Collapser Shad

Shad's Awakening

A young man is driven to do the unthinkable, killing his abusive stepfather. Sent to prison, he escapes and assumes a new identity and embarks on a meaningful career, but his crime continues to haunt him. Upon retirement from a successful calling he suddenly fi nds himself widowed and emotionally adrift. His loneliness has robbed his life of meaning and he struggles with fi nding a new purpose while reliving his colorful past. Spanning fi fty tumultuous years, this novel entices with its exotic locales and the complex people and unusual women he encounters. The answer to his despondency seems to lie in moving into a modern retirement community where he will be among friends and where organized activities would keep him distracted and eliminate his boredom and frustrations. Then a young massage therapist turns his ordered existence upside down. Rich in drama, foreign environments, human interest and eroticism, this story captures the host of fascinating characters who have shaped him.

Ohio Savings and Loan Crisis and Collapse of ESM Government Securities, Inc

Collapse

“Tantalizing. . . . Nuclear holocaust, savagery, and space aliens converge on Cleveland in a competent start to a five-part series.” —Kirkus Reviews A series of electromagnetic pulses brought the world to its knees. But that wasn’t the end, it was just the beginning. Some who survived turned to Taylor MacPherson, and he has given them hope. After many years, they’ve carved out a bastion of democracy in the sea of chaos that is the post-apocalyptic Earth. His people are proud of what they’ve built. They are free and willing to fight for a new society of rules and order, but can they handle what comes next? But outsiders were watching. For thirty years a massive spaceship from the alien Qu’uda’s has been heading for Earth. Our planet would make a perfect new home. The aliens have invested their lives in the search for a new breeding home. They intend to take it all.