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Adam Gold, an immortal with sweet eyes of blue, rushes through the centuries on a quest for reason and a thirst for revenge. To cope with his pain and regret, he sleeps away the years and awakes in a new era with a powerful, ancient vampire who sets her sights on him.

Fleeing the French invasion of Geneva, Switzerland in the 1700s, Adam Gold books a passage to America with his family. On the ship, Adam's daughter falls fatally ill. A mysterious man comes to Adam with a way to save his child by turning Adam into something darker than human.

Spain, 1648. Fifteen-year-old Luis is different than everyone else in the small, sweltering village of Riodelgado - because he can read. Targeted by the local toughs, who make his life a misery, Luis works tirelessly to provide for his ailing mother and young sister. Then, one day, a wandering soldier arrives to the village and everything changes.

A high school girl nearly drowns during a bicycle "tour for the cure" for breast cancer. A father checks his mentally ill son into the emergency room. A lawyer reexamines his past and present in light of a horrific car crash that killed three high school classmates. These long and short stories all focus upon events which transcend the characters' day-to-day existences, events which move them toward new states of understanding or being, toward new lives which will emerge to take the place of the old.

Anna Miller has her whole life ahead of her and everything to look forward to this Christmas. She’s always dreamed of being a wife and mother on an Amish farm, and her dreams are about to come true. She’s certain that this Christmas, after three long years, Jed Graber is finally going to propose. When Jed asks her out on a special Christmas date, Anna knows the moment has come. But instead of proposing, Jed tells her he’s moving hundreds of miles away, and Anna’s world comes crashing down. Later, Jed’s brother, Dale, tries to comfort her, but she draws away from everyone.

When the ancient queen, Sekhmet, snatches up Adam, he is faced with a terrifying decision: to aid her in her vile plans or dare to stand against her.

Hosea Stout witnessed and influenced many of the major civil and political events over 50 years of LDS history, but until the publication of his diaries, he was a relatively obscure figure to historians. Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender is the first-ever biography of this devoted follower who played a significant role in Mormon and Utah history.