Tom Kropp's novels all started as short stories he wrote that were published in well-known magazines such as Chiron Review, Churches Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Horror Zine, Listening Eye, Evening Street Review, Freedom Fiction, Dark Harbor, Blood Moon Rising, Phantomania, J Journal, Lowlife Lit, Conceit, Muscle and Fitness, Outdoor Life and many other magazines.This is a very action-packed read full of charismatic characters, poetic violence and doomed romances. Cain is a future American soldier with hybrid alien DNA that makes him physically augmented in many ways. He also remembers past lives his soul has lived in other bodies. He finds himself battling alien invaders on all fronts while trying to have some semblance of a relationship with women he loves but keeps losing.