Böcker av Margaret McBee

Caleb Stone has been Serumina's Galactic Peacekeeper for over a hundred years. With Sam Davis at his side, it's a position not as demanding as he thought it would be.He has let his guard down. On the far side of the galaxy, hidden behind the Core, an old enemy crosses his path. Is there someone else behind the evil motives, or is this an isolated problem? While dealing with this, Caleb's personal life takes a most unwelcome and life-altering turn.Meanwhile, there is a ripple, a tremor, in the heavens as one of the Ancient Ones prepares to alter his own destiny and the Peacekeeper stands in his way. With the Fate of the Galaxy in his hands, Caleb is forced to face this unexpected enemy armed only with his grit and determination. Closest friendships and alliances are tested until he doesn't know who he can trust, he begins to doubt his own ability to deal with this, and his persistence to do the right thing is taken the ultimate end.Can the little orphan boy from Arizona outwit one of the most formidable foes of all time?

At university in Arizona, Caleb Stone, baseball jock and top scholar, meets Ana Tremain, self-proclaimed nerd and master of languages. She doesn't date jocks; he doesn't date nerds. Despite advice from their respective friends, love blooms, a love which is threatened by jealousy, religion, and plain old stubbornness. It doesn't help that her best friend is in love with her, too. Her grandmother dies, leaving her a crystal pendant and a parcel, locked away for fifty years, with cryptic instructions for its opening, many months away. When they finally unwrap the parcel in an open field in Oklahoma at midnight, during a particular meteor shower-the specified time and place-they find an old wooden box, intricately carved and bedecked with crystals glittering in the light of the moon, but it's missing a crystal. Their lives will be forever changed if they succeed in opening it as it leads down a path neither of them would ever have imagined.