An ancient alien relic is found by an asteroid mining crew, which turns out to be much more than just a strange black opaque cube. Logan, brother to one of the miners, is whisked away along with several other specialists to work on a secret project. Under the watchful eyes of their personal Security Special Forces agents, Logan and colleagues begin to become suspicious behind the motives of the Jackson-Stone Corp. Jackson-Stone Corp. is the largest company in the world. With two space elevators, the company monopolized space trade, mining, zero-G tech development and many other facets of the worlds economy. The company even controlled the government of New Congo. When the power of the cube is harnessed, will it be used for good or will greed turn humanity down a dangerous path? This is a working rough draft of my first novel, i would appreciate any feedback that anyone is willing to give. I have not yet finished the novel, so some parts will be more polished than others. Thank you.

As their skies fill with a vast portent of doom, can Nilena, a paladin knight of Scylla's Kaliak Dynasty and Kanda, a shaman of Charybdis' Atiak of Northridge, find the strength and courage to save their people? With desperate mobs and fading resources plaguing their dying lands, it will take all of Nilena's and Kanda's skill, intelligence and ability to see them through to the end. Will it be the end they hope for? Fantasy Smack Down Round 3 Entry, Dying Earth theme, based on pictures 1, 2, 7 and 8, and the Police's 'Message in a Bottle' video

Uncertain of his place in a galaxy filled with machines, join former organic soldier Kazimon Seven on his journey to understand himself in the wake of a mecha civil war. Sci-Fi Smackdown entry, Round One. Utilized pictures 1 - building landscape (oracle compound), 3 - robot knight (mecha commander), 4 - anime female bot (Ro) and 5 - dead metal angels (Ro's painting of love) as inspiration.

An attempt to use juxtaposed descriptions with counter intuitive meanings as a metaphorical reference.

What if the person you trusted the most suddenly became a stranger, who desperately wanted you dead? And if an hour later, they were back to normal? Detective Jack Arnette was a respected cop, before a hostage situation went horribly wrong. Victor Slade is a meditating, hedonistic cop-killer. When Victor makes a pickup at the Seattle docks, Jack sees a chance for redemption. A simple arrest. Respect regained. But events spin out of control when Jack and Victor are quarantined with the dock workers and a virus that can make anyone go temporarily homicidal. Trapped by a SWAT team with orders to shoot anyone who leaves the building, Jack must deal with a cop-killer who has little to lose, and a group of innocents who could become just as dangerous. Who would you trust when anyone could become a killer?

"It's unlike any paranormal book I've read--very smart, very fresh, and very addictive, and very still in my mind." –And Anything Bookish In 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries. Isolated on a Montana mountainside, only Sadie, the rogue daughter, dares to abandon the family’s sacred hiding place. But no matter how far Sadie runs, something always pulls her back. On a muggy summer night in Tennessee, she witnesses a shocking scene that will change her life forever. It is the first in a sequence of events that will drag her from the human world she’s sought to belong to for over a century and send her back to her Puritanical family. Sadie is thrown toward an uncertain future filled with cunning witches, mysterious nosferatu shape-shifters, dangerous eretica and vieczy vampires, millennia-old mythology, and the search for her own mortality. After all… HOW DO YOU KILL A SURVIVOR? The Survivors will steal your heart and invade your mind. Fall into the pages of Sadie’s life, a world so frighteningly similar to your own, you’ll find yourself wanting to go to the Montana mountains to find the Survivors for yourself. And it is only the beginning. "The way Ms. Havard has taken the history of the Salem witches and made it her own is truly fascinating... great debut from a talented writer." –DJ DeSmyter, author of Hunted “[THE SURVIVORS is a…] promising debut and an incredibly unique paranormal romance. Unputdownable, engaging, realistic and dark..." –Fragments of Life Review Blog Can't wait to read the whole story? THE SURVIVORS is available for purchase now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, the Apple iBookstore, and

Born to the Night, the grim and powerful vampire Ingamon Lash is Qos Viran, Special Forces for the Clans of the Night, the ancient vampire civilization living in the shadows of the human world on the Dark Edge. Honorable and determined, he had lived a life of service to the clans and their leaders, the Council of the Night, fighting their wars and defeating their enemies. But when he is summoned back to the vampire heart land of northern Europe, he isn't welcomed as a hero. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a conflict that could take everything from him. Including his honor, his clan and family, and his very life. Can he find out what's happening and stop it before an all out clan war ruptures the Clans of the Night and lays waste to the vampire world? Join him and discover the shocking answer behind it all!

SEAL Mitch Grace was among the first humans to see the aliens when they landed at the naval base where he was stationed, but like the rest of humanity, he was powerless to stop them. Five years later, Mitch awakens from his coma under the care of an alien physician to find that aliens control the planet. Starting alone, as a one man army, he rallies the surviving humans to build a resistance movement to take the planet back from the alien conquerors. After his capture by the aliens, Mitch is forced into intergalactic slavery to become a gladiator, fighting as the sole representative of the human species. Against all odds and far from home, he lays the plans for the reconquest of his homeland. Reconquest: Mother Earth is the thrilling combination of Red Dawn, Independence Day, and Gladiator.

Author's Note: A revised edition of the complete book is now avilable to purchase via Smashwords. The adventures of two children, Fred and Hannah, as they slip accidentally into another parallel universe, a new dimension in space and time, where they meet the mysterious Journeyman and his strange travelling companiions. The Golden Arch is the first book in the trilogy Tales of the Journeyman