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Navy Captain Pete Adler has arrived at the pinnacle of a US Navy career. He is the commanding officer of an aircraft carrier. The first time he takes the ship to sea, a huge fire breaks out and threatens the survival of the ship and its crew of thousands. Many in Pete’s crew perform heroic and noble deeds, and the carrier is saved. But there is no rest for Pete and the crew. They must repair the ship and make their scheduled deployment date. Again the crew responds heroically. In the midst of the repair effort, Pete’s father dies.

Humanity is caught in the slow collapse of coastlines, governments, and trust. In the middle of this unraveling world stands Malcolm Carter, a quiet mathematician who turns to equations the way others turn to prayer. While nations argue and seas rise, he begins work that might rewrite the future one variable at a time. At his side, sometimes watching, sometimes guiding, is his daughter Elena. She grows up in a world of ash-darkened skies and half-finished theories, learning too young that brilliance can be both a gift and a burden.

Cullen McPherson, insurance agent, just wanted to get the refund check to his client. He didn’t know his client was a world-class spy in pursuit of a missing flash drive and other cryptic items held in secret by such characters as the Jewish proctologist and the Washer Woman. Cullen was chasing a man but, in fact, Cullen McPherson was chasing his own identity, long since undermined by a domineering mother and a weak father. It was here, on the bridge of one of these ships, he found himself, his value, and the captain who had always been....

Peace was always an elusive thing for Detective Carter Boyce, even before his wife died. Since then, living has become even harder. Now, investigating what looks like a murder suicide, Carter begins piecing back together a life he didn’t even know was broken. He stumbles back into his childhood neighborhood, where Old Man Kopchek is still missing a leg, but none of his acerbic wit. The old man begins teaching him the magic of savoring the mundane and the seemingly unimportant.

Dr. Paul Clarin was an "arrogant bastard". He will tell you himself as you start up the hill with him. Years ago, he just wanted to ask the old Navajo about the meaning of some words, copied onto what looked like deer skin. He didn’t know it would take days to tumble out in haunting images through the old man’s thoughts and words.

A horrific attack on a crowd ends with tens of thousands dead before Loren Parker wakes up in his bed, miraculously unharmed, two days before the explosion. Setalite City is on the brink of destruction, famous heroes and infamous villains are being systematically killed worldwide, and an unknown puppet master is pulling the strings. Lucky for him, Loren has all the time in the world to set things straight.

The lives of a young man and woman become intertwined as they struggle to survive during the Zealots' rebellion, 66-70 AD, against Roman rule in Judaea. Confronted with hostility and death from mercenaries, Roman Legionaries and their own people, they discover something that binds them together as they struggle to live for another day.

Corrupt heroes, twisted serial killers, and monsters from his childhood are starting to reveal themselves as the mystery of Setalite Citys unavoidable destruction slowly unravels. The problem is that Loren Parker is starting to unravel as well. The stress, violence, and inevitability of a doomed city are crushing him, and it's only a matter of time until he breaks.

Ex-Special forces Hugo Xavier and his team are catapulted into action when a deadly robbery takes place in Denmark. The thieves escape with a next-generation drone and the hunt is on to prevent an even deadlier attack to take place. At the same time, the secret Shadow Council sees an opportunity to gain more power as Hugo hunts those responsible.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

Gregory George Notso Normal, and five of his buds, after a couple of beers at the American Legion Post, decide to take on the woke, politically correct crowd. These woke, politically incorrect whippersnappers fill the World Wide Web with their truth. Which in most cases is not the truth at all.

United States Army Lieutenant Craig Benson finds himself separated from his unit in a country ravaged by insurrection and war. Bonding with a young woman, Benson struggles to stay alive as he tries to reach one of the remaining free states and sanctuary. It is a dark journey where life is measured in seconds.

History’s noblest nation, the United States of America, staggers on the verge of collapse. Amidst the turmoil of divisive domestic politics, the crush of oppressive government, the scheming of international conspirators, and the effects of a devastating pandemic, the final assault against the world’s last bastion of liberty has been launched.

Jorge Salazar is an initiated member of the Latin Kings street gang. When he finds his heroin-addicted mother dead on the bathroom floor, he begins to question everything about his life. Visualizing a high probability of an early death as a gang member, Salazar decides that escaping New York is his only alternative. He enlists in the United States Army, and after basic training, he is deployed to Vietnam where he faces the life and death challenges he thought he left behind.

Bucksburg is a rousing yarn set in a fictional gold rush town of Nevada in the late 1800s. It begins as a tried and true Western, but deviates into a powerful sci-fi/fantasy-style tale. Epic characters abound in this book, including three main role players: Ronan O’Sullivan, Abigail O’Sullivan, and Lee Mulligan. They all are devout adherents of the Divine Creator, a powerful deity that watches over His subjects on this other Earth. Opposed against them is the vile Dark Lord of Chaos and his evil servants.