December, 1925. Rural Virginia. Fourteen-year-old Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier opens the barn door on a freezing morning—and finds a girl sleeping in the hay beside his miniature horse. She is thin, exhausted… and silent. She doesn’t speak English. She won’t say where she came from. And the only thing she won’t let go of is a battered suitcase. By the time Fuse returns from his chores, she has vanished—leaving only a trail of footprints leading toward the woods. But she hasn’t gone far. Driven by hunger and cold, the mysterious girl risks everything to return to the farmhouse… and sets in motion a chain of events that will change both their lives forever. Her name is Rajiani. And her story is more extraordinary than anything Fuse could imagine. Kidnapped from the streets of Calcutta, India at the age of five… Sold into servitude in New York… Hidden away from the world for eight long years… She escaped. Alone. Crossing New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, she rode in a frigid boxcar into Virginia. Now she stands in a place she does not understand, among people she cannot speak to… in a world as vast and foreign as another planet. As winter deepens, Fuse and Raji struggle to bridge the distance between their languages, their cultures, and their pasts. But the quiet farm holds troubles of its own. Fuse’s father lies paralyzed after a devastating accident. A crooked banker and a ruthless bootlegger scheme to steal the family’s land. And beyond it all lies a dream that may be slipping away—entry into the prestigious Octavia Pompeii Academy. Then Fuse discovers something unexpected. The silent girl who came from nowhere is a chess prodigy—brilliant, fearless, and unstoppable. As their bond grows, so does the danger surrounding them. Because Raji is not just lost. She is hiding. And the past she escaped may not be finished with her yet. RAJI – The Girl Who Came From Nowhere is a deeply moving story of survival, friendship, and the search for belonging—perfect for readers who love powerful historical fiction and unforgettable characters. Ideal for readers of: -The Orphan Train -Before We Were Yours -Where the Crawdads Sing -Character-driven historical fiction -Strong female protagonists -Coming-of-age stories

A novel in The Raji Saga by award-winning author Charley Brindley Raji has escaped her past. But she has not outrun it. At the prestigious Octavia Pompeii Academy, thirteen-year-old Rajiani enters a world unlike anything she has ever known. Classrooms. Books. Teachers. Rules. And ninety-eight boys determined to drive her out. She has never spent a single day in school. Now she must master twelve years of learning in a matter of weeks. With a dictionary always at her side and an unbreakable will, Raji fights to keep up—word by word, lesson by lesson. But knowledge is not her only challenge. She and Elizabeth Keesler are the first girls ever admitted to the Academy… and the boys intend to make them regret it. Back in Wovenbridge, Fuse struggles to accept the life he never wanted. The Academy was his dream. Now it belongs to someone else. Yet when an unexpected opportunity gives him a second chance, he must decide whether to leave everything behind—or fight for the future he still hopes is possible. Far away, in Queens, New York, a man has not forgotten. Parjeet Kartoom, the one who once owned Raji, wants his property returned. He hires a ruthless investigator, Albert Manchester, to find her. And this time… she will not escape. As Raji begins to find her place at the Academy, a shadow closes in. Watched. Followed. Hunted. When the trap is finally set, it comes in the most unexpected place—a train bound for New York. And this time, escape may not be possible. But Raji is no longer the frightened girl who ran from captivity. She has found her voice. Her strength. And the people willing to stand beside her. RAJI: THE ACADEMY is a powerful continuation of a remarkable journey—where courage is tested, friendship is forged, and the past returns with a vengeance. Perfect for readers who love: • strong female protagonists • coming-of-age historical fiction • academic and underdog stories • suspenseful historical drama • character-driven series

