When ex-FBI agent Rebecca Marte considered the possible challenges of her new career as a private investigator, she never thought one of them would be to investigate a witch charged with killing a man during a coven ritual. The job should be easy as six icons of the St. Louis business community, the rest of the coven, had seen their High Priestess, Della Bergeron, standing over the body, covered in blood, declaring she'd kept her promise to be with him to the end.Unfortunately, Reb...

A suspenseful whodunit, where not all the suspects are humanFinalist, Wishing Shelf Book AwardsRecently graduated Ruger-Phillips employee, Dr. Sam “Doc” Price, is looking forward to his new project—evaluating training for a team. But it’s a team like no other because only one of the team members is human. The other is one of the most intelligent and lethal machines ever built by man – the Joint Aerial Combat Capability (JACC). Load...

2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree**2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist**In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Try...

After technology robbed Randy Hutton of his livelihood, will it also claim his mind?Isabella Hutton was the up-and-coming star at Breakthrough Systems, leading a project that would help artificially intelligent computer systems work with their human counterparts. All the smart machines needed, she reasoned, was a better understanding of the strengths and limitations of their human coworkers. And so, she loaded her software with the accumulated knowledge of the huma...

Bullied to death in the boardroom?Private Investigator Rebecca Marte doubted it. Since when would the president and CEO of a highly successful company find the criticisms of his subordinates so destructive to his self-image that he would commit suicide? That, however, was what her new client, Nicole Veles, claimed.Nicole painted a toxic, if not criminal, picture of defamation leading up to the man's death. And after his demise, one of his most vocal detract...

A suspenseful whodunit, where not all the suspects are human.Recently graduated Ruger-Phillips employee, Dr. Sam "Doc" Price, is looking forward to his new project-evaluating training for a team. But it's a team like no other because only one of the team members is human. The other is one of the most intelligent and lethal machines ever built by man - the Joint Aerial Combat Capability (JACC). Loaded with the latest in detection and threat assessment techn...

2019 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree2018 Wishing Shelf Book Awards FinalistWhen you talk to yourself, there’s only one voice. When you picture something, there’s but a single mind’s eye.Recently graduated psychologist, Dr. Sam “Doc” Price and his inexperienced team had always held those principles to be true…at least, under normal circumstances. But as they studied the work of Dr. Ned Worthington, a brilliant but troubled neuroscientist,...

When Jesse Bolger ran into an old acquaintance from his high school days, Robert Gleason, he wondered if the man still had an imagination that was unencumbered by reality. His question was answered in the affirmative that evening. After insisting they talk inside his homemade, electronically-shielded room so no one could listen to their thoughts-no tinfoil hat was good enough for Robert-he confided that he'd stumbled onto two KGB-era Russian spies intent on destroying the United States. An...

Sometimes, Wilford DeBeer's high-risk, high-reward financial plans worked, and when they did, the clients of DeBeer Wealth Management lauded his brilliance. Unfortunately, sometimes they didn't, and people lost their businesses, their retirements, and sometimes their lives. So, when Henry Jansen, who was caddying a round of golf for DeBeer, pulled a gun and killed him, the reason seemed obvious.It wasn't. Jansen had never been a DeBeer client.Four days later, Jansen was ide...

When Violet Cruz accused U.S. Representative Alan Barclay of being "the spawn of a Martian whore" and took a shot at him, everyone agreed that she was delusional. It was just another conspiracy theory in Washington, DC, where such bizarre claims had become all too common.Tiring of the media harassing the family, however, Cruz's cousin brought the case to Private Investigator Rebecca Marte. She figured that the public was probably right. Rebecca was, however, willing to give the cas...

It was spring in the Midwest and the perfect storm was brewing.A scientist of considerable renown, Dr. James Conroy, Jr., was leading a grassroots movement to improve access to medical treatment in the United States. At the same time, a group known as the Crusaders for Common Sense was rallying around the cry, "Stop Playing God with Medicine." Claiming that medical science merely maintained the body while the soul rotted from within, they stood opposed to Conroy-violently opposed.

2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree**2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist**In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Try...