David R. Beshears

Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small escape shuttle, find themselves adrift 80 years in deep space. This is the story of their journey home. This volume contains all seven episodes. Note: The screenplay adaptation of Episode One “Awakening” was a top Finalist in a recent webseries...

Book three of the Serpent's Keep Trilogy The Outland was pulled apart millennia ago, six disparate landscapes sent to six isolated realms of the universe…. The Outland is whole once again, brought back together with the Six Temples, some abandoned, some in ruin, others populated by those sent...

A soldier returns home to the damp, gray streets of Willow City to search for his missing brother. Willow City, one of the eight authoritarian city-states of the Federation. Willow City, a world of dark secrets and shadowy characters....

Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each Monitor lives alone in isolated outposts located far apart from one another around Alpha Valley. Connelly’s only companion is Box, a small AI device...

Two years have passed since Jim's ordeal on ShadowWorld. Now 15 years old, the son of the governor has spent these intervening years on Kimara, capital of the Frontier Worlds. When the Founders Guild attempts to kidnap him en route from the training academy to the governor’s estate, Jim...

The long-awaited sequel to Serpent’s Keep…. “She is obsessed by her purpose. Such is the failing of a zealot.” Aldwyn stood before the portal. “I believe the greater danger, by far the greater danger, is the disruption that is created by her efforts. She is tearing apart the web of the...

A tenuous truce between Shylmahn and humans had kept the peace for more than five years, but there was never a doubt as to who were the masters of the planet....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger.

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight of the masters of the planet. Most had never known a world not dominated by the Shylmahn, content now to live out their lives in the shadows. Some were not...

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower. Each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

Brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming invasion of Earth. This is not "slam-bam-welcome-to-Earth" stuff. This could happen....

"I bequeath to my nephew, Jacob Quigley, all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life's quest will become his quest." - Last Will & Testament of Tobias Quigley Those few cryptic words send Jake into a world that couldn't possibly exist. Traveling the Gateways, he...

A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force behind the creation of the looming monolith.

On October 12, 2007, a young soldier is injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he is moved from Bagram to Germany to Walter Reed to Palo Alto and finally home to Washington State, his family never leaves his side. And throughout those years, his father writes daily emails to family...

The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and well-adapted to the nomadic life. But there is something unsettlingly dark underlying the pleasantness. After months on the trail, they settle...

A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force....

Opening scene... December 1960: Thirteen-year-old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend, Mike. They see a strange shimmering light up ahead. Bill rushes ahead, disappears around the bend. Fade to present day. Thirteen-year-old Jack and his 12-year-old...

John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades' local television station, where he must deal with strange characters and stranger programming. All the more bizarre, he arrived just in time for...