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Imagine a world with no cars, no heat or air conditioning, no electricity, no computers, no social media, no television, no radio, and no cell phones. The only transportation remaining are shoe leather express, bicycles, and horses. Not far off in the future, two of the world’s superpowers trade jabs between Intelligence organizations, which spawns the launch of an EMP and sending the world into the eighteen hundreds with twenty-first-century knowledge. In a world with no power, a new partly built subdivision falls prey to a series of murders at the onset of the EMP outage. Michael ...

Book Two in this trilogy follows a platoon of Combat Engineers, who have left Panama, sailing the Pacific Ocean blue on their way northward to San Diego, California. They make periodic stops along the way to their destination and closer to the truth of what caused the apocalypse.

Book Three in this trilogy continues to follow a platoon of Combat Engineers, who have left Panama, sailed northward along the Pacific Ocean blue to San Diego, California. The platoon that makes periodic stops throughout the Southwestern United States to their final destination of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, outside of Colorado City, Colorado

Earthen Bunkers the lives of a platoon of Combat Engineers following a zombie apocalypse in search of the truth as to why it started and their escape from Panama.

Robert Black is in a dark period in his life. He has caught his ex-wife stalking him. He wanted to take her far away from the city to deal with her in the back state park. While out, he hears something a strange from his GPS navigation device beginning to speak to him and directing him what to do.

Jess Harlan, like most college student and speed shopper, receives snail mails on daily basis for opening new credit cards. Today the Deville Credit Corporation has sent Jess, a speed shopper with a quickly evaporating money supply, an offer that was just too good to refuse and she quickly accepts ‘The Card’ without reading its Terms of Service. When payment is due on ‘The Card’, she has no idea what is in store for her.

In the near future, and the world wide prison population is out of control. Six counties decide to take matters into their own hands and devise a unique concept to deal with worse of the worse and ease the prison overpopulation problem. They find an uninhabited island with beautiful blue cloudless skies, crystal clear waters, plush sandy white beaches and a large volcanic centerpiece. How bad could that be? Soon the first batch of prisoners is inserted for the rest of their natural life. Each country agreed to oversee the prisoners with medical care and provide a naval reactionary force to ...

Domestic terrorists plan to invade into Americas heartland and have chosen television news anchor Pat Snowden to funnel their message to the world. Nobody can grasp the significance of the messages, scrawled in Arabic with a one dollar bill taped above its declaration. The first cardboard message arrives with messages on both sides. The communiqué's seriousness isn’t understood until the first attack takes place followed quickly by a second equally violent assault.Can Pat and her Police Sergeant boyfriend, Jack Dawson, race against time to decipher the true meaning behind the cryptic ...

A Matter Of Survival elicits the story of two sisters, a Brownie, who is only seven, and a three year old, who survive a family accident on an early autumn Saturday morning. This occurs at a state park, which leaves the girls to fend for themselves for a day and a half before the accident is even discovered. There are many obstacles the girls must overcome beginning with the direction they must travel in an effort to find help for their parents.

Peter King, an author with writers block. No matter what tricks he tried to get past the block, nothing seemed to get him past that difficult hurdle, that was until his wife suggested he travel to her uncle’s remote cabin to finish his writing in peace and silence. He packs more alcohol than clothing to help him finish writing. After settling into his new temporary digs, Peter began his drinking, but then something unexpected takes place. The first character he pressed his pen to paper to create comes to life with the personality and charisma he intended for the character. Followed by the...

A coming of age story that focuses on three teenage girls, friends since kindergarten, meet at the Brentview Carnival and their highlight will be to pay a visit to ‘The Dreamweaver’, an old gypsy fortune teller with an uncanny ability to predict the future and make dreams come true...or so they say. Inside the carnival attraction, a deranged man has decides to exact his revenge upon the old gypsy lady and the quick thinking girls neutralize the crazed armed man and are invited back for a private reading. Their graduation is around the corner and a new chapter in their live are about to ...

A character driven short story focusing on a professor asking a student at risk of failing his class a chance to earn enough extra credit to pass and not have to attend a much hated lab. His only task for enough credits to pass his class. It was as simple as house sit the professor’s home for the weekend. After agreeing to the professor’s request, the teacher gives his student his address and tells them to be there at five o’clock. The professor discussed the rules of the house with the pair. He emphasized that no one, for any reason, is to come up to the house while he is away. Most ...

Young Claude believes in Santa Claus, but his friends do not believe...until his friends friend something unexpected under the tree at Claude's house.

A Penny For Your Thoughts details Amy Hutchins, an up and coming woman, who woke up late for her first interview since graduating college. She rushed through preparing herself for her big day. She stops at a corner market for a package of ‘brush as you go gum’. When she pays for the gum, the cashier drops her change, a dime and a penny. The penny falls to the ground and lands on its edge. Thinking nothing of it, she retrieves the penny, but then hears strange voices explode inside her head. From that moment onward, her life changes in ways she could not imagine.

Six thrill seeking friends come upon an internet advertisement that proclaims for one thousand five hundred dollars, one can experience the adventure of a life time, in an all-inclusive extreme sporting resort on the lush Isthmus of Panama. Nate French, his fiancée Victoria Darke, and their four childhood friends who continue to seek the next high from that next ultimate extreme sports experience. This time they close Tropical Rush as that definitive destination. Unbeknownst to the group, the real adrenaline rush will begin as vacationers and finish as kidnap victims as they are abducted ...

Jaded Heart is a character driven story that follows a man, Rich Emory, a two strike convict paroled to a new work release program and his new employers despise him. During the first week of freedom, a grisly murder occurs in the apartment next to his where he is the prime suspect. If arrested and convicted of this crime he did not commit, would mark him under California’s three strikes law and eligible for a life sentence. So in his mind, he does the next best thing in keeping his freedom, he runs. He runs as far away from his present location as he can get. While on the run, his picture...

The unfortunate ambush by Indians, their parents, an aunt, an uncle and two cousins leave Maggie and Mackenna Maddox alone to fend for themselves. The trek across the desert southwest in search of someone to help the young twins. The have fend off wildlife and unscrupulous travelers to safety. Can the sisters make it safely to an army outpost before their luck runs out.