‘How will history judge you, Leon Muller?’
Fresh from their exploits in Switzerland, Leon and his comrades march south to Italy to fight for the Duchy of Milan against the Republic of Venice. Italy is the most cultured country in Europe, but its politicians, churchmen and generals are cunning and clever as well as learned. And they are expert puppet masters, as Leon and his comrades discover to their cost.
Leon, now a captain, becomes central to the success of the Swiss army but he is also unwittingly manipulated by powerful figures as Swiss fortunes wax and wane. In battle the Swiss are like wolves, but a far more devious and powerful wolf is their enemy and in the battle for northern Italy, tactical victories seem to turn into strategic defeats. And soon the Swiss are despised for their ruthless approach to warfare and face having to flee back to their homeland. Will Leon and his comrades survive their Italian adventure?
‘The Wolf of Rimini’ is the second volume in the ‘Alpine Warrior’ series – the story of Swiss soldier Leon Muller in the wars of the 15th Century when Europe was torn apart by civil, dynastic and imperial conflicts.
BLOG POST > FEATURED #PAPERBACK & KINDLE & NOOK BOOK ● ▸▸▸ 🌐 Sarcaun: The Journey by Simone Voltaire
For millions of years, gifted Gens lived on earth, until they decided to leave to protect their kind from humans. Thousands of years later, Princess Norellyia is sent from Sarcaun on a trip to earth in order to change her attitude. While living with a family on earth, she discovers a secret about the daughter, Melanie. She intervenes and ends up rescuing Melanie from trouble. In the meantime, chaos ensues on the planet of Sarcaun as evil is unleashed through the portal created by her departure to earth. Norellyia finds herself on a journey that will change her life forever.
Imagine living with a secret that isn't really a secret. You tell your secret over and over to open someone's eyes. You want the truth to be out already. What if the story you tell goes against the grain? What if those who don't want the story told, try to stop you? What then? What if your story, your secret, is about corruption?
His early memories comprise beatings. They are consistent to his head. They continually play in a loop with every bruise juxtaposed upon each other. No matter what he does, they are always there. During his 75 years of living, he learned to do just that, live with the pain and memories. That is, until he sleeps. Unwanted, the dreams terrorize him. His two brothers, naked, run screaming from the leather belt. He stands still and lets him lash him until he collapses unconscious from the pain.
It made him a confirmed pacifist who would rather turn the other cheek than strike back. That said, he was and still is a verbal opponent of corruption and will speak out against it whenever he can. After being forcibly removed from school, because of an altercation he had nothing to do with, he began work at Belfast Docks as a non-union man. Non-union men were treated as the lowest of the low and employed when there was a glut of work, which was usually at the start of the week. While they were treated with contempt, there were a few good workers among them. He saw that while the Dockers got paid well, the working conditions were non-existent. After a year as a non-union man he got into the Union, the ITGWU.He had to conform to the mad union rules.
He objected to these most strongly and was labeled a ‘troublemaker. They reduced him to the level of a non-union man, with the subsequent loss of wages. Along with several other young Dockers. He began to drink at the waterside Pub. A side effect of this was that he could sleep at night. Determined to sort himself out, he stopped drinking and got married. Not drinking didn’t last very long. He often would sleep in one of the large storage sheds. This continued for a while, then his mother died. The death of his mother threw him into a downward spiral and the daytime nightmares became worse. The screams of his mother and sister banging on the door for him to stop whipping them, led him to drink more which led to blackouts. One night he fell down a flight of steps in the city center and banged his head. When he became conscious after a week in the City Hospital. He couldn’t walk. Before he was even ready to return to work the Irish government forced him to return to work. Soon he was back to full strength and able to verbally fight with the Union. Then they did an about-turn and unbelievably joined forces with the employers.
He accused them of betraying every trade union principle for the protection of workers, but the sell out-continued. Then two shocking things happened. The Union Chairman left the Union and joined the employers as Labour Controller - and the Union ordered the Dockers to discharge Asbestos without protection to save the employers money.
Several Dockers, himself included, refused to work with Asbestos. So the Union joined forces with the employers and formed a Union and Employers Court, which summoned him - and fired him. The Dockers went on strike, but it only lasted three days. The Union declared he was a communist, and they were going to fire him themselves. Disgusted, he walked out the Dock gates and never returned. This started his writing career with his first stage play, ‘Justice’, touring NI and being performed in the Belfast and Dublin Theatre Festivals. However, because of his outspoken views and the fact that he has written a play about Belfast Docks - named ‘The Judas Goat’, the powers that be who rule Theatre in Ireland are behaving much like the Belfast Employers.
