BOOK 2 in the ZONA book series. These are dangerous times in Zona as Grant Taylor leads the humans who survived the expedition to winter quarters deep in the core of the crater. Winter arrives as the sabertooth lions begin their campaign to overtake the entirety of Zona’s lands. They have a surprising new weapon that they use to defeat the dire wolf fighters in numerous pitched battles and skirmishes that threaten to drive the dire wolves from their high meadows and forests. King Warmdor asks the humans to join forces and protect the land they all love and to prevent the fall of the dire wolf Kingdom of Zona. No one can imagine a Zona ruled by the treacherous and dangerous Solomon, king of the felines.Read More

Good versus Evil. Some people do not have a choice about the path their lives may take. The future simply happens, or perhaps it is destined to be fulfilled in one way or another. Sometimes magic and demons are involved. Hunter is such a man who lived a remarkable life that was foretold and much anticipated by a secret mystical order. But he was never told of the order’s existence or what his role would be in their great plan. He simply lived his life and hoped for the best. He met with much evil along his path, and only learned of his true purpose near the end.Read More

Secret meetings in the Desert…Corporations and Cartels. Detective Lori Sanchez killed the son of a Cartel kingpin during a police raid near Phoenix. Now the kingpin wants retribution against her. He sends a world-class assassin to carry out a sinister plan. Guillermo Montero is forced to give up his career as a prison counselor. He accepts his first consulting job to organize a high-tech conference in a remote desert location. The conference is a cover for secret meetings between four chip companies that will develop a cutting-edge computing technology. Sanchez is in charge of security for the meetings to protect the principals involved and to prevent theft of company secrets. Then everything goes wrong. Industrial spies abound at the conference and assassins try to kill a company CEO.Read More

A snowy mountain rescue, wild horse rustling, grizzly bear mischief, a liquor store robbery in a small town, the lighter side of mountain living, and lost cattle. Tales of the Modern West is a collection of ten stories set in the Rocky Mountain West. They feature memorable people who populate the western states today and in the recent past. Read how Sergeant Hardy Harris, US Marine Corps, now retired, and his faithful canine companion, Old Blue, a personable Basset hound, save a bus full of Cub Scouts one winter. The pair returns to help round up rustlers stealing wild Mustangs from windswept mountains in rugged Wyoming. The other stories recount events and strong characters overcoming challenging situations.Read More

2023. The year that the final wave struck mankind like a viral tsunami.  COVID 19 type 2 has already decimated countries around the world, killing millions. But now the next variant arrives with a vengeance. Lieutenant Commander Logan Gordon already has his hands full fighting against the ruthless gangs that rule his native Chicago. He leads a special team of Chicago North Force fighters on missions against the Antifa Army that holds half the city and the Central Caliphate the controls the other half. His old boss, Admiral Cotes, tells him he is detailed to a secret special mission that might just save the nation from the scourge of a new type of disease.Read More

It is 1971 and espionage is in the air in Soviet Russia. Lena Kristoff is a researcher in the economics department at Leningrad Technical Institute. While working on the highest priority project of the time, a computer model of the entire Soviet economic system, she is inadvertently recruited by the CIA. If she can smuggle a copy of top secret files to the West, she can help change her country’s totalitarian government and buy freedom for her family. Then she meets an American CIA courier named Eric Larson and they fall in love. Seizing an opportunity to copy the model files, she gives them to Larson to transport out of the country.Read More

  Paul Martin joined the clandestine world of a CIA contractor and was shocked by what he discovered. Well, shocked at first. Then he got with the program.   He learned how to carry out illegal field operations, conduct questionable business practices, and survive dangerous spy games, all with the approval of Section Fourteen. Who were they? They were the shadowy group that generated the cash that a certain federal agency needed to fund its black operations worldwide. You know—undermine governments we don’t like, support revolutions, fund mayhem around the world in the interest of national security.   Can this possibly be how our renowned intelligence services operate? Who says it has to make sense.Read More

  A gruesome murder in a gym. A kidnapped witness. The cartel. . .   Phoenix Assistant DA Clara Alvera calls Detective Lori Sanchez in the middle of the night to report the gruesome murder of her friend—a reporter named Josie Vale. The reporter was developing a story about counterfeit prescription drugs and the powerful Maxx Pharma Corporation. Sanchez vows to protect the only witness named Lolita, a young gymnast.   As Sanchez builds her case, she learns that members of a local gang are perpetrating murder and trafficking fake pharmaceuticals. The Sinaloa Cartel—Sanchez’s old nemesis—is deeply involved.Read More

NOW AVAILABLE Einstein’s Raven/A Science Fiction Spy Thriller   Derek Phillips, a cutting edge programmer at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, is tasked to find out who is hacking into the lab’s secret files on “Harry”—one of the most advanced supercomputers in the world. His job is on the line. “Find the Intruder or seek a new career,” his demanding boss tells him.   Derek is between a rock and a hard place when he meets a mysterious woman named Raven who is seeking a secret charm from the past. She is beautiful, and clever, and has serious computer skills.Read More

Turmoil grips the Caribbean island nation of Grenada as its people await national elections.   There is mischief underway. Four nations compete to change the voting outcome in their favor, away from democracy and toward regional domination. What hidden forces are at work and who is behind them?   Journalist and secret agent Robert Wilson has only a week to unravel the clues and find out how to avert a soft coup d’état. He is joined by an aging English Lord named Lightchurch and his alluring Grenadian security guard, Madeline, in a tense search for answers before all hell breaks loose on the island.   A secretive Chinese company, a smoldering volcano, a torrential storm, a beautiful Venezuelan spy, a Russian oligarch. And the mysterious Black Freighter.Read More