They were supposed to become doctors. Instead, they sailed into a war. It is 1932, and after years of relentless school work, Raji and Fuse stand on the brink of their dreams—until the world collapses beneath them. The Great Depression has shuttered schools across America, including the academy that changed their lives. With their future stripped away, they make a bold and desperate choice: They leave everything behind. Bound for India aboard a freighter carrying dynamite, the two friends chase something neither can name—escape, purpose, perhaps even destiny. In Calcutta, Raji is reunited with the family she lost as a child, but the joy is fleeting. A suitor chosen for her reveals himself to be a fraud, and the fragile bond between Raji and Fuse begins to fracture. Fuse departs for Burma. There, in the ancient city of Mandalay, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous new world—one of rebellion, political unrest, and a woman who burns with hatred for the British Empire that rules her land. Raji follows. And together, they make a decision that will change their lives forever. Recruited under false promises, they join a covert mission bound for Africa—one that plunges them into a brutal and unforgiving conflict. When their convoy is ambushed in the Ethiopian wilderness, chaos erupts. Explosions. Gunfire. Death. And then—separation. Fuse is taken to Dire Kawa, a remote prison with no doctor, no supplies, and no mercy. Surrounded by suffering, he is forced to become what he has only studied—performing desperate surgeries with little more than memory and will. Raji is captured by a remote tribe deep within the Rift Valley, where survival depends not on strength, but on endurance. Each believes the other is dead. Years pass. War spreads across the land. And when fate finally brings them together again, it is not in triumph—but in blood. On a battlefield turned slaughterhouse, Fuse looks down at a dying soldier… …and finds Raji. With no time, no tools, and no hope, he attempts the impossible—to save the one person he cannot lose. But survival comes at a cost. From the burning plains of Ethiopia to the shadowed walls of Dire Kawa prison, this sweeping third installment of The Raji Saga is a story of resilience, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bond between two souls forged in hardship. Because sometimes, survival is not the end of the journey… …it is only the beginning.

He crossed the ocean to find his past. Now he must decide what—and who—he cannot live without. Eight years after the ill-fated mission to Ethiopia and the horrors of Dire Kawa Prison, Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier returns to war-shadowed Burma in search of the one woman he never forgot. Instead, he finds two blue-eyed children left at his door—silent, wary… and unmistakably his daughters. As the drums of World War II echo across Southeast Asia, Mandalay is no longer the place he once knew. Armies advance. Loyalties fracture. And somewhere within the royal palace, a ruthless power is rising. When Raji arrives from Virginia, she finds a life she did not expect—and a truth she cannot escape. The man she has loved for years now belongs, in part, to another world. Yet when danger closes in around the children, old bonds are tested, and new ones are forged in fire. Behind the throne, the cunning vizier Ba Ma Yapaw has laid his plans. With a dying king under his control and the future of Burma within his grasp, he will stop at nothing to secure his power—even if it means destroying everyone in his path. In a city on the brink of war, Fuse and Raji must fight to protect the innocent, uncover the truth, and face a choice that will change their lives forever. When the flames come, only one thing will matter: Who do you save… when you cannot save them all? From the streets of Mandalay to the edge of a world at war, Raji: The House of the West Wind is a sweeping, unforgettable conclusion to the Raji Saga—a story of love, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds that survive even the darkest of times.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where the canopy hides secrets older than history itself, a woman named Oxana rules a kingdom of mud, blood, and fossilized time. Her empire is an illegal open-pit mine—where enslaved workers dig for rare amber stones containing creatures trapped millions of years ago. These glittering relics sell for fortunes on the black market. And anyone who tries to leave… doesn’t. In New York City, Amber Bravant and her identical sisters—Madeleine and Dominique—are desperate for work when they cross paths with Kennitosh “Tosh” Scarborough, a young entrepreneur launching an unconventional magazine for orphans. Within days, their lives are tied together. Within weeks, everything falls apart. When Tosh flies to the Amazon to investigate a mysterious destruction of protected rainforest land owned by his environmental company, his plane crashes deep in the jungle. Injured, alone, and hunted, Tosh is captured and taken to Oxana’s pit. Back in New York, Amber knows something is wrong. Refusing to wait for help that will never come, she leads a search into the most dangerous wilderness on earth—dragging her sisters and a small team into a world where law does not exist. What they find is worse than anything they imagined: A brutal slave camp carved into the jungle Armed guards and ruthless poachers A mad doctor soaked in gin And Oxana—a deceptively small woman with a wooden leg and a taste for control, power… and cruelty As fire, rebellion, and bloodshed erupt across the pit, survival becomes a matter of seconds—and loyalty is tested in the chaos. Because in the Amazon… No one is coming to save you. And some secrets are better left buried.