He's an overprotective cowboy. She has a stalker. Will he be her knight in shining armor?
Sarah
I have a secret. I’ve been in love with a cowboy since I was 16.
For years I wouldn’t admit it to myself, because I was focused on becoming a teacher.
But after graduating and being forced to take a job as a waitress, I find myself in a situation where only Mac can help.
A dark threat is closing in and he is my only hope of escape.
Mac
I still remember the first time I saw Sarah.
We were both teenagers, and she was swimming in the lake wearing a sexy red bikini.
Since then, I’ve ached for her. But she had big dreams, so I settled for friendship.
Until she finished college...
Now, I plan to do whatever it takes to make her mine.
Step one will mean helping her ditch her skeevy boss.
Step two? Find out who is stalking her and why.
This is a Steamy, Small Town, Cowboy Romance. No Cliffhangers. This is Book 5 in the Rock Springs Texas Series. As always there is a satisfying Happy Ever After.If you love steamy romances with insta love, hot love scenes, small towns, and cowboys, then this one is for you.
Warning
This is a cowboy romance with a sexy cowboy and a strong woman who have a lot of heat! This sexy full-length romance. Complete with a happy ever after, no cheating, and no cliffhanger!
This book may have some trigger points centering around abuse and what makes these characters strong and protective and justice is always served!
Readers 18+, please.
This is a steamy cowboy romance and the fifth book in my Rock Springs Texas series. Each book can be read as a standalone but as always better together. Follow these 5 protective cowboys as they find their cowgirls.
Rock Springs Texas Series
The Cowboy and His Runaway
The Cowboy and His Best Friend
The Cowboy and His Obsession
The Cowboy and His Sweetheart
The Cowboy and His Secret
Rock Springs Wedding Novella
An epic fantasy novel set in the Kingdom of Sun's Reach. Follows the adventure of two young women, Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess of the realm, and Emery Redwyn princess of Sun's Reach, as they face the call of destiny.
Sun's Reach is in dire peril.
The last war between ancient enemies, Sun's Reach and Moonwatch, was one hundred years ago. With the Eclipse blocking the two kingdoms from each other, it truly should have been the last.
But fate has its own plans.
Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess, and Emery Redwyn, princess of Sun's Reach, are about to learn this.
Amaru is swept into a trek across the Scorched Waste when her tribe is attacked, pushing the Fyroxi ever closer to extinction.
As war looms, Emery is plagued by thoughts of her beloved knight, missing in action, her fool of a father, and the societal duty to marry, all of which may change the rest of her young life.
Her newborn is missing. The distraught young mother is frantic.
Dr. Joanne Duncan delivered the tiny baby girl in the E.R. because there was no time to move to maternity.
Within hours, the baby is abducted, and Joanne and security guard Spencer Mathews are desperate to find the infant. They are under scrutiny from the administrators. How could they let this happen?
The only thing they can do is unite in a desperate attempt to find the little one.
FULL RECOVERY--it's what Joanne and Spence both need, recovery of the baby girl, but also of their hearts, of the freedom to live their lives in the present without ghosts from the past. The baby girl has become a symbol of all the losses in their lives. Can they find together the love they both long for? I
INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER: How did you come to write this particular medical romance? I was living in a small city in B.C. when a newborn went missing from the hospital. The entire community was horrified. The police and the public searched frantically. The hospital staff were in shock and felt guilty. The baby was recovered safely, leading to new and more stringent safety precautions. It was the kernel of a book that had to be written. Where do your characters come from? They're a mixture of bits of people I know plus pure imagination. Any writer will tell you that certain characters have a habit of taking control of their own story. I love romance with missing babies involved. I hope you do too!
The other books in the Emergency Series are: Drastic Measures Double Jeopardy Picking Clover, Nursing The Doctor, Patient Care The Baby Doctor, Are You My Daddy?,Acute Care, A Past And Present Love, Love To The Rescue, One Little Miracle, and Healer.
Leon Muller, resident of the city of Bern, has it all – a wealthy family, an excellent education and a very bright future. But he throws it all away on a rash impulse and as a result is thrown into a world that is totally alien to him. Cast out of his home city, he is forced to join an army of impoverished, half-starved soldiers that is fighting for the freedom of the Swiss people.
Derided as ‘alpine shepherds’ by their aristocratic enemies, Leon and his comrades are plunged into a life-and-death struggle as the nobles and armies of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Habsburgs circle the Swiss Confederation like ravenous wolves, united in their determination to wipe out the Swiss nation once and for all. It is a war of no quarter and great butchery.
