After Micah Stone loses a fight with three thugs higher in his homeworld's social order he becomes a military man. First he serves on his homeworld until a cowardly commander orders him kicked out rather than face his own lack of honor. Next he joins the League Drop Marines where he learns the horrible truth about his former unit: it is dirty and it routinely commits atrocities no civilized society would condone or tolerate. Next Micah turns a blind-side surprise attack against the League ...

Werewolves, 'shaggies' in company parlance, are less of a problem than they could be but more than they should be. Left to themselves they like to form motorcycle gangs and prowl the nation's interstates. They consider themselves the free-est of the free, they do what they want, they party down and they always live for the moment. But for the fact that they gladly kill and eat anyone who irritates them they wouldn't be a threat to humanity.Jason Taggart, company recruit, encounters ...

Jason Taggart has grown tired of the town of Wisdom. After learning the purpose to which the town was built he and his fellow students tried to live up to the goals set them. The shadowy Company, though, always changed the goals when the students attained them. Now fed up with the experimentation Jason, his girlfriend Ellen, his friend Drew Barnes and the other students demand changes. With little choice and facing the loss of their Wisdom program, the four directors finally listen and mak...

Rebellion in Wisdom! The near-disaster in Phoenix spawned far-reaching consequences. Now Jason Taggart and his special group of fellow students know how bad the world really is. They're aware of the choices they must make in the next few years but as yet that is still in the future. Their present is still upon them and resentment festers among them. The over-arching Brolly Corporation is using them for social experimentation while trying to keep them dutifully in line.Now pushed ove...

Winner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's IllustrationThe little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows everything about the place she lives -- her road, her school, the forest where she plays...

The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them. The Great Storm decimated those who would conquer her then set loose creatures of shadow, twisted caricatures of those wanton spell-weavers, to devour any who dared survive.Now, over two thousand years later, Mankind has again grown but this time in fear and humility. Those few left af...

Jason Taggart is a junior high student in the small town of Wisdom, Arizona. His life is full of study, friends and the lovely Darla Jansen on whom he has a major crush. Follow along as he works to gain her eye and obtain her favor.Things change on a trip to a shooting competition outside Wisdom. Jason learns the kids outside are different from himself and his friends. Never is this more obvious than when he, Darla and two others are mugged. With their lives threatened, Jason and Da...

The world of Epigaea sleeps uneasy, troubled by nightmares of disaster past. The rumblings of that catastrophe foreshadow the future as darkness looms, from whence she knows not where. A few of the creatures dwelling on her surface perceive some measure of the shadow and struggle to forestall it.Tigerthorn the Sly along with his friends Mysteria and Sven Hammerfist now live as slaves in the ancient, corrupt city of Quod Solamen. Forced to fight for the entertainment of the city's n...

Last year 14-year-old Jason Taggart and their classmates left childhood behind. Now back in Wisdom, they struggle both with who and what they are and with the usual struggles of growing up. Unknown to the students, though, the company that created Wisdom has plans. With the perfect group with which to experiment, The Levy Project decides to test its students' social development and adaptation skills.Jason and his girlfriend Darla Jansen are split apart. She's sent to school in Arkan...

The end has come! The world of Epigaea, once ravaged by the Great Storm that nearly destroyed her, now faces one even stronger. A festering, pustulent evil from a past remembered only by the Elves has returned with an appetite only sharpened by the centuries of its delay. Goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, trolls and worse swarm from the Wild Lands into the Seven Kingdoms of Man bringing death and destruction in their wake. Even more chilling, the spirits of the dead have returned to the world of...

Dirk d'Argent is a man of many talents, swordsmanship chief among them. Upon reaching manhood he wandered the Seven Kingdoms of Epigaea plying his sabre in the service of merchants and generals eager to hire him. Then, over a nice meal in the city of Velport, he pauses for an evening of reflection.Up until now Dirk drifted before the wind, traveling as he would wherever fortune nudged him. Though rich with experience, his life begins to feel empty. Purposeless. Following a troubling...

Mike Davis is an ordinary guy whose computer skills far exceed his social ones. His work is his life even though his job leaves him empty. When his friends drag him to clubs, as their designated driver, he inevitably gravitates toward the game room. Only there can he escape what he longs to have yet cannot seem to find. One fateful night life shatters his comfortable if lonely routine.Between ending one game and starting the next he meets the gorgeous and mysterious Jane, a lady who...