A space construction injury ends Natasha Romanenka’s Cosmonaut career, but not her life. She’s determined to adapt to her injuries and remain on the Moon. With the help of sympathetic, influential friends she succeeds and receives permission to stay and open Café NASA at Philolaus Station, Luna. Natasha soon contributes much more than culinary skills. She shares adventures with a colorful cast of characters who become customers and friends like WATCHER, ICEMAN, Ned Divine, REGULATOR, and others who share news and adventures within and beyond the diner.

     It’s a curious time for Luna. Thanks to the discovery of copious quantities of ice and rare minerals in the lunar crust and the lowered cost of space travel, Philolaus Station becomes something reminiscent of the American old west. The floodgates of immigration are flung to greet a wide assortment of adventurers. The staid group of scientists, engineers, technicians and government officials mix with thrill seekers, colonists, tourists, and private company executives all bent on leaving their mark and staking their claim in this high frontier.

     You’ll join Natasha and her new friends as they stumble upon a hidden 3000-year-old cache of record spindles and artifacts left by a mysterious group called the Trapp, learn of their contest of wills with the Chi-com, as they struggle to build a second, competitively secret  Lunar mass driver and of the choices Natasha made that launched her starry career and an unrequited love that spanned both time and space.

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“Notions are the stuff of dreams!” That’s the motto of Dream Works; a company in Nod that fabricates and exports Dreams to Earth. Three brownies (Dwindle, Mirp and Twilay) work for Dream Works as dream wranglers. They and their dragon steeds catch notions that are woven into dreams. All is well in this rustic paradise till Dwindle begins to dream of an Earth girl he calls the chocolate child. It’s the first in a chain of seemingly impossible events … Brownies aren’t supposed to dream!
More complications appear when Dream Works hosts a finisher unit … wranglers of a darker sort who gather Specters for a class of dreams called The Quietus, meant only for those about to die. The three wranglers befriend a Valkyrie finisher, Sigrdrífa Grimm who will aid them in a quest they didn’t even know they’ve begun! When Dwindle is injured and falls into a coma he permanently connects with the Chocolate Child and learns her name … Jazarae. She calls him her protector but from what she doesn’t know. Grounded by his injuries, Dwindle works in the dispatcher’s where he discovers Jazarae’s name and date of death in the Quietus Ledger; a register reserved for those scheduled to die. Dwindle is convinced Jazarae’s quietus date has been altered and enlists the pixie Niamh, a former scribe, to cross-check the death date with the master ledger kept at Castle Mildew. They find it has been altered, another supposed impossibility! This touches off a race for Dwindle and his friends to find the Antiquietus formula and combine a hodgepodge of notions and specters never before assembled to save Jazarae. By degrees they discover their task isn’t finished; that they are only pieces in an even vaster game that holds the fate of both Nod and Earth in the balance!

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Virginia City, Utah Territory,1860. Young Nathanial Bodine is looking for work and is referred by Samuel Clemens of the Territorial Enterpriseto one Pony Bob Haslam a larger than life character advertising for Pony Express riders. In his visit with Pony Bob at the Dusty Throat Saloon, Nate doesn’t realize he’s standing at the crossroads of a life change not only leading to adventures in the old American West, but to ones through time and space as well. Nate soon meets an orphan stranger; they will eventually discover and share an incredibly special gift. But there’s a catch: The two must bond together to make it work. With the help of a few others Nate and his new friend meet along the way, they discover both protagonists and antagonists will stop at nothing to possess its secret. And if perfected the change may lead to the downfall of empires and the rise of a truly advanced form of interdimensional teleportation.

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Meet Monsignor Thomas Gunner Steele, Church Mystic and head of the Vatican’s paranormal section. Steele, together with his spiritual partner Esmerelda, the spirit of a 16th century nun, and Gato his pet cat, which is Esmerelda’s physical connection to this world, have been called to solve many normal and paranormal mysteries.

