First book in the Sin's Next Genration series...Raine and Cricket's story.

Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, who had settled in northern Colorado, told her during his annual visits. But thanks to him, she ended up moving to Fort Collins, Colorado for college—and after falling in love with a man she'd become friends with in her final year of college, when he was a student at the CSU School of Veterinary Medicine, she remained there. Watching the work Earl did as a veterinarian inspired Mary to eventually leave her tenured teaching position and enter vet school, after which she opened her own, feline-exclusive clinic. Along the way, there were numerous pets, grueling years of vet school, a shattered hip, an enduring love, illness, and death—and the rediscovery that life, especially a life full...

As occurred several times previously in the long and successful career of Archaeology Professor David Manning, he is again drawn into a complex quest when an unusual artifact points the way to lost Greek treasures of epic proportions.  This starts him and his wife, Elizabeth, on an adventure so ultimately challenging that it could possibly bring his record of past achievements to an abrupt and lethal close, and he fears his best efforts may not be enough to accomplish the daunting task set before him.  Not only are foreign governments involved, but his main  adversary is literally a man with infinite wealth at his disposal -- someone whose inflexible personal hatred for Manning knows no limitations.

Each person, at different times in life, will desire an expression of their existence to give them purpose. A Storyteller narrates a tale to take the listener on a journey through history and of possibility. Sit by me in the stone circle of The Forgotten Ones, before the sparks of firelight turns to darkness, with visions of grace and beauty to fill your sleep.

When fourteen-year-old Zanna Mayfield gets an acceptance letter from St. Pommeroy’s School for Gifted Children, she jumps at the chance to put her considerable intellect to good use. But nothing can prepare her for the first day, when she discovers that she is a Scientist —one able to see and bend the basic functions of the universe like velocity, gravity, and chemical reactions to her own purposes. As Zanna struggles to make friends and learn how to use her abilities at her new school, her troubles multiply when a mysterious woman begins stalking her, dead set on keeping Zanna out of St. Pommeroy’s. If Zanna has any hope of finishing her first year, she’ll need to master every function she can get her mind around—including the one that defines Zanna herself.