Welcome to Earth Sea Publishing.
Jack & Sue Drafahl
For over 50 years, Jack and Sue Drafahl have written more than 800 articles for sixteen different magazines. In addition, they have seven technical books published with Amherst Media.In 2006, they decided to change the course of their writing to include fiction. Since then, Jack and Sue have written twenty novels that span the gamut of genres from Future Science to Romance. They are now in the process of publishing them and will let you know when they are available for purchase.
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Discovery Book One in
the Ship series.
Scuba diver Jake McDonald discovers a large alien probe in an underwater cave and is beamed aboard. He discovers he can communicate with the AI device, which tells him the human race will be extinct in one hundred years. Jake uses the discovered artifact to help solve the problem while attempting to unify and protect his family.
He and his family gather a band of people representing a cross-section of Earth and, armed with a plan, head out into the unknown. His ability to think outside the box lets his entourage explore worlds beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
Discovery is the first book in the six-book Ship series, drawing on NASA’s future science and asking, “Are we really alone?”
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Voyage Book Two in
the Ship series.
As Jake McDonald, his family, and other passengers leave Earth on Phoenix, his newfound alien spaceship, they face challenges humans have never encountered before. While exploring Mars, Jake discovers he has a spy among his new band of Earth travelers. He also deals with the group’s diverse personalities and the problems that arise as they try to work together.
The band of Earthlings soon discovers that the physics of space travel affects both time and space. Days on the ship equate to years on Earth, eventually splitting the group into two factions fighting for control as they journey into deep space. Jake and his wife, Beth, divide their time between maintaining peace among travelers and solving the constantly arising new problems of space travel. As the ship voyages into deep space, it travels from planet to planet, searching for the answer to the question, “Are we alone?”
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Return Book Three in
the Ship series.
After ten years on the planet Tormst, Jake McDonald’s family has come to an impasse. Their oldest son, Brad, wants to return to Earth and discover what happened over the past hundred years. A heated argument between Jake and his son ensues, and Brad leaves on the spaceship Phoenix with two other passengers. After several weeks of regret, Jake and Beth decide to follow Brad on a smaller, slower ship.
When Jake and Beth arrive in orbit around Earth, there is no communication by radio or television. They land in Santa Barbara and find no people, only a diverse animal population, including many Ice Age creatures. Their continued investigation indicates something terrible happened twenty years after the Phoenix left Earth. Plans are made to find Brad and discover what happened to the people of Earth.
Excursions into the western U.S. prove to be more dangerous than anticipated. During one trip, the McDonald family suffers a loss that forces the group to rethink their plans. Death and destruction are the norm on this new Earth, and a surprise just out of view becomes the biggest twist and turn of the Ship Series.
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Earth Book Four in
the Ship series.
Book four in the Ship series, Earth, is two stories occurring in the same place but at different points in time. The first timeline starts seven years after a man-made plague appears to kill everyone on Earth. Six Technical Force survivors struggle to discover what happened to everyone. They must defend themselves against Ice Age animals and an unknown human enemy that also survived. They established a new home in Oregon where future generations of children spread their exploration throughout the United States.
The second timeline covers the events after Jake McDonald returns to Earth more than a hundred years later. He discovers that some people have survived, both friend and foe. Their oldest son, Brad, is responsible for restoring Earth, while the transplants from Mars and the remaining crew from Meg, Jake’s ship, have set up communities on the smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean. Chapters alternate between the two timelines as they eventually come crashing together simultaneously.
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Ambassador Book Five in
the Ship series.
In the final chapter of the Ship Series, the aliens that created the ship Jake McDonald found inside Santa Barbara Island invite him to be the Ambassador of Earth. He, Beth, and his son Jason travel with the nomadic race called the Harpcons across the galaxy in search of answers about the creation of the universe and the location of the Harpcon homeworld.
As they get closer to their goal, they encounter a warlike race called the Destroyers. Unprepared to do battle, they use Jake’s knowledge of sci-fi movies and TV shows to battle a much more powerful race than the Harpcons. Jake McDonald finally realizes his dream as he explores various worlds across the Milky Way galaxy and becomes friends with dozens of alien races.
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Paradise Book Six in
the Ship series.
It was a quiet day in Paradise, Iowa, or at least Sheriff Sam Preston thought so as he drank his morning coffee. First, the power goes out, then a prehistoric animal kills a local man at the edge of town. Problems escalate with no GPS, a loss of all communication, and all roads into Paradise are cut off by heavy forest. When he realizes that the problems border on the side of science fiction, he assembles a hodge-podge team of scientists to figure out why it appears that the small Iowa town is the only human habitation on Earth.
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Polaris Book One in
the Time & Space series.
Dr. Alexa Zorn is an artifact researcher who finds what appears to be a sci-fi movie prop hidden in an old storage area. With her team of specialists, she starts to unravel the alien device’s secrets, leading her to a one-day time machine buried in Death Valley. A billionaire collector tries to steal the artifact to add to his collected works. Alexa and her team race through time, keeping one step ahead of the billionaire, her ex-husband, the government, and all the disasters that want to end all life on Earth.
If you mix Lora Croft and Indiana Jones into one person, Polaris would be the result. The Time & Space Series is a collection of Sci-fi novels focused on time travel, space flight, or both. Each novel is a stand-alone book with a new story, plot, and characters.
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Spyglass Book Two in
the Time & Space series.
Dr. Cathleen Massey, a scientist working with the Hubble telescope, discovers an unknown object coming from light-years away. She projects that it will pass by Mars in ten years. When the object is finally visible, images indicate it’s an alien spaceship twenty miles long, eight miles wide, and four miles high.
