Sandeen wasn't looking for a mystery, but fate handed him one. Master Sergeant Alvin Templeton disappeared one find day in 1977, and the Air Force declared him a deserter. Now, thirty-five years later, Robert Templeton--Sergeant Al's son--has talked Sandeen into investigating the disappearance of his father in hopes of clearing his name. Sandeen immerses himself in a Cold War nest of snakes and deception that involves espionage, seduction, and murder. In doing so, he will uncover secrets that some are desperate to keep. Staying focused on Templeton's disappearance becomes challenging. Thugs...

When Sandeen agrees to look into the disappearance of 'Buzz' Holland, he never expects to wind up confronting dangerous members of a criminal conspiracy. When he travels to Pittsburg State University to investigate, he also doesn't expect to encounter a long-ago girlfriend from his own college days--now a mature woman who is unwittingly involved in Holland's disappearance. In trying to make sense of the torrent of clues, Sandeen finds that his own well-being may be at stake. Pressing on with the help of his former girlfriend and a priest who teaches self-defense classes, Sandeen confronts...

What happens when a slightly off-kilter uncle sends you a used metal detector with instructions to check your back yard? Can a garage move from your neighbor's yard to your yard all by itself? Or did it need a bit of help? If you're out driving in the middle of a dark and lonely Kansas night, should you stop for a holdup gang--or should you try to run them over? How much trouble can you buy with a baseball card? Can you trade it for something you want back in your life? What kind of trouble comes with trying to salvage the guns from a crashed airplane in a war zone? Do some people just have...

Jate Goldmet is a very special person, but he doesn't know it. The beneficiary of an extremely rare mutation, he possesses the ability to survive the cross-dimensional journey from one iteration of reality to another. All but lost in a winter snowstorm in the middle of the USA, he stops at a run-down bar in a century-old mining town and asks for shelter from the weather. Alone in a back room after hours, Jate is pursued and then abducted by agents of the Infinity Compound. Rendered unconscious due to an unprotected passage through a cross-dimensional portal, he wakes up in an iteration of...

Jate Goldmet didn't apply for his job-he was dragooned into it. A peaceful man before being forced into the service of the Infinity Compound, he's survived several excursions into alternate universes where people-and sometimes not-people-have tried to kill or capture him. Jate's ability to accomplish his objectives and think on his feet when everything falls apart around him has come to the attention of his Modern Minoan masters. They have promoted him to team leader and upped the stakes of personal accomplishment and survival. When beings in an alternate universe steal deadly microorganisms...