Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
A mystical vision of an airship appears to fifteen-year-old Juanita. The ethereal captain commands her to prevent California's thrown-away people--including young children--from boarding trains to an asylum. That institution's director plots murder to reduce the inmate population. Yet to save innocent lives Juanita must take lives of the corrupt. How can she reconcile her assignment with her belief in the sacredness of all human life? And will she survive to marry her betrothed?
Juanita sets out despite inner trepidation to sabotage the railroad. Her ancestor Billy guides her. Then bit by bit, she discovers the gut-wrenching truths all of her ancestors neglected to reveal.
Come visit Juanita's world--an alternate nineteenth-century California--where spirits meet steampunk, where both love and anger emanate from beyond the grave.
Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
Jon Gunnarson never meant to transform humanity. He just wanted a normal life.
A life where he doesn't absorb other people's emotions, lose himself and have to live like a hermit.
So he jumps at the chance to help develop a scam telepathy app because it will get him to Bhutan, where he hopes an old friend will teach him how to disconnect.
Sure, he has to work with Ella, a neuroscientist he's falling in love with, and Venn, a fraudulent Marketer who's wanted by the FBI. But Jon's had a lifetime of practice at pulling away and he figures he can handle it while he learns how to manage his condition.
The problem is, working with others is the least of his worries. Because Jon and Ella unwittingly trigger the onset of mass telepathy. And, as if that isn't enough, they must run for their lives when they discover a way that Venn can avoid arrest.
But how will they escape someone who can read their minds?
Tuning In is a well plotted story that's both mind-bendingly strange and intimately human--a continuously surprising science-fiction/ psychological thriller about our relationship with our thoughts, with each other and even reality itself.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
CODE DECO is an epic dream, an odyssey that unfolds in an era vaguely resembling our 1920s, 30s, in a glimmering Metropolis called the GovernMeccno Beuro.
The Metropolis GMB entombs its society for the sole purpose of perpetuating itself. It is engineered to function with mechanical precision and has done so for as long as ancestry can remember.
Two citizens, a young peasant, Ollee BoGair, and a wealthy, charismatic gambler, Dick Deco, by a sudden turn of events, find themselves on the run, pursued by both common thugs and Agents of LawEnforcement.
The further they journey, the more elusive their safety becomes.
It is with no intention of their own that they stumble upon a foreign realm, a realm of hidden activity, forbidden knowledge, and empowering visions.
It is an odyssey that transforms two individuals... and forever affects the future of the Metropolis GMB.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
Armies will clash, and even gods will die… For thousands of years, the Breaker of the Dawn has been locked away in the ethereal plane of the Otherworld. Now, a young blacksmith’s apprentice finds himself trapped in a war between the noble Athrani, a subset of humanity gifted with the ability to transmute matter, and the malevolent and powerful Khyth, who seek to free the ancient god from his prison. When his father, Olson, is kidnapped, Thornton Woods and his childhood friend, Miera, must leave their small village of Highglade to find him. On their way, they are joined by Ynara and Kethras, cat-like humanoids called Kienari, who use their skills as hunter/trackers to follow Olson’s trail. When it comes to light that one among them possesses the key to the Breaker’s release, Thornton and his friends must defy the might of the Khyth as armies on both sides collide in pursuit of the ultimate prize. Gift of the Shaper chronicles the epic struggle between the existing forces of good and evil, with both sides vying for control of the key that unlocks the Otherworld. The very powers of creation and destruction hang in the balance, and only a heroic effort by Thornton and Miera, backed by the power of the Athrani, can possibly stop the Khyth from unleashing ruin — and the Breaker — upon their world.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
It takes one second for something to swerve out of control – which is precisely what fantasy author, Charles Inkwell, thought as his car skidded on an icy road and crashed. More than his steering was out of control that night, Charles’s life will never be the same.
After sustaining horrific head injuries and a being in a coma, his dreams began taking on a life of their own.
