Bøger af James Rozhon

Mike Wainwright is doing nothing more than trying to get away for a pleasant breakfast at a local restaurant when he sees smoke in the near distance. His old reporter's instincts awaken and he walks down the street to find that a mosque that is under construction is on fire. That information comes from a police officer who is directing traffic, an officer who is going to be his son-in-law. As he watches the mosque burn, he is unaware that he is once again about to step head-first into America's newest war - the war against Islam. As before, he finds no Muslims fighting anyone, but finds a lot of evidence that seems to suggest his future son-in-law police officer might be among those who are burning down their churches and trying to blame Muslims. Worse? His daughter is pregnant by the officer. As events begin to spin out of control, Mike is thrown headfirst into the latest of the church burnings as he accompanies his future son-in-law to what is destined to be the latest church burning. Read FOR MONEY AND COUNTRY to see what is behind the hatred. Beyond that? Will his family survive the mayhem?

There are seven of them, all between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two. They were diagnosed with and died of skin cancer, all within the space of three weeks. Those deaths happened far from Doctor Evie Six's practice in Kalispell, Montana. They happened near Portland, Maine. Is it a coincidence that her mother is Melodie Chang, the Congresswoman from Maine's first congressional district? It never dawns on Doctor Six to explore that question as she begins to investigate an eighth death that happened in Kalispell. But several lives will be taken before she discovers the real reason behind those deaths. One of them is David Ryan, a new patient who is ultimately murdered by his father. Is it another coincidence that Doctor Six suspects he has the same disease that killed the other eight? If so, why does she help to make certain that his heart goes to Alex Payne, an old friend, when David is killed? In the end, her mother will become infected with the disease that is taking so many lives. One thing Doctor Six knows is that the cancer she is fighting is inoperable. Her mother is going to die a most gruesome death. Unless she can figure out a medical reason why those kids died and then find a cure. But time is most definitely against her. Read Chasing Death to learn why Melodie Chang was targeted and what her daughter does about it.

Mike Wainwright's life is about to change radically. It starts when he is laid off as the Assistant Editor of the Riverside Post. He has worked for the newspaper for twenty-five years and it is all he knows. He goes home, tries to find something to do and winds up walking around his home. He picks up an index card, more out ennui than anything meaningful. As much as he wants to ignore it, he can't because the name is familiar. Ibrahim al-Sehedrin. He Googles the name and is reminded of a story that went national not quite a year before. He had strapped a bomb to himself, walked into a Las Vegas casino and killed himself and thirty-six people besides himself died. It would have ended there had not Harlyn Bentley, his ex-wife, not showed up for no other reason than his ex-boss, Randy York, asked her to check on him. She did and found him drunk and passed out on the floor amidst broken furniture and a smashed TV set. She screamed at him names that were all familiar to him and when she tried to leave, saw the index card with that name on it. That was when his life started to change because she admitted that Ibrahim hocked some stuff in her pawn shop for just enough money for him to buy a ticket to Las Vegas where he self-destructed in a casino. The issue becomes crystal clear to Mike at that point. Harlyn is scared because no one from any police agency ever came to her and asked her if she knew Ibrahim and a year has passed since it happened. Another issue is the items Ibrahim hocked. Besides a Coptic Christian bible that tended to prove he wasn't a Muslim as the media portrayed him is an encoded note that Mike is able to decipher with the help of a website that does such stuff. In it, Ibrahim names the next two bombers, both of whom subsequently did the same thing he did. One self-destructed in San Francisco and the other self-destructed in Seattle. The last issue is the next person that Ibrahim named in the note worked for Harlyn in her Las Vegas pawn shop. That starts Mike and Harlyn on a quest to find that person, stop them and somehow turn the story over to the police, all without the legal trouble both of them see in their futures. As events continue to pile one on top of another, Mike and Harlyn fight all their old demons and find new ones to replace them. Their two children become issues in their own right - and not just became their daughter is dating a cop. Their children want to know what they are doing and didn't like either Mike's or Harlyn's answers. Throw in the odd fact that Mike sees a new relationship forming with his ex-wife and it becomes possible to see how much Mike's life is changing. On top of those things, names begin popping up, names that Mike believes tie these events to something else. The last name he discovers is his ex-boss, Randy York. What reason would The editor of The Riverside Post have for being involved in these things? Read Hidden Motives to find out what ties everything together and learn if Mike can even live through it.

