Erin Neal suddenly finds himself back on the international stage when a number of important Saudi oil resources are threatened by a mysterious new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil.

Life is not easy for 6 year old Rebecca. Rebecca's parents are at each others throats; her big sister is totally absorbed with her own problems, and her uncle is intent on Rebecca taking her medicine. It is a hard luck life. Complicating things further, her health is not so good and her parents keep her home all the time. Ernest, the bacterium who has become her best friend, hopes to reconcile her parents. But things get complicated when a new virus...