"Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic"-- Agnes loves her home of Red Creek -- its quiet, sunny mornings, its dusty roads, and its God. There, she cares tirelessly for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. What she doesn't know is that Red Creek is a cult, controlled by a madman who calls himself a prophet. Then Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, and begins to...

"Some secrets belong to the past. Others refuse to stay there. In 1959, in an underground laboratory in a remote region of West Virginia, a secret government experiment went terribly awry. Half a dozen scientists mysteriously disappeared, and all subsequent efforts to rescue them failed. In desperation, President Eisenhower ordered the lab sealed shut and all records of its existence destroyed. Now, fifty-four years later, something from the lab has...

A novel on random violence featuring a lucky criminal and an unlucky bystander. Set in Manila, it begins with a quarrel in which an English smuggler shoots a Filipino gangster. The gangster's men chase the smuggler, who takes refuge in a private home. A shootout follows, in the course of which a woman is killed while the smuggler escapes.