Russell Means Morrison and his sister, Tala Sue Morrison are not throwaway kids. They have, however, been thrown away. Their presence in John Overland's life makes itself known the night John goes to his office to catch up on some work and Russell tries to kill John in the gardens behind the office with a meat cleaver. Russell is eleven and Tala is nine. It is only after John disarms him that the story of who they are and how they got to Sells, Arizona and Tohono O'odham Reservation becomes known. John discovers their horrifying past and is determined to find out who was responsible for it....

Antonio Duran and Annette Borjon have been feeling the unrest for weeks. Duran is a teacher and Borjon works in a grocery store. Both live in El Paso, Texas. For Duran, it starts when the school is attacked by men with grenade launchers. In a class that started the year with twenty-three students, his class that Monday morning numbered nine. Such is the stress in El Paso. For Borjon, it starts when she sees a phalanx of those same men marching in the street, their weapons free for anyone to see. For them, that's how The Second American Civil War starts. Duran and his nine students escape the...

Jeremy McBride is a dealer in antiquities and he is asked by an American museum to help to determine the veracity of papers that are being attributed to Pontius Pilate. The issue, he knows, is that if those papers are real and they are found to hold information that contradicts the Bible, that wholesale chaos can ensue. However, Jeremy has his own reasons for agreeing to help the committee verify the papers are real and not a hoax. His wife, Diana, wants a divorce and as a staunch Catholic, he is forbidden to have one. It doesn't matter that as a California resident, no-fault divorce is...