The first book of an epic series following the career of a Space Fleet crewperson from "crewper" to Captain of a starship.It is 2173, one hundred sixty years in the future, and humans using faster than light travel have colonized nearly a dozen nearby star systems. No alien intelligence has been discovered yet, and humans are now comfortable enough to start fighting each other instead of the unknown.Science survey ship JOHN A. WHEELER is about to encounter a range of hostiles...

Silk In A Firesuit is an uncoventional romance set in modern times between two intelligent, action oriented young women. Opposites may not only attract, but also complement each half, and having their own dreams and pursuits keeps both halves interesting as a whole.Add in car racing (in Europe, and in American stock cars), and the action and situations cannot stay in one place for too long!

Following discovery of the Shoggoth in Antarctica during the ill fated Hobblestone-Thorpe Expedition, sole survivor Sam Oliver has had a difficult time readjusting to his life on Earth as he knew it. Then "Mayday" and "abandoning ship" are the last words heard from Clementine Prioress, the only survivor of a ship that seems to have vanished off the radar, sending Sam Oliver to the South Pacific to save her. Discovery that the ominously fabled R'lyeh has risen is followed by the awakening o...

Captain Ecurba is almost killed by an unusual alien assassin, just the prelude to the hunt for a Qet artifact rumored to be on Deepstrike. The object offers legitimacy to anyone seeking to lead the seventy eight billion Qet within the Qet Sphere, and has attracted the attention of the Qet-Qeti, also known as The Secret Navigator, a shadowy male Qet wielding power behind the scenes. He wants to seize power, and believes the artifact will help. While their Qet-Qeti leader looks for the artif...

Darkeyes (2178) Book 03: Lieutenant Commander Chen.After crashing into a river during a rescue on Jade, Xiu-Li nearly drowns. "Jool" is rescued by Cara Delaridel (a Niv who has run away to join the IWG to fight the O.P.P.) who is coaxed into it by two Tau Ceti Cats. Cara is a specialist in reconaissance, and this is enemy territory – for an operation against the many missile sites like the one that shot Xiu-Li down.The two escape enemy pursuit and are soon on the Thucydides, ...

In 2183 a starship capable of traveling 10 million light years a day is sent to explore the Supervoid, an empty space over a billion light years in area which is 3 billion light years away toward the constellation Eridanus. First conjectured in 2007 (to explain a "cold spot" within data from the Cosmic Microwave Background), confirmed in 2015, the Supervoid has prompted speculations among physicists running a gamut: Is it an observational error? Is it merely empty, but huge - one of the tw...

Racing Hearts / In the sequel to Silk In A Firesuit, ex-deputy sheriff Caitlin Shea is kidnapped as part of a plan by a man obsessed with killing race car driver Anna Korsova. Caitlin hasn't heard from Anna for several months, and although the death threat brings them together again, she isn't ready to just take Anna back. Caitlin doesn't want anyone to kill her ex-girlfriend either, so after she escapes, she makes sure Anna is safe while on the road, and race team co-owner Theo Alexander ...

Doing a friend a favor isn't supposed to risk life and limb, but that's what happens when millionaire Baxter Benton asks his old pal Leto Macellum for one. Within six hours Leto has nearly been blown up, beaten up, shot (twice), and Baxter has vanished into the Florida sunshine. Will this be a favor that costs Leto his life?Also put at risk is Baxter Benton's driver/bodyguard Cinnabar, an angry, tough, pretty, and scarred veteran who finds herself thrown in with Leto. Both of them a...

VICTORY Saved (2179) Book 04: Commander Chen.In July 2178 as John A. Wheeler continues evaluating the survey planet it first visited in 2173, Wolfredo Lobo and Cara Delaridel explore an old alien structure on Deepstrike. It is an encounter of the unusual kind, one that throws them close together.March 2179: At a dockside interrogation even as their dead comrades are being removed from IWG Victory, Xiu-Li finds herself accused of abandoning her post because she survived a debr...

Captain Ecurba is nearly killed by an enraged Niv bodyguard whose apparent death starts an investigation into a plan to imprision Ceti Cats to harness their unique abilities to cross objects across interstellar space distances. While Ecurba continues his search on planet Deepstrike for the Cat Penning facilities, fifty light years away on Cape Of Velvet Captain Xiu-Li Chen starts on the trail of the Niv mastermind responsible.What they discover is an atypical weapon capbable of kill...

Three novellas in one glorious volume!They're Raping Our Moon: Two weeks before America's 2017 presidential inauguration, a flash of light in the distant Kuiper Belt heralds an Object now approaching Earth, setting off a global crisis; deciphering its intent is critical, but is a response possible? Or does the world stand by even as the incoming president-elect tweets, "They're raping our Moon." The question on everyone's mind: Where will the Object go next?The Zipper Zapper:...

Somehow FIASCO'S continues serving drinks and "Italian type food" to regulars as well as less discerning customers; so do the adventures of the hapless author of the fabeled screenplay KONG FU, who keeps trying to make sense of it all. Whether it's "Karaoke Pole Dancing" or a ukulele band for St. Patrick's Day, the gaggle of the owner's ex-wives who attend "Harpy Hour" or a lecture by Dr. Cedric Homard on lobster intelligence, the "Eat Your Weight Free" advertisement typo disaster or the d...