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RECIPE FOR ADVENTURE 1 spunky widow 1 hateful church lady 2 sailors & 1 checkerboard 5 little darlin's + I smarty stinker Add 1 apron pocket full of jewels Mix well and bake in the 1890's Galveston heat Myra Gallaway, a young widow with five children, supports her family by walking the wharves of Galveston selling homemade sweets. She never imagined she'd be joining forces with husband-hating church society queen, Julia Jameson. Myra's apron pockets are soon filling up with the unspendables man smuggling sailor friends Sure Foot and Black Jack need to move. The Klondike gold fields are calling hapless dreamers and the boys are all about obliging them, yet everybody knows that a sailor cannot spend what he does not earn. My goodness, those unspendables are one serious problem!

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."Lao TzuDebauchery is the triquel to A Harem Boy's Saga, a provocative story about a young man who was initiated into a clandestine sexual society through his UK boarding school. From there, he was spirited to the Middle East to attend the Bahriji (Oasis) School in The United Arab Emirates in preparation for Harem services for the wealthy elite.It is also a love story between the young man, his 'Big Brother, ' and his 'Valet, ' who served as his chaperones and mentors.This book follows the teenagers' erotic and exotic adventures and experiences at their third Arabian Household Harem, the Quwah. There, they becameconfidants to a prince, assistants in an international dance club venture, "Carousel," and apprentices and models in a controversial photography project, "Sacred Sex in Sacred Places."This story is an account of the author's experiences. Through these truths, often demonized by contemporary societies that deem such behaviors inappropriate, the author hopes to dispel condemnation and negativity related to sexuality, love, and personal freedom.A Harem Boy's Saga is a series of seven volumes.

Alex Starkey is a normal teenager with unfortunate initials. Initials which have been his nemesis his entire life. Initials matter when all the kids call each other by them instead using their names. If that isn't awkward enough, there's Payne, who's made a career out of bullying kids he thinks deserve it. Alex's inits make him a target. Alex can deal with that on his own, until Payne crosses the line and tries to force him into doing things with long-range consequences. That's when Alex stands up and faces him down.

Becky is in jail. The charge? Murder. There's also a very deep and dark place inside her own head that she's found, crawled into and pulled in after her. That's going to be even harder to get her out of than jail, which will be plenty difficult by itself.Amy is doing everything she possibly can to clear Becky. She has identified the actual killer and is working hard at getting the goods on her. Amy knows exactly what she needs to clear Becky, if she can only get the crucial evidence in time. It would be hard enough to do for any client, but when it's someone Amy has internalized to the degree she has Becky, her cousin and best friend, she can't even defend herself against the pain and agony she goes through when she fears she won't be able to do it in time.When she ends up hauling the killer into court, she's lucky enough that the victim's widow screams out in open court that she'll kill Amy just like she did her no-good cheating husband!That works. It gets Becky out of jail.Getting her out of that pit in her own mind is going to be lots harder.Especially when Becky confesses to Amy that she has become so introverted, so fearful of making new intimate connections with people, that the only man she could possibly have a relationship with now, the only man she wants, is Amy's husband. It's ripping her up inside, because she can't do that to Amy. Or Alec either, for that matter.How much does Amy love Becky?Really?Amy sees one way out, but that means trouble.

Selena Dillon and her team return to Loreen after their attack on Mantis, only to find the myriad worlds of Mankind once again plunged into war. As the Penal Regiments are betrayed by the Federation of Man, and fighting spills throughout the galaxy, the dreaded Manta raise their heads once again.Selena soon finds herself trying to track down her friends' daughter, Hope, from the rabbit holes of Loreen and then fights to free her home planet from alien invaders.While a general amnesty means previous sins are forgiven, the Queen has not forgotten Selena's attempt on her life. Selena soon finds herself torn between obeying orders to protect the monarch, and her ravening thirst for revenge. But strange forces are stirring amidst the stars and Mankind finds itself with surprising new allies, while a terrifying enemy that's manipulated events from behind the scenes finally reveals itself for the very first time.

