Synopsis: Firehouse Secret and Asterami Isle

Firehouse Secret

Dennis Schaumberg, a very successful attorney, was taken away on a case that had been appealed to the Supreme Court shortly after his baby girl, Corina, had be borne to him and his wife, Laura. Laura's brother came over to help out while Dennis was away, and their upstairs neighbors, Rachel and Colin Barkley, who had a baby boy, Lee, who was a few months older than Corina, helped out when they could as well.

However, one night Rachel and Colin went out with Lee, but forgot to snuff all of their candles. The candle was knocked over by their cat and set the entire building aflame with an explosion when the flame reached the gas lines going up to the stove.

When Dennis came home to find his wife and baby dead, he was depressed. His work started slacking and he started losing cases, something that had never happened to him. A few months after the fire, he came up with an idea that snapped him out of his depression.
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A few months after her brother's apartment burned down, Megan Barkley noticed there was a drastic increase in the number of abandoned building fires. Not entirely convinced with the police's conclusion that they were just old buildings and that the fire was accidental, she and her best friend, William Rutger, started their own investigations of the fires under the ruse of a school paper. They noticed things that the police didn't, pointing to arson.

When they figure out, after six abandoned building blazes, that Rachel, Colin, Lee, and the rest of the Barkleys are the next targets, William and Megan need to find out, as quickly as possible, who is behind the fires so they can stop the person before Megan's family gets hurt.

Will they piece together the clues in time? Or will Megan see her family go down in a rain of fire?

Asterami Isle

Leah Hunter is thinking of long days spent in the sun and fun with her best friend, Raymond Willard, when she puts about fifty entries into a contest in which the prize is an all-expense paid vacation to an island paradise, Asterami Isle. Asterami Isle is located about 100 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii, and is just as warm.

The excitement she feels when she wins and she, her sister, her mother, her father, Raymond, and her sister's best friend get to go on vacation wanes shortly after they arrive. They all get split up, her sister and her friend go to a hotel on the west of the island, her parents at the north end, and she and Raymond on the south.

As a relaxing island vacation turns into a hectic adventure on an island filled with scientific experiments from Hell, it is up to Leah and Raymond to watch each other's backs as well as that of Leah's family and another family rescued from the grasp of the evil hotels. However, when they find themselves facing the most dangerous and vicious experiment of them all, X6470, codename Asterami, the island's namesake, surviving their island escape seems a more and more unlikely happening.

Will they live to tell the tale of Asterami Isle? Or will they fall into Asterami's grasp?