Little Eagle is about to go through the ritual of the Rites of Manhood where he must leave the tribe, armed with only his bow and arrow and not only survive, but return when the sun has risen seven times, armed with proof that he is worthy of being a warrior. His journey will take him to Black Mountain where he will find a cave that will take him deep into the bowels of the mountain. There he will encounter terrors of another time and a distant world. Having completed his journey and safely returning home, he feels invincible and decides to violate tribal laws and venture into the Sacred Waterfalls. There, he suddenly finds himself in a land where no living person has ever been. A land with no escape. It is a place where children go to their afterlife, where water is not wet and fish, birds, and animals communicate and participate in gems with the children. A land where time does not exist. Is Little Eagle stuck here for the rest of his life?

Sparrow is a young Indian boy who lives in a small village near a lake. One day he decided that he would like to visit his cousin, Running Bear, who lived in the city. After obtaining permission from his parents and the chief of the tribe, he boarded a bus for the city. When he arrived he was shocked to see how the people had such little regard for their environment, marking up buildings and throwing refuse on the ground with vehicles that burped soot into the air. He soon tired of the conditions there and returned home, happy to breathe clean air, free of smog and the noise of the city.

Ever since Chester Witherspoon was a child, he had been picked on by older, larger boys. One day he got hold of his fathers revolver and, in an attempt to even the odds, shot at the town bully. He missed, but that single action earned him a reputation that would serve as the basis of The Terrorist. He would learn at an early age that killing was not only exhilarating, but infectious. It wasnt long before he had every lawman on the West Coat searching for him. To add insult to injury, he managed to get on the mobs hit list as well. And they knew where he lived!

The life of 10-year-old Sylvia is limited to living on the beach of Santa Cruz, California, sleeping under cardboard boxes at night and surviving each day by begging and stealing from unsuspecting tourists and selling miniature sand dollars to vendors on the boardwalk that she finds on the beach. When she is traumatized after witnessing her drunken father strangle her prostitute mother on the beach one night, a young couple from Oregon take pity on the little girl and take her home with them to raise her as their own. Fifteen years later they receive a disturbing telephone call form a stranger, demanding an unreasonable ransom with the threat of taking Sylvia's life if they don't give in to his demands. This is the beginning of a series of events that will alter her life forever.

Zachary has always dreamt of riding in a hot air balloon. Then, one day his dream comes true when he finds a balloon sitting all by itself in the middle of a field. He climbs in and has the ride of his life! The balloon takes him high into the heavens where he is so close to the stars that he can almost reach out and touch them, and then he drops down to mountains and valleys, to the pyramids of Egypt and then suddenly drops in to the ocean. There he encounters colorful fish, sea turtles and whales and then ... a school of sharks.

Mark Landsing is a student in a small northwestern community where his only claim to fame is being a go-fer, a clean-up boy for the football team. One day, one of his classmates, a new kid in town, a bully, goes missing after an altercation with the star quarterback where he nearly breaks the star's neck in a fight. Several days after his disappearance, Mark is strolling down by the river when he comes across the boy's murdered body, hidden in his car under some brush. The police are summoned and while Mark awaits their arrival, he comes across a vital clue that will later enable him to identify the killer, someone that would never be suspected of cold blooded murder. A friend. Presented with the dilemma, does he expose the friend to the authorities or keep the secret?

Walter Wentworth, CEO and President of Wentworth Steel has just married a gorgeous, intelligent, successful business woman, a person he knew nothing about her background. A check into her past by his attorney reveals the same woman, by another name, an escaped felon, wanted in Germany to face charges of homicide!