Harvey Stanbrough
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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2.
There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west.
There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...
3) The Storm
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Harold Sloan is the chief terraformer on Galen, a planet in another solar system.
Harold is also a man who lives very much within himself, and he loves nothing more than his work. Or so he believes.
Which is worse? The work-stopping storm that sometimes rages outside his annex apartment window? Or is it the internal storm, the one he can never escape?
4) Going Home
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One moment you're on a boat on the river in the jungle about to be inserted with your friend on a mission. Two days later you'll meet the same boat at the extraction point a few klicks downriver. Then all hell busts loose.
5) Suction Cups
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Detective Distraeli Jones is alone in the lobby of a swank hotel. Sitting on the floor. Leaning back against the wall.
Behind him is a blood smear.
He has to get out.
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An American expatriate takes a chance wandering the streets of a foreign town. He's looking for a contact for a local Resistance group who needs help. These are men who go to the war most days and stay home with their families on other days. These are men who are called on when other men simply will not do.
8) The Source
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Jonathan Kirski is tasked with the job of mining bones from the Siberian death fields. It shouldn't be a problem. After all, it's just ore, from which will be derived a calcium extract. But Jonathan's past says otherwise.
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His prophets promised a king who would restore justice on Earth. But it's a tall order, and prophecy can be interpreted in many ways.When the 13th daughter of a 13th daughter meets the 13th son of a 13th son, she is ecstatic. Their union will break the curse that has plagued both their families for generations.But over time the line blurs. Is the child a cursed remnant of a prophecy gone awry? Or is he the fulfillment of that prophecy?
12) Old Suits
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Come along as Consuela goes about her morning chores while her husband seems to be sleeping longer than usual; an elderly woman is last seen on a soggy, dreary day by two of her neighbors who are playing checkers on a porch-maybe one knows her better than he lets on; a childhood friendship takes a sharp turn down a dark but necessary path and continues through two stories; and who knew trout fishing on a wild river in the deep woods of America could...
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The Scent of Acacias is Book 9, the final book in the Wes Crowley novel series. The titles are now arranged chronologically as one long saga, but each also is a stand-alone novel.In this final installment of the Wes Crowley Saga, Wes has one last opportunity to "ride wild on a strong horse in a good cause." Then he's planning to retire. But will he lose everything that's most important to him?Once again Wes comes face to face with a pair of enemies...
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An anoymous tip has led a hard-boiled detective and two deputies into the desert on a recovery operation.
The overwhelming solitude lends the scene an air of remorse and quiet reverence. Lost in his thoughts, the detective draws parallels between violence on a massive scale and the ability of life to endure.
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she experienced some trying times.Things seldom work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent except the past. And sometimes...
17) The Claim
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Adolph Hitler, terrible as he was, was nothing but a pawn. One in a series of strings tugged by a puppeteer. Hitler was vanquished, but the entity that gave him rise never went away. Two centuries and two decades after the rise of Hitler, the same entity is still pulling strings. And he's almost accomplished the goal of his father and grandfathers before him.
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Between Books 2 and 3 of the 12-volume Wes Crowley saga, there's a 15-year gap. This is the sixth book that sets out to fill that gap. Hence, the Wes Crowley Gap Series.This is also the origin novel for the Wes Crowley Santa Fe sub-series. I don't know how many stories will emerge from this diversion.In this book, the Texas Rangers of Company D, Amarillo Texas, will meet an old friend of their captain, Major General (retired) Lew Wallace, the recently...
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These five stories run the gamut of the near erotic to the pure romance, from the wild west to murder for hire. The common thread? They're all about the women.
In "Paper Hearts," a waiter, now an older gentleman, finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them? In "About Mrs. Featherberry," we learn what spoiled sardines have to do with homemade pie. In "The Laborer," a lightly erotic romance, like her husband says, there's no harm...
20) The Portals
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You can't go home again, right? That's a different time in a different place. In fact, everything and everyone is different, and they will remain so for all time. Or maybe not.
Past, present, and future-every present-day step leads from a singular past to a limitless number of futures. Step this way, you're in one future. Step the other, you're in a different future. Step through a portal and there's no telling where you might end up.