A deadly fifty-year-old secret from World War II, hidden away at a top-secret Nazi submarine base, could spell disaster for the modern world when a ruthless corporate mercenary plans to hold the entire world hostage, unless geologist Philip Mercer and his colleague, Anika Klein, can stop him. Original.

From the author of Kyros' Secret, The Oracle of Delphi and Thief of Olympus comes a tale of Vara the Conqueror. Ruled by the evil vices her great-grandmother Pandora unleased upon mankind, Vara struggles between the haunting voices offering her ultimate power and the one man who can set her free. Will lust, greed, gluttony, anger, and jealousy take over her very soul, or will love turn all her vices into virtues?

Exploring the most fascinating and significant scientific missteps, the author presents seven cautionary lessons to separate good science from bad.

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Complacently expanding for centuries without major obstacles, the benevolent Centran Empire comes across Earth. In spite of the Centran superiority in technology, the conquest is a nightmare. As a result, a Centran leader has an idea--since humans are so good at fighting, why not send teams of them to planets proving difficult for the Centran Empire?

Thirteen-year-old Charis Parks has five days to save mankind. What she thought was mere mythology has become her reality ... she alone must reverse the curse of Pandora's Jar. If Charis is to fulfill her destiny, she has to face her fears against the darker forces of Hades and the blood-thirsty Erinyes Sisters who help him. Together with the gods and her best friend Gabe, Charis takes a fantastic journey to Pandora's Jar, where she must release the only spirit that remains trapped inside - the spirit of Hope. Or else ...

CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée's killers--a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left for dead. When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up--possibly another government agent. Fox barely escapes after learning that Ares has acquired a hyperdeadly microbe--called Pandora--that is believed to have wiped out ancient civilizations. The trail leads Fox to Tokyo where he discovers that people within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Japanese Intelligence want Pandora for themselves. The only person Fox can trust is a woman from his past who he nearly got killed.