A $12,000 bounty follows Jim Bannister wherever he rides—but in Hideout Valley, the greatest danger isn't the law.Still living under the false name of Jim Bryan, Bannister has found a temporary refuge as acting town marshal in the snowbound mining town of Morgantown. With the mountain passes blocked by winter, it's the closest thing to peace he's known since being falsely convicted of murder.But peace never lasts.When a drunken cattle baron is bruta...

Lynn is in her mid 30's. After a bad marriage, a period of discovery, and the finding, and loosing of the man of her dreams, she is working on herself. She is back to school for a new career, taking care of herself and casually dating a woman. She is at a place of satisfied balance. She meets Paul. He is younger, driven and also in school. This is the story of their meeting and first "date".

Adapt. Unite. Prevail—or Perish!After a massive trade war, the United States is bankrupt. Fewer than twenty states remain. New power structures have emerged; most Americans revert to the barter system. Although some traditional infrastructure remains, they hold on by a thread.A former detective for the Honolulu Police Department and a bounty hunter, Lonn Peters has been unemployed for months. He wanders the streets of Hilo, providing protection for local bu...

The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its many missions. Because of such high profile missions as Operation Neptune's Spear, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, JSOC has attracted the public's attention. But Americans only ...

Why did we let the machines assimilate our musical culture? In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’d ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels who’s values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI generated music takes an interest in the group of rebels...

Resurrection has a price—and it’s written in blood and steelTreeka was engineered to survive—but she’ll risk everything to bring her sister back from the dead. Her hunt for cybernetic parts pulls her into the clutches of Dr. Trackle, a corrupt broker with the resources she needs and a web of lies she can’t untangle.As her mission spirals into the shadows of the criminal underworld, Treeka uncovers a conspiracy that ties her sister’s resurrection to secrets ...

At high noon, the dusty border town of Laredo crackled with tension and anticipation. After years of terror along the Rio Grande, the infamous outlaw Bart Campion—the cunning, wolf-smiled killer whose name was spoken in fear from Texas to Mexico—had finally been captured and was set to hang for murder.The stagecoaches rolling into Laredo overflowed with gamblers, drifters, bounty hunters, and thrill-seekers eager to witness the end of a legend. Among them rode eighteen-year-old Mol...

Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder believes calm has been restored to his chaotic life after taking time to recover from the events of THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD. But when he begins working with a mysterious patient charged with setting a fire inside a church, his attempts at uncovering Jane Doe's identity bring dangerous consequences.Making matters worse, Chris' testimony against his half-brother in a high-profile murder case takes an unexpected turn, forcing him to...

She doesn't believe in magic. He is magic.Gillian Hohenwald knows magic isn't real. Her mother was delusional, as are her sister and aunts who claim to be witches—and who claim she's one, too. Like her father, Gillian believes there are rational, scientific explanations for all so-called paranormal phenomena. She's determined to find them, starting in the odd little town of Magic, New Mexico. What she doesn't expect to find is a sexy dragon shifter from another di...

HOPS FOR TODAY: Daily Meditations for Craft Brewers and the People Who Love Them is a page-a-day reader with a leap-year's worth of craft-brewed philosophy, written in the tradition of self-help daily reflections and intended for craft beer drinkers, amateur brewers, recovering beer snobs, and aspiring ones. Each of its 366 entries pairs a one- or two-paragraph meditation - on beer, brewing, history, philosophy, or the specific comedy of caring deeply about someth...

He's never met a dragon he couldn't master—until her.Katia's been lost since her liberation. Her wicked former master held her under his cursed thrall, forcing her to do his bidding, but freedom is its own prison. Red Dragons of Tarakona are warriors and defenders. But she has nothing left to defend, only a portal to guard, the portal that leads to a place called Earth and the enchanted realm of Magic, New Mexico. A distress call from the other side of the portal provides ...

Marcie and Emory are business neighbors and casual friends, both attracted to the other, but afraid to reveal it.