In the frozen heart of Antarctica sits TESLA, a secret weather "research" station designed by Greg Simpson for Flint Agro-Chemical, a world-spanning agribusiness. Only a few people know that TESLA is creating weather all over the globe, granting Flint huge harvests and punishing the company's rivals with hailstorms and drought. Even fewer know that from time to time, Flint and TESLA help the Pentagon by providing just the right weather for a military...

"When people are dying, it's easier sometimes. You can be all powerful, even heroic. You don't have to think about how much courage it takes to dwell among the living, to fight for your own life. Lots of caregivers get addicted that way." When a category five hurricane threatens a Galveston hospital, patients and nonessential personnel are required to evacuate. Doctors Danica Diza and Shaka Sen, a chief family medicine resident and a surgical attending...

Ignoring the rumors, you'd think Jake Chalmers was a perfectly normal boy. Did he really conjure from nothing the details the police needed to solve a monstrous crime? Or was his family involved, and the young Jake let slip something he was supposed to keep secret? There are plenty of stories whispered about Jake Chalmers, and if you asked him, they were all lies - yet lies that led to an uncomfortable truth. Jake was special, and he could do something...

My son is a good man. I know what you think about him, because I know what he's done, but you have to understand that it's not his fault. He was something of a misanthrope in his youth and that can be attributed to his father. Please understand that I will take the blame for my part in wrecking his soul, but it's so hard to resist a boy so sweet. He's always loved me most of all and I took advantage of that. Until you feel what I felt in his...

In a world overrun by the infested…...is there anywhere left to hide?The road to California is plagued with fear and grief.Survival has come with a price.One so high, it can never be repaid.With each turn, the dangers of this new world become more evident.And it's not just the monsters that pose a threat.Thirteen hundred miles without modern technology?What chance do they have?Surviving the journey might be a battle.But the fight for their future,...

Sometime around now, an unnamed virus has laid London and its people to waste. No one knows what the government is doing or where they are. 'Cleaners' raid homes; neighbors spy, animals are feral, old people are saying goodbye on the ends of phones about to go dead. The internet is down. Liz's husband has gone missing. But, that's not new. She decides to flee the city and head for safer ground - Wales, her childhood home. She packs her infant daughter...

Love and disaster is portrayed in this romantic literary fiction. Tales of predictions and lovely connections. Appreciate it either on New Years or Valentine's Day. Both could be sentimental days to share with a lover. Read and express the duality of love and jealousy. It seems that people cannot escape one without the other.

A mother rushing to rescue her only child.A worried son desperately trying to get his parents out of harm's way.A geologist trying to save them all.Thirty years after surviving a landslide that killed his entire community, Tim is a geologist with the US Geological Survey. When he realizes that Mt. Rainier is about to erupt, he is determined to warn everyone about the imminent danger, only to have his words fall on deaf ears.Jordan is one of the few...

Discusses how the Red Cross provides disaster relief, runs blood drives, and supplies medicine and food to those in need throughout the world.

This fast-paced dystopian suspense novel takes place in the near future, after the global economic collapse of the world. All homeless, non-working, able-bodied people have been deemed "useless eaters" by the system, forced to move to newly developed virtual cities called Zamicona, where life permanently exists inside forever. I am a journalist with an earnest desire to become a television Broadcast Journalist. When I am selected for a new undercover...