Kirjahaku

Knowing then what you know nowWhen an embittered man's life ends on an icy highway, he receives the opportunity to live his life again. Hugh Nance is taken back to 1974, back into the body of his ten-year old past self, with all the memories of his middle-aged life in tow. Three and a half decades must be lived over if he's to see his family again. The years must be repeated carefully, or he may never be reunited with his future wife and children at all.The memory of his first family fades as this second life proceeds. Old habits kick in, and Hugh scrambles near the end to set things right.WARNING This coming of middle-age horror novel contains graphic scenes and strong language.

First contact will be our lastFour teenagers discover a being from another world wounded in the forest. Forget extra-terrestrial invasion-our end lies eighty-thousand years in the past. All it will take to wipe out the last few thousand humans left on prehistoric Earth is a virus-a disease the alien intended to deliver-now unknowingly carried by two of the teenagers. Two remain in the present and are given extraordinary mental powers to guard over the injured being. A reign of terror begins in their hometown as the teenagers take control-teachers and bullies go missing, abusive parents take their own lives... and the thing in the woods watches. Last Contact is Book 2 of the Out of Time series of novels.Warning Contains graphic language and scenes.

The last leg of a journey is always the hardest.Ambition and Retribution are returning to Earth. A fragile truce now exists between these Sol exiles and the people of Pega.But there is no easy path. Captain Sulafat and Commander Edmund must face the greatest threat of all. A third warship is after them, and the combined strength of the returning vessels is no match for the Republic of Sol Planets' most powerful weapon-Annihilation.The odds of surviving are slim, and even if by some miracle they make it back, the home they knew and dreamed of will not be the same. An ancient enemy awaits. The fate of humanity may already have been sealed.Annihilation is the third and final book of the Long Haul series.

Start over and burn the world.Fifteen-year-old Brinn Addam can bring make-believe characters to life. It was a power once possessed by her uncle, Neal Stauch. The little boy died more than three decades earlier, but the world he created carried on. It's a dying land populated with troubled characters desperately searching for a new creator-a modern-day keeper with the same incredible genes to start their world over again.A rag-tag bunch of Neal's washed up heroes reunite to set things right. Brinn sets out to help, aided by her own band of imaginary twenty-first-century friends.But Neal's imaginary world is populated with other survivors. They've changed even more drastically, and they want what the little boy had-what his present-day niece still has-and they'll kill to get it.Lost Playground is Book 3 of the Out of Time series,

During an age of dwindling energy resources and greedy corporate expansion, Earth receives a warning from a not too distant star system: We are aware of your existence. We will end you.The colossal mining vessel Ambition undergoes a militarized refit and is sent to confront the alien threat of Pegasi 51. Catastrophic events along the way stretch a seventy-year voyage into a seven century odyssey. All communication to and from home has been severed, and the civilization waiting ahead has remained ominously silent.Captain Ly Sulafat, Ambition's 30th - and likely last - commander, leads this final generation of weary travelers into a hostile star system, ill-prepared, and far too inexperienced to confront what awaits them. The seven-hundred year journey has ended. Time for war.

Ambition is headed back to Earth after seven hundred years. She is beaten and battered, her surviving crew still reeling from the loss of their captain, and the deaths of thousands in a war no one wanted or understood. Along the way, they intercept the warship Retribution. Commander Alexander Edmund and his renegade crew are traveling in the opposite direction, towards the Hunn-ephei home world, on an unsanctioned mission none of them expect to survive.On Alderamin 4, Ly Sulafat and a handful of his people are prisoners of war at the very center of the threat. But Sulafat has even deeper problems. The ghosts of Ambition's past have caught up with its former captain, and one of them has started speaking to him.The long haul home is about to get longer, a whole lot deadlier, and the fate of humanity hangs on the actions of brave men and women now labelled as criminals.