An Air Force doctor notices babies are no longer being conceived. Elsewhere, a lieutenant in the Air Force's NORAD command center pursues his curiosity about a comet. Both are ridiculed. Yet both are right to be concerned. Kinderman's Comet had partially vaporized as it passed through perihelion. Earth passed through the comet's tail and became contaminated by an undetected virus. The story follows Doctor Dan Holland who learned how "Copernicus must have felt ..." as he tries to convince contentious Washington that he knows the cause of the world-wide zero conception rate. Washington and the...

An Air Force captain arrives for assignment at Thule Air Base, Greenland. He soon discovers the body of a fellow officer floating in a nearby fjord. As winter darkens the arctic, Captain Ross burrows ever deeper into the mystery of the officer's death. Thule's own "Cold War" claims victim after victim as officers and non-coms are snared into traps leading to their own destruction. The story takes us from the Cold War's northernmost outpost to the streets of Berlin, Germany, before revealing the ugliest of outcomes.

"Tumbleweed" records events I experienced as a young girl in Germany living first under the Communist regime, then within the "economic miracle" of West Germany, and finally my years as an immigrant and military spouse in the United States. This is my story about people who live under extreme circumstances, people who conquer the fear of taking risks. The story is about being a refugee from East Germany trying to fit in and be accepted by fellow Germans on the other side of the iron curtain. The story is about an immigrant who despite a lack of English language skills learns the language then...