News Anchor and Reporter, Tina Powers, is standing at the scene where a thirteen year- old boy has been shot and killed. Tina, her cameraman, and the police are the first to arrive at the crime scene. The parents of the boy have yet to arrive. Do they know their young son is dead? Just another tragedy that Tina stands to bear witness in the name of her job to the many anonymous faces as the camera starts to roll. For Tina, this day, feels different. As she witnessed the father arrive, the shame and horror of the senseless nature of all this hits her in the face. Has this man been told that his son is dead? Does he know that in a crime scene, you can’t touch your child and hold him one last time? Tina is expected to nab the father’s reaction and ask him how he feels in the name of reporting. This moment would be the breaking of a fissure that Tina has followed most of her life and yet denied. Her journey begins when she realizes that she needs to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Her journey from standing on the brink of tragedy, loss, and grief, would take a severe turn when she begins honoring the seemingly senseless voices inside her head that she’s been hearing since childhood, yet denied and ignored. Tina realizes that these voices are sent to be of comfort to the family members in deep despair, grief, and loss and to offer hope and peace in their most private intimate moments. But does Tina really have the courage to begin Reporting for the Other Side?
Alex Detail has been kidnapped. Again. Ten years ago, Alex was a child genius who saved the world from The Harvesters, a mysterious alien force that attempted to extinguish Earth's sun. A decade later, The Harvesters have returned, but Alex is no longer a prodigy and unwilling to fight another war. So someone at The House of Nations had him drugged and placed on the last remaining ARRAY warship, which is under heavy attack. Unfortunately for Alex’s mysterious kidnappers (and the world) he has lost the mega IQ that allowed him to win the last war. Now Alex must convince the ship’s food-obsessed Captain Odessa to use his risky command program to save their ship, uncover his kidnapper’s devious plot, and survive the war long enough to make it to Pluto, where, underneath the planet’s frozen surface lies the only force in the universe that can stop The Harvesters.
Morality is our biological destiny. We each have within us the awesome power to create our own meaning in life, our own sense of purpose, our own destiny. With a natural ethic we are able to move beyond the random hand of birth to pave our own road to a better life. Whereas religion claims that happiness is found from submission to a higher power, a natural ethic defines happiness as the freedom to discover within ourselves our inherent good, and then to act on that better instinct, not because of any mandate from above or in obedience to the Bible, but because we can. With the ability to choose to be good comes the obligation to make that choice; choosing to be moral is what makes us special as individuals and as a species. With a natural ethic we free ourselves from the arbitrary and destructive constraints of divine interference to create a path toward a full life for which we ourselves are responsible.