It’s time to get to work!Traveling using Beryl Markham’s identification, Tina Clarke takes Bobby Black’s advice and travels to Gallup, New Mexico to meet a lawyer there—Stella Meyers. Stella is supposed to set up a company for her, to provide a cover so she can get to work helping people, and begin searching for answers about why her team, Squad Four, was betrayed, and by whom.Making friends, especially getting to know a deputy sheriff named Jeff Nez, and t...

Murder is always darkA private investigator finds the dead body of a man being investigated by another investigator. A possible suicide with a lot of reasons not to kill himself, and other people who might want to do it for him.A hard-boiled story of death and betrayal, with enough twists, enough double dealings to satisfy fans of Raymond Chandler.Get a copy now!

It's the entrepreneurs leading the space raceColonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments.This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.A short, humorous look at space piracy -- and p...

It was a true story that he heard when traveling in the Caribbean. A story of a crime, of a murderer who had escaped prison. Now, repeating it casually in a bar in SE Asia it triggers a strange and unexpected response.He’s a writer backpacking in Asia and finds himself a quiet place to work. Settling into a guest house in the off-season, he wants to work on a crime story. The setting is congenial, and he finds a bar girl who wants to be his muse.Once he tells the story, spi...

It's a disaster of a marriage and now she's being blackmailed... What is a girl to do? Being married to Bart Titus gave Lisa a great deal... money, position, all those things she'd thought were important. But it was also boring. A trap. He was controlling. So when she went to Mexico for a vacation, she decided to have a little fun. But sometimes fun catches up with you, and now she was being blackmailed. So one problem had become two. A clever and impatient girl like Lisa isn't going to le...

Trouble is brewing on an island paradise. Not only is there a stranger sitting out on the boat of that nice French couple looking all suspicious, but Martha's skillet has gone missing. She's starting the morning fixing up and it ain't in its place. It gotta have been thieved! Johnny gotta find out who doing them things.~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~On that fine sunny morning Caleb drove his old Toyota van carefully down toward the beach, trying to avoid the broken glass left from a be...

“It's not the destination, it's the journey.”That little bit of wisdom is according to none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfortunately, Ralph never managed to drive the back roads of the southwestern US. If he had, like Horace and Irma he would have learned just how interesting a journey can be when you travel the back roads that crisscross the wide open country.Those two love to wander and see what's out there, even if it's nothing. They've got differen...

How much help f do you want from computers?I mean, really want?When technology makes life easy for you, it’s sweet. And Jess’s new home is marvel of modern technology—a smarter than smart home. And it’s also built to help him with his work, making his influencer videos.A muse is great. Automating boring stuff is even better. But how much creative help is too much?Better to ask the questions up front. Help comes at a price and it’s smart to k...

It's the entrepreneurs leading the space raceColonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invunerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments.This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.A short, humorous look at space piracy -- and pe...

When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don't go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he's exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.

How would you know when the last of anything is gone?Everything has an expiration date, a point that it simply is no more. Most of the time we aren’t even aware we’ve reached that time until we look around and see that our era has ended, our favorite ice cream flavor is no longer made, we can’t get a telephone that doesn’t connect to the internet, or the last duck is gone.This is a story about two people, quite like us, living in another time, a difficult t...

Cities are breeding grounds for possibilities…Almost anything and everyone has a chance to be good, bad, heroic, evil, mundane, and magical. And most things, and people, are hybrids.Consider the countless opportunities for people to develop unique, innovative solutions to their problems; consider the challenge of surviving in the chaos of a teeming city where survival is a challenge; consider the opportunities for complete failure; and consider the options ...