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  The Deathless Quadrilogy

  Books 1-4 in the Deathless Saga

  Chris Fox

  Chris Fox Writes LLC

  Contents

  No Such Thing As Werewolves

  Prologue

  1. A Bigger Bullet

  2. Prehistoric Aliens, My Ass

  3. Runaway Bride

  4. Memories

  5. Arrival

  6. Ahiga

  7. The Ark

  8. Steve

  9. Decisions

  10. Answers

  11. The Mother's Hand

  12. Blair's Dead

  13. The Worst Thief of All

  14. Blair's Funeral

  15. The Beast

  16. It's Back

  17. Dr. Liz

  18. Not Dead

  19. Numb

  20. Hunted

  21. Nowhere to Run

  22. Not Just an Animal

  23. Wrath

  24. Need a Drink

  25. Your She

  26. Held Accountable

  27. Naked

  28. Sunburned

  29. Clash of Wills

  30. La Multa

  31. One Who Fights

  32. Surprise Guests

  33. The Boat

  34. A Spiral

  35. Acapulco

  36. More Questions

  37. Old

  38. Two Words

  39. Field Test

  40. Clash of the Titans

  41. The Hunger

  42. Bruce

  43. Watched

  44. Helio-seismology

  45. Reconciliation

  46. Moonlight

  47. Gun Safe

  48. Blur

  49. Feed

  50. Bonita

  51. Sorry

  52. We Have Them

  53. CellScope

  54. Silver Nitrate

  55. This Is a .45

  56. World of Hurt

  57. On the Hunt

  58. Mind Ride

  59. Final Hour

  60. Now

  61. The Deathless

  62. Permanent Vacation

  63. Garland

  64. Desperate Measures

  65. Object One

  66. Fight for Alpha

  67. I Know Spanish

  68. Hope

  69. First Wave

  70. It’s Time

  71. Infiltrated

  72. Jedi Mind Tricks

  73. Free

  74. Unexpected Allies

  75. Casualties

  76. Waking the Mother

  77. The First Ark

  78. Too Late

  79. Embarassing Accident

  80. The Mother

  81. Mother's Wrath

  82. Answers

  Epilogue

  No Mere Zombie

  Prologue

  1. Wake Up

  2. The End of the World

  3. Zombies

  4. The Dead Rule

  5. Nameless

  6. The Ring

  7. High School Bullshit

  8. Mother's Return

  9. Return to Cajamarca

  10. Irakesh

  11. Deathless

  12. Hell Hath No Fury

  13. The House of Mohn

  14. Zombies

  15. My Name

  16. Yukon

  17. Pursuit

  18. Suspicious Behavior

  19. Tracker

  20. Don't Poke the Goddess

  21. Not Too Bright

  22. Welcome to the Jungle

  23. Pursuit

  24. Hidden Rebel Base

  25. Waking Up

  26. Disobeying Orders

  27. Salvage Operation

  28. Medellin 12km

  29. Medico Roberto

  30. Team Crazy

  31. Steve

  32. Ambushed

  33. Consequences

  34. Sunsteel

  35. Captain Douche

  36. Anakim

  37. Satisfaction

  38. Pre-flight

  39. Bad to Worse

  40. Turning Point

  41. Deceived

  42. Fear & Loathing in Panama

  43. Desperate Gamble

  44. Mountain Camp

  45. Present For the Mother

  46. Awaken, Ka-Ken

  47. Early British Trackways

  48. Skyhammer

  49. Gotcha

  50. Excalibur

  51. Wild-Cat Tom

  52. Water Landing

  53. Sobek

  54. Permission Denied

  55. A Plan

  56. 24 Hour Fitness

  57. Parting the Sea

  58. Sacrifice

  59. Rage

  60. Revelations

  61. Whole Once More

  62. Jes'Ka

  63. Escape

  64. Reinforcements

  65. Director No More

  66. Final Preparations

  67. Set Us Up the Bomb

  68. Jordan Versus Gregg

  69. Vengeance

  70. The Key

  71. Free Will

  72. Boom

  73. Triumph

  74. Hope

  75. Bad News

  Epilogue

  Vampires Don’t Sparkle

  The Old Gods

  Prologue

  1. Angel Island

  2. Light Pulses

  3. Hesitation

  4. Escape

  5. Imprisoned

  6. Oh, Shit

  7. Pursuit

  8. The Nexus

  9. Osiris

  10. Ark of the Cradle

  11. Stabilizing the Nexus

  12. Set

  13. Intruder

  14. Sucker

  15. Audience

  16. The Gift

  17. Anput

  18. Conduit

  19. I Know Kung Fu

  20. Vampire

  21. Collared

  22. Spy

  23. Banquet

  24. Sun Study

  25. Horus

  26. Secret Meeting

  27. Parlay

  28. Get in the First Shot

  29. Saved

  30. Light Walk

  31. First Born

  32. To War

  33. Hades

  34. Training

  35. Olympus

  36. Into the Storm

  37. Master

  38. Big-Ass Worm

  39. Dog Fight

  40. Boarded

  41. Demons

  42. Reunited

  43. To the Rescue

  44. Power Armor

  45. Baiting the Trap

  46. Run

  47. Breathing Room

  48. Now What?

  49. France

  50. Heavy Price

  51. Dragons

  52. Standoff

  53. Gone Native

  54. Near-Sisters

  55. Dramatic Entrance

  56. Demands

  57. The Cave of Painted Dreams

  58. Surprise

  59. Flight

  60. Last Stand

  61. A Fitting Fate for Baldy

  62. Our Best Plan Sucks

  63. Well and Truly Fucked

  64. The Builders

  65. Holding Action

  66. Distraction

  67. Sacrifice

  68. Cutting It Close

  69. Boom

  70. Prep

  71. Bait

  72. On Four Legs

  73. Set Arrives

  74. Intercepted

  75. The Repository

  76. Free

  77. Turning the Tide

  78. Desperate Gamble

  79. Final Deception

