THE TROUBLE WITH MIRACLES
Stephen Steele
The Trouble with Miracles is a 3-book adventure thriller series about miraculous discoveries that can solve the world’s problems—or just as easily cause more needless death and destruction; about the unintended consequences of unexpected wonders.
Three things are on almost everyone’s mind today: the high cost of prescription drugs, the high cost of good medical care, and the effects of fossil fuel on the environment vs. the high cost of gas and utilities. The three books in The Trouble with Miracles series address each of these issues in turn and offers dynamic solutions—along with the disastrous consequences of radical change in the wrong hands.
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Book I
THE CANNASTAR FACTOR
An inexpensive, organically grown cure
for viral diseases is discovered.
Big Pharma will kill to stop it.
Alex Farmer, M.D. is a former drug addict trying to put his tortured life behind him. Cyd Seeley is a botanist and rancher in dire financial straits. The two are thrown together when a mutual friend is murdered after developing an inexpensive, organically grown cure for viral diseases that threatens to put Big Pharma out of business.
The miracle plant is called Cannastar and it cures all manner of viruses from Coronavirus and cancer, to HIV and herpes. Big Pharma will stop at nothing to keep it off the market.
Cyd and Alex fight to grow Cannastar and bring it to a desperate world in a harrowing journey that ranges from the Rocky Mountain wilderness, to the political corruption of Washington D.C., to the jungles of Mexico, to the deserts of the Southwest.
Filled with mystery and suspense, The Cannastar Factor is part adventure and part love story; a timely thriller that unfolds with a cast of unforgettable characters; an epic novel about the resolute passions of two people who stand against a broken world.
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Book II
THE ORGAN GRINDER FACTOR
A 3-D printer that replaces human organs
without the need for surgery.
Even miracles can kill.
Based on true events, The Organ Grinder Factor is a timely thriller that ranges from the real-world horrors of child slavery in Africa to today’s turmoil in the Middle East.
In desperate search of a place to safely grow their miracle cure for viruses called Cannastar, Cyd and Alex shipwreck off the west coast of Africa and wash ashore in the drug and war-torn nation of Guinea-Bissau. Fleeing for their lives, the arrive in Senegal where they become involved in the country’s real-life child slavery problem and barely avoid execution.
They find refuge in Israel where they meet the inventor of the Organ Grinder, a 3-D printer that replaces damaged organs without surgery. The experimental research is funded by Ambrose Kilgore, a ruthless billionaire with a violent and secret past. Kilgore becomes Cyd and Alex’s investor in a vast new Cannastar plantation — with dire consequences.
While living in Israel, Cyd is badly injured in a rocket attack. Her only chance of survival is the Organ Grinder—which has never been tested on a human being. Meanwhile, Alex is taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists and spends weeks living in fear not knowing if Cyd is alive or dead.
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Book III
THE TROUBLE WITH MIRACLES
The ancient secret of fusion energy
is rediscovered in a breathless thriller
about the magic and mystery of the
Easter Island statues.
Cyd and Alex return to Montana to settle down and lead a quiet life. Robert, a close friend working in Chile, turns up missing after recent earthquakes trigger strange lights coming from a volcano. Robert’s father persuades Cyd and Alex to go looking for him.
A harrowing adventure follows that uncovers a civilization of ancient aliens who possessed the secret to fusion energy, the same energy that powers the sun. An object is found in a lost city that explains the technology, but it is unreadable.
The Chinese, mining lithium for electric car batteries in Chile’s northern desert, learn that one of their geologists, Robert, has discovered an object that explains how fusion energy works, and how to recreate it here on earth.
Meanwhile, Bahamian treasure hunters Sam Sorini and Nikki Perez recover a journal from a sunken 18th century Spanish galleon that reveals there is something hidden on an island off Chile’s coast that can translate the alien object.
Desperate to get their hands on technology they can use to rule the world, the Chinese pursue Cyd, Alex, Sam and Nikki to Easter Island where the secrets of the past could save the future, or destroy it. Filled with page-turning suspense, The Trouble with Miracles is an adventure thriller about the magic and mystery of the Easter Island statues.
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About Stephen Steele:
Stephen Steele is a graduate of the University of North Texas with degrees in English literature and marketing. An avid sailor, swimmer and mountain biker, the author worked as a salesman, syndicator of television sports shows, builder and developer, ski instructor and cowboy.
He lives in an 1800’s Victorian home with his ruthless editor Beverly, a fly rod and Montana’s streams and rivers of ice and snow.
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