When The Time Tsar (Book Two in the Apple Island Series, 2026) opens, the dust is still settling from the action in Book One (see below). It’s 2017 in the USA as the new President plots to seize the federal Time Travel Agency from Tom King. In the southern hills of NY State, fairy queen Maeve and human allies Ravi, Harris, and Rita organize to protect Hollymount Valley. In Kentucky, eco-terrorists Janet and Lena head into the Pleistocene on a rescue mission.
Ten Thousand Secrets National Park (Book One in the Apple Island Series, 2020) is an eco-fiction thriller set in the USA heartland of today, tomorrow, & yesterday.
These stories mix my work-life experience with a conviction that a close relationship to nature reveals the magic around us.
In my academic years as a geographer, I co-authored the first editions of the geography textbook that Amazon has tagged me with. I wrote a short sci-fi essay as my epilogue for that textbook, a first step toward the Tales from Apple Island series.
There will be more tales from Apple Island.