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Cassi managed a drug store location in the center of town. There were thousands of them across cities in twenty first century North America. Millions of items scanned each day as cloud servers updated inventory day in and day out. It was boring and monotonous work. Cassi’s life was not always this way. Six hundred years ago, Cassi’s life was very different. As Cassimpina Dumonte, she was a powerful vampire. During the Hundred Years War between England and France, Cassimpina Dumonte would have her life transformed. She became a powerful vampire who influenced history.

Cassi managed a retail drug store for three years now. It was repetitive work, day in and day out. There were thousands of them across North America. This was a far departure from centuries past. Back then, Cassi was known as Cassimpina Dumonte , a powerful vampire who influenced French Nobility and affected the course of history. The past has a way of catching up with us. A woman will enter the drug store and change the course of history. All it will take is forty five cents to ignite a firestorm. Three women will cross paths and the world will never be the same again.

Stephan and his friends have a difficult life. They are part of a farming collective that is responsible for growing food and maintaining a vital supply chain. In the aftermath of a nuclear war between two superpowers, The Church Eternal is the only remaining superpower on Earth. Life is tightly controlled. Basic resources are precious. Information is censored. Books and evidence that challenge Church doctrine have come to the surface. Stephan, Eduardo, and Carl will make a discovery and find evidence that will change the course of human history forever.

It has been two years since the brutal attack on the Nerrisian Kingdom left a princess and her subjects without a place to call home. After months of roaming the harsh wilderness, life goes on and a strong alliance has been forged. Princess Consolla is queen now. A girl is now a woman. An alliance with the Giants has been forged through marriage. The alliance is forged with a promise. The promise of a child. A child forged through magic. A promise is made to a king. It is a promise of an heir. Promises made through magic often have a price.

A world very far away from earth that does not tolerate dissent. An alternate history where the Church rules with an iron fist and a prescribed dogma is all that it’s citizens have to rely upon. Young minds begin to ask questions and challenge the status quo. A Renaissance in science begins to take shape. An interest in astronomy will challenge the Church. A young woman will challenge the foundation of all that is known. Vistrassa, Shakalar, and Lamar will cross paths and young men and women will challenge their world. Blanchard 109 will never be the same again.

Roy Sandbergh has a complicated life. A cyber genius who navigates the halls of Washington's power elite. He also suffers from anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders that often slow him down. He does not officially exist on paper, but there are few in Washington who would not recognize his face. Such is life among the dark corridors and among the shell corporations created by Washington's power elite. The year is two thousand seventeen. America's newly elected president Elizabeth Hamilton faces her own set of challenges.

A young princess in an ancient kingdom thinks she has the world figured out. A powerful dwarf with loyalties divided attempts to guide her journey. A brief moment in time will transform the lives of people and the destinies of kingdoms. Things are not always as they seem. The princess and her dwarf companion will find themselves in circumstances they never thought possible and encounter worlds they could have never imagined.

A single Galanticcev Empire scout vessel is on a routine mission to map and chart the outer spirals of the Milky Way Galaxy. The pilot detects organized radio traffic on the third planet from the system's star. The actions of the scout vessel's pilot will change the course of galactic history forever.