The Dark Age. The Earth has turned on humanity with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and a new plague that kills the Roman Emperor himself. Barbarian invasions shatter civilizations. In this chaos, Javor comes of age in a poor, remote village. Try as he might, though, he never fits in with his own people. There is just something about him that keeps him apart from the others. When barbarian raiders ...
The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city.
In a city shattered by gravity, packs of feral children roam the streets, playing, fighting, stealing, and surviving. Magpie is odd even by feral standards, and the other kids taunt him and call him Goblin. Nothing makes him happier than talking to the crows that follow him and collecting his pretty rocks and rings, feathers and glasses and other shiny things. The bullies in his pack say he is use ...
The fate of Lida looms. Agetha thought her fate was sealed, pushed to the edge of the colony to die. But with the revelation that the biomass is not only intelligent, but sentient, changes to colony are accelerating, threatening its very existence. Those who were controlled by the biomass once again have free will. Now, the human colonists are raising their voices and for the first time real ...
It's the year 2268 in the Kingdom of Canard. Jason has earned enough rewards to secure a beautiful girlfriend and lavish lifestyle. Until his unforgivable mistake. Now they’re trying to kill him. In a world where a person’s worth is measured by points and evil lurks around every corner, who will win the game of survival?
It’s her first test and it might be her last. Soriya has worked her entire life to become the Greystone—protector of her city, Portents, against the growing shadows of myth and legend. All her efforts are in jeopardy when she is struck down by the destructive power of the Minotaur. Soriya must now find a new path. Only one thing is certain—she’s going to need help. Beth, a researcher with ...
The Far Stone Endurant is broken, and a prophecy foretells doom… She should have been the chosen princess to deliver them. But Pergi can’t love Prince Teyrnon, and that's a deal-breaker. Pergi has prepared all her life to become the ruler that her father wants. Without sons, he knows she could only retain the throne if she marries the neighboring prince, combining their kingdoms. Yet the sam ...
He’s been stranded beyond the stars for years. When he buys himself a down-and-out squad, he crash-lands into a whole galaxy of trouble… Lone human Wil Calder is bored out of his freakin’ mind. So when he gets word of a couple of criminals being hauled to a penal colony, he figures he’s got a sweet deal to offer: Join his crew and he’ll help clear their names. But he quickly finds he’s bought a bl ...
When Corran, Rigan, and their friends became outlaw monster hunters and fled beyond the walls of Ravenwood City, they thought they had defeated the source of the abominations that killed so many of their friends and loved ones. But the more successful they become at destroying the creatures, the more they realize that greater evil is at work—larger and more terrifying than they ever imagined. T ...
Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, says "Shorn is a striking debut, filled with skilled world-building” and “complex psychological tension.” Kirkus Reviews calls SHORN a “grand-scale fantasy” with “remarkable depth” and characters that are “emotionally relatable and endearing.” Jhared Denaban, a cursed soldier, enters his country's service desperate to pay the generations-old ...
A Five-Star Reader's Favorite! After her brother takes his own life, Wrenn Jodh’s life unravels. With nothing left of him but a pair of journals she can’t bear to read, Wrenn retreats to the stability of her job as an aid worker for Kohath’s refugees. On the way, she finds herself thrown together with Caed, a steely-eyed security officer with a sketchy past, a gift for languages, and a talent ...
Warnings echo through the woods…
Born with the mark of the scribe, Raela is bound to the prophetic book that directs her people underground to escape the invasion of their homeland. As the prophecy warns, this event signals a worsening doom on the horizon.
But the book that promises to sustain her life continues to divide her heart. Her fierce lover, Rebial, is ...
A jobless jester and a misguided magpie wander into a land where technology is booming… but trouble is brewing! Dame Elsebet de Whellen has ruled her mildly magical, high-tech country for 50 prosperous years. Now it's facing a crisis three generations in the making, and the bold steps she's taken to save it have gone disastrously off the rails. Naturally she’s going to pray for the help of a brave ...
The island of Niue, 1944. On this remote island, deep in the South Pacific, about 1,500 miles from its closest neighbor, it hardly feels like a war is on. Angelie, a 17-year-old Australian girl, is waiting out the war on the island, where warm tropical winds blow through her hair almost as gently as native islander Will Tongahai's eyes graze her body. But the arrival of an African archaeologist an ...
Princess Lyudmyla could be forgiven for not paying much attention to the cryptic eye that opened on the sun three hundred years ago. Most people don't. The same cannot be said for the legions of shape-shifting Jinni who lost their powers and were forced into exile, hiding, or worse. 'These Cruel Wathers' begins the saga of a Kievan Rus princess whose acclaim as a falconer and her attempts to s ...
What’s buried in the sand has slept for centuries. Some things should never be exhumed... When Egyptologist Samuel Clayton inherits a gold talisman with unusual markings, he’s driven to uncover its secrets. Where did it come from? What do they mean? And why when receiving it did a flood of forgotten memories and the ethereal red-headed beauty—who had seduced him in his youth—return with malice? Hi ...
Gods, monsters, and magic school. Class will never be the same. I thought that I was just a normal girl. Well except for being sickly with a bad back and asthma. But then my family was lost in a tragic accident and then next thing I know Hermes is knocking at my door. Yeah, that Hermes - the Greek god. He tells me I'm special and shows me the how to partially shift to release the wings in my back. ...
A devastating plague… A cruel dictatorship… An autistic man who must learn to be a leader.
John is socially inept and friendless. When a pandemic all but wipes out humanity, the solitary life suits him well—at first. But events force him to make choices where he must work with, trust and then lead others. Th ...
