all your high school teachers combined. It's full of interesting information that ...