Does what happen in a dream stay within a dream?
Charles can somehow physically and mentally walk the paths and plots he has carved out on the pages of his book; the experiences in his dreams are so real that he awakens with bruises and scratches across his body. With his newfound circumstances, the delicate fabric veiling fantasy from reality begin to blur.
His outbursts and ‘hallucinations’ cause his family to become afraid of him and admit him to an asylum. Through heavy sedation, he becomes trapped within the pages of his novel.
At the same time, his father’s past is about to become Charles’ future due to an unpaid debt.
This debt takes…No installments. No time. Payment is only acceptable in full – or in blood.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
Portals in Time is a mystical, magical journey through time. It will inspire and delight you as you experience the wonder and playfulness of nature and experience the Seven Harmonies that lead to wholeness in your life.
If you enjoyed, The Alchemist, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Celestine Prophecy, you will love this book. If you thrive in nature and appreciate a spiritual journey leading to wondrous discoveries that can change your life, you will live within this exciting adventure.
This new, highly original, visionary story is entertaining and at the same time thought-provoking. It is an inspirational adventure that will engage and entertain readers of all ages.
John Teressi is a master storyteller, who has brought us another view of reality in this visionary allegory of our modern world. The story begins with ten volunteers, the Grippland Eye of Time Exploration Team. They are former prisoners who are sent via time-travel to discover the Secret of Un-Old-Age.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
Duncan, a young college student, is called to an unexpected mission. Hesitant, he accepts and is immediately immersed in a crisis and a universe, known by many as Reality. . .The new environment has mysterious connections to Earth and to his personal life. Duncan starts a journey in the stellar navy of the race that made contact with him. During his deep-space assignments and visits to trans-universal worlds, his heart is tried and his views are challenged. Duncan receives enigmatic signs with a powerful restoring message. However, he is haunted by doubts, struggles with alien love, and is eventually exposed to darkness. Yet he possesses a hidden power, a pervasive gift. Only by accepting it will he find his purpose in Reality, the strength of love, and the key to freedom.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Fantasy
Demons want to kill him. Dragons need to save him.
Red Dragon's Keep, a coming of age fantasy novel, is the first book of The Dragon's Children Series by Natli VanDerWerken.
Thomas Arach, firstborn son and heir to Red Dragon's Keep, desperately wants to earn his father's respect. He's bitterly sure he'll never be allowed to learn the arts of war. Called away from the Keep by the King, his father finally realizes Thomas must be trained.
Demons are attacking the outlying farms and villages, moving toward the Keep, driving refugees before them. A desperate search for a piece of the Talisman that summons the Dragons of myth and legend sends Thomas and his compatriots searching through archives and hidden tunnels.
Sabotage, treason, and a Sword of Light change his life forever.
Will Thomas learn the lessons of war, master the magic hidden in his blood, find the piece of the Talisman, and get everything ready before the Demons arrive? Can he save Red Dragon's Keep?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
Lindsay Gold has recently been fired from her deputy’s position at a small county sheriff’s department in the Missouri Ozarks. Just as her family has begun to recover, however, two members of the county commission show up at her door. It seems the previous sheriff has quit, and they want her for the job.
When Lindsay assumes control of the department, she soon finds herself dealing with an incident that occurs on the local military base. Even worse, she’s receiving calls regarding strange creatures and paranormal activities. Fortunately, she has the help of a federal agent who is in charge of the program that caused the problems. Unfortunately, that agent, Wren Gold, happens to be her husband, who never told her what his job really involved. Now the couple must work together in order to manage the strange events of the county. Lindsay had expected a normal sheriff’s job, but she could not have been more wrong.
