Reluctant Stories

A story set in New Rome
Corvus Tullius was hoping for a quiet life as a plebeian of New Rome, but his mother's marriage to General Gaius Gallicus changes everything. Will he rise to the opportunities presented or disappear into a cloud of money, drugs, slaves and fast cars? / (Reviews)

Absence of Living Book #1 (2)
35-year-old ex-Con Carter Davis has friends. A secret hacker with a genius IQ and an axe to grind, an old hermit with a secret past, a giant mastiff with a nose for trouble, and a teenage ward to test his unique sense of right and wrong. With friends like that--who needs enemies? Oh, he has those too.

An Uncle Bob Story
Cyndi Lauper sang about how girls just want to have fun. And I would have said that was normal. The problem is that "fun" can be defined in different ways. For my niece and her two little friends, "fun" turned out to be defined in ways that most of society wouldn't have been happy with. Me? I'd have used that definition for "wet dream". But that was before we got caught. After that, it was simply all mind blowing.

This was one of the highest-rated stories here, it's been improved since then, and I've re-posted it, now complete. Book One of The Nexus of Kellaran Series. A mighty world of wonder approaches a global turning point, and a global war. Young Mark finds himself at the center of an intense whirlwind of adventure, romance, and action that will transform the world of Kellaran in only seven days! A passionately acclaimed High Fantasy Epic!

A Story in the PRINEVILLE AND ENVIRONS Universe
An abused orphan camps beside a river and tries to survive in an old truck. She has no money, no job and no friends and family. A farmer finds and rescues her from sure death. Follow this couple as they learn to love each other and they grow and prosper. / (Reviews)

A Jacqueline de Belleville Story (7)
Twenty-one year old Andrea makes a startling discovery. She learns that she is adopted, and that she was actually born to a woman called Jacqueline. But why were her birth records falsified, and why is her normally fearless adoptive mother afraid that Jacqueline may one day return? Andrea and her friends embark on a series of amorous adventures to find out the truth. Set in the 1830s on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean, this story is an epilogue to the Jacqueline de Belleville series.