"Don't be looking for bold starship captains or warrior maidens wielding magic swords in GUNNING FOR THE BUDDHA. Michael Jasper serves up something refreshingly different: a heady brew of ordinary folks making tough decisions at the far edges of real...
In the near future, over thirty black alien ships carrying a race called the Wannoshay crash-land across midwestern America and southern Canada. At first, humans and aliens attempt integration, but it's a hard future plagued with terrorism, violence,...
Sometimes you eat the forest, sometimes the forest eats you.
What would you do if your child was lost, and -- even though you’d never admit this to anyone -- it was all your fault? How would you react? Would you be a hero or a coward? And just h...
"An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together..." In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds, low team morale, and... the ghost of the pre...
Terri never wanted to have to deal with the alien Wannoshay. She was busy enough with overtime at work and taking care of her daughter on her own, one step ahead of the bills. But when the Wannoshay move into the city and then start working at the b...
"First contact between a priest and an alien..." Less than a dozen years from now, over thirty black ships containing the aliens the world will come to know as the Wannoshay arrive on the frozen earth of the Great Plains of America and Canada. When c...
Bartolamus the Sorcerer is dying. His days of adventuring and forging new words of magic are firmly behind him. Or so it seems. As his trembling apprentice approaches his bedside with a silver whistle in his right hand and a tarnished bell in his lef...
"Some family curses really should be passed on..." Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke. And, w...
A haunted romance. An unsolved mystery. And a centuries-old curse at the heart of it all.Off the rough coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man -- the infamous pirate Blackbeard. She must identify a shipwreck off the co...
Claudia drives a taxi and paints, but not necessarily in that order. She must face a new form of violence in her adopted city of Raleigh, a kind of violence that bring back dark echoes from her past, when she was living in Haiti with her family.This ...
Three generations of Koopmans live -- uneasily -- under the same roof of a farm house twenty miles from the center of Holy Cross, Iowa.Thirty-year-old William Koopman needs to move out. But Dad wanted him on the farm after Grandpa died, so William st...
Magic: more contagious than the common cold...Kelley Strickland and her twin brother Jeroan accidentally step into an ancient battle between a power-hungry Sorcerer -- who wants to rid the world of what he calls “renegade” magic-users -- and a go...
The City had never been cleaner, safer, or quieter than it was on Erik Dankelson’s twenty-ninth birthday, and he couldn’t have been more heartsick about it. The streets were free from litter, refuse, and vagrants. The Downtown buildings rising ab...
"Magic: It can show up in the strangest places..." An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn't realize it. Most days he can't...
As if newly promoted coach George Grunion's job wasn't hard enough...He has a team of men (and one woman) from around the world, from all nationalities, and they're barely scraping by in the early years of the first world war. And then, the team face...
In an attempt to get in better shape, Matthew has taken to jogging in the woods behind his house with his two dogs. One morning he encounters a strange visitor to his woods: a boy, lost. He and his partner Fred never wanted kids, but Matthew forms a ...
Some family curses really are worth passing on...Tommy Roling has an awful secret he can't share with anyone but his mother, and now that he's a father, he's worried his daughter may have inherited his particular condition. A condition that leads him...
Teenagers Mark and his older brother Dennis aren't happy about moving with their parents to the Oregon coast right before the fall semester of high school. Mark plans to make the best of it, but Dennis refuses.Determined to find a way to escape, Denn...
In the ramshackle slum of Riverrun Alley, just east of the City of All-Worlds, winter started early and stayed longer than an uninvited guest, and Tockle the otherworlder was beginning to doubt he’d ever see spring. In a land filled with aliens, no...
Magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal...Two months after the explosive and unexpected ending to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, Jeroan learns all about magic at Dr. Azure’s mysterious training center. Meanwhile, Kelley can't even leave her ...
Contagious magic: good luck trying to find a cure…Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after losing their parents -- and all the Sorcerers t...
Magic: more contagious than the common cold...
One wintry morning in Dubuque, Iowa, Kelley Strickland gets "triggered" by magic after reading from a strange book she shoplifts. And her twin brother Jeroan meets an old man who infects him wi...
Retirement: it’s not just for the elderly.Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes sure they aren’t just sitting around wait...
Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost…As the co-founders of Finders, Inc., Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and -- almost miraculously, in many instances -- finding missing peo...
"Try not to listen to those who whisper..." Tommy Roling has a great freelance job, a healthy daughter, and a new city to call home. Plus he's finally comfortable with the fact that he's a werewolf. So why isn't he happy? Could it be his daughter's...
You can only stay lost for so long…Mid-summer in the mountains. The breeze carries the smell of pines and campfires, and expensive cars with Florida plates clog the roads. The students at nearby Appalachian State are gone for the summer, and Bim Ma...
Tales of where the normal meets the strange… Twenty-one stories about the moment when someone's life took an unexpected turn, and that person was changed forever. Tales of heroes and cowards, lovers and leaders, the heartbroken and the heartless. ...