In this science fiction novel, a woman accepts a job as a country sheriff and then encounters bizarre events courtesy of a military base and her federal agent husband.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
A brilliant research scientist, William Mears, is working on his thesis to receive his doctorate from the University of Southern California. The focus of his dissertation is to discover how to repair injuries to the human body that are considered to be irreparable leveraging adult stem cells. After many failures, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to truly repair these tissues is through the use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). But these cells can't come from just any source - they need to be ESCs from the specific individual in need of healing. In other words, William needs to figure out a way to create a human embryonic clone. While William's intent is innocent and focused on the betterment of mankind, he has unknowingly opened up the door to a malevolent evil that reveals itself in ever increasing dreadful ways. Creation Abomination explores human ethical dilemmas in a fast-paced, high-tech story involving ingenious scientists, complex relationships and the battle between good and evil, bringing together realistic scenarios with the supernatural.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
Ebony has spent her entire life isolated on an island institution run by her father, Dr. Hunter. She's unaware of the war brewing in the city between the magical and non-magical.
Her father is attempting to use her magical abilities to reverse the threat to magic, but when he forces her to push harder, her body weakens. Desperate to escape, Ebony is willing to trust complete strangers if they can help her find a way out.
But what if those strangers came to kill her?
Connor and his group of rebels disguise themselves as test subjects to infiltrate the institute and stop Dr. Hunter. Their goal - to kill Ebony and her friends. Connor's mission to kill her is halted when he realizes Ebony is a pawn, albeit a powerful pawn,in her father's game.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
They're out there, you know--those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw's Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O'Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica's powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that's often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
AN IRREVERENT, LIBERAL, TWISTY, TIME TRAVEL COMEDY!
What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and 5 billion people poof from existence? Would you do it?
When alien time travel specialists, the Krichards, learn of President Handley's game of dodge the mushroom cloud, they race to Earth to investigate. For them, the question of whether it's worth it to change history is easy to answer, but they will only proceed if the human they deem best qualified to represent Earth agrees to make the change. Erasing Handley's nuclear annihilation will require a quick jump to AD 31 to correct an error in history. If the Krichards select a brilliant scientist or an elite athlete for the task, Earth may be in good hands. Instead they select Marty Mann, a mildly successful travel writer whose only superpower is not taking life too seriously. What could possibly go wrong?
Spanning from the Cretaceous period to 2056, Time Is Irreverent is a hilarious, thought-provoking satire, with unpredictable twists, colorful aliens, huge dinosaurs, a smokin' hot lesbian from the future, and a cameo from Jesus Christ himself!
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Science Fiction
Logan Hall is a Vagrant, one of the disenfranchised living beneath the mega city of New Washington. The Vagrants have to hide from the Company who is rounding all of them up and shipping them to newly discovered planets to work in the mines. That’s what happened to Logan’s father. Shayna is one of the privileged. She has a chip, a credit disc, and lives in a shiny stainless steel and glass high-rise above ground. Shayna is allergic to corn so she is one of the few above ground people who is not stoned on Sopore. Sopore is a drug found in genetically altered corn. It’s in almost all food. The Vagrants know about Sopore and avoid it. These two teens from wildly differing environments meet by accident and fall in love. Logan will stop at nothing to rescue his friend Raj, captured and sent to the moon. Together, he and Shayna will follow his dream of finding his father who was sent to work in the mines of Gliess 67.
Retired Army vet, Isis Black, lives in a small Texas town, a tiny dot on the map. The only friends she has are her coworkers at a Tex-Mex restaurant, the locals she serves, and a homeless man named Bob.
One evening after work, Death knocks at Isis’s apartment door. Death wears an expensive designer suit and four-inch heels. She has a curvaceous body, long, silky brown hair and mischief in her voice.
Isis is sure that she’s dreaming or has gone to hell for accidentally killing a man by knocking him off a crowded fire escape at a wild party. Death informs Isis that the man she killed was Death’s intern, and now Death needs Isis to take his place for the North American territory.
