Doctor Blood Moon

Doctor Blood Moon is a love story cum murder mystery cum coming-of-age novel. It centers on a physician striving to reach his full human potential after years in a smothering professional career and a bad marriage. the book is also about the risks and rewards of life in the city of Los Angeles. Johnny Blood, the leading heart surgeon in Southern California, grew up on a dirt-poor Crow Indian reservation in Montana. a basketball scholarship to UCLA was his way out. He attended Harvard Medical School on scholarship and eventually reached the peak of his profession through monk-like dedication. In spite of his success, his failing marriage and the mysterious death of a Nobel laureate patient rattled his self-confidence. As the novel begins, Johnny sets out to reinvent himself as a man, physician, citizen, husband, father, and friend through the agency of people on their own journeys: mainly a beautiful Greek film actress named Michaela and Johnny's nephew, Nicky, an Afghanistan vet whom Johnny rescued twice, first from the Crow reservation and then from the mean streets of Los Angeles.

Doctor Blood Moon is a love story cum murder mystery cum coming-of-age novel. It centers on a physician striving to reach his full human potential after years in a smothering professional career and a bad marriage. The book is also about the risks and rewards of life in the city of Los Angeles. Johnny Blood, the leading heart surgeon in Southern California, grew up on a dirt-poor Crow Indian reservation in Montana. A basketball scholarship to UCLA was his way out. He attended Harvard Medical School on scholarship and eventually reached the peak of his profession through monk-like dedication. In spite of his success, his failing marriage and the mysterious death of a Nobel laureate patient rattled his self-confidence. As the novel begins, Johnny sets out to reinvent himself as a man, physician, citizen, husband, father, and friend through the agency of people on their own journeys: mainly a beautiful Greek film actress named Michaela and Johnnys nephew, Nicky, an Afghanistan vet whom Johnny rescued twice, first from the Crow reservation and then from the mean streets of Los Angeles.

Dave receives another book from the heavens. Benderman and Ajax begin a long journey discovering friends and a large army preparing for a battle of unseen proportions as it awaits the eclipse and a deadly curse that comes with it. Razien sits in his tomb, neither dead nor fully alive but learning much needed knowledge from those who communicate with him as he waits to blossom from his cocoon. Karne returns for another Karne-Age, only to be surprised by followers of an unexpected race that's eager to help with his sadistic plans. When things go awry, he pleads for the help of a foe who makes an unexpected deal against their will. In return, two armies clash, causing a sacrifice of a warrior and the ascension of another.

A KILLER STORM In the dark of night during a raging storm, a criminal is on the loose in the Arizona badlands. His name is Wilson Orez. Half-Apache and a former cavalry scout, Orez is skilled with weapons, seasoned in the desert, and trained to keep a cool head while death lurks all around him. Or when it springs from his own hands. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack knows the only way to stop Orez is to kill him. But the madman has robbed a stagecoach, driven away its horses, and brutally pistol-whipped one of its passengers, leaving four unfortunate souls stranded in a desert on the verge of flooding. Now Sam must lead them to safety before he can continue his hunt for Orez—if he doesn’t drown first. More Than 2.5 Million Ralph Cotton Books in Print

Lance Longfall has everything going for him: brains, money, good looks and a promising future as a scientist. One fateful day in 1983, he meets Miranda Evans who will forever change his life. Fate, however, usually has a plan; even when it is tragic. With the help of Stephen Bropalski, his best friend, Lance will stop at nothing to bring Miranda back, even if it destroys everyone around him. To do this, Stephen and Lance will have to perform two of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time-but no one must know about it. As they race towards the future, beating time in the process, to complete their mission, someone from their past relentlessly pursues them which could hinder their success. Lance is obsessed. His only obstacles are inescapable demons from his past and the secret of the mysterious Red Moon.

Blood Red Moon shows the face of love in war, how it shines through the complexities of this international political thriller cum espionage story. In the background loom the death-throes of disintegrating Yugoslavia. Pierce Coulson, American journalist, finds true love when he is only looking for adventure. War soon separates the lovers. When he returns to save and reclaim his love, for a fleeting moment everything seems to be alright, but fate, wearing the mask of war, interferes again. Later, this man with sharp eyes, a keen pen and uncompromising integrity finds himself reporting the siege of Sarajevo, the war in Bosnia, the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, from all sides, showing what it meant for the people who lived there. When he sees that the picture of truth has become hopelessly distorted by political mavericks with conflicting interests, he withdraws to save his sanity, before the ‘liberating bombs’ start to fall on Kosovo. Chapters of Blood Red Moon were published in the Summer 1999 Issue of the Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine on the Internet under the title: Song for Sarajevo. It was awarded the 'Best Literary Online Fiction' for September 1999, by BitBooks. —The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine Song for Sarajevo was included in the Honorable Mentions List of the second annual Pulp Eternity, The Best of the Web Award in January 2000. —Jan. 2000, Pulp Eternity Literary E-zine Tibor Timothy Vajda was born in Hungary. In 1956 migrated to Australia where he lives now. Lectured in some twenty countries, including the U.S.A. on Oral Implantology and Biomedical Engineering. He has published several short stories and one book, Hope Dies Last. He worked on Blood Red Moon since 1984, visiting all locales.

Tang Chuan, the heir to the imperial family, was ordered by four beautiful mothers to find the precious treasure of the Apricot Forest, the "Nine Stars Needle". At the same time, he helped his fiancée, who he had never met, dissolve her yin and yang body, but because of the misunderstanding, Tang Chuan stayed at Zhou's house.