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He never wanted to hunt. Now he’s fighting to survive. Sixteen year old Jim, who doesn’t like hunting, is forced by his stepfather, Max, to hunt deer in Idaho. While there, nuclear weapons detonate high in the atmosphere, causing an immense EMP. Their car and phones are dead. Jim wants to get back home to his mother and young sister, with or without Max. They have 250 miles to travel, little food, and it is late summer. Gangs start stealing food and shooting people who protest. Max falls victim. Jim rescues a young woman from another gang. Can they escape and make it home?

Even war doesn’t stop a father. While on a leisure outing on a small sailboat, Scott and his young teen daughter, Adara, encounter a fleet of invading ships. They instinctively attempt to escape out to sea. The invaders shut down all computers and phones on the west coast of America and prepare to land occupying troops. The ensuing chaos tests the father-daughter relationship already strained by Scott’s recent divorce. They must learn to work together. However, he has little sailing experience and it is Adara’s first trip.

A heavy equipment operator discovers an artificial cave while cutting blocks from a limestone quarry. He plans to investigate alone, but an archaeology student bullies him into letting her join his underground foray. The two declare an uneasy truce when an ancient installation that predates humans unexpectedly sends them through a wormhole to another planet—one with creatures from Earth’s past.

When History Explodes, Can Time Be Rewritten? An atomic bomb explodes, shifting a pair of young men through time between 1945 and 2017. Davey, in his future, tries to decipher his past and determine why the shift occurred. Joshua, in his past, arrives just before the Hiroshima bombing where his grandparents died in Japan. Two stories on parallel but different time tracks, each with puzzles to solve and a chance to save the lives of family members.

Special DNA brings special abilities. A DNA test revealing that John Lamastus has forty-eight chromosomes catapults him into a shadow world that is the playground of obsessive power brokers from multiple planets. Panicked by armed pursuers, John unwittingly jumps to a parallel world, while dragging along a female college classmate. They try to survive as they seek to understand the mysterious shift and determine why he was orphaned as a baby.

From Wedding Vows to Wilderness Widow As a young bride, Mabel and her husband travel west in a covered wagon, planning to share their Christian beliefs with everyone they meet. A few short years later, now a new widow living in a remote location, Mabel has only a dog, a cow, and a mule. Her dying husband told her that God said for her to leave their small cabin and follow the mule. She does what he asks and soon finds three young orphan girls living alone in an even more remote cabin. Mabel calls on every ounce of her courage and faith just to stay alive. What will the coming year bring?

Humans aren’t the only pariah species in the galaxy. Powerful alien races take interest in Earth after ignoring it for thousands of years. They want the planet, but not the people, and they merely watch while another alien species sets humans against humans with the goal of genocide. Caiden and Harmony collect a few alien and human friends to help them stymie the planned conquest. Will they overcome betrayal and unforeseen challenges to save Earth, or become pawns in a cosmic game?

Pacifistic aliens are looking for a few good men. No alien has the skills to visit uninhabited worlds dropping out of the interstellar transport system. Nefarious plans to draft a few humans with exceptional survival abilities focus on colonists who travel to Roanoke Island. Join George, a teenage orphan from 1587 London, as he becomes an unlikely hero in a cosmic quest. If he lives through the next few months, George may be key to helping solve the problem.

Absentee alien landlords intend to eliminate humans and occupy Earth. No government acknowledges the existence of extraterrestrials, yet supposedly extinct animals rampage across four continents because the landlords want the planet without the people. Meanwhile, human and alien criminals vie for control of human society. A few friendly aliens help Harmony and Caiden develop plans to counter the threats. Resistance is likely futile.

Trust is rare. Secrets are deadly. Choose your side. Azalea’s ability to handle a difficult home life catches the attention of the secret resistance group headed by Harmony and Caiden Cantrell. After high school graduation, an intense altercation with her mother induces Azalea to join Harmony’s team. They soon uncover dark family secrets caused by the manipulations of a malevolent race of ancient aliens. Azalea is left questioning every aspect of her life. Has she joined the right group? Can she trust anyone?

