THE FALL OF DENVER: The Fall of Denver takes place simultaneously with the events unfolding in England during Wells’, War of the Worlds. Doubtless, even as England was being invaded, so were all the other countries around the globe. In this story we will find out how the invasion of the United States plays out in general, and how it affects the men, and their families, stationed at a U.S. Army Fort near Denver, Colorado. For Major Daniel Wayne, an arrow in his knee has ended his career in the U.S. Army.
Shortly after he arrives at Fort Logan outside of Denver to hand in his retirement papers, word is received of an extra-worldly invasion of England. Before he and the Fort’s commander can begin to process this information, the first Martian cylinder lands to the east of Denver. Wayne is entrusted with the safety of the civilians at the Fort and in the surrounding area, taking them to the safety of the nearby Front Range even as the battle to defend Denver rages behind them.
Wayne must keep the trust of his fellow officers to keep their families safe, and confronts the ghosts of his own past, even as he longs to join the battle.
THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: When the Zombie Apocalypse struck, Connor Osborne and his family took shelter in a remote island off the Alaskan coast. They have shelter and enough livestock and seed to survive as long as it takes. The one thing they lack is fuel.
Twice a year Connor must make the journey to the mainland to gather enough wood to get the family through. But on this trip Connor will find himself hunted by a pack of zombies. His flight to safety brings him face-to-face with several grizzly bears. Literally caught between a rock and a hard place, Connor will discover the meaning of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
EXTINCTION POINT: Every civilized planet reaches a point when its technological advances lead to its ultimate demise. Major Adam Armstrong has just discovered that Earth has reached its extinction point and he is racing against time and space to try and warn his home world before it is too late.
POLAR SHIFT: Sam Peck’s biggest worry was serving as best man at his friend’s upcoming wedding as soon as he returned home from space.
Before long his biggest worry will be finding out whether or not he is the last living human being in the entire universe. Because the Earth’s magnetic poles have violently shifted, forever changing the face of the planet.
THE LAST HUMAN: Anne Fontana needed a getaway, a vacation all to herself. But some vacations are just too short. When she returns to civilization she discovers that the world has changed.
To her horror, she discovers that she alone holds the power to save humanity, or change it irrevocably and she must choose before time runs out.
THE INVITED: When Duncan Sinclair dropped off a beacon outside of Earth’s solar system inviting any alien species to drop by for a visit he had no idea if anyone would accept it.
Now, years later, he must lead one last mission to try to save the planet from the one species that has. A species that only wants one thing: To end humanity and strip its home world of all of its resources.
AT HOMEWORLD’S END: Earth, long into the future, has been abandoned by her children.
As the swelling Sun reaches out to consume the planet, one of her children returns.
On Earth’s final day, she will not face her impending dissolution alone in the night.
ICARUS FALLS: It was supposed to be Jim Watson’s final mission to space. But the catastrophic destruction of Earth’s massive space station has left Watson on the wrong side of a debris field encircling the planet.
Now he has a choice: Spend the rest of his life alone on the deserted Moon Base or risk a suicidal dive for the surface and home.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE: A reality television crew gets more than they bargained for when they travel deep into a remote national forest in search of an urban legend.
They encounter a set of stairs, unattached to any structure and seemingly leading nowhere. But despite the park ranger’s statement that “nothing ever happens here” they will encounter a supernatural horror beyond their wildest imagination.
THE 13TH MEDALLION: An alien race has a brilliant plan to rid the universe of their hated enemy: The humans from Earth. Twelve medallions will spell the doom of mankind, forever chaining the entire altered species beneath the waves of an Earth turned into a water world.
The 13th Medallion, however, could just be humanity’s ultimate salvation.
BARN WARS: Old MacDonald’s Farm is a pot about to boil over. Brooster Motherclucker has had just about enough of the antics of the Evil Empire – the four-legged creatures that roam the barnyard in league with the Dark Lord, Old Farmer John MacDonald. He wants to lead an alliance of rebels formed from his fellow two-legged fowls to throw off the yoke of the Evil Empire and their minion, the Dark Lord. But he fails to inspire the uprising.
Then, a spider named Naebi Obiwonk – the last of the Araneae Order – appears and begins to train Brooster in the ways of the Aranae, the light side of the Great Web. This training he will need to overcome the Dark Lord, who serves the Dark Side of the Great Web. Only then will Brooster be able to defeat the Evil Empire.
CAG: Air Group Commander Robert “CAG” Carrington serves in the United States Space Force in the early 22nd Century.
While on normal near-Earth patrol he and his wingman are informed of the approach of an asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. As their attempts to stop the planet killer fail, Carrington is left with one final option.
As every pilot knows, there is always one way to hit the target.