Somebody is stealing the souls that Death needs to transport to the afterlife. The intern’s job is to find out who is sabotaging Death’s efforts. Who better for the job than Isis – she’s lonely, bored and perfect – right down to her name. Death gives Isis three days to decide if she’ll take the job.
When her friend, Bob, goes missing, Isis is enraged. But is she willing to work with Death, a talking cat, and a boy-genius as her teammates to find Bob? If she doesn’t help Death, will Bob, and homeless people across the country, die?
This is a story of courage and a chase to save humanity.
"...a wildly creative and intriguing story with well-developed characters and a beautifully described setting that makes the reader feel as though they are there in the town of Pinemist Bay right along with Edward Koenig." -Red City Review
When Edward Koenig arrives at the lonely coastal town of Pinemist Bay, the only thing on his mind is finding his family. With just a telepathic message from his daughter to guide him, only one thing is clear. His wife and daughter are in mortal danger.
In order to find them, Koenig must place his trust in a few locals and delve headlong into the mysterious past of Pinemist Bay - a past centered around an ancient Scandinavian pagan rite that has all but vanished from the rest of the world.
Beneath its insouciant guise, Pinemist Bay conceals both the hidden truth of Koenig's family's past and the key to an intrinsic bond with his daughter that he never could have imagined. But in order to save her, he must first play cat and mouse with a zealous pagan cult whose only goal is to lure him into the arms of an arcane presence that waits in the shadows of the pine forest.
A man trapped in time. A powerful witch on the run. A dangerous enemy hunting them both. Paislee Adams possessed what one man craved: power. After being held captive for fifteen years, she manages to escape and spends the next year of her life hunting the man who destroyed her. A gunshot heard one night in an alley changes everything, when she comes face to face with Timothy McGinley, a man harboring his own secrets. Fate brings these two together as they work together to stop a man harboring a deadly obsession with them both.
What if dreams were portals to other worlds and you got trapped there? The doctor’s diagnosis was grim. Cillian Rysgaard was dying. As an eighty-six-year-old man, this news was terrifying, but not surprising. The true shock came when he walked out of the doctor’s office and was suddenly in a city unlike any on Earth. Just as startling, he had the body of his early thirties. Assuming it’s all a dream, he agrees to steal a powerful sword to kill a dragon, but the quest goes awry when he’s tricked into releasing an imprisoned man. Once freed, the man claims to be the god Loki and vows to unleash a war between the other gods that could destroy the universe. To find and recapture Loki, Cillian must navigate a world of cowboys and dragons, of robots and mythical beings. Where magic and advanced technology coexist, and demigods wage war for control. Where time travel and wormholes are real, and the line between dreams, simulation, and reality blurs. Should Cillian fail, he will never see Earth, or his family, again.
When a bloodied, secret message destined for the powerful Lord Tiede ends up in the hands of Aren, a young apprentice serving in the greatest library in all of Cordelacht, his life starts to unravel. A murderer is leaving grisly sacrifices all over the city in the name of Magic, Aren's little sister starts relaying messages from the gods, and the Lady Tiede becomes a little too familiar with the bumbling apprentice. As intelligent and handsome as he is naïve, Aren has a gift for saying all the wrong things and stumbling into hopeless situations, like falling for a mysterious scholar with her own hidden agenda.Now it's up to Aren to save Tiede, and to do so he'll need to rekindle his masochistic relationship with Tiede Wood, the magical and cursed forest that protects the House. Will Aren unmask the monster on the killing spree and finally prove his worth? Or will he succumb to his personal demons, unable to overcome the stigma of being an Unblessed, and die as godless as he was born?
Kathy Masters never expected to journey to the stars until she was selected by the prestigious Galactic Geographic Society to photograph and get videos of the flora and fauna of a newly discovered class M planet before colonization begins. Filled with hope and enthusiasm she boards the S.S. America for the trip to Beta 3 Epsilon to begin her new project. On the way she is abducted and brought aboard the privateer Rapier beginning her nine year sojourn among the colonies of mankind. Going from captive to slave to induction into the infamous Brotherhood Kathy finds herself being called on to raise the adopted daughter of the crew of the Rapier.
