A mysterious couple named Samson and Delilah are found by police along the outskirts of the Holy City. Shortly afterward, Samson is recruited by the Israeli Defense Force to demolish Hamas tunnels in Palestine. Delilah joins Hamas and negotiates a deal with smugglers in Sudan. When the couple is reunited, both the IDF and Hamas wonder whose side they will choose. Yet things are never what they seem in Palestinian politics. In the face of a terrorist attack on the Dome of the Rock, both groups are united against a plot that may forever change the face of the Middle East. Samson and Delilah...

Tommy and Eilida meet again at Flashers, the local college bar. Their friendship develops quickly. Then a student is murdered in her dorm, a previous victim of the Hurricane Killer. The assailant is on the loose when Eilida's apartment is broken into and she runs to Tommy for safety. She discovers his birthday is the one day that makes her soul cry, but is it only a coincidence? The cards stack against him as she finds Tommy is hiding Astrological charts and Evan's map; material that would have solidified a case against the Hurricane Killer. And Eilida discovers a ring that went missing the...

Kirsten Streicher is an Iraq War veteran assigned to the Supercop Unit in St. Louis. The elite unit has been successful in combating the Blight, a plague of poverty-driven crime that is overwhelming the city. Only a genocidal sociopath has declared his own war against the Blight and is conducting a campaign to eradicate the undesirable elements within the community. The death of one of her partners and the suspension of another portend the breakup of the team. Kirsten is forced to deal with a major change in her career path once the man called X is brought to justice. She is also involved in...

Moving to another planet is never easy. It's even harder when you never arrive...

Laren Brightstar knows refusing to work for Augustus Troy makes him a target. Accepting the chief terralogist position on a primitive planet on the other side of the galaxy seems like the simplest solution. Getting there, however, isn't. When the affluent family leaves fog-shrouded and predictable Mira III for Cyraria they have no idea their luxurious lifestyle is about to end forever. His wife, Sharra denies it, trusting their fate to her indomitable bondling. Teenage daughter, Creena,...

Things are never so bad they can't get worse. For the Brightstars they just did.

Laren Brightstar knows his family's in serious trouble. If he doesn't finish building the heat exchanger before Opposition's heat sets in they'll all perish. Then what little money they have is confiscated and he's hauled off to territorial prison in a midnight raid, leaving his teenaged son, Dirck, responsible for the family's welfare.

Above everything else, Dirck is acutely aware that none of this would have happened if his missing sister, Creena, had followed the rules.

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