The Disappearance Enigma

by Darrell Bain and Mary Ann Steele

When many Americans prominent in the fields of science, math or technology mysteriously vanish, two NSA agents, Ruthanne Carter and Larry Tracker, investigate the disappearances. They conclude that an alien “Entity” is abducting persons with certain abilities and transporting them to a parallel universe. When Ruthanne vanishes, Larry, realizing that the Entity snatched her, voluntarily gets himself abducted.

Ryan Bigelow, the first person to vanish, awakens within a mysterious, shimmering dome. He emerges to find himself in a wild, primitive area that features an ancient, abandoned stone city. Bigelow exercises a remarkable talent for leadership as new arrivals, including Ruthanne and Larry, emerge daily from the dome. The Entity contacts the abductees by speaking through Ruthanne. When the horrified listeners learn just what the Entity is and discover what he wants, they assert themselves, despite knowing that he can kill them instantly. Refusing to be intimidated, they find weaknesses they can exploit in his mental makeup. The abductees negotiate boldly with the Entity. Finally, they devise a means by which they hope they can outwit the murderous alien.  

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Signe, a warrior of legendary prowess, drives a force of Columbian invaders off Gaea. Taking the initiative, the warrior-woman parlays a single space ship captured during a raid, into a fleet. Signe fights Arlen, the intellectually brilliant Commander-in-Chief of Columbian's military forces, to a draw. When a chance for a negotiated peace opens, a climactic development occurs, creating bitter misunderstanding in the minds of two gallant archfoes.

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Arlen, a man of cool daring and brilliant intellect, defeats the rivals for power who strove to unseat him.  Shrewdly, he uses a traitorous subordinate to lead him to Signe as she makes a vital strategic acquisition in a distant part of the star system.  Having captured his archfoe, Arlen subjects Signe to a mental ordeal which he shares. The two world leaders achieve a breakthrough in mutual understanding that neither thought possible. Their historic accord radically changes the lives of both warriors.

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Two former foes found a colony and create the Interworld Corps, a peacekeeping force composed of the cream of their veterans--a force integrated both by nationality and gender. Two highly individualistic warriors struggle to overcome cultural biases deeply ingrained both in themselves and in their followers.

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Birth Of A New Breed: Genesis

The members of the Interworld Corps accept computerized marital matches while meeting a formidable series of challenges in the line of duty.

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As the newly married corpsmembers carry out dangerous duties, fragile new marital ties swiftly strengthen, and bonds of comradeship with fellow corpsmembers grow ever more binding.

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Merline, a Gaean prisoner of war incarcerated by a corrupt Columbian military officer, owes her life to Hogar, a fellow prisoner. When the war ends a few days after her capture, Merline drives a unique bargain with the officer repatriating her. She wangles Hogar's release, and marries him. The newlyweds begin a new, adventure-filled life as rock-hopper spacers in war-torn Gaea.

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Just prior to the end of the space war, Sebastian, Chief of Internal Security of the Columbian Military Complex, captures Marianne, a Gaean spy. Surreptitiously, he subjects his captive to a course of psychological conditioning, and coerces her into satisfying his singular sexual tastes.

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Dangerous Adversaries: No Turning Back

Sebastian underestimates just how dangerous an adversary his Gaean captive will prove to be, even as he engages in activities that produce wholly unforeseen consequences. His actions permanently alter both his life and Marianne's.

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Regan, formerly a captain in the Second Columbian military force, fights a shadowy organization of criminals as he expands his business in Columbia with the help of Islara, his wife. Shared danger produces mutual understanding, and finally, mutual love between two people whose union initially constituted a marriage of convenience. Islara comes to accept Regan's sexual dysfunction, and he abets her ongoing rebellion against the mores governing her male-dominated society.

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Lacey, formerly one of Arlen's most trusted captains and the owner of a cargo vessel, falls in love with Adrienne, a legendary courtesan. Defying the social conventions of two worlds, he marries her, and accepts Signe's invitation to take advantage of a unique opportunity to open trade with Gaea.

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Determined to see his wife accepted in society, Lacey takes her to space with him as his partner in the business, and duels his way across three worlds as he strives to attain his goals.

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Book One of a three-volume novel. Four Earthyears before Signe throws Norman's force of invaders off Gaea, Michael, Captain of a six-man Columbian military scientific team, docks a mortally crippled ship on an isolated Gaean space station occupied by a team of civilian researchers. The Columbians capture the woman, but fail to force her to reveal the location of the lone escape vehicle before her comrades lift. Cleo's feat provokes bitter anger in three of the six men now marooned on the isolated outpost. Michael makes Cleo a member of the team he persuades to work at transforming a section of the station into an escape vehicle. He also arranges to share her, sexually, with his five crewmen. Cleo handles a stressful situation with dauntless courage. Finally, she succeeds in overcoming the hatred Nigel, Michael's dangerous lieutenant, initially harbored for the enemy responsible for marooning him. Later, she defuses a jealous rivalry that threatens the safety of all seven castaways.

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Book Two of the three-volume novel. Seven experts, welded now into a unique sort of multiple marriage, complete hazardous, technically difficult alterations on the hull of the huge, spinning station. The impact of Cleo's personality on her six Columbian captors ultimately exceeds their influence on her.

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Book Three of the three-volume novel. Finally, the seven castaways succeed in launching their ungainly creation. As the six men look ahead, now, to their arrival back in Columbia, they grow ever more fearful as to what their superiors will do with Cleo. Finally, Michael achieves a radical but workable solution to that thorny dilemma. His solution irrevocably alters the lives and restructures the careers of seven daring adventurers.

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