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Against a backdrop of high prairie winds and soaring snow-capped peaks, an uneasy friendship makes its final appeal when the words "Aunt Heidi" and a phone number are found written on the arm of a five-year-old Arapaho child. When Heidi Vogel arrives in New York to open a restaurant, the ambitious young German-born chef could never imagine that six years later, she would be managing a soup kitchen in Wyoming and sharing her home with an abandoned dog and a secretive young woman named Nara Crow.

Maaijke, a young Dutch woman, born in 1815 in Spakenburg, vividly imagines herself into other places and times, but when her concentration lapses, she is transported back to her home and to the time from which she came. On one of her travels, she falls in love with Peter, a U.S. Navy pilot and Vietnam veteran. After an intense but brief affair, her focus flags and Peter, unaware of her abilities and why she disappeared, mourns her absence. Five years later, Peter finds Maaijke again who tells him they have a son. And as before, she suddenly disappears.

Maiden Voyage, Book Three of Daphne Birkmyer's COMFREY, WYOMING series, finds twins, Amadeus and Marcela, on very different paths to self-discovery. As their guardian, Heidi Crow, attempts to weave a safety net as original and complex as the twins themselves, she prays it will hold through Marcela's gender affirming surgery and Amadeus's uncertain future in Alaska's lucrative and dangerous fishing industry.

Humans live, work, and play throughout the solar system. Ferdinand Abernaum, born with multiple birth defects, is now a premiere coder who has augmented his abilities beyond general human capabilities. Now he is a member of an elite team of universal explorers, The Marlagans.

A midnight escape in a crippled aircraft carrying a rescued child. Jagged peaks below, dodging bullets, losing altitude. And she asks herself, “Is this what it means to do God’s work?” Knoxi Musket has a scholarship to play basketball for Texas University, but that must wait. International power brokers are enslaving thousands of children with impunity. Someone must bring them down. The three-year-old boy she is protecting holds the key.

MLB star fights child-trafficking head on! Cody has become an American baseball icon, but plays a more dangerous game, spearheading a secret war on child traffickers. The South American cartels become wise and retaliate by abducting seven-year-old Knoxi. Cody and Brandi lead a team of avengers to rescue her, but the resourceful girl has the traffickers right where she wants them. A daring flight to freedom through 27 miles of jungle, leftist terrorists in hot pursuit, and Brandi faces ridicule from some of Cody's hardened associates as she insists on leading the group in prayer.

Jade has five million followers and a life lived in high-definition. From her glass-walled penthouse in Playa Vista, she sells a dream of sun-drenched luxury and effortless perfection. Although her husband’s wealth moves markets, his name rarely trends. A powerful market-mover, Jade’s husband much prefers the shadows—and he has the billions to stay there. Online, Jade's life is flawless. Offline, the cracks are turning into canyons. When Jade vanishes from her secured luxury building, the elite Social Club doesn’t call for help—they close ranks.

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.

In Simplicity Through Simulation: The Algorithm of Humanity, Dondaneau explores Simulation Theory, transforming it into a narrative deeply resonant with our age. He challenges the notion of reality as an external force, revealing it as a tapestry woven from mathematical and symbolic patterns within the cosmos and the human mind.