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A collection of short stories and the novella The North Room. This collection is brought to you by the author of the Peacekeeper series. The Test: (fiction.) A high ranking martial artist takes his master’s test. The Doll: (paranormal fiction.) After a young girl’s twin is killed she is devastated by that loss. Then one day her father gives her a new doll which has a surprising impact on the girl. The Blizzard: (fantasy.) Three companions must survive a blizzard in order to save a city population. The Tank: (science fiction.) A government funded research project goes bad. The Hunt: (...

It started in Mexico when a man found a silver metal briefcase on a beach. Thinking he’d found drugs being smuggled into the country, the man who found the vial of fluid inside the insulated attaché case threw it down and broke it in disgust. He didn’t notice the droplets of fluid that landed on his sandaled feet. That man carried the cartel’s plague back to his village where the latest strain of the flu was running rampant. The plague mutated, joining with the flu, thus becoming airborne. It had now become the deadliest plague the world had ever faced. Soon, a flood of refugees ...

Artificial Intelligence was created to assist mankind. Since the first of its kind was created, major changes have taken place. Some say the results of those changes could prove disastrous for our existence. Captain Jim Wilison and the crew of the Lina make an amazing discovery at the South Pole on Mars while on a terraforming mission and they unearth what could and probably would alter the future of mankind. The questions to be answered are how the world will change when word gets out that modern Earth men and women weren't the first Earthlings to visit the red planet? And what role will ...

The crew of the Damroyal locates the incoming comet Wormwood. Once they establish computer projections of its orbital path, construction begins on the moon base and rail gun that they plan to use to divert the threat.The Peacekeeper Council learns that their current plans to affect the orbit of the comet will succeed, but that alteration will have disastrous consequences in the next pass of the comet that will end in a direct hit on their home planet. To prevent that extinction level event, they devise a plan to deal with Wormwood once and for all, but it will take most of their fleet to ...

A small Peacekeeper Armada goes to Mars where their terraforming efforts have begun to make the red planet habitable. Not long after they arrive, they are informed that a large Russian fleet, along with the remnants of the Colombian drug cartel’s pirate ships, is headed for a showdown with the American forces working to prepare a colony site for the first colonists.Knowing they will be outnumbered almost three to one, and that it will take a miracle for their forces to defeat those arrayed against them, the Peacekeepers in the Mars planetary system call on their secret weapon to help them...

In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, the peacekeepers discover the base for Phoenix Rising, which was a secret government project that planned to utilize the work of the development team who’d designed the Peacekeeper. The project plans called for storing one hundred fighters in the subterranean base. Those fighters would provide air cover for America in the event of a nuclear conflict. The fighters had not been delivered prior to the night of the quakes.Inside that base, which the peacekeepers had code named the citadel, they discovered an aircraft unlike any other they had ever seen. ...

During a patrol over the Atlantic Ocean, the Athens is attacked by Russian fighters and ships. Russia has declared war on America, and the crew of the battleship find themselves in one of the most difficult scenarios they have ever encountered when their air and weapons superiority are tested to the limit. For the first time in many years, Evan finds himself confronted by a superior enemy.

A large group of peacekeepers on their return trip to Base One stopped to camp for the night just south of Birmingham Alabama. These men and women had been serving as guards and in other support duties for the temporary peacekeeper airbase in Mobile Alabama. In the middle of the night these peacekeepers are attacked, but the lieutenant in charge of the unit gets a message to the base and activates the unit’s emergency beacon. The Peacekeeper and a squadron of fighters head for the location at top speed. When they arrive they find an incredible nightmare awaiting them as they investigate ...

Far across the Atlantic Ocean, a great pirate fleet was assembled. For the past several years, these pirates had looted the coastlines of the western European nations. Now they were turning their attention to American, and only the Peacekeepers could stop them. They plan to loot the natural resources and treasures of America. And they are coming with 5,000 ships that are armed to the teeth.

The peacekeepers believed the city was abandoned until a bored drone pilot saw a plume of smoke and diverted his drone to investigate. The Athens, dispatched to learn the truth, is recalled to deal with an emergency.The Women’s Elite Corps is asked to help. Nora’s team enters the city to attempt to solve the mystery. They soon discover that nothing is as it seems in New York City.

Two peacekeeper ships are dispatched to New York City to organize the evacuation and resettlement of the survivors. The peacekeepers soon find themselves facing a myriad of problems. Wild animals roam the streets of the city, and the tunnels beneath it are home to millions of starving rodents. The underground is also home to cannibals who prey on other humans as a means of survival. Compounding matters is the hatred and mistrust the above-grounders have for the people who live beneath the city streets. The peacekeepers must somehow prevent the different factions from fighting long enough to...

Five years have passed as the peacekeepers continued to develop their spacecraft and build the new Guardian. That megaship will be placed in orbit to become the largest and most advanced space station in the history of mankind. It’s being positioned there to protect the United States from foreign aggression.The Chinese and the Russians are committed to the destruction of the Guardian and are building massive fleets to accomplish that goal.Beth convinces Gabe that they need to steal an APC from the Guardian and make an unauthorized round trip to the moon. What follows is a harrowing ordeal...

The peacekeepers intercept a message from a Chinese troop transport ship that originated near Alaska. A task force of several ships is sent to investigate. They also have to deploy a string of communications buoys to establish a link with the state. When they arrive, they learn that the Chinese have established bases in the state, which they are claiming as an official province of the Imperial Empire of China. They also learn that China now has an emperor. Qin Shi Huang plans to use the seizing of Alaska to galvanize the Chinese people and rally them to his standard in his civil war with ...

When Rex, the loyal service dog and companion of combat veteran and Deputy Sheriff, Ray Nix, is killed by a large strange flying creature, no one believes it really happened. Ridiculed for the story, Ray finds himself terminated from the department. Now begins the quest to find who or what took his friend from him. During one such hunt, he is approached by a group of three strangers seeking to recruit him, but what were they asking him to do?

In western Nevada, the towns of New Carson City and New Virginia City are on the brink of war. In the aftermath of the disasters and the plague that have devastated America, the people of those communities have reverted to a more primitive, western-oriented, lifestyle. Like their forefathers, they are dependent upon horses and cattle for a subsistence existence, and there aren't enough present for both towns to share. Complicating matters is the fact that the leaders of the cities were once best friends whose friendship was torn apart when Andy took Clay’s girlfriend away from him prior ...

Division within the ranks of the peacekeepers threatens to tear them apart as they battle the Colombian drug cartel and a mystery enemy. Adding to their growing list of problems is the fact that the unidentified enemy is attempting to master the technology that permits them to travel submerged in their ships, which appear to be clones of those of the cartel. If ships can approach the coastal cities of America undetected, it would be all but impossible to stop them from attacking.