Sam Cromartie – författare

Seventeen-year-old Valentina Kovalova considers her Romanov blood to be a blessing until Bolsheviks kidnap her. Their leader becomes her lover and helps her to go home. He returns to his rebels without knowing she is pregnant.Her father shuns her, his cousin Tsar Nicholas abdicates, and Valentina delivers twin sons in the midst of war and revolution. Bolsheviks kills her parents and two sisters.Valentina flees to Germany with her infant son, leaving behind his twin brother whom she believes is dead.She inherits the extensive estate of her aunt and marries a handsome man from a prominent family. He becomes a confidant of Adolf Hitler.Her husband thinks the Fhrer will restore Germany to her rightful glory. Valentina recognizes him for the madman he is. At great risk to herself, she refuses to support him and hides a Jewish girl in her home.

Valentina Kovalova, a cousin to Tsar Nicholas, fled Russia in 1917 after Bolsheviks slaughtered her family. She took her infant son to Germany but left his twin brother whom she thought was dead. She married a man who became a close confidant and friend of Hitler.As WWII commences, her husband commands a U-boat, and her sons fight on opposite sides. She moves in the inner circle of Nazi society while hiding Jews and occasional Allied soldiers in her home until Himmler discovers her involvement in the resistance.

Heinrich Himmler sent Valentina Schneider to a concentration camp for helping Jews and Allied soldiers to escape from Germany during WWII. Her sons and their father, Ivan, rescued her in the last month of the war.In this final book of the Romanov Legacy trilogy, Valentina returns to her home in Munich. Her sons go to Soviet territory to find their girlfriends, but the Soviets arrest both men. Ivan goes back to Moscow to free them.Valentina had attended many parties with Hitlers leadership, and rumors abounded that she had been Himmlers mistress. She owned a lens factory near Munich. Nazi administrators brought slave labor to the factory while she was in the death camp. Allied prosecutors believe she was responsible and charge her with war crimes. They incarcerate her with Goering and the Nazi leadership who await trial at Nuremberg.

Thoracic surgeon Jack Connor rushes to the emergency room in Fairfax County, Virginia, for a former army buddy, Sid McCloud, who has been shot in the chest. Jack takes him to surgery and saves his life, but someone tries again to kill Sid the next morning. Sid tells Jack about a terrorist plot to assassinate the president.Soon the terrorists succeed in killing Sid, and they frame Jack for the murder. Jack must hide from the police, the FBI, and the terrorists as he tries to clear his name and to save the president.Only Sids ex-wife, who was once a close friend, believes Jack. She helps him to hide and to search for the killers.

Dr. Bill Stuart has spent his life trying to find a cure for the aging process. In his seventh decade, he develops a drug that reverses aging in rats but gives them cancer. When his partner injects himself, it kills him. The police accuse Bill of causing his friends death. He injects himself in an attempt at suicide. Instead of dying, he suffers agonizing pain and collapses.He awakes two weeks later in the hospital burn unit. His body has gone through a metamorphosis, and he appears to be a young man. No one knows who he is, and he cannot divulge his identity because the police want to arrest him regarding the death of his partner. He flees from the police and from brutal men who know who he is and want to steal the formula of the drug.

Jeb Grant studies for the final exam that determines if he graduates from Duke University School of Law. He receives a frantic phone call from Cristina, his ex-girlfriend whose grave he cried over eight years ago. He suspects a hoax but rushes to meet her.Angie Laudicino (a.k.a. Cristina DAlimonte, a.k.a. Marie Baldini, a.k.a. Elaine Russo) flees for her life from mobsters who want to use her as collateral in their war with her father, the leader of the mob in Miami. She needs to find a place to hide, but first, she must warn Jeb that the assassins are coming for him.