Books

A short story when Alex Blackhawk was young. This is a prequel to Deflection, A Race Against Time. In this story, he has a magic amulet that saves him and his friend from a couple of bullies.

This is a short story prequel to Where Did They Go? It’s how the little gnome arrived in Vesda and met Susan

This is a prequel to Similar But Not the Same how Alice found her cat.

A collection of short stories related and not related to my current novels. From science fiction, urban fantasy, and prompts I have written.

This is a compilation of short stories either related to my novels or something completely different.

The Hounds Howled shows the relationship between my protagonist in The Takers and his old schoolmate, Frank Wolf. The Mirror is a bridge between my fantasy and the sci-fi novels, which are 300 years apart.

The Balloon Ride and An Easter Tale are...

Short stories related to my novels from Valentine stories from science fiction to urban fantasy. How would my characters celebrate Valentine’s Day? Read and enjoy

Susan discovers elves and Hobs decorating eggs for the Easter Rabbit.

Updated 08/06/19

Short Christmas and holiday stories, some involving some of my characters.

This is a holiday short story when Susan tried to find a turkey for her friend’s dinner. Wednesday night, two semi-trucks show up with 4200 frozen turkeys. Who ordered these?

Crime and paranormal come into play in this small town mystery.
As if Susan’s life isn’t complicated enough, her friend is accused of murder, a palm reader moves into town, and her boyfriend’s daughter comes to stay with her. While Susan helps her friend, her magical friend has some surprises up his sleeve to save his world. Updated 1/2/25

Amid Susan’s fantasy friend’s distractions she’s determined to visit her boyfriend’s family in Colorado.

Once she arrives, his daughter refuses to accept her. When the young girl turns up missing, someone wants ransom money. As a favor to a friend, she visits an old bookstore, with more mysteries than she bargained for with a surprise or two....

Spring is in the air in this small Idaho town, that is, until a strange death is found (Book 4 of 4).

When the witch escapes from her confinement, she’s looking for those who imprisoned her. Susan becomes desperate after watching her town come under siege. Will she convince her friends to help her destroy the witch once and for all?

Susan gets to go on a cruise around Hawaii. She takes off with her best friends. All she wants to do is relax and read a good book, but soon her wonderful vacation turns into a horrible nightmare. Mysterious events related to the ship’s past begin to happen. She runs away from thieves and escapes her tormentor with the help of an on-board...

Fantasy, murder, and magic takes over this small Idaho town. Susan just wants a fun activity to keep busy, so she learns how to create pottery, but the experienced potter dies. Her friend, Hobnobby, wants to be independent and discovers a strange world under the streets, but thieves are using the entrance to store their loot. He solicits Susan’s...

Susan was devastated when her husband died in a car accident. Friends and family cannot fill the void left in her heart from his passing. Follow Susan as she unravels this tale of mystery and murder. After discovering small items disappearing around her home, She finds herself laying on the ground in a another world. Each person she encounters...

The life and times of Charlie Dane in the 25th century is mixed with good intentions and brushes with the law . He dreams of being the best pilot flying to the Moon and Mars. As he settles on an alien planet, he recounts segments of his life after seeing something he shouldn’t during a flight to the Moon, and narrow escapes from alien natives.

Three hundred years after the Advent of the Robots, Charlie Dane salvages the wreckage of a lost space shuttle.
Now, the owners will stop at nothing to take it back. Not only is the Operations Manager not happy with his venture, he is chased by the owner’s android and discovers their secret.
Updated 7/1/24
Next book in the Series: Matrix #...

A teen girl witnesses a phenomena as she returns to the Martian base.

While interning in the Martian base station, Felicia learns the local aliens are quite different than the boys on Earth. After several mishaps with the aliens, she helps a specter return back to the Martian canyon.

In the next Blackhawk File, a return cargo ship from Mars reports a body of a missing researcher (Book 8 of 10).
When a return cargo ship from Mars reports a body of a missing researcher, Alex Blackhawk goes undercover. Before he knows it, he’s kidnapped to Mars. His wife has no choice but to head for Mars after overhearing an incriminating...

In the 25th century, humanoid androids are becoming commonplace but someone wants them destroyed.
A nine year old incident comes to light from an incriminating letter left at the police station. Detective Alex Blackhawk is asked to review the incident while he and his team are investigating why the androids are being destroyed. When humans make...