THE TIMELESS (Timeless #1): Earth’s Past Is Under Attack! In the far distant future, with the galaxy locked in an area of dark space where electronics will not work, Little John Singapore sits in a prison cell on Pluto awaiting execution.
Singapore is the First Mate of the pirate ship, the Timeless. As he awaits his fate he agrees to tell a young author one story each day about his ship and his Captain, Rock Congo. Singapore tells how the Governor of the Sol system Garabaldi enlisted the ship and her crew to pursue Duchess Moran.
Moran is an infamous interstellar thief tired of her plans being interfered with by the Earth-led Alliance. She has stolen the Amulet of Geraint, allowing her to travel through time at will. Her target is ancient Greece, where she plans to prevent democracy from ever taking hold by stopping King Leonidas from reaching the famed Battle of Thermopylae. By changing Earth’s past she hopes to prevent the Alliance from ever forming.
The Timeless, a ship that can sail through space, air and water with equal ease, is the only ship capable of time travel, and Earth’s only hope to save its past, present and future. Despite being crewed by pirates, Garabaldi sends them through time in pursuit of Moran. When the Timeless arrives in ancient Sparta, the find Moran has already been there and has kidnapped Leonidas and his Queen.
Now they have just a matter of days to find her and the King to keep his appointment with King Xerxes of Persia and preserve Earth’s history. The first book of the Timeless series, a middle grade/YA science fiction/steampunk hybrid, is sure to be a hit with readers of all ages. As well as fans of historical fiction as the Timeless and her crew will be very busy in Earth’s storied past in future books in the series.
SECRET OF THE SPHINX (Timeless #2): Interstellar thief Duchess Moran continues her assault on Earth’s history. This time she travels back to ancient Egypt in search of a deadly secret: A gem that can raise an army of the undead to wipe out every living creature on the face of the Earth.
But to find the stone, she must first locate a scroll hidden away deep within the Sphinx. Captain Rock Congo, his First Mate Little John Singapore and the crew of the Timeless remain hot on her trail through time and space. From the Library at Alexandria during Caesar’s siege of the city to the construction of the Sphinx and even further back as the legendary architect Imhotep tries to steer his Pharoah, Djoser, from disaster.
When Moran arrives looking to gain possession of the Eye of Anubis all of Egypt, and the entire planet will find itself on the brink of annihilation! The second book of the six-book series is sure to please any reader from age 10 to 100.
PHANTOMS’ LODGE: Eric Christopher is an heir finder looking for a man who disappeared a quarter of a century ago.
What he finds when he steps inside the Phantoms’ Lodge near the mysterious Half Moon Bay south of San Francisco will change everything he thought he knew about life, love and death.
LEGACY OF DEATH: Inspector Mackenzie Bolton is caught up in the worst string of serial murders San Francisco has ever seen and the price of bringing the killer to justice may be Bolton’s very own soul.
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Sherlock Holmes Pastiches
A LESSON IN MERCY: Most of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories were told from the perspective of Dr. John Watson. In this case, Winston Churchill recalls a time in his youth when he was accused of theft at school.
At Churchill’s beloved Nanny’s insistence, Holmes and Watson are called in on the case. The future Prime Minister will receive a shooting lesson from Watson and learn a valuable lesson in mercy from Holmes himself.
THE WOMAN RETURNS: For a brief period of time the world thought Sherlock Holmes had perished in his battle with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls.
While Holmes was away from London, he traveled the world.
Shortly before his return he took up residence in the south of France. To his surprise Irene Adler showed up on his doorstep.
She is looking for revenge. The man who murdered her husband has escaped justice and she wants Holmes to help her in her quest.
THE MISPLACED MYSTERY WRITER: H.G. Wells has built his time machine and taken American author Edgar Allan Poe on several trips through time.
Unfortunately, he has become separated from Poe while hunting for Jack The Ripper in London. Wells enlists the aid of Holmes and Watson to find Poe and return him to his correct time frame.
NEVERMORE: Once upon a midnight dreary Sherlock Holmes, though not weak and weary, finds himself in a tale connected to forgotten lore.
Now he must solve the mystery of an albino raven that seems to be a harbinger of death for the owner of the manor it has taken up residence in.
THE SUBSTITUTE THIEF: When a valuable manuscript has been replaced with a forgery, Holmes is called in to find the thief and recover the manuscript.
THE ASSASSINATION OF ALAN PINKERTON: History records that the famous Alan Pinkerton – founder of both the Pinkerton Detective Agency and the United States Secret Service – died from a head injury suffered from a fall in Chicago.
But a mysterious visitor to 221B Baker Street in London has a story to tell Holmes and Watson. A story that calls into question the cause of Pinkerton’s demise.
Months later, and thousands of miles away, can Holmes deduce the truth about Pinkerton’s death?