Thirty years ago, 10-year-old Kris Barlow spent a summer by the lake playing with her imaginary friend. Now, thirty years later, Kris returns to the lake house, only to discover that Violet is still there, and she wants to play.
Five Asylum worlds lost for Millennia in a remote corner of the Galaxy are found by a marauding intergalactic race, a savage iron age Empire with mastery of an ancient World gate system. But the Asylum worlds are not like other worlds!
At the cusp of WW I, through letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and diaries the story of an ancient evil rebirthing into the world unfolds. As Mina Harker approaches her "Silent Passage," she and her rapidly maturing son transition . . .
Surviving Hannibal tells the story of the forgotten war between Rome and Carthage which gave Rome mastery of the Mediterranean—deciding the future of Europe for centuries to come.
When explorers stumble upon ancient alien technology, it awakens latent abilities within the human race, and leads to the lifting of a veil that has been over humanity’s eyes for millennia.