Christmas Eve 1968. The space race sends three brave Americans hurtling into the wild black yonder faster than a speeding bullet. The best minds at NASA give the Apollo 8 astronauts an even money chance of dying in their attempt to enter lunar orbit. These steely-eyed missile men pull it off — and then something incredible happens. Something they must never reveal to the outside world.Christmas Eve 1968. By NASA’s best guess, the crew of Apollo 8 are an even money chance of dying as they attempt to park their supersonic spacecraft into stable lunar orbit.But they get it done, paving the way for one giant leap toward the surface. These three astronauts are the first men alive to see the far side of the Moon — the lunar face permanently turned away from Earth.Inside the tiny capsule, astronaut Bill Anders points his Hasselblad toward the lunar horizon and captures one of the most famous photographs of all time. Dubbed Earthrise, it reveals a fragile blue-green planet rising from behind the awesome spectacle of the Moon as seen from just 60 nautical miles above the lunar surface. It shows our planet lonely and fragile in the eternal darkness of space.Lonely, but perhaps not alone.What if another, even more stunning photograph is taken that day? An image deemed way too sensitive to reveal to the public. An image even NASA doesn’t know about.A photo that could change everything.A photo that powerful people will do almost anything to bury.

Astronaut Frank Borman is all alone on the moon. No ship. Nobody answering his radio calls.His spacesuit is running out of air fast, yet he doesn't know what he's doing there.Something is out there looming over him on the lunar surface. Something massive that doesn't belong there.Borman shouldn't be there either — in just a few months Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are due to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility.This is no NASA mission. But who else has the technological capability? Perhaps that sinister grouping of defence intelligence powerbrokers known as Bermuda, although Borman suspects this is a giant step too far even for them.Which only leaves the Russians. If that's true, he must have an important job to do. A job that transcends Cold War politics and space age rivalry.But everything about this is is wrong. Why has he been abandoned? And why can't he remember...

Deep in the Vatican archives lurks a secret artifact powerful enough to shake the church loose from its foundations.A secret that will change everything we think we know about ourselves.The keeper of this strange object is Clarence Paulson, a priest the Pope hopes has lost his mind, because the alternative is taking him seriously.America's wartime spy master and presidential envoy Bill Donovan must tell the Pope what he doesn't want to hear — Father Paulson is no heretic, he is the key to unlocking a long hidden technology with the potential to change the world.But Donovan has to get to it before anyone else discovers the secret for themselves.

Driven by honesty. Ordered to guard lies. Can one woman fight off international superpowers to save the Earth? USA, 1953. Edna Drake is furious at how she's being treated. Forced to join a covert organization or face indefinite jailtime, the former journalist constantly battles to suppress her fierce sense of right and wrong. But when an extraction attempt to acquire world-shattering extraterrestrial evidence from the Vatican leads her straight into a Soviet trap, she fears she's paid with her life. Masterfully outwitting her foes, Edna hopes to protect the truth by seeking asylum from President Eisenhower himself. But when McCarthyism brands her a traitor, the Commander-in-Chief abandons the frustrated reporter to the mercy of forces intent on ensuring her silence. Can Edna unmask a massive conspiracy before it claims her head? Pagan's Spy is the heart-pounding third tale in the Verus Foundation science...

Two disasters in one day is no coincidence.And certainly no accident. Which is why China and the US are spoiling for a nuclear war.The tsunamis have already killed most people. Of the few who survived, most lost their minds. Not crazy, just empty. Blank. Wiped clean.Captain Stone Luckman has long valued fate over coincidence.Yet he has no idea what to think when he meets Mel Palace... and finds out she's telepathic.Blank is so much more than post-apocalyptic sci-fi.It's a mystery thriller that has you scratching your head right up to the incredible conclusion.

Two disasters in one day is no coincidence.And certainly no accident. Which is why China and the US are spoiling for a nuclear war.The tsunamis have already killed most people. Of the few who survived, most lost their minds. Not crazy, just empty. Blank. Wiped clean.Captain Stone Luckman has long valued fate over coincidence.Yet he has no idea what to think when he meets Mel Palace... and finds out she's telepathic.Blank is so much more than post-apocalyptic sci-fi.It's a mystery thriller that has you scratching your head right up to the incredible conclusion.