Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.Shash Hayou had been lost in action..Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.Shash Hayou had been lost in action along with his best friend, Charlie Atene.But Charlie was alive. And the more Amber discovers, the more she questions everything she once held as true. * * *The Counterfeit Lighthouse is book one in the Navajo Footsteps in Korea series. Lisa's novellas are written without explicit intimacy or violence. As such they are suitable for teens and up. Half of all proceeds from this series benefits battered women's shelters.

Imagine you are reaching to take that amazing catch, you know you can't quite reach the ball, until you see the ball slowing down in the air. Time is slowing down just for you and now you can reach the ball and win the game for your team. What if time wasn't just slowing down every time you played but it was at school too. What would you with this ability and could you control it?Along the starway of infinity there are millions of planets just like Earth. We need not be concerned with them. There are however many billions more that are not like Earth – these represent the biggest threat to humankind.A slow moving, fragile rudimentary craft from the United States pierced the murky atmosphere of Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Strange cries, shouts and howls were captured by the ships aural detectors. The voices, if indeed they were voices, were not made by carbon based lifeforms. The Space Agency quickly issued reports that derided the cries as nothing more than some sort of interference or radio static.The collective mind of Earthlings however, is beginning to grasp the concept of intelligent life that is not carbon based. Such lifeforms may not even appear to be lifeforms to the primitive brains of the homo-sapiens.

Once in San Francisco, Agents 32 and 33 decide to take a trip to the curvy section of Vermont Street on Potrero Hill. Along the way a man tells them about a very unique game that was once played on the street. While walking back they find 'the one that got away' under a shrub. It's catch and release, though. Who will find it next? Another Psecret Psociety pshort pstory. Approximately 1600 words.Once in San Francisco, Agents 32 and 33 decide to take a trip to the curvy section of Vermont Street on Potrero Hill. Along the way a man tells them about a very unique game that was once played on the street. While walking back they find 'the one that got away' under a shrub. It's catch and release, though. Who will find it next? Another Psecret Psociety pshort pstory. Approximately 1600 words. Interesting Note: This little tale features the Mr. Malloy character - the same Mr. Malloy found in the novella Mysterieau of San Francisco.

Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through. He arrives to find that Davies has a small sailing boat (the vessel is named Dulcibella, a reference to Childers's own sister of that name), not the comfortable crewed yacht that he expected. However Carruthers agrees to go on the trip and joins Davies in Flensburg on the Baltic, whence they head for the Frisian Islands, off the coast of Germany. Carruthers has to learn quickly how to sail the small boat. Davies gradually reveals that he suspects that the Germans are undertaking something sinister in the German Frisian islands. This is based on his belief that he was nearly wrecked by a German yacht luring him into a shoal in rough weather during a previous trip. Davies is suspicious about what would motivate the Germans to try to kill him. Having failed to interest anyone in the government in the incident, he feels it is his patriotic duty to investigate further – hence the invitation to Carruthers. Carruthers and Davies spend some time exploring the shallow tidal waters of the Frisian Islands, moving closer to the mysterious site where there is a rumoured secret treasure recovery project in progress on the island of Memmert. The two men discover that an expatriate Englishman, Dollmann, is involved in the recovery project. Carruthers realises that Davies is in love with Dollmann’s daughter, Clara. Carruthers and Davies try to approach Memmert. They’re warned away by a German navy patrol boat, the Blitz, and its commander Von Bruning. This makes them all the more sure that there is something more than a treasure dig on the island. Taking advantage of a thick fog, Davies navigates them covertly through the complicated sandbanks in a small boat to investigate the site. Carruthers investigates the island. He overhears Von Bruning and Dollmann discussing something more than treasure hunting, including cryptic references to "Chatham", "Seven" and "the tide serving". The pair return through the fog to the Dulcibella. There, they find Dollmann and Von Bruning have beaten them and are seemingly suspicious. Von Bruning invites them to Dollmann's villa for a dinner, where he attempts to subtly cross-examine them to find out if they are British spies. Carruthers plays a dangerous game, admitting they are curious. But he convinces Von Bruning that he believes the cover story about treasure and merely wants to see the imaginary "wreck". Carruthers announces that the Foreign Office has recalled him to England. He heads off, then doubles back to follow Von Bruning and his men. He trails them to a port where they board a tugboat towing a barge. Carruthers sneaks aboard and hides, and the convoy heads to sea. Carruthers finally puts the riddle together. The Germans are linking the canals and the railways, dredging passages through the shifting sands and hiding a fleet of tugs and barges. The only explanation is that they are going to secretly transport a powerful German army across the North Sea to invade Britain’s east coast. He escapes after grounding the tugboat and rushes back to Davies. He finds him and explains how they must flee before the Germans come after them. They convince Dollmann and Clara to come with them to avoid Dollmann's being arrested by the Germans, who will think he has changed sides again. As they sail across the North Sea, Dollmann commits suicide by jumping overboard, presumably to avoid disgrace and probable arrest for treason. An epilogue by the "editor" examines the details of a report prepared by Dollmann, outlining his plan for the invasion force. A postscript notes that the Royal Navy is finally taking countermeasures to intercept any German invasion fleet and urges haste.

