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After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.

We think of time as seconds, minutes, hours, and days. Our earth is millions of years old. It has undergone many changes, through the ice ages and prehistoric times, all leading up to the modern age. Do you ever think of your childhood, then all of a sudden you are 70 or 80 or 90 years old and cannot believe how quickly you go there? Your childhood friends to whom you were so close are gone, lost in time. Instead of being handsome and virile, you are in an old and aching person who has trouble getting up from a chair.

Freedom is on the march as the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth takes the offensive. David Valentine has recruited an ad hoc company of former Quisling soldiers and puts them through a trial by fire with a successful raid against an enemy armory. Now, they're ready to join forces with a guerilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains. Valentine knows that a permanent outpost near the East Coast would provide a strategic victory over the Kurians - and he believes that only his old ally Ahn-Kha could be leading the guerillas.

An alien being has escaped to Earth. The portal is occupied by American troops, and the only humans who have ever set foot on the alien planet are in CIA custody. To make matters worse, a hostile force is now threatening both Xibalbá and Earth. Can Tyler and Adriana save their new friends on the other side of the portal—and save their home planet from invasion at the same time?

Ever wonder what would happened if someone was able to hack into the center of the world's technology and shut it down? Well, now you will know. The world as everyone knows it has been shut down. The military cannot operate without their equipment, which is all run by computers, cell phones are of no use, neither are laptop computers, or even the new automobiles of the day. Someone has completely wiped out our way of life, so what can be done?

Situada trescientos años después de los eventos de Alien: Desde las sombras y Alien: Rio de Dolor, Alien: Mar de pesares trata del redescubrimiento de los xenomorfos (Aliens) dormidos en las minas abandonadas de LV-178, el planetoide de Alien: Desde las sombras que ahora ha sido transformado y llamado 'Nuevo Galveston'.

Months after the expedition through the portal, Tyler Drake is still struggling with the gruesome consequences. So the call for help from Mexico comes just in time: Adriana's brother is missing—and seems to have made the journey alone to the world beyond the cave. Another race against time begins—and this time, the team has to contend with not only the dangers of an exotic world but also with terrestrial adversaries and an extraterrestrial threat, the existence of which they never even suspected. Will they succeed in saving not just one boy but an entire world?

A.D. 41.832. Jael akzeptiert inzwischen wer sie ist. Sie nutzt ihren Namen wie ein Schwert und verfolgt nur ein Ziel. Sie will den Ort finden, an dem 1000 Meere friedlich zusammenfinden. Mit den Händen voller Hoffnung zieht sie, ungeachtet wer an ihrer Seite steht, in den Kampf. Freund, Feind, Wahrheit, Lüge, Worte spielen in diesem Gefecht keine Rolle. Mit dem Rücken an der Wand trifft sie eine verhängnisvolle Entscheidung. Nach Jahren der Expansion gilt die Milchstraße als vollständig kartographiert.

Major David Valentine and his fugitive battalion are the remnants of an expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat from disaster in the Appalachians. Between a raging blizzard, bands of headhunters, and the need to recover wounded soldiers lost during the retreat, Valentine is in for the toughest winter of his life. And Valentine is losing allies fast. Some of the clans in the region have declared themselves in favor of the Kurians, throwing Kentucky into civil war. But the Kurian overlords have determined that the region isn't worth the effort of another conquest.