http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: MultiFormat eBooks Added This Week http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98735/The-Affair-of-the-Brains-/Harry-Bates/? The First Great Space Opera Hero Returns! The classic adventures of Hawk Carse, Space Hawk, continue with the second installment of this memorable series from the pages of the legendary 1932 Astounding Science Fiction (now known as Analog). Hawk Carse came to the frontiers of space when Saturn was the frontier planet, years before law and order were brought to the empires of the far-flung planets. It was a time when the outer limits of the Solar System were being terrorized by the space pirate, Ku Sui, and there was scarcely a pioneer outpost which had not already been the victim of the deadly doctor. In this adventure Ku Sui abducts Earth's's greatest scientists and harvests their living brains in a breathtaking plot to conquer the solar system. Can even Space Hawk foil his fiendish plan? Blazing rayguns, thrilling space battles, and personal courage highlight this great short novel from the glory days of the science fiction pulps. The original magazine text, and not the censored 1950s book version. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98703/When-Love-Survives/Susan-Hanniford-Crowley/? MAGIC Regina O'Malley is a college student who's just discovered she's magic. Today is the first day of her internship at a prominent brokerage house at the World Trade Center, and she's late. She doesn't know disaster is right around the corner. LOVE Gregor Vasiliev is a financial advisor at the World Trade Center. This shapeshifter hates the office coffee, and while on a donut run he gazes out the window of his favorite coffee shop. There in the street stands the lifemate he's been searching for. If he doesn't act now, he'll lose her forever. IT'S SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98677/When-the-Condor-Returned/Icy-Snow-Blackstone/? Peace was within their grasp...and then the enemy returned. Love doesn't necessarily conquer all. Newlyweds Philip and Rebekah represent the union of two different people, but the Earthmen and the Tusteya are not understanding of their union. Philip needs to convince everyone that he is a capable ruler. When he and Rebekah think they've succeeded, The Condor, a Federation spaceship returns, reawakening thirty years of hatred and aggression. Captain Renault, in charge of the Condor, considers himself a by-the-book commander. Whatever he does, he has the excuse of following orders. His viewpoints set him up to be in conflict with Phillip. Phillip must answer the ultimate question--is he Tusteyan or Earthman? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98682/Lady-Churchills-Rosebud-Wristlet-No-13/Kelly-Link/? Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly zine of eclectic fiction and so on. No. 13 features the work of such fine writers as Sarah Monette, Tim Pratt, Leslie What, Hannah Bowen and many others. Table of Contents fiction David J. Schwartz--The Ichthymancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti's Birthday Party Eliot Fintushel--Kukla Boogie Moon Leslie What--The Changeling Richard Polney--The Faith of Metal in Ghosts M. Thomas--The Poor Man's Wife Tim Pratt--Rowboats, Sacks of Gold E.L. Chen--White Rabbit Triptych Philip Brewer--Salesman F. Brett Cox--Legacy Veronica Schanoes--Serpents Karina Sumner-Smith--A Last Taste of Sweetness Hannah Bowen--Pinned Sarah Monette--Sidhe Tigers Geoffrey H. Goodwin--The Magnificent Dachshund K.Z. Perry--Mama's Special Rice Tin Spencer Keralis--The Meat and the Mushrooms Nonfiction Gavin J. Grant--Home and Security Zine Reviews Gwenda Bond--Dear Aunt Gwenda Lucy Snyder--The Guest Film Column: The Salton Sea Poetics Mario Milosevic--Lunar Fate Jason Stewart--The Greebles David Blair--Four Poems Art Mieke Zuiderweg--Anticipation (Cover) James Campbell--Untitled http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98611/Mathemagics/Patricia-Duffy-Novak/? A lot of students hate math. This is unfortunate, particularly if their chosen field of study and desired career require it. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98713/The-Dragons-of-Fyre/Janet-Lane-Walters/? Drakon has escaped from the priestesses of the Temple of Fyre and returned home to find the keep almost deserted. There remains but one dragon, an ancient yellow. Vowing revenge against the lord of Sea Cliff, he sets out to accomplish this. Arana was once a freed slave in the tower where Drakon remains the sole member of the family. She was freed for her ability to speak to and heal the dragons. Now she is a slave again and is threatened by the Lord of Sea Cliff. He believes she will be the one to give him an heir. His ability to fly with the dragons is slowly becoming more difficult and he must have an heir to train. Rating: Spicy. