Petting Stories

A Variation On A Theme Story
It's been just over a year since Steve found himself 14 again, with a sister he never had and a life open to possibilities. A year filled with change, love, loss, happiness, heartache, friends, family, challenges, and success. Sophomore year brings new friends, new romances, new challenges. What surprises and adventures await Steve and Angie and their friends?

A man's brave action has unexpected consequences. Can it bring two lonely people together and help heal her scarred heart? / (Reviews)

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Cal leaves the grassy plains of Franklin behind when he receives a job offer to travel to an uncharted planet in the Epsilon Eridani system. The jungle world of EE-4 – recently liberated from enemy occupation – is now being colonized by some of the Coalition’s most exotic alien allies. Exploring the planet and documenting its native species is a challenge, but learning to get along with his enigmatic guide and his excitable sherpa might be even harder.

Left for dead in the mountains of Afghanistan, wounded Special Forces sergeant Omar Mansoor is found at a frozen stream by four women the world had cast aside—abandoned, widowed, beaten, never chosen. At the risk of their lives, they shelter and heal him through one long, dangerous winter. What grows among them is a family no one believed possible: bound by faith, forged in peril, and tested across a war and an ocean. An unforgettable story of courage, love, and belonging.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Betrayal! The Rask have launched a surprise attack against their former allies, plunging the territories of Borealis into a bloody war. The tyrannical Matriarch deploys her pirate legions to seize control of the planet's trade routes, while a UNN Assault Carrier lands a battalion of armored vehicles on its surface to restore order. The Coalition forces must drive across the Dune Sea, thousands of kilometers of inhospitable desert, fighting off the Rask army as they go.

When a dragon terrorizes a peaceful mountain village, a grizzled mercenary named Iden answers the call. With his sights set on the beast's treasure hoard, he begins his arduous climb to the misty peak, but what he finds in the dragon's lair turns his world upside-down.

A Tara Story
Part of the Keltria universe
Serpin lay along the branch enjoying the warmth of the morning sun. The smell of the storm was still fresh in the air. Looking down she spied the strange little craft. The smell caught her attention, curiosity got the better of her and she had to go look. Her mother had often warned her that her curiosity would get her into trouble one day. Serpin's life was about to change.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
A UNN fleet on routine patrol near the outskirts of Coalition space encounters a previously uncontacted civilization, but while the aliens seem friendly, the Betelgeusian hive fleet that's sizing up their homeworld is not. Undersupplied and months from the nearest reinforcements, the fleet must coordinate with the locals in order to organize a last ditch defense of the planet. (Please note: this is the HETEROSEXUAL edition.)

A Dara Story
Part of the Keltria universe
Tom felt a bus pass him and then heard it hit the brakes just as he neared the stop. Without much thought, he stepped into the bus, after the rear doors, whooshed open beside him. He stopped long enough to flash his 'Go-Card' at the device to pay for his trip. The bloody thing wouldn't register. 'Great, just bloody great,' he fumed. The card was out of cash. [Note: Reading the book Delta, will give the history of some of the characters but this book isn't a continuation of that series.]