‘Outcast’ is the first volume in the ‘Alpine Warrior’ series – the story of Swiss soldier Leon Muller in the wars of the 15th Century when Europe was torn apart by civil, dynastic and imperial conflicts.
Maps of 15th Century Switzerland and the Rhine Valley are available to view and download on the maps page of my website.
BLOG POST > FEATURED #PAPERBACK & KINDLE & NOOK BOOK ● ▸▸▸ 🌐 Sarcaun: The Journey by Simone Voltaire
For millions of years, gifted Gens lived on earth, until they decided to leave to protect their kind from humans. Thousands of years later, Princess Norellyia is sent from Sarcaun on a trip to earth in order to change her attitude. While living with a family on earth, she discovers a secret about the daughter, Melanie. She intervenes and ends up rescuing Melanie from trouble. In the meantime, chaos ensues on the planet of Sarcaun as evil is unleashed through the portal created by her departure to earth. Norellyia finds herself on a journey that will change her life forever.
An epic fantasy novel set in the Kingdom of Sun's Reach. Follows the adventure of two young women, Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess of the realm, and Emery Redwyn princess of Sun's Reach, as they face the call of destiny.
Sun's Reach is in dire peril.
The last war between ancient enemies, Sun's Reach and Moonwatch, was one hundred years ago. With the Eclipse blocking the two kingdoms from each other, it truly should have been the last.
But fate has its own plans.
Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess, and Emery Redwyn, princess of Sun's Reach, are about to learn this.
Amaru is swept into a trek across the Scorched Waste when her tribe is attacked, pushing the Fyroxi ever closer to extinction.
As war looms, Emery is plagued by thoughts of her beloved knight, missing in action, her fool of a father, and the societal duty to marry, all of which may change the rest of her young life.
Imagine living with a secret that isn't really a secret. You tell your secret over and over to open someone's eyes. You want the truth to be out already. What if the story you tell goes against the grain? What if those who don't want the story told, try to stop you? What then? What if your story, your secret, is about corruption?
His early memories comprise beatings. They are consistent to his head. They continually play in a loop with every bruise juxtaposed upon each other. No matter what he does, they are always there. During his 75 years of living, he learned to do just that, live with the pain and memories. That is, until he sleeps. Unwanted, the dreams terrorize him. His two brothers, naked, run screaming from the leather belt. He stands still and lets him lash him until he collapses unconscious from the pain.
It made him a confirmed pacifist who would rather turn the other cheek than strike back. That said, he was and still is a verbal opponent of corruption and will speak out against it whenever he can. After being forcibly removed from school, because of an altercation he had nothing to do with, he began work at Belfast Docks as a non-union man. Non-union men were treated as the lowest of the low and employed when there was a glut of work, which was usually at the start of the week. While they were treated with contempt, there were a few good workers among them. He saw that while the Dockers got paid well, the working conditions were non-existent. After a year as a non-union man he got into the Union, the ITGWU.He had to conform to the mad union rules.
He objected to these most strongly and was labeled a ‘troublemaker. They reduced him to the level of a non-union man, with the subsequent loss of wages. Along with several other young Dockers. He began to drink at the waterside Pub. A side effect of this was that he could sleep at night. Determined to sort himself out, he stopped drinking and got married. Not drinking didn’t last very long. He often would sleep in one of the large storage sheds. This continued for a while, then his mother died. The death of his mother threw him into a downward spiral and the daytime nightmares became worse. The screams of his mother and sister banging on the door for him to stop whipping them, led him to drink more which led to blackouts. One night he fell down a flight of steps in the city center and banged his head. When he became conscious after a week in the City Hospital. He couldn’t walk. Before he was even ready to return to work the Irish government forced him to return to work. Soon he was back to full strength and able to verbally fight with the Union. Then they did an about-turn and unbelievably joined forces with the employers.
He accused them of betraying every trade union principle for the protection of workers, but the sell out-continued. Then two shocking things happened. The Union Chairman left the Union and joined the employers as Labour Controller - and the Union ordered the Dockers to discharge Asbestos without protection to save the employers money.
Several Dockers, himself included, refused to work with Asbestos. So the Union joined forces with the employers and formed a Union and Employers Court, which summoned him - and fired him. The Dockers went on strike, but it only lasted three days. The Union declared he was a communist, and they were going to fire him themselves. Disgusted, he walked out the Dock gates and never returned. This started his writing career with his first stage play, ‘Justice’, touring NI and being performed in the Belfast and Dublin Theatre Festivals. However, because of his outspoken views and the fact that he has written a play about Belfast Docks - named ‘The Judas Goat’, the powers that be who rule Theatre in Ireland are behaving much like the Belfast Employers.
