Join the Hope family for part two of their adventures as missionaries when Missionary Aviation Assistance Program reassigns them from Nigeria to the Philippines. Fourteen-year-old Derek Hope is the most surprised of the four when he meets a group of kids that is much larger than the one he belongs to, MKs, short for missionary kids. It seems like MBs, short for military brats, have the same sort of expectations placed on them. And there are thousands of them throughout central Luzon, the H...

A collection of short stories : "The Extra" -- A movie extra who never fulfilled his expectations begins to feel like an extra to everyone around him. Then, an unexpected phone call revives his dream."The Case of the Alphabet Killer" -- Private investigator Bobbie Heck's latest client is convinced someone is murdering his former classmates. She attends his 10 Year High School Reunion searching for suspects and finds a L.O.S.T. boy, touchy/feely faculty member, and another teacher w...

A collection of short stories:Pink Belly Man -- One of bully Pink Belly Man's victims seeks revenge years later.Working by Committee -- Three men and three women report to find answers about UFOs and Alien Abductions.I Quit -- Guitar player and singer is odd man out as his bandmates harass him.Don't Believe Them -- POTUS's departure from office leads to nationwide marital law.The Case of the Wayward Grandson -- A grandfather hires P. I. Bobbi Heck to ...

COVID.World War III brewing around the world.Brother and sister Derek and Jolie are grown now. At times, memories of being missionary kids haunt them. Then a mysterious friend of their recently deceased dad shows up seeking volunteers for a mission he claims could help save "hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of people."Derek welcomes the opportunity. Jolie has doubts.

When their parents feel called to Africa as missionaries, their two children react in different ways. Ten-year-old Jolie cooperates and does her best to adapt to a strange new land, Nigeria. But her older brother Derek rebels, angry at having to leave his friends and comfortable home in Prairie Lake, Minnesota. When Derek meets a native boy about his age, he learns more about life than he ever thought possible as they encounter a witch doctor who wants them dead and poachers who kidnap the...

1838 proves to be the turning point in Dan "Beaverman" McDaniel's life. At first, he thinks he is always a day late when he misses fighting in The Battle of the Alamo. But tragedy then makes him think life's burdens have been dumped on him at too early of an age to endure them.He seeks comfort by retreating to the wilderness and life as a mountain man.

Collection of short stories:"The Fixer" -- Vacation to Mount Rushmore is ruined by protestors"If It's Thursday, It Must Be Jordan" -- Son tries to convince ex-pat parents to move back to America"Earth, This Is Mars Base 3" -- A case of space psychosis upends Mars Base 3"The Case of the Lost Child" -- P. I. Bobbi Heck takes on a case as a favor to a crush of hers from high school daysThis is Book 5 in the Short Stories Series.

Before she becomes a slave to the Romans who have invaded her land, Celtic maiden Ladica has a vision of a fiery bird that inspires her to write a song about the invaders, "Why Have You Come to Our Land?" Somehow, the song survives through the centuries, passed down from generation to generation.Millennia later, the song helps America and Israel to defend against new invaders intent on destroying them.

Born in the placid 1950s, raised in the turbulent 1960s, and come of age in the selfish 1970s, Sam Smaltz just wants to be left alone.But being sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and Gen X and the Millennials offers him no such comfort. As a Baby Boomer, he does not get to be a respected hero by fighting German and Japanese warriors during WW II or North Koreans invading South Korea. Instead, he leaves behind a stepson, Jack, who becomes just one more nameless, faceless hero...

It's been said, "If you can remember the 60s, you weren't there."The saying "If you can remember the 70s, you were there" is even more true.On the eve of 1970, four former bandmates of the rock group The Aspirations have their lives changed forever by the war in Vietnam and draft lottery. All of that is only a prelude to what they will encounter during the turbulent decade when the Me Generation seemed to say: "Ask not what you can do for anyone else. Ask what they can do for...

"Inside every man dwells two wolves." – Cherokee legend"The howl of the wolf echoes humans crying for a place to belong" – Gray Wolf, Kentucky, 1899Political movements demand government ownership of businesses, less immigration to America, universal health care, and other reforms as the 1800s become the 1900s. Eventually, a movement to prohibit alcohol succeeds even as middle-aged women are the ones most addicted to legal opium based elixirs. Members of Congress call Americ...

Collection of short stories:The Conqueror Earthworms -- Granddaughter's fascination with earthworms brings grieving widow back to the land of the living.You Asked for It -- New pastor tries to cure church of "But we've always done it that way before."Something Smells Good; It Has to Be Brownies -- Struggling writer and artist team up to sell their wares.The Case of the Rich Dead Mom -- P I Bobbi Heck is asked by one of the heirs to investigate a rich woman's ...