Blurb HalloweenHalloween is special for all kids and adults who still have a little kid left in them. I’m knocking on the door of seven decades of enjoying Halloween. I lived in a small town where a haunted house sat waiting for a foolish person to enter. I never did. I’m smarter than that; are you?This new edition of a classic story contains Charles Sheldon's original writing, with some passages sensitively abridged to allow his powerful story to come through for modern readers. Nothing in the storyline has been changed.A homeless man staggers into a wealthy church and upsets the congregation. A week later he is dead. This causes the Rev. Henry Maxwell to issue a startling challenge to his congregation and to himself -- whatever you do in life over the next twelve months, ask yourself this question before making any decision: "What would Jesus do?"The local newspaper editor, a novelist, a wealthy young woman who has inherited a million dollars, her friend who has been offered a professional singing career, the superintendent of the railroad workshops, a leading city merchant and others take up the challenge. But how will it all work out when things don't go as expected?A bishop gives up his comfortable lifestyle -- and finds his life threatened in the city slums. The story is timeless. A great read, and a challenge to every Christian today.Abridged by Chris Wright. Chris is the author of over thirty books, starting with young fiction for an English Christian publisher in 1966. He has written both fiction and non-fiction, mostly with a Christian theme, for a variety of publishers. Chris is married with three grownup children, and lives in the West Country of England where he is a home group leader with his local church. His website is: www.rocky-island.com.

Tenet and Scarab have built a life in Ogden. They've become members of the community and work hard to pay back the Celtists for giving them sanctuary. Then all at once, the peace and serenity they have grown to love is lost as their old lives finally catch up to them. With everything at stake, Tenet must find the strength to finally face his worst enemy and settle the old score once and for all.Six years after the Ogden Septad offered Tenet and Scarab sanctuary in their small mountain village, life for the Lornes is peaceful and calm. The pains and trials of their old life faded away into days of hard but rewarding work as members of a community. Tucked away in their comfortable cabin, it gets easier and easier for the Lornes to ignore the past and build a future. They could almost believe the rest of the world didn't exist outside the comforting protection of the forest.And then all at once, Tenet's new life crumbles as his past finally catches up with him. Not only does he lose everything he loves, but the lives of everyone in his new nation about are thrust into chaos with the threat of war. With the help of the Ogden warriors and a few old friends along the way, Tenet must find the strength to finally face his worst enemy and settle the score once and for all.

A disillusioned diplomat is lost between his morals in an Afghan town.A writer and a commuter meet in this thrilling short story.After reading The Commuter you will never look at your fellow passengers the same way again…The Commuter first appeared in Death Toll 2: Hard Targets (2013) - A powerful, pulse-pounding, crime thriller anthology that brings together nine exceptional authors: Stephen Leather, Matt Hilton, Alex Shaw, JH Bográn, Stephen Edger, Liam Saville, Harlan Wolff, Milton Gray and Scott Lewis.This is the first time that The Commuter has been offered as a stand-alone short, and it also includes a bonus preview of Liam’s first Sam Ryan novella, Predator Strike. Liam Saville is an Australian writer, and author of the military crime novellas, Predator Strike and Resolute Action.

Jeff Walker, a human from a Martian colony, is unwillingly transported to another universe through a wormhole, and finds himself in the middle of an intergalactic battle. He must join forces with a peaceful coalition of worlds to stop invading diabolical aliens from obtaining a death ray capable of destroying worlds. The key to his survival is deeply rooted in the human's own family's past.Jeff Walker, a human from a Martain colony, is unwillingly transported to another universe through a wormhole and crashes on a distant world, where he meets a race of peaceful amphibian-like beings. He discovers that a hostile race called the Tolarions have set up a base on the other side of their island. When they are threatened, Jeff steals a ship and leaves with two of the amphibians, Dormiton and Milgic, destroying the alien base, starting an intergalactic war. After their escape, they meet Zarcon, the leader of Belor, who is also a member of the Galactic Republic of Peaceful Civilizations, adversaries to the Tolarions. When Zarcon shows him a weapon capable of destroying worlds, his superior Riona accuses them of treason and being spies. Jeff must form unlikely alliances with beings unlike himself to find the truth of what's really going on. Little does he know that the deeper he digs into things, the more likely he is to find out about his own race's past and what really is the cause of the war. He and his small group of outlanders must somehow stop diabolical beings from obtaining the weapon and using it on every race in the galaxy.

