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Charles Dameion Ashford III met the threshold to life and death long before it's time. Challenged by a childhood intertwined with dark Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner disasters, his tender connection to the world around him could not prevail. Instead, books became his friends, his happy place, and his link to affirmation from his father, who would otherwise harp on his every imperfection. Nonetheless, he was perceived to be a success by those that groomed him, his mother Lillian Ardmore, and his father Charles Dameion Ashford II. He was their only child, their golden child, and the heir of the doctor gene which ran through the paternal males for eight generations preceding. Yes, Charles had a destiny, and a legacy to live down which he proudly ran toward like a marathon finish line. To his favor, he possessed hands with forces like surgical universes and an untamed boldness to conquer the limits of modern medicine. With the silver lining in his life, his beautiful childhood sweetheart, Shara, life smiled a bit on his awkward development. But, destiny would have to ring with the chimes of his genes and dance to the song of an ill-fated tale of privilege and carnage.

Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each one vitally connected to a ghost town located where sea meets land on Santa Cruz County's northern coast.In 1959 Kaitlin Lowrie resettles in Cliffport with her mother and her son - the only household hanging on in an all-but-forgotten locale. But in 1965 Janice McLoughlin, long-absentee landlady, shows up and is determined to sell the place. Elisabeth Lowrie despairs of their being evicted from her cherished, lifelong home.It falls to the feisty Lowrie daughter to span the gap between the two older women. While the outspoken Jan tells her life story aloud, Katie has also to read her mother's notebooks in the more formal language of Elise's memoir. Katie dreams then schemes how to stay living on the land.In their letters, phone calls, journals, and conversations, we hear the distinct yet disparate voices of these strong-willed women - tough on the outside, sensitive within - as they come to terms with one another and themselves. Katie, Elise, Jan: three naked ladies, each in her own way as resilient, enduring, and irrepressible as the wild bulbous Amaryllis belladonna plants rooted out West and surviving up and down California's Central Coast.

What is a soul? What is its purpose? Is there a purpose? After picking on a kid that would fight back, the school bully suddenly becomes a maniacal child abductor and murderer. A mysterious rock is discovered in the forest near sleepy Tionesta, Pennsylvania. A town better known for camping, river activity, and retirement living. A determined dis-embodied soul seeks to make contact with the beings in the third dimension. Mix in a little high school romance, and it all culminates in an event that captures the entire worlds' attention and leaves the human race in awe.

Miles Brodie is just a bargain-rate lawyer handling divorces for Big Joe's Tiki Bar girls. He's barely squeezing rent money from his third-rate law practice when Joe hires him to find out who's knocking off his pals. Before a full-blown turf war breaks out, Brodie signs on and follows the blood trail to find out who's trying to shut his client down and take over the Portland rackets.Everybody from City Hall to the cop on the street knows a hustler needs an insurance policy. But it's not the kind Prudential Life sells. Somebody is cooking the books, keeping payoffs and bribes strictly off the radar to cover their bets if Big Joe ever tumbles to the double cross.Joe's bookkeeper Melba Malone knows how to keep secrets. How much are they worth to the rat who wants to deal him or herself in? When bodies start to fall, Brodie feels like the last cardboard duck in a carnival shoot. Caught between his greedy ex-wife, crooked cops and a deadly client, Brodie's left holding the losing hand.

Mike and Lester, two mid-life travelers hawking burial insurance policies to crones and the unwary, scheme to hit the jackpot with another big score. They interrupt a robbery when they stop for a cold one, and end up hoofing it to town. On the road again, they get picked up by an Elvis zealot who plans to open a museum for the King in Memphis with her treasured relics she hauls around in her Graceland Vanatorium.Nothing is working out according to plan for the two misguided hucksters when they are stalled in a hippie haven with man-eating pets, commit a major felony by accident, and head out a few leaps ahead of a local posse.On the road, there's romance, crazy fun and surprises for everybody...

The galaxy is changing. Deadly enemies are becoming trusted allies, and the prophets of Galactic Resources face new challenges as mysterious alien spies appear in ConFree. "A revolution is not done in a day," rebel Demons say. The ConFree Legion faces endless war, and Prophet knows there is no escape for a soldier of the Legion, as the mission is not over until he is KIA. "Growing up in a free state is not for sissies," Honeyhair advises her daughter. A false peace looms when the bloody Pherdos campaign is concluded and a truce is declared on Earth. ConFree may be at peace but the Legion is still at war. A huge starfleet of enemy aliens approaches humanity's little slice of the galaxy. The prophets risk all to obtain the truth, side by side with their alien comrades, but Galactic Information's politicized bureaucracy refuses to accept it. Galactic Resources is abolished.Prophet and his blood comrades are told to stand down on a critical rescue mission. But the mission is clear: disregard the orders, liberate the hopeless, and light up the world. On their return the Prof advises that the war is starting and attendance is mandatory for all...

The Dark Cloud War is an endless nightmare for Exploitation recon trooper Prophet and his squadies. The alien Choakar are wreaking havoc on Berichros, joined by the Realm, slaughtering millions with GX bioweapons. Strange new aliens suddenly appear in the war zone and Prophet and Exploitation must resolve the problem.As more allies join ConFree to battle the aliens, Prophet meets his comrades from the past - Biogens, Assidics, free Tribal Demons, AI Indies and Brights. They find themselves marching with the dead, distant thunder moving closer, metal rain showering them all as rival spirit armies fight to the death.As the war moves to resolution, Prophet's exhausted comrades are dropping out of their old fellowship. Word comes that the Realm and the Brights are planning peace negotiations on Earth, but the revolutionaries Terra Rising have their own ideas. Earth is Prophet's private Hell and he knows he cannot avoid it.Returning to civilian life at last, Prophet learns of a shadowy effort to destroy ConFree with ancient alien doomsday weapons of cosmic annihilation. Nobody believes him so he is on his own. He reaches out to his closest comrade and it is an army of two against the Realm.