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Daniel Briggs, fresh out of the Marine Corps, wakes up in Defuniak Springs, FL, hungover and confused, with no memory of the night before. A powerful local family finds him, intent on repaying the previous night's encounter. How will the former Marine ward off his attackers, deal with his demons, and avoid being blamed for a young girl's death?

In urgent need of repair, the Mary May finds herself forced to flee across dangerous worlds that promise to end their search for home. With no other choice but to flee through the dimensions to save the Mary May, with her engines on the verge of giving up and in search of safe harbour, the crew navigate worlds ravaged by war whilst fighting off space choked with shattered junk intent on destroying them. With the engines eventually repaired, rather than continuing the search for their home, they respond to a call for a good samaritan.

That’s the flummoxed state of Edward Stanton, a 42-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. His job, his therapist, and his best friends are all gone. Even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has short-circuited. But a call from his friend Donna in Idaho, telling him that her son Kyle is in trouble, launches Edward from his rigidly scheduled existence in Billings, Montana, to the open road. He and Kyle, a sweet little boy turned sullen adolescent, debate football, music, and bodily functions (“Why do you pee so much?” Kyle asks).

When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of nine US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return to the planet? They have a single lunar module, which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit....

Timely, insightful, and heartbreakingly honest, Grace Leigh’s first novel offers a fresh new voice to examine friendship, love, identity, and what it takes to find your way when it feels like you’re completely adrift.

It’s 1973 and Amy, an American ex-pat, is living as an illegal immigrant in Toronto where she’s fled to escape the scandal surrounding her twin sister’s death by drowning. Joanie’s been gone two years, but Amy still hears her cries for help. Romance would jeopardize the secrets Amy has to keep, but when she meets Arcus, a graduate student working to restore democracy in Greece, she falls hard. Arcus doesn’t know about Amy’s past, and she doesn’t know Arcus has secrets of his own, including the shady history of an ancient relic he uses as a paperweight.

A cyber-attack has destroyed 80 percent of America’s electrical grid leaving hundreds of millions of people in the dark with no infrastructure and no running water. Martial law has been declared, and it has been rumored that Russian troops are assisting with security and continuity of government operations. Terrorists have blown the hydroelectric Dams surrounding a prepper festival stranding the campers on an island with no chance of escape other than using their own wits and ingenuity.

David is a prepper with a heart and he sorrows for those who have not heeded the call to prepare. Those poor souls who have not put food and supplies away in case of a disaster are facing famine and disease from a cyber attack that has taken the electrical grid down. David has other laments, things that only a prepper knows or can share.

A concerted effort by terrorists has taken down America's electrical grid by cyber-attack and sabotage. The survivors who are stranded on an island by an explosive attack on two hydroelectric dams are starving and weak, anxiously waiting for some form of rescue to arrive.