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Born on the Trail of Tears: Dream Bud

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another.Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free.Then the raiders came.Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death.But Kokuma refuses to be broken.When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land.Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died.Instead, she is...
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The Length of the World: Cian

Saxon, along with his sister, Kaitlin and her daughter, Rachel, traveled by river boat to Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon.Kaitlin had worked on her ethnopharmacopeia for years and now she wanted to locate the village of Alichapon-tupec where she believed she would find rare and exotic medicinal plants. She needed to collect specimens and learn from the Yanomami natives about their use of the plants. This would fill out the last chapter of her manuscript.An unusual young woman they met on the dock at Manaus changed their plans.They hired the woman to be their guide. She spoke no English or Portuguese while Saxon and Kaitlin understood not a word of her Yanomani language. However, R...
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Hannibal's Elephant Girl: Book One

Eleven years before Hannibal marched his army and war elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, a dying girl was thrown into a river and left to drown.Liada was captured by slave traders and, along with a wagonload of other girls and women, was being hauled across North Africa toward the slave markets at Carthage.When she falls violently ill with fever and convulsions, the slave traders fear she will infect the other captives.Their solution is simple.They throw her into the Bagradas River and once rid of her, they continue on toward the slave markets.But Liada does not drown in the turbulent river.Below a series of rapids, an enormous war elephant wades into the water and lifts her to safety w...
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Raji: Book One

December, 1925. Rural Virginia.Fourteen-year-old Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier opens the barn door on a freezing winter morning and finds a girl sleeping in the hay beside his miniature horse.She is thin.Exhausted.And silent.She doesn't speak English. She refuses to explain where she came from. And the only thing she possesses is a battered suitcase she guards with her life.By the time Fuse finishes his chores, she has disappeared.But hunger, cold, and desperation soon bring her back—and set in motion a chain of events that will change both their lives forever.Her name is Rajiani Devaki.And her story is more extraordinary than anything Fuse could imagine.Kidnapped from the streets of Calcutt...
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Mission Devonian: Cyborg Squad Book 4

It ain’t easy being a member of Cyborg Squad, not if you expect to live for another few days. Or, in some case, minutes.Clem Collins barely escaped with her life from the shores of the ancient Tethys Sea. She had hoped for at least a few days of R&R in the elegant safari camp in Botswana near the now-exploded Foxtrot One, but if wishes were horses, ya know? So now she and her team are on the way to Bavaria and the portal designated Charlie One. Three of her team had been doing reconnaissance there while Clem and the rest were in Botswana…and all three of them have disappeared.Even worse, the anomaly is behaving differently this time. No, it’s not filling up with ocean in the middle...
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Mission Tethys: Cyborg Squad Book 3

Absolutely the last thing Clem Collins expects to find in the middle of the desert…is an ocean.After a mostly successful mission—well, if you leave out a brutal death, a kidnapped team member, and an angry superior officer baying for her blood—at the anomaly designated Bravo One in Canada, Clem Collins is on the move again. Her commanding officer has sent her and part of her Cyborg Squad to Foxtrot One, the newest anomaly set deep in the vast, red sands of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.At first, the mission brief is the same as the two before: check out the anomaly, blow it up and get on to the next one. But when the central time portal, the orb, starts behaving strangely, well, Clem...
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Mission Pleistocene: Cyborg Squad Book 2

Cyborg Squad has recruited new members, just in time to investigate an anomaly that’s not behaving the way the first one did. Bravo One, located in Northern Canada and one of the earliest portals discovered, is showing a terrifying and threatening new feature—it’s already bigger than Clem’s anomaly and it’s growing larger by the day.Only one solution: Cyborg Squad has to go through the orb into the past and blow the portal up before it’s too late.But when one of Clem’s team disappears on the new assignment and a superior officer arrives to take over from Captain Pinkerton-Smythe at exactly the wrong time, Clem finds things moving just a little too fast to suit her.Not to mentio...
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Mission Permian: Cyborg Squad Book 1

Clem Collins—don’t call her Clementine—is ex-Army and just wants a little R&R while she and her friends work on her dream home: a cabin deep in the woods.But then one day her dog Lizzie the pit bull comes back from a romp in the woods and drops a strange, stinking object in Clem’s lap. The big lump proceeds to wiggle and split and what looks like a tiny dinosaur spills out. Tracing Lizzie’s steps back deep into the woods, Clem discovers a weird glowing dome. Lizzie rushes at the dome and, to Clem’s amazement, disappears into it.Of course Clem follows her dog—wouldn’t you? Inside the silvery dome Clem discovers a floating orb.How could Clem possibly know that the strange o...
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The Ballad of Malik Blayne

Omega Station is built in layers. The rich live in domes on the airless surface, with every luxury. The poor live beneath the surface of the planet, stacked level by level toward the molten core that keeps the whole place alive. Everything useful flows upward. Everything else flows downward, where the rules only apply when it’s convenient for the people above.
Malik Blayne lives between those lines...where the flow from above turns toxic.

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Multiverse Truckers

The Earth is split from pole to pole by the Rift: layered slices of various multiverses, all smooshed up against each other like pre-sliced bread. The first explorers came back damaged, mad or both. But intrepid drivers and their nuclear-powered AI big rigs can travel it, drivers like Seph and her AI truck, Buc. Then, something happens that could change everything... 

Join Seph and her snarky AI truck Buc as they travel the Rift, dodging dinosaurs and monsters and temporal anomalies while trying to deliver their cargo on time. Intact? Well, that's another matter...

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