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A town like Temptation with a town marshal like Ranson Nye tended to attract gunfighters. From the youngsters who thought themselves faster or better than the marshal to those who were trying to build a reputation — they all came to try their luck — even if it meant betting their lives on the outcome. Not all were truly bad men — however the times and the profession brought violence and death with it. This made a lawman’s task a chancy job never knowing which end of the bullet he might end up on.

Widower and rancher Ranson Nye stopped in Temptation, a "wide open" town on the Texas side of the Red River. He was headed to the Oklahoma Indian Territory to find a new wife and mother for his two children. Inside The Red Slipper saloon, he meets a young widow beginning her first day as a prostitute. On the spur of the moment, he asked Genoveve Van Dorn to be his wife with no intimacy involved. In desperation, she accepts his offer to keep from actually becoming a prostitute. However, within moments, there is a shooting in the saloon, and three men are killed — one of them the Town Marshal.

What if the world’s greatest solution was also its greatest prison? In a future where The Lattice controls every aspect of human existence, choice has been optimized away, and order reigns supreme. For Kael, life in Veridian has always been predictable—until a mysterious glitch shatters his carefully curated world. The Fracture, an underground resistance, whispers of truths long buried, of freedom lost in the name of harmony.

The Corporate War was over in the Matheus quadrant of the spiral Kermerus Galaxy and along with it the careers of many who fought and survived. Honored and awarded Captain Ash Kennett washed up alone on an astroid as an ore miner trying to dry up from his alcoholism and the guilt of the deaths of multitudes under his command during the war. He was located years later by his old friend, Doc, who had a proposition and a new ship. THE ERRANT, an abandoned and derelict starfighter-carrier, had been refitted, rearmed, enhanced, and disguised as a cargo hauler. But THE ERRANT still had her teeth.

Odditales is a science fiction collection of short stories designed to be direct and intense. There are twists and turns, relatable characters, and plenty of science facts to reinforce the plot.

Another brutal hard science fiction collection. From travelling through dimensions and mental illness, to the paradox of time itself, this book will challenge you completely.