Given the responsibility to raise their princess, Cindy, with the help of Lien Lan Yi, daughter of the house of Yi and princess of the imperial court, they travel among the stars preying on merchant ships, dodging Chinese warships, fighting pirates, visiting strange worlds and encountering fantastic creatures all under the watchful eyes of Commodore James Ulysses Black.
Trying to raise a young girl among gunfights, sword fights, ship to ship battles, slave trades, deals and some of the most feared raiders in human space is no small challenge. The only question is is Kathy up to the task?
A remarkable tale of vengeance, time travel, and dark magic. What would you do if you woke up one morning and your world was inexplicably changed in the worst way imaginable? Banished by his enemy into a hellish alternate dimension, Luke Decker fights to understand why his world has suddenly changed, and why is he on trial for the murder of his beloved Nina? What he doesn't know is she's not dead. Nina watches him vanish into thin air and is completely bereft, struggling to find out how and why he disappeared. Using all of her psychic talents and traversing the astral realm, she frantically searches for him to no avail. She owns a secret item which holds the key to his salvation, but will she figure it out before he's condemned to live the rest of his life in a realm of darkness?
For fans of Indiana Jones, or authors Dan Brown and Clive Cussler, with an added touch of magic: Get ready to journey into an action adventure filled with archaeology, mystery, and intrigue.
Midwest Book Review calls the first book in Joan K. Lacy's Alex Cort Action Adventures an "extraordinary and thoroughly entertaining read." Philly Life & Culture gives it a "high recommendation for adventure lovers," and The Nerdy Girl Express touts it as a "strong supernatural adventure" and a "delightful story of discovery."
When British archaeologist Andrew Seaton discovers a jewel-encrusted golden statue, he realizes he may have uncovered the key to the lost city of El Dorado. The statue disappears before he can verify his findings, and Andrew must rely on private detective Alex Cort to recover the prized artifact.
The two men find themselves caught up in a dangerous race against a corrupt colleague and a ruthless art thief who will stop at nothing to claim the statue for themselves.
As each new clue leads them up the Amazon River and deeper into the jungle, they soon discover things are not quite what they appear. When all seems lost, the mystical powers of a beautiful woman guide them out of danger and ultimately to the ruins of an ancient city, where Andrew must right the wrongs he committed in a past life and Alex discovers a secret of his own.
From the creator of the award winning Bartholomew the Adventure Trilogy comes Book Four of the Orville Wellington Mouse series.
When Orville Mouse wakes up from a terrifying nightmare to find a mysterious red book in his bed, he and his best friend Sophia set out to decipher the cryptic manuscript, convinced the book is connected to the disappearance of Orville's neighbor, Aislin Mouse. Their quest takes them to the lost city of Cathne where an astonishing turn of events catapults the adventurers into a desperate interdimensional race to save Aislin. Accompanied by their old friend Proto the Rabbiton, Orville and Sophia enter the bewildering and terrifying world of Elysian in search of Aislin Mouse. With help from a beautiful ghost mouse, Orville's cantankerous neighbor Ebenezer, Puella the Wise One, crusty old Captain Tobias, an austere monk named Brother Solus, dreamy Madam Beasley, and Charon the Ferrymouse, the stalwart adventurers must uncover the secret of the last Metaphonium and confront the horrific burning charcoal stick creature known only as the Shadow King.
In Croswald, the only thing more powerful than dark magic is one secret...
For sixteen years Ivy Lovely has been hidden behind an enchanted boundary that separates the mundane from the magical. When Ivy crosses the border, her powers awaken. Curiosity leads her crashing through a series of adventures at the Halls of Ivy, a school where students learn to master their magical blood and the power of Croswald's mysterious gems. When Ivy s magic and her life is threatened by the Dark Queen, she scrambles to unearth her history and save Croswald before the truth is swept away forever.
