Secrets de famille

Life goes on for this… unusual family! Pandora (the eldest) is busy revising for her exams, teenage Ondine is getting ready for a hot date, young Roxanne is playing video games and baby Bella wants to be fed… and Dad would very much like it if they all just left him in peace! He might be unemployed, but this hapless actor is bringing up his four daughters single-handedly, and there’s not a moment’s respite!

Aleksi crosses over into Ieretik territory in the hope of learning how to control the terrible power inside him, while Anita, who has just learned the truth about her past, and her friend Iosef flee the Imperator’s palace to evade those hell-bent on destroying the unborn baby Anita is carrying… Aleksi’s son. The future child’s potential power of destruction is so great that it’s got both Those From Above and The Shadows vying to get their hands on it as they fight for dominance of this side of the two worlds. Meanwhile, Velikic wants to harness Aleksi’s power to turn it into a formidable and unstoppable military weapon…

The dreams of a pencil pusher longing for adventure and distant shores come true when the maritime transport company where he works sends him on a trip to 1928 French Indochina. But Theodore Poussin is about to get more than he bargained for as he sets sail on the Cap Padaran: a mysterious, poetry-reciting man with ominous predictions about his future follows him everywhere; stories surrounding his late uncle Captain Steene, whose grave he promised his family he would find, are vague and contradictory; and he somehow ends up in the crossfire of a guerilla war near the Chinese border, forced to run for his life and toward even more unexpected events.

A space jellyfish floating in the bluish infinity of the universe trailing thermonuclear tentacles, or something like that. Instruments of death, in any case, flagships of the destructive genius of humanity. Until then, nobody had ever seen the Taurans, nor known what they looked like, nor even knew their true intentions. But a rocket from earth was destroyed by these extraterrestrial enemies. At least that’s what they said on the TV. Politicians and generals immediately declared that they had to finish off these bastards once and for all. It started with the Great Conscription of 2009 and the formation of an elite expeditionary force. And Marygay Potter was part of it. Today, turning her back on these murderous ideals, she remembers the prophecy of the old Einstein: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Does she already know that war is eternal?

Superintendent Carelli is getting old, and has lost the illusions of his youth. But a routine case catapults him into the middle of a profound mystery: a young girl with no official existence gives him a photograph of a group of people… who don’t exist either. As Carelli digs deeper despite the pressure, obstacles, and threats piling up against him, he comes across a terrible secret that threatens the very foundations of his world.