New Standalone Release

The Reluctant Tracker

Drafted into two years of exile at a California Ecology Corps camp, a young Navajo conscientious objector discovers he's the finest tracker anyone has ever seen — and soon sheriffs, the Forest Service, and the FBI all need him.

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Standalone Novels

Outside the series. New stories, new territory.

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The Reluctant Tracker
Drafted into two years of exile at a California Ecology Corps camp, a young Navajo conscientious objector discovers he's the finest tracker anyone has ever seen — and soon sheriffs, the Forest Service, and the FBI all need him.
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The Karate Chop Murders
A body washes up on a stretch of private California coastline so secluded the locals would rather hide a corpse than let outsiders set foot on their sand.
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Featured · 4 from Western Space Institute

The Western Space Institute

First contact. Space exploration. Sci-fi fantasy.

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Book 7 · New
Space Grooms
On Exoplanet Hispaniola, 597 light years from Earth, a matriarchal alien civilization faces extinction.
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Book 6
The Unwanted Alien
When pirates storm the Enigma-Novy Mir Space Station, astronomers Bret Texier and Sienna — a blue-skinned woman from the distant planet Zyska — are the only two who don't flee.
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Book 5
Andromeda Descending
Ancient stone runes etched with mysterious circles are surfacing across Earth, a barren exoplanet, and a dying alien world—all bearing the unmistakable signature of the Andromeda Galaxy, 2½ million light-years away.
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Book 4
Spike Camp #1
On a primitive Exoplanet 26 light-years from Earth, historian Dr.
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Book 3
Terminal City
26 light-years from Earth, on a world of perfect weather and buried secrets, a fragile colony rises from alien lumber and human grit.
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Book 2
Exoplanet 26
TODO
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Book 1
Stretching A Dream
This is book #1 in The Western Space Institute Series
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Featured · 4 from Jab Boone Mysteries

Jab Boone Murder Mysteries

25 psychological thrillers. Each novel stands alone, or read them in order.

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Book 25 · New
Rachel's Song
In the twenty-fifth (and final) Jab Boone Murder Mystery, Rachel Canaday, one of Jab's original high school tracking students, was found dead at the bottom of a canyon ravine.
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Book 24
Misfit Toys
Jab Boone and his wife had just begun a 10-day vacation along the Oregon coast.
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Book 23
Reindeer Games
Verna Claymore, a 16-year-old orphan, has run away from an abusive foster home in Seattle.
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Book 22
Antidote
A Mexican assassin, known as La Culebra, or The Snake, has taken his trade north of the border.
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Book 21
The Ghosts on Mt. Jab
Former FBI Agent Garrett Keating's treason conviction is overturned by the California Supreme Court.
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Book 20
Through the Blue Fire
A mentally unbalanced former student exacts revenge, killing thirty and wounding sixty others.
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Book 19
The Human Virus
An international assassin, known as The Operative, returns to his native America with a price on his head.
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Book 18
Claustrophobia
After convulsing and passing out in a plane, Jab decides to confront his lifelong fear: claustrophobia.
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Book 17
The Last Gatekeeper
The revamped Termite Brigade has been unleashed!
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Book 16
Bad Dominos
FBI ASAC Mickey O'Malley receives a desperate voicemail from a trapped teenage girl.
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Book 15
The Icicle Squad
Jab and his student trackers discover a commonality among missing teenage girls: they were all Girl Scouts!
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Book 14
The Cries of the Innocent
A year ago, Jab tracked the voice of Cristie Wickersham to her grisly resting place.
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Book 13
The Banner
Kaliningrad separatists murder a Russian diplomat on American soil causing an FBI manhunt.
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Book 12
The Vibe Patch
The President's 17-year old daughter is kidnapped along the Appalachian Trail and her Secret Service detail is wiped out.
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Book 11
The Chinese Box
A dying ex-GI, known as The Doorman, is killing American Indian brujos and shaman.
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Book 10
The Overdogs
Ezra receives an anonymous package on his front porch.
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Book 9
Tunnel Vision
Jab's town turns against him after his student trackers discover twenty dead girls were—drug-lord daughters of the Huerta Cartel!
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Book 8
The Ulcer Files
Ezra Parkinson discovers the American Indian that taught Jab's grandfather the art of tracking 40 years ago.
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Book 7
The Seventh Sense
Sheriff Corman, Jab's sworn enemy, recommends Jab to a Central California sheriff.
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Book 6
The Heir Apparents
A badly injured Jab Boone cannot directly lead the FBI against renegade ex-GIs targeting Muslim mosques.
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Book 5
Bread Crumbs
Jack Spangler, aka Spangler the Strangler, escapes from a prison transport en route to a super-maximum facility.
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Book 4
The Power Brokers
Jab Boone is lured out of retirement to track the missing brother of a fellow orphan.
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Book 3
The Caveman and the Dinosaur
A car-bombing, similar to the one that killed Tiffin Boone and friends four years ago, resurfaces in the Bay Area.
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Book 2
The Termite Brigade
A sheriff in Southern Oregon taps Jab to find a kidnapped charter school teacher.
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Wolf Meat
Leona Wilkes was a 15-year old daughter of a prominent NorCal family.
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