First Stories

Jenny asks her 14-year-old identical twin cousins to be bridesmaids at her wedding. Andy asks his teen cousins to be ushers. Did Jenny and Andy arrange for the teens to have adjoining rooms in the hotel after the reception? This is a stand-alone story, but you may like to read how Jenny and Andy met in The Lost Key first.

Mickey's sisters plot to help him pay his debt to his best friend, Sean.

With the Dorm empty due to Homecoming, Carl McHenry figured it would be a good time to catch up on his studies. Fate had other plans / (Reviews)

A Clar war Story
I was small and never thought it would make me special. Of course the job they wanted me for was extremely dangerous. There is nothing like crawling into a hole and never knowing if an enemy soldier would be waiting or some trap. There were benefits too, like taking things we found or finding enemy intel that could stop an attack or turn the tide of the war.

Edited by Bird Dog The sudden invasion by the Dark sent the whole population scrambling. Our colony was a few hundred years old with several abandoned military bases. The one I went to was hidden inside a mountain. That was where I found a way to fight back and try to stop the Dark.

After failing to defend a village from a band of roving Orcs, Bevan finds himself the only survivor of the battle. Taken prisoner by their capricious leader for reasons unknown to him, his fate becomes unclear, as her intentions become ever more confusing.

A story in the Kaire Universe
As a younger brother to the Kaire emperor there is a lot I can do to bring clans to his side. Being human only tends to make things a little harder but our parents taught us well.

I'm an easy-going middle-aged chap, and a decent sort I like to think. My wife has left me though, so I'm feeling a bit lonely just now. I find a fresh trail from my hedge to my old garden shed. Goodness me! Well I'll have to put a video camera in, obviously! / (Reviews)

A young man starts a job as a constable in a city with nightly fog. Besides having to learn from his partner, they have a killer that is hunting women on their beat. The first time they meet it is with a body of a woman. The second was when he flees and he is almost caught. That is when the killer begins to stalk the constable and it is his turn to set a trap.