The trading standards space vessel "Spitfire" is illegally boarded by a suicidal empath and three fleeing Fashinians on the run from a state warship. Somehow the mindless bureaucracy of local government casts its spell and comes to the rescue... albeit through twists and turns that include subterfuge, mind control, DNA switching and blowing stuff up; all strictly against corporate policy. Turba is the first book in the Empath of Amneshah trilogy which first introduces the unforgettable Turba and the unforgivable Marcus and recounts their struggle with their own and each other's demons in order to find love, peace and great sex... though not with each other.

Eighteen-year-old Leah Venn has a damaged heart; twenty-year-old Beau Moire has a dark secret; both bring them together in a way that ignites a passionate, reckless love; just as both seal their fate against a political ploy that will cost them everything. In the year 2020, the United Nations has fallen. Struggling with a failing economy and the dissension of alliances, The United States is engaged in a devastating war with several Middle Eastern countries. From the ashes of extremists, a powerful league of nations-The Middle-Eastern Council-has been created as a military government with one goal in mind: to see America burn. In hostile territory, deep in the underground tunnels within Afghanistan, a U.S. military organization known only as Division-7-9 is actively preparing for the conflict to come-recruiting elite army soldiers and training them, testing them, to the best of their abilities. However, corruption, as a select few have discovered, is intricate. Joseph Locke, a leading assassin for D79, has gone rogue. Though he isn't the first to do so, he is the first to be alive after two years of pursuit-by not only his ex-comrades of the organization, but his fellow Americans and the White House, whose ignorance and desperation have branded him a traitor. FBI Special Agent Thomas Lawton is hard on the case, but baffled by details that appear inconsistent. Could Middle-Eastern plans, the FBI's most wanted man, and a military conspiracy all be traced straight back to the White House? One man has the answer and it, unfortunately, is not Lawton. With a dark past no one believes and a loyalty twisted by men much more powerful than he, Locke is on the run. There's only one problem: Joseph Locke does not exist, and never has. In a small, peaceful town on the edge of California, an ex-soldier named Beau Moire is biding his time, while the world continues to spin out of balance. Can Beau find the strength to save anyone? Can Leah save him? In Pawns: Spin of Fate, Turba crafts a captivating, page-turning tale of passion, mystery, suspense, and international intrigue. Leah and Beau face twists and turns at every corner; nothing is as it seems, and no one is safe."

Volume 4 covers the years 1598-1602 during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

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