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Just when life in Prestonsburg is getting back to normal, a local debutant is brutally killed and dumped off the Front Street bridge. Carter, who was looking forward to a little peace and quiet, is now tasked with solving this mystery. Was it her wealthy husband or maybe a jealous stalker, who knows?

On Leave: A Sailor's Memory is a short story intended to touch the heart of people both young and old, civilian or military. It's a story about a sailor's homecoming, a vacation, on leave for only a short moment. During this short time at home, the sailor learns the truth about his father.

No significant changes occurred in the quiet valley community after their encounter, after their passing. The only changes that were detectable were those in the life of John Davidson. The community sat at the foothills of the Great Rocky Mountains. It was a small friendly town bordering the Pacific Time Zone. This was John’s home. This had been his home all of his life. He often wondered why the visitor chose him, but after the outcome, he tried to forget the whole affair.

Every time I visit Meg’s Meadows, I don’t want to leave, and it’s not just the horses and the people, though I do love them with all my heart. It’s their simple way of living, their down-homeness, the way they revere the elderly and delight in the children. They embrace their differences. If just one of them is in peril or need, it affects everyone. That includes the animals. And isn’t that the way the good Lord intended?

Hasty Lady’s seven wins in a row to ultimately become the 2021 Winningest Horse of the Randall-Cranwood Meet at Thistledown, proved all but a miracle for her 98-year-old owner Harry Burns. It was an impossible dream come true, a reason to look forward to each new day.

This first of two short stories is a prequel to a novel that delves into the world of big utilities, big coal, and the battle for green energy. It begins with a young coal miner from Kentucky who is taken under the wing of a wealthy industrialist who repays a long-overdue debt of gratitude to the young man's father. The transformation of the boy from a poor coal miner to a successful executive juxtaposes corporate bottom lines with his original Eastern Kentucky roots of humility and honesty.

Last Stand: Battle Group SS is an account of an epic last stand at the end of WWII. The inhabitants of a small town attempt to fight the Russian hordes as they rampage toward them. They prepare to fight what every man knows will be a battle to the death. One that will go down in history as a shining example of bravery and sacrifice, and perhaps mitigate some of the worst excesses of the Nazi regime.

Arctic Meltdown, a gripping environmental thriller, is set against the backdrop of the melting polar icecap and the ensuing jostling for jurisdiction over additional seabed resources. Hanne Kristensen, a beautiful Danish geologist, has to contend with a corrupted UN process, China’s growing interest in Arctic resources and maritime routes, Russian military aggression and the resulting international tension to try to save the world from war and the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.

Chaos reigns. The worldwide depression has reduced Germany to street-fighting and terror. The nation teeters on the brink of civil war, but the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, has promised to restore order and stability. For the next 12 years, Nazi ideology penetrates and alters the very fiber of German civilization. Family and friends struggle to cope with the changes in every aspect of daily life. Germans who believe the propaganda become Nazis.

While the Western Allies and the Soviets square off in the Cold War’s opening rounds, a third deadly conspiracy threatens to set the world ablaze. Major James Ross leads a team investigating Nazi war crimes. A deadly ambush leaves one of Ross’ people dead and another presumed missing. Tasked with finding his missing man, Ross and his colleagues hunt for the killers exposes this third conspiracy threatening the world!

Dallas, TX, 1930. Daiyu Wu refuses to be disadvantaged by her blindness. Navigating the world with help from her faithful companions, the young Chinese adventuress celebrates life with a strong thirst for knowledge. So when she scents burned garlic in a customer’s garment, the clever laundress runs an experiment that reveals a dress doused in arsenic.

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Jean Lafitte promised to retrieve his brother from 19th-century Cartegna once his child is born. As he prepares to keep that promise he makes a startling discovery. Instead of vanishing from history like Jean, Pierre’s death is well documented. Sworn testimony, burial records everything satisfying historians that Pierre died. To succeed, they must rescue Pierre in a way that does not change the established historical evidence.

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From author James Cloud comes the classic and powerful epic adventure that captures the gorgeous intensity of life in Germany during the early 20th century. It is the extraordinary saga of people who lived there during exciting and dangerous times. It is a tale of love and danger, of unthinkable loss - a stunning and vivid portrayal of people divided by class, faith, and prejudice - an expert sensational story that unveils the face of a majestic city.

Four young Americans, three men and a woman, travel to China to assist the embattled Chinese. The woman works in her father’s mission hospital bombed relentlessly by the Japanese, while the men join the American Volunteer group. These men, flying in support of the Chinese, become the only threat to the brutal conqueror’s ambitions. For a shining moment, this band of young people, who become known as the Flying Tigers, stands alone, thwarting the death that rains down on Rangoon.

Millions of honest, hardworking Americans invest in pension funds hoping to survive comfortably in retirement. Dishonest managers swoop down like vampires and suck these funds dry. They use this money to support their own lavish lifestyles or salt it away in hidden accounts to use at their leisure leaving their clients destitute. If caught, these criminals serve minimum sentences in country club prisons and, on release, live in luxury on their ill-gotten gains.

Ever wondered how the Cold War started? In the Second World War’s last days, Captain James Ross commands a rifle company, while Justine Rothstein leads a band of partisans hunting Nazis. They join forces to liberate a Nazi death camp in Austria. Once they succeed, each go their separate ways. With the Second World War drawing to a close, a second conflict between superpowers emerges.

In early 1941 a brutal Japanese invasion sweeps through China. America has yet to enter the Second World War but aids the embattled Chinese. Four young Americans, three men and a woman, all for their own personal reasons travel to China to join the effort. The men join the Flying Tigers. The young woman comes to work in her father’s mission hospital regularly targeted by Japanese bombers. Laugh, cry and grit your teeth, as you follow their journey to the conflict that defined a generation.

Frank is a corporate man who is caught up in the labyrinth of office politics, conflicting interests, and the quest for profits, which afflict most large US defense corporations. He is also torn between loyalty to his wife and the love of another woman who happens to be the daughter of the majority stockholder in this multi-billion dollar corporation.