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The Hundred is a full length novel, available in paperback and Kindle formats.
After finishing medical school on a military ticket, Dr. Audie Harwood, along with her parents, sister, and husband, Morrow, joins a colony on the idyllic planet Oma. A deadly plague breaks out. Audie and Morrow helplessly watch her family die. As the plague rages across Oma, Audie is called back up into military service and dispatched to check on Eden, a fringe settlement, whose members are thought to have all died. What she finds there brings danger and hope in equal measure, and begins a race with extinction for the human population of Oma.
Chameleon is a short story available in Kindle format.
Special agent Jelina Kohl just can’t catch a break. It seems that everyone wants her dead. Or do they? Killed in a bomb blast, and brought back to life, she now has something everyone wants. Will she survive long enough to find out what that is?
Short Stories
Andy
Andy laughed as the eight week old pup licked his face. This was the dog he would take home. Ginger, he would call her. He beamed with pride as she sailed through obedience, raised an accidental litter of pups of her own, and saved both Andy and his wife when their home caught fire. She sat at his side, old and arthritic as he worked in his study, and he held her and wept as she died at fifteen. Fifteen years relived in minutes- it was frustrating to Andy that although he could remember every detail of his life, it played out so quickly. How many times had he relived Ginger’s life, his wife, Carol’s? How many libraries had he read and reread?
“Fourteen sixty-three B has just inhabited.”
Kayal looked up from the data stream he had been studying. It had been a slow night and he had spent it rereading Miasma’s early history. He knew it by heart now, despite having to learn it, rather than just owning the knowledge as everyone else did.
Thirty-seven hundred years ago the colony ship Fulfillment, on route to an approved, class M planet, had somehow been forced to abandon its trajectory and take orbit about this inhospitable world. Miasma’s atmosphere was poisonous and there was little land mass on which to settle. With no other choice, Fulfillment’s AI woke the settlement team from stasis.
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