Laurence E. Dahners Books in Order

In a prehistoric community, a neglected boy discovers how to set broken bones and develops other useful skills. His inventions gradually win respect, changing his place in the tribe and opening possibilities he once thought beyond reach.

A mutation gives shy mathematics prodigy Ell Donsaii extraordinary speed and intelligence. When a terrorist plot threatens the Olympics, she must use those abilities to outwit killers while her scientific insights open startling possibilities.

Ell Donsaii's wormhole technology opens new possibilities for exploring space, but a comet is heading toward Earth. Facing an impact capable of ending civilization, she and her team must turn their discoveries toward planetary survival.

Returning to military service, Ell Donsaii continues her quantum research while resisting attempts to kidnap her. When China destroys American satellites, her communication technology could help avert disaster, if she can persuade military leaders to use it.

Ell Donsaii investigates how tiny wormholes could transform spaceflight by supplying rockets with fuel remotely. When the space station faces a resupply crisis, her team races to turn a promising idea into a working rescue technology.

At graduate school, Ell Donsaii develops quantum theories that could revolutionize communication. Her discoveries attract industrial spies, foreign interests, and jealous physicists, forcing the shy prodigy to defend herself and the work they want to seize.

A probe sent through Ell Donsaii's wormhole technology discovers intelligent winged beings on a distant planet. As she observes and tries to help them, fame complicates her own relationships and makes trusting a boyfriend increasingly difficult.

Ell Donsaii explores new uses for her wormholes while a remote device investigates an alien ringworld and its remarkable carbon technology. Back on Earth, a champion sprinter challenges her extraordinary speed, drawing her into another public contest.

Ell Donsaii's inventions cause economic and political upheaval, bringing a hostile president to power. Imprisoned to force disclosure of a dangerously destructive technology, Ell must decide how to resist without surrendering its secret.

After a friend loses a hand, Ell Donsaii uses her portal technology to develop better prosthetics. Meanwhile, her company pursues space habitats as terrorists and foreign militaries seek access to inventions that could become devastating weapons.

After losing his research job, scientifically gifted Vaz Gettnor discovers a workable form of cold fusion. His family doubts the breakthrough could solve their financial problems, while people who recognize its value begin plotting to steal it.

A comet strike threatens Ell Donsaii's alien friends on Tau Ceti while an injured colleague on Mars urgently needs surgery. Saving both forces her to weigh the possibilities and dangers of her portal technology.

A survivalist attack leaves President Stockton's life potentially dependent on Ell Donsaii, the woman she has persecuted. Meanwhile, Ell's associates pursue restored vision for a blind child and ambitious plans to colonize Mars.

In a civilization reduced to iron and horsepower, Tarc Hyllis develops psychic abilities that could transform his family's healing work. When strangers threaten to seize their town, those same powers may be essential to defending it.

As Daussie Hyllis discovers she can teleport small objects, her family finds new ways to heal. Forced to leave their home, they must also learn whether their unusual talents can protect them on dangerous roads.

Unable to capture Ell Donsaii, President Stockton orders her friends imprisoned to gain control of her dangerous technology. Ell must protect its secrets while using her own inventions to rescue the people being held against her.

Tiona and Dante hope licensing their father’s revolutionary thrusters will fund a private space program. Negotiating with skeptical corporations proves difficult, but the stakes rise dramatically when North Korea kidnaps Vaz and Tiona to seize the technology.

The Hyllis family enters a kingdom where healing is forbidden, but Eva cannot refuse desperate patients. Her defiance brings imprisonment and enslavement, leaving her gifted children to find a way to free her.

Six stories explore unusual talents, space travel, family secrets, and the disappointments of time travel. Characters include a girl who opens portals but wants to play guitar, and people facing the unexpected consequences of technological possibilities.

Physics student Tiona’s puzzling experiments draw her brilliant father into developing a revolutionary propulsion system. Their garage-built spacecraft promises extraordinary possibilities, but its first flight attracts the attention of military authorities who see an unknown threat.

Ell Donsaii's probes discover aliens with astonishing genetic expertise, raising the question of a technology exchange. As her young son begins biological research and Mars terraforming advances, old enemies renew their efforts to abduct her.

As Gettnor Space Industries expands humanity’s reach, an alien civilization sends explorers seeking room for its overcrowded population. The visitors consider exterminating humanity, leaving Earth dependent on technological advantages its vastly more experienced opponents have overlooked.

Roni discovers that her talent for hiding is a telepathic ability to make people overlook her. Facing prejudice at school and mob extortion against her family, she begins to consider whether her power could challenge the criminals controlling her town.

Now a young man, the gifted bonesetter develops tools and techniques that improve life for his growing tribe. As he works to rescue his former community from starvation, he remains determined to help even people who once mistreated him.

Young genetics prodigy Zage pursues research into viruses while a terrorist scientist develops a more dangerous form of smallpox. His work may offer a way to stop the threat, if he can get help delivering a vaccine.

Myr Sevii discovers a field that could make fusion energy possible and trigger other technological revolutions. As she and her colleagues explore its potential, outsiders determined to control the discoveries prove willing to kill for them.

Myr Sevii explores how her discovery could provide propulsion without conventional engines. A friend's brother is captured abroad, and her own brother suffers heart failure, challenging her to turn experimental technology into urgently needed solutions.

Reluctant tribal leader Pell continues inventing tools and techniques that could improve life in his prehistoric community. After mating with Gia, he joins her on a river journey to search for missing members of her former tribe.

Ell Donsaii begins the immense task of terraforming Mars while Zage explores genetics and Alzheimer's disease. Their work faces a different danger when a man claiming ownership of an asteroid targets Ell's company with murderous intent.

