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The Sun Thief

CAN EARTH BE SAVED?

The year is 2450. After graduating from the Galactic Preservation Academy, 12-yr-old Earthing Manny Adams is thrust into the role of Chief Cosmic Controller for the Moon when his commander dies in a suspicious moonquake. Jupiterian Cira Blondt is the Chief Cosmic Controller for the Sun, a role she’s wanted since she grew her baby body vents. The two share a unique telepathic bond.


Together, they engage in a battle of wits and courage when Reginald Daschell III, their nemesis from the Academy, concocts a plan to destroy their reputations and proclaim himself a hero to win the respect of his powerful father. Dasch captures the Sun’s Control Center and stops sunlight from reaching the Moon. Without solar power to run the Moon’s equipment, it’s losing the ability to rotate, weakening its gravitational pull on the Earth.


Manny and Cira have just 48 hours to stop Dasch before the Moon crashes into the Earth, exploding it into a gigantic mass of space debris.

Conflicted

Tim Tulloch is a man conflicted.

From the age of four, his father and others trained him in ten forms of hand-to-hand combat, firearms, the bow, the sword, and the staff. He’s excelled at all of them. When his family dies in a mysterious car accident, his grandmother encourages Tim to turn to the Bible. The teachings he learns in its pages cause him to question his true nature. Tim knows his family didn’t die in an accident – they were murdered. He vows to find out who killed them and why.

At 19, he is recruited by the Unit; a three-person secret team started by President Eisenhower. Their mission is to serve America by stealthily fighting the forces of the Group of Twenty and the Apolluons, both of whom want to destroy the country and take control. The Unit is supposed to be non-violent, which fits well with Tim’s new beliefs. But circumstances take a deadly turn causing Tim to take human lives, including one close to him.

Tim won’t risk his faith. He leaves the Unit and builds a mission in Los Angeles with his new wife. Fate is not finished with him, though. When local gangs threaten to destroy the mission and harm his wife and daughter, Tim must decide between turning the other cheek or being an Avenger for God.

So Much Bad in the Best of Us

Loretta Nelson, or Lolo as she likes to be called, is no stranger to loss. It began with the death of her mother during childbirth; a crime for which her drunk of a father blames her. He wants nothing to do with her except to degrade and abuse, pawning her off on her nanny, Miss Sarah, then his secretary Margaret, and finally the Sisters at Blessed Sacrament boarding school. Life gets better, life gets worse, life goes on, and she manages to survive.

It’s the late 1950s and early ’60s in a small Midwestern town. Lolo wants a family, but more than that, she wants someone to love her for who she is, not the killer her father accuses her of being. This quest for love, by a desperate child who barely knows what love is, weaves a story of lies, theft, sexual exploration, and child abuse. All of it secrets she must keep behind a facade of humor and bravado. But everything and everyone Lolo loves seems to disappear leaving her more and more vulnerable.

The sudden death of her father (did she kill both her parents?) reveals a man she never knew. How could there be so much bad in the best of us?

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