Matt James

Like the "Dark Continent" of Africa, the dark island of Madagascar holds many chilling secrets. One of them is a long-thought extinct species of dinosaurs living at the country's core. A massive earthquake rocks the mountain range within the Andringitra National Park. The splitting earth reveals a network of tunnels, hidden away for millennia. Responding to the series of violent upheavals, a pack of hypersensitive predators flee their subterranean...

"When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities and inescapable challenges of being Black in America and the depth of racism that still exists. On the show,...

Although Norma does not understand all the rituals that happen when she attends a funeral with her family, she does enjoy playing with her cousin and feels the deceased would have liked the funeral.

The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them. The Great Storm decimated those who would conquer her then set loose creatures of shadow, twisted caricatures of those wanton spell-weavers, to devour any who dared survive. Now, over two thousand years later, Mankind has again grown but this time in...

Failing a mission can cost Micah Stone his life, nothing new about that, but this time success might cost him his best friend! Of late, the League Navy has suffered a suspicious increase in the number of defective starship parts they receive. These parts fail only during combat, when they're needed most, and often with fatal consequences. Micah, his teammate Vera Kidwell and his old friend John Thompson are sent on an unsanctioned and very under-the-garble...

Illegal drug smuggling is a huge and persistent problem between the League and the Metazan Republic, especially in the Lost Angels sector which borders it. Matters reach a head when the niece of the sector chairperson and her fiancee die from it the night of her graduation. The Sector Senator, at the behest of the Chair of the Lost Angels Governance Board, demands a full investigation of why such a tragedy should occur with special attention to the...

The Coalition of Grakis Major has a long-standing custom of inviting League volunteers to help monitor and collect data for its elections. Now, though, its economy is near-disaster and only getting worse. Micah Stone and his team are assigned to assist a candidate who may just be able to change things. Young, charismatic and full of hope, he's also an advocate of increased League trade and is willing to ask for help. After a few suspicious incidents,...

The Semids are a peaceful people and staunch friends and trade partners of the League since the formation of their Federation of Worlds. When a group of interstellar terrorists detonates a nuclear bomb at the dedication of their Peace Spire the Semids call on the League for help tracking them down. Micah Stone and his team embark on a journey of action, intrigue and interstellar trade to track down the ones responsible and bring them to justice. The...

The end has come! The world of Epigaea, once ravaged by the Great Storm that nearly destroyed her, now faces one even stronger. A festering, pustulent evil from a past remembered only by the Elves has returned with an appetite only sharpened by the centuries of its delay. Goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, trolls and worse swarm from the Wild Lands into the Seven Kingdoms of Man bringing death and destruction in their wake. Even more chilling, the spirits...