Historical Stories

King Minos tasks the hero Leandros with slaying a terrible beast that lurks in the depths of an inescapable labyrinth beneath the island of Crete, but all is not as it seems, and the King is hiding a dark secret that could cost him the throne.

A Mat Sullivan and Sarah York story
This is the story of Mat Sullivan before he meets Sarah York. These are his adventures as a bounty hunter in the Old West. You must read Chap. 2 & 3 of "The Rancher's Daughter" for this story to make sense.

Lisbon, 1943. The last neutral capital in Europe, where tungsten buys both sides and every café hides a courier. Calvin Brennan files for the Chicago Tribune and quietly works for the OSS. Then he meets Vera at the Casino do Estoril—Polish, beautiful, and held on a leash he can't yet see. She says she's been sent to work him. He believes her. The only way out runs through a man Berlin wants kept breathing. A twelve-chapter serial: espionage, slow-burn romance, and gallows wit.

30,000 B.C. This story is one viewpoint of how our world became dominated by a single primate species. Follow along as one small clan changes the world forever. I posted this story once before under the name "Controlled Influence", after a few changes I am now reposting it under a different title. If you previously read this story not much changed that you need to do so again. This is not a stroke story.

A story in the Memoirs Of A Young Victorian Lady Universe
Caroline and James move back home,then visit New York again, renewing old acquaintances, as they prepare for their coming nuptials.

A sixteen year old boy fleeing Child Protective Services in Missouri, helps a runaway girl about to be picked up by police at the bus station in OKC. They go on a motorcycle ride into the mountains of Arizona where the boy is drawn to a cave in a canyon hidden from the world. Here they find love, mystery, and danger!

A Mongol princess captured in a Jin border raid. A Jin emperor's daughter tasked with civilizing her enemy. What begins as captivity becomes love—until the Mongols take Zhangdu and everything reverses. Now the Jin princess must adapt or die, becoming war counselor to the Khan who destroyed her empire. Two women. Two cultures. Two captivities. One love that survives conquest, betrayal, and the fall of dynasties to find peace on the steppes.

Pursuit, sex, and romance on the high seas in the roaring era of lust, gold doubloons and adventure when pirates and slavery were common place. Abducted and then sold into a lair of torture and humiliation an enslaved pair of sisters and their comrades in chains escape and become buccaneers on the Spanish Main and begin to seek revenge on the men that enslaved, tormented and raped them. Their swords carved their stolen ships name across the continents - and their glory across the seas!

My grandkids are always asking me about my part in World War II, so I thought it was time to put pen to paper and share my experience with them and you!