When thirteen-year-old Ariion Sanders is sentenced to community service for an act of teenage rebellion, she expects three weeks of boredom picking up trash in Central Park. Instead, she meets Cameron Littleheart St. Lawrence. Homeless. Scruffy. Living on a park bench. And possibly the smartest man she has ever known. Wrongly accused of a daring Manhattan bank robbery, Cameron seems content to drift through life after losing everything that once mattered. But Ariion quickly discovers there is far more beneath the tangled beard and worn-out clothes than anyone suspects. As an unlikely friendship develops, Cameron is drawn into the lives of Ariion and her hard-driving single mother. What begins as a temporary gardening job soon becomes something much larger—a second chance for a man who stopped believing in himself and a source of hope for a girl struggling with a mysterious disability that doctors cannot explain. But while Cameron rebuilds his life, dangerous men from the bank robbery have not forgotten him. They are still searching for three hundred thousand dollars in missing cash—and they believe Cameron knows exactly where it is. With humor, heart, suspense, and unforgettable characters, Ariion XXIII is an uplifting story about friendship, courage, redemption, and the extraordinary power of one person to change another's life. Sometimes the family we need is the one we never expected.

She belonged to the Amazon. He was only passing through. Saxon never expected a journey into the heart of the Amazon to change his life. Traveling with his botanist sister Kaitlin and his adventurous young niece Rachel, he is searching for a remote jungle village rumored to possess extraordinary medicinal plants. Instead, he encounters Cian—a mysterious woman with a carved wooden leg, a razor-sharp mind, and a past as dangerous as the rainforest itself. She speaks little. She trusts no one. And around her neck hangs an impossible object: a modern IBM computer modem that should not exist in the middle of the Amazon. As the expedition ventures deeper into a world of hidden tribes, smugglers, poachers, ancient traditions, and breathtaking wilderness, Saxon discovers that survival depends less on strength than on trust—and that the greatest mysteries are not buried beneath the jungle canopy, but within the people traveling beside him. Part sweeping adventure, part mystery, part romance, Cian is a richly imagined journey across one of Earth's last great frontiers. Filled with unforgettable characters, humor, danger, and the quiet wonder that has become Charley Brindley's trademark, this is a novel about discovering that sometimes the wildest place on Earth is the human heart.

A mysterious young woman. A forgotten war hero. A secret stretching across four thousand years. When Philadelphia journalist Donovan O’Fallon accidentally answers the wrong phone call, he finds himself drawn into the lives of two extraordinary people: Sandia, a hauntingly beautiful young woman struggling with strange speech patterns and crippling headaches… and her ninety-three-year-old great-grandfather, William Martin, a decorated World War II Marine trapped inside the memories of a war he can no longer escape. As Donovan digs deeper into the old man’s forgotten past, he uncovers a story spanning centuries and oceans: from the brutal beaches of Kwajalein during World War II… to ancient Polynesian voyagers crossing the vast Pacific in fragile double-hulled canoes… to a chilling modern-day prison hidden deep in Central Asia. Somehow, all of these lives are connected. And at the center of the mystery lies one impossible question: Who really occupied the last seat on the Hindenburg? Sweeping across thousands of years of human courage, sacrifice, love, survival, and destiny, The Last Seat on the Hindenburg is a powerful historical thriller filled with unforgettable characters, epic adventure, wartime heroism, and a mystery that transcends time itself. From award-winning author Charley Brindley comes an extraordinary journey through history, memory, and the fragile threads connecting the human heart across generations.

Monica and five of her classmates have mastered the art of wasting time — selfies, parties, and endless scrolling. But when their teacher threatens to fail them and force them to repeat their senior year of high school, the “Gang of Six” must create a science project bold enough to redeem themselves… or be left behind. Desperate, they turn to the Internet and emerging Artificial Intelligence tools in search of a problem big enough to matter. What they find is staggering. An overlooked desert depression. A gravity-driven system capable of moving nine billion gallons of seawater a day. A plan to create an inland sea the size of Germany — one that could slow rising sea levels, generate renewable energy, and offer refuge to thousands. But can six teenagers convince the world their impossible idea is real? Sea of Tranquility 2.0: Book One is the first of a four-book coming-of-age story about ambition awakened, intelligence unleashed, and how failure can become the first step toward reshaping the world.

