(The series continues from Book 1.) A microchip manufacturer from Munich amuses himself by taunting and evading federal agents with his sophisticated hacking skills. A friend of O'Keefe's is killed when he learns too much about the hacker. A handsome Persian-American joins the performers at the supper club where Zeph's housemates perform. He becomes romantically involved with one of them until she finds out about his wife and two children. Another of O'Keefe's friends, a closeted mixed-martial-arts fighter on the pro circuit, is stalked by a special-ops veteran who kills a tabloid photographer to keep him from outing the fighter. Plus--a preview of Season Two.

Zeph's new in town. He finds a room in West Hollywood and shares the house with two ultrasleek gender illusionists who style themselves after classic movie goddesses Lauren Bacall and Rita Hayworth. A private investigator named O'Keefe stops by, and Zeph finds himself drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of a porn-studio owner and one of his stars. The missing porn star is, not by coincidence, the boyfriend of one of Zeph's new housemates. Another investigation involves the drug-related murder of a club kid. O'Keefe is one of the suspects because he was the last person seen with the victim. A large, menacing drag queen, who took the rap for the murder of a dancer at a gay club in Miami, is now out on parole and is trying to track down her accomplice. She hires O'Keefe to find a "lost love." The series continues in Book 2.

Time. Space. Just illusions in a multiverse. Trevor frequently wakes up from weird abduction dreams, but when the UFO he’s dreaming he’s in is actually shot down by the military, he learns that he’s been an abductee since childhood and that government agencies will not tolerate crash survivors or escapees from deep underground bases. At the heart of the story is the relationship between Trevor and a beautiful young woman about whom he doesn’t know very much and who may be a government-agency operative. Trevor learns that there are numerous hostile alien races who are committed to preventing Earth’s Ascension to membership in the galactic community. The central characters, a group of friends who share an interest in UFOs, unexpectedly learn that the activation of transhuman abilities embedded in their DNA is linked to the approach of the Ascension.

This is a long-overdue revision and expansion of what has become a classic book in marine literature. This lavishly illustrated volume provides exhaustive coverage of more than 90 percent of the region's reef fishes. Every species is thoroughly illustrated, including photographs of the juvenile, female and male in species that vary in appearance during their development. Besides the wide array of underwater and diagnostic laboratory photographs, the book also contains seven plates painted by the talented natural-history artist Roger Swainston. With an additional 32 pages and 90 photos (covering 60 new species in all), this revised and expanded edition will enable even a beginning layman to identify most of the region's reef fishes. Divers, anglers, underwater naturalists and professional biologists are equally catered to.