Böcker av Melson Dan Melson

A duel in the shadows as echoes of an ancient war wash up on a new planet!Life in the Empire has finally settled down. The last of the ston rebels have taken amnesty, and re-joined civilization - or have they?A massive terrorist attack kills millions and the trail leads the investigator straight to a remote world with no known Imperial contact - a world known to its inhabitants as Earth

The cold hard fact is that most people never pay off their mortgage. Most people refinance time and again, the wrong way, and end up with balances larger than the original purchase price of their home.This book tells you how to break that cycle, or if you are a new home buyer, how to never start down the path in the first place. It won't work miracles, but it will show you how to stop wasting your money.A step by step guide that prepares you with what you need to know about mortgages as a consumer, tells you how to cut through the nonsense, what is important and what is notWritten by a working loan officer with wide-ranging experience and a decade of running a consumer education website, What Consumers Need To Know About Mortgages draws from a depth of experience dealing first-hand with issues that actual consumers have brought to the author for examination, together with common sense solutions that consumers can understand.For the numerically inclined, calculations are included but not required for understanding.

You'd think there'd be more for a god to do.Alexan and Petra have become Eternals - minor gods, binding themselves together in their divinity. According to most stories, that's where 'happily ever after' would start.However, there's a divine ecosystem, as red in tooth and claw as any other part of nature, competing for power and worshippers and other divine benefits. There's also the diligar deity Klikitit, who's appointed Alexan his personal enemy for having dared defend himself against one of Klikitit's Sons. Then there is the question of how do they achieve the next step on the divine ladder? All of this while dealing with divine curses which bind both of them - for all divinities are cursed. The Connected Realms are certainly more complex than they appear at first glance!

What if the Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court was a real wizard?Alexan is exiled from his home for reasons of politics and health, sent to a primitive locale to guard against the misuse of the massive power coursing through the fabric of reality. He discovers that he is what the locals call a wizard. Unfortunately for him, there are many other wizards and even gods connected to this power, and they tend to be unfriendly to those they fear might rival or replace them - people such as Alexan.And what about this demigoddess that keeps popping up with obscure hints about her divine curse?

Mark Jackson's problems begin when he wakes up with his ex-wife's mummified corpse.Seven years ago, she walked out on him and vanished. Now she's back desperate for help. She claims a cult cured her cancer. Now they want to kill her.Sceptical, Mark agrees to help. But when she knocks on his door, she looks like a teenager. They patch things up and one thing leads to another...In the morning, she's a mummified corpse and LAPD thinks Mark did it. The solution to his problems can only be found in The Gates to Faerie

Pregnancy is dangerous in the Empire! For thousands of years, Imperial women have used artificial gestation. But Grace was born on barbarian, pre-contact Earth. She can't call herself a mother without doing it the hard way at least once. Grace has married into one of the most important families in the Empire - and Imperial politics are deadly at the top. Despite the risks, she discovers that there are advantages, both to herself and to her unborn baby. The Empire will never be quite the same again.

Four complete novels - the story of Graciela Juarez from college student to hero!It started by accident - she was in the wrong place at the right time. But she was the right person to be in that place. From helping to defeat an ancient enemy of humankind, to learning to stand on her own and keeping the planet from rushing off a cliff to its own destruction, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. She doesn't do it all on her own, but she's the driving force of will behind saving the Earth from its own problems. She truly is Amazing Grace!

The stons were dead, but that left Grace alone to try to learn to control her new abilities. When a solution presents itself, she begins learning just how far there is to go on the new journey she started. A new family, a new home, and learning to adapt to a completely different environment. But for greater challenges, she also discovers there are greater rewards - and the universe always has a greater challenge in store.

Earth needed help - and nobody else was going to step up Graciela Juarez has gone from a late-twenties college student to Second Order Guardian and one of the Empire's better pilots. But events on Earth are building to a climax, and the Empire is determined to let Earth sort things out for itself - or not. It really doesn't matter to them. But it matters to Grace. By whatever means necessary, she will save Earth from the demons - and from its own insanity.

For everything there is a price. Grace has married into one of the most important families of the Empire. The Scimtars are wealthy and powerful in every sense of the term. Her five children will be among the Empire's elite when they are ready, and Grace herself is not without influence or importance despite her relative youth. But Imperial politics are deadly, and the more you have, the more your rivals want what you have. There is no shelter from The Price of Power.

Graciela Juarez di Scimtar has saved Earth from itself. What will she do for an encore? Become a real hero, as well as demonstrating that the Empire has earned her loyalty. Along with her husband, she joins the Imperial Military. But she and her husband have unique talents - the military will not let them go to waste