Jeff Harris thinks he is living The American Dream until he gets laid off, loses his home and his wife leaves him. He wanders the streets of Riverside, California for six months until he stumbles upon a foreclosed home in one of the worst parts of town. Since the backyard is fenced, he's content with sleeping under the bushes, but checks the back door anyway. While locked, it isn't closed, so he enters nervously. The house is empty and he settles down in one of the empty bedrooms. As much as he appreciates being able to sleep indoors, his life catches up to him and his frustration grows. Remembering his home that ironically isn't far from this one, he hammers the floor with his fist until the floorboards break. Still frustrated, he punches it one last time and comes face-to-face with a human face, a woman, a very dead one. Discovering who she is will change his life completely.

Private investigator Melodie Chang thinks her time is up when her doctor tells her, "I think you have ovarian cancer." It depresses her like nothing else ever has. She decides to tell her sister at the private school she operates. When she approaches the front door of the school, she sees a young man with a gun and she decides he is her way out. The kid is scared, nervous and it doesn't take Melodie long to realize he could easily put her out of her misery. She takes him away from the school and asks him to shoot her, but he's so scared of her that he can't. What happens because he is so scared will send Melodie's life on a collision with itself. She will be asked to choose between families, will be convinced she'd made wrong choices with her life, but in the end, she will be forced to face the people she'd always called family and make some sort of peace with them. Will she turn away from them with cause or look deeper and see a vast truth she cannot deny? Read Rebirth to see what Melodie chooses to do with her life because of what has happened to it.

Russell Means Morrison and his sister, Tala Sue Morrison are not throwaway kids. They have, however, been thrown away. Their presence in John Overland's life makes itself known the night John goes to his office to catch up on some work and Russell tries to kill John in the gardens behind the office with a meat cleaver. Russell is eleven and Tala is nine. It is only after John disarms him that the story of who they are and how they got to Sells, Arizona and Tohono O'odham Reservation becomes known. John discovers their horrifying past and is determined to find out who was responsible for it. Beyond their flight from Tijuana, Mexico, and the reasons they were left there by their parents, John begins to uncover threats directed at his family that are at least eleven months old. As he delves deeper into those threats, he discovers a deeper threat aimed at the reservation and everyone who lives on it. Read Suffer The Children to discover what the real threat is and who is responsible for it.

