Books published by publisher Capital Ideations, LLC

Not everyone in war-torn Europe believed in bigotry and hatred. A few human beings remained, hidden and camouflaged within the guise of Nazism and fanaticism. This is the story of one such old man, a railyard, and tiny scraps of paper drifting on the wind, each bearing a desperate last message from the dead.This really happened. It didn't have to happen, but it really, really did.

During an otherwise placid Thursday morning commute, human civilization deconstructed itself like a riot in a madhouse, one hand-to-hand death-brawl at a time. None escaped the slaughter.Perversely efficient in the aftermath, an alien-incepted Terminus Signal drives roving clans of homicidal lunatics to exterminate these Immunes to a last number. During the course of their apocalyptic odyssey, one such band of desperate survivors must overcome petty, pre-Terminus differences to form life-and-death bonds strong enough to withstand the actual end of their world.While fighting for their lives, this hastily assembled family will ultimately uncover the sinister truth of Terminus, and then they must confront and somehow overcome the horrific realities of global extinction. Sometimes, second chances suck!

The Korengal Valley of Afghanistan was one of the most dangerous places in the world during 2008. There on a daily basis, brave Americans confronted the grim realities of a determined guerilla resistance, as they opposed an all but invisible enemy exercising a ruthless determination to achieve their objectives at all costs and without heed to civilized rules of war.Using improvised explosive devices and ambush tactics, the stubborn jihadists of the region worked fanatically to sap the American will to fight by bleeding its forward forces white via use of the most brutal weapons on hand. Deployment there became a crapshoot of possibilities – the hapless gamblers rolling snake-eyes would die or suffer life-altering injury. Nobody served there unscathed.

In the distant future of humankind, an unscrupulous government has embarked on a program of colonization, sending one moon-sized transport after another careening into the cosmic gulf, each utterly dependent upon the one gone before. The hapless voyagers of Brigantine are first in the line and tragedy has befallen them.Stranded far from home, their starship must rise from the ashes of a terrible conflagration, and he must lead them from beyond the threshold of a fiery grave. Billions of lives depend upon his success.

In the aftermath of a genocidal galactic invasion by hordes of ravenous aliens, the abandoned inhabitants of Pentax Nine, a remotely isolated colony cut off from all sources of resupply, devise a desperate plan to save themselves from certain annihilation. With their last reserves of fuel and determination, they salvage and resurrect a centuries-outmoded spacecraft named Titan, providing it with a skeleton crew consisting of three novice young men led by two sage combat veterans. Their best hope for success resides in the ship’s volunteer captain, Paladin, a genetically modified warrior descended from an elite race of martial experts. Cold, hard, and heavily experienced, she must lead them on a daring one-way voyage to the outer fringes of the galaxy in search of resources vital to the colony’s survival.When they achieve their destination having expended the last of their fuel, Titan’s crew discover and must confront the profound implications of an evil secret long concealed by the sinister Company, master of all human technology, employment and government within the galaxy. Before they can return home with the supplies vital to salvation of their hopeful families, they must somehow survive the shocking terrors they discover hidden among the planets and moons of mysterious Deadfall.

1943. World War II. The U.S. government drafted him out of his life of normalcy and complacency into the life of a United States Marine Corps officer. After intensive training, he would serve during some of the bloodiest assaults of the war. The violent rigors of combat would teach him the rules of long-term survival amid the most lethal fighting in human history. Those who failed to learn these lessons would not return home to their families.During the bloody throes of combat, all is fair and the only rules that apply are those that promote survival. When confronting evil, what is the nature of right and wrong?

During his service as an intern at the SETI Project, Simian Wynwood fatefully records “first contact” with an alien intelligence. Captured in high-fidelity analog format, this broadcast message contains vast stores of advanced, world-changing technology. Within months, this so-called SETI-Tech becomes widely available to the general populous, and disturbing events rapidly begin to unfold around the planet, as an apparently benevolent alien influence slowly embraces and then seizes control of nearly every aspect of human civilization. Horrified by his role in its discovery, Simian fears this fabulous “gift” is, in fact, a sinister alien plot hidden in a technological Trojan Horse, but his is an isolated opinion utterly ignored by a global population of technophiles gone mad. Ironically, when violent fanatics kidnap him to make a live broadcast protest of his torturous execution, he cannot make them believe that he empathizes with their xenophobic paranoia, and his agonizing end seems assured. Whether by grace of fate or misfortune, a shocking outburst of violent anarchy will ultimately save him from one bloody death, only to condemn him, and all of humanity, to extinction when mysterious alien forces unleash their genocidal Terminus Signal.

After the apocalyptic Terminus Signal induces worldwide slaughter, a death-weary band of survivors attempts to rebuild their ravaged civilization amid an alien wilderness that overflows with bizarre savagery. Although copious quantities of drugs and alcohol disappear inside the Village each night, these tormented holdouts struggle with unquiet consciences that are hopelessly infected by endless black thoughts. For, having survived the ultimate act of genocidal self-destruction, each one of them bear their memories and scars – and the guilt of countless wicked, homicidal crimes – with the dull patience of penitent felons facing inevitable gallows.Enter Deacon, an exotically handsome desert scavenger and harbinger of bloody doom. Like a sable crow alighting atop a decayed carcass, this rover appears in the Village during late fall with strange tales of enslaved children, alien invasions, and disturbing rumors of new aberrations now freshly emerging from the California desert. Though he resists Deacon’s enticement, the Scientist cannot bear to separate from the Girl, who has righteously determined to accompany this empathetic newcomer on his suicidal journey to the vast saltpan of Badwater Basin. During their struggle to survive this latest attempt at redeeming human civilization, these hapless human beings will uncover many unsettling truths about the past, present and future of their species. Most startling of all, they will discover why their thoughts are not their own when influenced by the piper’s song of yet another broadcast Terminus Signal.