Captain Noon is in his last year at college. He sleeps till noon, he dreams of being a pilot. Time and opportunities slip away in procrastination. The narrator, his father, recalls his own fathers instructions, play for keeps, and the head of his high school hoe-out your row. Get on with it. Finish what you do. A distant cousin Nora put off life and never got around to it. A thorn in the side of members of the family, Nora lives alone and has a stroke. She is the family historian collectin...

Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American HistoryA government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver tithe as the most valuable source of government income. This comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the most important th...

Jennifer Betsy Stevens Blue, a traveler from the Historical Institute in the future, 2022 to be precise, watches a man try to cross a run-off swollen creek and not make it.Rescuing him from the biting cold waters proves to be very interesting. And opens up more secrets than she might imagine. A gripping Thunder Mountain story that adds in yet another detail about the possible future of all humanity that can only be saved from the past.

Tombstone Dan loved his life in the Old West. He loved building a wonderful home in a hidden canyon.Over a hundred years later, known as one of the best forensic historians in the business, Margaret “Maggie” Lund finds herself faced with the impossible task of discovering if Tombstone Dan really existed.Two lives a hundred years apart twisting through history together.Written with attention to the real details of the Old West, Tombstone Canyon adds another riveting ...

Lake RooseveltA Thunder Mountain NovelIn a small diner on the Oregon Coast, Kelli Rae meets a handsome man named Jesse Parks. Turns out she had seen him in a picture taken in an old mining town in Idaho over a hundred years before.And even worse, he had been following her.A time-travel adventure in the popular Thunder Mountain series that promises to change everything about the series.The fifth standalone novel in th...

A crazy collection of twisted stories in the tradition of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, from the editor of Pulphouse, Dean Wesley Smith.Head-shaking stories such as the one about a cop with a rose for a head in search of the evil murderer The Pruner. Or the one about sentient boogers, or the tale of those pesky Martians…A truly hilarious batch of stories from some of the best writers working today.“Resolutions ’R Us” by Annie Reed“The Birth of Booger Nation” b...

Mary Jo hated her most recent job of killing a woman named Bonnie Malak. Something felt off.So Mary Jo, with her lover and fellow assassin, Jean, decided to figure out what seemed out of place.Sometimes a job to kill might not be on target.A Mary Jo Assassin Story of love, death, and friendship.

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping other ghosts move on by solving their own murders, to a ghost who writes letters to the living—these ghosts seem more alive than dead. Their sagas just continue into another realm.So, steel your courage and delve into these ten s...

Searching for a lost Seeder Mother Ship with over a million people on board might be an impossible task under normal circumstances, but the Mother Ship went missing over three million years earlier.Finding the ship poses immense problems. And the problems only start once they find it.An epic space opera tale on a gigantic scale. Another story in Dean Wesley Smith’s bestselling Seeders Universe.

When ancient alien technology is found on a colony world, when robot soldiers from an eons-old interstellar battle restart their war in a highly populated sector, when a global computer system starts to break down or take over, in goes the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Overseen by Captain Montgomery Scott from his office at Starfleet Headquarters, the S.C.E. can build, rebuild, program, reprogram, assemble, reassemble, or just figure out everything from alien replicators to to doomsday mac...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past.Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that she loves and studies, Professor Dawn Edwards can’t refuse. On the trip she meets Professor Madison Rogers, and they fall for each other before they even reach their destination.But living in the Old West proves to be a brutal task. Somehow, Dawn must survive to rescue herself...

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.Fiction River is an original fiction anthology seri...