upcoming novels
People have asked what the titles of my upcoming novels are. Arriving this year are:
*A Deadly Balance* An antisocial sniper gains the ability to heal with a touch through an accident in the Amazon. His challenges are: he must heal at least one person a day or he dies, avoiding the government scientists who want to experiment on him, and protect the woman he's grown to love from nefarious operatives. (This one stars one of my nieces, Sara Martinez, who wanted to be a character in one of my novels. Sara, who's this awesome woman, holds multiple jobs and has always been responsible said when I asked what kind of character she wanted to be, "Uncle Rick, I want to be a bitch."
Wish granted.
*The Ultraviolet Castle* In post apocalyptic Santa Barbara, a couple fights to survive in a world populated by night-dwelling human predators. What makes the battle worse is the approaching marauders and the predators are getting smarter.
*The Trouble Shooter* An alien abductee, Chalton Lennah, escapes his captors onto a worm hole station far away in our galaxy. In an effort to get enough funds to pay for a trip home, he joins the Interstellar Situation Manager Corps; a sanctioned group of diplomatic mercenaries who run clandestine correspondence and try to keep peace between warring races. During his training, Charlton discovers his former captors have dozens of human captives and plans their rescue.
*The Trouble Shooter: The Gron Fronsi Incident* After seven years experience as a Trouble Shooter, Charlton, now called Shakran, is called to negotiate between the race of Lingsway, who are known for lying, subverting and exceptional greed, and the Gron Fronsi, possibly the most vicious warrior race in the quadrant. The Lingsway are members of the Universal Council and by decree are allowed Trouble Shooters to negotiate. The Lingsway kidnapped a Gron Fronsi princess and thought they could extort a ransom. They underestimated the forces of the violent Gron Fronsi and now hold the Princess Saloonamor for their very survival. Shakran and the other Trouble Shooters face the challenge of keeping the Gron Fronsi from exterminating one race and threatening every solar system within 1000 light years with war.
*The Bodice and the Blade* A duo time piece with half set in 1720's Caribbean with Anne Bonney and Reginald Langsforth trying to stay a step ahead of pirates and the British Navy while seeking treasure sequestered on a deserted island. The present day has the descendants of the aforementioned group, now smugglers and businessmen, stealing a gold-laden museum exhibit, trying to kill each other and avoiding the wily detective Morgan Moray.