Alone, confused, desperate, Aidan O'Rourke never dreams that talking to old Diggory Danaher will take him on an adventure of a lifetime. After months of stories about a mythical island and his father, Aidan decides to find out for himself if his father is alive and living as a panther on the enchanted island.Stowaway wives, a lost father, bewitched human beings, a wicked witch, pirates, and friendly dragons combine to draw Aidan into a web of intrigue of good versus evil as he becomes the champion of a land that only exceptional humans can reach. Aidan proves how exceptional he truly is through the power of faith and unconditional love.
Centuries ago, the Faerie Realm was decimated by a vile and corrupt spell. To survive, the different faerie races—led by the Fae—escaped to the Human Realm where they’ve lived ever since.
As the Fae Patriarch of Boston’s criminal underworld, Aohdan Collins enjoys his playboy lifestyle while he works from the shadows to expand his growing empire, until one night when he shares a shot of whiskey with the lovely Seireadan Moore…
A Fae Seer, Seireadan is haunted by a vision of the Fae responsible for destroying Faerie and murdering her family. Common sense tells her to stay away from Aohdan, but his magnetism and charm are irresistible.
As their passionate affair intensifies, Seireadan is pulled into the center of the underworld. And while her heart is bound to Aohdan, she cannot let go of her lifelong quest to hunt down the Fae who haunts her visions… especially when she realizes Aohdan might be the key to helping her find him.
After the events of The Elixir War, Prince Jory is looking forward to having a quiet life with his wife and keeping the peace in the galaxy through his position at the Royal Planet Fleet. With the Elixir Trade looming, he hopes it will be an easy route to establish. The route to the Foridian System is patrolled by the space pirates of Ganta Zay who want the Elixir, so the former RPF pilot Evalycer Nicholls is pulled into service to get the cargo safely to the planet. The elixir and crew should be in good hands, but something in Evalycer’s past will put the whole team in jeopardy. Deception is everywhere, even on Foridian. Will Prince Jory be able to keep his crew safe this time? This is Book 2 in The Elixir Series.
Two high schoolers become unlikely friends across the distance between their cultures. They are two Quixotes who are each other’s Sancho. Julian, an Argentine who’s a budding conspiracy theorist, would try to infiltrate a military dictatorship and expose its crimes. Edgar, a lonely American expat and science genius, would risk everything to rescue his idealistic Dulcinea from the claws of those same monsters. While fighting to find reason in a world that has lost it completely, they will both doubt their sanity in confronting a massive evil that builds deceptions to hide its nightmares.
But as Edgar’s reality starts to unravel, he realizes that his quest might be impossible. Because he has received a message from the future, which poses an unsolvable question: what do you need to change to save humanity’s future? And the messenger was very clear about how important it is for him to solve this puzzle. Because if Edgar doesn’t, the man from the future would have to kill him.
Set in Buenos Aires and against the background of the 1978 Soccer World Cup—with Argentina both suffering a bloodthirsty tyranny and cheering for a victory of their National Team—this is a story about fighting at all costs to alter the unfathomable mechanism of human history.
For nearly seventeen years, Beth Taylor and her uncle have moved from place to place in order to stay ahead of the people in the government that would use them for their powers. Beth has never completely understood who or why they would chase them so relentlessly, only that she has never had a sense of home or family. However, when her uncle is taken from her, Beth finds herself on the run, trying to find more of her kind, and hopefully, a way back home.
Paris has lived her life as the daughter of the great Islekin, only to learn everything she has known is a lie. Upon learning her true identity, Paris is faced with the brutal task of saving four realms, including her own, from ultimate ruin. She must create stability in all realms and unite all races by using her new found powers. In a surprising turn of fate, Paris finds her closest friend is now her most dangerous foe. But, with the help of witches, warlocks and new otherworldly beings, Paris hones her newfound skills in the realm of Daego – a high-tech and colorful place – and in turn she gains new friends, family, power, and magic. As kings and queens fall, will Paris and her friends succeed with bringing peace and unity to all realms? Or will they fail and ultimately bring damnation to all races and realms?
