Chapters

Novels by Raymond Alvarez: These works are coming.

Frontier: Defiance

Chapter 1

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Foster insisted on paying the sale price. Like the Johnsons, Foster pays cash. In other words, he had no account with Beckham. When Beckham rang up his purchase at the full price, Foster left the store without having paid for the three containers of fungicide.

Frontier: Mystery of seeds

Chapter 2

 

A mile down the lonely road from town, vehicles stopped in front of the Turner house, a country home with white vinyl tiles and a screened porch that opened before an oak shaded yard. The occupants gawked at the full bloom in the Turner orchard beyond the sheds. The strangers drove off quickly when Michael’s dad would step onto the porch. One day a yellow truck rolls up in front of the house.

Frontier: On the brink

Chapter 3

 

The mystery of the sea was a gift given him by parents who spent most of their careers standing where he finds himself this morning. How many times has he landed on a heaving floor as waves crashed against a portal where first light sparkled and threw uneven light across the cabin? ... He stares into the sweeping expanse of cobalt blue just as they did. There was never a question about the career he would choose. Home-schooled, the red-haired man headed into marine biology as his parents had. The ocean, where life began, holds answers for us, they would tell him.

Frontier: Hell's Hammer

Chapter 4

 

 

The north was cleared, they said. Mars operation “Rain” is go for start, they said. But someone screwed up. The problem is Arisa Mons along with craters and other prominences have targets painted on them. Someone forgot the spelunkers were climbing in a cavern near Arisa Mons. Lava would run through those caves again when the asteroids – some as large as city buses – come raining down.