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In this fantasy thriller, Ashley is the son of a Norn, abandoned by his mother at birth. With no guidance, he can only smell how people are likely to die. He works for the UN Carbon Authority, which makes inroads to fix climate change until terrorists bomb his office building. Because of evidence Ashley records during the attack, he’s placed on an elite team to track down the bombers. His future-sensing talents are pushed to the limits as people try to kill his team daily. Worse, everyone has secrets, even the attractive doctor heading the investigation. Eventually, he finds that the ...

Reuben Black Ram has been a hacker for Special Forces, a DJ for pirate radio, and a real pirate who hotwires spaceships. The richest Goat in the galaxy, he is being asked to give up everything to save a race of alien mimics and his Human girlfriend. To accomplish this, he must cross Union space to reach the Convocation of Souls. The space battles, spies, and dangerously experimental tech don’t bother him as much as what MI-23 expects of him—to grow up and become a world leader. Reuben still has a few tricks up his bulletproof sleeves, including a psi talent that up until now has only ...

Mercy Smith leads the team that is building the fastest space shuttle ever. Now her friend Red wants to steal the unstable Tetra-1 because Earth needs the information from an orbiting alien artifact. When Mercy volunteered to ride along to prevent the prototype from exploding, she didn’t count on Chinese and Muslim weapons of mass destruction or corporate spies. After landing on the artifact, she discovers there’s a new world inside, one they name Sanctuary. Although there are vast technological treasures, first the astronauts have to pass a complex test to see whether humanity is fit ...

Every time Isa tries to do the right thing, it ends up costing her, whether it’s saving animals or keeping the peace between witch factions in the run-up to the Council elections. The summoners are breaking all the rules on Halloween night, while the White Alliance is steam-rolling people’s rights. Even though Isa has lost her magic, someone has to protect the innocent. But first, she has to shake the six-foot invisible rabbit who’s stalking her.

Any problem can be solved with help from your friends and the proper application of high explosives. The Scarab is a PG near-future thriller that fans of pod racing, Ready Player One, and King's Avatar will enjoy. Hemophiliac and ace mechanic Ethan Hayes has risen to the top of the computer gaming circuit as the Scarab. When he invents a device that makes him rich overnight, he enters SimCon, the Super Bowl of virtual races. He was unprepared for the dirty tricks big companies would pull to win. When someone kidnaps his girlfriend, Mary Ann, it’s up to the Scarab to save her.

Fans of Dexter, Odd Thomas, the Librarians, Warehouse 13, and X-Files will enjoy this dark comedic paranormal novel. Nick Solace is a part-time Washington lobbyist who trades favors in gray areas of the law. As his other job, he cleans and flosses supernatural crime scenes for the Secret Branch of the Smithsonian. Their motto is: there’s no such thing as monsters. Nick’s corrupt and complacent world is turned upside down when a body dump goes horribly awry. Having the evidence reanimate forces him to call in a debt from Vincent—a musician, janitor, and disgraced missionary. Robert ...

Max Culp escaped his low-tech home world by serving in the marines as a medic. Unable to adapt to civilian life as a medical intern, he joined Special Forces to track down the Phib war criminals who caused his recurring nightmares. By the time the final Phib is captured, Max has become an urban legend among the aliens. He isn't sure how to apply those skills to a new life until someone kidnaps his last surviving friend.

At sixteen, Mira realizes her dream of attending the prestigious South Pacific UN astronaut school, Sirius Academy. Heiress, prodigy, pilot, and psi talent, Mira kicks butt from the first day. However, she can’t figure out how to make boys like her—making them cry is easy. To lead a team to the alien artifact that her mother discovered, Mira has to convince the Academy that she’s the only chance to unlock the alien secrets before they vanish. First, Mira has to overcome sexist students, narrow-minded faculty, kidnappers, and a tenacious aunt who wants her out of the program. Her ...

Fans of "Alias" and "Armageddon" should enjoy this thriller. After Jezebel reads a page from an alien manuscript, she wakes with new abilities and ideas. Each page is supposed to be a step on a ladder to raise our civilization to the next level. Instead, greedy companies and corrupt governments are killing each other to control secrets that will guarantee their supremacy for the next century. Strong-willed, smart, and sexy, Jez acquires pages faster than anyone until an invention goes horribly wrong. Now she’s fighting against the clock, powerful enemies, and government cover-up to save ...