Mike Wainwright, his wife, Harlyn, and the rest of their extended family is having fun on a Sunday night when the doorbell rings. Mike answers it for no other reason than he's closest to the door. What he opens is a mystery unlike any he has seen before. He's a writer and has been ever since he was laid off from the Riverside Post. In this instance, he has no idea who the black man is and is surprised when his wife recognizes him as "Jhim Peece!" Thus starts one of Mike Wainwright's most painful stories. While still considering himself as a reporter, he is going to find that the story revolving Jhim Peece and his estranged wife, Adriana, is going to be the most tragic one he will ever write. First there is the issue that Adriana is not an illegal as her husband claimed her to be, but an American citizen. Second is that when he finds her, she is being guarded by a violent ex-felon. While the issues between Adriana and the man he discovers is named Jeff Maness, are ones of mutual attraction and that he is not holding her against her will, he discovers that Jhim has been acting so strange that she left their home for that primary reason alone. However, all Jhim Peece wanted from Mike was for him to find his wife and he did. Now it appears that Jhim himself is missing and Mike wants to know why. That causes him to call Herman Ratliff, an agent for the FBI who works out of their Riverside office. They hold several conversations over the next few days and each time Ratliff is blunt, short and to-the-point with Mike. The upshot of their conversations shocks and surprises Mike because he is told that the only reason he has been allowed to investigate Jhim Peece is because the man is believed to be organizing a mass slaughter of at least fifteen illegals in the desert beyond Palm Springs. When he asks why Jhim asked him to fin d his wife, he is told that they believe Peece wanted Mike out of the picture because all sides agreed that he was a good reporter, a good investigator and if he heard what was happening, he might spoil that execution by his reportorial skills alone. It is only when Ratliff tells him that his wife, Harlyn, will be held complicit in those deaths that Mike pushes himself to find that Harlyn is truly in that desert beyond Palm Springs and Indio, but is trying to prevent those deaths and not cause them. It seems that Mike has been used by the FBI, the INS and a couple of other agencies to find his wife and that scene and little else. It is in the aftermath of that holocaust they prevented from happening that she tells him that she is pregnant. While completely unexpected because of their ages, each delights in the thought of having one more child. It is only when Harlyn dies in childbirth that Mike's life is hurled upside down. He disappears for over a week and only the mysterious appearance of a woman he comes to know as Concepcion Salas saves him. She finds him in a bar in Portland, Maine and she tells him "You don't know what you've." But all she has done is complicate his life. However, like the last line in the story reads... That is another story.

David Colton has a good life going for himself when he accepts a birthday dinner invitation from his parents. He goes to it even though nothing like that has ever happened to him in all of his thirty-three years. They feed him a streak dinner - another thing they never did - and then give him a birthday present of ten thousand dollars. They tell him to "further his ambitions". In the end, he goes home trying to figure out what they wanted from him because it was that weird. He wakes the next morning to someone knocking on his front door. It's two police officers and they are there to tell him that his parents are dead, the victim of a shooting in a local liquor store. In essence, that starts everything. He learns that four people were killed in that liquor store. Stunned, shocked and grieving, he goes to his parent's home later that day and finds two things of interest. One, is a note inside a folder that his mother left on her computer keyboard. One of the items on the note tells him not to talk to anyone named Rhiannon. It isn't hard to agree only because he doesn't know anyone by that name - only the Fleetwood Mac song. The second is a phone number written on a card in one of the drawers of his mother's desk. When he calls the number, an anonymous voice tells him to, "Stay out of this or you will end up like them." When he hangs up and calls it back, he finds that the number has been disconnected. Curious about the place where the crime occurred, he visits the clerk who came on duty in that store at seven o'clock that morning. Her name was Yadira and she feigned such fear of what had happened there that she told David that she had told the store manager that she was going to quit her job at the end of her shift that day. Not able to learn anything from her, he meets a police detective, Lawrence Peters, outside the store. Basically, all he gets is a lecture to stay out of the case. With nothing learned at the site, he calls the firm his mother told him to call about any money they had. It is the place where the mysterious Rhiannon works. He sets up an appointment that he attends the next day. Rhiannon works there and, apparently, her job is to be a distraction. However, his mind is on his parents, so he ignores the woman completely as the financial planner tells him that he is quite rich. He leaves satisfied that his money is safe, Rhiannon notwithstanding. Another step in his journey happens when he returns to his job - he is the manager of a bookstore - and calls the owner from his desk. He explains to the man what has happened and asks for a few days off. He's fighting tears as he speaks and is clearly upset. The issue is that a female employee named Tempest Summers is pushing a cartful of books passed his office and hears the conversation. This starts a chain reaction where Tempest and her mother, a woman named Marcene, try to unlock his parent's computers only to discover that neither one has a password on it. In the middle of all this, two other things happen. One, Rhiannon is fired from her job and she blames Doug for that fact. The second is that he learns the name of the third person killed at the liquor store. He is a doctor, Doctor Leonard Kaiser and his partner, Doctor Katherine Seeger tells him that Doctor Kaiser learned that his parents aren't genetically related to him. Further study tells him that his embryo was transplanted into his "mother" and that is why he is not generically related to them. It was a new procedure at the time, but to him, to Doug Colton, that does not excuse his "parents" of telling him about his past and who his real parents were. That brings up the name of the fourth person killed in the liquor store - a man named Harold Reames. He works the night shift in the store. Also, as it turns out, the killer was his brother, a man named John Reames.