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98728/Harvest-of-Bones/Nancy-Means-Wright/? Ruth Willmarth leaps into the fray when her ornery cow Zelda unearths a human finger; a rented greyhound digs up a skeleton wearing a Scots bonnet; and a lovely woman dies a mysterious death at a local Healing House. "Demanding and engaging," (Booklist). "Vividly offbeat characters," (Kirkus Reviews), "A strong sense of place--with human, and humorous problems." (Publishers Weekly) 2nd Ruth Wilmarth mystery; originally published by St. Martin's http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98686/A-Time-of-Storms/Dorothy-Bodoin/? When a surly stranger threatens the life of her rescue collie, Candy, and she hears a voice crying for help in a vacant house, Jennet Greenway suspects that her first summer as a new wife may be tumultuous. But she can't imagine the storms swirling around her Victorian farmhouse in Foxglove Corners and their power to change her life forever http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98719/Dead-Pan/Gayle-Trent/? For the second time in as many months, I found myself telling a police officer, "I just brought the cake." So begins Daphne Martin's new crime-solving challenge in DEAD PAN, another cozy, cake-decorating mystery from the author of last year's much-praised MURDER TAKES THE CAKE. "If you like Diane Mott Davidson or Joanna Fluke, you will be enthralled," said one reviewer of the Daphne Martin Cake-Decorating Mysteries. Now author Gayle Trent treats readers to another tasty slice of culinary mystery, as her cake-decorating sleuth, the intrepid Daphne Martin, of tiny Brea Ridge, Virginia, once again finds herself and her cakes accused of a crime. This time it's the suspicious death of a local man who fell sick after eating a piece of Daphne's cakes at a party. Gayle Trent is hard at work on book three in the series, KILLER SWEET TOOTH, coming in 2010. Trent also writes mysteries for NAL, New York, under the pen name Amanda Lee. Visit Gayle at www.gayletrent.com and www.bellbridgebooks.com http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98696/DEADbolt/Marthanne-Shubert/? P.I. Gin Ritchey and the other marina inhabitants are surprised to find that a murder has taken place right across the canal. The victim is detestable talk-show host Win Lovatt, a man with myriads of enemies. A fair few people, in fact, are of the opinion that the killer has done a public service. Gin herself is not sure she cares if the murderer is caught or not. Enter Lovatt's widow, the beautiful Lolita. The police are convinced that she murdered her husband, with whom she had a yelling match just before she went home to Mother. They would arrest her out of hand if they could find out how she got out of the locked and shuttered house after the killing. With the help of a fat yachtsman who spied the murderer from the top of his forty-foot mast and a wealth of information gleaned from many of Lovatt's non-fans, Gin solves the mystery, but can't make up her mind whether to share what she's learned with the cops or not. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98679/Mute-Witness/Rick-R-Reed/? Sean and Austin's perfect world shatters when Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason, vanishes. When Jason turns up days later abused and unable to speak, small town fingers point to the boy's gay dad as the culprit. Meanwhile, the real villain is close by, intent on ensuring the boy's muteness is permanent. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98730/Wake-Up-to-Murder/Day-Keene/? What had he done? Jim took a quick shot of whiskey and stood eyeing the girl in the bed--She was all too real, too warm, and entirely too luscious--but last night was a blank--The answer came in 24 hours when Jim Charters, nice guy and home-loving type, went home to his wife to find himself the fugitive from a grisly game of death--a nightmare that had started with a "night on the town" and wound up with multiple murders! http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98687/My-Love-Will-Always-Haunt-You/Susan-Neton-Bennett/? Cal and Laura sat on a bench in the hospital court yard enjoying the sunny day. Suddenly Cal put his face in his hands. "Ma, after the plane crashed and I lost my memory I would have this dream. There was a beautiful face smiling at me just beyond my reach. This perfect creature had no body. It was just a face and it drove me wild I couldn't place who she was or how I knew her." http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98623/Heaven-On-Earth/Lori-Avocato/? She needed the solitude of the ocean to think, the warmth of the sun to soothe her confusion, and the speed of pushing a motorboat to its limit to face the toughest decision of her life. Captain Maddy Harrington needed peace of mind to decide if she should continue her lifelong dream of being an Air Force officer. But what she got was a man washed up on shore. A man--a gorgeous man--who didn't even know his name but thought he'd found HEAVEN ON EARTH. Will Maddy ever find that solitude, or will it even matter once her heart, her feelings for him, get involved? