Noah Wright and his friends are regulars at the Sally West, a rock dive in Bar Harbor, and they try to make all the shows that come through town. But the Sally is also a good place just to shoot some pool and have a drink. On one of these nights, Noah has a chance encounter with the lead singer of a local band, Tanis Ransom. He decides to try to pick her up with a bad line, bringing back to life an old bet he and his friends had once made. Not expecting it to work, he doesn't consider the ...

Marcella Stedwin stands at a fence reflecting on the last few years of her life. Her history has been halved: life before the contract, and life after. The contract came by a most inexplicable and extraordinary chain of events.After stepping away from her previous job, she decided to throw caution to the wind and go to work for a cruise ship line. During this journey, she met some interesting people who challenged her entire perception of reality and caused her to question what she...

Shawn Stedwin still works for BlueBird Innovation, where a client's satellite has gone offline. Since BlueBird manages the server onboard the satellite, this is Shawn's latest task: to find a way to connect to the server and bring it back online.However, when it becomes evident that the server isn't just down, but the satellite is missing, things begin to get interesting.She and a representative of the client's company, PanaView, must make a trip to an Air Force Base to enl...

When Shawn Stedwin takes a new job in a new city, she believes she's found a great fit in a great company. But after a six-month monitoring period by her boss, Sameer Singh, she is invited to join him on a secret project in the hidden half of the building's fourth floor. His mission is to find a way to bring someone back from the dead.Using a mixture of nanotechnology and biology, Singh thinks they can reawaken a cadaver's personality. If he's right, the subject will be able to ope...

Callie Simmons knew something was wrong when she found the stack of forged receipts under a co-worker's file cabinet almost a decade ago. She began her own personal investigation, putting pieces together here and there, when and where she could find them. She finally has enough to launch her attack.With nothing more than a hope for success, Callie flies to Fiji to confront the man she believes was responsible for the demise of the Atlas crew all those years ago.But the Mars...

On a beautiful October day in 2005, over two hundred thousand people vanish from the face of the earth. Daniel Brandt is skeptical of the news – until his girlfriend disappears from the passenger seat of his car.The world finds its own way to deal with the losses, and the dust of the previous weeks seems to be settling. That is, until Amalie London – a supposed employee of Royal Research Corporation – comes out of nowhere and points the finger at Daniel.Amalie convinces Dan...

In 1997 a terrifying sound was picked up by underwater microphones once used to track Soviet submarine movements in the ocean. This sound was picked up over five thousand kilometers away, and was rumored to be a large creature. In 2019, the sound has returned and its source is no longer a rumor. A team of engineers builds a vessel and prepares to attempt to locate and make contact with the entity. Meanwhile, Codi Cohl is entering a darkness of her own. She receives bionic lenses just befor...

Richie Rainwater is tasked with giving clients new identities through the Witness Security Act. But when a mysterious woman comes waltzing into his office one morning, he finds himself running to try to protect her - and himself. And through the brief but tenacious relationship he forms with her, Richie finds he may too be in need of a new identity.

Turning back is not an option...A mission to Mars is doomed from the beginning, but no one sees the signs. When the radar goes out millions of miles from home, the Atlas crew begins to realize they might be lost.Running out of fuel, oxygen and time, they must decipher the chaotic star charts and find a way to salvage their mission - without sacrificing themselves.