Teen Alien

The Colonial Scouts are an elite group of explorers who seek out habitable planets for the Colonial Expansion Board. They travel through space via programmable wormholes. Trace, a new Scout, wants desperately to prove himself to both the Board and to his girlfriend. But when he leads a rescue party to a failing colony, everything goes against him.

A hunger for space travel. A perilous journey to another galaxy. A terrorist plot that could turn first contact into last rites. Raya Salian is a bundle of nerves. Humble despite an unsurpassed talent for manipulating the elements, the sixteen-year-old prodigy is both flattered and terrified when she’s tapped for a secret mission – a solo trip to Earth to observe and report. But she barely gets off-world with her life after extremists attack the launch site, potentially leaving her with no way back. Crash-landing near a rural Canadian community, Raya takes cover with a group of locals ...

Fact 752: Karma was a vindictive wench, and Luck, no lady. Allie never believed in Karma, but after the week she'd had, she was prone to believe that if such an entity existed, it had to be a woman. Only a woman could hold such an ugly, nasty grudge, and make Allie's life so impossibly miserable. If spying for the enemy and a broken heart wasn't enough, someone had even stolen her favorite heels. Classy, right? Bad luck strikes again.

Time is often considered one of man's greatest enemies. Over two years have passed since the Red Rover's daring escape from the Galicia star system. Their youthful exuberance to traverse the great unknown has justifiably began to wane, forcing them to part ways with idealism, replacing it instead with pragmatism. When the ship makes an emergency landing on a foreign world named Araneus, questions begin to simmer to the surface regarding Marius' leadership or lack thereof. They no longer are his neophytes and have zero interest in being treated like his subordinates. The line between life ...

World War Z meets Independence Day in this apocalyptic, extraterrestrial, genre-blending mashup adventure! Can Seth and his family survive all while trying to keep Earl from starting an interplanetary war? Will there be another day, or will everyone perish? The Williams will have to fight to survive, to elude ravished zombies and aliens who seem to only want one thing...to conquer Earth.

Post-alien invasion Belfast. Earth has been defeated. Pity the locals aren't listening. Teenager John Dray will do whatever he must to survive. When he's offered desperately needed food in exchange for dispersing a mysterious compound over the city, he takes the job. The compound turns out to be lethal to the alien invaders and John is charged with xenocide. He's sent to Inish Carraig, a forbidding prison, where he discovers a conspiracy that threatens Earth and everyone he loves.

He knew the risk it would present to the rest of his family to whisk Lyssa from the hospital and change her. Even knowing that, though, how could he be expected to sit back and do nothing when any moment could be the last chance he would have to save her? He was frightened. He was hurting. He was angry, damn it! While he was never human, can he, in a race against time to save her life, retain his humanity in an effort to preserve hers? Or must he do the unthinkable and face an eternity without her?

Solo_Lobo is a gamer who prefers to play by himself. But then he winds up in a virtual game set aboard an alien space station with a know-it-all robot named Spec. Spec is supposed to help him find the rest of his crewmates who've also been captured by the aliens. Seems like a piece of cake until Solo_Lobo learns the catch: He can't be seen by the aliens, or he'll risk getting caught in their disanimator eye beams, which will send him right back to Level 1. Can he rescue his crew in time to win the game? And is there more to Spec than what she seems?

Book 2 in the Elemental Series Dissidents want this galactic traveler dead. With all she cares about imperiled, can she survive a journey across the stars to end the bloodshed? Raya Salian fears she made an awful mistake. Choosing to remain on Earth while her fiancé Dev returns home, the young elemental misses him and her distant planet desperately. Haunted by horrifying nightmares that seem to hint at the future, she’s shocked when hallucinations and migraines are traced to a mysterious brain implant. Who put it there and why? Relieved when she finally hears from Dev, her blood runs ...

Seventeen years ago the world ended. I’ve spent my whole life inside this bunker and thought I was the only remaining survivor. Until someone knocked on my door. Garlind barged into my life and showed me a world of possibilities outside. He promised me we would be saved from this harsh world. He offered me a future outside these steel walls. I was so excited to venture into the outside. He said the ships in the sky will rescue us, all we have to do is get to one. It seems impossible but I trust in his unwavering belief. I shouldn’t have. The ships are not what we were expecting. Find ...

