Martin Moreland, thru the power of money, holds the town of Ashwater in his grip. A daily evidence of his greed and secret sins is Rebecca, who in her demented state of mind bids all pass under her white flag and be purified.

"Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...

A future world free of disease, poverty, war, or ill-timed death is turned upside down when the council that controls the Net quarrels and goes to war, leaving the people to battle for survival

The world was a paradise then it ended in war. Duke Edmund Talbot's mission is to go the the Southern Isles and contact the scattered merfolk, those who, before the technology collapse, altered their bodies in the shape of mythical sea-dwelling creatures. He must convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition in the battles against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.

In 2250, water is scarce and controlled by tyrants, but when sixteen-year-old Luca descends to the domain of the Water Rats, he meets one who captures his heart and leads him to secrets about a vast conspiracy, and about himself.

Tells four stories of Iranian men who face the difficult choice between following their conscience or risking everything they have.

"Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical -- even during the driver's strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point, and Yunus has reached his. Handcuffed and blindfolded, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark, strangely ordered world, his fate becomes entwined...

In fifteen-year-old Adrian Havoc's world, HomeState rules every aspect of society and religious education is enforced but Adrian, refusing to believe that the Apocalypse is at hand, goes north through the Deadlands and joins a group of insurgents.

Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul and incur losses over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.