Toward The One: The Collected Worthington Collection (The Worthington Collection)

Toward The One collects all previously published stories from The Worthington Collection, including all previous cover matter, in one concise, economical volume.


Behind Amber Sails
Evie Jane lived on the outskirts of the last vestiges of civilization huddled in the scant remains of the United States of America all her life. Though they struggled to maintain their home, she and her parents enjoyed relative comfort and security. That home now teeters on the edge of inevitable collapse. Implacable forces tear against its foundations. Evie's parents sacrificed the last of their savings and influence to secure her passage on the only chance for escape, the Lifeboat Program's flagship, the Pilgrim's Progress.

On board the massive ship, and en route to an unestablished colony on an unknown planet, Evie must fight to discover new purpose and direction. She struggles against a rigidly defined and violently defended class system designed to maintain a strict social order. Determined to recreate her own identity within her new confines, she pushes through the excruciating pain of the shipboard security to establish one place on the "escape" ship where she can find peace and solace. When a powerful, strange, and undeniably alluring young man invades her sanctuary, Evie catapults into a series of perilous adventures, striving to save the ship and the future of mankind. Along the way she forges unbreakable bonds with her shipmates and develops an even deeper connection with the man who propelled her into this new life.


A Daring Mind
For millennia mankind called it magic. All but the most adept had to practice arcane rituals studied for decades to harness its power. Reality Corp. now provides its agents with expensive Psyber Enhancement Grafts©™® to give them strong abilities immediately after installation.

In the Heart of Texas Corridor, the hyper-urban core of Reality's technocracy, one woman has developed previously unseen native strengths. Her budding powers make her a target for the dark forces that run her world. Every Corporate R&D group on the globe wants her DNA.

Aided by a rogue Reality agent, also hunted by his former employer, Jenny Adair journeys into the dankest corners of the hyper-urban landscape and faces terrifying danger to find answers. What she discovers changes her, and the fate of humanity, irrevocably.


At Crossed Paths
In the Heart of Texas Desert and the Great Willamette Rainforest survival depends on ingenuity and stamina.
Set between the first two books of the Worthington Collection in time and place, the third tale explores the perspectives of many adventurers as they traverse what the corps call "the wastes" between the few sprawling hyper-urban corporate-run city states that remain in the former United States of America. A fickle and dangerous environment for the uninitiated or incompetent, a capable few attempt to find their own paths through a varied and intensified post-stormcoming natural landscape. All change during their travels, some become tools in the fate of humanity.

Under the Ice
The capstone of the Worthington Collection finishes many light years away from Earth. Characters from earlier pieces now pursue separate goals. Attempting to find their paths after unimaginable disaster, each stumbles, with awkward grace, toward The One. Evolution, alien and human, collide with singularity and the new order erupts into life.