Nobody wins a nuclear war. The few people who survived for twelve years in an isolated underground shelter are running out of food, power, and supplies. Adult bullies target seventeen-year-old Galina, and her younger brother. They seek a way out, hoping to reach the surface. Traversing a collapsed access tunnel without any tools is just the first problem, and it maroons their mother underground where water is seeping in. Is continuing worse or better? Success with either option is unlikely.

Graffiti, computer glitches, and a growing body count. Preeminent investigator Ivan Oswald works for the alien Abantu. Several small problems, including graffiti painted on a vehicle and a glitch in a traffic control computer that causes a two-vehicle accident, are the harbingers of world-shaking threats. Body bags pile up as Ivan races to unravel obscure clues and find a way to outflank an ancient nemesis before he asserts control over the entire planet.

Ancient evil magical beings slip through old defenses. Orphaned at age sixteen, Reuben discovers that groups of magicians, not all human, hide behind the official position that magic doesn’t exist. Some extend a hand, paw or foot in friendship and others send skilled assassins. Reuben’s blossoming magical powers are sufficient to protect his younger sister and a close friend, until ancient evil intrudes. Will he mature quickly enough to survive?

The King denies magic. The mountains whisper truths. Reuben’s survival depends on which he believes. Officially, magic doesn’t exit in the Kingdom of Mitanni, but magic runs in Reuben’s family. They live in a remote mountain valley to hide from the King’s Hunters. After his parent’s death, sixteen-year-old Reuben struggles to find a safe place for his younger sister to live. However, the Hunters aren’t their only foes, and even the Hunters avoid the ancient evil ones. Can Reuben keep his sister safe? Will they survive in a world turned ravenous?

We just think we are alone. Rhona Lantier, a young successful dentist, sometimes struggles with boredom. A long weekend hiking in Glacier National Park with her new boyfriend Keene promises some excitement, but a chance encounter with a stranger while there causes events to spiral out of control. A few weeks later, unknown assailants kidnap Keene. Boredom vanishes as Rhona conducts a dogged search for Keene that leads her across several states with dental tools in hand. Will she find him alive or will she be the next victim of otherworldly assailants?

Some contracts can’t be changed by time. Rhona Lantier is a successful dentist on the short side of thirty whose talents far exceed those needed to clean and restore teeth. She has just returned home after an extended and successful search for her kidnapped boyfriend when events inexorably sweep her into a new role with the alien Abantu. Her wide smile falters a few times as the world changes immeasurably around her over the next two weeks.

Chaos erupts when every woman becomes sterile. Caiden and Harmony quietly return to Earth to find widespread turmoil, and worse, an active genocidal plan to eliminate humans by preventing births. No one knows how it was done, but all women are sterile. Humans will become extinct unless a cure is developed—and humans don’t have the necessary skills.

Humanity’s future depends on two people banished to an exile world. Caiden and Harmony accidentally traveled through an ancient wormhole installation to another planet. They learn about the rough realities of galactic politics when they are banished to an exile world with a voracious ecosystem. Lifespans are measured in hours. Even if they survive, how can they get home in time to save the rest of humanity?

Jetmore holds the key to tomorrow. Some will kill to keep it buried. Rhona Lantier, the new ambassador between humans and the human-like Abantu, soon learns that political fighting can be as dirty as open warfare. Even though the American president is supportive of her efforts, some of his subordinates will do almost anything to steal the alien technology buried near the small town of Jetmore, Kansas. Old animosities flare up and Rhona is once again fighting for her life.

Survival requires using magic, but it can be deadly. Defenses that have protected humans from magical creatures for 2,000 years are failing and no one has the magical skills to repair them. Orphaned at age sixteen, Reuben bonds with three other orphan with latent magical powers. Opponents, some incredibly old, learn of Reuben’s magical potential and attack the youngsters. Can Reuben and his friends adapt quickly enough to survive and protect all of mankind?