Journalist Beth Scibelli arrives in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, 1999, to cover a mega-gathering of Christians from across the nation. Little does she suspect that within the next seven days, she and her new romantic interest, Sergeant Reagan Cole of the LAPD, will be plunged into a fiendish assassination plot aimed at America's top Christian leaders.

A distinguished statesman and man of letters deplores the mounting attacks on Enlightenment values that jeopardize the very survival of the democratic institutions they inspired. Enlivening his grim predictions with dry wit, O'Brien nevertheless conveys an apocalyptic sense of the threats facing democracy as we approach the third millennium.

Welsh poet Stan Morton has chosen this selection of poems mainly from those written in the last decade of the 20th century and second millennium but waited until 2015 before publication. A miner's son with a first degree in Modern Foreign Languages and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics his work shows both the distinct influences of the poetry he has studied in English, Welsh, French and Spanish and an acute awareness of the structure of language. Having moved from the industrial heartlands of North East Wales to the rural beauty of the Vale of Clwyd he treats both landscapes and communities with deep affection. Each poem is treated individually according to its subject, the whole collection presenting a great diversity of style and format. His concerns are those of contemporary individuals caught between a sometimes horrific past and an uncertain future in a world of indescribable natural beauty.

Daniel Johnston is widely recognised as one of the pioneers of alternative indie music. His problems with mental illness are well known, and visual art has provided an alternative outlet in the periods when he was physically incapable of making music.

Ray Romer has an automobile accident on his way home from a nursing facility where his wife is an Alzheimers patient. He is picked up and helped by a couple, Guy Anker, and his wife, Gail. What follows is a series of surprising and dramatic incidents in which they become a complex part of Rays troubled life.