This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links between SE Asia and Australasia which go back more than 500 million years. It also focuses on the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region. It was in the SE Asian region that Alfred Russell W...

Young Chase Brody is a struggling intern at the Empire Express, New York City’s premier newspaper. When he is unexpectedly offered a chance to assist the mysterious and exotic Zaza Allatu, one of the world’s most celebrated and dangerous investigative reporters, he jumps at it. He is then whisked away from the city with literally the clothes on his back and told to wait for her at the Witches Room, a bed and breakfast with a dark past located in the Catskill Mountains. There, he catches th...

ZON, M.B. Smith's sequel to System of Secrets! With the end of the Zon War, the worlds of the Laima System are finally at peace. High Prince Aden Cade has married High Princess Sia Selarney; Earth Alliance Officer Abby Watanabe is leading a team of archeologists on Seti; and the enigmatic taal have emerged from the shadows. However, lasting peace proves ellusive when a terrorist attack sets Kealt and Ardala against each other and they again gird for war. Now hunted fugitives, Aden and Abby...

Systems of Secrets, The Secrets of the Multiverse, the long awaited third installment in M.B. Smith’s SOS Trilogy! Following the events described in System of Secrets and ZON, a different kind of peace has settled over the Laima System, one that promises to be long-lasting and prosperous. King Aden of Kealt and Abby Watanabe of Earth are looking forward to their oft-delayed wedding, when she is asked to return home to resign her Earth Alliance commission, and he is summoned to Seti by his ...

Seven years after former football star turned actor Brandon Kelly and leading actress Staci O’Conner were torn apart by a misunderstanding, they are reunited on the movie set. Although they feel an immediate attraction to each other, a lot has changed since they last parted. Brandon now has an ex-wife, controversial actress Chloe Watson, and Staci seemingly has a relationship with fading megastar Charles Bentley, whom Brandon blames for wrecking his marriage. As their feelings for each oth...

As young britas lovers Anyon and Hala prepare to flee Hettel before their kuza overlords turn them into breeding stock, Anyon is captured attempting to foil an assassination plot involving the provincial governor and his daughter Neelyn. With the help of a sympathetic kuza commander he escapes, only to find Hala has been sent to the slave market in Effrenus. Risking everything, Anyon follows her there, but learns she has been sold to the flesh eating rana. He embarks on a desperate quest t...

With a vicious intergalactic war bearing down on their solar system, Kealt and Ardala must resolve their centuries old conflict over the resource rich, but inhospitable Seti or be destroyed. Just as it seems peace is within reach, Prince Aden of Kealt insults Princess Sia of Ardala, putting both worlds on the edge of war. When circumstances later maroon the antagonistic royals on Seti itself, they meet a legendary creature who reveals the shocking reason their worlds have been at each othe...

With the shocking deaths of Hill Harbor Farm matriarch Maggie Blair and her prize filly Sally, the destiny of the fabled horse farm lies in the hands of Maggie's troubled daughter True. With the help of her lifelong friend Chase Keller, True races against time to prepare the farm's last hope, the talented but fractious Purity, for the Kentucky Derby. With greedy real estate developers, a rival horse farm, and sinister neighbors rooting for its demise, its future seems bleaker than ever. As...

With the end of the Zon War, the worlds of the Laima System are finally at peace. High Prince Aden Cade has married High Princess Sia Selarney; Earth Alliance Officer Abby Watanabe is leading a team of archaeologists on Seti; and the enigmatic taal have emerged from the shadows. However, lasting peace proves elusive when a terrorist attack sets Kealt and Ardala against each other and they again gird for war. Now hunted fugitives, Aden and Abby desperately search for answers. Clues are scar...

When actress Chancy Phillips hits the big time, she believes she's finally left the brutality and deprivation of her childhood behind. That is, until she comes home unexpectedly and finds her husband, aging quarterback John Wade, in bed with another woman. Realizing that her marriage is just another abusive relationship, she flees in despair; by doing so she sets in motion events that could reignite their love for one another, but also opens the door to monsters from her past. The key to w...

Duty, honour, loyalty. What meaning did those words still hold in the midst of a stalemated interstellar war where the difference between the enemy and one's own leadership was sometimes paper thin? Unfairly relegated to punishment duty far from the battle lines and still pursued by her past, Siobhan Dunmoore was ordered to sail her ship deep into pirate-infested space on a quest to restore the Navy's reputation after she failed to stop an attack that destroyed a civilian...

Pirate, Rebel, Privateer, Spy is a tale set in the year 2253 in a less-than-perfect universe. The roles people play can make a mess of things. Sometimes questionable, sometimes convoluted, and sometimes damnable, everyone has an agenda. Everyone wants something. And everyone has his own plan to get what he wants. And things get interesting for Polaris when strategies collide. Before her world collapses in on itself, can Polaris untangle the truth of things? She has an ally in her brother G...