He's an overprotective cowboy. She has a stalker. Will he be her knight in shining armor?
Sarah
I have a secret. I’ve been in love with a cowboy since I was 16.
For years I wouldn’t admit it to myself, because I was focused on becoming a teacher.
But after graduating and being forced to take a job as a waitress, I find myself in a situation where only Mac can help.
A dark threat is closing in and he is my only hope of escape.
Mac
I still remember the first time I saw Sarah.
We were both teenagers, and she was swimming in the lake wearing a sexy red bikini.
Since then, I’ve ached for her. But she had big dreams, so I settled for friendship.
Until she finished college...
Now, I plan to do whatever it takes to make her mine.
Step one will mean helping her ditch her skeevy boss.
Step two? Find out who is stalking her and why.
This is a Steamy, Small Town, Cowboy Romance. No Cliffhangers. This is Book 5 in the Rock Springs Texas Series. As always there is a satisfying Happy Ever After.If you love steamy romances with insta love, hot love scenes, small towns, and cowboys, then this one is for you.
Warning
This is a cowboy romance with a sexy cowboy and a strong woman who have a lot of heat! This sexy full-length romance. Complete with a happy ever after, no cheating, and no cliffhanger!
This book may have some trigger points centering around abuse and what makes these characters strong and protective and justice is always served!
Readers 18+, please.
This is a steamy cowboy romance and the fifth book in my Rock Springs Texas series. Each book can be read as a standalone but as always better together. Follow these 5 protective cowboys as they find their cowgirls.
Rock Springs Texas Series
The Cowboy and His Runaway
The Cowboy and His Best Friend
The Cowboy and His Obsession
The Cowboy and His Sweetheart
The Cowboy and His Secret
Rock Springs Wedding Novella
"With a goodhearted serpent, a benevolent goddess, and a flawed but determined hero, Loukas and the Game of Chance offers excitement, magic, and, most of all, hope that it is never too late to make things right."
- Vivian Turnbull, Foreword Reviews
While Loukas is playing his flute at the seawall one day, he befriends a mysterious talking, dancing snake that rewards him with fortune and favor. Some years later, tempted by greed and pride, Loukas loses all his riches and his family. He must now set off on a treacherous journey through a frightening forest filled with suspense and strange creatures to find Destiny, her son Ilion, the Sun, and her daughter Luna, the Moon. These celestial guardians will surely allow him to reverse his misfortune, restore his honor, and win back all that he loves and treasures, won't they?
A reimagined Greek folktale, Loukas and the Game of Chance is illuminated with dramatic and evocative pen and ink drawings that provide an ideal backdrop for the dark intrigue that fills this haunting story of human struggle, courage, and resilience.
Off the tip of the snow-covered Keweenaw Peninsula both the crew and the cars are saved from an abandoned ice-covered shipwreck.
This book reveals:
How it happened
Who was involved
What remains today
My life as a member of one of Alabama's first families on the remains of one of its first plantations seemed cursed at times by alcoholism and/or bipolar disease and yet miraculously blessed at other times when not surrendering to "the curse". The original Molett was one of America's wealthiest persons because of slavery, but the Moletts on my side of the family had lost their wealth and place in Alabama's polite society by the time I was born. My story tells how God took what was left and abundantly blessed my life with His presence.
BLOG POST > FEATURED #PAPERBACK & KINDLE & NOOK BOOK ● ▸▸▸ 🌐 Sarcaun: The Journey by Simone Voltaire
For millions of years, gifted Gens lived on earth, until they decided to leave to protect their kind from humans. Thousands of years later, Princess Norellyia is sent from Sarcaun on a trip to earth in order to change her attitude. While living with a family on earth, she discovers a secret about the daughter, Melanie. She intervenes and ends up rescuing Melanie from trouble. In the meantime, chaos ensues on the planet of Sarcaun as evil is unleashed through the portal created by her departure to earth. Norellyia finds herself on a journey that will change her life forever.
Imagine living with a secret that isn't really a secret. You tell your secret over and over to open someone's eyes. You want the truth to be out already. What if the story you tell goes against the grain? What if those who don't want the story told, try to stop you? What then? What if your story, your secret, is about corruption?
His early memories comprise beatings. They are consistent to his head. They continually play in a loop with every bruise juxtaposed upon each other. No matter what he does, they are always there. During his 75 years of living, he learned to do just that, live with the pain and memories. That is, until he sleeps. Unwanted, the dreams terrorize him. His two brothers, naked, run screaming from the leather belt. He stands still and lets him lash him until he collapses unconscious from the pain.
