Life Long

By Ronald L. Ruiz

Ray Lopez is on the run with a duffel bag full of cash. Both drug dealers and the police are after him. But Ray is not a criminal. His last brush with the law was over traffic tickets. Recently released from the hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, he is haunted by voices, auditory hallucinations, that frighten him and cause him to question his every move.

Ray’s journey from California to Laredo is perilous. Like so many Americans before him, he travels through unfamiliar territory with no clear way of knowing who will help and who will harm him. And he may well find himself on the wrong side of the border with a mind that has no borders.

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Unbroken Beings

By Kristina Circelli

Evangeline Frost had a plan, once. Attend a prestigious art school, become a renowned painter. It was a dream she shared with her father, one that was ripped away in the car accident that claimed his life.

At California’s Kindred Hides Wildlife Preserve, Evangeline thought she had finally grieved for her father and moved on. But now, halfway around the world in Zambia at a new sanctuary for animals, Evangeline finds herself haunted by old memories … and a promise she has yet to fulfill.

Nightmares plague her dreams. Caster’s flirtations confuse her. And when poachers invade the preserve, they leave behind a devastation that threatens to break her apart.

Now Evangeline lives for a different dream: to save the lives of every animal who calls the preserve home, no matter the cost. A crusade that strains her budding relationship with Caster, a mission taking her further away from dreams of the past ‒ and gives her an orphaned elephant calf to call her own.

Evangeline Frost has a new plan. Protect the preserve and keep a promise that will finally heal her heart …or put her very life at risk.

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Joshua's Revenge

By Richard L. Wren

Joshua is a world renowned Martial Arts expert working as a Yosemite Park Ranger. He is assigned the task of finding and eliminating a Chinese gang that is killing and eviscerating Yosemite Park bears for Chinese medicine and that have killed his Ranger partner. The chase ranges from the back woods of Yosemite to the back alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown. Kidnappings, murders, gang warfare and treachery challenge Joshua's Ninja and Karate expertise as well as his mental creativity. It's one man against several gangs. Twists and turns abound as Joshua tries to solve the case and save his own hide.....

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The Archimedes Device

By C. M. Hanna and Michael C. Perkins

Throughout history, the protectors of its secrets have sacrificed their fortunes, their happiness, and even their lives. And when the device comes unexpectedly into the life of Rebecca Sanders, its effect is no less profound.

Rebecca’s journey begins with the unsettling disappearance of her mother, a respected Princeton professor. The only hints to her whereabouts are a series of clues left by an unknown scribe more than 500 years ago.

To track down her mother, Rebecca has no choice but to rely on the help of Mark Whitmore, a professional treasure hunter with obscure motives. Joined by her mother’s quirky assistant, they soon discover why Rebecca’s mother has disappeared: she’s searching for an ancient document penned by Archimedes himself, a blueprint for a mysterious device that could rewrite history.

The search for Archimedes’ blueprint soon takes a dangerous turn. As Rebecca and her unlikely partners work to decipher the ancient clues, they must stay one step ahead of a ruthless antiquities dealer who’ll stop at nothing to acquire the priceless document, and elude a secret society that has spent two thousand years hiding the truth of the Archimedes device.

From ancient Alexandria to medieval Constantinople to the streets of modern-day Manhattan, The Archimedes Device is an epic journey of adventure, intrigue, and discovery.

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The River

By Douglas Durham

It has only been a year since Jason Douglas, a retired thirty-year veteran police detective, narrowly escaped death in the desert of west Texas. After that harrowing experience, all Jason wants is time to recover from his wounds, both physical and emotional, and to enjoy his retirement as he’d planned. Accompanied by his wife Sonya, he points his RV north to continue their sightseeing travels across the American West. In Wyoming, Jason meets up with two old friends, the three planning a dream fishing trip. Just as metal is drawn to a magnet, suspense, danger, and death are once again drawn to Jason and his two comrades as they make their way into the remote Missouri River wilderness of northern Montana, known simply as “Trail 79.”

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The Dreaming Stones

By G. J. Busiko

After the discovery of a young indigenous warrior with radiation poisoning in outback Australia, a team of international experts from the United Nations Investigation Taskforce must battle mercenaries sent by a secret organisation to find the source. From New York, through Europe and on the Mediterranean Sea, former Australian Federal Police officer Joshua Carver searches for answers and discovers truths from the past that may forever change the world. His team must now protect humanities greatest secret and prevent an ancient alien device from falling into the hands of one of the most powerful families in history.

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China Jewel

By Thomas Hollyday

Media around the world cover an inspiring and beautiful ocean race as international tall ships once again sail the ancient tea route to China. Yet, beneath the bright sails hide evil and treachery as the competitors sabotage and even murder... each other to win the billion dollar prize.

