Dawn Price was not quite your average seventeen year old. But with her two best friends Matt and Pam, her only concern was what they were going to do for her eighteenth birthday. But little did she know that two weeks before her birthday her life would start to spiral out of control. For on this day her life would be forever changed. She was to become the Gemini. A prophecy from another dimension. One that was being torn apart by war between the children of the light and the children of the dark. "When the Gemini awakens, she will be torn between two minds and two worlds, If she chooses love, the war will end, if she chooses revenge, the world will be void of light and darkness will rule over life."
Lybania is a cursed planet in the distant stars. In the planet's infancy, a demon duped the leaders of the human clans into killing the Abrahams of their world. A dark age of false gods, evil and magic ensued. Therin of Goldenfield and his pregnant wife are trapped in an Indio city decimated by a metal cylinder that plummeted from the sky. Within the smoking wreckage, the surviving natives found a Sacred Book. It bestowed them with gifts of prophecy, invulnerability and the ability to understand many tongues. The native leader told Therin, that a demon plans to conquer Therin's homeland (the Free Cities). The demon wrested control of the Northern Overlord's army from the dictator. In a blitzkrieg of swords and magic, the army conquered Black Rock City and gained a foothold in the Free Cities. Therin must help Angel of Junction, the only one able to end the demon's curse. But the demon's assassins scour the Free Cities to eradicate Angel, and guarantee the demon's success. To insure the safety of Therin's wife and child, they must separate while he pursues his quest. Therin faces a heart wrenching decision. To save his homeland, he must leave his wife and child, not knowing if he'll ever see them again. Or he can flee the conflict to save them, and let his homeland be enslaved. DOUBLE GEMINI is the first book of THE GREATEST GIFT REGIFTED trilogy. It is an epic fantasy with a Christian twist written for adults and mature young adults.
Scott Ourecky wanted to fly—he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret military space program. The year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, nuclear annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the Soviet Union to land men on the Moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joined the Air Force with aspirations of going to flight school. A brilliant engineer, he repeatedly fails the aptitude test to become a pilot but is selected to work on a highly classified military space program—the innocuously named Aerospace Support Project—in which Air Force astronauts are slated to fly missions to intercept and destroy suspect Soviet satellites. When one of the astronauts in training abruptly falls out of the project, Ourecky is asked to fill in for the two-man simulated missions and survival training only, serving with a headstrong and abrasive test pilot, Major Drew Carson, until another astronaut can be assigned. By far the most proficient pilot assigned to the project, Carson has a dangerous propensity to engage in “pick-up” dog fighting sessions while on cross-country training flights. And although Ourecky was only a temporary “place holder,” not destined to fly in space, he soon finds himself much more involved than he ever anticipated—and in deepest peril. Based on a real secret space program, Blue Gemini combines high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a modern Cold War thriller. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
IT'S A MIRACLE, PURE AND SIMPLE. THE MIRACLE OF TWIN BIRTH. But in the city of Norchester, being a twin also marks you out as a victim. Because someone is killing them and stealing their body parts. It's up to Inspector Roy Mason and his Sergeant, Deborah Harrison, to track down the culprit before they can strike again. Their only lead? A man whose own twin was brutally murdered by the killer. A man whose brother is now helping him from beyond the grave.From the imagination of award-winning and bestselling author Paul Kane (The sellout Hooded Man, Before, Her Last Secret), comes a powerful novel, a supernatural whodunnit unlike any other - in which the very laws of the serial killer procedural are turned on their head. A novel which holds a mirror up to our very souls and asks us just who we are. You might not be quite ready for the answer... This very special tenth anniversary edition contains a brand new introduction by the author, the original introduction by Peter Atkins (Hellraiser II-IV, Wishmaster), the prequel short story 'Gemini Rising' and the script for a pilot episode of The Gemini Factor TV series.
