No Writ of Habeas Corpus required. For over a century, federal and state government welfare programs, churches, and other charitable organizations have struggled to solve the homeless citizenry problem. In the year 2027, they all give up and create the Derelict Control Authority Patrol (D-CAP) better known as the bum patrol to collect the homeless, drunks, and bag ladies from off the streets and out of the bus stations. Once targeted by the bum patrol, there is no recourse and they are put on body trains (B.T.s) and shipped off to the Essex Street People Sanctuary... better known as agony...

Lyrshu maybe Prime Princess of the land, but her mother, the queen, is dead. Her father, the king is a falling-down drunk. Her world has been taken over by the invading Earthmen... all of which convinces her that she is actually the Prime Princess of nothing. When her Chandler, Cortle murders one of the aliens and threatens blame Harper's death on her orders, because there were no witnesses and no family to support her, she feels no choice but to flee the wrath of the all-powerful invading Earthmen. Relentlessly pursued from island to island, Lyrshu discovers that some of those she thought...

It is 1866. Nineteen-year-old Jason Collins is sent from New Orleans to the Colorado Territory with instructions to his father's friend to either make him a man or break him totally. Kidnapped off the stagecoach by highwaymen, abandoned in the middle of the untamed prairie, and alone in a land he doesn't know, Jay must survive buffalo stampedes, Indians, and the Colorado winter. But what is the real reason his father shipped him west? Is it actually to "make him a man" or is he merely an innocent victim used as a vehicle for vengeance between bitter enemies?