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   The Sabre-Toothed Cat Trilogy

Smilodon Smilodon 1st Edition (Book 1) [while quantities last]
Imagine recreating the saber-toothed cat for fun? The possibility sounds exciting, but the reality could be nightmarish. Within these pages you are drawn into in a world where man becomes the hunted. It is fast-paced fiction where cats change the rules and people run for their lives. “Tigers in the Wild” and a lucrative fee lure freelance writer, Zechariah Price, into the frozen mountains of Montana. The assignment drops him into a world of Bengal tigers, illegal aliens, prehistoric sabre-toothed cats, psychic premonitions and babies. As death by man and animal surrounds him, he quickly learns that he, too, is destined to become food for the cats. Trapped between man and beast, his assignment turns into that of survival. Welcome to a world where cats call the shots.

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Smilodon Smilodon (Book 1)
Imagine recreating the saber-toothed cat for fun? The possibility sounds exciting, but the reality could be nightmarish. Within these pages you are drawn into in a world where man becomes the hunted. It is fast-paced fiction where cats change the rules and people run for their lives. “Tigers in the Wild” and a lucrative fee lure freelance writer, Zechariah Price, into the frozen mountains of Montana. The assignment drops him into a world of Bengal tigers, illegal aliens, prehistoric sabre-toothed cats, psychic premonitions and babies. As death by man and animal surrounds him, he quickly learns that he, too, is destined to become food for the cats. Trapped between man and beast, his assignment turns into that of survival. Welcome to a world where cats call the shots. Read Sample Chapter

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Sabre City Sabre City (Book 2)
After 8 years Zechariah Price assumes it is all behind him. Nightmares filled with huge sabre-toothed cats and women screaming still leave him in cold sweats, though less often. He had lost an eye the first time around; Tanya had fractured her back; their marriage had petered on the brink. There was no way he or any of his family was going to set foot in that Montana wilderness again. His 16-year-old daughter, however, decides otherwise and, in hopes of finding out what all the fuss was about when she was just a child, runs off to visit a Montana woman she found in a chat room. She discovers a lot more than she could have imagined, including who her father really was and how much she had inherited from him.

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The Last Sabre The Last Sabre (Book 3)
Three weeks after her mother’s death, Rebecca (Reba) Price cannot stand the oppressiveness filling her Texas home. Her sister, aunt and maybe even her father blame her. She cannot disagree. Hacking into her father’s accounts she takes what she sees as her rightful inheritance and escapes to school in Montana. She convinces herself it’s not to be near where her mother died nor near the sabre-toothed cats. However, as her freshman year ends, she is drawn back into those mountains, only to discover that the plot, which drove her mother to sacrifice herself for her family, is alive and well. As the body count rises--human and sabre-toothed feline--Reba must call upon all her inner power to find a way to bring it to a final end. Read Sample Chapter

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   The Time-Travel Series

Before Anne After

Before Anne After (Book 1) Read Sample Chapter
Through a series of small errors and oversights – a missed phone message, an unlocked high-security door, a lax in protocol, a falling purse – eight-month pregnant Annabelle Waring unknowingly stumbles into her husband’s time-travel experiment. She awakens in a 1943 Charleston Navy Shipyard barracks with no memory of the event. Her existence and her sanity become questionable; if not for her newborn baby and a Charleston, South Carolina police officer, she would certainly have checked herself into the funny farm. Her doctor, alias German spy, learns before she does that she is not only a time-traveler, but a highly educated woman in the field of nuclear science and World War II history. When she finally discovers her own secret, Anne must strive to get both her and her infant daughter home, even at the risk to her own life. See even more synopsis here.

Almost done w/ Before Anne After. Wow! Love it! Can't stop reading! Might miss holiday party cuz of it! BetteRose Ryan

A Sci-Fi so elegantly & skillfully fashioned you may forget it's about time-travel. C.L. Withers

If you like intrigue, suspense, and alot of twists this is the book for you!! I started reading it and could not put it down after the first chapter. I am a big sci-fi fan and I read the 500+ pages in a little over four days!! YOU NEED THIS BOOK!! It will make you mad, sad, happy and hanging on the edge of your seat!! Mel C. "cubbyandmel"

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Paperback $19.95

eBook: From Amazon Kindle
$4.99
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Sabre City Time Will Tell (Book 2)
Annie seldom thought about her age, certainly never talked about that summer in 1943 when her mother birthed her, about the fact that her mother died that same year, or that it might have been in 1987–there was no way of knowing for sure–or about the fact that after 64 years she had yet to observe her 20th birthday. Already a Iraq War widow, Annie Caschetta must escape the oppressiveness around her and all the memories of her husband. With the semester over at MIT and the dreaded summer looming upon her, she chooses to escape to a cabin near Glacier National Park where she can sort through her thoughts and memories. However, it is her final, regrettable words during her last few moments with her husband that follow her and continue to haunt her. It is those words which she knows must be fixed, must be unsaid, if she is ever to have a real life again. If only she had a wormhole.

