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In Ghosts of the Klondike Tessa, now a more mature young woman than portrayed in the Boatyard Mystery, is solicited by her father to help solve a crime. The story takes her and her boyfriend, Jim Page, back to the Klondike, gold rush era where she must use her paranormal gift to discover the connection between a death at Eldorado Creek in 1889 and a current day murder of a young woman in Falcon Ridge.As Tess gets closer to the truth the hordes of Hell are unleashed against her and she must summon all her courage to face her own fears to solve the mystery.

No one knows why certain people are blessed with a paranormal gift but Tessa's abilities despite her youth, are extraordinary. Her psychic capabilities and capacity to manipulate certain metals with the power of her mind, make the teenager a helpful resource to her father, the sheriff of Falcon Ridge. Tessa's dog, Twaddle, her cat, Sheba, and a young boy from the wrong side of the tracks, are her closest friends. The Boatyard Mystery, a conundrum to the Falcon Ridge Police Department, begins to unravel under Tessa's penetrating visions as she applies the psychic gift to the disappearance of Mrs. Larson, wife of a local, Boatyard owner. The gifts, however, do not provide protection from the darker elements of the mystery and she finds herself in danger of losing her life.

The president of the United States and his chief of staff appear to undergo subtle changes in their normal traits and habits. A white house speech writer is surprised by his double in a Manhattan store and O'Malley suspects that a conspiracy to subjugate the country's political and military leadership through the introduction of high profile lookalikes is in progress. At first it is believed that a group of clones from a foreign country is responsible but the truth when finally revealed, shakes everyone to the core. O'Malley stumbles across Operation Terra Firma and finds himself in a fantastical world he once thought to be a figment of quantum theory. The FBI special agent finds himself in a life and death struggle against insurmountable odds to prevent a takeover of the world's most powerful military and the imposition of a new world order.

Merlin's War is a tapestry of different events sparked by the abduction of the world's most modern and powerful nuclear submarine, the USS William Taft. The instrument of this abduction is Merlin, a sophisticated quantum computer that is able to hack the sub's master control and render the crew powerless to prevent the use of the thirty ballistic missiles on board for the most horrific of reason: revenge. Dr. Merlin Jones, a disenchanted IT genius is the brains behind the abduction. He intends to make full use of the Taft's weaponry against the US and its government. Special Agent O'Malley of the FBI and his team of three, are tasked with the mission to find Merlin's lair, destroy the computer and bring its designer to justice, before Armageddon reigns down on millions of American citizens. In addition the crew of the USS Taft realize they are going to die and it is incumbent on them to sink their own vessel if the world's most powerful navies don't do it first. This page turner has many elements readers will enjoy. Political intrigue, adventure, submarine warfare, romance and a twist at the end the FBI never counted on.

Special Agent O'Malley of the FBI is tasked with exposing a group of conspirators, involved in the assassination of an American President. To aid him in this difficult investigation is a new innovation, the brainchild of the quirky professor Wheeler and his funky, outspoken assistant, Samantha Pink. The memory Sweeper is a Nobel prize-winning breakthrough, in quantum technology that allows an investigator to transport a conscious mind, into the memory of a targeted brain.

This historical romance, adventure story takes us back to the turn of the nineteenth century in the wake of South Africa's Boer War. Willy-John Satherwaite an ex-British soldier returns to South Africa to marry Clair, the love of his life and daughter of a Boer farmer. Two years later Willy-J's younger brother, Thomas, also an ex-British soldier follows and they decide to make a new life in Cape Town, South Africa. The brothers, with Clair and her mother pursue an offer of leased farmland up in the Northern district of the Transvaal and leave the city for the remote area of Kweetsa, to establish a hotel and stop-off point, on the road to Rhodesia. The saga of Thomas Satherwaite begins when his beloved brother is killed in a horse-riding accident and Thomas must now step into Willy-John's shoes to run their established businesses. The discovery of a mineral on the farm draws Thomas into an impossible situation with a group of unscrupulous, foreign money lenders and he is in danger of losing everything. His older brother's widow and business partner, Clair, becomes the focus of a breakup in the marriage between Thomas and Olivia, a rich Afrikaans farmer's daughter. Thomas travels back to England to find a means of defeating the moneylenders who are suing him for breach of contract. A young Afrikaans lawyer, backed by a rich benefactor must provide legal aid, before Thomas' life which is complicated by his drinking problem, disintegrates and his faithful horse, Dreamer must on many occasions deliver his inebriated master safely home. Thomas is a lonely individual, fighting his demons but finds friendship with an unlikely character-the young Sotho farmhand who supervises the farm's agriculture and herd of cattle. The story takes the reader through a gamut of emotions. Can Thomas and Clair's love flourish in the wake of his divorce and what will happen to them in the aftermath of the suspenseful legal trial? Experience the magic of the Bushveld and how life for the entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century unfolded in the Northern Province, during the days of the newly formed Union of South Africa.

The Pacific Northwest region of the North American continent is a prolific seismic area. The Cascadia Subduction Zone stretches from Vancouver Island down to Cape Mendocino, California, separating the Juan de Fuca and North American plates. It holds a great potential for spawning the 'Big One', a megathrust earthquake that could have devastating consequences for the region. Paul Brinkworth, a seismologist with the Geoscience Center in Victoria, a city of Vancouver Island and capital of British Columbia, has a dilemma. Due to recent seismic tremors, emanating from the neighboring subduction zone, he is convinced that a megathrust quake is about to take place. Does he go public with a theory and risk his career or does he remain silent, allowing nature to take its course? The beautiful Angeline Summers, the reporter for the Victoria Herald, is keen to exploit the rumor but that's not all she is interested in. A drama of non-stop action unfolds as Paul pursues the illegal activities of a drug cartel who have established their laboratory too close to his seismic monitoring station in the rainforest near Tofino, a small tourist town on the west coast. Paul and his family become the cartel's target when he discovers their illegal quest minutes before the largest earthquake ever recorded hits the Island. His life is suddenly turned upside-down by the seismic event with its devastating aftermath while he is forced to go to great lengths to protect the people he loves, not only in surviving the quake but in outwitting his adversaries. This gripping tale of suspenseful intrigue contains all the ingredients that will keep the reader turning the pages. Natural disaster, inconvenient love and survival against extreme odds are the elements that make this story a winner.

Welcome to the Graveyard -- Where the worlds of the living and the dead overlap.The sigh of troubled spirits drifts between ivy choked headstones. As the sun sets, follow the winding path between the yew trees to the place where lost souls gather, and settle in for a night of tales both disturbing and uplifting.A boy encounters a mysterious groundskeeper; two students unearth an ancient terror; and in the wilds of Africa, a hunter stumbles into danger. In a vision of the future, a blackened sky unleashes creatures of the night. Closer to home, a message from beyond the grave gives a young man hope.From the collective who brought you North by South West and The Dark Half of The Year comes a third anthology of 16 enthralling stories inspired by our many faceted relationship with the deceased and their place of rest.

This volume pays tribute to the memory and talent of David J Rodger, presenting a number of his short stories alongside new stories by friends and admirers; tales we believe would have raised a crooked smile.