What started out as a normal morning for Steele, ended abruptly with an attempt on his life. Just saved from a sniper by a phone call from Sister Giovanini, his personal assistant, who called to say the Cardinal wanted to talk to him about this next mission. After being rescued by this friend, the Police Captain, Benedetto Rinaldo, there was little forensic evidence from the attempt on his life found at the scene.

At his audience with Cardinal Roncalli, Monsignor Steele learns his service has been requested by the Norwegian, American, and Russian governments to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several key scientists at a super-secret base, on an island off the Antarctic coast. Along with Gato and Esmerelda, Steel is off to Elephant Island where they are plunged headlong into a twin real and paranormal adventure, a hidden base within a base, with not one but two hidden agendas.

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Vatican mystic Monsignor Thomas Steele is the director of the Paranormal Section of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy because of his special spiritual connection to a 16th century nun named Esméralda. Gato, Steele’s pet cat, also plays its special part in this union … Gato is Esméralda’s physical connection with this world … her sense of taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing.
The Monsignor is studying manuscripts in his office within the archives of Vatican City, when the silence is broken by the raised voices of two arguing women. One is his assistant, Sister Donna Giovanini … the other is an apparently dowdy drunk who has somehow managed to stagger through security checks to his office. This highlander dressed in a rumpled tartan business suit is none other than Flora Campbell and she’s about to launch the Monsignor on his next paranormal adventure.
This Glasgow University professor has used modern technology to restore an ancient parchment unearthed from a private library buried in the volcanic ash of the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. This parchment was written by Joseph Ben Matthias a famous first-century Jewish priest, soldier, and scholar. His other literary works provided crucial documentation of first century A.D. Roman Palestine. But this newly discovered parchment hints at the existence of a second scroll (now lost) and a fabulous trove of ancient Hebrew temple artifacts hidden somewhere in the depths of the Masada Plateau.
Steele is skeptical at first, but a chain of clues emerge that conclude with a visit from Esméralda confirming Joseph Ben Matthias’ lost scroll not only exists but lies misfiled somewhere within the Vatican archives itself. When Esméralda and Gato find the second scroll, the last of Steele’s reservations evaporate. After briefing the Pontiff on his findings and receiving his blessing, Monsignor Steele recruits old comrades from previous adventures and equips Team Masada for a subterranean search for antiquities. Together they face challenges, including a brimstone portal called Sabbath Crossing, golems, sacred soldiers, witness a skirmish between good and evil and the might of the Chavilahan empire.

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NASA has found a way to project the conscious mind of men into robots over extreme distances and all in mere seconds. The Five men and one woman (3 astronauts and 3 convicts) of Baker Trick are working out the kinks of the system on the moon where America is constructing the first permanent moon base called Hab 1 inside a lava tube below the lunar surface. Suddenly all communication with Earth is severed. Their bodies cocooned on Earth will die if their minds and bodies are not regularly reunited. Despite their differences the team is left to sort out the problem on their own.
As the time allotted time for the unification of mind and body expires and no solution has been found they must deal with the reality that their conscious minds are almost certainly trapped inside their robot housings. Most of Baker Team lapses into a deep depression; to make it worse the team leader commits suicide (switches off).
Then, to everyone’s surprise a signal from earth is received; a series of dot and dash flashes in old Morse code. They can read the message but can’t respond because they lack the equipment. Gradually they discover an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) War was waged earth. Then one of them remembers several Apollo missions had brought the very equipment needed to reply. The Apollo 15 landing site is the nearest and two are sent to try to retrieve the equipment.
On the way their rover is swamped in a dust pool where they discover life on the moon and the fate of one who had left the Hab earlier to go mountain climbing. With these discoveries and what they find at the Apollo 15 landing site, they begin to understand what really has happened back on Earth and devise a plan to counteract it.

