Courage, humor, fantasy, deception, pathos. All of these ingredients and more emerge from the pages of this collection of twelve short stories. Tales of the Old West, warfare in the Pacific, and of experiences in the western forests of America, as well as contemporary stories that will touch close to home are in this set. There's even a ghost story to read by the campfire's light. Taken one at a time or all at one sitting, these are stories you will remember.

SIX DAYS IN SIBERIA is a suspense thriller with overtones of a spy novel, is set in Siberia, and resonates with realism and authenticity. This tightly drawn story of disparate and desperate characters converging on a place and time in Siberia where each is intent on getting...out...before...it's...too...late will appeal to those who enjoy suspense, a taste of post-Soviet Russia, or just a good read in a relatively short time. For those with a taste for adventure and sense of what's going on in the world, SIX DAYS IN SIBERIA will fill out a quiet evening or make pleasant a long plane ride to...

This book is a collection of nine tales of fiction with the title story being about a resolute middle-aged woman bent on meeting the man who thrilled her with the beauty of his trumpet call one evening in Hawaii. Other stories are of a group of young firefighters on a dangerous California fire; of two couples targeted by Mexican outlaws in the Sea of Cortez; of four canoers facing a crisis on a river in the Yukon; of four soldiers on a lark in Tulsa; of a good-hearted business executive and his protege; of an adventurer on a freighter in the South Pacific; of a quaint dweller of the forest;...