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Before they were the hottest, and most at-risk air-crash investigation team for the NTSB and the US military, the six members of Miranda Chase's team had each started along very unique paths. Six exciting stories filled with challenges, disasters, and triumphs. Five stories with fans as guest characters. A fun and wild flight.

Those who work there call Antarctica “The Ice.” A secret Russian cargo jet crashes into a crevasse near an Australian Station. The Aussies call in the top air-crash investigators on the planet. The best of them all, Miranda Chase, must face the Russians, Chinese, and use her own autistic abilities to keep her team alive. As the battle spreads across The Ice, are even her incredible skills enough?

When the fastest and most powerful helicopters in the US Army’s fleet start falling out of the sky, autistic air crash genius Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB investigators are called in. One crash leads to another, and they are fast entangled in a Chinese conspiracy to start a war over Taiwan. Only Miranda’s team can stop the trade war from becoming a real one.

The US Army’s brand-new S-97 Raider reconnaissance helicopter goes down during final acceptance testing - hard. Its cause: a failure, or the latest in a series of cyberattacks by Turkey. Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB air-crash specialists tackle the challenge. They must find the flaw, save the vice president, and stop the US from being forced into the next war in the Middle East. And they have to do it now!

An AC-130J “Ghostrider” - the latest variant of America’s most lethal aerial gunship - goes down hard in the Colorado Rockies. Except the data doesn’t match the airframe. Air-crash savant, and high-functioning autistic, Miranda Chase leads her NTSB team in to investigate. But what they uncover reveals a far greater threat - sabotage. If she can’t solve the crash in time, a new type of war will erupt. One far too close to home which threatens to shatter her team.

Mac Henderson started out no more of a ranch owner than he did a Navy SEAL. Adrift on the post-college tide of the ’70s, with no direction planned, he headed west to surf. But fate had other plans for him - beneath Montana’s Big Sky. A broken starter motor during Cheyenne Frontier Days led him to witness Ama’s traditional dance for her tribe. Since that moment, for 20 years, she has believed in his dream, inspired him, and given him a son (Mark Henderson). It was only when Mac retired that she found her own dream. Her reward? Finding Henderson’s Ranch.

Two brilliant minds. An advent calendar. One impossible assignment. Dr. Alice Thompson discovers a covert strategy to create diplomacy with the most reclusive nation on the planet. She needs all the help she can get.

Delta Force recon specialist Hannah Tucker needs out of the Colombian jungle and she needs out now. Night Stalker pilot Jesse Johnson aims to oblige...until his helicopter is shot down. He finds that more than a little inconvenient. Stalked by guerillas, crocodiles, and other jungle unfriendlies, they must learn to control skills they never knew they had - or even existed! Together they discover an unpredictable psychic ability to project sound and distract their enemies. Though the crocodiles remain unimpressed.

They met at the United Nations, two people from different worlds. Peter Matthews is D.C. born and bred. Since the tragic death of his wife two years before, he has become the most eligible bachelor on the planet. Genny Beauchamp is a French-Vietnamese beauty, with an intelligence that dazzles Peter.

The seemingly invincible Air Force One suffers a catastrophic engine failure. When it plummets into the Atlantic with the U.S. President and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff aboard, the world dives toward a peace-shattering crisis. Enter Miranda Chase, the high-functioning autistic air-crash genius, and her extraordinary NTSB team. Faced with an impossible deep-sea salvage operation of the 747, Miranda must rely on her unparalleled intellect and her diverse crew: the fiercely loyal Holly, methodical Mike, brilliant Jeremy, and resilient Andi, along with the enigmatic Taz.

A US Air Force C-130 transport plane, bearing top secret cargo, lies shattered in the Nevada desert at Groom Lake. China’s prototype fifth-generation jet fighter goes missing. Far above, a US supersonic stealth drone flies a very lethal black op. The CIA, the US military command, and the secretive National Reconnaissance Office are all locked in a battle for control of the nation’s future. Miranda Chase, the National Transportation Safety Board’s air-crash savant, lands in the center of the gathering maelstrom.

A Wedgetail, the most powerful surveillance airplane in the skies, goes down—hard. Miranda and her team race to investigate, unwittingly placing themselves in the crosshairs. From the world’s greatest shipping chokepoint at the Strait of Malacca to the Malaysian wilderness, from the Australian Outback to the halls of power in Southeast Asia, survival becomes the greatest challenge. Can Miranda and her team unravel the crisis before it destroys global shipping and kills them all?

Hollywood star Isobel Manella leads a charmed life in many ways: interesting roles, surrounded by friends and family, and the ability to sense precisely what those around her are feeling. Her empathic skills help her and her team shine. Sailor and film handyman Devlin Jones enjoys the job niche he’s created along Seattle’s waterfront. His skills as a jack of all trades keeps him fed, companionship can always be found, and his beloved Dragon sailboat lies moored just outside his back door.

Army helicopter Pilot Anton Bowman could always see more than everyone else. Even as a kid, he could send his vision out to look around in places his body hadn’t actually gone. Katie Whitfield embraces her lonely status as an outsider. Her livelihood as a wildlife tracker across the English countryside keeps her content and well clear of her uncaring family. Both their lives change when the gifted members of the Shadow Force: Psi team travel to England as part of a security test. A test that uncovers unexpected dangers to both the UK’s network of undersea cables and to their hearts

The best ground-attack support fighter jets ever built - the A-10 Thunderbolt “Warthogs” - are falling out of the sky. The Air Force brass repeatedly schemes to decommission this low-tech jet. They’ve been blocked by soldiers, pilots, and Congress…so far. The “Hog” lies at the crux of a high-tech struggle for power. An interagency skirmish that now rapidly descends into a battle fought on a global scale. Miranda Chase, air-crash savant for the National Transportation Safety Board, and her team dive in.

Delta Force operator Ricardo Manella nearly died in the Honduran jungle. But while captive in a drug lord’s camp, he discovers a unique talent that saves his life. Michelle Bowman never thought about saving lives until a previously unknown telepathic connection to Ricardo saves his. However, her old college roommate’s twin brother proves he possesses other powers - especially the skill to consistently piss her off.

Audio is the up-and-coming market, but the price of entry can be a horrific 300-500 dollars per finished hour and up. M. L. Buchman has recorded and published over 30 audio titles - himself. Here he covers the basics you need to record your own audiobooks.

After 10 years, Damien’s duties as Sit Room watch officer let him see it all: the good, the bad, and the disastrous. But nothing prepared him for the beauty and power of the new chief of staff. Cornelia’s new role as White House chief of staff leads her to the Situation Room, where every crisis comes home to roost. A dozen years of assisting the now-president-elect never prepared her heart for what awaits her there. Only together can they save Christmas in the nation’s capital. Only together can they discover Damien’s Christmas.

Colby Thompson likes nothing better than his Secret Service patrol of the White House’s South Lawn with his trusty German shepherd, Rex. The role fits them both down to the ground. But when his childhood nemesis, Marine Corps Major Ivy Hanson, steps off the Marine One helicopter, his comfortable existence flies apart. Assigned together, they end up in the battle of their lives to protect the president. But can they step forward to find love, and leave their childhood feud back In the Weeds?

When Sienna Arnson joins President Peter Matthews' senior staff, she feels supercharged by the challenge. If she could fly, she would. Succeeding as the best NSA ever strikes her as a good goal...with which to start. Roy Beaumont views D.C. from his sniper station atop the White House roof and has never looked further. When Senior Agent Frank Adams drags him from his high perch to protect the new NSA, he discovers a new target centered in his sights.