Many winters ago, the man with two legs managed to escape the oppressive maiming rituals of Tritan’s government.
Now he stands on a hillside overlooking the city, a bomb in his rucksack, determined to bring about two impossible results: his mother’s rescue and freedom for his people.
For expert oncologist Dutton Quinn and his wife, Jess, the chill of a wintry morning matches the gray mood draped over their hearts. After a devastating loss, it seems as if nothing can save their marriage...except, maybe, for the promise of hope, a final wish, and a mystical gateway through time.
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Original review from The Time Travel Chronicles: “...this is one I’ll never forget. [Beasts of the Earth] caught me off-guard and I loved every bit of it.” –Gilt & Buckram, Authentic Book Reviews
Bolstered by a newfound fortune, Sara Winthrop is finally able to escape the horrific nature of her past. She's moved her family three thousand miles, from the bustling city of Portland to the rolling Appalachians of southwest Virginia. Life is calm, the children are thriving, and she's protected inside her rural fortress.
Or so she thinks. She soon discovers that the answers are never so easy. The illusion of security doesn't stand a chance against two dangerous enemies with money, motivation, and an unquenchable desire for revenge.
Aided by the help of new friends and forced to the edge of extremes, Sara must find a way to win at all costs, or die trying.
This is no game.
Eighteen months after Sara's terrifying encounter with a demented kidnapper, life has finally returned to normal. Almost. Her memories of the game still haunt her dreams, and every day society appears to go a little bit crazier. Around the world, from London to Rio to Moscow, a small terrorist group known as The Clan eliminates targets one by one. Are they really connected in some way, as the media claims, or is it simply coincidence?
All Sara wants is to live a safe, quiet life with her children.
On a damp, fall morning, however, she receives chilling news from Detective Emerson Barker that's both alarming and unthinkable, plunging her weary family headlong into another desperate fight for survival: 'You're the next target.'
'Every hero's journey has a beginning, middle, and end...I am that end.'
A world mourning a fallen superhero.
A president targeted for assassination.
A conspiracy that runs deeper than anyone suspects.
Leo Craft is the best at what he does; he assassinates superheroes, but only the ones who deserve it. Life is good, simple, until an ultra-secretive government agency hires Leo to execute two impossible tasks: eliminate the world's foremost superhero, Patriotman, and hunt down a fellow assassin whose target is the President of the United States.
When everyone wears a mask, trust is hard to come by - and even the elusive truth can be caught in a web of lies.
In 1587, over one hundred colonists, desperate for a better life in the new world, disappear without a trace from a settlement on tiny Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina.
And now, in the present day, deafening, unearthly wails are being heard in the sky all over the world, with no apparent physical origin.
Where are they coming from? What do they mean?
To Helen Weils, bestselling author and respected academic, history is a realm of observable facts, each one carefully weighed and inspected.
So when she encounters Chip Sledd, a conspiracy theorist who insists there's an unimaginable connection between the disappearance of the colonists in 1587 and the strange noises in the sky, she's quick to dismiss his theories as the irrational ramblings of a lunatic.
But when black-suited agents begin relentlessly stalking her and Chip...
Helen soon realizes that the past is a lot more flexible than she ever thought possible -- and seeking the truth sometimes means accepting the strangest theory of them all.
Some families have deeper secrets than others.
There's a deadly game you've never heard of, and it's controlled by an ultra-rich, top-secret organization with a shadowy history dating back to the Civil War.
Millions go to the winner...if you survive.
On a sultry summer morning, private detective Mary Walker doesn't expect to be involved in a murder investigation, and definitely not on her sister's farm. It doesn't take long before she discovers that Randall, a retired Marine Corps sniper, and her brother-in-law, has something to hide.
The secret is bigger than Mary can ever imagine, especially when she uncovers a connection that leads to one of the most dangerous places in the nation...the United States government.
She's never played a game like this before...
Two years ago, Sara's husband left for the gym one morning...and never came back.
His car was found. He wasn't.
Unbelievably, the police report said, 'No foul play suspected.' There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.
Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.
And the note under her windshield wiper asks one cryptic question: Are you ready to play the game?
