A paleontologist and a magazine journalist are forced to land in the imaginary country of Callimbia, while the British passengers of Capricorn Flight 500 are at the mercy of a capricious new ruler in this violence torn country.

"Julian West is trying to survive in the Splinterlands, which is the shattered world order of 2050." --

When the daughter of Viscount Aynsley encounters a fossil-hunting scientist and his sister, her assumptions about what is right are shaken. Will the trust they've withheld from each other end up tearing three lives apart? --

"From USA TODAY bestselling author Tea Cooper comes the story of how a fossil discovered at London's Natural History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth-century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and buried secrets"-- "Buried secrets. An ancient fossil. And one woman's determination to unravel a nineteenth century mystery. Australia, 1847. The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is sprinting through...

A map near the skeleton of an alien from space leads paleontologist Samantha Colby to an abandoned alien bunker in South America which houses an advanced weapons system. The discovery sparks a conflict between her two lovers, an anthropologist and a gun merchant, with drug dealers and the CIA joining in.

"Alisha Blake works her magic in the kitchen, creating delectable desserts for her grandfather's restaurant in rural Illinois...Then a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents' backyard. When paleontologist Quentin Harris arrives to see the discovery for himself, he's hoping that the fossil will distract him from a recent painful breakup. Instead, he finds Alisha...The big-city academic and the hometown baker seem destined for a happily ever after"--...