Betan Alier wants the stars. He gets a war. Raised among scientists on dwarf-planet Ceres, he listens under tables while adults argue fees, loyalty, and the uneasy truce between research labs and rough prospectors. Then the blast hits. Family, home, and the official story all crack at once. Swept from port nights to slow ships […]

In the summer of 1942, the Nazis descend on the Czech village of Lidice in a savage act of revenge. The men are separated from the women, and their children are bused away. The Kobera family is scattered across occupied Czechoslovakia and the Nazi camp system. The matriarch, Tereza, clings to the hope that her […]

They say there are blessings from disasters. One is starting over. The hurricane gave Viola Valentine the chance she needed to leave her dead-end job and loveless marriage. But the storm also blew open a psychic door, one that Viola had worked hard to keep close. Her first day in her new job as travel […]

What if some legends are more than just stories? A black obsidian crystal Skull. Ancient. Mysterious. Waiting… I have no idea why it is invading my dreams, or why I now see fragments of a history that stretches back to a time before memory: – A young woman entombed alive in an icy wasteland.– A […]

“Neither party shall require affection of the other. I wrote that clause myself. I am about to break it.” He must marry within six weeks. She has eleven days before the sheriff comes. Marianne Shawcross has kept her father’s accounts since she was eleven years old, and the sums have finally run out. Then the […]

Chloe is a seasoned drug courier who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Facing a lingering and painful death at the hands of the Zeta cartel, Mexico’s most brutal organised crime syndicate, she persuades their enforcer to claim her. Ex marine and dark ops expert Kyle Suarez is chief enforcer for […]

Fresh out of Harvard Business School, Kayla Mousavi lands her dream job at General Recycling, a Silicon Valley–style tech company hailed as “the future of clean energy.” Working directly under the legendary CEO Frederick Douglass Monahan, Kayla believes she’s helping save the planet. GR’s revolutionary trash-eating bacteria promise to end the global waste crisis and […]