At the age of twenty-one, Kenny has not overcome the trauma of being kidnapped by a pedophile when he was a child. He vows to find and confront his kidnapper. Jimmy is nine years old and meets a man named Joe. He gets into Joe’s car and becomes the latest captive. Joe is a genius, well educated, and has an important job with a government contractor. He has passed numerous security clearances without question. He does not think he is a dangerous person. All he wants is someone to love him, the way any son would love his father. Kenny describes Joe to an artist friend who draws a remarkable likeness. Kenny turns to the Internet, creates a web page, puts the picture on it, and asks for people to help identify the whereabouts of Joe. He meets someone online who thinks he works with a man who looks a lot like the picture. He agrees to help. Sue is Jimmy’s mother. When a week passes and Jimmy still isn’t found, she gets actively involved in the search for her son. She initiates a fund-raising campaign to get money for a reward, gets posters printed and distributed. She goes on TV to plead for his return and gives interviews to newspaper reporters. Kathy is Joe’s ex-wife. She has maintained minimal contact with him over the years. Now that she is getting remarried, she is drawn back into his world again. Her guilty conscience bothers her because she never reported Joe’s fantasies to anyone in authority. The newspapers and television news programs report daily on Jimmy’s disappearance and she begins to wonder if her ex took him.
Eric runs away from home and hides inside a panel truck hauling animals. The truck finally comes to a stop at a remote complex late at night. Eric sneaks into the building and hides in the attic. He becomes comfortable with his new home, gets food and drink from the building's cantina, and makes friends with the dogs held captive in cages. Several weeks later he decides to leave the installation but rescues his favorite healthy dog, a monkey, and six sick dogs. They wander the mountainous area and camp out at night. After the animals disappear, the scientists learn that two genetically engineered microorganisms were injected into six of the missing dogs and after a while the formulas begin reacting to each other and mutating. They learn that the evolving microorganisms do not stabilize and six of the escaped dogs will become carriers of a deadly pneumonic form of anthrax plague. All of the animals love Eric and he gives each of them a name. After a while, the sick dogs appear to be healthy again. Shep and Reds leave Eric's group. They come to a farm in the mountain region and raid the chicken house at night. Within four days, the farmer, his family, pets and livestock have succumbed to the new plague. Friendly and Blackie leave the group and set off in another direction. That night, they come to a sheep farm. After the farm is quiet, they break into the barn and kill a sheep. The farm becomes devoid of life. Eric, the monkey, and three dogs sneak into a campground but Sunshine and Brownie don't want to stay. They go in their own direction. The scientists work around the clock in the underground BSL-4 laboratory. They narrow the search to a triggering mechanism that activates the plague within the dogs but they cannot find a cure. The Centers for Disease Control is contacted and several of their scientists set up base at the research center.
This is the story of a womans life after she leaves Earth with an alien. Most of her story is told through the entries she makes in her journal. Her alien companion is estranged from his father, yet his love for his father is reflected in everything he does. When he finally accepts that he will no longer be with his father, he finds another father figure to fill the void. As the Earth woman and her companion live out their lives, she writes about portals, battleships, warlike species, battles fought, a sun going nova, and even seniors joining the military. During the course of her life, the woman has gone from mental patient to mind walker to wife to warrior. Through it all, her companions have been more alien than anything she could have imagined while on Earth. This is a story about the relationship between a truly alien man, an Earth woman, a sentient spaceship, and the love they have for one another. The people they meet along the way only add more substance to her journal entries.
Conway retires from the FBI at the age of sixty. He takes with him copies of reports hed come across when he had been investigating murders. He begins to track a particular hit man believed to be responsible for many of those murders. Brian Purger is a free-lance hit man. His survival depends on his cunning and strength. He finds peace only at his New Hampshire mountain retreat. Bill is the closest thing to a friend Purger has ever had. Bill is a college graduate and works for a large company. He is a widower with a young daughter and values family life above all else. He is in love with Leigh but is worried she will find out about his friendship with Purger. Leigh is divorced, a working mother with two children. She is insecure and wants more than anything to have her children grow up with a father figure in the home. She loves Bill and thinks he is the answer to making her family complete. Bill takes Leigh on a romantic skiing trip to a remote New England mountain and finds that a blizzard is closing in. Bill has never told Leigh that Purger also has a cabin on the mountain. The ski holiday soon intrudes into Purger's reclusive life. He tells Bill that he will eliminate the woman if she gets too close. He believes he will be doing his friend a favor. He threatens to kill Bill too if he gets in the way. Bill warns Leigh and tells her about Purger but they cannot escape in the car because of the blizzard. They decide to ski down the mountain to safety. When Bill disappears during the trip, Leigh realizes she is alone on the mountain, with a professional killer in pursuit.
A young woman is being stalked in Florida because a man believes she writes the steamy romance novels that have captivated him. The detective assigned to her case is captivated by the woman and soon he and the victim fall in love. When the police have no luck finding the stalker, she hires a private investigator. The stalker continues to watch and is upset that other people are becoming involved in her life. Soon, the private investigator goes missing. The stalker decides that the only way he will have the woman all to himself is to take her to his home. He is meticulous and plans every detail. When he is ready, he kidnaps her and takes her to his soundproof apartment on a private estate in the north. The clues the detective uncovers about the kidnapping take him from Florida to New York to Colorado. He is racing against time and believes that if he doesnt find them soon, both the woman and the private investigator will be dead.
Conway is retired from the FBI, but he still works cases. Ten young women have gone missing, and he thinks the kidnappings were committed by one man. Cons FBI girlfriend continues to give him internal reports and analyses about the missing, but Con isnt making much progress. Jason, his twenty-year-old grandson, comes to visit, and together they begin mapping out the pieces of the puzzle. What Conway and Jason dont know is that the man they are seeking is an educated and sophisticated man with a wife and family and is someone they would typically overlook. As teenagers, James and Patrick made a pact, and for the past fifteen years, they have been fulfilling that promise. Jamess aunt died and left her entire estate to James, including the cliffside house and the tunnels beneath it. James has taken eleven young women and now holds them in cells in the tunnels.
The Captain is a descendant of an advanced species that has left this galaxy. Before leaving, his father gave him advanced technology, extreme abilities, and a sentient ship for his home. The Captain had not met a species with more advanced technology until his encounter with the Zolins. When the equally advanced Zolins become a threat to his system, the Captain can no longer avoid the war and joins with the Collection. The Collection is a military organization and has over a hundred member species. They are at war with the Zolins because the Zolins are now expanding their territory and invading occupied systems. The Collection sends the Captain to the Earth system to surveil Zolin ships that have taken an interest in the system. While there, he walks many human minds and becomes intrigued with a human female. He transports to her room and tells her he is offering her the opportunity to be his companion. If she agrees, she will have a life longer than other humans and a life of adventure. He says he is also recruiting her to work with the Collection in defeating the Zolins. He will teach her the Zolin language so she understands what she hears after he has trained her to walk Zolin minds.
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