>   80. The Fate of Captain Douchey

  81. Broken

  82. Detonation

  83. Gloating

  84. TSDS

  Epilogue

  The Great Pack

  Prologue

  1. Five Years Later

  2. Splitting Up

  3. Salvador

  4. San Francisco

  5. Melissa

  6. Santa Rosa

  7. Ark Lord

  8. Emotional Baggage

  9. Arrival

  10. Hades

  11. Chamber of the Sphinx

  12. The Black Knight

  13. Alicia

  14. Angel Island

  15. Yukon

  16. Windigo

  17. Medico Roberto

  18. Anna

  19. Out of Contact

  20. Meetings

  21. Up to Speed

  22. Tricked

  23. Summons

  24. Hades

  25. Lima

  26. Blur

  27. We're Going

  28. Deathless of Silicon Valley

  29. The Power of an Ark Lord

  30. Mercy

  31. Yosemite

  32. Sobek

  33. Research

  34. Be Nice to Elia

  35. The Fate of Anubis

  36. Mobilization

  37. The Amazon

  38. Mapinguara

  39. The Natives

  40. Bonding

  41. Downtime

  42. Hunting

  43. The Great Pack

  44. Learning

  45. Books

  46. Struggle

  47. Swarmed

  48. Report

  49. The Song

  50. Elia

  51. El Dorado

  52. Matron Davina

  53. Picked Off

  54. Under Seige

  55. Outmaneuvered

  56. Jordan

  57. The Lab

  58. Percy

  59. Time Dilation

  60. Stand Off

  61. Human

  62. Calculated Risk

  63. Found You

  64. Council Meeting

  65. It Begins

  66. Perfect Target

  67. Subject 3199

  68. Taken

  69. After Her

  70. Hunter or Hunted

  71. Uh Oh

  72. Call to Arms

  73. Transformed

  74. Desperate Defense

  75. Ann

  76. Parlay

  77. Modulators

  78. Yosemite

  79. We Need an Army

  80. Marshalling

  81. Change of Plan

  82. Firefight

  83. Payback

  84. Flanked

  85. Saw That Coming

  86. Plans Within Plans

  87. Saving Trevor

  88. Ark War

  Epilogue

  Note to the Reader

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  No Such Thing As Werewolves

  Deathless Book 1

  Prologue

  "How the hell did we end up in Peru? And not even the good part, down in Lima where the locals think we’re marines,” Jordan asked, shading his eyes from the sun’s relentless glare as he peered over the helicopter’s console at the wide valley below. It was flanked by high peaks, some of the tallest in the Andes. At eleven thousand feet, it was a place none of the locals ever came willingly.

  “Is shit,” Yuri agreed, the Russian’s face hidden behind a large pair of aviator glasses and a thick black goatee. The wiry pilot eased the yoke, tilting the copter forward to afford a better view of the scrubby hillsides. “Should be in jungle. Is pretty there. Birds. I like birds.”

  Why were they here? The team had been put together with incredible haste, dispatched from a dozen different countries to the Peruvian city of Cajamarca where they’d been given one day to acclimate to each other. They’d been dispatched here, given four old Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters—the type that had been mothballed back in the 1980s after serving since Iran Contra.

  “Commander, are you seeing this?” a female voice crackled over the com. It was either Savinsky or Jewel, but having just met them Jordan couldn’t readily identify which was speaking.

  A massive chunk of stone broke loose from the southern face of one of the mountains, plummeting to the valley floor with a crash so loud he could hear it over the rotors.

  “Pretty tough to miss,” Jordan replied, studying the cloud of dust curling skyward. A smaller piece broke loose from a neighboring peak. Boulders began jouncing all over the place, bucking about like Mexican jumping beans. “Carter, this place isn’t seismically active, is it?”

  “Not even slightly,” Carter’s nasally voice echoed back over the com. “We’re nowhere near a fault line.”

  “Holy shit,” another voice broke onto the com. That one was definitely Jewel.

  A black spike bored out of the earth like the tip of some gigantic drill. It was nearly as large as the peaks surrounding it, a jet-black pyramid unlike anything he’d ever seen. Jordan’s eyes widened as the structure approached. “Pull up. Pull up.”

  Yuri yanked back on the stick, guiding the Apache up and away from the approaching structure. Savinsky wasn’t so lucky. Evidently she’d been distracted or maybe just surprised by the structure’s momentum. The pyramid slammed into the Apache, unleashing a fireball of flaming wreckage as it continued its ascent.

  “Get clear,” Jordan roared. The other three copters veered safely away, hovering around the strange pyramid like angry wasps. Up and up it went, until it towered over their comparatively tiny copters. He turned to Yuri. “What’s our current elevation?”

  “Nine hundred seventy-five feet above valley floor,” Yuri said, jaw still hanging open as he gaped at the pyramid. “Is taller, so structure eleven hundred feet. Give or take.”