Böcker av Donald Averill

Dr. Ned Curtis, a young professor of geology at Ocean Vista University in Southern California, is trying to cope with a problem. Two beautiful young women, one of which is his student, are attracted to him and he is interested in both of them. However, both women are married, which creates a major hurdle. One woman is a friend from long ago, and the other is a recent acquaintance. He knows his limitations; he can only have a relationship with one woman at a time or face disaster. What is he to do? He must keep each woman from knowing about the other. Should he develop a relationship with the blonde or the brunette? And what about their absentee husbands? Should he fear reprisals?

As an experiment, in 2080 the International Space Agency has stranded four couples in a complex built inside a small ball of ice about ¿ve billion miles from Earth. However, the young astronauts have a plan to return to the third planet from the sun without help from the agency. They have been betrayed in other ways, beyond being marooned. The four female astronauts become pregnant and give birth during the next year in space. Two of the four children are found to have extraordinary abilities which could be very bene¿cial to the human race.

For nearly thirty years, Wolves Hollow, a small mountain town two hours northeast of Boise, had been free of murder, but in 1896 there were several murders. Then things changed for more than a century, the only deaths in the little community were from natural causes and occasional accidents.However, the 21st century brought greed and lust to the still small town. A young reporter, just out of college, a carpenter, and a female sheriff, nicknamed Rif, began to work together to solve the outbreak of violent deaths.

Retired astronaut Sunul Burke receives word his sister has cancer and is coming to the United States for treatment. The large pharmaceutical industry sends goons after the two children that possess the sure cure: their blood. The children are to be eliminated. But no one knows where the children are. The next best thing is to obtain a sample of blood from Shania Winslow, a doctor stationed on Mars, cured of cancer by the children's blood eight years ago. Sunul goes to Mars to bring back a sample of the doctor's blood, not knowing if the treatment will work. Attempts on the doctor's life occur and Sunul devises a plan to get the doctor back to Earth secretly. The race for blood or death is on.

In Glacier Fires, University of Washington students Tim Michaels and Art Daniels get more than they bargain for when they travel to Mt. Baker in northwestern Washington State to test out their new telescope. With the sight trained on the glaciers, the two discover a young woman in distress; they rescue Mikka Morgan, a student from the rival Washington State University. But their adventures continue when they, Mikka, and Samantha Ashford embark on another mission to save Sam's forest ranger father, and Otto, an Austrian mountain climber, from a deep crevasse. Rogue climbers have left Otto and the ranger in the crevasse to die.

The hot dry summer has been progressing in the Bitterroots with little relief in sight. Sheriff Scott Wilson, former FBI agent, is faced with a murder to solve and keeping an eye on the Forest Fire Brigade. The ten prisoners from neighboring state penitentiaries possess a slight amount of training with timber fires but no actual experience. The crew is in the vicinity of Suddenly, Montana, to prepare rudimentary forest roads to allow access by firefighting equipment. When a woman joins the crew, the character of the group quickly changes.David Drum, high school senior, and son of the sheriff, is confronted with his own problems, two beautiful young women, twisting his heart in different ways, and assisting his friend, Dexter Young, to make a home from an old barn.Behind the scenes, Juan Martinez is plotting against one of the brigade members with one goal in mind, a half million dollars.

With only fifteen months prior to college, David Drum starts a lawn service in Suddenly, Montana, to earn tuition money. His first customer, Mrs. Kincaid, a prototypical grandmother, has an acre of meter-high weeds to remove. David begins and damages his mower on a clay lawn ornament thought to have been discarded a decade ago. Given the clay turtle, he takes it home for repair. His girlfriend, Megan Isaacs, notices a shiny object in the headless turtle and they discover a ring. The local jeweler gives them good news, the ring is valued at $25,000, but it was stolen in 1997. The hunt, assisted by a bogus insurance agent, begins for the rest of the shipment.