A young alien genius, Bantan S’kan, has no experience with females and is bitter over his kidnapping by pirates. He’s out to do as much damage to the pirates as he can. Then he meets her. Leisha, a human female, is a non-commissioned officer on a S.U.N. scout ship. The young, rescued alien ticks all her boxes. Older than Bantan, she’s happy to further his education. When her family’s summons comes, she leaves the ship and Bantan. The Arkalian doesn’t take rejection well. S.U.N. needs him, he needs Leisha. Can he hurt the pirates without losing his life? How can he have a life with Leisha and keep the pirates from finding them?

Set in the vibrant Industrial Age and filigreed with family drama and epic ambition, Crosley chronicles one of the great untold tales of the twentieth century. Crosley is a once-in-two-lifetimes book, chronicling the conquests of Powel Crosley, Jr., one of the greatest innovators of the twentieth century, and Lewis Crosley, his brother who engineered the successful culmination of all Powel's plans.

DC Douglas graduated from Colorado State University with a journalism degree, and was formerly the editor of the Fronti ersman newspaper in Palmer, Alaska. He att ended graduate school at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, has worked as an Alaska State Park Ranger, owned a commercial salmon fi shing business in Bristol 8ay, and built over 250 homes as a contractor in his hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He and his wife have bred Chesapeake Bay Retrievers for over 30 years. They currently share their ti me between Alaska and their Colorado ranch, where they raise Gypsy Vanner horses.

Because of her love for dancing, Wave Dancer fails to follow directions in the school contest, gets herself into trouble, and must be rescued by her team.

From a no frills family to national business success. It has not been a straight road for me, but with my work ethic, tenacity, never-quit attitude and entrepreneurial skills I have thrived and survived. Starting out at 12 years old going door to door selling Downy Flake Doughnuts, my work ethic was established at an early age. I advanced moving from job to job accelerating my work position providing me with enough income to purchase a wrist watch, my first car and paying my way through college. Investing and my entrepreneurial instincts have catapulted me from having my first duplex, purchasing a printing business, opening three roller skating rinks, building a national condominium and apartment development company building and selling over 1,400 units. Along the way I think I have used most of my Nine Lives! Among my many close calls with death are my tour in Vietnam, surviving Hurricane Iris and a runaway driver. I served with the 1st Air Calvary Division in Vietnam with my team’s mission, “Search and Destroy”. At times we had direct contact with the enemy at daybreak, mid-day, and prior to sunset-breakfast, lunch and dinner. I excelled at this S & D mission being named “Soldier of the Month” and being awarded an accommodation for Valor. On one of our many international SCUBA diving adventures my wife and I were on a 100-foot yacht, The Aggressor, in Belize along with another 100-foot yacht, The Wave Dancer. We were tied up 20 feet apart in a remote area waiting out Hurricane Iris, when the category four storm ripped The Wave Dancer from its cleats capsizing and killing 20 of the 28 people aboard. I wrote a book about the tragedy, “No Safe Harbor”. Another close call with death came as I was sitting in my front room watching a baseball game. A person speeding from the police catapulted his car over a berm into a tree and spun his car into my room. Both the tree and car were less than 12 inches from where I was sitting. The fleeing crashing culprit was arrested a few weeks later on my 80th birthday I have lived a charmed and successful Life!

The Garden of Eden has its snake. It preyed upon the weakness of temptation. Ancient Arabic mythology had its Roc, a gigantic bird of prey. The Garden of Eden, that we call Puerto Rico, was visited by the Eden Roc, a monster of greed and perversion that preys upon children!