In a nondescript lab in a juice factory in Florida, young chemist Caleb Lee accidentally discovers a juice formula that stops human aging. When the news leaks, the world erupts in chaos as crowds clamor for the juice. While Lee and his girlfriend flee to a hideaway, Medgar Landros, World Health Organization honcho and ex-special forces battlefield surgeon is summoned to the White House to help respond to the juice, now named the Ponce Factor. Part rumination on the Great Circle of Life and part kidnap thriller, we follow our hero Landros, Lee, and a cast of characters that includes Pastor Angela Nero, an unscrupulous minister who believes the Ponce Factor has been given to the world's elite to ensure their exclusive place alongside God. As Nero's plot approaches culmination, Landros plans desperate action of his own after he concludes that the government's inept response is leading the world to destruction and Pastor Nero and her followers to immortal ascension. This road leads to a frantic race to save his own daughter from Nero's plot. Along the path lurks murder, romance, weaponized anthrax, political graft, and a kidnapping ending in a hero's death - all mixed in a soup of profound questions about our world. What will Ponce mean for societies, for institutions, for governments? How does marriage and family work? Children? These questions swirl around the characters as they barrel down separate paths to a small Washington D.C. apartment where they come together in a cataclysmic finale. The woman who would be God meets the final test -- eternal life or sudden death?

All life on Earth is forecast to die. The period of humanity's response, to unify and emigrate, is known simply as 'the Egression'. Lives of the Egression tells the stories of the people during the Egression: the stories of the simple and ordinary, as well as the powerful, complicated and extraordinary - from the otherwise unimportant small-town boy from middle America whose discovery predicted the end of life on Earth; to the forsaken scientist who made space travel feasible; to a charismatic space pirate who outsmarted the Earth Astronavy; to the leaders of the struggles between the colonies and Earth; to the political manipulators who used the apocalyptic forecast for their own ends; and many more. It was during the Egression that humanity faced its most profound challenge. The essence of the response to that challenge is found within the stories of those who lived through that turbulent period. But was rising to the challenge worth the cost?

America's Industrial Revolution had barely begun while the secret, underground stateless nation of vampires are in need of their own--organised into a caste system based on birth or creation, any other means of becoming such is killed for being an abomination. The child factory worker Jer Underwood is isolated from other vampires for reasons he was still too young to understand. After escaping an assassination attempt, put on his family for reasons he didn't understand, he is orphaned and left to unveil the truth for himself. The more he understands and discovers, the more he wants to stop the ones enforcing the caste system. To understand how to stop the ones enforcing the caste and reveal the true biological structure of the vampire species, he has no other way than to leave a trail of blood and murders that leads those in charge to a wanted man--a possible leak in the truth.

America's Industrial Revolution had barely begun while the secret, underground stateless nation of vampires are in need of their own--organised into a caste system based on birth or creation, any other means of becoming such is killed for being an abomination. The child factory worker Jer Underwood is isolated from other vampires for reasons he was still too young to understand. After escaping an assassination attempt, put on his family for reasons he didn't understand, he is orphaned and left to unveil the truth for himself. The more he understands and discovers, the more he wants to stop the ones enforcing the caste system. To understand how to stop the ones enforcing the caste and reveal the true biological structure of the vampire species, he has no other way than to leave a trail of blood and murders that leads those in charge to a wanted man--a possible leak in the truth.