This book offers a fun and lighthearted guide to growing your own salads, herbs, vegetables, and fruit, armed with little more than a trowel and some seedlings. Aimed at complete beginners, it de-mystifies the gardening process with sound practical and seasonal advice, lots of hints and tips for successful growing, delicious recipes, and fun weekend projects to help you make the most of your outdoor area, however small. This completely new kind of gardening book is ideal for first-timers w...

Authoring, its tools, processes, and design challenges are key issues for the Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) research community. The complexity of IDN authoring, often involving stories co-created by procedures and user interaction, creates confusion for tool developers and raises barriers for new authors.This book examines these issues from both the tool designer and the author’s perspective, discusses the poetics of IDN and how that can be used to design authoring tools, exp...

An explosive blast kills two people. Firebombs and another blast follow the blast. Jody Tyler, the bull in the China shop, is called to assist in investigating these murders in a small town.This investigation is not typical as it forces Jody to look back on her past mistakes and sexual improprieties.Jody must reveal herself unreservedly to Detective Wade Vaughn, a new partner, to work on this case. Detective Vaughn's soon-to-be ex-wife dispatches forces to retrieve her husb...

The week has finally come for the wedding of Lavon Tyler and Lynn Dodd-Masterson.A young girl is murdered feet away from Lavon and Abby and they find themselves racing against time to find the killer before Lavon can escape to a tropical island.Three men are taken from a transport bus and the connection to these men and Lavon and Abby sends the Department of Justice and a Federal Prosecutor to Shepherds Pass to investigate Lavon and Abbys methods.Shepherds Pass is i...

Selected as one of the best gardening reads of 2019 by The Daily MailShort of outdoor space but want to grow fruit and vegetables? Congratulations. Really, lucky you. Not for you the back-breaking trudge of tending large spaces of land, the weeding, digging and pest vigilance. Gluts? They will mean nothing to you. Instead you can look forward to small but perfectly formed bursts of flavour. Handfuls of fresh leaves, berries and tomatoes, just when you want...

Power. The elixir that drives many. Power the combining wealth and intelligence has crash landed in Shepherds Pass. The balance of power that has for decades kept two sides of a waring family in deadlock now seems destined to tilt.An outside gangster bent on profiting from an inevitable onslaught sends killers to stop Lavon and Abby's progress.

The secrets that Bind FamiliesThe twins Nicky and Cole grow up realizing they are bound by love and trust. Their strong connection protects them later. As private investigators for some of the most convoluted of cases, they learn that there are other way brother and sister relationships are bound. Nicky and Cole discover that are those bonds in some families that must be held secret.

A doctor, a lawyer, a couple of schoolteachers and writer were all part of the 109 assorted passengers off flight 1375. The passengers include those entering the first stages of their lives as well as those celebrating their later years and people in between. All races and gender preferences seemed to be represented in the collection of human cargo.One thing these passengers and the crew would have in common by the end of this flight is that none of them would arrive at their desti...

A crime so atrocious gangsters, killers, and social deviants alike cringe at the thought of it.Who really is responsible for all Gods Children.When the good guys are impotent to stop the bad guys, an even worse group of people is required.Enter the Braden twins.The twins Nicky and Cole combine with Libby to fight against a pair of twins that auction infant body parts stolen from the poorest of children to the highest bidders.Amanda t...

It is never good when the police have to call the police.A military style assault on a man who for all practical purposes was an average homeowner.Now the St. Louis Area Major Case squad is catapulted into a political game of death.Sibling rivalry on a Governmental level with the Whitehouse desperate for answers.

Treasure at Shepherds PassA puzzle that has eluded the FBI for decades lands Shepherds Pass. A friend has been abducted and Abby has victimized. Levon must put together a plan to solve this mystery before time runs out.Lavon gets a lesson in human frailty as he watches Abby struggle to stay the hardheaded foul-mouthed person she prefers to project. With the help of Cleatus her newest friend she rises to assist the team.

Revenge in Shepherds PassRevenge, one of the oldest motives for homicide known to man sweeps through Shepherds Pass. Lavon and Abby must rush to stop the righteous anger of a killer willing to die to get her revenge.Normal people are dying. Taxpayers are being murdered and not only is there no link or reasonable link. The U. S. Marshals Service has Shepherds Pass Police on stand down.What is even worse Lavon feels he may be losing the progress he has made with Abby....