The discovery of a new world may be the very thing that threatens the freedom of the human race and changes the destiny of mankind forever.The discovery of a new world may be the very thing that threatens the freedom of the human race and changes the destiny of mankind forever. Twenty-three years after the disappearance of the Mars I space shuttle, NASA receives a mysterious transmission from Adrian Palmer, the commander of the mission. Adrian's brother, Kevin, wastes no time funding the Mars II rescue mission commanded by Jake Palmer, Adrian's son. Jake and Dr. Steven "Skip" Hendricks, a NASA physicist, travel through a wormhole that Skip believes was the reason the Mars I crew disappeared. They eventually crash-land on the planet Terrest and are thrust into a war beyond their human limitations. The native Terrestrians are at war against a super-race of humans called the Gnols, led by Koroan Chast. However, the Terrestrian's struggle is futile because of the godlike abilities of the Gnols. Now, the only hope mankind has may rest on a 2000-year-old prophecy discovered in an ancient temple on Terrest. But before the prophecy can come to pass. Adrian and Jake must first stop the Gnols from attacking Earth and enslaving the human race.

A murderous vigilante gang on the prowl, a ruthless psychiatrist with a thirst for mind control, a poison-obsessed colonel backed by his own private army...it was a case straight out of Riley's Red Line Files and for cops with careers and lives worth preserving it couldn't get much worse - but for Furn and Breeze of the Rogue Intercept Police, it was time to play.In a post-apocalyptic world known as the Territory of Malm, infants are born soulless. With a hideous appearance and unquenchable hunger, they are kept out of sight until they are Chosen.Long ago, the residents of Malm placed their faith in the Office of Souls to lead them and keep them safe after the human race was almost destroyed in the time known only as "Before". But someone long forgotten has other plans, and that means unleashing unspeakable evil into their world.Soul Implantation Day 3675 starts out like any other, and follows the paths of six people who are destined to meet in the courtyard of the Fountain of Souls. They bear witness to a soul implantation ceremony gone terribly awry. Not all of them will survive, and some will suffer a fate far worse than death.Length: 25,000 words*This novella was previously released under the title "The Soul Garden".*The complete Twisted Souls series:The Soul Ripper (Twisted Souls #1)Twisted Souls (Twisted Souls #2)Soul Cycle (Twisted Souls #3)A Soul to Settle (Twisted Souls #4)

A short story about hunting waterfowl in Northeastern Wisconsin. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to head out to the lake on a cool November morning in search of waterfowl, this is the story for you!A short story about hunting waterfowl in Northeastern Wisconsin. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to head out to the lake on a cool November morning in search of waterfowl, this is the story for you!Also included is a short preview of Derrek's upcoming YA Fantasy novel, Threshold.

The government redacted the constitution until it was unrecognizable, and then the shooting started. The war quickly cut the food and fuel transportation, and ten years later people fought just to survive. Without a constitution the law was a gun if you were lucky enough to have one.***Please leave a written review of the book***Thank youThe authorWhat is the meaning of identity? A woman living in an isolated cottage on the central California coast watches the fog drift across a desolate landscape. Several miles to the south, another woman, a patient in a Santa Monica hospital who has survived a brutal assault, struggles to regain her memory and her identity.These two women are connected, but how? What brings them together? Is intensive psychotherapy the key to unlocking the mystery, or will something more uncover their shared bond?

Inspired by the song "Highwayman" written by Jimmy Webb. This is a short tale of Liam "The Red" Neal Sloan, a former carpenter turned brigand. This is the first in a series of four short stories, following the pattern of the songs verses. If you like this check out the other stories in the series 'Upon the Tide', and 'This Dam Life' out now.look out for 'In Black' coming soon.In this novelette, an anonymous author failing in his struggle with OCD begins the dark task of composing a suicide note to justify his exit from the world.In a story that reads part stream of conscious, part introspection, and part catharsis, the author's journey in writing the note encapsulates that long look in the mirror so many of us are afraid to take.

The story of a 10 year old boy who moves to the tropics of Broome, in the Kimberley, Western Australia. The journal follows him around Broome, setting up house, finding new friends and coping with the heat. Besides his adventures with the Scouts and tennis, he dreams of going places, mainly flying to the stars.The story of a 10 year old boy whose parents leave Melbourne and settle in Broome, 4,000 kms away in the tropics on Roebuck Bay.It tells of his adventures with other boys, his dog, Lassie, and how they cope in the heat. We learn about setting up house, starting at a new school, and living life very similar to Melbourne, except for the heat (though Melbourne has been having hot weather).In between his waking adventures with Scouts and tennis, are his adventures in his dreams. Guaranteed to keep a 10 year old amused.

Jack Straw is leaving Guatemala, while his girlfriend is staying behind in Central America. After a pleasant farewell Jack heads north into the sometimes violent state of Chiapas. Poor travel planning forces Jack to make a risky border crossing into Mexico.Follow humankind as they enter and live through the Singularity.