Sean, a gifted runner, inherited only one thing from his mother, a mysterious carved amulet with three haunting faces. He doesn't understand why, but when he carries it, he runs faster and feels closer to his unknown ancestors. His girlfriend's grandmother fears the amulet is an omen of evil from the ancient Navajo enemies, the Anasazi, and pleads with him to "put it back" in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, but Sean cannot bring himself to part with it. Instead, he straps the amulet to himself and, with the help of his retired high school running coach, begins to train in Pagosa Springs, Colorado,...

Warning This story contains impolite language, graphic violence, a little sex, and is very politically incorrect. Jackie Key inherits a full scholarship from a rich man murdered by his brother, and seeks justification by studying the economic ripples of the dead man's assets. What he discovers and tries to publish makes him become public enemy number one among the country's rich and powerful because Dr. Jackie Key can calculate a true economic price on their heads. From Jeff Posey, author of The G.O.D. Journal, comes a contemporary political thriller that exposes the cruelly tilted playing...

Warning This story contains graphic violence including cannibalism. "Set in 1057 A.D. among the Anasazi of the American Southwest." Raised by his beloved Sky Chief grandfather and a mysterious albino woman, Tuwa expects to become the next skywatcher. When a strange star appears in the sky, so bright it shines during the day, the High Priest, backed by ultraviolent warriors from the South, demands blood sacrifice. Tuwa's grandfather, a vocal opponent of the foreigners, is murdered in a public ceremony, cooked, and served to the stunned crowd. Next in line are Tuwa's adopted mother and the...

Vingta walked and ran for a living, so he insisted on the best double-soled sandals and fine elk-hide leggings. After serving for a dozen years as an official long-distance runner for the most powerful man in the canyon, he knew defending his feet and legs from the endless prickly and rough things that defined the Anasazi landscape of a thousand years ago was more important than defending himself from other people.

That is, until an unfamiliar feeling pierces his heart when he meets a strange foreign girl, Uva. Her hair all wrong, and her manners a mess, yet when she smiles at him,...