This collection of E. W. Farnsworth's exciting stories features strong women of character who are brilliant, committed and successful, but not your familiar, comfortable, pliable stereotypes. For example: Mitzi Rainor is a solo private investigator of biowar crimes in 1950 San Francisco; Linda Dale, the updated Flame Girl, subverts an ingenious arson plot in Ukraine in league with a special group at the CIA; Reanna the Red, a teen-age Viking warrior maiden, finds her way as a single adventuress in the deceitful world of the turn of the first millennium; Sylvia Blackwood, a twelve-year-old prodigy, uses her role as editor of her school paper to solve mysteries in her backyard as a prelude to becoming archivist of the Boston Globe newspaper and sidekick of John Fulghum, PI; Officer Bekkah Roundel of the Phoenix police department engages a SEAL Team to combat the second invasion of a race of monsters threatening Arizona.These stories and situations may at first seem incredible, but Farnsworth has based each of his female characters on a real-life heroine, and the situations are taken from the subtexts of history. The author says, "These stories, meant to be savored as thrilling examples for young, independent-minded women and the strong young men worthy of knowing them, can be read individually or as a long, one-night binge, with pleasure."