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The brainchild of 48-year-old Harvard Medical School graduate, Clyde Daniel, WAND, a revolutionary new medical tool, is going to move the profession of medicine out of the dark ages and into something that closely resembles science fiction. That is, unless the pharmaceutical industry, which stands to lose billions of dollars in lost drug revenues, can intervene with its hired assassins and destroy the technology and its team of creators before it ever has a chance to see the light of day.

In Children of the Coming World, plant workers arrive one morning to the utterly bizarre sight of some form of cocoon, big as a bus, bonded to one of the huge towers. They quickly realize there's more than one...and what's inside them is coming out all too soon. Then in Mars One we find out just how much humanity's eager reach may be exceeding its grasp when "space boredom" drives one astronaut to what should have been a mere harmless prank....

After being out of the life of espionage of the Cold War, Dean is thrown back into the world that he got out of after 30 years to only discover that the lines of betrayal and loyalty get crossed. His only goal is to set the unfinished business to business that is finished by any mean necessary, even if it means he has to use his specialty craft of being the chemist. As he travels across continents to set things straight, he discovers a whole new meaning to family.

Rita Daveed, an ex Israeli intelligence officer, becomes the business manager and partner of a Hindu mystic, Baba Bhang, who promotes his somewhat corrupted interpretation of the ancient philosophy of Charvaka: a pursuit of pleasure based on the notion that there are no Gods or afterlife. When Rita and Baba open their American ashram in California wine country, they find themselves in a real estate conflict with the local winery owners and their industrial backers.

An eerie tale of the American Civil War, and the uncanny evil being who called himself Persil Mandifer, and his lovely daughter, Enid, a tale of dark powers and weird happenings. The year is 1862, the place the Deep South. Enid Mandifer has been sent hypnotized by her stepfather, Persil Mandifer, to be a sacrifice to the Nameless One, a demonic presence who haunts an ancient house under the shadow of a natural pillar called Fearful Rock.

On the surface Major William Stone (Retired) is merely a rich English expatriate with now living in Palermo, Argentina, where he runs a small art gallery along with his assistant Margarita Cervantes. If you scratch the surface, you'll find that Stone was recently the chauffeur for the heiress to the Murphy Peanut Butter Company, the largest peanut butter manufacturer in the USA, and owner of numerous expensive thoroughbred racehorses. The problem is, Stone died in the Falkland Islands and the man now assuming his modified identity is disgraced MI6 financial wizard Jacob Conrad.

New Orleans, 1953. Eight-year-old Delphine Larouche only cares about three things: saving her stray puppy “Bandit”, ignoring the voices from the bayou, and understanding her father’s growing illness. As the voices in the bayou grow louder, and her father’s sickness becomes more severe, her mother is forced to call Miss Sabine Duroche-Laveau, a Voudou practitioner, who will cleanse him of his demons. But little does anyone know, the thing that has haunted her father’s mind for so many years has been trying to escape.

An ancient evil. A plague of horrible deaths. A monster in the making… The city of New Orleans has never been kind. And no one knows this better than Del who only wants a normal life, to be a newspaper reporter. But being blessed, or cursed, with unwieldy supernatural power, dark things are drawn to her. And her life will never be normal.