Aaron T Brownell

A near dystopian future just reemerging into a neo-industrial age is the framework for a tale of global power and conquest. Anistasia, the untrustworthy, scheming daughter of a long-forgotten family aches for the power of kings and queens. Aches for more than the minor power of rulers only moving kingdoms, but the power to control the world. Anistasia's plans see her worm her way into the kingdom of Ayr. As its new queen, she sets out on her quest to reclaim the awesome power that destroyed the previous age. To do this, she will need to conquer the original six kingdoms of the land and unlock the vault buried deep in the City of Bleached Bones. Accidentally finding themselves on the opposite side of the queen's plans, Quinn and Bernard stumble across Anistasia's plans while collecting a bounty sheet on a thief. The parchment they find on the thief sets the duo free spirited swordsmen off on a haphazard hunt for more information and the development of a plan to create problems for the Dread Queen of Ayr. With a host of sorceresses, assassins, and dodgy characters set in their path at every turn, just staying alive presents the two with a challenge. It's up to Quinn and Bernard to figure out the mystery presented them all while Queen Anistasia destroys the Kingdom of Neeron and marches the Ayr army father south to take on Oban, and collect her second scepter. The second scepter of the six needed to grasp ultimate power and control the world.

Stepping from the borrowed CIA jet onto the runway of the German airbase, Doctor Kristin Hughes had just been thrown into a crime scene. Bosnian war criminal Zoran Savi and his terrorist cell had stolen a suitcase-sized Cold War era nuclear bomb from a stockpile of weapons at the airbase. It was a bomb that didn't exist on most government lists. With the terrorist leader in custody and the remainder of his cell on the run, it's left to Kristin Hughes, lead bomb technician for the Nuclear Emergency Search Team, to find the nuke before anyone decides to use it. Accompanied by her CIA bodyguard/assassin and a shadowy German commando, a Europe-wide quest begins to find the missing bomb. That mission gets thrown into chaos when Hughes gets abducted during a gun battle with terrorist cell members in the heart of The Hague. To what lengths will the group Hughes works for go for the safe return of the beautiful and talented scientist with a history of finding herself in troubling spots? And what about the missing nuclear weapon? In a high-stakes manhunt on an international playing field, it's certain that many players are going to die before the game is over.

All Kristin Hughes wanted was a vacation on a quiet beach in Croatia. Sadly, that isnt the way life works for NESTs top agent in a world filled with spies, national security threats, and impending doom. As soon as she is dragged back to work by her CIA counterpart, the beautiful yet stubborn scientist instantly finds herself and her Nuclear Emergency Search Team on a cross-country quest to locate and disable a pair of terrorist bombs. The breadbasket of America has transformed into ground zero for a sinister plot to destroy the nation. European arms dealer Adrian Beqiri has been buying old Soviet nuclear weapons for a shadowy figure who is now planning to send the weaponized nukes hurtling toward Chicago. As Hughes, with help from the FBI and CIA, races to track and stop the nukes from destroying the heartland and impending G8 Summit, only time will tell if she and the NEST team can prevent nuclear annihilation or if the terrorists will succeed in toppling a nation. In this thrilling tale, NESTs top agent is sent on a race to prevent nuclear destruction as a corrupt European plots to topple the United States during the G8 summit.