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Author: Ann Simko | Website
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The Center of the Storm
Abandonment, neglect, drugs and a little blood letting. Dodge Landry and his fifteen-year-old son, Chris have a lot in common. But while Dodge only narrowly survived his childhood, Chris may not. Navigating the murky waters of the foster care system in the mid-1970’s, Dodge hits the mother lode when he is sent to live with Kate Landry on her small Pennsylvania horse farm. Through her functionally dysfunctional family, and with the help of an abused mess of a horse named Storm, Kate shows Dodge no one needs to be perfect to be worthy of love. It is a lesson Dodge desperately wants to share with Chris. The problem is, Chris isn’t interested in listening and Dodge fears his adopted son is headed down the same road Dodge once walked.
Socrates's Child
He was raised to be moral and ethical—he was created to be neither.
Quinn Riley wasn’t born. He was created. Constructed of artificial DNA, he is designed as the perfect soldier, explorer and assassin. His purpose is clear…until the scientists who manufacture him abduct him in his infancy.
With a new identity, Quinn is raised human, oblivious of his true origins. Only when Socrates, the parent company who funded his creation, finds him twenty-five years later does he learn the truth of himself.
With Socrates fighting to get him back, can Quinn's learned humanity override man-made genetic programming?
The Coyote's Song
Some truths were never meant to be known and some secrets were never meant to be shared.
Montana Thomas goes in search of a father he never knew and finds the reasons behind his mother's years of silence.
With his mother recently dead and not even a name to start with, Montana and his brother Dakota begin a journey to find not only their unknown father, but their culture. The Indian heritage denied to them from the moment of their births.
Will Montana be able to accept his father and the truth behind his disappearance? Will he be able to accept the truths about himself once his past is revealed? Or will he wish he’d left those secrets buried?
Reviewer: DawnColclasure
Review: Oct 29, 2010
Genre(s): Mainstream / General
Ann Simko’s third installment in The Coyote Moon Series, The Coyote’s Song, takes readers on a journey the Thomas brothers will never forget. As Montana thinks to himself in this story, "You can't change who you are, you can only make peace with it.’ This is ultimately what he must learn to do as he embarks on the journey of a lifetime.
After his mother dies, Montana Thomas is on a qu
Through the Glass
Sometimes deceit is easier to believe than the truth.
Montana Thomas falls asleep with the woman he loves in his arms but wakes next to her bloody corpse. With the murder weapon in his hand and no memory of what happened, he needs his brother to help him sort through the confusion and grief.
But Dakota is three-thousand miles away and deep into government testing.
The stage has been set and all the players are in motion. All the unknown director has to do is sit back and wait for his true objective to be played out. In an expert game of cat and mouse, the Thomas brothers are subject to manipulation that has no equal. The only people they can trust are each other...if they can survive long enough to find the truth inside the maze of misdirection and deceit.
Reviewer: DawnColclasure
Review: Aug 10, 2010
Montana Thomas awakens to find the woman he loves dead -- with her blood on his hands. But did he really kill her? The last thing he remembers is a loving session of pillow talk before they both drifted off to sleep. Not a sound, not a movement, alerted him from his rest. He knows he was sleeping the time of the murder...so what happened? Somehow, he ends up confessing to the murder, but recovers his senses a
Fallen
By midnight he still hadn't killed anyone.
Dr. Dakota Thomas isn't prepared for the gunshot victim who rolled through his emergency room doors. Michael Ricco looks like an average young Marine. His dog tags, however, tell a different story.
How could this fresh-faced Marine have a birth date of 1898? What was he doing wandering in the desert at night, alone and wounded? And why were thirteen people murdered to try to keep his secret?
In a world where genetic experimentation pushes the boundaries of how far someone would go to live just a little longer, the main question is…how many must die to keep one person alive?
Reviewer: DawnColclasure
Review: Mar 23, 2010
Dr. Dakota Thomas expects his evening shift to go down just like any other night in Caliente, Nevada. But when a Marine with a gunshot wound in his shoulder wearing dog tags saying he was born in 1898 is brought in, things start turning out to be far from boring and predictable. Enlisting the help of his brother, Montana, who works as a private investigator and is a retired Army Ranger, Dakota is soon thrown
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