The American entry is the Peregrine - a replica of a famous Nineteenth Century clipper with a mysterious past. Tough former soldier Jim Cutter is the ship's race director. It's his responsibility to ensure the ship makes it to its destination in one piece.

Then far at sea, the Peregrine disappears. Against impossible odds, Cutter must track down the ship and rescue its crew. Most importantly, he must still conquer his recurring personal demon. His only son is aboard. Cutter failed him once before - and he will go through Hell and High Water to bring him safely home again.......

Thomas Hollyday was born in Easton, Maryland. His father was an acclaimed photographer and his mother a brilliant teacher. His father's family were active in the history of Maryland since its settlement while his mother's family were prominent in Democratic Party politics. His grandmother's family descended from a well known German industrial family of Baltimore. He grew up in the southern atmosphere of the Eastern Shore with its maritime and military heritage. He studied writing with Elliott Coleman at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and with C.Michael Curtis of the Atlantic Monthly. He served with distinction in Vietnam and became a successful international businessman.He also drew illustrations for national magazines and published maritime and Civil War history. He currently edits popular video blogs on you tube for animal water rights and for book reviews. He draws the popular humorous Animal Viewpoint Cartoons for newspapers. He continues to please his fans with new novels in his River Sunday Romance Mysteries collection. In his fiction he describes his recurring theme that human settlers since prehistoric times in the Chesapeake region have left a mist of legend and history that permeates its modern stories with a certain compelling truth. At the same time he incorporates the stories of machines with those of their human owners. Each novel, located in the small town of River Sunday, Maryland, also records the continuing beautiful nature of the area. His writing portrays today's problems, conflicts, and memorable local characters with their loves and their combat with evil.

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Acaju

By Douglas Beye Lorie

Brazil. For Europeans in the 1700s, a frontier in which all dreams could come true. The dream of saving souls. The dream of scientific discoveries. The dream of wealth. Wealth from the sugar fields, only attainable with the enslavement of both African and native peoples. Wealth that can be created only from human misery.

Acaju begins with a baby left at the gates of a Catholic mission. The baby, named Jasy, is dark skinned but with blue, European eyes. Who was his mother? Who was his father? The child is raised in part by a priest who educates him and in part by a Tupi foster mother who shows him the ways of the forest.

Douglas Beye Lorie’s Brazil in Acaju is sometimes mystic, sometimes all too real. His characters—the priest, the healer, the botanist, the orphan, the slaver, the sugar baron, the mysterious woman who appears when her people need her and disappears into the forest again—carry this complex and satisfying story that will remind readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in its scope and beauty.

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Deer Keeper

By Geoffrey Waring

The West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand is a land of dense bush, rushing rivers, and a coastline of spectacular beauty in the shadow of the Southern Alps. It is wild wet country, a pioneering land that breed’s resilient people.

Three generations have wrested a farm from virgin bush and the McCorkindales share a remote valley with the wild deer that Hamish McCorkindale hunted in his youth and now farms in a nascent deer farming industry.

Hamish is duty bound to carry on his legacy…. until fate intervenes. A powerful corporation wants the land that holds his heart and a police Armed Offenders Squad want him for murder. Even for those born on the ‘Coast’ resilience may not be enough.

Memorable characters contribute to the events that follow; a Vietnam vet helicopter meat hunter, a vindictive policeman, a fisherman home from Antarctic seas, and a lawyer whose connections go to the very top in New Zealand's capital city.

This is a quintessential New Zealand story. No other place can bring together the unique strands of this saga. It is a gripping pioneer adventure, a love story of a man for his wife and the rugged land that formed him, and a tale of his fight against arrogant power defending the legacy entrusted to him. Here, both hunted man and wild stag, merge with the world of raw nature that bred them both.....

A product of small town New Zealand, author Geoffrey Waring went to sea at sixteen. After ten years wandering a wider world on NZ and Norwegian cargo ships he returned to NZ for deck officers examinations, but faster travel appealed and he gained a Commercial Pilot’s licence in 1967.

Over thirty years he's flown bi-planes to wide body jetliners. He’s lived and worked in places diverse as Port Moresby, Port of Spain, Jeddah and Johannesburg during his travels. After 40 expatriate years he returned home in 1997 to farm deer. He now lives on a lifestyle property where he indulges urges to write and talk to animals.

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Janapar: Love, On a Bike

By Tom Allen

It was the start of a brand new life, but Tom Allen’s bicycle journey round the world takes an unlikely detour when he falls in love with an Iranian-Armenian girl. Written alongside the award-winning documentary film of the same name, Janapar is an honest and life-affirming true story of finding what you’re looking for when you least expect it.