History is written by the victors. Picking up moments after the events in Contingence, the Red Rover crew are faced with an imminent threat that could destroy everything they hold sacred. Much of this world is a barren landscape so ravaged by war and resentment that separating the good from the bad would be contingent on which way the sand dunes blow: Today’s rogue is tomorrow’s redeemer while yesterday’s freedom’s fighter is today’s tyrant. The Paprijians, an ancient Kethyrian civilization, have been meticulously planning a covert operation to destroy their loathsome adversaries ...

Seventeen-year-old Mana has found and rescued her mother, but her work isn't done yet. Her mother may be out of alien hands, but she's in a coma, unable to tell anyone what she knows. Mana is ready to take action. The only problem? Nobody will let her. Lyle, her best friend and almost-boyfriend (for a minute there, anyway), seems to want nothing to do with hunting aliens, despite his love of Doctor Who. Bestie Seppie is so desperate to stay out of it, she's actually leaving town.

Michael Zemetsky’s very human systems have been infiltrated by travelers from deep space. These otherworldly creatures intend to own planet Earth, and the boy known as Subject 38 is a tool for their nefarious aims: Michael will help them to determine what makes these Earthlings tick. He’s a whiz kid—smart, lucky when trouble arrives, and unaware of the alien intelligence that pulses through every cell in his body. The cunning aliens will dare to trespass on the Cold War space race, fiddling and tinkering with NASA and the Russians, and always undetected.

Just days before Jake Saunders plans on proposing to the love of his life, Jake is called upon once again to save his home, Earth. The Earthen Legion troops and its allies think they’re battling only pirates, but a new, more powerful foe from another galaxy flanks their forces and invades, in search of a weapon the planet didn’t even know it had. When Jake learns that this new enemy was responsible for the death of his father many years ago, he realizes he can finally face his true nemesis. He must rally the remaining Legion troops and retake Earth before it’s too late.

In any genuine pursuit of enlightenment, one of the leading prerequisites for success would have to be considered application, more often than not. Otherwise, the knowledge obtained might hold tangential value at best. From the moment his seven students first entered his survival education simulator, Donovan Marius fought tooth and nail to break them of their individualistic habits—in hopes that they would eventually appreciate the benefits of accomplishing tasks as a collective. While they had been brought many times to the brink of epic disaster, during their seemingly never-ending ...

It started with a bang. No, a slap. My mother's head hit the floor. My father stood over her. We had to get out. If we didn't, my dad would kill her. So, we ran. My mother dragged me out of the house in the middle of the night. Where will we go? How will we survive? There's nobody who can take us in, except for my grandfather... ...and mom hates him more than dad. There's no way we could wind up there, right? If you love coming of age stories, fantastical adventures, family drama, and heartfelt romance, you'll love this book. Get it today. **Please note this is an updated version of ...

Freedom is the type of expression that universally can never be defined. Primarily because it does not hold the same connotation for everyone who uses it. For the members of the Red Rover, never before in their lives had they ever experienced as much latitude to flourish as they currently did right now. They would be returning to the great unknown with a better understanding of who they were and what they stood for. It wouldn't be long before they were considered a force to be reckoned with. In Marius’ eyes, the day he would pass the leadership baton to them was fast approaching. ...

You've seen the aliens known as "the Greys" in movies and on TV. But what if everything you think you know about them is wrong? And what if the Greys are only the beginning? On a nondescript planet on the far side of the galaxy, the M'Uktah have evolved from a wolf-like predatory creature into a highly advanced species that has mastered intergalactic travel. They are cultured. Refined. And hungry.

Pretending is all too easy for oddsbreaker Deja Ortega. As the daughter of a carnie troupe performer and a professional chef who traveled from planet to planet, Deja draws on a lifetime of skills to help her survive even the highest pressure situations. Whether it's sneaking into a fashion event, surviving a terrorist attack on the streets, or competing in a galactic food competition, she's ready for it all. But Deja isn't an oddsbreaker for the thrill. She wants nothing more than to save her papá from debtors' prison. This time, she'll have to sell the performance of a lifetime.

When a 15-year-old girl witnesses the kidnapping of her parents in the annual abduction by extraterrestrials, she stops at nothing in her otherworldly journey to get them back.