Colleen Drippé

When Jay Carlson has a run-in with a strange, dark truck on a lonely road, his life goes south. He sees things that others don't see. He learns things he wishes he could forget, and he is drawn into an ancient battle he wouldn't have believed in even a day in the past. This time, even country music and the open road can't save him. Join authors Colleen Dripp and Karina Fabian as they take you to the darkest places on the road. Also includes four extra stories: -The Lobby: An innocent trip to the movies leads to a tempting choice. But is eternal "happiness" worth the price?-Accidental Undeath: An unfortunate accident leaves a truck-driving vampire with an impossible decision to make.-The Women of Rattlesnake Hill: When a vampire attacks, the women of Rattlesnake Hill do what the women there have always done to protect their own.-My Big Fat, Zombie Wedding: A zombie romcom ends the book on a lighter note.

Freed by the annihilation of the corporation that owned him, arch ological looter Eduardo Sabat goes into business for himself. But why does he accept a search and rescue mission in the same region of Quele Colony where he suffered his most terrible experience as a corporate slave? He isn't sure, but he suspects there are still some things he still has to resolve. In the end, the ever surprising Godcountry region has its own answers for him - answers that will change him beyond his wildest dreams.

In this sequel to Colleen Dripp 's "The Branded Ones", the fate of Fenn Colony hangs in the balance. Spear, the son of Vess Lorn and a gelen - a psychic mutant - has become the king of Drakendon, the home of the Drayak tribe. But his reign is fraught with challenges, as he has to deal with the offworlders who are stranded on his planet, and a new threat that emerges from the north. Dilich Hayan, a gelen from the North Island, has come to the Drayak Citadel with a dark secret and a desperate hope. His power connects him to a mysterious force that is rising in the west, and that endangers not only the gelens, but the entire colony. To break free from his curse as the "vessel of darkness", Dilich needs the help of Spear and his queen. Together, they must face the ultimate battle to save their world.

Young Helen Kley of El Colony, a world dominated by women, doesn't know what to make of the two young men who suddenly come bursting into her life, rescuing her from a humiliating kidnap attempt. That they are offworlders, she has no doubt, that they are corporate agents of some sort, she suspects. Otherwise why do they withhold their names, giving her only the number of a safe line to contact them? In the end, she becomes friends with the one she dubs "Pro" (the other she call "Con" because of their differing attitudes) and simply learns to think of them as her guardians. Only when she comes of age, two years later, and is by custom given her father's name and an invitation to visit heretofore unknown relatives on his homeworld, does she learn the truth about her adopted guardians. In fact she learns truth after truth as she and Pro, whose real name she finally learns, must battle their way through one adventure after another as they seek her missing father while avoiding his enemies. In the end, she faces not only threats from the outside, but also the need to come to terms with her own values and background -- to choose and to choose rightly. Everything she has learned to care about depends on her choice -- her own happiness and the welfare of those who have become dear to her.