A brother and sister who are angry with each other learn from their father the benefits of forgiveness through a series of symbolic images. Contains a note to parents.

Praise for The Zombie Terror War Series!"I waited until I read the last book in the series. This book series kept me engrossed in it as much as Dirk Patton's Voodoo Plague series. It is never ending action with a lot of Zombie killing. Was it all about just zombies? No, but it has you thinking about tightening up our border to be safer.""Grabs you from the beginning and takes you on a ride. Zombies, terrorists and romance what more could you want? Good character development.""Fantastic from book one until the last. I enjoyed them all, the action, humor, including the romance. This series had it all in spades and never got boring!"Chuck McCain is back in an exciting new series! After the former SWAT-cop-turned-CIA-agent and his elite team are sent to eliminate a notorious child sex trafficker, things begin to come unravelled at the Agency. A vicious assassination attempt on Assistant Director Sandra Dunning leaves her crippled and confined to a wheelchair. When all the evidence for the attack points to a Mexican cartel, McCain and his partner Kevin Clark decide to take matters into their own hands. With no governmental backing, they risk everything to bring the cartel killers to justice. At the same time, back in the United States a covert plot is underway to steal the next election and place a man with an ominous agenda in the White House. There are no zombies in this series, but the action is fast and furious as Chuck confronts sinister terrorists, depraved cartel gangsters, and treacherous politicians. If you like fast-paced, heart-stopping action with an amazing cast characters you'll love Storm Clouds Rising!

Dark Clouds Rising is the first book in the Black Star series exploring the fantasy world Crux, a world of ancient falsehoods and broken nations. Within all this chaos, heroes rise to a calling even they cannot fully understand. In Flesh and Dreams, Stephen, an amnesiac, is found in a forest, wounded. Adopted by a group of dragonslayers, Stephen travels in their quest to rediscover their fervor against Dragons.The quest takes them through the ruin of raided cities, the hall of a corrupt noblewoman, the fire of a battle against a barbaric horde, and the heart of the enemy’s lair. All the while, Stephen searches for his past, but a shadow grows in his heart that whispers gleeful memories of bloodlust and rage. In Reflections, Captain Serdis of the Nessus Law-enforcers hunts a cult that kills for pleasure.The religious cult worships a god of death from the country of Boncawa to the north, a country that warred with Serdis’s beloved nation. He knows the cult would like nothing better than to start a war again, and Serdis plans to prevent such an event, but fate has assured his failure.

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a one-armed, impassioned Abolitionist—set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish the threat. From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

What happens when you have seen something you weren't supposed to see? What happens when what you have seen will change the face of the Earth forever? What will the governments of the world do to keep things stable and quiet while everything you ever knew is about to change? Who will be saved? Who will be sacrificed? And to what lengths will they go to secure your silence? The first book in The Rain Trilogy - Storm Cloud Rising probes those thorny problems and provides some possible answers to the questions. The answers you will not like, but they are answers that have a firm foothold in logic and rational thinking. The world's governments have done much worse in the past over smaller issues than what are presented in STORM CLOUD RISING. The results have always been tragic travesties against innocent human beings caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Come, take a trip down a one-way street to disaster, death and total destruction. Look deeply into the dark, violently boiling gray of a storm cloud rising as the curtain begins to descend on humanity and ask yourself, "Would I be able to survive?" Well, would you? Give it some serious thought.

In the fourth and final installment of David Downing’s spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hanging by a thread, plots and betrayals abound. London, 1921: Ex–Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War; he feels betrayed by the country that had sent so many young men to die needlessly. He can’t stomach spying for the British Empire anymore. He’s also heartbroken. The love of his life, radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, parted ways with him three years earlier so she could offer her services to the Communist revolution in Moscow. Then his former Secret Service boss offers McColl the chance to escape his jail sentence if he takes a dangerous and unofficial assignment in Russia, where McColl is already a wanted man. He would be spying on other spies, sniffing out the truth about MI5 meddling in a high-profile assassination plot. The target is someone McColl cares about and respects. The MI5 agent involved is someone he loathes. With the knowledge that he may be walking into a death trap, McColl sets out for Moscow, the scene of his last heartbreak. Little does he know that his mission will throw him back into Caitlin’s life—or that her husband will be one of the men he is trying to hunt down.

Can you control a country's future through its past?When an undiscovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings is found, father and son agents John and Mako Storm are thrown into a cauldron of political ambitions and intrigue that could affect the balance of power in the Middle East.But the key to the authenticity of the tomb and the antiquities within are known to the Storms, as well as to other, more deadly, people who will stop at nothing.To expose the secret, the Storms begin an adrenaline-filled chase for the truth as they race across Egypt to find the answer.Storm Clouds is packed with suspense, mystery, conspiracies, and history, all set against the monuments back-drop of ancient Egypt.Discover the finest adventure fiction Kindle Unlimited has to offer. Best-selling author Steven Becker's Storm Thriller Series is among the top adventure fiction in the world. Check it out now!

Storm Cloud's Rising is a beautiful, romantic novel about a family's hopes and dreams, their struggle and survival. Its pages contain love stories, drama, suspense, vengeance, mystery and intrigue.

"The Skies Above explains nearly any and everything weather-related...enlightening and a worthwhile source" -- Portland Book Review 2022 National Outdoor Book Award Silver Medalist in Nature/Environment Full-color photography and illustrations Details seasonal events, from Nor’easters and northern lights to fire whirls and tornadoes Sidebars dive into fascinating facts, quirky phenomena, historic weather events, myths, and more Written by self-professed weather geek Dennis Mersereau, The Skies Above is designed to inspire equal parts amazement and curiosity. Accessible science, illuminating illustrations, and stunning photography bring the meteorological world to life. From basics such as weather fronts and types of precipitation to more unusual occurrences like polar vortexes, meteor showers, solar eclipses, and the spectacular mammatus clouds that signify a supercell thunderstorm, Mersereau tracks key phenomena across the seasons and demystifies celestial events visible to the naked eye but still enigmatic to most. He also delves into how climate change affects weather, forecasts, and other events, such as devastating wildfires and historic hurricanes churning across the Atlantic Ocean. The Skies Above provides readers with a deeper understanding of the processes and events that fill our skies, which not only soothes the anxiety produced by raucous storms, but instills a stronger and more meaningful appreciation of the beauty of days both stormy and calm.