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It was just a rock. A pretty one, and it intrigued the Incas as a bauble, a trade item. It helped keep the Inca Empire afloat. The Spanish made the first recorded find back in 1600. It was still just a rock. And it subsided into the history ofthe western Amazon Basin for more than 300 years. However, it took a man of vision to see what really layinside that rock. Perhaps, therein, lies a story. Such legends, rumors, and sometimes successes, are the fodder for #TheStoryteller.

I am a hard-nosed, experienced Detective First. I have solved some of the most viscious murders you can imagine. But something changed. Suddenly the recently dead reached out to me, handing me what I needed to solve cases. However, that is not easy. How do I explain that I discovered the name of the killer from a ghost? As if a key had turned, I loosened up, found the lover I was missing, and then, even more surprising, she soon had the same skill. Not sure how that happened, but we welcomed it. The trick was somehow masking that ability while benefitting with it. We got very good at it, ...

It is a dangerous damned business, and only the strongest survive. But the enemy is not one man, but hundreds, and they are like the Hydra, with plenty of backup candidates to fill in behind them. There are talented agents sent out against that tide of traffickers and drug cartels, but they know the chances they take. If the CIA is smart, they will not let the best be ground down to nothing. There has to be a way out, but that, too, is not easy. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller.

Scientists and explorers have known of the Richat Structure, the Eye of the Sahara, for nearly a century. But those early explorers in the late nineteen thirties, had no idea of the shape, for from the ground, it is just too massive too understand. It was in 2005 that an astronaut on a spacewalk, the first to see the thing in such detail, brought real attention to it. It was not just a patch of rocks in the Sahara. It was a series of concentric circles some forty kilometers in diameter, or about twenty-five miles. The question became, "What is it?" or, "Is it dangerous to the locale, or to ...

Japanese Detective Sergeant Tokito Kolihishi has about had all of the dismal death investigations he can stand. One more pushes him too far. He might be from ancient Samurai stock, but it is time to leave the battlefield to others. He obeys his father's summons to America, there to restore to its original beauty, an crumbling, falling down Japanese Temple and open a Steakhouse within. But there is much more than meets the eye. The Temple is carrying some kind of curse. His instinctive nature is to investigate it and stop it. With the help of a lovely Japanese woman, or two, he finds the ...

John Colt has done it all. He's been a sheriff a Texas Ranger and even a US Marshal. And all he learned in all of those successful careers is that he worked himself to death, faced down and killed many outlaws who needed killing, and for what? A mere pittance. It is not enough. He pulls out, after a bad injury where he nearly lost his life. Cared for by a lovely nurse, he finds he has a part of himself that somehow will struggle to change him. A strong, determined, stubborn man, he cannot be controlled by a woman with a strong streak of right from wrong, and he must move on. Those two were ...

Katarina was sold away to a man she did not know. Such was the fate of many a young girl in the 17th century.The marriage would combine the power of two families. Fate has other ideas. Not only is she saved from the old, wicked Count, she is found by a powerful man. But there is much more to her than she knows. Heinrich is going to save her - just in time. #TheStoryTeller

Texas Ranger Rocky Cleft rides a damned lonely, dangerous trail. The occasional pretty warms his heart and soul, but there is one that seems to stay in his mind and heart more than others. As with most Rangers of the era, he is determined to bring the outlaws down. But they are just as determined to kill him, too. Sometimes it is touch and go. He is quick, yes, but is he enough? But then, he begins to sense there is someone there... someone keeping him alive. He has a long trail to follow, first to hold outlaws at bay, in prison or in Boot Hill, and second, to find out what the hell is ...

Angela is nearing her Doctorate in Archaeology while she waits for word from her mentor and fiancé, Dr. Rex Haldeman, lost now, two years on a dig, studying the Mayan ruins of northeastern Guatemala. Not declared dead, but surely not alive, Rex's status is unknown, and it has kept Angela a hermit for two years. But on the second anniversary of his gone missing, she receives a package from him, dated the time he disappeared, two years prior. In it is Mayan artifact, a half of a medallion, and she realizes, somehow, supernaturally, it is calling her to him. As soon as she receives her Ph.D. ...

Sergeant First Michael Crane survived a brutal war, found himself mustered out a long way from home, and knew he would have to work hard to get there. He had help and he had the helpless, and whenever called up, he stepped up. Whatever the mysteries of life, he almost stumbled over the perfect woman, the love of his life, and the two made the trek home. But not without loss, pain, headaches and heartaches, and, of course happiness, but then, that makes a good story. Enjoy. #The Storyteller.