The high school science project is finished. The dream is just beginning. As Monica and her four classmates finish their senior year, the Sea of Tranquility 2.0 has grown far beyond a class assignment. Their plan to create an inland sea capable of transforming a desert nation is complete — but turning vision into reality requires funding, allies, politics, and support from a skeptical world. While working two jobs in Los Angeles to pay her way back to the Safandel Desert, Monica struggles to reconnect with the Jamori nomads she left behind, half a world away. And she is unaware that Sikandar has found a way to come to her in California. But ambition does not unfold in calm waters. As tensions rise in Anddor Shallau, the fragile promise of transformation begins to fracture — and the dream that began in desperation may soon be destroyed by war. Book Two deepens the coming-of-age journey into determination, loyalty, and the first tremors of a nation on the brink. When war erupts in Anddor Shallau, Monica must make a choice that will redefine her future: remain the architect of an impossible dream — or return to the desert and stand in the path of a brutal enemy. Some visions reshape landscapes. Others demand sacrifice.

War has come to Alcina Sahar. When Sikandar returns to defend his invaded homeland, Monica refuses to let him face it alone. Together with the remaining members of the Gang of Six, they journey into the remote desert stronghold where his people have taken refuge. Then the war finds them. A shell explosion leaves Monica and Sikandar gravely wounded in the sand, their future uncertain until help descends from the sky. As artillery scars the desert, the dream that began as a classroom experiment collides with the brutal cost of survival. Book Three marks the turning point in the Sea of Tranquility 2.0 saga — where ambition meets sacrifice, and the fight for a nation becomes painfully real.

The war is over. The water has begun to flow. With their homeland secured and recovery underway, Monica and Sikandar stand at the edge of what was once only a desperate dream. The first two pipelines carry water from the sea 160 miles away, across a mountain range, and they work exactly as designed, pouring life into a basin that for centuries held nothing but sand. For the first time, the desert changes. But a sea is not merely water — it is commitment. As ten more pipelines rise along the ridges, nine billion gallons a day reshape both landscape and destiny. Wind turbines turn above the hills. Foundations are laid. Refugees arrive. The new nation of Tranquility begins to take form along the shoreline of its newborn sea. Recovery is more than physical. Monica and Sikandar must learn how to build a future as carefully as they build a country — not from idealism alone, but from endurance. In the final installment of the Sea of Tranquility 2.0 series, sacrifice gives way to foundation, and the dream born in a high school classroom becomes a horizon wide enough to stand upon.

A High-Tech Thriller of Espionage, Murder, and Air Combat In a world where the deadliest weapons are no larger than insects… who controls them controls everything. Autumn Willow is a brilliant MIT grad student—and co-pilot of a restored B-17 bomber. Her world is equations, engines, and sky. Rigger Entime is a dying man with a secret. A genius engineer, he’s building the most advanced covert weapon ever conceived: a micro-drone indistinguishable from a dragonfly—capable of surveillance… and assassination. But someone believes Rigger is already a killer. Detective Katrina Raider goes undercover to prove he murdered his wife and child. She uses a borrowed orphan, four-year-old Rachel, to draw him out. She expects a confession. What she finds instead is far more dangerous. Because a real killer is out there. A predator who slaughters mothers and daughters for notoriety… and has now set her sights on Rachel. As the investigation spirals into a race against time: • A psychopathic killer hunts a child who can identify her • A dying engineer fights to finish his final creation • A young scientist holds the key to powering it • And two rival nations unleash competing micro-drone programs—Dragonfly vs Monarch High above the deserts of Anddor Shallau, U.S. and Russian fighter pilots engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse—until a single missile changes everything. Now the lines between enemies blur… And the smallest war machines ever built may decide who lives—and who dies. In the end, survival won’t be decided by size… but by who strikes first.

