When Santa's gone bad, the elves have revolted (and are revolting), and this still isn't the worst thing to happen at the North Pole, who are you going to call upon to save Christmas? Ace Hawkins, of course. And he'll do it -- for a price.

Back in East Texas for the summer break, college student Kevin Harvey gets more excitement than he counted on when he signs on with a logging crew to escape his dull summer job bagging groceries. As he and the other 'flatheads' (so called on the off chance they don't get out of the way of falling trees) soon discover, the Texas piney woods hold many secrets -- some better left undiscovered.

Insurrection is the very first novel set in the Moreauvia universe. This alternate historical fiction gives us the human-like animals of H. G. Wells' classic, The "Island of Dr Moreau" not only exist, but have become common. In the early 1800s these 'animals' are used as laborers, slaves really, to solve America's slave problem, preventing the dark crisis of the Civil War and thrusting America into the role of an aggressive world power much earlier than in our own history. In the early 1870s, instead of suffering through the Reconstruction era, America is ready to define her own destiny in a...