Steve Williams lives with his wife and three children. The two met in junior high and their marriage is on life support. Steve has an accident one morning on his way to work, one which will affect his entire life and alter it forever. Headaches, seizures, an addiction to pain pills and then....the voices. They taunt him day and night, they are unrelenting and as his life spirals down he decides that maybe if he does what they want him to do he will find peace again.

Roger Littleton, recently divorced and more than slightly depressed is talked into taking a cruise by his friends. The "trip of a lifetime" they told him and it may have actually turned out that way had the ship not sunk in a hurricane that quickly overtook the craft. Now apparently the only survivor, alone in the vast ocean with nothing but a few supplies he can do nothing but hope to survive and now he has plenty of time to revisit the demons that haunt him. And then out of the sky comes an asteroid that crashes into the ocean and everything he thought he knew about the world is turned around.

A stranger rides into the dried up town of Purgatory on a motorcycle, a man on the run from his past as well as his future. Rebecca a waitress at the towns only diner, a lonely divorcee waiting for the town to die until the stranger comes into her life; but he may have more secrets than she knows. Includes Lovesick45: when a lonely and painfully shy woman, Janet Luna starts getting emails from a secret admirer known only by the handle Lovesick45 she begins to believe her life of solitude and and alienation may be coming to an end; but her loneliness may not be her only problem.