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Seventeen-year-old Nate Dax sometimes asks himself if a person can die who's never been alive. He's an Outcast - he doesn't have a government chip so the authorities don't know he exists. But if they find him he'll be put to death immediately. Today it's 2094 and Nate hides in what used to be called Colorado when the United States was a country.Everything that's wrong now started with the disastrous presidential election of 2016, when most Americans didn't like either candidate. Four years later the people revolted, tossing out the incumbent and voting for a social democracy that lasted for twenty years. That election - the one in 2040 - was the last in America. Two years later came the disasters. Doomsday prophets called them God's wrath, but they were simply natural phenomena on an unthinkable scale. The Pacific earthquakes and tsunamis killed millions and weakened the San Andreas Fault. The Big One struck with fury, obliterating southern California. America floundered as its leaders helplessly wondered how to respond to such destruction. Others watched too, pleased at what was happening. Soon the enemies of the once-mighty nation took advantage of America's weakness and struck. The Great War of 2042 - also called the Twenty-Minute War - was a terrible demonstration of what concentrated nuclear war can do and it brought down America and the world as it had been. Nations were abolished and the World Union assumed control of planet Earth.What the government did regarding population control is one reason why Outcasts exist. But how can Outcasts like Nate live when they can't buy or sell anything, go into a store, attend a football game or go to school?When Nate's mother and father disappear he thinks he knows what's happened. He has to save them in a world where Outcasts like him will be killed if they're captured. Are there others like him out there ... people who can help? Nate Dax must find out.

NOT SINCE 9/11 . . .One evening in the midst of prime-time programming, networks worldwide interrupt to announce that Air Force Two, a Boeing 747 carrying the Vice President and Secretary of State of the USA, has disappeared after leaving Honolulu, Hawaii on a flight to Hong Kong. An extensive search and rescue effort will soon be underway. President William Henry Harrison IV hears the news aboard Air Force One as he flies with his wife and children from the Caribbean to Dallas. The president's plane changes course, heading now to a secure military installation in Florida.Then the unthinkable happens. Twenty minutes after the first plane disappeared, Air Force One vanishes too. Its last reported location was over the deepest part of the Caribbean Sea, an area known as the Cayman Trench. These two incidents, now unmistakably part of a single plan, harken back to that terrible morning on 9/11 when one tragic crash became two, then three, and the world realized it was all part of a massive terrorism plot.In Washington, Speaker of the House Chambliss T. Parkes, a greedy, vulgar buffoon, is rushed to a secret location as the nation goes to DEFCON 1, the highest threat level, for the first time in history. If the planes are truly gone, Parkes will become President of the United States.As financial markets crash, rioters take to the streets and mass hysteria threatens to destroy the framework of free-world government, the CIA must find answers. Were the two most secure aircraft in the world sabotaged? How could it have been anything else? But how could it have happened? Who is behind it and why? Brian Sadler, a wealthy adventurer and the missing President's closest friend, becomes part of the mission to uncover a plot with worldwide implications. What could possibly get worse?

Buried beneath the streets of London are the answers to an ancient mystery-A wealthy man has secrets he struggles to keep hidden-A hundred people he blackmailed want his painful death-A partner will stop at nothing to keep ancient artifacts his and his alone. Whatever it takes, there will be no sharing of the fame he'll receive.Get your copy today!Deep below a quaint street in London businessman Roberto Maas unearths a secret room. A sarcophagus has rested there for a thousand years. An astonishing set of diaries containing secrets lost for centuries is discovered. The journals are amazing - they were written by a monarch whom history says never existed.As time runs out, Roberto races to learn what the discoveries beneath the ancient city really mean.Get this book now!

HAS A NAZI GOLD TRAIN BEEN HIDDEN IN A MOUNTAIN TUNNEL SINCE WORLD WAR II?Paul Silver, an international businessman and amateur adventurer, arrives in Berlin looking for information about a fabled Nazi train full of priceless objects and gold. Along with answers he finds a deranged man who hated him in the past, a man who wants revenge more than life itself. There have been rumors for decades about a train filled with so much wealth it could fund Hitler's dream of a Fourth Reich. A Romanian family believes its patriarch, one of Hitler's trusted officers, possesses a coded diary - a book that will lead to vast treasure hidden somewhere in Europe at the end of the war.Paul soon learns nothing is as it should be. A hundred-year-old murderer, a gypsy fortune-teller, a trio of greedy relatives and a search for the mysterious Nazi train lead Paul Silver on the most exciting adventure of his life.

COULD FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD NOAH PROCTOR HAVE SLAUGHTERED HIS FAMILY IN THEIR BEDS, ARRANGED THEIR BODIES ON A COUCH AND PUT THEIR HEADS ON THE MANTEL?EVERYONE IN TOWN THINKS SO, BUT NOAH''S NOT TALKING.Proctor Hall is one of Lafourche Parish''s oldest sugarcane plantations. After Noah supposedly murdered his parents and little sister in 1963, he went off to an institution while caretakers maintained the place. Twenty-six years later, the man who never spoke returned home. A girl disappears and people believe Noah''s up to his old tricks.Four college students visit the now-abandoned farmhouse as part of a class project, and they fall victim to whoever -- or whatever -- still resides within its walls. Famous paranormal investigator Landry drake conducts a seance there, uncovers long-hidden secrets and learns that the horror of Proctor Hall is still at work.