After his city life crashes, Reggie Neet gets a new start when he inherits a secluded estate on Lake Wyrd in a North Carolina forest. But the lake front home harbors more than just the chance to dwell closer to nature.With the property comes a library of mystical texts, his uncle’s very large and telepathic cat, and a neighboring coven of witches, including the captivating Samantha. Reggie’s hope for a peaceful return to nature evaporates when Sinrix, the cat, lets Reggie know ther...

Peter Valois is about to make history. A scientist on a hot project, his days consist of recording brains and sending the files into robots for "conditioning". His plan is to use the results to fix their behavior, and then use the same method with humans.Peter's been on the straight and narrow and everything is going well, until problems with his teenage son force Peter out of his comfort zone. His scheme to save his son backfires when his cutting-edge research attracts the interes...

In a world where men worship either Li, the god of order, or Dar, the god of chaos, the peasant boy Justi wields a flame, a Justice Power, to drive Dar's barbarians from the Zell. With age and peace, Justi's power seems to fade. When he marries Queen Mercerio, who holds gifts of mercy and healing, their royal children appear normal. Prince Meru is more the scholar than a future king, and Princess Danilla is beautiful and ungifted. That is no problem until their half sibling Justik, the chi...

The traditional fortress mentality of system security has proven ineffective to attacks by disruptive technologies. This is due largely to their reactive nature. Disruptive security technologies, on the other hand, are proactive in their approach to attacks. They allow systems to adapt to incoming threats, removing many of the vulnerabilities explo