Linda Boltman: 9 books

While excavating a new business site, heavy equipment operator Doug Stone scrapes a strange object with his earth moving bucket. Dr. Alicia Evans from the University is called in and discovers that this extraordinary box has a mysterious and nefarious history. Staying late that night to lock up, Doug...

Trying to recreate a family tradition when my Grandpa Shorty took me with him to cut down and carry home the family Christmas tree, proved more difficult than I thought. Each year my children and I would traipse out to our local tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree, deck it with ribbons and bows...

Otis is a tough old bird. A product of an abusive father and a mother who never provided any love or affection, he’s grown up a loner. Circumstances have placed him in difficult situations, even as a child. As a result, he’s become a hard. crusty old man, characteristics that has served him well...

Is your day full of constant interruptions, lunch hour is the only available time to read, you’re on a cross-country flight and bored, the kids are down for a nap, or you have some time while the laundry’s in the dryer? Flash and Dash is the answer. These eight, unique, short stories and flash...

The advertisement simply stated, “Wanted – valet for large household. Must love animals.” Desperate for a job, Edwin Thorpe responded and was immediately accepted. A train ticket arrived within a week for the evening departure to Darkshire the following Friday. There were no further instructions....

There’s no way a woman from a small farm town in northern Illinois can be prepared when her future mother-in-law spits chew into a Campbell’s soup can. But when the boyfriend invited her to join him in the hills of Georgia for a family reunion, chewing tobacco was only the start of many surprises....

The night began with an innocent drive to Lover's Leap, but ended with a young, college woman trapped in the wreckage of a car in a remote area with her dead fiance at her side. Her legs caught in the tangled metal, she is bleeding and growing weaker, aware that no one is searching for her. The next...

After the world is shattered by two life-changing events, civilization is divided into two major factions. When a charismatic leader organizes an attack on Gray Tower with promises that everything the Darklings desire is within those walls, four young people must journey into the dangerous world of...

When a young computer genius out of the small town of Elroy, Wisconsin discovers a way to modify data from the Human Genome Project to create the perfect DNA, a double agent whose allegiance has always gone to the highest bidder is lured out of semi-retirement by the opportunity of a lifetime. Now...