Christopher Charles

"Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City narcotics detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled -- but history is finally catching up to him. Now in his early forties, Raney is living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New...

George dropped the dress sending her into the water face first. She dropped the lantern trying to catch herself, but she hung onto the dress. She felt her hands go through the mud and strike the hard dirt below. Her nose and mouth filled with the soft mud. She came up spitting mud and water. She started to wipe her face with the dress but changed her mind. The stench coming from it overpowered her nose. She remained sitting in the water searching...

Blinding headlights behind, now beside her. Curve ahead, she slams the brakes. It misses, smashes through the rail. She hears it strike the rocks below. Silence, only the darkness. Her arms shake. In the city, headlights again. The ship, the Marines will be there. She skids to a stop at the gangplank, no one. The black car pulls up behind her, doors open. She accelerates, as bullets take out the windows. She stops at the edge of the pier. It's quiet,...

Indian Chief Black Cloud had warned Rose of the impending flood that would cover their land for miles. When she told those at the trial no one believed her except her mother. Captain Bollinger ignoring the warning decided to leave with his wounds back to the fort. Even Mr. Broden, Mary Beth's father ignored the warning taking his family back home

Rose looked back at her cards and began turning them over slowly. A red ace came up followed by a red King, red queen, red jack, and a red ten in the same suit. She had a 'royal flush.' Captain Morgan smiled, "I think the pot belongs to Mr. Donovan, Gentlemen." John Deer, stunned, stared at the pot in front of him. Jed Smith reached into his coat pocket and withdrew a small pistol, and screamed, "No one's taking my stake! That's our money she's got!" He...

"That's ten years of hard work back on that table!" Laurel yelled. "That little innocent smile of hers didn't fool me." "You can't say she didn't know how to play!" Clinton yelled beside the door, "She clipped us in less than twenty minutes!" "She just learned how to play yesterday," Colonel Gatewood said. "We never taught her how to play five-card draw. She's only twelve." Clinton shook his head and stomped out the door. Going past Rose's cabin,...

Mrs. Stone has left for St Louis taking George with her. Rose's father built their house and barn on Indian land as did many of their neighbors. The Indians were scared off the land twenty years ago when the Indian massacres were taking place. Now Indian smoke is seen again. Have the Indians come back, and what do they want as old hatreds surface?

It was too late. Rose felt the giant paddle strike the boat. Huge planks flew from the wheel as it devoured the bow of the Shanadoa. The giant wheel was coming for the wheelhouse. She saw the raft. It was caught in the wheel. It was coming up towards her. Gripping the wheel, she dropped to the deck and covered her head. She closed her eyes as she heard the side of the wheelhouse coming apart. The noise was deafening, but she hung onto the wheel. She...

Ana, Captain of a spaceship, is lost in what appears to be a black hole, but she soon discovers it is an energy field full of life bent on taking over her ship. Later, she and her crew are forced to enter a real Black Hole. She is forced her from her body as the ship passes through, and runs from another energy entity set loose in the ship. On the other side, the crew finds another live energy force that attacks their ship. They barely manage to escape...

Wounded, her arms shaking, she held her colt forty-five against the wall, and moved down the hall. A dark shadow appeared, a flash, she pulled the trigger, and felt pain in her side. The assassin fell back in the room. Screaming, she sent bullets into the wall until the Assassin threw his gun out. The monitor instructed her to put her revolver down. The assassin wounded, disappeared out the partition. Against the wall, she slid to the floor unconscious...