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   Other Mainstream Novels

Smilodon Lost & Forgotten
Imagine waking one day with a new face and no memory, an opportunity to pick a new name and start a new life; a clean slate. Orphaned as children, separated for 22 years, Melissa is intent on finding her identical twin, Marissa; however Marissa is now Mariah and not who she used to be. Melissa’s search brings her to Los Angeles, crossing paths with Tyron, the only person aware of the truth, a person with immoral intent. As Melissa searches for her twin and Mariah searches for who she was, they are both faced with first time romances. Their brief crossing of paths and wisps of twin psychic connections provides one hope, and the other confusion. Tyron hatches a plan to bring them together, for a price that includes more than just their money. Lost & Forgotten is story of wealth and poverty for far from pretty identical twin sisters as one meets evil in her search for her other half, and the other struggles to start a new life and find out who she was.

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Paperback $18.95

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Sabre City Angels in the Mist
(Same story as Elkhorn Mountain Menace -Different cover - paperback only)
Natasha Greene: Sadly single, impulsive, the "Redheaded Blond." Trevor Oitfinger: Sadly divorced, a Montana gentleman. Jo'Baer: The leader of a terrorist cell planning for their part in the September 11th attacks, the planting of a nuclear device in Salt Lake City. His possible downfall is his team's stopover in Helena, Montana where he loses an important document into the hands of Natasha. He wants her and he wants her bad. Not knowing what she has, but knowing it is important, she turns to her best friend's ex-husband, Trevor, for help. When her best friend turns up dead, Natasha and Trevor find themselves number one and two as suspects in her murder. They are on the run from the terrorists and the police, until she discovers the murder weapon in Trevor's truck. She then runs from the man she thought she was falling in love with. Her only companion is Hero, a very protective Labrador Retriever. Will she stop the terrorists from accomplishing their mission of detonating a nuclear weapon or will she simply redirect their mission from Salt Lake City, Utah to Helena, Montana? Will she convince the police she didn't help kill her best friend? Will she ever find romance again?

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Paperback $9.95
The Last Sabre Elkhorn Mountain Menace
(Same story as Angels in the Mist -Different cover - eBook only)
Natasha Greene: Sadly single, impulsive, the "Redheaded Blond." Trevor Oitfinger: Sadly divorced, a Montana gentleman. Jo'Baer: The leader of a terrorist cell planning for their part in the September 11th attacks, the planting of a nuclear device in Salt Lake City. His possible downfall is his team's stopover in Helena, Montana where he loses an important document into the hands of Natasha. He wants her and he wants her bad. Not knowing what she has, but knowing it is important, she turns to her best friend's ex-husband, Trevor, for help. When her best friend turns up dead, Natasha and Trevor find themselves number one and two as suspects in her murder. They are on the run from the terrorists and the police, until she discovers the murder weapon in Trevor's truck. She then runs from the man she thought she was falling in love with. Her only companion is Hero, a very protective Labrador Retriever. Will she stop the terrorists from accomplishing their mission of detonating a nuclear weapon or will she simply redirect their mission from Salt Lake City, Utah to Helena, Montana? Will she convince the police she didn't help kill her best friend? Will she ever find romance again?

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   Novella

Smilodon Hot Roast Beef with Mustard
It’s a day like any other, except for the money, and the hot roast beef with mustard, chocolate shake and hot apple pie at Charlie’s. Naomi Wilcox’s life is in limbo before that Saturday when she finds herself driving too fast on a two lane blacktop in Nevada, a bag stuffed with bundles of hundred dollar bills by her side, a new life ahead. And then there appears a truck, a bull and a slow talking Cowboy. And still she runs until there is nowhere to go except to Charlie’s where the Cowboy teaches her more than she would have ever imagined, that she has the power to make her own choices.

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Paperback $6.95

eBook $1.99