The war has gone small scale. Deadlier. And far more personal. Rigger Entime is running out of time. With only months left to live, he’s made his choice: protect the woman he loves… even if it costs him everything. Detective Katrina Raider has crossed a line she can never uncross. Now she and Rigger are fugitives—vanished into the Amazon with a child who has already seen too much. Back in the United States, Autumn Willow and Pugsley push the Dragonfly project to its limits—transforming the tiny drone into the most precise assassination tool ever created. Controlled by a smartphone. Almost invisible. Lethal in seconds. But they are no longer alone. Half a world away, a rival program has emerged: The Monarch. When Autumn is deployed on a covert CIA mission in the deserts of Anddor Shallau, her Dragonfly collides with an enemy drone—and she comes face-to-face with its operator. A Russian pilot. An enemy. Or a mirror. Captured by desert nomads and brought before a mysterious village, the truth about the two young women begins to unravel: • A symbol tattooed on their skin in infancy • A secret that binds two lives across continents • And a past that was never meant to be discovered As nations race to weaponize the smallest machines ever built… As a fugitive engineer fights his final battle in the jungle… And as two women discover they are not who they thought they were… The question is no longer who controls the technology. It’s who they were born to become.

Eleven years before Hannibal marched his army and war elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, a dying girl was thrown into a river and left to drown. Liada was captured by slave traders and, along with a wagonload of other girls and women, was being hauled across North Africa toward the slave markets at Carthage. When she falls violently ill with fever and convulsions, the slave traders fear she will infect the other captives. Their solution is simple. They throw her into the Bagradas River and once rid of her, they continue on toward the slave markets. But Liada does not drown in the turbulent river. Below a series of rapids, an enormous war elephant wades into the water and lifts her to safety with his powerful trunk. The elephant is Obolus — the largest and most feared war elephant in Hannibal’s army. What begins as an act of rescue becomes an extraordinary bond. Liada soon discovers she is the only person who can calm the giant animal — the only one who can guide him. As Hannibal prepares for war with Rome, Liada’s fate becomes tied to the destiny of Carthage itself. From slave caravan to war camp, from the rivers of North Africa to the harbors of the Mediterranean, Hannibal’s Elephant Girl is the unforgettable story of a young girl, a legendary war elephant, and the journey that will one day lead them toward Hannibal’s greatest campaign

The greatest war elephant in Carthage answers to only one voice. When Hannibal prepares to move his army to Iberia, he faces an impossible challenge—transport sixty war elephants across the Mediterranean Sea. Because no one remembers how it was done in the past, he decides to test the plan with a single elephant. The largest and most dangerous of them all: Obolus. After the elephant kills his longtime handler during the loading, only one person can control him—an eleven-year-old girl named Liada. When she succeeds in guiding the great elephant onto the ship, Hannibal asks her to sail with Obolus on the perilous eighteen-day voyage to Iberia. Leaving her friends behind in Carthage, Liada boards the strange “farm boat” designed to hide the sea from the elephant’s eyes. If Obolus panics on the open water, the entire expedition could be lost. And the future of Hannibal’s army may depend on the courage of one girl—and the trust of a war elephant.

In the year 226 BCE, the young Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca is given an unusual and dangerous assignment: train sixty elephants for war. These massive beasts must then be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Iberia, where they will become living weapons in Carthage’s struggle against the fiercely independent tribes of the peninsula. Among the elephants is Obolus, the largest and most powerful of them all. Two unlikely companions—Liada and the brilliant young Tin Tin Ban Sunia—become essential to Obolus’s care and training, forming a bond with the giant animal that will soon be tested by the brutal realities of war. Meanwhile, far away in the southern Iberian kingdom of Andalusia, Princess Imilce Adriana Lucia Argantino of the Oretani lives a sheltered life within the walls of Almodóvar Castle. Curious about the world beyond her royal home, the adventurous young princess ventures into the surrounding forests. There she encounters a stranger. The meeting between the ambitious Carthaginian general and the fearless Iberian princess will alter the course of both their lives—and shape the future of the land that will one day be known as Spain. From the training grounds of Carthage to the wild forests of Iberia, Hannibal’s Elephant Girl continues the sweeping historical saga of courage, loyalty, and destiny in the years leading to the great conflicts of the ancient world.

