Beautifully illustrated and designed, this unique anthology showcases the initial 171 hilarious Lost Cactus comic strips, plus character introductions and top-secret base information. The book also features acerbic commentaries, off-beat trivia, colorful illustrations, interactive quizzes, and short stories conjured in the imaginations of the comical cast evoking laughter, fear, and wonderment. This plethora of additional content expands Lost Cactus beyond the 3-panel strips giving the reader an enhanced experience within the crazy universe of Lost Cactus. Published in July 2015; it's available on iBooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other retail outlets in a variety of print and ebook formats.

Book One in The Powers That Be series, THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE, weaves humankind’s most enduring mysteries into a thrilling race against time to recover a legendary relic and save the world from an alien apocalypse.

Fresh off a space tourism flight in 2044, newlyweds Rachel and Owen Haig are thrust on a perilous crusade while adjusting to married life and battling demons from Rachel’s past. Against formidable odds and malevolent forces from Earth and beyond, they join forces with an agent dispatched from a clandestine organization, The Powers That Be.

At the thrilling and poignant conclusion, readers will be chomping at the bit for The Lost Ship, Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy with eyes wide open and a unique new perspective on humankind’s place in the universe.

Grab your tinfoil hat and settle in with a coffee—or your beverage of choice—as you’re about to read the next anthology of Lost Cactus comic strips depicting the continuing exploits, capers, and shenanigans of the comical cast of characters within these colorfully illustrated Second Treasury pages. You’ll also discover shared universe short stories, tall tales, urban myths, random brain scatterings, and highly sensitive intelligence deemed too incendiary for public dissemination, until now. Remember, the truth is at Lost Cactus.

An ancient Gray race time travels to the present after a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure, seeking to recover and detonate a world-killer superweapon abandoned on a 90-million-year-old shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon's vast unexplored reaches.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE.
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An offer they can't refuse: Rachel and Owen Haig convalesce in a decimated Cairo hospital following their death-defying heroism beneath the Giza Plateau, contending with unwanted notoriety and a job proposal from The Powers That Be.
The fourth kind: A battlecruiser from the time-traveling Gray's fleet seizes Agent Flynn's lunar-bound medevac, imprisoning the crew in a mind-bending nightmare where startling revelations materialize from the terrifying shadows.
Never let a disaster go to waste: Griffin Pike, a megalomaniacal tech mogul, schemes to project international anger onto the only entity athwart his new world order master plan: The Powers That Be. Leaving nothing to chance, Pike's failsafe manifests in cryptic clues within the ink-splotched pages of a worn leather-bound notebook leading to a doomsday device concealed deep in the Amazon.
Lost worlds: Artemus Pennywell, the ageless CEO, parries post-invasion gut punches, overseeing PTB relief efforts alongside his quintessential replicant, Andrew. With Pike's cutthroat mercenaries—and the vengeful Grays—in hot pursuit of the lost ship, he dispatches eccentric scientist Richard King and new PTB agents Rachel and Owen on a perilous Amazon expedition to secure the prehistoric payload. Trekking through unexplored jungles teeming with exotic dangers, paths collide on a treacherous descent into a primeval rift valley safeguarded by a ghostly cannibal tribe.

THE LOST SHIP twists and turns through post-invasion ruins, culminating in a supernatural confrontation deep in the heart of the unforgiving Amazon wilderness where fates are sealed, and humanity's destiny illuminates in a cerulean glow.

Stay tuned for THE BLUE SPARK, the epic conclusion to The Powers That Be Trilogy.