Time.Love.Terror. "A Matter of Time" tells the story of five people bound together by a destiny that spans over three centuries. Jonathan Bier is a nondescript museum curator in 1995 who receives a mysterious package that will change his life forever. The package contains a vivid color photograph that appears to have been taken sometime in the 1890s. Soon he is visited by Robert Prentice, who claims to be from 2093, with a fantastic tale. He tells Jonathan that he must travel back in time to 1891 to save and marry a woman named Olivia de Sousa who, two hundred years in the future, is the...

"When a stick is broken, it cannot be made whole again." --- a Modoc Indian saying Long ago, visitors from the stars came to Earth and landed in an isolated valley in a place that would later be called Northern California. They came on a cosmic version of a walkabout, a rite of passage that pitted a young alien against the brave Modoc Indian tribe. Things didn't go the way they planned.... Now they come again. On a lonely winter night in that same valley, the city of Sconchin falls under siege by aliens on a mission of revenge. In a single night of chaos, it falls to the town's young people...

Manuel Lemes was an engineer the Hawaiian Electric Company's Waiau Power House in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941. The events of that day changed his life forever. Manuel was a poet, a dreamer and a keen observer of life. Over the course of the War in the Pacific, he compiled a diary that detailed what civilian life was in Honolulu during those years. Now, for the first time since it was written, it is presented here as a time capsule of a man's life. By today's standards some of this diary not an easy read. It mirrors the thoughts, prejudices and reality of those...

When seventeen-year-old Abigail Henry leaves the safety of her grandfather's home in a distant Earth colony called Haven somewhere in the faraway stars, she has no inkling that an innocent expedition to study plant life in the Big Outside will turn into a titanic struggle between life and death. She is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious place called the Blur, hidden deep within the Stouthorn forest. The Blur is the entryway to the Land of Dreams-an alternate reality that controls the fate of all those who think and breathe. There she is to replace the mother she never knew, the mother whose...