Conguise Chronicles

Welcome to the Conguise's Laboratory Level Five... In a world filled with human-animal hybrids, Guards are bred to serve the Almightys until they're no longer wanted. Mutter waits for his execution. It's inevitable. He was a fighter and he lost. No one wants an ex-fighter. He's too big, mean and ugly. Death will be the only way he gets out of this cell, but then the unthinkable happens. An Almighty visits in the dead of night and offers him a chance to leave. A chance to live. All he has to do is obey and Guards were bred to obey. When Mutter is taken to his new home, something isn't right. There's food and a bed but there are sounds and smells from the other cages. Things that move like nothing he's ever encountered. For the first time in his life, he's afraid. Afraid of the creatures that lurk nearby. Afraid of the shots his new master is giving him. He knows he's supposed to obey, to always follow their rules but if he doesn't escape, he'll become food for one of those things in the other cages. Or worse... turn into one of them."

The only way to leave Level Five is inside the belly of a beast. McBrid understands the dangers of working on Level Five in Professor Conguise's laboratory. Even the smallest mistake-a miscalculation, a momentary loss of focus or unsatisfactory results-can mean the end. Not the end of a job or a career but the end of his life. The problem is he didn't make a minor mistake. He killed the most important creature in the lab. Now, he must scramble to create a new Aranea. He's done it before and he can do it again. Only this time he must choose the right host because the new giant spider mutation must be smart, fast, deadly and willing to obey-if that's even possible. He'll soon find out if there is anything left of the person once the parasitic DNA takes over and if there's not, he may just end up her dinner. All the books in this series are standalone and may be read in any order.

If you like Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt, then you'll love this series. It's dark, disturbing and excellent. Being born on Level Five is even more dangerous than being created there. The society that rose from the destruction of the Great Death is a class system. Almighty’s have absolute control over the other classes. Professor Conguise and his scientists take it to another level, by creating hybrids from the lower classes — creatures that are enhanced with DNA from other species. Glick is one of those creatures except he wasn't modified; he was born that way. He has no idea why everyone wants him and his friends dead, but from the moment he crawled from the earth death surrounded him. His enemies have tried poison, brute force and starvation, but Glick and his friends are determined to survive. They have the will and they have each other. They don't need anything else...except food. They really, really need food, but there's nothing but dead earth in their cage. How will the four friends find food and survive when everything on Level Five is trying to kill them?

Welcome to Level Five where chimeras are created but never controlled. Being purchased and brought to Professor Conguise's laboratory is never good, but it's even worse when you arrive with your younger brother and sister. Rufus has been taking care of Prin and Lee for most of his life. They're all he has and he's all they've got too. Maybe, he should be thankful for having a warm, dry place to sleep at night. The food's good too, but the smells and sounds...It's enough to make him miss the streets. Something's not right with this place and the shots they're being given more than hurt. He can feel them changing him, cell by cell. He needs to get them all out of there and fast. Prin's pregnant and none of them have any idea what these shots are going to do to her baby.

McBrid despises his job and Professor Conguise. He hates himself for what he did to Fersia but he must continue to mutilate and transform people because he can't quit. The only way to leave Level Five is through the belly of a beast. And with Charlie and Glick's interference that might just be McBrid's fate. Who lives? Who dies? Who leaves Level Five and do they make it out alive?