No good deed goes unpunished! A young man finds that a good-hearted gesture, has come back to bite him many years later. I'm sorry but the wrong file was posted, I will replace it when I discover where the correct one has disappeared to.
Stories in the Frank's Post-Apoc World Universe
This is, obviously, Book 10 of the series. It has new narrators and travels in new directions as the people of Protection and Preservation search the world for more survivors. Distances can be long between stops and new possibilities await the exploration team. Time continues to flow from the Day, now almost forty years ago.
An Air Transport Auxiliary Story The grandson of a ferry pilot who died in the second world war tells of his experience following the grandfather he never knew into the air. There's a bit of romance, too, but no explicit sex (sorry). / (Reviews)
The Baldwins ranched in Texas until shortly after the Civil War. Then the carpetbaggers arrived and Chance Baldwin didn't get along. Hetty, his mother, urged him to depart. He made is way to Wyoming, collecting a Squaw Man along the way to guide him to the friend he was searching for. Encompasses 18 months of time in a fictional account of settling in the Western part of our country
It is the 25th century. War rages between humanity and the Bugs - a ravenous hive mind. At last, the end is in sight. The Bugs have had enough: Humans are too tough, too wily, too vicious. They have sued for peace. For Prince Louis Benoit XII, this peace is merely the beginning of the struggle. His father, King Benoit XI, wishes to cement the peace treaty between humanity and the bugs with a traditional move made between human monarchs. A royal marriage between his son and the Bugs.
'Jen's Dream Santa' sequel. Junior and Jen are obligated to spend the whole of December in the North Pole, Jen learning the Mother Christmas role with on-the-job training. Jen doesn't want to miss the family festive holiday, so she organises a pre-Christmas celebration with all her family and friends at a November Christmas bash, a resounding success. Jen starts her Christmas nightmare training with M-in-Law, which we read about it through a journal provided by the Chief Elf Librarian.
A Ley Line Witch Story When raiders, the horse barbarians,attack their village, Nikshith fled with most of the other villagers. At 75, he soon had trouble keeping up with the younger people. He laid an ambush for the attackers and killed two of them before they killed him. An hour or so later, he came back to life, his wounds healed. This was the beginning of a long, long journey for him. He would learn things and do things that he had never imagined existed until he finally became something he never realized he was. / (Reviews)
An Army veteran returning home discovers the mess that his younger brother has made of his marriage, and the extreme lengths that some of his other relatives will go to preserve their historic family secrets. An unusual story of a close knit mountain community and the terrible fallout that an adulterous wife creates, and the unconventional and forbidden love affair that results. Starts slow... lots of sex in the final three Chapters. Story will be continued in a Sequel.
Michael McPherson is a decent man in a brutal business. His life doesn't lend itself to companionship but he longs for an end to his loneliness. Is it possible to find a person who can fit into his unorthodox life? [The "violence" code does not reflect sexual content.]