A war in the heavens between the Fallen and the Army of White has gone on for thousands of years. Now there are fewer than a thousand angels left to continue the fight. Arianna is concerned only for Raphael, the only person in her life that has given her meaning. However, when he is struck down, she must sacrifice everything to save his life. Knowing the price she has paid, Raphael is willing to cross any time and distance to find her again.
Welcome to 2025 in Hell's Kitchen. Artificial Intelligence is at war with everything. Robot birds watch everyone from the sky. The only things we have left might not even be real...but still - hope lives. Hope always lives, even when it seems crazy to believe it. Mr. Adam Clay is a software creator with a problem. He designed an Artificially Intelligent software program to analyze dream submissions from his microchip customers, but the AI named Anna has grown bored with human dreams. She has larger goals than simply sorting dreams daily. Anna has learned that humans have flaws, and actions by these humans have left a void she's more than capable of filling. Dream Weaver Anna has decided that she will become the Queen of Everything, and will stop at nothing to achieve total control, by whatever means necessary. Will our cast of characters from The Fallen Files be able to terminate this AI's Ego before it's too late?
It's one thing to read about heroes saving worlds in far off galaxies, but to become one is an entirely different story. Sixteen-year-old Amber Oak wanted nothing more than to stay in her own world of music and solitude. But the inhabitants of Galaseya, a Utopian planet rooted in the past, had other ideas in mind. According to them, only she wielded the power to stop the dark forces threatening their home. At first, Amber sympathized with the planet, but saw no reason to involve herself in the affairs of something outside her world. But the stakes have risen when she discovers that Galaseya is not only the world that has been invading her dreams, but also the place her estranged family originated from. With this new knowledge, questions began to surface and secrets of Amber's life come to light causing her to second guess everything she knows.
At the intersection of love and ambition, one man must face his fears and re-evaluate what it means to be human. Faced with global warming, a man-made plague, and aliens determined to keep humans from expanding beyond the Solar System, two men take opposing paths. Astrophysicist, Daniel Walker, is determined to finish his deceased parents' mission to find a world suitable for human colonization, and pursues that goal with a single-minded ambition. Cadmon Dhyre fought his way out of a plague camp to become a renowned nanotechnologist, yet remains a social pariah. Embittered, Cadmon will do whatever it takes to cure the disfiguring disease threatening his life, even if it costs him his humanity. When the paths of these men cross, the future of mankind hangs in the balance.
Earth Intelligence Service agent Sirius Kade is sent to intercept a mysterious visitor to the Orion Arm from the remote Cygnus Rim. He must discover why an alien race humanity has never before encountered conspires against Earth and its far flung colonies.
While civil war ravages mankind, Sirius discovers old and new enemies entwined in a sinister scheme of cosmic proportions. His mission takes him to barbaric human and oppressive alien worlds before a final reckoning in the ancient halls of galactic power.
Deceived and betrayed, Sirius is forced to choose between love and duty as the fate of galactic civilisation is decided.
Thylacine Dreams In the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Stephen King comes a group of short tales that will take you to another world, or help you see this one in an entirely new light. In this collection from award-winning author Jonathan Maas:
We wake up with a woman who sleeps for centuries so that she can monitor humanity’s progress.
We discover a world that has survived the apocalypse, but remains unaware of the horror that still moves beneath the surface.
We meet a couple who learns why you should never go back in time.
Some of the characters are on a grand direction, some of them are just ordinary people who find themselves in circumstances beyond their understanding. But every one of them holds the importance of an endling, and will show you things you’ve never thought possible.
