One Stray Word: 19 books

One hundred years ago they came. We reached out to them with a hand of friendship and they returned the gesture by nearly destroying us all. After a single encounter with the mysterious alien race identified only as Species 4876, the United Planetary Alliance was nearly decimated. Stopping...

There’s a fresh grave dug at the Fairfield Funeral Home and all it’s missing is a tombstone. For months Alex Cheradon has been on the receiving end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan. But Bragan’s help has been nothing more than a careful manipulation of Alex. Bragan’s reaching...

Alex Cheradon is a private investigator. He used to have a partner, Devon Christian, a couple years back, but Christian went insane and Alex really doesn’t work with him anymore. These days Alex mostly works alone. Though, occasionally he'll team up with his ex-girlfriend, Angie, who's a hired gun...

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” ~ Will Rogers Marko the Magnificent is one of the greatest magicians Las Vegas has seen in the last fifteen years. And now, in the theater of Millennium Hotel and Casino, he’s performed his greatest trick ever: Marko...

On the edge of UPA space a mysterious vessel has appeared. No one knows where it came from. It has no callsign or identifying marks. The vessel simply transmits a standard S.O.S. in a signal that hasn’t been used in hundreds of years: Morse code. While still recovering...

The Ybor Brothers, Clayton and Callahan, are the founders of the twin cities, Clayton and Callahan. Their legacies are shrouded in legends and mysteries. And more than one person has lost their mind, if not their lives, in pursuit of a mythical Ybor Treasure. Alex Cheradon finds himself on...

They say flying is the safest way to travel. Clearly whoever said that has never traveled with a mad scientist in custody. After finding, and apprehending, his absentee father, Alex Cheradon and his team are ready for their flight back home to Clayton City. One six hour nonstop flight from...

In his third book, Alex Cheradon, private investigator, wants nothing more to then lay low and ride out the repercussions from his previous time traveling mishaps. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend, Angie, has other ideas and drags him into his most bizarre case yet. Giggles, the town’s most...

A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire was one of the strongest members of the UPA. And then the Unity attacked. In the devastating aftermath, the Veneer Empire withdrew from the UPA and hasn’t been heard from since. Ambassador Caldwell Reynoso is the latest in a long line of...

The Messer Building is located in the heart of downtown Callahan. It’s a building of architectural wonder. It’s visible from almost anywhere in the downtown area. And it’s home to the Darketo Sanction, a top-secret organization that’s housing the largest collection of mad scientists anywhere...

In the wake of Manifold’s attack, Rose Gardens, aka Star Girl, is desperate to get her life back to normal. That means spending time with her wonderful boyfriend Ben Royal, attending classes at Century City University and occasionally saving the day. But what Rose wants is drastically different...

After taking Sloane Slade under her wing, Rose Gardens is faced with the seemingly impossible task of teaching the quick tempered teen how to be a hero, without accidentally turning her into the next terrifying supervillain of Century City. But superhero school comes to an abrupt halt when...

“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth” ~Hunter S. Thompson Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He’s jaded local through and through. So nobody’s more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter...

Steven Raines (you know, the man who made billions making an operating system that out-Microsoft-ed Microsoft?) has hired Alex Cheradon(private investigator) to look for his missing daughter. Good news: It's a million dollar payday. Bad news: she may be a Satanist hell bent on bringing the Devil to...