What magic does the library hold? Adopted at birth by a loving family of magic users, fifteen year old Ryn desperately wants to fit in, but the law is clear: only those with documented bloodlines use magic. If Ryn’s birth parents remain unknown, she will be denied the use of magic along with the knowledge and training those ancestors could provide. When Ryn receives an unexpected invitation ...
Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him. All Paulie ever wanted was to live his boring life inside the We-Store storage facility. Now, that dream is tossed out of the window, after a simple dental procedure takes a turn for the ...
Not so cute and cuddly! Not a cozy mystery! Not like any crime story you've read. Serena McKay, P.I., lives in a post-apocalyptic dystopian time where the rich get richer and the poor are homeless. Existence in August City is nightmarish at best and disastrously chilling at worst. Serena has suffered from devastating emotional and physical abuse but she continues to do her job in spite of it. Fans ...
“Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King” - Book Nerd’s Brain Candy Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Award!
Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood’s resident curmudgeon. He’s the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, a once-renowned painter, and he can make a mean batch of biscuits. After decades of pleasant solitude, Withrow finds himself on the board for his homeowne ...
Rule-breaking, unconventional assassins Joel “Ridge” Breckenridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennar are back, and the stakes have never been higher. The Witch Lord remains at large, orchestrating his plot against Landria’s throne from the shadows. Then tragedy strikes, the kingdom is in jeopardy, and Rett disappears. Framed for murder, Ridge flees with a bounty on his head, still intent on fighting the ...
The fight to save my city has only just begun. It's time to sharpen the cat claws and unleash the spider fangs because this hybrid shifter is out to catch her prey.
I've already lost a close friend to the toxic memory-warping drug breaking the minds of everyone in the city. To make matters even worse, the criminal mastermind responsible for this poison has his eyes set on a new t ...
"Your son’s invisible friend is not imaginary." Kate’s little boy has a new buddy, one even he can’t see. Can’t hear. Can’t feel. Yet, it’s feeding him information about the world. And about the future. He is using this thing, this undetectable entity, to advance at school. And to help Kate gamble. Despite her addiction.
But, for every morsel of knowledge, his friend demands a favor in ...
(5 stars) "Great books, kept my interest from page one. But now I have to wait for the next one (sad face). I love this series." -- Judith J, Amazon reader. The adventure continues in WIZARD SEARCH, The Magic of Larlion, Book 4. The war ends in victory for the young wizard Beneban and his friends, but dark magic lingers on. Under an evil compulsion, his mind befogged, Beneban disappears. Wandering ...
The world ended. Then things got tough. Shane Collins and Lucas Maddox are the last two US Marshals after a global cataclysm that destroyed most of modern civilization. They’re still on the job, fighting the good fight, although they’re no longer fully human and maybe not entirely sane. Witches and werewolves were not covered in their training as US Marshals. Then again, neither was the Apocalypse ...
Don’t look at me. Just don’t. My name’s Gorgiana. For decades, I’ve lived a happy, simple life, shelving books at Sunland University’s library in Florida. But my peace ended when I witnessed an assault, bringing back horrors from my past. Or course, I took care of him. His body’s no longer whole. But that revealed my location. I asked for help from my best friend, Cora, the goddess Persephone, and ...
He gave her a gift. Using it could bring her to madness. Ireland, 1795. Esme Doherty believes the best of everyone. Despite a drunken father, a bullying twin sister, and a failing farm, the impoverished girl refuses to allow her sunny demeanor to dim. But when her grandfather gives her a magical brooch that enables her to detect lies, she finds her idealism crashing towards a pit of despair. Wanti ...
Get ready for an electrifying odyssey across the cosmos in Adam Gaffen's "The Road to the Stars," where Kendra Cassidy emerges as the unstoppable force propelling humanity into the galactic unknown, no matter what obstacles stand in her way! Amidst a world on the brink of resource catastrophe, Kendra and her wife Aiyana are on the verge of realizing their lifelong dream—the completion of the fir ...
Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. When her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power.
Whisked away to Kismet Academy, Mae Lin finds herself thrust into a world of djinn, leprechauns, and wishers. Everyone seems so confident in their gift ...
She can't tell anyone who named her. It would doom the galaxy. She can't let anyone know what she is. She would be banished for life. And yet she has so much to offer...and so much to discover still. The only one who understands her and stands beside her, is an outcast herself. And her only friend. She'll risk everything to let her join the human ranks as an equal. She'll stand beside her as no on ...
When an immortal relocates to the Tarthian Empire, where should they go first? What places should they avoid? More importantly, who should they avoid? A tongue-in-cheek look at what relocating to the Tarthian Empire would be like for the immortals in books by Kayelle Allen. A bit of fiction, written in a non-fiction way, the book offers guidance from Joss Avaton, one of the immortals. She prov ...
MAGIC, MYSTERY, AND MAYHEM await you on every page of this exciting anthology bursting with new adventures and unforgettable characters. Visit an otherwise normal town dealing with a dragon infestation, think fast when the elves whisk you away from home, launch an investigation when you realize the boy next door isn’t what he seems, and tread carefully when telling your secrets to sinister diaries ...
Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer. As a Demon-Owned human in an Afterworld that has Hell and Heaven on Earth, I’m the lowest a being can get. My life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before I started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only I can produce, and everyone would kill, or die for. With decommission and execution closing in, I’m desperate ...
The fight for their lives, their love, and the world begins! Sonora's love of the sea leads her to discover something in the depths of the oceans that shouldn't exist—a thriving city, centuries old. And Ian is completely unaware of who Sonora really is—a granddaughter of the most hated man of his people.
The one he has been tracking for decades.
The two come together to fight a ...
