Ty, a young man riding the rails is swept up in the events of the Great Depression. He has seen many hardships, like most of that era, and has survived them. But he is about to encounter something even more disturbing when he arrives in Calgary. McConnell house is almost as old as the young city, but with a much darker past. Will Ty be able to survive such a place, when he has gone through so many ordeals? Or will he descend into madness as so many before him? This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Chris and Jimmy are brothers who were recently released from prison and are trying to get their lives back together. Due to their criminal past they are unable to get a loan to reopen the diner they operated before they went to jail. One night a friend tells them of an old lady who doesn’t trust banks and keeps piles of cash in her house. Will Chris and Jimmy resort to robbing this woman and get the money they need or will they stay on the straight and narrow and risk never getting their beloved diner back? Open up and find out.

A collapsed global economy. And a world gone to hell. People going postal. There seems but one thing to do: cave in to the Herculean pressures, or use them to transform from the human to the transhuman. So is born the Renaissance types of the early 21st Century. One in particular, Robin Baker, may be destined to lead them. If she can keep her remarkable powers growing ahead of theirs, and if she can keep her own mind from imploding, before one of them takes out the rest of the planet.