Roni’s brother Hax develops extraordinary coordination, bringing success in sports and unsettling skill with a gun. When organized crime regains strength in their hometown, the siblings combine their unusual abilities to protect their communities.

After his estranged brother is murdered carrying a valuable piece of platinum, Morgan becomes guardian to his children. His niece knows the secret behind the metal, and the killers remain determined to obtain it.

A gifted mathematician and a business student discover how to stop time within small regions, creating an apparently indestructible material. Their plans to transform space travel attract a dangerous man determined to control the enterprise.

A plague strikes Clancy Vail, forcing the Hyllis healers to apply knowledge preserved in ancient books. Meanwhile, Tarc travels to their former hometown to recover money owed, encountering dangerous rulers and enemies along the way.

The Hyllis family discovers more ways to treat illness using telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy. Working with skilled local chemists offers the possibility of antibiotics, bringing Eva closer to her dream of practicing and teaching medicine full time.

Learning that Eva's sister is dying of cancer, the Hyllis family undertakes a dangerous journey to reach her. Their expanding psychic healing abilities offer hope, but finding treatments means continuing to explore the limits of their talents.

The Hyllises discover telepathy and precognition among people close to them, opening new possibilities for healing. An undisturbed medical facility offers equipment and knowledge that could help Eva build the medical practice she has long imagined.

Kaem Seba's time-stopping technology is beginning to earn money through rocketry, but desperate patients want another application. He and his colleagues explore preserving people near death while continuing their ambitious work on a space elevator.

A nuclear meltdown gives Kaem Seba and his colleagues an urgent test for their time-frozen material. Its ability to block radiation could aid disaster containment and waste management while their broader engineering projects continue.

Kaem and Arya try to commercialize their extraordinary time-frozen material for rocket engines while a rival challenges their patent. When Kaem's father develops cancer, saving the business becomes entangled with a deeply personal crisis.

Ell and Roger finally make transporting people practical, opening possibilities far beyond travel. Encountering debt slavery drives them to intervene, while her grandmother's decline forces a painful choice about an unproven Alzheimer's treatment.

Kaem Seba's company builds a towering launch structure that could make reaching orbit dramatically cheaper. As the system nears reality, its potential attracts global interest, including people whose motives threaten the promise of the invention.

Kaem Seba's company works with NASA to expand human activity throughout the solar system using stasis technology. Unbeknownst to them, aliens seeking a new home are approaching and regard humanity as an obstacle to eliminate.

A young boy builds a flying saucer and puts his invention to use close to home. When the girl next door becomes stranded in a tree, his unusual craft offers a way to rescue her.

Space Force cadet Zaii Seba realizes that humanity's stasis advantage may not prevent an alien extermination campaign. Studying captured enemy spacecraft, she races to understand their jump technology before another attack destroys Earth's chance of survival.

High-school senior Witt Ryllin discovers he can alter his experience of time when a bully attacks him. Exploring the talent through science, he hopes to help his struggling family while navigating school, friendship, and romance.

Witt joins a band and discovers that its singer has a psychic talent of her own. When friends propose using their combined abilities to stop an invading nation's leader, music and ordinary studies become entangled with dangerous intervention.

At college, Witt meets other young people with psychic abilities and a refugee whose relatives remain in danger. Combining their talents suggests a rescue might be possible, but turning that possibility into action creates difficult new challenges.

Asked to help stop Russia's invasion of Georgia without triggering nuclear escalation, Ell Donsaii turns to engineering equipment instead of weapons. At home, she also adjusts to reunited family life and resumes long-delayed research.

While touring with their band, Witt and Allie discover that their unusual abilities may offer a way to treat her mother’s cancer. Family dangers and an escalating international conflict soon give their powers far wider consequences.

Abducted as infants and raised by a cartel boss's wife, Ell Donsaii's twin daughters face upheaval when their adoptive father is killed. Their inherited abilities may help them and their mother survive an uncertain future.

Surgeon Ryn Wilkie balances her residency with introducing modern medicine and greater freedom to a parallel Earth. Discovering another world apparently empty of humans adds possibilities and dangers while enemies continue pursuing revenge.

While advancing her surgical training and improving life on a parallel world, Ryn Wilkie faces danger closer to home. Her brother's mishandling of gifted gold attracts a ruthless gang, putting her loved ones across worlds at risk.

Delia and her younger brother Jake fall through a time tunnel into a past where their neighborhood has vanished. Encountering aliens and inexplicably strange words, they must find a way back to their own home.

An assault sends surgeon Ryn Wilkie into a parallel Earth resembling the Victorian era. Discovering she can move between worlds, she uses modern medical knowledge to challenge oppressive traditions while danger continues to follow her.

Ell Donsaii and her husband invent fields that can lift and move objects, steadily discovering new applications. When Vesuvius threatens to erupt, their latest technology may offer a way to protect people in its path.

Poor peasant boy Ky Vaux accidentally discovers that he can mend broken objects with magic. His growing gift may support his mother and sister and give them a chance to escape his abusive father.

Ky Vaux's powerful magic supports an expanding household, but he wants to become a healer and help others. When a blizzard destroys homes and bitter cold threatens the city, that ambition becomes urgently practical.

Ky Vaux faces a murderous man armed with the extraordinary sword Ky accidentally created. Meanwhile, desperate midwives seek his help, pushing him to explore whether teleportation magic can save mothers and babies during obstructed births.

Ky Vaux's ability to mend and make objects now supports his family, but prosperity alone does not satisfy him. Hoping to become a healer, he also tries to help impoverished children and victims of a cruel nobleman.