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While big game hunting in Africa, Victoria discovers her powerful and savage past and remembers her soul mate from 1000 generations ago. Her alter ego or avatar of that life - the cave girl - "moves in" so to speak. Refusing to accept that true love dies she begins the search for her lost love, and finds the modern world may hold as many dangers as her stone-age life That's OK because she vividly recalls that primitive life when there was no such thing as "have a bad day" because they were all bad. Life was a continuous grueling struggle to survive. That new attitude comes in handy. Whether it's the indwelling avatar that attracts them or something else, Vic runs into bad guys and monsters everywhere she travels.

In this first installment of the series The Incredible Adventures of Vic Challenger, Vic is attacked by the wildlife, battles heartless slavers, and meets her first hungry cryptid. One lesson learned: you don't need to be brave, you just need to do what needs done - which becomes Vic's motto.

Vic: Mongol, is the 2nd book in the series The Incredible Adventures of Vic Challenger

On the second trip of her quest to find her soul mate, the reincarnated cave girl visits Outer Mongolia. En-route, she and friend Lin Li team up with a young lady detective and become embroiled in a murder case that leaves port with them.

In Mongolia, they learn to play shagai games with their guide's 7-year-olds and consistently lose. Unfortunately, the trip is not all fun and games. They must deal with hordes of olgoi-khorkhoi, Chinese Red Beards, White Russians, hungry wolves, a lost species of human, sub-zero weather, and a wind storm. One lesson learned: not everyone who first looks like a bad guy is a bad guy.

"The Incredible Adventures of Vic Challenger" series is inspired by writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells; and by characters like Nancy Drew, Lara Croft, Alan Quatermain, Doc Savage and his cousin Patricia Savage, and Dick Benson and his assistant Nellie Gray. The writing style has been compared to Burroughs and is also reminiscent of early action-driven horror novels by Graham Masterton. The series is set in the 1920s and considerable research adds to the "realism" You will find yourself effortlessly learning bits of history, some of which may amaze you. Vic's travels are woven into the history of the time, you may be asking yourself "Is this real?"