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98685/To-Wish-for-Hope/Jayme-Evans/? Malleneese Sharah of the family Hast lives in the wilds of Elfax and is afraid of men. When she finds the unclothed Elfaxen on the freezing forest floor, she goes against the fears, and maybe her better judgment and takes him to her shelter. Later when she is captured as a slave by the lizard people from the planet Coss, can she wish for hope that Braise will go against everything he knows and rescue her so far away? Grand Basis Braize doesn't know what to think of the beautiful Malleneese woman, who lives alone on the mountaintop. When at last he convinces her to go to his village, he is amazed how womanly she can be, even with her male clothing. Can he ever convince her that not all men are dangerous to her? He can only hope. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98622/Hope-and-Prey/Sharon-Horton/? A date with destiny isn't what Kurt Reid has in mind the night he enters the "alley of convenience" he uses to meet informants. Yet destiny is what he finds in the crumpled form of a young woman. Kurt approaches slowly, and moments later he finds himself lying flat on his back. Kurt has just met Andrea "AJ" Summers, someone he senses is no ordinary woman. Lovely and likable, AJ possesses other qualities that some see as dangerous. She's smart, brave, and very good with a gun. And though she tries to deny it, AJ admires, in Kurt, the same quality she possesses...fierce independence. When AJ joins the underground newspaper Kurt works with, they soon learn that one of the criminals they are seeking is hunting AJ. Can they overcome their independent natures and learn to love and protect each other? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98688/Nerd-In-A-Wolf-Suit/Laine-Morgan/? Phoebe Morin thinks vampires are stalking her for the microchip her late husband left taped to the back of a photograph. After a vicious attack, Phoebe finds an unlikely protector in the office nerd, Drew Montana. Despite his issues with socializing, Drew is curious about the microchip, which seems to hold the secret of the vampire universe. He is also the best one to protect Phoebe; killing the undead is what he does best. During the full moon, the introverted Drew transforms into a sexy, dangerous wolf with a mission to kick vampire ass. But when Phoebe presents him with the mysterious microchip, the full moon has waned. Can he discover its secret and protect Phoebe without the strength of the werewolf? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98693/That-Taste-of-Orange/Valerie-J-Patterson/? If ever two people were perfectly suited for each other, it's Sabrina and Chas. Both pastry chefs. Both excellent cooks. And both love the taste of orange. But the Christmas season has been a very busy time at their pastry shop, and they're both feeling the weight of the long hours, the lack of personal time, and the stress of the holidays. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98620/Guardian-of-Destiny/Lynn-Lowery/? Mordavia is a land of magic and wonder. From the Tower of Wardrick, where the Guardians use their ancient magic and mysterious secrets to protect the kingdom, to the barrens of Scrag Fang, the land is a heaven to some and a hell to those who will stop at nothing to conquer it. Melisha Nightsbane, the second in command of the Guardians of Wardrick, has held everything in her hands at one time, even true love, until it was ripped from her grasp and heart two years ago. But when Patyn Brighthand, the man who broke her heart returns on a mission to save the world, she finds herself on the adventure of her life. One that will reveal secrets that will change history and her heart, forever. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98621/Bewitching-You/Viola-Estrella/? An interfering ghost, a nosy mind-reading grandmother, a psychic man-hating mother, and a spell gone wrong are only a few dilemmas Sofia Good has to deal with in order to find love. It's not easy having control of your own destiny when you can't even remember what you put on that morning, even worse when you're given a "gift" of precognition to save people's lives, and you have no clue how to use it. Grayson Phillips lost his brother in a senseless accident, and now he's trying to gain back control by maintaining a safe and uneventful 'life plan.' But after sexy, quirky Sofia crash lands into his world he's forced to rethink his strategy. When Sofia's grandmother casts a love spell, it successfully maneuvers Sofia and Grayson into her home in secluded Amish country. Time will tell if the love spell helps or destroys Sofia's only chance at love. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98683/The-Thorn-at-His-Side/Diana-Flori/? Sexy, rugged James Blackthorn has a wish, but his wish-granting genie happens to be the manipulative Frenchman, Etienne Dubois, who has his own agenda. James embraces the independent spirit of the early Florida settlers and has a deep love for his land. His brother Colin, however, is a scalawag and a ladies' man, and a threat to Etienne Dubois' tranquility, who fears his daughter Cecile is in love with Colin. After a five year exile in Paris, Cecile Dubois, a spunky and beautiful young girl returns to Key West determined to marry James, whom she secretly adores. But Etienne, her father, has other plans in mind. Mistakenly believing that Cecile wants to marry the unsuitable Colin, Dubois makes a pact with James to send Colin away in exchange for more land. What Etienne doesn't know is that by keeping the wolf away he has opened the door to the lion. James can't help his attraction to Cecile, which he fights at every turn. But what will happen when Cecile finds out she has been bartered for a piece of land? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98684/The-Chieftans-Chair/Tamara-Ali/? Cultural anthropologist Surya Raj has returned to Trinidad to find her brother, gone missing suddenly in the middle of a significant archaeological find. His science partner Daniel is her only hope of finding him alive, and together they team up to unravel the clues to his whereabouts. Soon they are more than research partners, as a powerful chemistry ignites a passion that burns hot in the tropical mountains. But when the industrial spies responsible for her bother's disappearance target them, Surya embarks on a treacherous journey that takes her to the Bahamas and then to Jamaica to solve the clues to the mystery. With Daniel at her side Surya knows she must take back the life--and the love--she thought was lost to her forever. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98705/The-Demons-Eye-/Martha-L-McBryar/? Centuries ago, as men measure time, the great Goddess Danu created a scepter. She poured vast amounts of raw magical energy into the cursed thing. With time, though, Danu came to fear her own creation. She gave the foul thing to her sister, the goddess of battle, Macha. Perhaps Danu thought that Macha's powers would offer protection from the scepter. If so, she thought wrongly. Macha became victim to the insanity caused by the scepter, and in her paranoia, she retreated to the mounds at Tara. There she secluded herself from the world and used the power of the scepter to create bodyguards. These guards were neither man nor beast, but both, creatures who were of both worlds. I am one of those creatures, neither a woman nor wolf am I, but both. I am a bodyguard; now I guard mankind. I always will. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98680/Tempt-Not-the-Cat/J-C-Wilder/? What will happen when the hunter becomes the hunted? A woman whose chances for love were destroyed? After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Erihn Spencer has spent the past eighteen years living in the shadows. Scarred both physically and mentally, she spends her days writing romance novels dealing with the type of relationship she's avoided. The night before heading into the mountains to start her new novel, a stranger approaches and shakes her world with one perfect kiss. A man who could be her savior? From the moment Fayne kisses her, the desire to possess this shy beauty is irresistible. Thrown together in a secluded house in the mountains, he's torn between his need for her and the secrets that are destined to force them apart. As Erihn struggles to break free from years of self- imposed isolation, he finds he is the one who is now trapped by his desires, his dark self. Their worlds collide and old secrets lead a bitter enemy to their door. This book has been previously published. Warning: This book contains werecats, vampires and immortals, OH MY! Along with animals, both wild and tame, uber-creepy bad guys, wild monkey sex sans the monkeys and the blatant misuse of catnip. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98613/Sanctuarys-Price-/Moira-Rogers/? He's only been surviving. Her magic can show him how to live. Red Rock Pass, Book 3 After a decade under a corrupt alpha's thumb, Dylan Gennaro is still reeling from the changes in his life: a new home, a new alpha, a pack at war. Even normal things like an ending relationship. Still, when he's asked to work with an outcast witch, he agrees without hesitation. Maybe by protecting her, he'll rediscover his own inner strength. If, indeed, it exists. Sasha Wallace lost her mentor in a vicious attack that left her scarred in spirit as well as body. While she's grateful for the refuge offered by the Red Rock alpha, it's tough living with the pack's suspicion. Even though--or maybe because--she's willing to use her powers to help them fight their war. Except for Dylan. When she's finally free to find a new home, he'll be the only one she regrets leaving behind. Their attraction is a balm to their wounded hearts, until their journey for knowledge brings them face to face with a terrifying vampire. Neither has the strength for this fight--but if they can let go of their pasts and trust each other, they might just be able to do it. Together. Warning: Contains dangerous magical binding spells, a flannel-wearing vampire lumberjack, paranormal road-trip hijinks and a quietly brilliant werewolf willing to defy his society and his past to protect the witch he loves. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98676/Fear-and-Desire/Kathleen-Brandt/? Cassie's been touched by an angel--and found it terrifying. Defying her fear of heights, Cassie has moved in to the tallest building in town. She's doing pretty well until a thunderstorm blows an unexpected visitor through her balcony window, and she finds herself nursing a wounded angel back to health. Tending to the angel's wounds teaches Cassie a lot more than she expected about fear...and about desire. Content warning, explicit m/f sex, virginity loss. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98615/The-Ghost-Exterminator-/Vivi-Andrews/? Rebel meets by-the-book businessman. Love doesn't stand a ghost of a chance. A Karmic Consultants story. Jo Banks has been seeing ghosts since she was six, so normal was never really an option. Embracing the weird and shunning normalcy makes her the top Ghost Exterminator in her region. Then she meets Wyatt Haines, the uptight, materialistic and irritatingly sexy owner of a successful resort chain. Wyatt's new Victorian inn is extremely haunted and the Commando Barbie Ghost Exterminator is just the girl for the job. Except Wyatt doesn't believe in ghosts, or Jo, or anything outside the norm. He'll have to start believing fast, though, because Jo's extermination goes awry and accidentally throws two prankster ghosts into Wyatt's body to haunt him. Every time he falls asleep, the mischievous ghosts take over, turning his perfectly ordered life into chaos. His waking hours are no less chaotic, with his thoughts possessed by Jo's quirky appeal and Playmate physique. Unfortunately, Jo's ghost-exing mojo is on the fritz just when she needs it the most to unhaunt Wyatt and figure out why his inn is swarming with ghosts. Preferably before his spirit is permanently separated from his mouth-watering body. And before her heart is permanently attached to the most sexy, frustrating, normal man she's ever met. Warning: This book contains prankster ghosts, PG bondage, and a not-so-PG trip to the mile-high club. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98616/Wolf-Flight/Vivian-Arend/? An untriggered werewolf. A runaway Omega. It's not easy fighting destiny. Granite Lake Wolves, Book 2 Tad Maxwell's workaholism serves to keep his bush-pilot company in the air, and his inner werewolf in check. In the two years since he discovered his heritage, he's resisted the longing to test the power of his wolf side. It would mean compromising his human principles. Then Missy Leason re-enters his life. Ten years ago, their teenage attraction never went beyond hand-holding. Now their chemistry is off the charts, pushing him closer to the step he's not sure it's safe to take, especially with a human. But Missy is more like Tad than he realizes. She's wolf too, and a wolf pack is a dangerous place to have secrets. Missy's Alpha has sniffed out her carefully hidden Omega powers. Her first response: run from the corrupt Alpha's plan to make her his mate. Step two: get to Tad, and hope like hell his untapped powers are strong enough to negate her own. Every touch with Missy is hot, hot, hot, but even finding out she's pure wolf doesn't solve Tad's dilemma. Is she using him, or are they truly destined mates? Only one thing is certain. He will defend her to his last breath--on his terms. Even if it means losing his life. Warning: Contains nasty Alphas, secret Omegas and werewolves acting raunchy on the dance floor. Sarcasm, wilderness cabins and hot nookie back by popular demand. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98614/The-Forbidden-Chamber/Ella-Drake/? "Your life is forfeit if you open that door." All her life, Lady Isabel Colven has followed the path laid out for her, content to look neither left nor right for excitement. Her future holds a dutiful, passionless marriage to some nice young man, and she's content?until the exotic and compelling Lord Rukh Hayle threatens her maidenly reserve. Rumor paints him as a wife-murderer; desire tempts her to look past his aura of danger. Rukh refuses to let his family's curse kill a third bride, but Isabel awakens the Raven within him, compels him to take her to wife--and to bed--despite the secrets that live under his skin. That lie is locked in the darkest corners of the manor, waiting to be unleashed. Their lusty union arouses the curse, entangling Isabel in an erotic tug of war that can only end in her destruction. There is no escape for either of them. Not from his family's shadowy history. Not from demons imagined and real. And not from the choice Rukh faces to save his bride from a fate worse than death? Warning: This gothic contains heady kisses that lead to ruin, passionate sex on a desk chair, a mysterious husband who may be a murderer, a cursed family of raven shifters, and an unspeakable evil hidden in the closet. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98695/Prey-for-the-Wolf/Kari-Thomas/? Bethany Garrett's brother is kidnapped by a group known as The Hunters who make it their life mission to track down and kill shapeshifters. The Hunters offer Bethany a deal for her brother's life: Infiltrate the most dangerous group of wolf shifters known and help destroy them. She's not prepared for the instant attraction she feels for the alpha of the pack, Kane Steele. Now, not only is her life in danger but also her heart and soul. Because once Kane finds out the truth of why she's there, she doesn't stand a chance of living very long. And Kane has her sited as his prey now. Bethany knows the time for turning back was lost the minute she and Kane met. And she's about to find out what it means when a wolf shifter tells her she's his, no matter what happens in the following days of peril... http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98718/The-Yearning-Heart/Zelma-Orr/? Playing peacemaker between King Henry and Queen Eleanor, accepting an unwanted wife for a debt, and collecting taxes keep Sir Stephen Lambert irritated and busy. At sixteen, Lady Rebecca Grinwold exchanges her papa, who despises her because she isn't a son, for an unknown master. She doesn't expect to fall in love with Sir Stephen. Well-educated but unworldly, she has no voluptuous body to entice a world-traveled, handsome man and no idea how to win the notice and affection of the man she's fallen in love with. Rating: SENSUAL. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98698/Lord-Dancys-Delight/Emily-Hendrickson/? Amelia Longworth, raised in the Orient, is traveling to England with her companion Chen Mei when she is rescued by Major Geoffrey Dancy. Geoffrey is on his way to London to claim his new title, but he manages to rescue Amelia twice more--and she, from her upbringing, feels it her duty to watch over him. Her attempts to rescue him are unique--and charming. Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98717/Painted-Lady/Maggi-Andersen/? Were Astrid and Dylan merely caught up in their roles as they performed the screenplay based on the life of painter Milo Russo and his daughter, Gina? Or was the magic that seemed to explode between them with each on-screen kiss real? Rating: SENSUAL http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98715/Shamus-Ghillie-US-Secret-Service-In-Medicine-Hat/David-Walks-As-Bear/? After the Civil War, the country was growing and growing quickly. By 1868, the nation had left infancy and was now toddling, fast and furiously, into Manifest Destiny. Barring the American Indian, the West was wide open for this wobbling stroll. But, just as you must guard against potential troubles for a new walker, this emerging nation needed to shield against inherent dangers caused by rapid growth. Issues such as national sovereignty, boundaries, settlers, and indigenous populations had to be handled with kid gloves so as not to sully the hands of the nation. The country needed a special kind of man to facilitate these hazards, and facilitate them... in a covert manner. This is a tale about such a man, the woman he saves, the youth he inspires and the Indian and soldier... that he is. Shamus Ghillie is a half-Choctaw--half-Irish former elite Confederate soldier, who is, likewise, a man of the wild and untamed west. He's imbued with rare, and unusual, skills as a hunter of both animals and...men. It is this man, and his unique talents, that President Grant wants to secretly enlist to deal with trouble along the boundary of the newly formed nation of Canada, just north of the Montana Territory. But, men like Ghillie don't come easily, and, if they come at all... they don't come cheap. Shamus distrusts government--any government--but the money's good, and he has a kid sister to consider. Still, truth be told... he would've taken on this task to gain justice for the Blackfeet--free of charge--had they not offered the fee. So, he becomes the nation's first unofficial, yet official, spy with the U.S. Secret Service. Thus begins an adventurous story that encapsulates a part of the nation's early expansion westward and the people--white, red and blue-coated, alike--who made American history. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/b98624/Holocene-Mysteries/John-T-Cullen/? What really happened during that early twilight zone of human existence--after the last Ice Age, but before people started writing things down? We live in an epoch called the Holocene, which began about 12,000 years ago, and of which we know relatively little except for the past 6,000 years since writing was invented. But there are mysterious megaliths around the world, and strange cities built by skull cultists who kept their dead around--and other evidence that all is not what we may think. Will we ever find out the whole story? To understand the missing 6,000 years, we actually have to delve back at least 50,000 years into the Ice Ages, where we will meet our ancestors. They are fully modern human beings who sing, who make music, weave beautiful clothes, paint glorious Dreamtime images deep in the caves of France and Spain. Meanwhile, our cousins, the Neanderthals are not oafish brutes, but people not unlike ourselves, who die out shortly after 30,000 years ago. Mesolithic man in the Holocene was little more than Paleolithic man without the ice and the megafauna. Jericho, the world's oldest city, population 500, was actually started in the last shadows of the Paleolithic. From Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to Neolithic farmers and city builders, we follow the miracles of wheat and wine, and the ritual killing and resurrection of kings who atone for their people. We uncover the dark secrets of the prehistoric Holocene. As always with history, we learn surprising things about ourselves.