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The Magic Quill is a fantasy journey that begins in 1840’s New York City and ends in the other-world reality of Nevermore. A larger than life character (Morpheus) enters the dream world of a comatose man offering to save his life, but there’s a catch … His would-be savior declares … “Value for value exchanges must always take place. Equations must balance … that is the way of the universe.” To survive this man must agree to become a Quill-master.
You make this journey through the eyes of this mysterious stranger and learn together what it means to be a Quill-master and his power through a cast of characters you’ll meet along the way. The Constables of Raven Claw, friends Not-black, Nimble-rig, Hop and Pec; Lenore of the Conjurcordia and his Regulator and Elektrikan Enemies.
Who is this stranger? You, the reader are challenged to solve the identity-riddle to this troubled man of letters. Use the clues provided in bold type throughout the story to solve it. Spoiler alert! His true identity is revealed in the last sentence of the last page of the book. Enjoy the read!

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Father Thomas Steele was putting the final touches to his speech before the Pontifical Swiss Guard regiment on medieval combat tactics, when Sister Donna Giovanini interrupted to say Father Ricci, Cardinal Roncalli’s assistant was on the phone and needed to see him immediately.
Minutes later Fr Ricci staggered into the office with a crate of ancient relics. One would touch off Steele’s next adventure.

It wasn’t a clock or a time piece. The startled Monsignor had only seen one before, and that was copy. This was an original tool used to predict celestial movements of the Sun, Earth’s Moon and the five known planets known to exist at the time. They called this an Antikythera mechanism named for the island off which the original was salvaged from a sunken ship. This was taken from a plundered roman nobleman’s Tomb.

At noon the next day he, Gato, Brother Pendragon and a survey team left for the ancient city of Venosa in southern Italy to explore the find, speak with the local Priest and Georgio Accardi grounds supervisor for the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, and the ruins of an ancient amphitheater who showed them the partially plundered memorial of Roman General Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who’d faced Hannibal in battle.
Steele didn’t need Esmeralda or Gato to tell him other things had been taken from the tomb. While Pendragon was arranging for the survey teams arrival, He demonstrated his paranormal powers discovering a hidden compartment in the back of the tomb. Steele began questioning nervous Georgio before giving him two options: Confess what he had taken and return them, or face prosecution for the theft. Steele pointed out that as a Catholic his confession was protected by the sanctity of the confessional. Georgio agreed but admitted his brother was also involved in the theft. Steele replied he could nothing for the other unless he made the same agreement.

After Pendragon’s return Steele made 2 discoveries in the smaller room; the first was a transposition cipher (scytale) used to send messages on the battlefield, the second was a simple wooden crucifix. Both presented mysteries: The 1700-year-old scytale was still sealed and designed to destroy the message within, if improperly opened, but the crucifix … General had died in 208 B.C., over 200 years before the birth of Christ and Christianity … how had it come to be in a double sealed tomb? They found a 3rd object they could not identify till later.

Weeks later a fan named Francesco Accardi the supposed brother of of Georgio appears; he wishes to confess as well, but it seems there is a slight complication. He isn’t Georgio’s brother. Francesco Accardi claims to be Judas Iscariot, Christ’s betrayer.
The rest of the book concerns opening the scytale, reading and reacting to the message, the origin of the cross but you’ll have to buy the book for that.

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Dying Roman Catholic Priest, Father Dax Boyier is literally “dying” to find his replacement. Father Boyier, the second caretaker approaches a nameless protestant minister and begins his recruitment “pitch” by telling him the story of how the first caretaker came to the job. The tale begins in the high summer of 1911 in the Village of Pleasant Falls Vermont, when an enigmatic scientist, calling himself “Professor B” approaches the Reverend Luther F. Alewine, a struggling, recently ordained minister, who harbors some unconventional ideas concerning the scriptures.  “B” has constructed a machine he calls a temporal transporter, capable of traveling through time and space.

He proposes a pooling of skills and resources for a voyage 2000 years back in time to save the Christian Redeemer from crucifixion.  “B” invites the skeptical Alewine to his laboratory for a transporter demonstration. When Alewine arrives with assistant Deacon Matthias Archway, they meet Alewine’s old Spanish American War Commander, Brigadier General Percival Parthington. “B” and Alewine then take a jaunt 24 hours into the past where they witness their own first meeting. The Brigadier, Reverend Alewine and Deacon Archway depart for Judea and Jerusalem in the early morning hours of 7 July, powered by the electromagnetic energy of a terrific thunderstorm. In the City of David they encounter a cast of characters, some known from the bible, others not, but even familiar personalities reveal unsuspected character twists and surprises.  There is treasure, betrayal and even death from unanticipated quarters. The surprising results of the rescue attempt and its aftermath reverberate from the time of Christ to the present day.

