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Uprising, the 13th novel in the Jackson Stafford series, has entered a critical stage where all of the rebellious employees of the Pandora Project are ready to revolt. Dr. Jennings has sought solace, the Watcher's Defector is finalizing his agreement with the NSA, Amanda, Dr. Brody, and Hank have successfully removed Claire Melbourne from the cryotube, and the senior armed guard has blackmailed Dr. Brody and is waiting for his money.

It’s been said many times that the living are only alive because of the dead. Because of past wars, past genocides, and past invasions that were used to “clean” the Earth, the world we’d left behind only remained “alive” because of the reoccurring pattern of life and death. We, those of us aboard what has become known as “The Last Ship”, will have nothing to brag about when we arrive at our foreordained “new world” light-years away from the blood-stained chronicles of our birth world.

Jackson Stafford, having recouped from his experience in California when he was 33, has finished his tours of duty with the Navy and has moved back to the east coast to find employment. Dr. Cantby and Dr. Januari Winters have completed the integration, advised Jackson as to what he should do should there be a recurrence, but they aren't aware of Ben's diabolical plans to take what he feels is his rightful place as a god within Jackson Stafford.

On Leave: A Sailor's Memory is a short story intended to touch the heart of people both young and old, civilian or military. It's a story about a sailor's homecoming, a vacation, on leave for only a short moment. During this short time at home, the sailor learns the truth about his father.

Randall Sullivan slumped in the passenger seat aboard a speeding train on its continuing trip between the realms of truth and fantasy. He will awaken, like many others, without a ticket, without any knowledge as to how he arrived in the seat across the aisle from an elderly couple dressed in gray attire. But during his time on this train, he’ll come to understand a mystery few have ever known. Many are travelers, those who languish between this world and the next.

Darkness choked him. It choked him every night. There was nowhere left for him to run. Solitude, loneliness, and fear loomed in the air as thick as morning fog. Where could he go to hide? He jumped into bed, clutched the covers up around his neck, wedged the blanket under his feet, and prayed for comfort from the watchers, ghosts, unseen visitors, monsters, and those unwanted and uninvited specters that always come from the other world into the room where he slept. They invaded his will, his mind, and his soul.

He can't seem to shake the memory. From the top floor of his office building, he stands in the window and looks out over his domain, one of the cities that never sleeps in the north. His mind is drawn to a simple uncluttered encounter, a scene stuck in his mind for over 15 years. Miles away, on the outskirts of a place called the "Shanty Town", Mrs. Craft remembers a person met by accident at the train station's taxi turnabout. She barely said thank you as he held the taxi door for her. But as he held the door, there was an undeniable sensation that he'd see her again.

No significant changes occurred in the quiet valley community after their encounter, after their passing. The only changes that were detectable were those in the life of John Davidson. The community sat at the foothills of the Great Rocky Mountains. It was a small friendly town bordering the Pacific Time Zone. This was John’s home. This had been his home all of his life. He often wondered why the visitor chose him, but after the outcome, he tried to forget the whole affair.

Jackson Stafford has finished his commitment to the government he pledged to protect from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Once within the Project, Jackson has become the pawn of the directors, the investors from all over the world. He wasn’t aware why he was brought to the facility, all he knows is that his government has provided him as an anonymous lab rat to be used for furthering the lifespan of the human race.

Exposed is quickly beginning to unravel the ties-that-bind Jackson Stafford's story together. Brent has revealed his true nature and his mission. The Defector has the director of the FBI in his corner intervening for a notorious assassin. Don and Nancy, NSA professionals locked in the final throws of uncovering the greatest of all truths about Jackson Stafford, stand stunned by the facts.

Restitution is taking the listener deeper into the rabbit hole where the stark difference between truth and obscurity is easily distinguishable. No longer are the investors waiting for a response from the Project: they're ordering it. The Investors are demanding proof that the hosts are viable, and have issued a directive to revive several test subjects and complete implantation.

Brent, the hired-gun from London, and Claude, a currier for a local delivery company, are on their way to freedom. With the help of the senior armed guard, Mr. Thompson, the two are nearing the end of the tunnel leading out into the parameter of the Pandora Project. No one has ever escaped from the Project. Mr. Thompson promised Claude he'd assist him in getting out, but that promise didn't include the assassin.

Jackson Stafford’s World of Entrapment finds the host being manipulated by personalities he thought were imprisoned in mental bondage 15 years earlier. Ben, Darrell, Randy, and Carl are seeking to further expand their control and take over their host’s life.

The two friends continued their conversation, unaware that their seemingly innocent banter was about to take a dramatic turn. Unseen by them, a black sedan with tinted windows pulled up to the curb a few feet away. Two men in suits stepped out and approached, their eyes focused solely on Mark.

When I found out the truth about the ‘hunt’, I could hardly believe it. It held me in a state of disbelief. Yet, having witnessed it myself firsthand, there was no way of denying that it wasn’t real. Not all of the men who went into the valley’s forest to hunt returned alive. It was a risk that each of us understood and accepted as a fact of life. It was, at least for me and my brothers, something that we’d wanted to do, no, something that was expected of us to complete before we became much older.

Jacob, Ron, and the two editors-in-chief are on their way to a meeting that will be held at the Washington Sentinel's building. The four will sort through the information from the Valley of the Dead field doctor. The four newspaper professionals will lay out their strategy for breaking the story to the world. Every consequence must be discussed. The legal portion must be considered if Names are to be Named. Back at the university, the four research students have gained permission to study off-campus at Deborah's place, but is it safe?

Jackson Stafford, the main character in the series, is being transferred from the Pandora Project back to the recruit training command near Chicago when a winter storm causes one of the jet engines on the plane owned by the investors to flame out. Ice freezing on the fuselage creates a situation causing the jet to plummet to the ground with no hope of recovery. During the descent, Ben, Jackson’s mental friend who lives in the inner room, creates a way that the passengers may be saved.

Mysterious man in first-class has a mystery he is carrying to the United States.

Within brings together the characters from the preceding novels and adds new ones in an explosive new novel filled with past, present, and future events all experienced within Jackson’s mind.

It's what's down the road that haunts us, the not knowing, the anticipation. But as with each road taken, there must be the element of mystery. With each shadow, there must be a corresponding feather of light. To eye beyond the bend in the road would be abnormal. No one sees through the veil of time, the curtain of uncertainty. That's what makes us equal.