Unbridled is the sequel to Initiation - A provocative story about a boy who was initiated into a clandestine sexual society. He was spirited to the Middle East, from his UK boarding school. He attended the Bahriji School (Oasis, ) in The United Arab Emirates in preparation for serving in Harems for the wealthy and elite.It is also a love story between the young man, his 'Big Brother' and his 'Valet' who served as his chaperones and mentors during the boy's Harem services.This book follows the boy's erotic and exotic adventures and experiences at his 2nd Arab Household Harem, the Sekham. He was an apprentice and model, for the household patriarch's controversial photography project, "Sacred Sex in Sacred Places".The author's experiences present facts that are truthful. Through these truths, which are often demonized by contemporary societies that deem such behaviors inappropriate, the author hopes to dispel condemnations and negativity which relate to his experiences.There are 7 volumes in A Harem Boy's Saga series.

In this first companion novel to the Earth's Magick series, Decker tells his incredible, and sometimes painful, life story. For over 2,000 years, he has fought to survive and find his place in this ever-changing world. Beginning in a remote village in ancient Saudi Arabia, he takes the reader with him to Egypt, Rome, Gaul, Ireland, Scotland, Africa, and finally to the New World. Earth's Magick readers will relive Decker's incredible adventures and his most intimate secrets.

Alex Lane is a hardened criminal. A misfit. A freak. When he is released from a juvenile detention center at the age of eighteen, he doesn't know what he will do with his life. Alex does not want to return to a life of crime, but he is not sure how to change. A criminal is all he has ever been. And thus he begins his journey. Alex finds himself living with his brother and his family, a family he does not know. He also finds friends who eagerly accept him into their group of misfits. On the outside, everything seems to be going his way, but inside, Alex struggles to leave his criminal life behind. He struggles with change and with the realization that in a life absent of crime, he must give up control. He must learn that there is more to living a normal life than just choosing not to be a criminal again. Much more.

Land law, water rights, deeds of ownership? Boring. Unless of course, people are shooting at you because of them. The Civil War has disrupted thousands of lives, including that of Sarah Jackson, whose husband was killed for not joining the Confederate Army in Georgia. Sarah and her daughter flee to Nevada Territory and are eligible for homestead rights. After claiming her one hundred sixty acres in the lush Golden Valley, her world crumbles again.Banker Preston Miller claims he owns the entire Golden Valley and all the water in the Good Hope River. Jackson cries foul in a letter to the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, and Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal rides to Preston, Nevada Territory to "settle this little land dispute."He finds many in the town fear for their lives and livelihood, but it takes just a few shots from big guns to convince them to back the marshal. Lives are lost, buildings are burned, the town itself is in jeopardy, and the U.S. Marshal finds himself up against an army. Anarchy is the rule in the Golden Valley.Fighting the bad guys is hard enough, he also finds himself fascinated by the daughter of one of the ranchers whose property he is trying to save. Will the town survive? Will the ranches survive? Is romance in the air? All the answers are inside these covers.

Fifteen years. That's how long Paul Gibson stayed away from his father, Johnny Ray, after he tried to wreck his son's wedding in an alcoholic stupor. But on this crisp late October night, Paul is coming back to his childhood home. He's got one final chance to reconcile with a dying father who devoted his life to whiskey and horse betting instead of his family.Paul has chosen the night of game six of the 2011 World Series to face the man he has never understood or connected with. Their one chance at reuniting as a family is linked to their only shared memory: a love of St. Louis Cardinals baseball.As they watch the Cardinals attempt to save their season against the Texas Rangers, Paul and Johnny Ray will rip open the wounds of the past and struggle to find a way beyond them. The grudges and fears of their past will resurface, but so will the forgotten need to accept and forgive.One Night In October is a touching story of a father and son spending one final evening searching for a way to bridge a chasm built on years of anger and bitterness. The outcome for both their beloved Cardinals and their relationship will hang by a thread until the very end.

Yancy Landon was a simple man who lived by a lawman's code of ethics. He always did the right thing, no matter the cost.When Cooper Landon vows to find a boy captured by Apache Indians, Yancy doesn't hesitate to aid his brother. Along the way they get caught up in survival, revenge, relationships, and the code of honor. YANCY continues the story of The Landon Saga...

Canoples Station is crawling with animals. Illegal ones, to be exact, hungry for new owners. And this is just the beginning. Another horror lurks beneath, one that hits home hard for BD and his friends.

