A young American slave kills his master & his wife in antebellum South Carolina and flees north in search of freedom. Unable to escape his past and addicted to painkillers, he returns to the scene of the crime in search of forgiveness
A has-been reporter desperate for a story gets it -- and unwittingly triggers the next step in a plot to deploy a deadly Ebola-like bioweapon. Now he must figure out who set him up and stop the plot before it brings down a government (or two).
Her people destroyed, her brain removed from her body and her mind wiped, she is placed in a virtual reality environment, but when she breaks out of it, she finds she is in control of the orbital station above their planet.