Robert Dawson, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency, is sent to Afghanistan to stop the flow of heroin made from the country’s biggest crop, opium. With the help of Kate Conway, a freelance journalist, and Vizier Ashraf, a shadowy Taliban leader, Robert is disguised as an opium field hand. In Helmand Province he learns the secrets of the Afghan drug trade, and illegally enters Iran with his "boss" and a fifteen-year-old chemist. The principal buyer is known as The Scorpion. A sale of 25 kg of heroin is completed and traced to New York City, where a bust is …

At one and twenty, Lady Angelica Fitzhugh, the youngest sibling of the Earl of Hillcrest, has been rusticating in rural Hampshire for two years. After her first Season, her betrothed managed only second place in a duel to the death just two days before their wedding. Out of the blue, her papa has informed her that to save the Hillcrest dynasty, in five days she is to wed the rather ancient Earl of Scarborough, become the step-mama to his twin daughters, and sail to Australia on her husband’s swansong voyage as an admiral in Her Majesty’s Navy. After two engagements …

This story will enthrall you, as you follow Sophie’s life from the time she was four years old. Then, she lived in a small Australian town situated on the edge of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland during World War II, when the country was threatened with an invasion from Japan. Her father arrives home from the war in 1945 and the family moves to Surfers Paradise, a relatively new beach town. All the while, her older brother, Bruce, has spent most of his time "locked away" in boarding schools. The family moves again to postwar Brisbane, where Sophie settles …

America is being consumed by entitlement spending. This important issue is surveyed in America’s Addiction to Entitlements: Not What the Governed Meant. Seventeeth- and eighteenth-century philosophers studied civilizations and governance. Their observations and studies gave tremendous insight into the nature of man. Following in the footsteps of these philosophers, founders of the United States of America forged a new governance model, where individual sovereignty and personal liberty enabled man a glimpse of his own potential if unabated by the tyranny and oppression of government. However, liberal progressive American ideologies have facilitated a slow decline from the heights of true freedom …

Mindful is a powerful novel about child abuse. It explores the divided mind and sexuality of Ian Evans, a transvestite child whose questions about his identity initiate the onset of telepathy. Without any telepathic adult mentors to guide him through his experiences, young Ian believes he is mad because of the inexplicable, accusative and critical voices in his head. Ian ends up in a psychiatric unit run by paedophiles, where he is seriously abused because of his transvestism. He escapes to end up as a child prostitute on the streets. Winter overwhelms Ian and he is delivered to another care …

London, 2012. A deadly virus is released on a late night tube. In seconds 23 innocent commuters die a horrible death. Chief inspector Moore of New Scotland Yard’s terror unit is assigned the case. However, before he can begin the investigation, another attack occurs in a Camden pub and London is now a terrorized city. Bio Defence Inc., a shadowy government organization, is enlisted to work with the terror unit to determine what appears to be an international terror attack on British soil. But is it? Moore suspects that these bio terrorism attacks are somehow connected and go all the …

Honey, I’m Home. Those three little words strike terror in the mind of Katie Beatrice, a wife dealing with spousal abuse. This fictional tale takes on the important topic of domestic violence in a terrifying way. After living with her husband Tom’s abuse for years and suffering in silence, Katie finally shares her story with an old friend from high school when he questions her "accident." With her friend Jack’s help, Katie finally works up the courage to escape her marriage. Just as Katie is leaving him, Tom walks in and they have a violent argument. Katie continues to run …

When Pope John Pietro 1 receives news from a strange visitor he learns a secret that shocks him to the core. Not wanting to cause turmoil within the Holy See, the Pope and his trusted friend Cardinal Pollini make a pact to keep the revelation secret until the full ramifications of the predicament can be analyzed. Meanwhile a prominent banker is found murdered on a pleasure yacht and suspicion falls on the remaining five passengers and crew of three. Michael Frost, the owner and captain of the yacht, tries to clear his name as a suspect. Strange circumstances surround the …

Orphaned at the age of thirteen, Jennifer is sent to live with her Aunt Elizabeth in the historic Tasmanian suburb of Battery Point in Australia. Her aunt’s two storey home with its turret and spectacular vista provides a fertile environment for her childhood fantasy of becoming a Princess and riding off on a white horse with a Prince. In reality however her life takes a very different direction. After travelling overseas Jennifer enrolls to study law at the University of Tasmania. To make ends meet until she finishes studying, Jennifer rents out two rooms and a bungalow at her aunt’s …