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So what’s a C.R.I.S.P.R.? Krista Everett was a seismologist by profession. She didn’t know what a C.R.I.S.P.R. was either, not until she discovered her husband’s journal hidden in the Ixtapa, Mexico hotel room safe. C.R.I.S.P.R. stands for Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats. Okay … not helpful.  It’s a researcher designed genetic splicing engine made by coupling a length of bacterial RNA to a viral enzyme. It precisely snips and replaces nearly any DNA segment. Better?

The story begins two weeks ago when her husband Russell came home from work with news of a new assignment and a proposition: Take a long overdue, all expenses paid vacation in Ixtapa, Mexico while he consults on a special project aboard the research ship Phoenix that has put into port at the Ixtapa Marina That was the story then …

Shortly after arriving Krista meets Henri, hotel falconer and his falcon Voltan, they’re paid to keep the hotel campus clear of nuisance birds. He and Voltan will soon play a crucial role as the saga unfolds.

From Russ’s secret journal Krista learns Russ was really here to stop a mutated C.R.I.S.P.R. epidemic that escaped containment and was spreading among the Phoenix staff and crew.  It implicates him with a rogue research group unencumbered by ethics and unimpeded by governmental oversight. Its disregard for standard protocol threatens all life on Earth as we know it.

Even as she reads the journal, the forces of nature are conspiring to vastly worsen the problem. While Russ was at the Marina, a massive earthquake shakes Ixtapa to its foundations. As a trained seismologist Krista knows what’s coming and tries to warn hotel staff and guests but to no avail.  She meets Henri on the beach and race to the higher ground safety of her fifth floor hotel room just in time to watch a massive 60 foot tsunami swamp the Ixtapa coast.

The cell towers on the hills above Ixtapa are still intact and Krista contacts her Brother Andre, CEO of a medical equipment company and her Sister Yvette, a Pentagon Air Force flight nurse to tell them what’s happened and that her husband Russ is missing. Each has the ways and means to visit the devastated region and help their sister.

While Krista is helping in the local relief efforts she finds Russell’s diary. She doesn’t know the chief architect of the secret research effort, Dr. Dennis Walsh, has arrived aboard the Phoenix’s sister ship Phoenix II. or that the project’s chief financial backer, drug lord Ricardo Salvador has arrived on his ship, Patron.  Neither are here to join in the rescue effort. They’ve come in search of Batch 357 containing the seeds of contagion and the keys to cure every disease of the human condition … including death itself.

Andre and Yvette arrive in Ixtapa, find their sister and learn of the contagion. They find the tsunami has swept the Phoenix inland. With Henri and Voltan as guides, Krista, Yvette and Andre trudge through the tortured landscape to the wreck and discover they are not alone. Scientists and underworld investors are also converging to find B-357 samples and destroy evidence of their criminal involvement. They also encounter victims of the C.R.I.S.P.R. plague at the wreck site, including Krista’s husband transformed into another entity.  He and other mutated survivors join the fight to defeat of the unscrupulous developers and backers of B-357 and a cure to the C.R.I.S.P.R. plague.

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TALES FROM THE PARADOXICON:

A tongue-in-cheek fantasy of an oasis at the confluence of space, time and alternate realities. Called the Paradoxicon, it’s a realm of three concentric zones (green, yellow and red) named for the degree of chaos (and danger) they represent.  Near the Green Zone’s center stands the Time Traveler’s Hotel (T.T.H) catering to a wide variety of time traveling guests. Hard-working, underpaid and underappreciated Ferly Quixot is personal assistant to a chief executive who never seems to be there.  Ferly pulls the strings of this vast hotel complex from an office hardly larger than a closet which he shares with Princess Aurora, his bosses’ cat. We follow Mr. Quixot as he encounters vanished notables from our world including Amelia Earhart, James Hoffa and a Captain and cadet crew of a lost Danish training ship. We meet other colorful T.T.H. staff and residents who share Quixot’s various adventures, misadventures and hotel intrigues.  He uses remote Earth viewing to plan a rescue expedition into the Red Zone, solve the identity of an amnesiac warrior, prevent a contract assassination, a hotel takeover and more.

