Humanity’s first encounter with an alien civilization doesn’t simply introduce extraordinary new allies and uncompromising enemies. It unlocks discoveries that challenge everything we thought we knew about the universe itself. What begins as humanity’s first mission beyond Earth’s solar system quickly becomes something far more ambitious. Every discovery changes what you thought you understood. Every […]

Saxon, along with his sister, Kaitlin and her daughter, Rachel, traveled by river boat to Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon. Kaitlin had worked on her ethnopharmacopeia for years and now she wanted to locate the village of Alichapon-tupec where she believed she would find rare and exotic medicinal plants. She needed to […]

Welcome to Milton Keynes, the weirdest place in England. In a country that still has monuments dating back to the Stone Age, Milton Keynes was founded as recently as 1967. It is the City of Roundabouts, over 130, scattered around an American-style grid-road layout. It is a 1960s vision of a futuristic forest city, with […]

A new life in a new town. But keeping secrets is not my style. I moved to Crescent Bay because of my cat. I inherited Thomas along with Nanna’s old Victorian house. When his antics uncovered a family secret in the woods behind Covett House, I suddenly found myself guarding a moon garden for a […]

When a child is separated from his mother, what is left to him to tell her how much he loves her? The city was breaking. The streets were no longer safe. The rooms were small and warm and full of fear. The adults listened before they spoke. Doors closed softly. Bread was counted. Windows were […]

Every bloodline has a secret. Hers has claws. Scarlett Vecchio was supposed to inherit a future-not a curse. On the morning of her first transformation, Scarlett discovers that the women of her family have carried an ancient lycan curse for generations. Her grandmother, Rossa Constentina-Vecchio, mob boss to the Vecchio Family, ships Scarlett off to […]

Rodrigo is 34 years old, and he spends his life buying proof that he’s doing well: an expensive watch, financed in three installments on his credit card, a car bigger than his coworker’s, a life that looks perfect in photos. His cousin Marina makes the same salary, drives an old car, and has, without almost […]

Detective Luke Steele thought he could play house. He was wrong. Luke has settled into a new rhythm: nights in an upscale subdivision with his real estate agent girlfriend and her two kids. Mr. Suburbia. Mr. Stepdad. It almost feels real. Then flashing blue lights shatter the calm. A roofer is dead at the construction […]

Can love ignite when guilt runs this deep? Alejandro’s life seems charmed. He is a self-made Hispanic billionaire and philanthropist who rebuilt his life after his wife’s kidnapping by ruthless criminals. He searched until he found her, only to lose her again to a man who could protect her. That failure still haunts him, which […]