When her projections become news, they spark a new space race. NASA, China, and two billionaires build Mars-bound spaceships, hoping to reach the alien ship first. Little do they know that the first contact will change the future of mankind in a way no one had ever imagined possible.
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Paradox Book Three in
the Time & Space series
In 2035, a NASA Orion spacecraft goes through an anomaly near the moon, and the four astronauts find themselves in 1969. As they try to understand what has happened, they soon realize that taking an AI iPhone from 2035 back to 1969 would drastically change the course of human history and create a new river of time.
The crew commander has a special AI brain implant and seems to be the key to fixing the problem as she moves outside normal time and space. The more she tries to jump from one timeline to the next, the worse the problem gets. When she finds out who is responsible, it is definitely not human.
The Time & Space Series is a collection of Sci-fi novels focused on time travel, space flight, or both. Each novel is a stand-alone book with a new story, plot, and characters.
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C.A.T. is Book One in the Acroname series.
Curt Allen Towers owns a successful manufacturing company specializing in miniaturized robotic devices. His life is turned upside down when he is accused of the rape and murder of a business associate. Curt struggles to prove his innocence but finds there is a fine line between friend and foe. He must now rely on his gut feelings to judge a person and read them with his heart.
A fugitive from prison, he desperately runs for cover, evading one attempt after another on his life. Curt lives up to his nickname, CAT, but wonders if nine lives are enough? If you loved the TV action adventures of The Fugitive and MacGyver, then you’ll enjoy C. A. T.
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D.N.A. is Book Two in the Acroname series.
Fifty-five-year-old police detective Frank Ridge has hit a slump in his career. A recent homicide case is botched, and Frank is blamed for not keeping up with crime scene technology. To rectify the situation, he enlists help from Dennis Andrews, a young CSI military scientist fascinated by the latest technologies. Dennis has created a new device that quickly analyzes DNA samples at the molecular level without damaging or even touching the samples.
The two crime fighters start working together to solve virtually impossible cold cases. Everything seems to be going well at first, but then the two are under fire from government officials who want to see the DNA device disappear, along with the dynamic duo. Frank and Dennis become moving targets as they continue their quest to solve cold cases.
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S.O.S. is Book Three in
the Acroname series.
University professors James and Stacy Sanders find themselves so caught up in social networking that they have little time for themselves or their two children. A catastrophic disaster throws them together on an uninhabited Pacific volcano, with little hope of being rescued.
They quickly discover that teamwork and close communication are essential if they want to survive. James and Stacey must rely upon their scuba diving skills and extensive knowledge of World War II history to keep one step ahead of the forces of Mother Nature and a relentless cold-blooded killer.
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O.M.G. is Book Four in
the Acroname series.
Three college buddies band together to create a company that specializes in deep-sea treasure diving and recovering historical artifacts. Using advanced technical diving suits, they make their first dive to a thousand feet off the Oregon coast in quest of a missing WWII Japanese submarine. Instead, they uncover a decades-old secret that sends a shockwave through government security. Fearing it will become front-page news, the government steps in to help with the salvage efforts.
In Newport, Oregon, retired Air Force Colonel Oscar Gains enjoys gardening and meteorite hunting with his AF colleague, Marty. Little does he know that the military secret he tried to forget has now surfaced only a few miles from his home. Oscar is thrown back into the cloak-and-dagger world and forced to utilize his high-level government connections. O.M.G. follows these two storylines as they come crashing together in a climax that unearths a million-year-old secret.
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C.E.O. is Book Five in
the Acroname series.
Charles Edward Owens loved being a helicopter pilot, but tragedy ended his Army flying career. Before he can barely put his life back together, he faces the challenge of managing his family’s estate when both his parents suddenly pass away. Charlie converts the estate’s assets into an extremely successful green energy company specializing in wind and solar power.
While riding the waves of success, a series of unexplained accidents rob him of his beloved wife and daughter. His life and company are thrown into turmoil as death and evil stalk him from the shadows, intent on erasing everyone and everything he values. This battle with an unknown enemy will require every ounce of his mental and physical strength to overcome the seemingly insurmountable odds.
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D.O.A. is Book Six in the Acroname Series.
It was a rainy night, and married professors David and Michelle Abrams were on their way home from a party at the University. They were arguing about a secret Michelle had kept from David about being pregnant with twins. A car accident ensues, and David is pronounced DOA at the hospital. As Michelle struggles to keep living without David, she realizes he kept secrets from her. As she works to unravel his secrets, she learns that the twins are a missing link in the next giant leap in human evolution.
Between an insane mother-in-law and factions of evolutionists trying to steal the twins, Michelle gets help from friends she never knew she had. Just when her life starts to settle down, it takes a ninety-degree turn, and her life is in chaos again. D.O.A., the sixth novel in the Acroname series, is full of twists and turns, intrigue, Future Science, and evolution theories. Although this is a stand-alone book, Michelle gets extra help from characters from the C.A.T. and D.N.A. Acroname books.
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D.I.Y. is Book Seven in the Acroname Series
Douglas Ivan York, a building contractor, buys an 1880s Victorian house in a Sheriff’s sale near Washington, D.C. As he inspects this post-Civil War beauty, he assesses the work required to renovate it. The previous owner’s relatives feel they should have inherited the old home, and they break in at night. They are convinced that the original builder hid valuables in the walls. So Douglas uses state-of-the-art devices to examine inside the walls, finding clues that suggest it might truly contain hidden treasures.
A local photographer helps him uncover some of the house’s history, and a budding romance begins. To complicate matters, Doug’s ex-wife shows up looking to cash in on his discovery and fight for custody of their daughter. As Doug gets close to solving the mystery, a new enemy rises from the unknown and puts everyone Douglas cares about in danger.
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You can contact Jack and Sue at: digitalduo@jackandsue.com
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