In 1999 Australia, Sergeant Rick McCoy investigates the murder of a woman found packed inside a suitcase. The Killer abducts another victim and threatens to dismember her slowly. His life is further complicated by a marriage in tatters. Frustrated at every turn, he is paired with glamorous Criminal Psychologist and profiler, Patricia Holmes. While trying to rebuild his marriage, he finds himself in a desperate race against time to free the victim and fight his desire for his new partner. Views: 106
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and tastes changing as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. Through his attachments to the ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, he might just regain the sense of family he desperately needs. Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America's smoky, turbulent cities, the new transcontinental railroad that takes passengers over prairies and mountains to California, the dance halls and parlor houses, the financial booms and busts, and historical luminaries like Mark Twain and Jesse James. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who likes a good read, If I Never Get Back well deserves the Cleveland Plain Dealer's... Views: 102
A Peek Into Chapter OneWorld War 2 is going against the British and Hitler develops the ultimate weapon: An Atomic Bomb. Where is Winston Churchill? There is a bonus for the reader with this story.A Peek Into Chapter TwoOne of the 1800 Club members is threatened as his great grandfather dies in the American Wild West.The 1800 Club is a 21st Century haven for people seeking to escape New York City's frantic pace. Dressed in clothes their ancestors might have worn during the 1800s, members enjoy foods of the period and read periodicals featuring news of a particular date in 1865. However, the 1800 Club also has an astounding secret . . . Time Travel. Members travel back in time nudging famous persons and key events just enough to ensure history unfolds, as it should. Guardians-of-the-past, living in 2066, send robotic probes back through the ages, discovered that, at critical time-junctures, pivotal figures stray from vital tasks and actions. These Time Watchers of the past can't go... Views: 70
Evelyn Merkholtz never dreamed she'd be an unemployed single mother in a foreign land. When her ex convinces her to move back in with him until she can find a job, she jumps at the chance to leave the spooky old castle she's been living in with her batty billionaire best friend. Sam seems to have completely moved on - and she has too, of course - so it should be a breeze living with him in his cozy little cottage. There's absolutely no danger they'll get back together. Except he's such a good dad, and she finds herself staring at the spot near his collarbone she used to love to kiss, that it gets harder to remember why they broke up in the first place. Sam and Evie is a standalone novella in the Lost Highlander series. Views: 63
Chapter I The Great Britain MissionThe Hawker Hurricane, one of the most famous British fighters of WWII was never designed and built stripping Great Britain of the needed help during the Battle of Britain and ensuring that they lost not only that battle but the war. Once the Royal Air Force was defeated, Hitler's armies invaded and conquered the island nation. They then took the rest of Europe and later Canada with their next target: The United States of America. All of this happens because a horse and buggy ran down the aircraft designer, Sydney Camm when he was a little boy. The 1800 Club is given the mission to go back and prevent that from happening and the club's president, William Scott, decides to take two other time traveling companions along with him. It turns out that there is enough twists and turns for the three men.Chapter II The Jessie James MissionWhen young Jessie ran with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, he found a letter written in French... Views: 63
