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St. Catherine's Crown
Lamplight Press, 2013
1917 - Empress Alexandria understands that the Bolsheviks will soon topple the Czar. She charges her godson, Kirik Pirogov, to carry the imperial crown of Catherine the Great and a cache of Romanov jewelry to a secret Czarist refuge in western China. Alexandra informs her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, of the escape route necessary to carry on the Romanov Dynasty.
Kirik and Anastasia make perilous journeys across Siberia via the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Their story is told against the background of revolution, their hardscrabble life in the Russian village, constant fear of the Soviet secret police, and unscrupulous treasure-hunters.
513 pages
Paperback format: 9 x 6 inches
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Aviators, Adventurers, and Assassins
Lamplight Press, 2014
In this conglomeration of 20th Century novellas, short stories, and flash fiction quips, assembled in no particular order, are heroes, blackguards, lovers, gallants, adulterers, wayfarers, fanatics, mercenaries, sportsmen, pioneers, and murderers—just the regular assemblage of ordinary folks doing extraordinary things. Some of the characters are real (usually disguised in a nom de plume), some are fiction, some of the stories are based on real incidents, and some are figments of my imagination. Nonetheless, take none seriously—even though your empathy may be intense.
220 pages
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Abyssinia
Lamplight Press, 2014
In the aftermath of the Italian-Abyssinia war of 1935-1936, the Fascists occupied Abyssinia with an iron-fist. Sofia Russo, an Italian archeologist, is a no-nonsense, courageous woman. She teams with Walter Gregory, an American intelligence agent, to smuggle Uranium 235 ore samples to a western democracy. Pursued by the Italian secret police and the Regia Aeronautica Italiana, the pair has a harrowing escape through the Abyssinian highlands and mountains.
189 pages
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Prester John
Lamplight Press, 2014
The Pope in Rome ransoms a Christian knight from a gruesome Muslim prison. By a Holy Writ, the Pope charges him to search Asia to find the chimerical Prester John and bring him to Rome to pay tribute from his fabulously wealthy kingdom. This narrative recounts the knight's decades-long hazardous adventures in search for this mythical prince.
xxx pages
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Khartoum
Lamplight Press, 2014
It's January 1885 and Lars and Katja Neufeld, brother and sister, make a daring escape from Khartoum just before the Mahdi's Muslim army capture it and slaughter the Europeans and other infidels. Disguised as Arabs, the pair follows their father's detailed plan: they sail south in a twenty-foot ketch up the Blue Nile. Their goal is to find refuge in Abyssinia, a Christian nation, migrate to German Equatoria, and then sail to Bavaria, their father's home. Their perilous adventures en route include raging waters, vicious creatures, and enslavement near the Abyssinian border.
Khartoum was a finalist in the Writer's League of Texa' Manuscript Contest in 2013.
xxx pages
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