Twin boys, Ishmael and Isaac, are born to Katherine and Abraham Carter on New Year's Eve 1943 in a small, rural town in Southwest New Hampshire. The story picks up in 1958 and we find that Isaac is a serious teenager who enjoys reading books, tries his best to be a good son, a good person and a good friend. He likes to get lost in the books he reads and dreams of traveling to the exotic locals that he reads about, but he eventually wants to live in the town he is growing up in and have a family with his girlfriend Mary. For him, life is difficult with Abraham and Katherine, but he loves his parents and tries his best to keep peace in the household. Isaac's biggest problem is Ishmael. Ishmael only dreams of leaving New Hampshire. He can't wait to get out. He dislikes the town, everyone in it and everything about his life. But he loves his brother. He feels it is his duty as the older brother to protect Isaac from the harshness of this world, the harshness that can destroy an innocent...
In the late 16th century, King James the VI, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, captures an entire family who have been terrorizing the Scottish countryside with acts against God and man. The family pays the ultimate price for their crimes. So says the legend. But what if King James had not captured all family members? What if two had been missed? Survived? A brother and sister who then began to renew the family and keep the bloodline intact. And what if, forty years later, the descendants of the slain patriarch come to the new world, bringing with them the old ways of the family. The stealing. The killing. The unspeakable. For one hundred years they terrorize the settlements of the colonies, slowly moving ever north and leaving behind death, until finally settling in a picturesque valley in New Hampshire in 1722. Two hundred and fifty years later, Barbara Taylor and her family re-locate to the quiet, rural community of Girvan, leaving the hectic pace of the city far behind. Sitting o...
John Russell is an emotionally broken man at the age of 27 when he accepts the position of lighthouse keeper in 1923. In desperate need of a place where he can hopefully come to terms with the unfortunate decisions he has made in his life, the solitude he hopes to find in the Willamette River Lighthouse may be the one place where he will be able to rest and, through quiet reflection and the passing of time, learn to forgive himself those decisions. It is John Russell's plan to spend a year or three above the confluence of the mighty Columbia and Willamette Rivers at the north end of Portland, healing in the quiet sanctuary of the lighthouse built on stilts. But, as it always has been in his life, those plans soon change, the quiet refuge becomes as turbulent as the rivers, and he finds himself spending years above the dangerous waters until he wonders if the lighthouse is still a sanctuary or has it become a prison. Set in the early part of the 20th century, the busy port of Portlan...
In a cave in the Bordeaux region of France, archaeologist Dr. Daniel Reynolds has made a discovery that could alter all we know about the evolution of man. Dr. Reynolds returns to his university and his teaching duties as he awaits data on testing being done on his incredible find. It is then an old man walks into his office, the mysterious Leopold Christ [rhymes with list] who claims to know all about the find. Why it was there, where it came from, what it means for the future of mankind. Reynolds finds the tale too incredible to believe, but as time passes, and the same find is discovered in another cave in Brazil, he slowly comes to the realization that maybe what Leopold Christ is telling him is true. In which case the world must prepare for what is coming.
Author Robert Napolitano
