Legend Of The Opal Dragon

A rollicking Outback adventure set in the desert region of South Australia, where illicit Asian opal buyers enlist a couple of bushies from Coober Pedy to find the cave of the mythical Opal Dragon in the Flinders Ranges. A series of events keeps checking their progress on the way, what with camel races, black trackers and two crafty prospectors stopping their headway. Kate, a worker at the local pub, is abducted by the Asians, in an effort to force the two prospectors to reveal the cave of the opalised skeleton of the Australian dragon, Megalania priscus. The local tribal people were right on their tail and stealthily intervened to rescue Kate and spirit her away during the night. The tough Outback Police, a Flying Padre and Army reinforcements were right on the trail of the mobsters, who fell foul of the difficult conditions of the Outback, which caused their downfall. Possibly the spirit of old Arkaroo, the maker of the waterways of the Ranges, intervened to stop the finding of the dragon. As well, a rugged camel catching team saves an injured small dog, Kate learns to ride a camel well for the next races and one of the Coober Pedy protagonists, Chook, and his big dog Bitzer, deals with the knife-wielding crim in a most unusual way. Laconic Aussie humour, like the flies, pervades the story, with the opal dragon having the last laugh.

Caelum and his friends find themselves searching for the fragments of a powerful artifact. The pieces of the Opal Dragon are relics of the indigenous people of The New World and they enhance magical abilities. Caelum needs to find the fragments in order to return the land to health and prevent them falling into the hands of those who would use them for their own gain. His journey will take him through the varied and amazing landscape of the continent and it will open his eyes to the injustices done to its original inhabitants. It will make Caelum question who he is and his place in the world.Travel with him and his friends as they battle deadly knights and powerful monsters. Yet the most dangerous enemy may be one of their group.This edition had been professionally edited.

Ali lives on a small island in the Philippines with his mother. Zeena. Zeena is one of the town's prostitutes. Ali works in the market and quite often pimps for his mother. Zeena is losing her looks due to her volatile lifestyle and beatings from abusive customers. One night Ali robs and stabs an old jeweler with his kitbag filled with the week's takings and bars of gold and silver. The police are chasing him. He escapes to the mountains and lives with Zeena's sister gentle Sasha for almost a year. He enjoys this simple life living with the village people, He has found love with a young girl. His world crashes down when the village is attacked by terrorists. his girlfriend is raped and killed. Ali rushes back to Sasha to find her murdered, he discovers her killer and slays him with a knife, Ali has his cheek cut to the bone by the terrorist. He returns to Zeena's city and they both leave for Manila. There are two parties in this story Ali and Zeena and a farming family in Kimba in South Australia.. Ali has been trying to get in the drug trade in Manila. He hears from a man the local Mafia is going to catch him and Zeena and teach them to swim off the wharf with heavy chains around their legs, They travel on an old ship to Australia where Ali sees his first opals, He starts to trade in opal and heads to Coober Pedy opal fields. John Helen and Tony Nickols are experiencing the third year of drought on their farm John and Tony have no way of paying the bank so they follow two old friends to Coober Pedy to search for opal. The two guys they travel with have found a lot of opals and have paid the greedy bank debt. the Nickols men find a huge pocket of opals with millions of dollars. Ali and his gang of thieving try to steal the opal and money in an old safe in the dugout home they are renting

When the DragonQueen's Jewels of Power were stolen by the six sister-witches, the dragons were banished from the land of Tulay. They took with them a human child as hostage. Tia has been raised by the dragons and considers them her family. But when she learns that her mother is one of the sister witches, she must prove herself to be a true DragonChild by retrieving the jewels, with the aid of her DragonBrother. In this second exciting adventure, Tia goes after the jewel that gives its possessor the power to shift shape.

A SWORD FORGED IN SHADOWS… Theodore Kurita is the son of Takashi Kurita, and heir apparent to the Draconis Combine, one of the most powerful realms of the Inner Sphere. But the Draconis Combine has never been a place of smooth transitions. Historically, a Kurita proves himself a fit leader by a successful bid for power, political or...otherwise. Theodore's perilous journey to power is a twenty-year odyssey, beginning with his graduation from Sun Zhang Military Academy. At each level of ascendancy, Theodore finds that keeping power is far more difficult than getting it, and failure lies in wait at every turn. His tactical knowledge is put to the test all too many times. His successes in impossible situations are dismissed as smoke and mirror trickery by some, but lauded as genius by others. Upon reaching the level of Deputy of the Combine Military, Theodore’s new power allows him to see the uncertain future of his people. He must plan carefully as he bargains for his future with ComStar, the mystic sect, and the yakuza, an interstellar network of organized crime. All the while maintaining an uneasy truce with the man he must one day depose...his own father, Coordinator of the Draconis Combine!

WHERE MAN MEETS MAGIC AND MACHINE... The year is 2050. The power of magic and the creatures it brings have returned to the earth, and many of the ancient races have re-emerged. Elves, Orks, Mages, and lethal Dragons find a home in a world where mana, technology, and human flesh have melded into deadly urban predators. And the multinational mega-corporations that run the world hoard the only thing of real value—information. For Sam Verner, living in the womb of the Renraku conglomerate was easy, until his sister disappeared and the façade of the corporate reality began to disintegrate. Now he wants out, but to "extract" himself he has to slide like a whisper through the deadly shadows the corporations cast, into a completely different world where his first wrong move may be his last...the world of Shadowrun.

Includes excerpt from Ruby's Fiery Mishap.

Poetry selection on love and mythical tales, legends; of triolets, sonnets, villanelles, free verse; a journey into nature, emotions and the soul.