Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends....
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN
Los Angeles is a city divided between the haves and the have-nots, and those that have it seem to have it all: tanned good looks, fit physiques, celebrity, flashy cars, high-tech toys, and then some.
It's no wonder, then, that the have-nots easily tire of standing on the sidelines.
Enter Lily Pierce, a motivational speaker whose New Life Foundation is sweeping the country. Her mantra is simple: "Erase doubt. Erase fear. Become pure of purpose. Perfect in execution. Attain your dreams."
Cordelia is unimpressed by Lily's spiel, but she never expected that the self-help guru is guarding a secret of mythic proportions. Even Wolfram and Hart want to stop the insanity -- and incredibly, they're looking to Angel for help. But is Lily's promise of a perfect world too tempting for Angel to conquer?
(This is what they put on the back of the book, and it’s not quite, but almost, completely misleading. It’s not a book about a self-help guru gone wrong. I don’t guess I should reveal here who Lily Pierce really is, but this jacket copy was weak.)
Need to corral a group of giant monsters that fell through an interdimensional gateway? Need to get your brand-new planetary computer system working -- but the instructions are written in an alien language? Contact the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci. Led by Captain David Gold and former Starship Enterprise™ engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, the crew live by their motto: Have tech, will travel.
Overseen by Starfleet legend Captain Montgomery Scott, the S.C.E. crew must solve the mystery of an outpost attacked by a strange new weapon and improvise a way to defeat a foe who has them outgunned in a heart-stopping space battle.
Join Starfleet's miracle workers for a death-defying journey!
(I co-wrote one of the novellas in this volume. It was originally released as an e-book. During the course of this project I was given to understand, in no uncertain terms, that “Star Trek is NOT funny.”)
When billionaire Tony Stark is kidnapped in a foreign land, his captors order Stark to build them a devastating weapon. Instead, Stark uses his technical brilliance to create a high-tech suit of armor and escape. Back home, Stark uncovers a dangerous plot to use his own technology against the world. Vowing to protect rather than destroy, Tony Stark reinvents himself as Iron Man.
(There are actually THREE Iron Man novelizations out there now. Peter David did the “grown up” one, and Stephen D. Sullivan did the “junior” one. I like how they didn’t bother to put my name anywhere on the outside of the book.)