In Through Many Fires, Strengthen What Remains, book 1, terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union address. Army veteran and congressional staffer, Caden Westmore in nearby Bethesda, watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns another city has been destroyed, and then another. America is under siege. Panic ensues and society begin...

This box set includes all five books of the Strengthen What Remains series, the three full-length novels, Through Many Fires, A Time to Endure and Braving the Storms, the novella, A Long Way Home, and the novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, over 245,000 words in total.In the number one bestselling novel, Through Many Fires, terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Un...

"A Humvee parked in front of his house couldn't mean anything good."After a camping trip with his oldest son, Major Dirk Franklin comes home to find a Humvee parked in front of his house. His wife, Carol, tells him the news channels are talking about a storm on the sun. Moments later he's whisked away to a secret military facility in Portland. There, Major Franklin and others struggle to prepare for the coming collapse of society.As the world sinks into darkness, Franklin f...

“A Humvee parked in front of his house couldn’t mean anything good.”After a camping trip with his oldest son, Major Dirk Franklin comes home to find a Humvee parked in front of his house. His wife, Carol, tells him the news channels are talking about a storm on the sun. Moments later he’s whisked away to a secret military facility in Portland. There, Major Franklin and others struggle to prepare for the coming collapse of society.As the world sinks into darkness, Franklin f...

Do the spirits of the dead in space return home or drift forever between worlds?A young man will soon leave the planet of his birth with his wife and child, but his mother refuses to go unless they first visit an old war memorial. The visit stirs up much more than old memories.The Promise is the first story.

It’s time to bug out!University of Washington students Ryan Palmer and Amy decide to bug out of Seattle when international tensions threaten to boil over into a world war. In normal times their journey to Ryan’s childhood home in rural Idaho would take less than a day. But these aren’t normal times. As they travel supplies become scarce, gasoline becomes impossible to buy, people panic and nuclear war erupts. Together they must confront their worst fears as they fight to reach home...

This combination boxset includes two stories from the Strengthen What Remains series, the novella, A Long Way Home, and the novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, over 32,000 words in total.In the three full-length novels of the series we glimpse the life of Caden’s brother Peter. In the 13,000 word novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, we see Peter helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. This is the story of Peter’s final mission.In the ...

The exciting saga of Major Caden Westmore continues. In Through Many Fires, Strengthen What Remains, book 1, nuclear terrorism destroyed six American cities.In this, the second book, A Time to Endure, the nation’s economy teeters on the verge of collapse. The dollar plunges, inflation runs rampant, and the next civil war threatens to decimate the wounded country. In the face of tyranny, panic, and growing hunger, Caden struggles t...

A man wakes up after an accident, or does he?A cold rain poured down in torrents as Marcus Donaldson drove home from work a few days before Christmas. His car slid on the wet pavement and then everything went dark. He wakes up staring into a blue sky surrounded by tall green grass.Then he heard a scream.

A sudden squall hurls Lisa into the raging sea.On a leisurely sailing trip with her boyfriend, a sudden squall hurls Lisa into the raging sea. Sinking ever deeper she knows death is certain. Then a flash of light and she stares into the eyes of another woman with her in the dark water.The woman looks just like her.Doppelganger Smile is a 5,000-word short story with a psychological twist.

Police officer Peter Westmore is helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. In the novel A Time to Endure we glimpse the end of Peter’s life. In that novel his brother Caden, on a mission to destroy gangs and terrorists living on the fringe of the Seattle blast zone, goes to his older brother’s abandoned home and discovers Peter’s body.He also finds two letters. The contents of one are revealed in A Time to Endure. The other is not. This is the f...

Do the spirits of the dead in space return home or drift forever between worlds?A young man wakes and discovers he is the new guy in an army unit on an alien world. Infinite Darkness examines one day in the life of Denton Alexander, caught in combat on this alien world.The Promise, a 5,000-word short story.