Sarah Johnson is an 18-year-old California girl on track to become a physician when she meets a mysterious "dragon" who saves her life after a tragic earthquake. The dragon reveals himself as an alien, marooned on earth for many centuries. He adopts her as his student and begins to teach her his ancient wisdom. But a terrible evil looms over the earth and only Sarah and her new friend can stand against it, using her new skills and the dragon's advanced technology.

Whether you want to write a short story, a memoir, or even the Great American Novel, this book will help you do it better. Create the mind of a writer. Like legendary sorcerers, the master storyteller can wield great power. Master the power of words and you will make your reader smile with amusement, laugh, cry, cringe in terror, feel a tingle up their spine, be compelled to share your story with others, or blurt out a resounding Yes as your protagonist survives to live another day. In the hands of a master, words are power, weapons of mass instruction. They yield the ability to influence...

A MOST PUZZLING CRIME OF MURDER The body is displayed on the desert sand like an offering to the gods. It lies on its back, head to the east, feet pointed west. It is the corpse of a man in executive suit, coat buttoned, hands crossed on chest, sightless eyes staring into the blue New Mexico sky. Except for the neat little bullet hole low in the center of the forehead, Bernalillo County sheriff's detective Luis Flores can imagine the victim is taking a quick nap between meetings, that the man is about to stretch, yawn and tuck back a light blue French-cuffed sleeve to glance at the gold Rolex...

Open your mind and look around ...and you will see a world in distress. Each day seems to bring news of fresh disasters. The media spill out an endless stream of stories about growing threats to the environment, troubled economies, and dangers to the climate. We are overwhelmed by reports of failing nations, crime, intolerance, disease, terrorism, piracy, war, natural disasters, drought and spreading famine. What's happening to bring so much misery into the world? The subject may seem complex and multi-faceted, but there's a single culprit responsible for most of the troubles we face - an...