Books with author D. C. Miller

Bart Winfield, code name, "Tupelo," leads the BlackStar Ops Group in a critical top-secret search for Rick Eichner, the deep-cover Soviet spy, that has moved to the eastern slope of the Rockies. Can they recover the stolen nukes before Eichner can auction them off to international terrorists? Will Russian smugglers interfere and why are they planning to kidnap a college student from Seawind Bay? The Consortium, a clandestine intel organization patiently waits as their plan to blackmail the world with nuclear threats plays out in a secret underground lair where conflict and scheming reign. The BlackStar Ops Group, an ultra-secret combination of Air Force and NSA investigators, must unravel the complex mystery to save the world. Can they do it in time? In the tradition of Clancy, Childs and Fleming, T.C. Miller lays out a tale of international intrigue set in the center of the U.S. The story speeds along at breakneck speed and invites the reader to finish it in one setting. It's not the schedule, so much as it is dodging the four Bs…bullets, bombs and booby-traps…And, the biggest…bad guys.

The Phoenix Ruby was enchanted for a queen, corrupted by greed, and inherited by a warrior. Raised by a legendary swordsman, Keatep Brendagger is one of Roanfire’s most promising soldiers. Brave, loyal, and a bit headstrong, she is the best choice to escort a noblewoman to the capitol of Roanfire for the prince’s coronation. But when a repeating nightmare infests her sleep, leaving her with blood dripping from her nose and fire burning in her bones, she loses focus. With her career as a soldier in jeopardy, the Leviathan Pirates attack her home, and she’s framed for murder.Hunted, betrayed, and reviled by her own people, Kea comes face to face with the source of her nightmares – the Phoenix Ruby. It is a curse far greater than she could have imagined, one that would leave the whole of Roanfire in ashes—and her, dead, if she does not resist.***With high-stakes action, cunning pirates, forbidden attraction, and a truly ruthless villain, The Phoenix Host is an unforgettable tale of heroism, love, and self-sacrifice. The Phoenix Host is the first story of The Roanfire Saga, a Young Adult fantasy novel meant for anyone 12 and up!

A. D. Miller’s first installment of his autobiography was Ticket to Exile which recounts Miller’s coming-of-age in Depression-era Orangeburg, South Carolina. In it Miller reconstructs the sights, sounds, and social complexities of the pre-civil rights South, and his youth as a closet rebel who successfully evaded the worst strictures of a racially segregated small town. When Fall Rising begins, A. D. is nineteen and has just been exiled from Orangeburg, South Carolina for the “crime” of writing a white girl a seven word note: I would like to know you better. For this, he was arrested by two armed policemen, interrogated, charged with “attempted rape,” jailed, and released only on condition that he leave town. We pick him up as he leaves the train at Rockville Centre Station, Long Island, N.Y. where he has come to re-start his life.This book is both a personal story of sorrow, confusion and ultimate triumph and of a people’s ongoing saga from slavery and segregation to civil rights and the hope for a future in which they can equally share. Fall Rising follows A. D. through his life as he gets his first job, joins the Navy, heads off to Officer’s training and then to various colleges in Washington State, Nebraska , Colorado and UC Berkeley. He settles in Berkeley, California, marries a white woman (though they have to travel to Washington State where interracial marriage is legal to be married), has three children and tries to navigate the racist culture in which he finds himself. Even in the San Francisco Bay Area, jobs for which an African American man with a Master’s degree are trained are nearly impossible to get. He ends up doing menial labor once again. As he finds his way through his life, he refuses to stay within the boxes that the culture pushes him to stay inside. He forges a way, often fraught with hardship, to simply live as a free person in this country. All the while he carries with him the secret of his exile which he can speak about to no one but which colors everything he does. Finally, after much travail and many years lived finding ways around road blocks, he becomes a college teacher and after that, a much-acclaimed poet and writer, editor/publisher, theater producer and director, production coordinator, a director Near the end of Fall Rising, A. D writes: “I see now the terrible thing it was to live my life constantly in a defensive mode, or a mode of attack, never for a single moment to be able to breathe easy.” And that is, too, the terrible realization of his reader. Having lived fully and richly to the age of 92, Miller is an inspiration to generations of black folk as he shows how, with the help of community, he made a way out of no way.

After a brutal attack by another Mystic, Abby leaves the Mystic Dancers in favor of focusing solely on life with the Wielders. New friendships are formed and old ones are tested as Abby goes through her third year at Wielders Academy of Magical Arts.The acceptance Abby has fought hard for is threatened when hidden secrets are revealed and lives are threatened. When unexpected news invites Abby back to the world of the Mystics, she discovers she won't be going alone.

How far would you go to be free—to make your own choices without being subjected to punishment for doing what you felt was right? Could you kill for it? After being abandoned by her father as a child, Aster spent ten years of her life as a servant for the leader’s House in the broken city of New Bethel. She’d known, even as a child, that the cities of her world were corrupt places with human monsters—assassins—running rampant between their high walls. Thinking everything will remain the same as it always has there, Aster is startled to discover that one day . . . the cycle breaks. As a young new leader takes a strange and—at times—horrifying interest in her, will she be capable of discovering the reasons behind his actions and orders? In a world where nothing is as it seems and all things are never anywhere near as simple as they appear at first glance, will she be capable of making the distinction between what is real and what is not? Will she find anyone at all she can trust? More importantly . . . Does she have the strength to do what is necessary to survive in a world filled with evil?

Somewhere...only NFAR away, is the rest and best of the me I wish to be.Blakely Murso has dreamed of doing so much.She loves to imagine herself as someone else,doing all the fun things she never tries.When her family moves to Cool, California,Blakely hopes to fit in. But she doesn't.Emma Parsons becomes her new best friend.Ethan Reins shows her all about Star Parties.Then Zoey Appledoke and Aaron Wyatt show up.Their energy and enthusiasm are infectious.Blakely finds herself changingas her life takes a fateful spin down an alternate path.Growing up and being true to one's selfcan be difficult and confusing.Finding yourself can be the hardest part.Meanwhile, the whole universe is trying to show you how.For Blakely Murso, finding her real self, surprisingly,is only NFAR away.The Girl From An Alternate NFAR Universeis about the fun, the mystery, the wild and wacky,cosmic ways of becoming truly yourself.Whether you live in Cool, California,Main Street Anywhere, or the suburbs of Shangri-la,the journey of Blakely Mursothrough alternate space and timeproves just how close we all areto all the marvelous NFAR parts of ourselves.