Shane, Evelyn, Connor, and Valerie. Non-siblings bound together since conception by a connection only they have. They also share an invisible friend.But not all invisible friends are necessarily imaginary.Consider Anotrothe. Friend and gentle guardian with powerful psychic abilities, he is invisible to everyone except them until they are twelve, when he appears and becomes a teacher at their school.One day, he tells them that the connection they share gives them the...

Cady and Sam don't like excitement. So, they have good reason to love their lifestyle in the small town of Matthews, N.C. They've got a cute kid, good jobs, great neighbors, and their home beats the wheels off their last address. Unfortunately, interruption rears its head when it's least expected, leading to that unwanted unrest they've been avoiding. What's a couple of homebody werewolves to do?

Boucher's World, where every sentient being is endowed with psychic abilities.But, having these abilities hasn't been any help in getting them out of a dome that covers their entire continent, effectively keeping them imprisoned.No one knows who - or what - erected the dome. Or why. It appeared a year after Earthlings joined another race, the Elwists, on the planet in the Epsilon Eridani star system. Its presence effectively cut both races off from their home worlds, and th...

Abandoned on an alien planet, Second must learn to co-exist with a group of primitives in order to survive.A tale of the acceptance of differences and of unconditional love.

These Five stories predate the Boucher's World trilogy of "Emergent","Transformations", and "Encounters":SEED (A novella)In an event that that initiates the Boucher's World saga, a young spaceexplorer, a member of a psychic race called Elwists, is stranded on analien planet and has to learn to survive among primitives.*SWALLOW AND DOVE: A TALE FROM THE TURMOILS(A novella)Dove is an unusual Elwist, one that is spoiled and used ...

Appearances can be deceiving. He's not what he seems to be. Neither is she.They represent opposing factions in an engagement on which a lot is riding. He has always been a wily fighter for his team and has many victories under his belt. She has certain attributes that led her Captain to specifically choose her for the contest.But there is a loophole and winning is not a given - for either participant.

Charlotte, North Carolina, is an area where earthquakes are uncommon, but one bright morning it is struck by one so vigorous that it forms deep crevasses in the ground, knocks out communications, and leaves the city in disarray.Can a bodyguard and the bodyguard's two clients who were about to board a private plane along with a tag-a-long passenger, get to the bottom of why their trip to Columbia, South Carolina has been so disastrously interrupted?They don't know, but havin...

The dead body and illicit drugs in Paul Hampton's bedroom have him making a rapid retreat from his rented duplex. There's also something else in there, and it has his brain wobbling.It's the middle of the night, and when you're in a crunch and need a place to stay but have worn out your welcome everywhere else, family is supposed to help you out, right?That might depend on what happened the last time they saw you, and whether or not you tell them the truth about it now.

It is the year 2047 and twenty-five-years-old Tennessee Murray has realized his ambition to teach and his dream of publishing a book. He is preparing to marry the love of his life and things couldn't be better.Then one morning he steps out into foggy weather and finds the world has taken a turn for the extremely bad.In a matter of minutes, half the population of Earth dies in a horrible fashion. It's not an ultimate war or biological disaster, and no oversized meteorite hit...

Because of biological warfare thousands of years ago, Earth was nearly destroyed and its current inhabitants are struggling to survive. Unbeknown to them, they are being aided by outside forces whose aim is to repair the damage done to the planet and restore it to a viable state.One such restorer, bearing the title of Sower, is among those tasked with performing a necessary function that will rebuild the diminished population. This is done by - well, let's just say that he gets the...

The teenage years can be a stressful time. However, for Lyssa Brunner, life is pretty smooth. She is an only child and has parents that cherish her and sees to it that she has the best of everything.She is sixteen years old, a little shy, a little nerdy, and a lot naïve. She enjoys school, where she is a model student making good grades. She looks forward to attending book and chess club meetings, playing online video games, going to the occasional sci-fi or fantasy movie, and hangi...

Red has planted her very first vegetable garden. She is tending it when she makes a surprising discovery: fish aregrowing on her tomatoes.With the help of friends that are… let's just say they are as unusual as Red, she sets out to learn why this has happened -and why flocks of birds are trying to steal the fish.(Set in the universe of Cady and Sam, a short story series about werewolves and other paranormals.)