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A literary novel about psychotherapy, grief, migration memory, family silence and the fragile spaces where people try to be heard. Dr Samira Rahman is a psychotherapist in York whose life is built around careful listening. But when she learns that a former client has died unexpectedly, the quiet order of her professional world begins to shift.

Evelyn Cross has spent thirty years helping women disappear. Behind the doors of Crosswind Inn in Haven Point, she has hidden frightened wives, wounded mothers, stolen daughters, and women running from powerful men. To the town, Evelyn is guarded and mysterious. To the women she saved, she is the reason they survived. But Evelyn has never told the truth about why she started. Thirty years ago, Ruth Vale came to Evelyn’s door during a hurricane, barefoot, bleeding, and carrying secrets that could expose some of Haven Point’s most powerful families. Evelyn tried to save her.

In the atmospheric heart of South Louisiana, Evangeline "Evie" LeBlanc, Curator and Archivist for the Bayou Teche Historical Society, finds her world of folklore, oral histories, and natural history violently upended. Living in her Mémère Alysse's cabin, Evie is no stranger to ghost stories, but as the "thirteen days" countdown to All Hallows' Eve begins, she becomes the unwilling target of a real-life mystery. A meticulously unsettling secret admirer starts dispatching a series of increasingly eerie gifts, each drawn directly from the most disturbing legends within Evie's own museum archives.

She survived by hiding. Now the truth is forcing her back into the house that stole everything. Three weeks after Daniel Vale’s arrest, Haven Point is trying to breathe again. Mara Ellis is learning how to live without checking every shadow.

What if the place built to hide women was not the only secret waiting in the dark? Elise Hart has survived locked rooms, false names, and people who turned rescue into a weapon. She knows how to disappear, how to lie when the truth is dangerous, and how to read fear before anyone says a word. But she does not know who she really is. After the fall of Harbor House, Haven Point should finally be safe. Vivian Crowe is in custody. Daniel Vale is behind bars. Safe Harbor’s network of donors, judges, doctors, and stolen women is beginning to collapse. Then Elise vanishes.

Something is quietly removing people from this town. Brackenridge is the kind of place people pass through without noticing. Quiet street. Old woods at the edge of town. Nothing that should make it memorable. But people have always gone missing there. No bodies. No witnesses. No explanations. When Jesse Calder arrives in Brackenridge, he begins noticing something no one else seems able to see, subtle distortions in the air surrounding certain people. Moments later, those people disappear. At first Jesse believes it’s coincidence. Then the pattern begins to emerge.

With their children living and working on the Trans-Mars-Jupiter Observatory, their home seems empty. There is so much to be done around Valhalla that Denise and Robert have to jump between tasks until members of Valhalla’s Vernean Lunatics and their families begin arriving to help. While everyone else has taken over the tasks, it is suggested that the couple try to relax. It was then when an idea came up to entertain the children by taking them to earth for a fieldtrip to what used to be Oklahoma to visit old family homesteads and the Heavener Rune Stone.

In Northglass Crown Hall, every record appears clean. Every time is logged. Every exhibit is labelled. Every witness says only what can be proved. Dev Sayer has built his career on that discipline. A skilled defence advocate, he believes in narrow questions, careful evidence, and the quiet force of facts. When Helena Marr is charged in connection with the death of Elias Venn, a careful council clerk whose work kept vulnerable communities warm and fed, Dev sees a route through the case almost at once.

After surviving the first breach of Kharon Vale, Captain Ryder McKennick and the crew of the ICS Wayfarer Absolon discover the real horror was never left behind on the planet. It came back with them. As the ship pulls away from Kharon orbit, strange route logic begins spreading through the vessel’s architecture, infected crewmen carry dark residual traces in their lungs, and the recovered alien command teeth start learning from every decision the crew makes. Corridors become battlefields. Vent systems become hunting grounds. Machinery begins to hesitate.