The war is over. The wounds are not. Dr. Saxon Pagan thought he had escaped the ghosts of his past. A decorated Vietnam combat medic, successful businessman, and bestselling author, he travels to Bangkok searching for inspiration and hoping to outrun memories that have haunted him for more than fifty years. Instead, he finds Prija. Beautiful, sharp-tongued, and fiercely independent, Prija survives by working the dangerous streets of Bangkok's nightlife district. Supporting a dying father and disabled mother, she has sacrificed everything for the people she loves. Their worlds could not be more different. Yet fate refuses to leave them alone. As Saxon becomes entangled in the lives of Prija and her younger sister Siskit, long-buried memories of war, lost love, and devastating mistakes begin to surface. What starts as an unlikely friendship soon uncovers secrets stretching back to the Vietnam War, forcing Saxon to confront the tragedy that has shaped his entire life. Set against the vibrant streets of modern Bangkok and the brutal battlefields of Southeast Asia, Sea of Sorrows is a powerful story of love, sacrifice, courage, redemption, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.

Modern soldiers. Ancient war. Hannibal at the height of his power. When a mission over Afghanistan goes catastrophically wrong, thirteen soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry are hurled out of the sky and into 216 BCE. They land in the middle of Hannibal’s campaign against Rome. Their aircraft is gone. Their communications are dead. Their only allies may be one of history’s most dangerous general. As Hannibal prepares to lead thirty-seven war elephants and twenty-seven thousand soldiers across the Alps, the stranded soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry must make an impossible decision: remain hidden and starve in a hostile past or join an army marching into legend. Through the frozen mountain passes… Across the plains of northern Italy… Into four of the most devastating battles ever fought between Rome and Carthage… Modern weapons give them an edge but not invincibility. Ammunition runs out. Wounds aren’t easy to heal in 216 BCE. And every tactical decision risks altering the course of history itself. For Sergeant Alexander survival means more than keeping his platoon alive. It means holding together discipline, trust, and sanity as the line between past and present begins to blur. History is unfolding exactly as it once did. Until thirteen modern soldiers change it. The Last Mission of the Seventh Cavalry is a character-driven military survival epic blending hard combat realism with immersive historical detail. Perfect for readers who crave tactical authenticity, ancient warfare, and high-stakes time-displacement drama.

The Seventh Cavalry must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away. In book one of this series, a unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane and come down in Southern France and they’re 2,000 years in the past where Hannibal is taking his elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans. In this second book they must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away.

What if death wasn't the end...but your greatest opportunity? At seventy-nine years old, Charley has lived a remarkable life. Now he lies in a hospital bed surrounded by tubes, machines, and beeping monitors, waiting for the end he has already accepted. His final wish is simple: Do Not Resuscitate. Then everything changes. Moments after his heart stops, Charley awakens—not in heaven, not in another hospital—but inside the body of his fourteen-year-old self on his family's struggling Missouri farm in September of 1945. At first he believes it is only a dying dream. Until he discovers an impossible object hidden in the loft of his family's round barn. An iPad. Loaded with every scientific discovery, medical breakthrough, invention, and historical record humanity will ever produce. Waiting for him is a single mission. Prevent global warming. Armed with seventy-nine years of memories, experience, and the sum of mankind's knowledge at his fingertips, Charley must survive high school, stop bullies, protect new friends, prevent disease, inspire scientific revolutions decades before their time—and somehow change history without destroying it. Every decision creates another ripple. Every life he saves alters the future. And somewhere beyond time, mysterious beings are watching to see whether humanity deserves another chance. Because if Charley fails... Earth won't simply die. Human civilization will be erased and started over. Do Not Resuscitate is an unforgettable science-fiction adventure about second chances, friendship, hope, and one ordinary man given an extraordinary opportunity to rewrite the future. Perfect for readers who enjoy 11/22/63, Replay, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and thoughtful time-travel adventures with heart.

October, 1962. The world stands one heartbeat away from nuclear annihilation. At Koningsfeld Air Base in West Germany, U.S. Air Force Sergeants Saxon “Pagan” McKenzie and William “Choir Boy” Kabilis maintain thirty-six nuclear weapons powerful enough to erase entire nations. Their lives revolve around precision, discipline, and routine. Until the green light blinks. A single armed atomic bomb—nicknamed The Rod of God—suddenly receives authorization for launch against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As panic spreads across the flight line, one man must decide whether to obey orders…or risk committing treason to prevent World War III. His decision changes everything. Cover-up. The base C.O. will not allow this incident to end his Air Force career. Within days, McKenzie and Kabilis are quietly transferred into the growing conflict in Vietnam, where jungle warfare, death, and impossible moral choices begin tearing away what remains of their humanity. Haunted by the memory of the bomb that nearly ended civilization, the two men descend into a brutal war where enemies become lovers, survival demands terrible sacrifices, and the line between duty and damnation disappears forever. Spanning the terrifying days of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the bloody birth of the Vietnam War, The Rod of God is a powerful historical thriller of nuclear fear, battlefield survival, forbidden love, and the unbearable psychological cost of war. From award-winning author Charley Brindley comes an unforgettable story of courage, guilt, sacrifice, and the weapon that never stopped killing