General Linvin Grithinshield was used to enemies trying to kill him on the battlefields of the medieval world of Lavacia. Now he has the fear of being killed anytime, anywhere. He thinks he is summoned home from the goblin wars to oversee the family merchant empire after his father's disappearance; and for a while he is right. Then his mother is assassinated and Linvin's true purpose is revealed. He must seek out and find the all-powerful Red Sapphire and claim its might before the murders find it...or him. With new dangers around every turn in an ever-escalating spiral of violence, he must prove himself worthy of the gem and lead his party to success against insurmountable odds. To fail would mean death for far more than just him. The world, itself, could fall into permanent shadow and darkness.

The past changed the future... the future must salvage the past.DJ, Matt, and Elisa are mostly normal teens. They have their friends, and their squabbles, and their dreams of the future. Yet, they are also very special teens, brought into this world to fulfill a prophecy made by an ancestor 200 years in their past. One of them dies, one receives incredible powers, and one discovers a place no one suspected she would have.It was meant to be nothing more than a fun and adventurous spring break from the Beaufort School of Visionary Studies for triplets DJ, Matt, and Elisa. Little did they know that the prophecy made about them was about to catch up. When they are warned that Rogues have targeted them and their family, they go into hiding to protect everyone. But the Rogues have other plans. Can they make the right choices even though they know others will be hurt by their decisions? Even when one of those decisions means certain death?

A Blue Moon is a rare occurrence, a time when strange things happen, when the vast universe might reveal its darkest mysteries, or at least that's what Jack Graves has always heard. Jack is a teacher in the quaint New England town of Wickham, a place where nothing changes and life moves lazily along. But Jack's serene world is about to be torn apart. A teacher with summer's off and time on his hands, Jack should be at his leisure, tending to his house and yard, and helping his wife, Joanna, a librarian, sell her wares at the annual Summer Harvest Fayre. But things on Jack's quiet dead end street are not what they appear. Someone is stalking the couple, creeping about their yard after dark and leaving grisly 'deposits'. But Jack, not wanting to alarm his wife, enlists the aid of his eccentric friend, chemist 'Gospel' Tom Williams, a man whose investigatory skills are as good as 'Gospel', who sets about analyzing the evidence. But when Jack's neighbor is brutally murdered and 'Gospel' Tom's findings suggest that something amazing has been happening on Jack's once peaceful street, the Graves' household and the entire town of Wickham are plunged into a dark realm where myth and reality merge and even those closest to Jack may not be who or what they seem to be.

Hope is a monster killer, First Family of her town, and condemned to death if people knew she is the mother of a half-human, half-dragon child. When summoned to another dimension, she discovers love, and a man who accepts her son. In order to stay, however, she must vanquish a demon army that threatens to destroy this new land, and the old world she is leaving behind.

FBI agent, Mitch Harper, is trying to keep a domestic terrorist, Michael Gooding, from blowing up anymore U.S. targets in the summer of 2001. The FBI's computers are breached, so Gooding knows the names of the active agents and all of their travel plans for the next six months. Gooding has set three of his planned ten bombs. Mitch and his team are desperately trying to stop Gooding from setting off the rest. His only weakness is beautiful women, but he knows the identity of all the female FBI agents.Jenny Johnson is doing all she can to manage her college class load while working full time for the IRS to pay the bills. Because she's a federal employee who happens to have a summer itinerary that matches Michael Gooding's known plans, the FBI taps her as bait, hoping to catch Gooding in time.Jenny is the woman Mitch has always wanted. Mitch looks like the man of Jenny's dreams, despite his bossy, perfectionist attitude. As the next bombing date approaches, Jenny pushes Mitch's buttons as he tries to remain professional and train her to survive the mission. Will the FBI be able to corner Gooding in time? What will happen to Jenny? This is no time for love to interrupt a mission.

Known for his outlaw ways, Lee Mattingly has hopes of changing his reputation when he becomes one of the owners of a new hotel. Business is good until Ike Nash, a man with money and power, takes all that Lee has.Lee only knows one way to respond, and that's with violence. Along the way, Lee gets caught up in a robbery, a poker game, relationships, Huntsville prison, and revenge.LEE continues the story of The Landon Saga...

A young boy raised on the docks of the Chesapeake Bay escapes his mother severe mental illness. Adulthood brings family, over a 25 year television career, and the perilous insane comedic journey of online computer dating. A hilarious secular southern Gothic autobiographical story about one mans faith that started under the bloom of a Magnolia Tree.