Jeremy McBride is a dealer in antiquities and he is asked by an American museum to help to determine the veracity of papers that are being attributed to Pontius Pilate. The issue, he knows, is that if those papers are real and they are found to hold information that contradicts the Bible, that wholesale chaos can ensue. However, Jeremy has his own reasons for agreeing to help the committee verify the papers are real and not a hoax. His wife, Diana, wants a divorce and as a staunch Catholic, he is forbidden to have one. It doesn't matter that as a California resident, no-fault divorce is legal. He has pictures of her that can prove her infidelity is real. He accepts the invitation to authenticate the papers and steps into a war that is both religious and personal to two different women. Miriam Wirth and Lisa Bruce are sisters and both of them jockey for position with Jeremy as he searches for an answer to the Pilate papers. However, one of them has the perfect antidote for Pontius Pilate. A nuclear weapon that she will detonate in just the perfect location for Jeremy. But all of these things are going to be trumped by the perfect person. It's obvious if you think about it.

Antonio Duran and Annette Borjon have been feeling the unrest for weeks. Duran is a teacher and Borjon works in a grocery store. Both live in El Paso, Texas. For Duran, it starts when the school is attacked by men with grenade launchers. In a class that started the year with twenty-three students, his class that Monday morning numbered nine. Such is the stress in El Paso. For Borjon, it starts when she sees a phalanx of those same men marching in the street, their weapons free for anyone to see. For them, that's how The Second American Civil War starts. Duran and his nine students escape the school before the building that held his classroom is destroyed by RPGs and gunfire. One of the students is Borjon's thirteen year-old son, Ronaldo. They meet up in the warehouse of a local and nearby business and begin the process that will be earmarked by deaths in both of their families and in those of many of his students, all nine of which escape with him. Borjon's escape from her place of work takes her to the same warehouse. It is from that warehouse that their journey begins. Together they will return as many students to their parents as they can. However, it is during this process that Duran finds a critically wounded man whose name he learns is Roy Livingston. They will learn that he is one of the people who planned this uprising and will even learn why he did it. It is only at that point where real healing can begin. For both sides.

It doesn't truly start until seventeen-year-old Speaker Hawke is kidnapped and taken to San Francisco by human traffickers. John Overland, Special Agent for the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona and her stepfather, begins an extra-legal search for her. Her birth father, Tom Hawke is involved but on which side? Is he there to kill John or to help him find the daughter that he hasn't seen in fifteen years? His search becomes desperate when his partner and once daughter-in-law, Simone Overland, is taken, too, and her treatment at their hands is horrific. Arrayed against them is Hiram Rubidoux, a tribal cop, Darryl Rhodes, a PI, and a woman without morals named Sunny Lee. As bad as it is, it gets worse when Jerry Porter, his ex-wife's husband, shows himself as the person who captured Simone. All of them have reasons to kill John Overland. When John frees both Speaker and Simone, he figures it's over. Speaker's premonition that it is not proves all too true. It falls to John to discover what is behind the horror that took his daughter and partner. What motive will drive Speaker Hawke to become a Fourth Degree warrior in her tribe? Read The Four Degrees Of Speaker Hawke to find out.

