Ever have that shiver run down your spine just before something was going to happen. That feeling just woke me from the usual daze of scanning the instruments and the ever graying sky outside in the cold winter sky. I don't know about you, but I have learned by hard experience that when thistinglehappens, watch out. It's often said that the sea is unforgiving of mistakes, so too it is of the sky. In the unforgiving sky, a calm day may suddenly become a maelstrom striving to swat the people in a small tube who's arrogance took them into the air. The Lonely Hours is a tale of the decisions...

Who can say when a journey begins. For John and Jenna it may have begun yesterday or thousands of years ago. Before they can solve this riddle, they must first learn the question. Once they and five other companions began a quest to discover Ring. In the youth they did not understand that all secrets, especially great ones, never reveal themselves before their time. Only seven could begin the quest, this they knew. Unfortunately, not all of the seven were sure to finish the quest and only the right seven could win. Of the seven, four fell. Jenna in desperation begged the gods, sacrificing...

Often the thing which binds us and holds us in times of trial are the memories we build over the years. This volume is, perhaps, a tickle to the memories we hold of times past when we gathered rejoicing the memory of times past and built new memories for the times yet to be. Memories build for the times of trial which always seem to inevitably intrude on the lives of all. I hope this book will bring forth some of these pleasant memories of Christmas past. Not quite the ghost of Christmas past that Dickens wrote of, but still the ghost of our Christmases past. In the words of Tiny Tim may "God...

Standing in the cold morning blackness in the thin air atop a mountain, in Colorado, Hillary first saw the thing which would change her world forever. Like all the others of her kind, she studied the mysteries which were the points of light against the dark blackness of space. Astronomy was like that, just one mystery followed by another. But this discovery left her blood to run coldly through her veins. Through the crystal clear light pulled in by the powerful telescope her nice, safe world ended. What she saw that night could not be. Someone, or perhaps more ominously something, seemed to...

Eight and a half billion miles from home, an enigma awaits. For the crew of Earth's first deep space ship, Deep Flight, the siren call of distress awaits. But at home, fanatics, driven by some unknown force, fan the flames of the final war. Can they find the answer in time? Is there an answer? Finding Stranger One, is only the beginning. But the real question is, just what is, Stranger One.

Everything Tom wanted seemed to fall into his life. A trip across the galaxy to go to school. Learning to fly in the atrium of a star ship. The love of a beautiful woman and a chance to become an officer on the ship. But just as Tom was sure everything was perfect, he learned that everything has a price. Sometimes that price is more than the mind of one man can bare. Sometimes you must lose everything, just to be a man.