An older gentleman is somehow driven to travel to the West Desert of Utah to an old ghost town where he had visited sometime before. While camping out there he has some paranormal challenges that he acts on and learns the reason he was so driven to travel there.

Many of the Mormon Pioneers that came to Utah Territory during the mid-to late 1800's settled in the southwest half of the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, west of the Jordan River. They cleared and worked the land, built homes, had children, saw their children die of disease and problems in child-birth, bore more children and saw their older survivors marry and have children. By the early 1900's several viable communities had been created in the southwestern section of Salt Lake Valley and most of the first-generation settlers had died. West of the River is a collection of short stories about some...

Adam North is a man who in his younger life dreams and finds himself having many special talents that let him fly without a conveyance of any kind, allows him to travel to parts of the world he had never been to in his mind, and read the minds of people close to him. These talents plague him much of the time and most of his friends shun him when he tells about these occurrences or used them on his friends. Later on they ruin his relationships, causing several breakups with girls and women he loves and difficulties in his life in general. He goes through this for many years until his mid...

Jerry Spencer who had been a tenured professor in Indiana, leaves the university to begin a new career and is hired by Qualtek, a Chicago based Service Company, to do ISO 9001 Training and Certification for a Zambian textile firm. While in Zambia Jerry discovers a new opportunity and decides to leave Qualtek to start his own consulting business. Months later when his job with Qualtek is finished Jerry leaves the company and is ready to face the world in a new and different way as an Intendent Consultant. Back home free from Qualtek and ready to leave Chicago to relocate in Seattle, Jerry by...

In this chronicle of J.D. Packer's life, Journey Into Life, Book 3 Camel Trails and Desert Winds he has been in Los Angeles for over three months working on the consulting job for a Health Care Institution. The project has been going well, but at home though J.D. had called Marilyn almost daily to discuss the matter of their relationship, things between them have not changed for the better them. Nearing the end of his contract in Los Angeles J.D. gets an opportunity for a new contract, this time with a large consulting firm that wants him to work on a project in Saudi Arabia. Marilyn is...

In this segment of J.D. Packer's Journey Into Life he is alone again, but continues what he has known for several years as a steady reasonable income-producing consulting career. He has landed a somewhat intriguing and different consulting contract that was going to require some serious research in an attempt to find a man that is on the run from a company from which he took some vital data. J.D. didn't like the details of research himself much and thought this would be a good time to find someone that did like that type work to joint-venture with him on this project. After thinking it over...