Someone is murdering witches in Hollywood. Dr. Vicky, a vet for the stars, stumbles across the bizarre serial killer’s tracks. The only things she inherited from her mother were a single spell and a rare C-Rex cat that can lend her enhanced senses. She has to use these powers to investigate without breaking the council’s rules or tipping off the cute homicide detective. She gets help from a medium friend, an unfaithful ex, and an eccentric family. Fans of Faith Hunter, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, and Kim Harrison will enjoy this paranormal romp. ,

To earn a place in galactic society, the astronauts of Sanctuary must give an unknown civilization twenty-seven ideas, a ladder to lift it to the next level… if sabotage or space travel doesn’t kill them first. Yuki needs to replace an arm while covering up previous misdeeds. Mercy navigates a high-risk pregnancy with a sociopathic doctor. Yvette struggles to convince the others that the aliens who provided the ship are not as benevolent as they seem. Their target is Oblivion B4, the fourth moon of a gas giant similar to Jupiter. The moon has a maze of cracks on the surface where life ...

Batwoman meets Altered Carbon. The FBI gets a tip about the sale of quantum computers to criminals and spies. Due to a freak accident, Maia Long is forced undercover to catch the culprits. Then she stumbles upon the cornerstone of a new technology. Disruptive changes are coming, threatening the US economy and national security. The first thing her instructor taught her in quantum physics was that everything they’ve taught you before was a lie. As she follows the clues, nobody turns out to be who she expects them to be, not even herself. Fans of Dan Simmons, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson...

Find an exploit; hack the universe. Chief Engineer Roz Mendez pilots a ship with a revolutionary star drive that could travel ten times as fast as current technology. The job has given her a chance to find riches, romance, and earn a reputation that will counter the discrimination she’s felt her entire life. All the ship needs to make history is a few repairs and a renowned physicist who can adjust the jump equations. The trick is finding the professor without tipping off the Bankers, the species with a monopoly on faster-than-light communications. Just making a profit at each port ...

Charming criminal, Solomon Oni is granted parole in the witch dimension on one condition. As an undercover agent for his girlfriend, their attorney general, he performs dirty deeds the police can’t. Her office handles high treason and threats against witch-kind. With the drought and unrest among the mixed-breeds and trolls, there’s plenty of that to go around. When the Dwarvish ambassador is linked to a weapon used in an attempted assassination, Sol takes the investigation into his own hands, which involves more cons, cat burglary, and near-death experiences than when he was a ...

Nobody told Isa she was a witch until she manifested in a volleyball game. Now her aunt is forcing her to attend Colony Prep, an exclusive school founded by her ancestor, the minister and doctor who was thrown out of Boston. Before she can come into her full abilities, Isa and her friends have to recover the family Book from MIT. To do that, she'll need to rescue her genius brother from monsters and his own stupidity. Fans of Harry Potter, Rick Riordan, and Sherrilyn Kenyon will enjoy this clean YA adventure.

The finale of the Gigaparsec space adventure. A fleet of cold-bloods has been in cryo-sleep for 125 years. Their goal is to take over the Banker homeworld. Reuben Black Ram finds out that the invasion could trigger the collapse of the Union and the deaths of billions of his people. Now, he and the other members of his crew must stop the fleet before it's too late. If they can convince the Magi to let them borrow the only ship fast enough, and if they knew where the phantom fleet was. Their only clue is a cryptic reference to a place they call Glory Point.

Film noir meets Jurassic Park. Petra is a medical engineer for zoologists and fertility clinics. Why is she getting death threats, and what did she do to merit an ankle monitor? As the science advisor to a major contender for the presidency, she needs a PR boost. Hendrix is on his fourth career, having failed as a rock guitarist and a war journalist. His last chance is to write a book that makes the country support this abrasive scientist. He’s always been a sucker for a woman in trouble. Warning: this novel talks about the science and ethics of how babies are made.

Senescence is the final stage of life, where cells can no longer regenerate--the fate that awaits us all when we stop growing and changing. The starship Sanctuary has returned home after twenty years to a strange and hostile world. Stewart is sent as an ambassador to see if Earth still has the capacity to change or whether the crew will let the world suffer the consequences of corporate policies. Billionaire geneticist Laura Zeiss holds his fate in her hands ... and thereby the planet's. Will she choose to become one of the rulers of a decaying world or risk everything to save a naive young...

Maia has problems of her own: running a computer company, solving crimes, and dodging hitmen. Then she starts dreaming about the death scenes of Prometheus. She sees glimpses of larger issues in a war that's been going on for tens of millennia. Death doesn't stop the enemy; it just slows them down a little while they wait for their next incarnation. The Underworld gods can look like anyone they want and have tech far beyond ours, but Prometheus is a trickster. He has a few aces up his sleeve, and Maia's one on them.

A Loki-level criminal, Solomon Oni can look like anyone and steal anything. The witch he secretly loves has never seen his hideous true face. When her daughter is kidnapped by supernatural thugs, he risks arrest and the wrath of the Forgotten Gods to save the girl. Sometimes it takes a monster to catch a monster. Fans of the Dresden Files, October Daye, Kim Harrison, and Faith Hunter will enjoy this paranormal adventure.