This is a story about two women astronauts sent on a strange and dangerous mission to investigate what may be an alien presence in the asteroid region between Mars and Jupiter. No one could have predicted the wonderful and heroic nature of these two women as they struggle to save the mission and each other. Crystal Seeds is a story of sacrifice, endurance and love that takes the reader deep into space and into the hearts of these women. Through a series of events caused by errors in judgement and a lack of knowledge concerning what may be alien life, the mission of discovery faces certain...

Charles Berner was raised in Tucson by loving parents who died about the time he finished high school. With no family and not much money he moved to Flagstaff where he bought a small ranch. His effort failed for lack of experience and he sold everything but his cabin to a neighbor. Charles hired himself to that rancher as a cowboy where he worked for the next fifty or so years. But Charles wasn't destined to be a lonely cowboy. One night a lovely Native American woman came to him in a dream. Later she showed up as a real person and would stay with him from time to time. He fell in love with...