A young warrior grows to be a man and fights to protect himself and his homeland with the help of a mysterious sword. Walk beside him as he builds his life on the blood of his enemies and the support of his family to become one of the most powerful men in his tribe. Set in a fictional world but (hopefully) historically accurate to the Germanic tribal era, with some Viking bits thrown in.
Arizona Territory, 1884. When feral Gwendolyn Harper is auctioned off in Dry Gulch, rancher Ethan Matthews bids $100—not for a servant, but for the fierce woman who threatened deputies while in chains. On his ranch, Gwen discovers something more dangerous than wilderness: a man who sees her worth and asks only for her choice. Now she must decide whether to run or claim the life she never knew she could have.
For some time I had been encouraged by my proofreader, the late Techsan, to put some of my better works into a compilation of sorts. Well, Techsan, this is for you. What follows are stories as yet unpublished, chapters from my novels that we felt had not received the attention they deserved, and stories that just cried out to be released again to the many new readers out there. Enjoy, Paris Waterman / (Reviews)
Combat medic Vance Riker only wanted to save the wounded Valtharian princess bleeding out in a crashed dropship. He didn't plan to trigger an irreversible genetic bonding. Or get her pregnant with quadruplets. Or accidentally start peace negotiations that would end a twelve-year war. Now he's married to alien royalty, director of an interspecies breeding program, and committed to fathering twenty hybrid children. His mother-in-law is a eight-foot warrior empress. His sister-in-law hunts human ma