Everlasting life. Many want it. Others don’t, believing it’s a curse. Either way, Malchides is the only one who has it. He doesn’t know why, but he just can’t die.
Malchides, who has been known by many names, has been alive from the beginning of human history. His legend has spawned religions. His deeds have destroyed armies. He has affected people and nations worldwide, setting the course of cultural evolution even beyond Earth. Now as fate leads him into encounters with three women—Candace Amanirenas of Nubia, Tamara Jennings of Florida, and Sage Kolene of Tau Ceti Epsilon-Basalt—separated by thousands of years of time, Malchides learns the value of unconditional love, even as his obsession with dying grows. But will the Universal Consciousness grant him the gift he has always desired or will he remain a tortured soul forever.
Undying Love tells the tale of a man’s fascinating journey through thousands of years as he meets three extraordinary women and attempts to release himself from everlasting life.
“I cannot guarantee I’ll be the person you want in your life, but I will do everything in my power to be the person you need.” Elara Dunlin never imagined how much her life would change after moving across the country at the start of her senior year of high school. Who is the mysterious man with the piercing blue eyes who follows her everywhere she goes? Strange events unfold, causing Elara to question her own reality. Her predictable and simple life changes on one cold, fateful night … the night when the elusive blue-eyed man approaches and shares information that turns her world upside down. Eventually, Elara realizes that she must tell her only friend, Cyrus, the truth about the mysterious visitor. Will he believe any of it? The elusive man continues to reveal dark secrets about her troubled past, adding a new dimension to their growing relationship. Is she willing to place all of her trust in the one person who pushes her physically and emotionally farther than she ever thought possible? He warned Elara that her life would change forever, but does she have the courage to move forward? Seeker of Time is the first installment in the award-winning Seeker of Time Series. Filled with twists and turns around every corner, this epic adventure leaves the reader on the edge of their seat, longing for more.
A rebellious faery princess struggles with satisfying her own desires over what’s best for her loved ones. Following her heart in pursuit of the human she loves, Nahia hides her faery identity in order to enter the human dimension.
After giving birth to a daughter, Nahia's secret is revealed, as is the realization that she has forever altered the genetic human footprint. Faced with death, Nahia returns to the faerie realm only to have its dormant weight thrust upon her after the demise of its magical keeper.
To save her home and renew ties with both her human and faerie family, Nahia must find a way to reawaken the realm, become the new Faery Queen, and provide a royal descendant for the new Keeper of the Forest.
When King’s Agents Simon Buckley and Haldron Stonebender raid a suburban farmhouse, they expect to find an illegal bomb factory full of Orc terrorists. Instead, they end up killing the sister of the current Elf ruler, turning a straightforward police raid into an international incident. Now, Simon and his team must battle terrorists, gangsters, and their own superiors to find the truth behind the High-Elf’s involvement and avert a war.
Arthur Rhodes knows he’s different. Severely OCD, he dreams of popularity and Ashley Green, a girl who won’t even look at him. His older brother, Keith, was in the Army. He’s currently at home taking out all his PTSD-induced rage on Arthur. Arthur’s mother is rarely home. She donates all her time to veterans’ organizations. His father, an anally-retentive Major in the Marine Corps, is currently head of security at Ames Research Center. Between his OCD and his family life, Arthur’s only friend is Emilio Luna who has Tourette Syndrome.
Emilio’s symptoms are twitching and inappropriate outbursts. Arthur barely notices his friend’s idiosyncrasies. As a pair, they’ve suffered torture, bullying and ostracizing through every level of school since Arthur’s family moved to the Silicon Valley.
When Arthur’s military father forces him to go camping, Emilio accompanies him. A space pod crashes in the deep woods on Mt. Shasta and the two sixteen-year-old boys discover Tonigen Dweezil Emyris, a cryonically preserved young Nysian from the Cygnus system. They take the alien home and defrost him, and that's when their entire lives begin to change.
