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They fought like cats and dogs all through their growiing years, only brought under control when he finally got as tall as his stepsister. Of the same family, they drew no blood but plenty of hurt feelings. Two more determined winners could not be found. Then, somehow, they grew up. One to Military MP Service, the other to school, both focused on criminology, determined to somehow make a difference. Tragic circumtances bring them to the old house in central Illinois, where they reconnect and find themselves entirely different in their feelings toward one another. The story will catch your ...

She hadn’t meant to see it. She did not want to remember it, and by God, she would as soon forget it… if she could. But, no one was going to believe her, either way. And there are those, unfortunately, who are compelled to be certain… Fortunately, when all other avenues fail within our government, there are those who step up from the shadows to provide the necessary security. Both are shocked. Brenda because her life is turned upside down, on the run, but with a man who could well define the ideal... if he wasn't so damned elusive. Jack, because of all those he babysat over the years ...

A semi-fictional warning told in Police vignettes. In the wilderness, any hunter with any common sense knows the rule. If you do not represent a threat, the animals, even the predators, will leave you alone. If you must interface with them, you have to understand that they do not trust mankind and their hackles rise, forcing a violent confrontation. The hunter does not always win that fight. Now, replace the 'Hunter' with 'Police Officer' and the 'predators' are those people who do not have their civilized behavior as containment walls in place, so the animal is loose. But unfortunately, ...

What is a Ranger for the King to do? It is kind of like trying to find employ- ment as a modern day soldier with only a few skills. So I turned to the adventurous life of the Highwayman, built a crew, shared with the poor and tried to mimic the legend of Robin Hood, long before my time. But circumstances came that began to take over my free life, and while some were wonderful, others were a bit more... well, frightening. I had never been at war. I had never served a Queen. Hell, I had never loved a Princess, but all was coming to be. And, to tell the truth, in this era, it was really good. ...

Las Cruces is a pretty town. But back then, it was almost a ghost town. It was the efforts of the Texas Rangers and a strong, determined woman who saved it for its future. But it required love, sacrifice and a new awakening to make it happen... Another chilling tale from the DarkSide Western novels by the #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 ...

Scarlett's mother raised a good girl, telling her things she needed to know to survive this world. The most important was simply, “Never let them kiss you. Never let them love you. It will end in disaster.” Carrying that target imagined on every female freshman’s butt, she managed to waltz through the first year at the University of Georgia in Atlanta unscathed, then the second, and for some reason, people believed she might be an Ice Queen. Delightful to look at, impossible to hold. They had no idea how right they were…

He was put out here because he qualified: Braniac, Electrical Engineer, and definitely a nerdy loner. Psyche report so stamped in red. A twenty year contract. A chance to get rich, waiting to be paid. Then, the aliens got creative. Alone no more. Another engineer, as smart as himself, and a hell of a lot better looking! The aliens want what he is developing. He has to bring her around to his side, and the two have to get the hell off this damned needle, somehow. They cannot lose themselves doing it. They cannot let the aliens kill them. Will love help them through or hold them back? No one ...

Xindy is a Hunter. The most feared, most dangerous creature on her little moon. But times are tough, the population is failing, and opportunity comes her way. Men, on the hunt for women to trade, have come to her small corner of primitive land. Unwittingly, they give her the key to space. Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is not. Taking advantage of opportunity is a sign of intelligence, usually. But now, she and her family are out of place and out of time. Can this backwoods savage learn fast enough to stay ahead of all those lasers meant to kill her? Can she change her philosophy about Men....

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

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 Druids ruled in government, religion, and other positions of power until the Romans showed up in what was called Briton. With cruel intent, the Romans spread vicious rumors about sacrifice and butchery until the Druids were a diminished clan in hiding. The Romans thought they ended that reign, pulled out in the fifth century, and maybe so, but they opened the door to evolution. There were, at that time, hardly noticed, hundreds of Sorcerers playing low key and pulling strings from the shadows. If the two should meet... Fodder for #The Storyteller, of course. Enjoy.

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 ...

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)

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 ...

It started innocently enough. A beau calling his girl to Denver. A working girl finding a new life. A gambler scooting out from angry drunks who lost. A rancher heading home after a successful sale of a prize bull. Yes, innocent enough. But as the days rolled by, slowly, there seemed to be an awful lot of attention from bandits on this one Wells Fargo Stagecoach. Even the Apache are harassing them half the time. It is like they cannot trust anybody! Along the way, skills no woman should bring to the trail arise. They will be needed, and soon. It does not become clear until the twelfth day, ...

If you like strong, determined, talented women who know what they want and how to get it, in a man's world that should preclude feminine values, you will love this book. The Alfuego is cast off from a Phyrric victory, lost in space for nearly three hundred years, stretching in light years to far beyond any part of space ever explored by man. Kept in sleep mode, they eventually are brought out to a solar system that shows promise. They have to settle somewhere, what else to do? Encountering those that would befriend them, and those that would happily eat them, Captain Leala Corrinder must ...

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.

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, ...