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In 2035, a NASA Orion spacecraft goes through an anomaly near the moon, ending in 1969. As the four astronauts try to understand what has happened, they soon realize that taking an AI iPhone from 2035 back to 1969 would drastically change the course of human history and create a new river of time. The crew commander has a special AI brain implant and seems to be the key to fixing the problem as she moves outside normal time and space. The more she tries to jump from one timeline to the next, the worse the problem gets. Then she finds out who is responsible, which is definitely not human.

Dr. Alexa Zorn is a museum artifact researcher that finds what appears to be a sci-fi movie prop hidden in an old storage area. With her team of specialists, she starts to unravel the alien device's secrets, leading her to a one-day time machine buried in Death Valley. Soon after, a billionaire collector tries to steal the artifact to add to his collection. Alexa and her team race through time, keeping one step ahead of the billionaire, her X-husband, the government, and all the disasters that want to end all life on Earth. If you mix Lora Croft and Indiana Jones into one person, Polaris ...

Jake McDonald’s life has hit rock bottom. He’s lost his job, and his wife and two children have lost their faith in him. It seems that everything that could go wrong has happened, and he now has nowhere to turn. In a final effort to salvage his financial problems, Jake turned from banking to lobster fishing off Santa Barbara Island. While scuba diving, he discovers an underwater cave that extends deep beneath the island’s shoreline. As he swims into the cave looking for fish and lobster, he finds an alien artifact. This discovery drastically transforms his life and changes the history...

Earth (Ship book four) is two stories occurring in the same place but at different points in time. The first timeline starts seven years after a man-made plague appears to kill everyone on Earth. Six Technical Force survivors struggle to discover what happened to all the people and defend themselves against Ice Age animals and an unknown human enemy that also survived. They establish a new home in Oregon where generations of children spread their exploration throughout the mainland U.S. The second timeline concerns the events following Jake McDonald’s return to Earth more than a hundred ...

After ten years on the planet Tormst, Jake McDonald’s family has come to an impasse. The oldest son Brad, wants to return to Earth and discover what happened after more than a hundred years. A heated argument between Jake and his son ensues, and Brad leaves on the spaceship Phoenix with two other passengers. After several weeks of regret, Jake and Beth decide to follow Brad on a smaller, slower ship. When Jake and Beth arrive in orbit around Earth, there are no communications from radio or television. They land in Santa Barbara and find no people but instead a very diverse animal ...

As Jake McDonald and his family leave Earth on Phoenix, his new found alien spaceship, they face challenges never before encountered by humans. While exploring Mars, Jake discovers there is a spy among his new band of Earth travelers. Besides locating the spy, he’s dealing with the diverse personalities among the group and the problems that arise as they attempt to work together. The band of Earthlings soon discovers that the physics of space travel affects both time and space. Days on the ship equivocate to years on Earth, and this eventually splits the group into two factions fighting ...

Curt Allen Towers (C.A.T.) owns a successful manufacturing company, specializing in miniaturized robotic devices. His life is turned upside down when he is accused of the rape and murder of a business associate. Curt struggles to prove his innocence, but finds there is a fine line between friend and foe. He must now rely on his gut feelings to judge a person and read them with his heart. A fugitive from prison, he desperately runs for cover, evading one attempt after another on his life. Curt lives up to his nickname of CAT, but wonders if nine lives are enough? If you loved the TV action ...

Dr. Cathleen Massey, a scientist working with the Hubble telescope, discovers an unknown object coming from light years away that will pass by Mars in ten years. When the object is finally visible, images indicate an alien spaceship twenty miles long, eight miles wide, and four miles high. A new space race is on as NASA, China, and two billionaires build Mars bound spaceships in hopes of reaching the alien ship first. Little do they know that the first contact will change the future of mankind in a way no one had ever imagined possible. The Time & Space Series is a collection of Sci-fi ...

It was a quiet day in Paradise, Iowa, or at least Sheriff Sam Preston thought so as he drank his morning coffee. First, the power goes out, then a prehistoric animal kills a local man at the edge of town. Problems escalate with no GPS, a loss of all communication, and all roads into Paradise are cut off by heavy forest. When he realizes that the problems border on the side of science fiction, he assembles a hodge-podge team of scientists to figure out why it appears that the small Iowa town is the only human habitation on Earth. You are probably wondering how there can be a Ship Book Six ...

In the final chapter of the ship series, the aliens that created the ship Jake McDonald found, invite him as the Ambassador of Earth. He, Beth, and his son travel with the nomadic race called the Harpcons across the galaxy in search of answers to the creation of the universe and the location of the Harpcon home world. As they get closer to their goal, they encounter a warlike race called the destroyers. Unprepared to do battle, they use Jake’s knowledge of sci-fi movies and TV shows to battle a much more powerful race than the Harpcons. Jake McDonald finally realizes his dream as he ...

This stand-alone novel follows James and Stacy Sanders as they find themselves in the middle of several catastrophic natural disasters. Stranded on an extinct Pacific Volcano in the Solomon Islands, they encounter an earthquake, followed by its tsunami. With little hope of being rescued as a distant volcano spews, the two work together to find food, water, and shelter while attempting to rekindle their marriage. They quickly discover that teamwork and close communication are a priority if they plan to survive. Their scuba diving skills and extensive knowledge of World War II history keep ...

Fifty-five-year-old police detective Frank Ridge has hit a slump in his career. A recent homicide case is botched, and Frank is blamed for not keeping up with crime scene technology. To rectify the situation, he enlists the help of Dennis Andrews, a young CSI military scientist who is fascinated with all the latest technologies. Dennis has created a new device that quickly analyzes DNA samples at the molecular level, without damaging or even touching the samples. The two crimefighters initially start working together solving virtually impossible cold cases. Everything seems to be going well...

Charles Edward Owens loves being a helicopter pilot, but tragedy ended his Army flying career. Before he can barely put his life back together, he faces the challenge of managing his family’s estate when both his parents pass away. Charlie converts the assets and forms an extremely successful green power company specializing in wind and solar power. While riding the waves of success, a series of unexplained accidents rob him of his beloved wife and daughter. His life and company are thrown into turmoil as death and evil stalk him from the shadows, intent on erasing everyone and everything...

Married professors David and Michelle Abrams are on their way home from a party at the university where they worked. It was a rainy night, and they were arguing about a secret Michelle had kept from David about being pregnant with twins. A car accident ensues, and David is pronounced DOA at the hospital. As Michelle struggles to continue life without David, she realizes that David also had secrets he never told Michelle. As she works to unravel his secrets, she learns that the twins are a missing link in the next giant leap in human evolution. Between an insane mother-in-law and evolution ...

Three college buddies band together to create a company that does deep sea treasure diving and recovery of historical artifacts. Using advanced technical diving suits, they make their first dive to a thousand feet off the Oregon coast in quest of a missing WWII Japanese submarine. Instead, they uncover a decades-old secret that sends a shockwave through government security. Fearing it will become front-page news, the government is forced to step in and help with their salvage efforts.In Newport, Oregon, retired Air Force Colonel Oscar Madison Gains spends his time enjoying gardening and ...

Douglas Ivan York, a building contractor, buys an 1880s Victorian house in a Sheriff’s sale near Washington, D.C. As he inspects this post-Civil War beauty, he analyzes the amount of work required to renovate the house. The previous owner’s relatives feel they should have inherited the old home, and they break in at night, convinced that the original builder hid valuables in the walls. Using state-of-the-art devices to examine inside the walls, he finds clues suggesting that it might truly contain hidden treasures. A local photographer helps him uncover some of the house’s history, ...