The next morning Ky was led to the Emperor, who had set up a meeting for Ky to lay out the groundwork of what needed to be done before the Carthaginians descended on the Romans again. The guard led him into what he was beginning to think of as the ‘governmental’...
2019-11-26 15:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post
His conversation with Lucilla lasted several more slow laps before one of the Emperor’s guards found them, signaling it was time to head towards the Colosseum. After they moved off, the subject of slavery in the Empire, something he knew would not be solved with a...
2019-11-19 14:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe new Taylor book, Burying the Past, will drop on Amazon on the 23rd. For patrons at the Supporter tier and up, the downloadable version of the book will post up here on the 22nd.
Keep an eye out (for those who read the live postings, this will be mildly different as its gone throug...
2019-11-15 23:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“Princeps, I would like a word with you!” Ky said as they walked up the steps of the imperial complex, away from the wildly cheering crowds.
“I thought you might. Legates, please see to your men, and ensure they all have time to visit the games while they take...
2019-11-15 16:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post(Rewrite 4/26/2023)
“Baby, wake up. Come on, you’re starting school today.”
I groaned as my dream vanished, the grand mansion replaced by the fake wood-paneled walls of our cramped trailer.
“I was having such a good dream,” I grumbled, rolling over and trying to bury m...
2019-11-06 14:46:08 +0000 UTC View PostI've started work on a new story. The Sword of Jupiter won't be stopping any time soon, but it's going to be really long, probably clocking in at 250,000 words (as opposed to the 75,000 words of the last Taylor book).
I've had a lot of people asking about the next Destiny book (for th...
2019-11-06 14:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post
While the legionnaires finished off the last pockets of resistance, Ky found Velius near the front of his troops, yelling and even kicking a few to get his units pulled back together. Ky was fairly surprised by the sheer chaos he found around him.
“Dominous,...
2019-11-04 13:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why are you fighting me?” Ky asked the AI as he walked back to the Roman lines.
“Query not understood. Please restate.”
“I have to work harder to get my muscles to do what I need them to do. I didn’t notice it before, but you are giving s...
2019-10-31 13:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Seventh Legion & Ninth Legion Camps, South of Devnum
Velius led Ky towards a much larger tent in the center of the camp, which he assumed was Velius’s quarters or some sort of meeting area. Inside, eleven men were gathered, each introduc...
2019-10-29 13:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“...and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God,” Kara said, finishing the oath and lowering her right hand.
Taylor looked across Kara at Whitaker, who was looking up at her adopted daughter smiling. He hadn’...
2019-10-25 12:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Both Taylor and Whitaker were winded as they turned the corner and finished the run from Allied Mechanical Systems to the water processing station that held Allied’s high-pressure injection system. While four blocks weren’t that far to run normally, coming in at just under half a...
2019-10-24 13:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostI've just been made aware that some patrons who are on the $5 or above tier aren't able to see the chapters that I've been posting (they show as locked even though you're a current patron who's at the $5 or above tier).
If you're experiencing this, please let me know either through here or ...
2019-10-22 22:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor moved around the edge of the car he’d been using as cover in case more terrorist had come out while the tac team was clearing the building and holstered his weapon. Considering the tac team leader and the man with him both had their weapons slung over their shoulders, Taylor assumed ther...
2019-10-22 12:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Highland County, Virginia
The helicopter trip to western Virginia reminded Taylor strongly of his days in the service. Looking at the slightly older, early generation Blackhawk, Taylor imagined the FBI must have bought them off of either the military or from a ...
2019-10-20 11:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Washington DC
They spent the rest of the day working on Bennett without much success. Taylor had been more right than he knew, as her rumblings became more incoherent with each hour they pressed her. After six hours and five interrogators taking a shot at break...
2019-10-16 13:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
It was still dark outside when Whitaker’s cell phone rang. Taylor, who was usually the first of the pair to wake up thanks to being a light sleeper since his first deployment, found he couldn’t get his arm around to pick it up. Whitaker was all but lying on top of him, her head n...
2019-10-15 12:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Taylor found Whitaker in her office. It occurred to him, on the elevator ride up, the one actually good thing out of being an employee of the FBI, even temporarily, was the pass that let him into the building without having to go through the visitor process every time.
“Hey,...
2019-10-15 12:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“You’re...” Kara started to say as Taylor and Whitaker walked into their apartment and stopped, staring at them. “What happened?”
“We had a very bad day,” Taylor said, not wanting to talk about the tragedy in Amberville or worry Kara.
“Clearly.”
...
2019-10-14 16:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Taylor turned and sprinted as fast as his legs would carry him through the gate of the water treatment plant shouting, “Gas.”
While the sheriff and deputy both just stared at him confused, Whitaker turned and also ran towards the trunk of their SUV, wrenching the rear door....
2019-10-14 16:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The ring felt like an anchor in Taylor's pocket, weighing him down as he and Kara walked back into the apartment. It struck him as odd how easy it was to ignore the phone, wallet, keys he regularly carried, even the gun clipped to his belt, but he couldn't stop feeling the small litt...
2019-09-01 12:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
University of Tennessee
It was still early enough in the day when they were able to track the sponsor down at his office on campus. Taylor started getting an itch that this meeting was going to be annoying when they found the man's office in one of the building...
2019-04-27 23:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It had taken them a while to get back, with a two hour stop at the hospital so the kid's cuts and scrapes could be cleaned and the one broken leg set in a cast. He also had a broken rib and some nasty bruises, but considering he’d been literally blasted out of a second story window...
2019-04-08 14:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostFor those following along with the (admittedly very slowly) posting chapters, the name of the character Bullard has changed to Crawford. I've gone back and altered the chapters already posted and you should see it in new chapters going forward. Hopefully this doesn't confuse to many p...
2019-04-08 14:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhen they landed, a car from the local field office met them on the tarmac. The way Crawford started with the agent waiting at the car without prelude, suggested to Taylor that he’d either coordinated with this man ahead of time or knew him already.
“Where are we?”
“We’ve pi...
2018-12-22 16:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs she’d suggested, Taylor and Whitaker found themselves available the next morning as agents continued to run down leads. While Taylor was glad that they were able to keep their appointment, he was also somewhat disappointed.
While he hadn’t lied when he told Whitaker that he was confi...
2018-10-15 00:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostCrawford broke off from them at the Tuscon airport, saying he still thought there was something to investigate there, and seemed pretty confident that Qasim or his men weren’t still in town. Whitaker seemed to want to agree with Crawford but eventually sided with Taylor, who was certain the tra...
2018-09-01 15:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe fifth book in the destiny saga is complete. The full book will be available in a day or so here for patrons, and up for pre-order in the next few days.
It should release wide in all the normal places Sat. the 25th (baring something slowing it down).
Sorry this...
2018-08-17 16:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
When I’d said I was going to get tired of being on bed rest for multiple weeks, I hadn’t known the half of it. A week and a half into my recovery period, and I was starting to go stir crazy just laying here.
The girls had come in to keep me company, and I’d spent a very strange ...
2018-08-17 16:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow I managed to duplicate chapter 23 instead of putting up the real chapter 24. I've updated that post to have the correct post.
2018-08-16 00:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Considering the number of times, someone’s pointed a gun at me over the last few years and my enhanced reflexes, I would have said I was ready to deal with situations like this. In fact, I’d done alright in nearly the exact situation, once before.
This time, however, I froze...
2018-08-15 18:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post