Valerie Chang calls herself a rich bitch only because people see her that way. However, after the school year at The University of Maine at Orono ends, she finds out why that is so. Her mother, her aunt and their company bookkeeper ask her to come straight home after her final class is over. With no idea what they want from her, she does what they ask and heads straight home to Portland, Maine, where she has always lived. Once there, they tell her that she is going to spend her summer working from their South Portland private investigator office for no other reason than to give her some experience working in an office. So starts The Lioness. When she doesn't like her assignment, she gets angry and storms away to her boyfriend's home that is not far from hers. His name is Ron Waters. When she gets to his home, she finds him kissing another girl. Angered, she rushes down to the boat launch ramp that is below her parents' home on the Eastern Promenade. Just as she is about to end her misery, a car pulls between her and the boat ramp and, seemingly, that's where things end. He doesn't allow her to commit suicide by driving her new BMW into the bay. The man in the car is a black man named D'Jayden Sixson. Between and Ron and DJ - as she comes to know the black man - she would be safe for the next several days until some answers she received along the way began to make sense. She's clubbed over the head, faces a gun to her face, finds evidence of something in the BIOS of her brother's computer, but nothing begins to make sense until she meets three people who are on a pilgrimage to help her mother attain the Presidency. What does she find? Read The Lioness to discover what her mother, her aunt and their friend wanted from her in the first place.

Doctor Six has a patient that she believes is suffering from an illness that could be fatal if not treated. However, the patient refuses her help and Doctor Six spends the next few days trying to find her and treat her. Even her husband starts to worry about her when with all their money they build a "TEMPLE" and she announces that the world will end in eight days. As the woman begins to hallucinate, Doctor Six finds her and knows she has little time to treat her before anything she can do to help her becomes pointless.

Doctor Six lives in Kalispell, Montana and a patient comes to see her, and she fears that he has a very serious disease, but he gets angry and leaves her office. All that does is puts Doctor Six in motion to find him and verify her diagnosis. However, over the next three days she is threatened with death twice and even has a run-in with what she sees as a private army. Will she survive her hunt and find her patient?

David Colton meets with his parents for dinner, and they surprise him by giving him ten thousand dollars in cash. That little offering confuses him and then the next morning he hears that both of them, his mother and father had been killed overnight in the convenience store not far from the bookstore he manages. The rest of the story is about how killed his parents, why they were killed and how he might be the next target of the killer. Along the way he discovers that he is not the son of his parents, at least not genetically. However, as he handles that little problem, he discovers who his real parents are and why he was conceived in the way he was.Read A Place For No One and learn who his parents were, and they were killed as ruthlessly as they were.

Evangeline Sixkiller- Collins has had a painful life but she became a doctor and moved her skills to Kalispell, Montana. Not long after moving there she is asked to join a search party for a missing man. She finds him after three hours of searching through snows of the local hills. Also, she finds that he cannot have been dead for longer than a half-hour so she wonders how he got out there and who or what killed him. This gives her a reputation in town as someone who will always find the truth no matter what. And that leads tothe end of The Socrates Option.

Morghana Hamilton is a reporter for the local newspaper in Savannah, Georgia and husband has just committed suicide. She needs to find out why he did so and then deal with the consequences.

Doctor Evie Sixkiller-Collins is on a search and rescue task outside of her hometown of Kalispell, Montana and they are looking for a missing person. Evie finds him at the end of a canyon and discovers he is dead but hasn't been so for very long. They've been looking for three hours, and she estimates that the man can't have been dead for as long as thirty minutes because rigor mortis hasn't in on the body. That seems easy enough for her to learn because she's a doctor and doing and learning these things are part of her job. But.When she tells the leader of the team what she learned about the body, she starts getting threats to her life and that is based on her abilities as a doctor.So. Who wants her dead for learning that one singular thing? Read Chasing Death and learn who is behind those threats and what she does about it.

Civil unrest is carrying the country toward a second civil war and both Mark Jenkins and Delisa Hutchinson are being pushed aroung in its turmoil. Mark is white and Delisa is black. Both of them have fixed emotions about what is ongoing in the country and both have families and friends that support them. Will the Union survive the chaos and will it survive in one piece?Read Volunteers to find out.