Sophia Pascale is a rising star at the Philly Herald. Her latest assignment sends her to the Philadelphia State Penitentiary to interview the "Raven Witch Killer," a self-proclaimed serial killer who is willing to talk...to the right people. Sophia gets more than she bargained for when she steps foot into the prison; Catherine Meara is more than she appears, and the handsome Officer Shaw is a wrinkle in Sophia's plans she didn't count on. Struggling with her past, her beliefs, and her desire, Sophia will be tested by her ordeal in the prison in more ways than one. She confronts her inner demons and the very real ones embodied in the black shapes perched above the prison entrance...and etched into the skin of her enemy. Will Sophia find true love and launch the story of her career? Or will she be yet another victim of the "Raven Witch Killer"?

Pinnacle Book Achievement Award RecipientReader's Favorite 5 Star Book Review RecipientHungry Monster Book Review 4 Star RecipientHis species became extinct decades before the aliens rescued and cloned him, but he still must do everything he can to save them all. Karm must travel back in time, create the most powerful financial empire ever seen on the planet Dyan'ta and assemble a team of experts who must be kept in the dark about his plans for fear of upsetting the timeline. Dr. Jontar Rocker is an up and coming geneticist whose untested and controversial theories on cloning become the lynch pin in Karm's schemes. Maripa, Karm's petite and beautiful surrogate niece, personal secretary, and deadly bodyguard must learn to trust Karm despite his deceptions and secrets. Can the emerging love between Dr. Rocker and Maripa survive the demons and surprises of their own past, as well as Karm's impenetrable air of mystery?Karm and his companions must save the Brin. To do so, they must band together to overcome Brach, the ambitious and obsessed monarch. Determined to take control of Karm's vast industrial empire, Brach joins forces with his conniving brother Pareth, leader of The Faith an ultra-conservative religious order committed to stopping Dr. Rocker and his heretical efforts to develop cloning techniques. Nothing less than survival of their species is at stake.

When their younger twin siblings were murdered by their cold-blooded father, Shane and Keri's own twin connection deepened. Their father shamed Shane and Keri into silence, and then went on to bring four more children into a house shuddering under the weight of his unpredictable temper. Ten years later, what should have been a regular visitation turns into a horrific nightmare. Trapped in the Superstition Mountains with an addicted and dangerous father, Keri's faith and determination wavers, but she knows she must save her brothers and sisters and return all of them to the home they love. She now faces one insurmountable obstacle. He can't afford to let her go.

BD Bradford resides on Canoples Station in 2364. He's on his last break before graduating high school. The biggest worry on his mind is scoring enough creds to buy the latest vid-game, and making up with his girlfriend, if she'll stop glaring at him. An announcement at breakfast hatches an idea in his ever-active brain - space pirates might be in the vicinity. Visions of creds tumbling around him after he captures the miscreants war with thoughts of what he did to torque off his girlfriend. He catches a glimpse of the villains outside the promenade's viewport, but he beats feet to safety upon hearing one of his sworn enemies having a drama moment.

This provocative story is about an adolescent who was initiated into a clandestine sexual society. He was spirited to the Middle East, from his UK boarding school. He attended the Bahriji School (Oasis, ) in The United Arab Emirates in preparation for serving in Harems for the wealthy and elite.It is also a love story between the young man and his 'Valet' who served as his chaperone and mentor during the boy's Harem service.Author's note: I had a privileged and unique upbringing in Malaysia. Following in my brothers' footsteps, I was sent to an exclusive boarding school in England. It is there that I was inducted into a clandestine organization, E.R.O.S. The Enlightened Royal Oracle Society. For four years, unbeknownst to my family, I was willingly and happily part of a Harem.My story has been kept under wraps for close to 45 years. The correct moment has arrived for me to make known my unique education.young@aharemboysaga.comwww.aharemboysaga.c

Captured! In Book 2 of the Sapphire Chronicles, Linvin and his party find themselves prisoners on the maniacal Lord Mandrean and his Necromancer. Now they must find a way to escape, find the Red Sapphire, and make it home alive. Along the way they must fight ever-growing odds of survival.

Mela's story continues in the second book in the Earth's Magick series.Mela Malone is one of the most powerful Witches in Texas. While learning how to defeat Evil using magick, and a sword, the unexpected departure of two of her closest friends disrupts the balance of her world. Meanwhile, a new threat comes to Trinity Hills, Texas that puts even the innocent townspeople in danger. Mela must step up and defend, not only those she loves, but the entire town. Both old and new friends bring additional complications into her chaotic life...especially since one of them is a handsome Witch on a mission of his own.