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When Pierre, a troubled veteran, discovers that his girlfriend Ellen is an expensive call girl, it’s easy to understand the need to protect what belongs to him. Pierre’s been to war and back and lost brothers fighting wars against an unknown enemy. To discover that the very people Ellen services are profiting off the backs of other soldiers and students like him for their own gain while threatening Ellen’s life was all it took to throw Pierre over the edge.

The young magic-wielder known as Rhyen Hyldhem, newly graduated from the great Academy in Ikha, knows of the story of Taida - but such events occurred millennia ago. As war brews, however, Rhyen will learn more about his powers and the identity of the fearsome Dark Rider who has stalked him since childhood. Rhyen is about to discover the past isn't dead - and that his destiny is intricately tied to Taida's betrayal of humanity.

Training to be a mystic warrior is an adventure filled with quests, landscape research, spirit guides, and characters from multiple realms. You have to: trust your instincts, rely on a plethora of entertaining and extraordinary helpers, and travel beyond the physical plane to find peace within. This is how a mystic warrior learns external and internal life lessons and how to exist in multiple realities at the same time.

Fugitive Francis Hammerton walks away from the courthouse where he's been convicted of a petty crime - after all, no one's paying much attention - and then suddenly finds himself drawn into a horrible dilemma. He accidentally discovers the body of William Rabone, an attic tenant in the house where Hammerton has taken refuge. He reports the crime to the police, and then is himself unjustly accused of murdering the bank official. What can he do? If he admits his identity to Inspector Combridge, he'll be sent to jail for the original charge.

Josh Rondell is 12 years old and known as the "living dead boy" due to his rampant love of all things zombie. As the head of the Zombie Hunters Club, he's obsessed with preparing for the zombocalypse. Though no one around him really believes that zombies will one day rise to devour the living, Josh is convinced it just might happen. When zombies do shamble into his schoolyard, Josh finds himself the leader of the dwindling band of zombie hunters, and he is charged with protecting them all. Josh's baby brother, his closest friends, and the love of his young life try to survive as the undead take over their town.

The protection of cyberspace has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It might therefore seem obvious that maneuvering in cyberspace is like maneuvering in other media, but nothing would be more misleading. Cyberspace has its own laws.

With the economy in free fall, the government crippled by indecision, the streets taken over by new political parties, and the fragile institutions of civilization crumbling, a young man finds himself homeless and alone on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., facing certain death unless he can master survival skills he never imagined needing. Fending off violent citizens in an urban landscape that is gradually sliding into looting and mayhem, the protagonist emerges as an ultimate force of justice in a lawless land.

Princess Yu-Malu (The Dragon Princess), ancient in age (although seemingly young), most beautiful, and vastly wealthy, hates Western civilization and vows its downfall. She is assisted by a Corps of Dragonflies, members of the Hung, a powerful Secret Society. Yu-Malu wants China restored to its rightful place in the world. As part of her campaign, the Princess desires to obtain the formula of a revolutionary new rocket fuel invented by the West. Unless her demands are met, she will destroy the entire gold stocks of the West with her secret weapon. Already, planes carrying gold have been disappearing, but Yu-Malu's patience has been exhausted.

Starvation, violence, and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps. When the military transforms Washington's life-saving food bank into a gun collection center in order to disarm all but the soldiers themselves, riots ensue.