After returning to Valhalla from the celebration on Mars of the marriage of Nicole MacMurchaid to Josh Stoker, everyone in Valhalla begins to work on projects which were put on hold because of the wedding. A short time after they are back they are surprised by the arrival of Atounic Gaul and Atounic Mellia from the Interstellar Council.

Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America. This wide-ranging anthology, from the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day, reflects the changing preoccupations and visions of Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, and more.

After a year of peace, the remaining members of the MacMurchaid family in Valhalla are waiting for the planned first flight of the Trans-Mars-Jupiter Observatory form Mars to Jupiter and back. As much as the family would like to communicate with Kris and Tony, they know they will be busy on the TMJO during this flight. The flight proceeds with only two incidents which happened.

The MacMurchaids have a new possible threat to their solar system. It is first thought to be an anomaly passing through the Kuiper Belt at the outer reaches of the solar system. After some studying of this anomaly's actions, problems it has caused, and a signal sent to an ancient site on earth, it has become apparent that this new threat has ancient origins and possibly related to the trickster faction somehow. While waiting to hear from certain friends, the MacMurchaid family, their relatives and one friend look into how to handle what this anomaly or vessel might present as a threat.

When former Vatican Knight Kimball Hayden seeks solitude in a remote South Dakota cabin, he stumbles upon a catastrophic threat that could ignite World War III. Russian operatives have stolen nuclear launch codes from a secret Black Hills facility and are hiding in a neighboring cabin with a dark server capable of hijacking American satellites.

Philip Mantle is one of the UK’s best known UFO researchers. He entered into UFO research and investigation in 1980 when he joined the Yorkshire UFO Society (YUFOS) which had its HQ in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, just a few miles from where he lived. In later years he would go on to join the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). In 2015 he founded Flying Disk Press, a one man book publishing endeavour which has now published over 30 books.

Ethan Kane’s quest for the Solakari legacy leads him onto the perilous Natchez Trace in 1825. He hunts the outlaw Blackjack Stark, who unknowingly holds an ancient Bible containing a coded Solakari vellum. After a deadly confrontation where new ally Sally McGill avenges her family on Stark, Ethan recovers the Bible. Aided by the forgotten scholar Alaric Thorne, he deciphers the vellum, revealing a path to a lost Spanish presidio in Tejas.

After a number of events dealing with enemies which have tried to remain unknown, the MacMurchaids along with their relatives and friends have been working to uncover who these enemies are. Robert and Denise know from human history that these enemies are not working for the good of their fellow humans, but toward goals which appear to be leading to domination of the entire solar system.

1822: Ethan Kane’s quest for the Solakari legacy plunges him into the volatile Creek Nation. A legendary "Creek River Cipher" – a Solakari star chart – is his goal, but the ruthless Alistair Finch and the shadowy "New World Antiquarian Society" want it too, turning sacred lands into a warzone. With Captain Rourke, Cherokee guide Anawa, and Creek survivor Liza, Ethan battles treacherous rivers and deadly ambushes. They unearth the star chart from a desecrated mound, its celestial clues leading them through the haunted "Sanctuary" cave to ancient mounds that further unlock its meaning.

The MacMurchaids and their group work on searching for facilities which the trickster faction might control. They determine that at least one on Lunar Sister might be such a facility and there are many on Brother Mars. Before they investigate any of these sites they must prepare and gather everything they might need. Since a number of previous incidents happened mainly on or near Mars, then that is where they must head to first. The group has a meeting before everyone at Valhalla gets ready to leave.

Ethan Kane's years-long quest for lost Solakari wisdom reaches its climax. With his devoted companions, he faces the final, brutal trials: the unforgiving Colorado Desert and the towering, treacherous Sierra Nevada. Nature's fury in perilous canyons like the Roaring Fork, and the greed of men like Captain Cortina, exact a heavy toll, costing them precious supplies and their loyal pack animals.