In the days of the western frontier, where mining companies put up towns, paid workers a pittance and hired their own security, they often hired a Marshal. Similar to a Sheriff, but with no town council or mayor getting in the way. But mines have their draw for outlaws. If it is not the silver or gold bullion, it is always the pay wagons. Marshal Cord Loninger, ex-Texas Ranger was lured to such a position in Cactus City, NM. But he soon discovered that the mining company would not hire deputies. So, it was his job to stand the front line and stop the threats. He was good at it. But somehow,...

Our Angela has had it rough, but oftentimes, the crucible of life builds character. If such is the case, she has it! If you have read the first two books, you will be pulling for her now, more than ever. Men and women both will enjoy the determination, the thrill of danger, hard hitting action, and wonderful romance, played out in the jungles of Central America. Once again, struggling against the odds, the ever-present bandits, Indio, and K'iche make her task of finding the next temple, retrieving the treasure for all to enjoy, rich and poor alike, very difficult. But she is no longer the ...

The wild southwest was fraught with difficulties. Disease, heat, Indians, drought, why it took a determined, tough man to hold onto his family and his ranch. And did not happen, all too often. In that transition period of 1876, some of the Native Americans took to the reservations, while many did not. Some put up one hell of a fight. When a Comanche raid stole Brody's sister, he vowed to his dying mother, he would find her. But we know that life will happen when we make plans. Let's go see if he can fulfill that promise... #TheStoryteller

The bottomland farm in Missouri is gone, stolen by Confederate renegades, as well as the bank. Lucky Hunter is alone, no hope, no help. But her middle name is Lucky, and the first indicator of a new career has landed in her lap. The Civil War is over, has been for eighteen months, yet the rebel renegades will not give it up. With no real war to fight, they turn to terror, like the Vikings of old, they pillage, they kill, and they run roughshod over the mid and southern states. Lucky kills to defend, wins a very valuable reward and is trained quite well by her Papa. Now, she will get even, ...

Robin is a coming of age swamp witch, growing up under the tutelage of her mother and grandmother, powerful witches in their own right, learning her responsibility to keep evil out of this world, and hold the line for good. Relocated by the sudden, violent death of Robin's grandfather, they must leave their home turf in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp to fix up the old man's cabin in the Florida Everglades. The initial thought is to sell it and return, but, once there, it is apparent that Robin and her mother have new challenges, a sudden awareness that they are in the end game fight! They have ...

Ethiopia is a mixed environment for exploration... and survival. It has had its grand moments, tied in with Jewish history, temples, world wide travel and such. But there are far too many pockets where none of that reached and had not for centuries. Verona Romero is an established archaeologist with a second doctorate in anthropology and Ethiopia calls to her to prove her worth beyond the constant search for treasure. No, the promise, this time, was fame, finding the very beginning of humanity on the dark continent, following in the footsteps of giants like world-renowned ...

In the golden age of piracy, roughly the early 1700s, there was the romance of piracy. Blood, thrilling, even, weirdly romanticized over time. This tale is not about them. It is about Reece Bonny Roberts who is a direct, but far down the line descendent that gets caught up in the hunt for treasure. She finds the right partner, nearly a pirate’s look on his own, and together, they make it a point to hunt down her ancestor’s treasure So, why on earth would anyone deposit gold, silver and jewels at the bottom of a sea cylinder, so far down, they will never see it again? It is the hunt, the...

Far in the future, Dr, Chase Hardecker firmly believes that a black hole can be conquered. The estimates of size and power, to him, are just that, guesses. He wants to prove it can be done. However, if it were not for the kind rescue by a complete alien, he would not have that proof, even if he and his lovely mate, Melissa, did make it through. Eventually, with the help of the alien, they return home, and begin immediately preparing for a return trip with better equipment and serious determination, for these are multi-year experiences, going forth in a relatively small sphere. Follow along ...

In the seeds of despair, in the hopelessness of fear, pain and death, there often arises opportunity for love. And the choices are not always our own. Thrust together by circumstance, two unlikely people find themselves drawn together, literally under fire. The people are not the players we expect. But this is a love story… Asteroids come and go. Love endures all things…So they tell us… (Easy Reading Font)

Texas Ranger John Miller is not who he seems to be. He has an odd history stretching back 200 years! But he has managed to conceal his Sorcerer persona for those years under different names, often behind different badges. Until he meets the woman he rescues from a miserable existence, and she seems able to see right through him. And she likes the good man she sees. It progresses from there to one hell of a partnership, as close as two people can get! And it might last forever, if they can just get a most deadly entity off their backs!!