Six hundred and fifty years after the final demise of the Cathars and Knights Templar, a murder and a series of suspicious deaths of the clergy are linked to an innocent farm girl starting her first day as a maid in Chandringham, the stately home in England in 1918. She's thrust into the upper echelons of society and told to immerse herself in the life of the aristocracy, presented as Lady Mary Tavistock. She struggles to erase her existence as Flo and all she has ever known. Her many questions go unanswered; even worse, Lady Mary finds her life is in danger. An unexpected suitor comes to her rescue as she tries to make sense of who she is and her purpose in life. Mary is sent to Switzerland for answers and to hone her innate abilities with others like her. There she will find a shocking world she never knew existed.
Starting her junior year, Logan McRae is excited about her internship at CRUSH magazine. But she is not so excited about her new boyfriend Jeremy's travel abroad in Ireland. Logan's in over her head trying to balance school, love, and friends, while trying to solve an astrological mystery -- the fate of a Gemini is star-crossed. Will Logan find out who is in danger before the CRUSH Halloween costume party? Can she prove to the publisher she deserves her own astrology column? And will her relationship with Jeremy survive the distance? Only time will tell as Logan continues to reach for the stars!
US astronauts race to disarm Soviet satellites armed with nuclear weapons in the concluding volume in a thrilling alt-history Cold War-era space trilogy from Mike Jenne. As the Project enters its final phase, Air Force Majors Carson and Ourecky are dispatched on an urgent mission to intercept and investigate a massive orbiting object suspected of harboring nuclear weapons. Emotionally exhausted, with his marriage teetering on the brink, Ourecky reluctantly accepts the assignment. In return for his sacrifice, he is promised an opportunity to go to MIT to pursue the PhD he has long desired. As they draw close to the mysterious satellite and prepare to destroy it, they are confronted with a dark secret that they must carry forever and are forced to contemplate their own mortality and the dire prospect of dying in space. Upon their return to Earth the majors are offered an opportunity almost too good to pass up—flying into orbit yet again, except under considerably different circumstances. Ourecky wrestles with his decision, knowing that choosing to fly will almost certainly result in the end of his marriage, while Carson is finally granted an opportunity to fly in Vietnam. Although he is finally allowed to fulfill his dream of flying in combat, Carson soon discovers that there are some fates worse than death. As the darkest secrets are revealed to astronauts Carson and Ourecky, can they save themselves? Pale Blue is the epic, high-flying conclusion to the Blue Gemini trilogy that will leave you breathless.
In Gemini - Steps to the Moon, David Shayler, the author, tells the story of the origin and development of the programme and the spacecraft from the perspective of the engineers, flight controllers and astronauts involved. It includes chapters on flight tests, Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA), rendezvous and docking, as well as information from NASA archives and personal interviews.
He was trained to be our deadliest weapon. Now he's our worst nightmare.... A noted expert on counterterrorism and international security, Richard Steinberg has used his firsthand knowledge of covert military strategies to craft the year's most daring tale of espionage and political intrigue. Dazzling and unforgettable, this power-packed tour de force is one part Robert Ludlum, two parts Thomas Harris--and 100% pure terror.... Code-named Gemini, he is conditioned to do just two things: breathe and kill. His deadliest mission brought the Soviet Union to its knees. His reward: six years in a freezing Russian gulag--drugged, tortured, and abandoned. Now a brilliant psychiatrist is charged with unlocking his sinister secrets. She will peer into the most fascinating and malevolent mind she has ever encountered. And she will discover what Gemini already knows--that the most unstoppable enemies are the ones we create ourselves.... "From the Paperback edition."
Gemini, Book 3 Camille Ellis has gone rogue agent, and there's no turning back now. The conclave might have put the Charybdis case to bed, but Cam isn't willing to let it lie. No badge doesn't mean no backup these days. As mate to an alpha warg, she has access to new and lethal resources. A whole pack full of them. And they all want justice for the sins committed against them. But the stakes are higher than she knows, the secrets exposed darker than she feared, and the cost of winning higher than she ever imagined.
