THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are decipherin...
On the eve of Il Porto gallery’s opening, Kate Fujimori leaps across Venice’s rooftops---an easy routine for an expert cat burglar like herself. But her well-planned heist of the gallery’s featured painting, a famed Mona Lisa forgery, goes unch...
This book is a compilation of short stories set in rural Oklahoma in the 1940s. It depicts the early life of three brothers, who lost their mother and went to live with their grandparents. They had no electric lights, no refrigeration, no air conditi...
The ancient Celtic lands of Erin and Alba, Ireland and Scotland, are rich in myth, legend, folklore and the tradition of oral storytelling. From stories of the fearless Fianna, to enticing tales of saints and the bewitching legends of faerie folk, th...
Liberty, Virginia, is the ideal small town. Established in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the local folks are proud of their heritage and make every effort to maintain their way of life. Trouble, however, has found its way into this peace...
Is it reasonable to love someone so much you want it to last forever Love is the last belief left in a society of science and reason. If you were a man of reason married to a believer, would you learn to love completely Would you want to His p...
Duncan Williamson came from a large Scottish Traveller family. Born in a tent by Loch Fyne in 1928, with his Grandmother as the midwife, Williamson grew up surrounded by storytellers, ballad singers and musicians. He attended Furnace Public School, a...
When Don Rose, a marine salvager, and a small support crew, accepts a contract to locate a delivery van at the bottom of a deep flooded quarry outside Boston, the routine situation becomes very complicated quickly. The historic Needham quarry which p...
After nine days and eighteen inches of rain, Tawakani Times reporter Hark Randall is determined to discover who is responsible for ignoring the crumbling levees that threaten to wash away his small Oklahoma town. But someone doesn't want that informa...
Who killed Arnold Gibbs is no great mystery. Or is it? Dallas homicide detective Reese Barrett strives to solve a riddle, which involved a suspect that has an alibi at the assumed time of death. But more puzzling is why the dying man was kidnapped ...
This is the story of 39-year old Sam Page, who has come back to the San Francisco Bay Area on a swashbuckling adventure to reap revenge on a group of old friends who stole millions from him and had him exiled. Sam had it all - a position at a success...
Violent Crimes detectives Charlie Dent and Reese Barrett arrive at a murder scene only to find a guy in a suit, bled out and dead on the floor of a shop. Imagine their surprise when they turn the body over and recognize Richard Carver, a burglary det...
Finn Spencer was leading a charmed life â€" great job, loving wife, a child on the way. However, Finn had one secret he never revealed to anyone. He was the son of one of the world’s greatest hitmen. Ranald Booth, the Fixer, has just finished his l...
This is a young man's journey into higher learning, crime and self-destruction. This coming-of-age story follows Jared as he starts his college education at Wishon University. He quickly finds himself wrapped in his cousin's illegal dealings around c...
Residents of an affluent neighborhood in Silicon Valley, California, are woken in the middle of the night by flashing lights and sirens. A neighbor has been murdered.All fingers quickly point to next-door resident Mike Thomas, who does not want to di...
Okay, you love reading but you're looking for a break from long form fiction. Yes? Then this book is for you: a collection of short stories about life in a small town, some humorous, others serious, all revealing of the human condition in sometimes s...