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1) Last Child
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When hiding in plain sight is no longer possible….
Kate McFarland was born into a crumbling regime of Soviet Russia. She didn't have much as a child, but she had two parents who cared and protected her, and that was enough. Then Fate raked its rusty nail across a blackboard and her mother became a widow. For what seemed like eternity, life looked bleak. But then her mother met a man who was not only decent and kind but rich. It's how Kate finished...
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A suicide bomber strikes at an unremarkable department store in upstate California. A week later, two teenage nerds perish in a house explosion that left a crater in the ground but otherwise did little damage beyond its perimeter. Five days after the tragedy, a dying teenage car thief whispers 'Marseille' to the FBI agents at her bedside. Any of the three gruesome events would have seen Senior Agent Vern Saunders summoning his crack operative, Carter,...
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What starts off as a dreadful murder in London soon becomes a race against time to save humanity.
Less than three months into Stella's one year guest professorship in London, her husband, retired FBI consultant, Timothy Carter, runs into an old friend while catching a taxi. It's raining and both parties are late for their respective appointments. They make a lunch date for the next day but that meeting never happens because mere hours after meeting...
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An academic conference. A priceless ancient artifact...and a prehistoric demon looking for its means to escape earthly confinement.
A cruel and mercurial ancient deity, stranded on Earth for thousands of years, has been searching for his means to escape from his earthly confinement. The only two artifacts that will do the job, the Seals of Eternity, have been lost in the sands of time. Sed, the mysterious and shadowy figure of jackal, has killed...
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Ribbons of Death - Book 1
A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of ancient myths and legends that's cutting a bloody path across the continent.
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One snowy evening, a stranger with a horribly scarred face stomps on the porch of Stella Hunter's house, holding her latest book of myths and legends. He points to the bloody fingerprints of the...
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Battle for the Rimworlds is just beginning...with one man
Daniel DeWynter is unlike any of the arrogant, brash DeWynter star-lords carving the galaxy with their glory. Perhaps because sixteen years ago, he witnessed first-hand, treachery and betrayal that saw thousands of innocent lives perish in the explosion of the Lynwarren Trading Station, he tends to look at any situation with humanitarian eyes. He is a soldier, just as his family traditions...
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An ancient artifact comes out of its hiding to wreck the global balance.
A series of phenomenal events, some good, others holding potential for global catastrophe, sets-up a race against time.
For two-years now, reports have been hitting media of increasingly strange events. Rivers altered courses. Campsites shifted locations. Limbs lost in war re-attached themselves to war veterans' bodies. Tabloids thrive on such headlines. The problem is, that...
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The new world order is getting ready to rule mankind
Stella Hunter is an obsessive reader of all myths and legends. She and her long-time partner, Carter, go to visit their old friend and priest at his church. There the journey begins when Carter sees an old Oriental couple pray, then leave the worship decades younger than when they walked in minutes before. Their story surrounds a bizarre and poorly chiseled granite statue delivered to the church....
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For every curse there must be means to lift it...maybe
Mythology fiction is a good academic topic. Stella Hunter has made it into a life-time pursuit. That's why she insists that every mythological curse must have means to lift it...or so she hopes.
If she's wrong, a child will live his life teetering on the edge of the abyss. It's why she stubbornly insists that there is hope, even when all evidence points to the contrary.
This time, however,...
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