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She’s a runaway in pursuit of a better life. Instead, she ends up as a floater in the Pajaro River. She won’t be the last. Others will follow. The ones left behind will remain slaves, hardly daring to hope for relief. FBI agent Claudia must identify the dead woman, but after being in the water that long, the body yields few clues. But this Jane Doe has a name, and her sister can no longer wait for rescue. She needs to take the same risks and make her own escape.

Detective Damien Drake is from the old guard, and he doesn’t have time for reading, let alone staring at a glowing screen. But when gets called in to help with a case, he suddenly finds himself thrust into the world of digital books. And one particular story, about murdered women, their lips painted bright red with their own blood, captivates not only Damien, but the entire world.Except these books aren’t fiction, they’re real. But unlike other true crime stories, not all of these murders have been committed... yet.

Instead of an honest future in robotics, Baxter Cruise trades his talent for dirty money. After a string of bad choices, it’s just another downward slide. But this time, the consequences are dire. The cartel now holds Baxter and his secrets in a deadly grip. Nothing is off limits as they exert their control over him through blackmail and coercion. Abducted to a foreign country and forced to aid the cartel’s nefarious plans, he searches for a way to escape. When the project ends, there’s no reason to let him live.

With Clint Masters as the only suspect in the spreading destruction, the people of his beloved Boston now call him a terrorist. To clear his name, he must discover who’s really behind the tragedies. His love, Beth, knows he’s working with the CIA, but the agency won’t admit its guilt in the disasters, leaving Clint alone to hang for the crimes.

Ashley Butler, a prize-winning journalist at the San Diego Times receives an email from a man who claims to have discovered immortality by turning off the aging gene in a 15-year-old boy with an aging disorder. The email has pictures showing a reversal of the aging process and the names of a scientist and a company to investigate. Thinking it a hoax, she forwards the email to friends. Though skeptical, she calls to investigate and gets a no-longer-in-service message.

Fueled by breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, the terminally ill, while in an induced slumber, in a pain-free, medically supervised environment, can literally dream their lives away in preprogrammed situations of their choosing, controlled by a super computer. The well-meaning creators of computer generated dreaming plan to conquer the stigma of death by making its wonders available to all, so people can die in vivid, pre-programmed dream surroundings, reliving blissful moments from their past.