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   THE WISHING SCROLL

A stray cat, a conniving twin brother, a legendary treasure thief and chief keeper of spells and scrolls in the library of the Gods combine to fling Bryan Ralston, struggling college student from his mundane world of work and study into the realm of sorcery, gods and treasure. His adventure begins one stormy night when a mysterious cat arrives. Bryan names her Chirp. His con-artist twin soon appears with a magic Wishing Scroll.  By wishing for money and pulling it from the scroll, Bryce proves it works to his skeptical brother. When Bryan expresses moral qualms about the money’s source, they settle the issue by asking for unclaimed cash. This time they go for BIG money. Bryan reaches in pulls out a moldy canvass knapsack containing fortune in $20.00 bills.

When Bryan uses some to pay tuition expenses, agents Quantrell and Vincenti soon appear asking pointed questions. It seems the serial numbers match the $200,000 dollars extorted by one D.B. Cooper in a November 24^th, 1971 skyjacking. During the interview, Agent Vincenti mentions his father was a passenger on that plane.

Bryan spends a night in jail and learns next morning Agent Vincenti has vanished. Previously, all hostages survived the Cooper Hijack but now Bryan is told the plane crashed killing all aboard; people and things have begun to change. Since Agent Vincenti’s father died, Vincenti was never born and his children have ceased to exist.

Bryan returns to his apartment to find a haughty, smoldering, beauty sitting in his living room. Chirp the cat has changed into Seshat, chief keeper of spells and scrolls in the library of the gods. She’s come to stop a cosmic battle between Seth and Horus for the kingship of the gods. If Seth prevails, he’ll replace the present cosmos with one tailored to his whims. Bryan must help Seshat recover the scroll and mend time itself.

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 Homesteaders transports you to a reality where the People’s Republic of China (the P.R.C.) has used money, politics and intrigue to control deep space. America and other space faring nations are largely confined to the Earth-Moon System but the Main Asteroid Belt is where the action is and China controls it. Main Belt is Earth’s main source of metalloids, volatiles and above all Helium-3, the stuff that stokes the fusion furnaces of Terra. Newly graduated scientists and engineers with off-world aspirations have little choice but to work for P.R.C. chartered companies. Space systems engineer Harry Benton (Tin Man) signs with Deep Space Extractions Inc. (D.S.E.) to help build the Helium-3 aerostat tanker fleet to collect and deliver this precious fuel to Earth. Harry dies in a horrific shipyard accident, but this is not the end for Harry … it’s only the beginning.  Harry Benton is destined to become the center piece in a three-part triangle, he didn’t even know existed!

The Ceres Microgravity Research Institute examines Benton’s mangled body, pronounces him dead and thus a candidate for the Wong Tai Sin Protocol, a technique used to restore the dying and the dead. Harry’s return to the living signals a series of rollercoaster events for him and mankind.  Months of  operations and painful therapy transforms Harry into a weeper, so named for the amber tears these patients shed. The procedure saves his life, but there’s a heavy price to pay. Harry’s injuries qualify him for retirement and a pension, but his intolerance to heavy gravity prohibits a return to Earth or even Luna.  Seemingly destined to become a permanent Cererian resident, Harry files for and receives a special permit to repair personal employee gadgets. He soon is overwhelmed with requests including those of the enigmatic Wǔ Zhāng, executive assistant to Wang Ming-húa, D.S.E.’s Chief Executive on Ceres, who is impressed with his work. The twin animatronic dragons Harry Benton fashions for the Chinese New Year wins Wang Ming-húa’s favor and helps Harry secure his claim when he wins a lottery to prospect Asteroid #2135 GS.

