Denise Parker is a successful advertising executive. She has a Porsche, a stock portfolio and an apartment in one of the safe neighborhoods in San Francisco. If it weren't for a recurring nightmare she would look forward to an even better situation. The nightmare leads her to a past lives therapist, a cult leader, an ex-boyfriend and other characters who appear in her past lives. What it all means and who -Algapesh- is requires all of the novel to unravel this psychological Gordian knot.

Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor? A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

After the terrible experience of surviving the sinking of the ship Pequod, Ishmael goes to sea again in search of Moby Dick. He is Chief Mate aboard Pilgrim, captained by a man who is terrified of small boats and will not emulate Captain Ahab in sinking a harpoon iron into the white whale. Through calms and storms, Ishmael welds the crew into a formidable weapon against what he comes to see as not only an implacable foe but one that may not deserve the fate that he has been tasked to give it. Ishmael finds love from an unusual revelation aboard the ship that also makes the voyage one of...

Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire. Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine. Abner's machine hurls stones at the cabin as Jess fires bullets as the men who work the machine. Many of them are killed but those who are...

In the bathyscaphe named Quetzalcoatl Mike Slater and his diving partner Manfred Richter hear pings from more than one source. They are retrieving a tube from a sunken submarine and have experienced a desperate ordeal before hearing the sonar sounds that are both mysterious and unsettling. All they want to do is return to the surface and exit the steel sphere that has taken them down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Eighteen stories to entertain and enlighten. Rider, a rousing tale of a two-wheeler in the dead of winter. The Princess and the Knight, marriage at its best. One Last Chance, a look at compulsive gambling. The Saga of Doggie Zimmerman, an old sea dog who doesn't give a damn. Heartbreaker, a mother has to give up her child. One for my Master, night shift on a rice ship. Casey's Fort Zinderneuf, life mimics art. Columbia Dig, solving an archeological mystery. The Ordeal of Jane Manning, survival at all costs. Raney, occult powers that reshape reality. Kirby, a vacuum cleaner salesman who makes...