My newest book, Lifeline, is out today. This book is a science fiction thriller with elements of romance.

The story is split into two sections, a before and an after. The official blurb describes the before.

James and Mary have loved each other across ninety-nine lifetimes. Each time, they find one another, live, love, and die, only to repeat the cycle as different people in different parts of the world. Each life begins on the same date and never lasts past their eighty-second year.

Never during their many lifetimes have they found a shred of evidence for what has been happening to them, but now, on their hundredth life together, something is different. A mysterious entity has spoken to them, warning them to prepare for what’s coming. Their next life will be unlike any before, and it could end before it begins.

I started this book in 2023 after I finished The Last Healer but soon gave up on it. I started and stopped three more times before finally finishing it. As always, I need reviews. If you are interested, you can find it here. If you want to read more about the book, check out my personal blog here.

I did not enroll this book into Amazon’s KDP Select program so I can’t offer it for free, but I decided to offer the three books that are eligible for free: Bad cat Chris, Last Seen, and Repeat. The first two are about cats. Repeat has no cats, but it is a short read with a twist at the end. If any of these books interest you, they will be free today only or, if you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read them for free anytime. Any review you give will be appreciated.

Some of you may remember I used to work for an aquarium maintenance service that was run out the garage of my boss’s home. I would show up early in the morning and spend time preparing for the day’s work. Mr. Bill hung out with me in the garage and we became quite close. I had to quit when we moved to the other side of Tampa Bay.

We drove to Clearwater yesterday to visit Bill, Sampson, and Delila, and of course the humans who live with them. Unfortunately, their dog Buster is no longer with us. My former boss also sold her business and retired.

Bill is almost 18 years old so I was happy to see he is still doing well. I think he still remembered me and I spent a fair amount of time petting him.

Sampson and Delila, both around 8, and brother and sister, were also doing well. Sampson came to me for pets, but Delila wasn’t interested so I didn’t get her photo.

We had a good time visiting everyone and look forward to our next visit.

These are photos our cat sitter took when we went on vacation in December, 2016.

Here is a post from December 2016. More than nine years later, Floki still likes his cat tunnel, although the one we have now is different.

I forgot Frankie’s Gotcha Day again. We found Frankie at a Petsmart Adoption Center in Clearwater, Florida on February 8, 2014. He was put there by Pinellas County Animal Control and had no name, just a number. We don’t know when to celebrate his birthday. His paperwork said he was three years old. I don’t know what method they used to determine his age but if they were right, he would have been born the same month they took him in, which was probably January.

That means we have a fifteen-year-old cat that runs around the house like he is still a kitten. He had the zoomies yesterday evening which made me remember how we thought he was a sickly cat after we adopted him. He sneezed all the time and we thought there was something wrong with him. He still sneezes all the time. Every few days Rose sends me around the house to clean up after all Frankie’s sneezes. She calls it a “booger patrol.”

Here is Frankie at the adoption center.

This is Frankie the day we brought him home. He still does that with his blanket.

This is the last photo I have of Frankie alone.

I took this picture yesterday during our walk when Frankie decided it was a good time to take a nap in the sun. As I write this, he is on my lap purring, with his nose in my stomach. I don’t know how he breathes that way.

This is what happens when you leave your seat for more than a minute.

Here is a photo of Puck, Chris, and Floki from December, 2016.