Harry and Aussie expatriate Aristide Laurent ship out on the D.S.E. container ship Celestial Quest, to claim their five kilometer, 20 billion ton asteroid. After offloading equipment and supplies, Benton and Laurent are left to begin their 9 month isolation trial. Their mission is to discover profitable quantities of platinum family ores and Helium-3.  They find far more than they bargained for.

We follow their exploits as they struggle to build their base following the Habitat Cook Book, rescue slave prisoners from the hulk of a drifting prison ship and discover treasures beyond their wildest dreams, including a millennia old artifact with the psychic and technical capability to challenge China’s Asteroid Belt monopoly and transform the destiny of the human race.

Glimmer Mirror

Widower, Dr. Roger Babcock is a lead scientist at BattleCom Corporation, prime contractor of various highly classified U.S. military programs.  He and assistant Tandy Chang are on a quest for a candidate to fashion Dragonhide, an ultimate battle armor only molecules thick. Their search centers on candidates of a carbon variation; the Buckminster-fullerene molecule, or buckyball. Through a series of accidents, Babcock discovers intriguing properties of Candidate #764. It’s unrelated to their main line of research but contrary to orders, he continues his investigation anyway.

Project supervisor, Dr. Andre Lancet discovers this insubordination and Babcock receives a written reprimand. It does not deter Babcock who continues his research at home in his basement.  This is where he discovers what he calls the Glimmer Mirror with the potential to open portals to other worlds. Babcock continues gathering information and equipment. On the very night he is poised to cross through the Glimmer Mirror to a place he’s named Other-Where, Chan appears to tell him they’ve both been fired then rehired by a secret agency to continue their work on C #764. What follows is a wild ride through this and other worlds as Roger and Chang discover Glimmer Mirror’s potential and the plots and counter plots of those who will stop at nothing to possess Glimmer Mirror’s secret.

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 CONSIDER THE LILIES

Aki Mataumoto is the youngest of five children born to Japanese immigrants. Aki’s physical appearance leads him to lead a secluded life at the family nursery. Though crippled in body his mind is not. Aki becomes a brilliant, self-trained expert in botanical research.

He and his pet cat Neko are prospecting the Huʻehuʻe lava field in search of rare plant specimens when they make two world-shattering discoveries.The first is an amazing planimal he names Shiranai.  As Aki prepares to transport it to the Mataumoto Nursery, he makes the second find … an undiscovered lava tube and the mummified remains of a WW II Japanese aviator swaddled in a parachute, still clutching his log book. It tersely chronicles the fateful events leading to his death on December 7, 1941 and reveals an astounding surprise.

Aki soon discovers Shiranai is evolving!  It exudes a substance he calls Enkindler to merge with the genetic material of other living and dead creatures. Worse, still, it’s becoming self-aware. What happens if Shiranai obtains human DNA? When others around him learn of his find and its potential, they begin to act in their own self-interest. Betrayed and without allies, Aki makes a desperate choice to stop the creature he has unwittingly unleashed upon the world … to use the Enkindler to resurrect the mummified Japanese aviator and the secret he holds.

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FALLEN ANGELS

In this sequel to Creatures of Habit, mystic Monsignor Thomas Steele and the Vatican’s Paranormal Section are again called into action. Steele, his beloved cat Gato and his BMW R1200GS motorbike are flown to Petersburg, Alaska where U.S. Navy Commander Eddie Murphy, briefs Steele on the mysterious disappearance of an American Ohio class Trident submarine.

The two meet a sultry brunette, Alexandra Alexandrova, who the Monsignor quickly deduces is a Russian agent; it seems Russia has also lost an atomic submarine. Alexandra also harbors a  secret even she doesn’t know about. To find the lost submarines Steele maneuvers Alexandrova and Murphy into a reluctant alliance, unknown to their governments.

To solve the mystery, Izzy tells Steele they’ll need a private submarine. The only one in the area is broken and belongs to 12-Gage a retired cage fighter. The priest must win a match with12-gage to win his help.