It made him a confirmed pacifist who would rather turn the other cheek than strike back. That said, he was and still is a verbal opponent of corruption and will speak out against it whenever he can. After being forcibly removed from school, because of an altercation he had nothing to do with, he began work at Belfast Docks as a non-union man. Non-union men were treated as the lowest of the low and employed when there was a glut of work, which was usually at the start of the week. While they were treated with contempt, there were a few good workers among them. He saw that while the Dockers got paid well, the working conditions were non-existent. After a year as a non-union man he got into the Union, the ITGWU.He had to conform to the mad union rules.
He objected to these most strongly and was labeled a ‘troublemaker. They reduced him to the level of a non-union man, with the subsequent loss of wages. Along with several other young Dockers. He began to drink at the waterside Pub. A side effect of this was that he could sleep at night. Determined to sort himself out, he stopped drinking and got married. Not drinking didn’t last very long. He often would sleep in one of the large storage sheds. This continued for a while, then his mother died. The death of his mother threw him into a downward spiral and the daytime nightmares became worse. The screams of his mother and sister banging on the door for him to stop whipping them, led him to drink more which led to blackouts. One night he fell down a flight of steps in the city center and banged his head. When he became conscious after a week in the City Hospital. He couldn’t walk. Before he was even ready to return to work the Irish government forced him to return to work. Soon he was back to full strength and able to verbally fight with the Union. Then they did an about-turn and unbelievably joined forces with the employers.
He accused them of betraying every trade union principle for the protection of workers, but the sell out-continued. Then two shocking things happened. The Union Chairman left the Union and joined the employers as Labour Controller - and the Union ordered the Dockers to discharge Asbestos without protection to save the employers money.
Several Dockers, himself included, refused to work with Asbestos. So the Union joined forces with the employers and formed a Union and Employers Court, which summoned him - and fired him. The Dockers went on strike, but it only lasted three days. The Union declared he was a communist, and they were going to fire him themselves. Disgusted, he walked out the Dock gates and never returned. This started his writing career with his first stage play, ‘Justice’, touring NI and being performed in the Belfast and Dublin Theatre Festivals. However, because of his outspoken views and the fact that he has written a play about Belfast Docks - named ‘The Judas Goat’, the powers that be who rule Theatre in Ireland are behaving much like the Belfast Employers.
Detroit homicide detective Jacob Miller has been accused of many things, but being smart isn't one of them. The murder of drug dealer Willy is proof enough of that, but not covering it up is even worse. So why would he think that stealing a fellow inmate's hidden fortune is any smarter, especially when an ex-mafia family head is after the same thing?
But even the stupidest people have occasional flashes of brilliance, and Jacob is no exception. After being released from prison and moving to sunny Costa Rica, he solves an international murder mystery involving the usual suspects: love, lust, and murder.
Despite that mildly brainiac feather in his cap, he still has to deal with the beef between him, his fellow inmate, and the mob boss...and the violent fallout that ensues.
An epic fantasy novel set in the Kingdom of Sun's Reach. Follows the adventure of two young women, Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess of the realm, and Emery Redwyn princess of Sun's Reach, as they face the call of destiny.
Sun's Reach is in dire peril.
The last war between ancient enemies, Sun's Reach and Moonwatch, was one hundred years ago. With the Eclipse blocking the two kingdoms from each other, it truly should have been the last.
But fate has its own plans.
Amaru Sunbrand, daughter of the primary goddess, and Emery Redwyn, princess of Sun's Reach, are about to learn this.
Amaru is swept into a trek across the Scorched Waste when her tribe is attacked, pushing the Fyroxi ever closer to extinction.
As war looms, Emery is plagued by thoughts of her beloved knight, missing in action, her fool of a father, and the societal duty to marry, all of which may change the rest of her young life.
My life as a member of one of Alabama's first families on the remains of one of its first plantations seemed cursed at times by alcoholism and/or bipolar disease and yet miraculously blessed at other times when not surrendering to "the curse". The original Molett was one of America's wealthiest persons because of slavery, but the Moletts on my side of the family had lost their wealth and place in Alabama's polite society by the time I was born. My story tells how God took what was left and abundantly blessed my life with His presence.
For millions of years, gifted Gens lived on earth, until they decided to leave to protect their kind from humans. Thousands of years later, Princess Norellyia is sent from Sarcaun on a trip to earth in order to change her attitude. While living with a family on earth, she discovers a secret about the daughter, Melanie. She intervenes and ends up rescuing Melanie from trouble. In the meantime, chaos ensues on the planet of Sarcaun as evil is unleashed through the portal created by her departure to earth. Norellyia finds herself on a journey that will change her life forever.