At the age of 23, Tom Allen quit a perfectly good career in IT in favour of a life of penniless, wandering itinerancy. He set off with a three-wheeled bicycle, a tent and a video camera, leaving his Midlands home with a madcap idea to cycle round the globe. Fate, however, had other ideas, and eight months into his ride, alone in mountains during a bitter Caucasian winter, he met Tenny -- the girl who would change the course of his journey and then his life.....

Tom continues to write and travel as a full-time occupation. He still has no fixed abode.

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Great Timber Race

By Tim Champlin

  

The map of America is changing--no less so in the brawling Pacific Northwest, where powerful lumber barons pit their ambition against settlers who've staked their lives on land they've reclaimed from wilderness.

Now, to expand their empir...e even further, the timber kings have declared a schooner race to the finish over raw, turbulent ocean. The stakes are a dazzling cache of gold and currency. The interested parties include a gang of hell-burning cut-throats--and Matt Tierney, primed to meet a lusty challenge from the sea. And to even a deadly score on land.......

Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only 80 miles from Jamestown, North Dakota where fellow western novelist Louis L'Amour was born 29 years earlier. Similarities in their histories don't end there. They both have French/Irish ancestry and the fathers of both writers were large-animal veterinarians--a fact that may explain their mutual love of horses, buffaloes and other wild and domestic critters. Drawing on his familiarity with the West,his knowledge of western fiction and his admiration for L'Amour, Champlin is currently writing Louis L'Amour's Wild West for Voyageur Press in Minnesota.

Champlin grew up along the fringes of the old frontier in Nebraska, Missouri and Arizona before moving to Tennessee. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined an offer to become a Border Patrol Agent with the U.S.Immigration Service in order to finish work on his Master of Arts degree in English at Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University).

Living in the West fostered Champlin's lifelong interest in outdoor sports such as shooting, tennis, sailing and riding. It also gave him a love of the Old West that eventually led him to write historical fiction. After he spent ten years selling magazine articles and short stories, Ballantine Books published his first western novel, Summer of the Sioux, in 1981.

One of the most underappreciated historical novelists, Tim Champlin is a treasure waiting to be discovered. With more than 35 novels to his credit, he is highly regarded for his literary style and well-researched stories that touch on almost every aspect of frontier America, from outlaws and lawmen, the U.S. Cavalry, Indians, prospector, stagecoaches, railroads, steamboats, to the Pony Express and the Civil War. As one of his growing number of fans says, "Champlin is a superb storyteller with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters and unexpected plot twists."

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Split Symmetry

By Kirsten Arcadio

It’s 2015. Dr Elena Lewis organises a charity hike in a notorious mountain range in Italy, but the presence on the hike of her estranged patient, James Dennison, unsettles her from the start. When a landslide splits the group, Elena must re...turn to the mountain overnight to save her friends. But she is thwarted by illegal scientific activity and the worst earthquake the region has ever known.....

Kirsten Arcadio has written three novels, each with a different speculative theme. After working for over fifteen years in digital communications, she returned to her twin first loves of literature and philosophy in 2011. She’s passionate about the big questions in life and how these can be explored using speculative fiction.

When she’s not writing she’s obsessing about Sci Fi or Nordic noir. She loves all things Italian, including her husband, and she once taught English in the Italian senate.

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Adventures of an Idaho Mountain Pilot

By Harold Dougal

Harold Dougal got into flying when flying was young, and spent his life as a professional pilot, most of it in a part of the United States that "stands on end." In this book of true tales, in addition to sharing dos and don'ts of mountain flying, he tells about early aircraft and aviation, about life in remote parts of Idaho, about people he's met and places he's gone, and of adventures made more exciting by mechanical failure, bad weather, cattle or tractors on the runway, airfields that can only be successfully approached one way, customers who ask the impossible, odd characters met in small towns, student pilots who haven't yet learned to navigate, and more. Illustrated with photos and line drawings.

Harold Dougal's first flight was in a Tri-Motor Stinson in 1937. He went on to fly almost anything he could get his hands on, in an aviation career that spanned decades. He was chief pilot for Bradley Mining Company, general manager for Boise Air Service, chief pilot for Mackay Bar Corporation, and chief pilot for S.P. Aircraft. He also helped build two ranches in the Idaho wilderness. He is a veteran of World War II, having served in the United States Navy. He took his pilot training using the G.I Bill. He logged more than 20,000 hours flying time by 1989, when he retired from commercial flying. After that, he continued to teach students and give flight reviews.

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