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The Victim
2 faces on TV - VICTIM and KILLER - which is she? She thought she'd escaped - now a man's remains are found in a remote Australian waterhole. Police say MURDER! She is linked to it, brought back from England, and charged with the crime. Newspapers say, "KILLED HER LOVER, FED HIM TO CROCODILES!" She will tell nobody what happened on that fateful day!
Aberrant Creation
The Claire Trilogy Box Set
This box set includes the full Claire Trilogy by award-winning author Tom McCaffrey. The prequel, Finding Jimmy Moran, is now available! Book #4 of The Claire Saga, Where the Ley Lines Meet, releases June 2024.
Where The Ley Lines Meet
The Claire Trilogy taught us the meaning of family and loyalty in every sense of those words through the bonding of Claire the Mule and her family of mystical misfits under the most trying of circumstances.
It's prequel, Finding Jimmy Moran, introduced the world to the magical young boy who grows into the man that leads Claire's family across the galaxy.
Where The Ley Lines Meet is what happens when the mystical misfits and their alien brethren are recalled to earth to reunite and save the world.
The storylines and characters the readers have come to love in the prior four books reappear in this continuation and conclusion of The Claire Saga. Or is it?
Finding Jimmy Moran
Who is Jimmy Moran? It starts with a lucky penny. Then a muse who bestows a mystical gift. Or maybe a curse? Family, friends, and fights abound as Jimmy breaks the law, looks for love in all the wrong places and experiences loss that transforms him. A mischievous Bronx boy becomes a man in his search for the love of his life.
This is the coming of age story of the character we meet in The Claire Saga, who becomes a mob lawyer, Claire the mule's best friend, and the leader of the motley crew of magical misfits.
Kissing My Ass Goodbye
This final installment of The Claire Trilogy picks up where An Alien Appeal leaves off, expands the roster of mystical characters and introduces the next generation of Terran-Centauri hybrids. When the interstellar childrens' powers are inadvertently exposed to the Internet, Machiavellian twin tech tyrants attempt to kidnap them for their own nefarious purposes.
During the ultimate showdown between Claire and her family of misfits, one of the most powerful corporations on earth and the United States military, love is tested and lives are forfeited. Where will the survivors go from here? Be ready to say goodbye.
An Alien Appeal
The Wise Ass
When Wise Guys meet the Wise Ass and friends, all hell breaks loose.
After his brothers are murdered, a New York mob lawyer testifies against his associates and is forced to enter WITSEC (the Witness Protection Program). He and his wife are relocated to a rural area outside a small town in Colorado where he is compelled to adapt to his new life under the constant threat of mafia reprisal. Reflexively resisting his immersion into all things country, this life long city boy meets and adopts a loquacious mule and befriends his closest neighbors, who have even greater secrets to conceal.
CHAOS OF MOKII
Mokii is a city that exists only in the combined imaginations of its inhabitants. They are not dreaming. You might be sitting on a train while your brain drifts to explore Mokii. You need to get past the bouncer, have fun, yet experience danger.
key words: Experimental, metaphysical short story science fiction Kindle Unlimited Metaverse
ALIEN EXIT
Alien Exit is driven by a female astronaut, a Palaeolithic mongrel, Glastonbury chaos, steamy sex in space, a journalist and a mad general. All to overcome time-quakes created when aliens depart Earth.
This novel attempts to break tropes: the aliens are not invading, they're leaving; the planet as spheres but s l o w l y.; usual ways to communicate do not work.
key words first contact
VENGEANCE ISLAND
In 1551 Ottoman pirates abducted the population of a Mediterranean island and sold them as slaves or took the better looking to harems. Those souls needed revenge.
I helped their cause in Vengeance Island assisted by an ancient spirit of Gozo and by the puzzled descendants in modern France.
Quantum Highway
The new science fiction book - Quantum Highway -offers an exciting viewpoint of a whole wormhole network that can take you almost anywhere. Planetary portals take you anywhere on the surface or within and travel to other dimensions. Space portals journeying vast distances outside space-time.
Strange crafts and artefacts with minuscule quantum engineering cause mayhem to the Space Agency's ordered existence. Setting out on a knowledge-seeking adventure trail, Jim and crew are flung into other strange worlds that coexist alongside space-time. An evil adversary with the same capabilities lures them into death-defying situations.
Pandora's Gardener
Thoughts of Life & Beyond
Have you ever paused to reflect on what life means and how it came to be? Together, ‘Thoughts’ will explore the human race’s origins and share insights into our beginnings, shedding light on the facts that help us understand our shared history. ‘Thoughts’ comprehensively explains the universe and its naturalistic complexity and beauty. The author skillfully weaves psychic information from his experiences and visions of the future into his books, adding an extra layer of intrigue and depth. So, if you’re ready to embark on an incredible journey through the multiverse to the Big Bang and beyond, look no further.
Can I Come HOME Now? A True Story of Childhood Trauma
With raw honesty and unflinching courage, Barbara shares their journey from the depths of despair to the light of healing. Each chapter unravels the complexities of childhood trauma, illuminating the resilience of the human spirit and the profound struggle for self-acceptance. Through vivid storytelling and heart-wrenching revelations, readers will be drawn into a narrative that resonates with anyone who has ever longed for safety, love, and the simple question: “Can I Come HOME now?”