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Meet Kat
Meet Jerry
To be a Retriever means living a life constantly on edge, and when you’re carrying a Discovery you’re in danger every minute until you deliver your find to the authorities on Earth.
Kat is a Retriever, and she’s one of the best.
She’s comfortable with her solitary life, trusting no one and depending only on herself.
It’s a life that suits Kat well.
That is, until she meets Jerry.
He’s a creature of the distant past, a former titan of industry revived from a regeneration tube, a man firmly rooted in the earthbound twentieth century. He brings a unique perspective to the space-age existence, seasoned with over two centuries of life experiences.
Armed with cutting-edge technology and the sharpest minds this side of Alpha Centauri, this dynamic duo travels the galaxy, solving mysteries while dodging bad guys, befuddling their adversaries and entertaining their friends.

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All books are available for download to Kindle and other devices. Print versions include:
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retrievers book by j.m. holmes

Retrievers: A Space Adventure Anthology

A collection of four popular tales of Holmes’ resourceful adventurers, Jerry and Kat.

Bonnie & Clyde.
Steed & Mrs. Peel.
Han & Leia.


Kat & Jerry.


From the moment Kat meets Jerry, with her hands tied above her head as an assassin moves to kill her, another one of the galaxy’s great love stories is born.


This volume features Jerry and Kat in four of their most popular adventures, starting with their sudden meeting while fighting for their lives, and then following them across the galaxy as they match wits with murderous competitors, kidnappers, and smugglers.

Praised for their inventive plots and exciting episodes, these compelling stories mix action and suspense with playful banter between the two heroes as their blossoming romance develops.

It all adds up to create the perfect blend of science fiction suspense, mystery, action and humour, featuring two of the most likeable characters to emerge in many years.
ice ice book by j.m. holmes

Ice, Ice, Baby: 3 exciting sci-fi novellas in 1 volume!

Space travel, time travel, nail-biting suspense and terrific characters in an exciting blend of sci-fi, action, mystery and romance.
The ice will swallow the whole science station within days if  Vedana, Alice, and their fellow scientists can’t find out what’s causing its unstoppable growth.

In the meantime, they’re slowly being roasted to death by a malfunctioning life support system aboard their ship. If they don’t restore the environmental controls they will be forced to evacuate to the planet’s frozen surface.

And while they fight to avoid being frozen or cooked, a murderous saboteur bent on destroying their mission is killing them off one by one.

This thrilling scifi tale of two brilliant heroines leading their comrades in a life-and-death struggle will engage you from the very first page and leave you hungry for more.

The bonus novella Prodigy is a tale of preternatural suspense that follows a pair of parapsychologists as they are slowly drawn down into a rabbit’s hole of psychic perception, unwitting pawns in a nefarious plot woven by their mysterious employer.

Finishing up this hat-trick of captivating novellas is Time Trial, a fascinating foray into a paradoxical world of multiple time jumps, in which the main character ends up working alongside countless past and future versions of himself to complete a complicated project requiring hundreds of workers – all of whose duties he alone must perform.

With nail-biting suspense and terrific characters, this volume of three engrossing tales is guaranteed to satisfy any reader looking for an entertaining blend of science fiction, action, mystery and romance.
they left me book by j.m. holmes

They Left Me For DEAD : a tightly-wound tale of passion, murder, and greed.

I’m a civilised man, and I follow the rules.
But the rules change when someone tries to kill you.
When they left me in that ditch they thought they’d seen the last of me.
They should have checked their work.

This hardboiled noir crime novel, set in the arid West Texas scrublands, dives deep into dark, dangerous places populated by a host of seedy and corrupt characters.

Featuring a new breed of frontier hero drawn into a tangled web of murder, corruption, and betrayal, the novel’s earthy realism and harsh reality explore the dark underbelly of a corrupt world.

Whether fighting to avoid the hordes of Assassin Bugs that have colonized the region, or working to stay one step ahead of drug-dealers, Mafia hitmen and Mexican cartels, our hero is finding life in this sleepy area of the southern US isn’t quite as peaceful as appearances suggest.

They Left Me for Dead will draw you in and soon have you sweating along with its hero in the hot, dry Texas Chaparral.