Ken and Marilyn join his brother, Dale, and sister-in-law, Audry, to spread Dad's ashes at his favorite fishing spot near Bimini over a weekend. Dale and Audry provide transportation for the quartet aboard their new 50' yacht. Arrogance, lust, alcohol and sordid secrets combine to make this family redefine dysfunction. Thanks to a submerged obsticle the ride home doesn't go as expected. With the yacht disabled and adrift in the Atlantic, the foursome has plenty of time and space to work out their issues ... let's just say they get creative.
Rattled awake in the wee hours by the shaking of the earth, Todd and Jennifer Veen are about to learn that this was no ordinary tremor. Stepping out into the chilly darkness, they find their friends and neighbors speculating as to what could have caused the quake as well as a series of strange events that follow. This story takes a terrifying real-world scenario and brings it to life.
Ambitious newspaper columnist, Amanda Bigelow, expects her interview at a senior-living facility with the Reverend Brenda Goodacre to be fairly standard filler for the Faith and Fellowship column of her paper. As a non-believer, Amanda finds such meetings as these rather tedious, but she does her job well ... with one eye ever focused on the City Editor's position. When she learns what Reverend Goodacre has to reveal, promotion will be the last thing on her mind.
For the past few years, Cole Daniels has helped a wide variety of distressed people in Detroit with their emotional problems through her practice. After all, her life had been shattered in her early years. It was her hard work with a therapist that helped her get her life together. Things are fine until certain patients begin triggering out-of-body experiences in Cole. With her closest confidant away on vacation, she accepts the help of another associate whose talents help Cole realize there are still some missing fragments to find.
On an early morning flight from Boston's Logan Airport to Charleston, SC, Josh Meyers battles an upset stomach, but when he emerges from the lavatory, he finds his bellyache the least of his problems. Seemingly abandoned by the other passengers and flight crew, he finds himself the sole passenger aboard the big jet. There's much more to the story, so we'll start at the end.
After a drug deal gone bad and being chased by cops twice in one day, Oscar and Reneé are trying to keep a low profile. Keeping to the back roads as they try to stealthily make their way home to Edisto Beach, events become more and more strange, to the point they begin to wish they'd been taken into custody. Sometimes things are not what they seem.
Jason used to be a big deal in the drug world, moving up the ranks of Manny Vasquez's empire, but Jaosn's head got too big as did his addiction. Now he's a lowly mule, moving dope in his classic car that he can no longer afford to properly maintain. A traffic detour put him behind schedule and he doesn't want to face Manny's wrath, but lost in the mountains at night, what awaits him is far more terrible.
Where will you be when the nukes blossom . . . on a cross-country flight . . . in a mall food court with your best friend . . . perhaps homeward bound on a cruise?
The End of US peers into that terrifying and timely scenario in three vingettes and an epilogue that could easily be taken from tomorrow's headlines.
Brains, beauty and a badass fighter jet. Diane "Boomer" Ricci was living the dream as a Naval Aviator until the unexpected happened ... a disfiguring accident ended her career and nearly her life. A veteran's organization stepped in and equipped her with a state-of-the-art place to live and more importantly, a reason to live. A second career working with vets. She may have even met Mr. Right. Operating in the background is her new A.I. companion, Fred. It is Fred's duty to make certain Boomer is cared for and only gets What's Best for her.