Meanwhile Esméralda charges Steele to make a hazardous an apparently unrelated journey to the LeConte glacier and the Thunder Bay ice fjord. Here, he Gato learn firsthand what a “shooter” is and how dangerous they can be. From a seaplane wreckage Steele rescues a fortune in diamonds before it sinks into to the depths of LeContre Fjord. Steele will use them to fund the secret mission within a mission and refit the Barbarba-Ann.

Steele, and his friends journey to Coney Island where Izzy has located a submerged cavern, a stranded alien transdimensional space ship and the missing submarines. From the human crews they learn about their captors and the bizarre working truce that is keeping them alive. Only one thing remains for a fix. Now Steele understands the reason for his trip to LeContre Fjord and begins an eerie trade to broker a rescue of the captive crews and submarines. Finished, Steele begins a motorbiking trip on the byways of British Columbia for Seattle, but this journey is interrupted … apparently his and Gato’s work isn’t finished …

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We join unconventional Vatican mystic Monsignor Thomas Steele of the Vatican’s paranormal section on his first adventure, an entrant in the punishing Dakar endurance rally. Steele thunders through the Atacama Desert, Chile, driest spot on Earth on his BMW racing bike when he’s ordered to visit the Handmaidens of Christ the Healer Convent, a fortress like refuge for sisters suffering from psychiatric disorders.

On arriving, Steele learns the reason for his call: Residents behind these cloistered walls are being attacked and found pregnant … but how? Most are beyond child bearing age. Steele receives polite but grudging support from local clergy, when he raises the possibility that the menace may be temporal, not spiritual.

From a local Mapuche Indian and convent handyman, Steele learns the convent was built on the bones of an old Spanish fort which in turn was erected upon the ruins of an ancient Incan citadel. He regales the Monsignor with legends of the Chonchon, a race of night creatures who were here when his ancestors arrived 12,000 years ago.

With Esmeralda (Izzy) his 16^th century spiritual guide and a feral cat named Gato, Steele moves from adventure to adventure seeking to discover the true nature of the threat. As he does, we learn more about this complicated man of action, his murky past and his bitter-sweet love, lost but not forgotten.

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Tomboy daughter from a family of 7 sons, Yvette Mischeau graduates first in her class from the Space Maritime Academy earning her pick of available assignments. When an anticipated commission in the Federal Space Navy is denied, she applies for a maritime billet read that reads like a travel brochure. It promises a first mate’s billet on a ship with the capacity to carry “1500 souls”. Trusting Mischeau arrives at Port Golgotha on Planet New Elysium in the Revelations System to find her posting is not to a cruise ship as she’d supposed but to the space tug Azrael. The 1500 “souls” mentioned in the posting aren’t vacationers but corpses! Mischeau has unwittingly joined Project Lazarus and New Elysium’s funerary fleet, in the midst of disinterring the dead from the cemeteries of New Elysium and reinterring them on New Elysium’s barren second moon, Necropolis. New Elysium is a water world with a 2% surface land mass and is running out of living space. The governing religious theocracy, the Jarl, observe strict covenants governing the preservation of life and veneration of the dead. To complicate matters there is a jurisdictional dispute over New Elysium’s second moon.
More surprises follow: Azrael’s master, ageing Captain Flynt, assigns the rooky ensign to a Gaelic speaking ship’s computer MacTavish, named for the Azrael’s first master and Flynt’s grandfather. As the Azrael prepares for her next Golgotha-Necropolis run, two tardy clerics arrive: Priest (Exemplar) Eleazar Steele and his assistant, Acolyte, Ira Cross. Their mission is to sanctify the reburial of the dead but their secret mission is to refute accounts of risen dead roaming the airless moon. On arrival the clerics discover the sacred tombs have been plundered. The Azrael’s crew and passenger are taken captive by grave robbers. It gradually becomes apparent they are not the only inhabitants of this catacombed underworld. Tomb robbers and Azrael’s crew alike are soon fighting for survival against an implacable enemy they cannot hope to understand.

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