Bristol is a major city and port in the south-west of England. In medieval times, it became the third largest city in the kingdom, behind London and York. Bristol was founded in the late Saxon period and grew rapidly in the 12th and 13th centuries. Initially, seaborne trading links with Ireland and France were particularly significant; later, from the 16th century onwards, the city became a focus for trade with Iberia, Africa, and the New World. This led to the growth of new industries suc...

After a man dies, he is shocked to find himself watching his three sons fight over petty problems. Just his last request of spreading his ashes in Boston on St. Patrick's Day threatens to tear the whole family apart. Now his everlasting peace is contingent on three brothers finding common ground...and kazoos. New Edition: Updated and expanded throughout.

Michael O'Brien is a mild-mannered English teacher who solves simple little mysteries for a hobby. When a wealthy contributor is murdered at a school fundraiser and the list of suspects includes Mike's coworkers, Mike finds himself dealing with something far more dangerous than the safe little crimes he had investigated before.As Mike gets closer to the truth and the murderer chooses Mike as his next victim, Mike learns that the class of survival is pass or fail.

During World War II, Captain Daniel Ryder is recruited for a secret mission behind enemy lines. All he knows is that a plane went down carrying a secret Nazi weapon and OSS wants it, and that he doesn't trust the OSS operative who recruited him. Ryder and his team piggyback on an Allied mission to get to the objective. Planes crash, soldiers die, and that's the last time anything goes to plan.Lost behind enemy lines, Ryder and his men realize that they're facing something worse tha...

Serena Doyle is an eighth-grader with several problems: she hates school, her father is shipping out to the Middle East, and a strange man in black is trying to kill her. Adding to that is the mysterious Door in her dreams that keeps calling to her.When she finds the Door in her grandfather's attic, Serena adds yet another problem: to solve the mystery of the Door would mean directly disobeying her grandfather. But her grandfather won't be around forever, and the Door keeps calling...

Los Angeles and Washington DC receive unexpected visitors and everyone is scrambling to find out what they are. Julie Rumley, a scientist from Chicago, will find out wether she wants to or not. Soaring is a short story meant to activate your imagination.

An underground war is taking place, kept hidden from the public eye by those called the Altors and Regius. Although unaware at first of what their involvement brings to the people of Zinc, Calycanthus' close proximity to the Altors allows him to uncover parts of the truth, creating an important turning point that may just be the kick the Altors need to beat the Regius. But it is Solenum who will find the possible key that can lead to a peaceful future.Is Galax an exception to the r...

What would you do if you discovered you were a key to human salvation? Living his very ordinary life, Jacob soon discovers he is one of the gatekeepers. What is a gatekeeper? If you die near a gatekeeper you automatically go to heaven...or hell, depending on which gatekeeper you are lucky or unlucky enough to die close to. Will their power remain a secret or is the only way to help, a full reveal?

A young girl finds out that a glow in her eye is much more than she expects. Now she is being groomed to become a member of a specialized fraternity where only the best and brightest minds can belong. Her experience through her teenage years are recounted in Gryphon.

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

The dimness of a cramped stone cell was interrupted by the faint flicker of light from a smoldering fire pit. An old guard with gnarled fingers and ragged clothes hunched over the coals. His deformed hands pumped the bellows, giving life to the fire. The flames began to dance.A branding iron lay within the open flames. The roughly hammered stamp at the end began to pulse with heat, glowing yellow.Without warning, searing pain exploded on Teagan's naked hip. Her screams and th...

Is there more?The question is in the mind of a slave boy raised in a compound. He escapes his captors and explores a post apocalyptic world. Along the way, he finds that there is indeed more to life.