Kirjahaku

If Jan and Sandy Holt think they are finally rid of Ray Goodall and safe and secure in Agony Junction, they are sadly mistaken. Goodie...aka Rags...has a long memory and a vindictive nature. He has settled into the new Texas SPS, has used his pre-knowledge of how to survive under such conditions to good advantage, and now is the time to take revenge on the ones who put him here. Along with Jan and Sandy, AJ's relatively-new Servitor, Liz Markham, and Loving County's Servitor, Wesley "Skip" Payne, discover that Rags of Scorpio may be more than they can handle. And when they meet Rags' wife, Ren , and his "chip-off-the-old-block" son, Arthur, the horror grows. Now may be the time for some of the Holts' old AJ friends to come to the rescue. Or maybe not.

At age thirty-five, Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe had eleven years' experience as a lawman. When he and Deputy Steve Larson were charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to the newly established Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems.Gibbs and his gang had stolen $25,000 from Southwestern. When Larson gets snakebit and dies, Fyffe finds himself almost three days away from the Yuma prison with no one to spell him while he sleeps. It doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang, who had been looking for their leader, to find them when Fyffe fires a shot as Gibbs tries to get away. Fyffe is overtaken by the gang and suffers at their hands.The gang hatches a plan for Gibbs to pose as Fyffe and one of his men to pose as Larson, and to deliver Fyffe to Yuma prison, claiming he is Luther Gibbs. In spite of Fyffe's insistence that he is in fact the federal marshal, he finds himself as prisoner number 109. In addition to fearing that Gibbs will get to the money and get away, Fyffe must survive in a prison where he'll surely be recognized by someone he sent there.

Sydni Carver is known to her co-workers as "The Ice Queen"...and with good reason. Not one airline pilot, co-pilot, or male flight attendant can get to first base with her. Even the ever-present gigolo-types in the exotic foreign cities her flight schedules take her to are unsuccessful getting her into bed. It isn't that she is frigid-far from it-but she is determined not indulge in one-night stands and present what she thinks of as "used goods" to the man she ultimately weds.And then during a horrendous storm while on vacation deep in the wilds of the Cascade mountain wilderness, Sydni meets William O'Riley St. Cloud, the half-Irish half-French-Canadian forest ranger she comes to think of as her "Storm King." Even as she tries to help him survive marijuana growers out to kill him in order to save their pot plantation from discovery, Bill teaches her that there is no such thing as an "Ice Queen," and that "used goods" are in the eye of the beholder. The question is: if they can live through this, will Sydni ever see her Storm King after her vacation is over, or is this merely a one night stand in disguise?

Why did aliens deposit a device in Utah, then abandon their ship and murder each other in an orgy of slaughter? Why does the artifact the aliens brought sometimes alter a test subject's personality but at other times make the subject vanish? When terrestrial subjects--man or mouse--disappear, where do they go...and once gone, can they ever return? These are the questions both scientists and the military try to solve. While using the artifact, Alec McCaffrey, Lexie Ware, Joyce Brite, and Major Stuart Nye of NASA, discover why man has always been so fascinated by the stars, and that the seemingly omniscient extraterrestrials who call themselves the Matinor can make just as many mistakes as humans can. What the scientists and military don't know is that despite otherworldly errors, those vanished test subjects have become prime players in the Matinors' eons-long manipulation of humanity's destiny.