A Tale from the World of Harthis
A Ranger and a Paladin find love on the battlefield. This is the first in the Bowstring and Steel universe, set as a counterpoint to my sci-fi Solar Wind series. These are chapters 1 and 2 of an ongoing fantasy series.
This is a story about two people who are married and make mistakes. Hers is most common; she cheats on her husband. His is more severe: he takes action and changes their lives forever.
An unassuming man develops an ability to read people's thoughts after a carjacking goes bad. As the title suggests, this ordinary man finds his new talent useful or needed only part of the time as other things change his life.
It started with the death of my parents, stealing an education, reuniting with my sister, and falling in love with a wonderful young woman. It ended up with me doing something I would never have thought myself capable of. / (Reviews)
Unlike most girls my age, I still enjoy babysitting. I don't understand why anyone would wait tables at minimum wage when you can get twice the pay (in cash) taking on a job where most of the time the kids are in bed? Not to mention the side benefits in that most parents with kids at this age are not that old meaning the husbands can be quite... well, interesting. Usually that just means some teasing and flirting but in this case it went a little further!