Elsewhere · Science Fiction & Fantasy Box Set

SOMEWHERE ELSE

A non-physical walk-in soul makes an agreement with another incarnated soul to take over her body. The Walk-in, perhaps too fearless, and too hungry for the pleasures of the flesh, discovers she has inherited the life of Daelah Murdock, a Mormon goody-two-shoes with a pathological attachment to the color pink. The surrogate soul's life as a lesbian cop did not prepare her for this. Or did it? As a live-in caregiver for two men--one blind, the other wheelchair bound--Daelah's life seems bland and puerile.

Except that someone is trying to kill her.

Who knew the afterlife could be this much fun?

QUINTESSENCE

"If you push your luck, expect it to push back. That's what my Grandma Beasley used to say. And she was right. I had it illustrated to me ten days ago, and again on this frigid October night in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas."

So begins the journey of twenty-five year old Jason Beasley, a Synesthete-- his brain merges his senses in a way that allows him to see words and images before him as if on a Plexiglas screen.

When he leaves his mother's house for the last time, along with her pious and overbearing preacher boyfriend, his journey takes him to an old barn laboratory in Coffeyville Kansas, which holds much more than some mad scientist's forgotten notebooks.

He is about to discover, literally, a new reality, and that the research Professor Pritchard has done will lead him to the life he didn't know he was missing. If he could only get used to all the differences; starting with the fact that his own gender has changed, and he's now a lesbian.

POWERFUL THINGS

It's hard enough building a life on a new planet, but when you're faced with dissension in your own tribe, you have to decide and decide quickly just how far you're prepared to go.

Sivon is half Bandonese, half human. Her mother was one of ten female survivors when their craft crashed on a farm in rural Colorado. Now she is running from one of her own people, risking everything for the things she believes in, and for the love she's found with a local young woman.

Mozzik, the self-appointed leader of the Bandosapiens, has his own agenda, and Sivon has just crossed the line. He's out to find her, to eliminate the risk she's flirting with and to assert his control once more over the whole tribe.

But sometimes power is about more than control. Doing the right thing can be the most powerful thing in the world...as Sivon is about to find out.

If Mozzik doesn't kill her first.