Years ago in Afghanistan, Captain Harry Sanders' special unit destroyed a terrorist cell. They chased Mohamed X, the cell's leader, into Pakistan and wounded him before he escaped.Mohamed X is now operating a cell in the United States. He has assembled a ten-ton fertilizer bomb and wants to drop it on the crowd at an Oakland Athletics game. What could serve his purposes better than a large logging helicopter flown by his old nemesis, Harry Sanders?Harry has made a difficult...

I believed I was the only viable product of a private university research project gone rogue. Never in my 19 years had I seen a creature remotely like myself. Imagine my surprise when I was presented with the woman of my dreams. It is more accurate to say she was the woman I despaired of dreaming about. She has wings, you see, like me.I fell in love with her when I first saw her, and I couldn't believe my good luck when I was told to teach her to fly. I can fly, you see, although p...

Action Adventure RomanceHis career is in a tailspin. Brett's stellar rise, from freight pilot to corporate pilot on a Boeing, reverses suddenly when his airplane, and his career, crashes on a snowy night in Trenton.In Savannah he tries his luck as the comptroller of a small vacation airline. The results are even worse.Things can only get better for Debra. She leaves her teaching job and alcoholic husband behind and takes a job as a flight attendant for a small vacat...

Action, Adventure, Romance. Sequel to Starting Over in Savannah. Anthem Enterprises wants to bring a supersonic corporate jet to market... yesterday. Alan Taylor is a brilliant engineer. He's a former fighter pilot and has experience with composite materials. He's socially challenged, but otherwise a perfect choice to head up the new program.The decision is made to send Gloria to the new unit to smooth over Alan's rough edges. Gloria can run the business side and free up Alan to foc...

The Lucie Manette is so old and rusty that ship-breakers make a salvage offer for her every time she comes into her Miami River home port.She still plies the Caribbean at ten knots, but terrorists know her engines have been upgraded and she can chase down the Caribbean Adventure, a cruise ship which carries 2,500 passengers and 1,400 crew.The terrorists have smuggled themselves and their bomb aboard the Lucie Manette. All they have to do now is subdue her recalcitrant crew ...

In 1863, the Civil War is raging in the United States. Michael O'Grady, a rich boy from Boston who can read and write is orphaned in Puerto Rico by the yellow fever.Michael must survive and get himself back to Boston. Valarie is there.He's caught thieving on the streets of San Juan and ships out as cabin boy on the Alma, a schooner bound to run the Union Blockade into Savannah. Michael becomes a navigator, a blockade runner, a pirate, and a teacher of slaves in his quest to...

1861: While visiting family friends in Savannah, Luke fell in love with a girl named Julia Branch. Chester Baker, a local young man about town, was a bitter rival for her time and attention. Unfortunately for Luke, her banker father rejected him; it seems Luke's family back in upstate New York wasn't wealthy enough. Then the war started.December 1864: Sherman's army is camped outside Savannah and Luke is back. He was crippled at Kennesaw Mountain, but is a Yankee spy and has been t...

In late December 1864, Sherman's troops occupy Savannah which is full of Confederate spies. Luke, Chester and Julia collide once again. Luke is a Union spy with a simple mission: Spread the mis-information that Sherman's will next move on Augusta and Charleston. This will have the effect of consolidating Confederate militias in those two cities and leaving the center of South Carolina open for a rapid move to Sherman's actual target; Columbia.Luke discovers Chester and Julia attempt...

Katharina, the daughter of a Czech Duke and her maid Sheba are captured by the Comanche War Chief, Great Eagle and taken to his camp in central Texas. The Duke appeals to Sam Houston, the President of the Republic of Texas to rescue the young women. Houston call upon the Texas Ranger, John Haley and his Rangers to find the young women and to destroy Great Eagle's camp. John saves Katharina, but he cannot save his heart. If you liked my story, please read the expanded version, A Texas Texas...

British spies have infiltrated the United Brotherhood, to quash another Irish rebellion. When one of the spies turns up dead in a Chicago sewer, police detective Daniel Coughlin is swept up in a power struggle between warring factions of the Irish nationalists, a fight that could see him hanged for a murder he did not commit. If his political clout does not come through for him, he is a dead man.Drawn from court records and historical archives, THE KING OF THE IRISH presents the in...

Legend has it that Blackbeard frequented an inn in Beaufort, North Carolina that was called The White House. This story is based on one fateful visit that the town still talks about today. Annie Simpson is a Scottish lass on her way to the colonies as an indentured servant until her ship is attacked by Blackbeard's crew. Israel Hands is Blackbeard's second in command who is questioning his commitment to pirate life. Lizzie Poole is a lonely innkeeper's daughter who longs for a secure home ...

Saturday afternoon working toward evening was a poor time to pull tree clearing duty, especially this Saturday, with the dance all laid out at the school house, and a new schoolmarm to gaze at. In a short story designed to make you chuckle, Western writer Marsha Ward brings you cowboys Slim and Curly on the two-man saw, as they try to shoehorn the unexpected chore of cutting up a fallen cottonwood tree into their big plans for Saturday night.