During the period when Alaska was a poor new state, the oil discovery on the North Slope had just recently been announced, and in many ways Fairbanks was literally the end of civilization in North America, I first met Gail. In the early 1960’s, after a few years in the Merchant Marine, he had come to Alaska. I’ve never before or since encountered a person who was so nice but capable of doing such outrageous things and never getting in trouble! These true stories are from the period before,...

Inspired by Richard Matheson's classic "Duel," "Throttle," by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down . . .

**From a New York Times–bestseller, a thriller short story about a Vietnam veteran on the run who receives help from a young military cop named Jack Reacher.Before Jack Reacher became the seminal, nomadic hero he is today and #1 *New York Times–*bestselling writer Lee Child reached his current iconic literary stature, there was James Penney, who we meet in this intense thriller short.Penney was originally envisioned as a character in Child's second Jack Re...

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California.The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary...

Who's pinching Tori Cannon's panties?Tori Cannon and her BFF, Kathy Grant, get together for a girl’s weekend of wine, cookies, and laughter, but there’s also the specter of a panty pincher hanging around the laundry room of the complex where Tori lives. Kathy thinks they can catch the culprit red-handed in a panty raid!This mini mystery introduces the two main characters of the Lotus Bay Mysteries. With Baited Breath is the first full-length novel ...

Novella in the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, timeline matches book #9, Watcher. Get ready for dancing, dining, and dunkings, because when you open your door on Christmas Eve to see Santa on your front porch, what else do you do?Meet Peter Teravest, also known as Truck, a nomad biker who finds himself sitting in the Florida panhandle alone one Christmas Eve. Truck has seen challenges in his life, and made his way out the other side with the help of his brothers in the Rebel Wayfar...

A first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11—the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes, he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn**—**and then to buckle.A vetera...

Reed Walsh has been building snowy runways on The Ice, as locals call Antarctica, for the last three years. After four months of darkness, two events are about to occur: the first sunrise in four months, and Winfly. The first resupply flight after a long dark winter promises fresh food and new faces.Air National Guard pilot Kathy Lee Forester hails from a small town under Montana's Big Sky. When she lands her huge Winfly jet at McMurdo Station, she...

A reedited and reformatted beloved classic story about one prepper’s apocalyptic journey and the continuing adventure of going home after a disaster. A solar storm has just unexpectedly hit Earth’s magnetosphere causing an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) event. An emergency manager visiting Atlanta, Georgia on a job interview must find his way back home penniless and unprepared after this Carrington Event stranded him far away from his vehicle and his beloved "bug out bag". With over one hundr...

Ric has survived a rival’s attempt to poison him, but the hospital AIs pegged him as a suspect character with no job history and a suspicious amount of cash on his person, and they kept the treatments coming until he was broke.Now he needs a new source of funds, and the hospital which stole his money is chock-full of a new neurohormone that’s worth a fortune. All Ric needs is to manipulate a street gang into committing the crime for him, and then he’ll betray everyone and live happ...

A medical emergency at the South Pole requires immediate evacuation. One problem—it's midwinter and the Pole Station remains cut off for another four months. No one has ever flown to the South Pole in winter.Ted Donovan, the chief pilot of Bernard's Ice Air takes the mission. But if he's going to survive, he needs to take the very best.Jessica Ryan joined Bernard's as an expert mechanic but always dreamed of flying. When Ted gives her a cha...

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood.But when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count.So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at customs with 113 grams of mar...