In the desert of Mars, pantechs spend months at a time mapping the planet. Robin’s family lived on the edge of desperation until everything began to fall apart. Hiding the death of her father, they relied on her for survival until the accident. Robin and her brother, Tim, are now alone far from the city, food and water. Desperate, they start walking, finding help and possible sanctuary at Juniper Farm. That’s if Robin can allow herself to accept it.
Sometimes you have to let yourself get strong enough to face your own demons.
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Tragedy strikes when Captain Terese Beuren’s ship The Manatee is shot down near the defunct mining planet of Terran B in the asteroid belt. Shocked by immediate loss and cruelty, Terese finds herself unexpectedly invaluable to the people enslaved on the planet.
Jacob has been there since the beginning and hasn’t given up, even after nine years below ground. Lilly has lost everything, except her determination to escape. Once they realize what Terese is, they bring her into their confidence. She might be their only way off planet, if she survives what their captors have in mind.
It’s 1892 and successful solicitor and confirmed bachelor, Robert Ames, receives a final letter from his estranged brother. Jonathan begs him to leave his comfortable London home and emigrate to the town of Augustine, Grenada and the care of a young woman, Miss Julianne Hughes. Before he can request details, his brother dies and his only choice is to answer the call. Questions about her sanity, her position in society and his role in it all arise. The locally esteemed asylum manager, Dr. Cornelius Stenon, is doing everything he can to return Julianne to the asylum under his control. Despite mounting tension, Robert must discover whether Julianne’s actions are those of a mad woman or just a woman tired of societal constraints who has been pushed beyond the limits of any human mind. Against the backdrop of the Caribbean, he has to decide for himself what he believes and how it will change both their lives.
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Within the walls of The Red Rose, the city’s youth is lured by music, art and love. Nila struggles with PTSD and is recovering from an abduction everyone seems to doubt. Serene, a lost artist, finds encouragement in a stranger’s smile and escape from a different kind of expression. These stories explore the power of love and art in the search for truth.
This speculative fiction novel with romantic elements, starts with Nadine, a medic, in the only city on Mars. When the death of Earth’s president leads to a lockdown of the red planet, Nadine is forced into a leadership role. Sven, the mine owner’s son, is accidentally left behind but what he discovers on the planet will change him forever. Faced with starvation, can Nadine and her small cohort rally the community in one last attempt to save themselves? Or will what she’s found in the hospital lead to them joining all the other dead on the desert planet?
An Expensive Retreat is the first book in the Pure Red Sand series and begins Nadine and Sven’s story.
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This fast-paced suspense follow up to the speculative fiction novel, An Expensive Retreat, takes us off the desert planet and deep into the political intrigue of a future Earth. Two years after restoring contact with Earth, Nadine is tightly involved in the continuing struggles of Mars but what she discovered in the hospital still haunts her. That and the continued silence of the one man she loves take her to Earth. Powerful people are as desperate for secrecy as she is to find answers. As one person after another confesses, Nadine begins to wonder if she’ll ever find the truth.
Book Two of the Pure Red Sand series
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In this third speculative fiction novel in the Pure Red Sand series, we go back to Mars with Nadine and Sven. Freshly reunited and trying to find their way in the new city, they’re both working towards justice for those injured or killed during the abandonment. Those who stalked their steps on Earth can’t let them walk away this easily and won’t let planetary boundaries stop them. Stranded in the desert she loves, Nadine must come to terms with her own past and what she wants for the future, her family and community.
Book Three of the Pure Red Sand series and the culmination of Nadine and Sven’s story.
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