The queen of England is 93 years old. The process of installing a new monarch is already being organized. Her son, Prince Charles, is the heir apparent. However, someone is attempting to alter the line of succession. There are over 140 people in line to become monarch. If Prince Charles is for any reason, unable to ascend, then the next in line, Prince William, will become King. If he is unavailable, Prince George will be next in line, and so on, down the list. Evil plans are being executed. Lady Pion Ciana Victoria Lancaster, known to her friends as ‘Ciana’, is number thirty-seven. William George Tindall Mountbatten is number thirty-eight on the list of Royals. Wearing a disguise and going by the name of ‘Scipio’ William Mountbatten accidentally meets Ciana in a London pub. Long ago, a general famously said, ‘All battle plans fall apart upon first contact with the enemy.’ That is exactly what happened when Ciana and Scipio come together.

Every night in a Manhattan nightclub, strangers risk thousands of dollars on a single question. Most lose. A few win. None of them know the real game. As Casper Bell's mysterious game grows, it attracts an unforgettable cast of players: a brilliant architect, a sharp-tongued survivor named Gigi, a gifted chef chasing his dreams, street-smart waitresses, ambitious entrepreneurs, and a twelve-year-old girl who sees more than most adults ever will. What begins as a contest of intellect soon becomes something far larger—a battle of ideas, fortunes, loyalties, and hidden ambitions. And behind every clue lies a secret worth far more than money. Filled with mystery, humor, friendship, romance, and unforgettable characters, Casper's Game is a captivating novel about intelligence, opportunity, and the extraordinary things ordinary people can accomplish when given the chance.

Thirty days. That's all Catalina Saylor has. Twenty-two years old, drowning in debt, and working in a café to survive, Catalina has one last chance to change her future. Her idea? A revolutionary system that could allow blind people to "see" the world through touch. When she earns a probationary position at Qubit's Incubator—a secretive innovation laboratory hidden inside a converted New York warehouse—she enters a world unlike anything she has ever imagined. Inventors. Dreamers. Geniuses. Failures. Inside the Incubator, newcomers are called Pissants. Survive thirty days and become a Drone. Earn a patent and ascend to Monarch. Fail, and you're gone. As Catalina struggles to bring her impossible invention to life, she forms unlikely friendships with a telephoto-glasses inventor battling addiction, a solar-cell engineer chasing his own breakthrough, and a brilliant newcomer determined to make the invisible world of deadly pathogens visible. But innovation is never easy. Ideas fail. Deadlines loom. Competitors sabotage one another. And time is running out. Filled with humor, heart, friendship, romance, and visionary technology, Qubit's Incubator is an inspiring novel about creativity, perseverance, and the extraordinary things ordinary people can accomplish when given a chance.

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another. Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free. Then the raiders came. Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death. But Kokuma refuses to be broken. When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land. Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died. Instead, she is found by Vahali—a young Cherokee warrior. Among his people, Kokuma finds something she thought she had lost forever: kindness… belonging… and love. But history is closing in. As the demand for land explodes and the United States turns its power against the Cherokee Nation, Kokuma is thrust into one of the most tragic events in American history— The Trail of Tears. Driven from their homes at gunpoint, her people must walk over a thousand miles through cold, hunger, and death. And this time… Kokuma is no longer running for her life. She is leading others to survive. From the award-winning author Charley Brindley comes an unforgettable story of survival, courage, and the unbreakable human spirit—set against one of history’s darkest chapters.

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This is a list of the ten mistakes I’ve made in my novels as pointed out in numerous rejection letters. I’ve also included twenty-six other items of interest to writers of fiction, such as; Author intrusion, Voice, Suspension of disbelief, Plagiarism, Foreshadowing, Speech tags, Self-publishing, and more.