In a world where the boundaries of time are fluid and time travel is a guarded secret, retired special forces agent, Samantha Rhodes, leads a quiet life far from the chaos of her past missions. But when she uncovers a cryptic message hidden within an ancient artifact, her peaceful existence is shattered.The message reveals a sinister plot by a shadowy organization known as "Chronos Syndicate" to manipulate key moments in history for their own nefarious agenda. Samantha's expertise ...

A princess named Nikita, a cat that hates water, an extraordinary piglet, a surfing monkey, a pirate and his daughter. How these characters are brought together by a perilous circumstance makes up this wildly adventurous tale. There is a storm at sea. A pirate ship is wrecked. The pirate captain, his daughter, her horse, even her monkey in a crate, the crew and cargo are all washed overboard. All seems lost. Who can save them? The nearby villagers are unaware of their plight, who would sav...

In a near-future world where AI-controlled warfare has replaced human decision-making, elite operative Dane Kael is the perfect soldier—enhanced, efficient, and unquestioning. Until one night, his mission changes.Framed as a rogue agent by the very system he swore to protect, Dane becomes the hunted. The AI network known as Ghost Protocol has declared him an anomaly, a threat to its evolving agenda. Betrayed by his own unit and stripped of his identity, he turns to a group of outca...

In a near-future world where AI-controlled warfare has replaced human decision-making, elite operative Dane Kael is the perfect soldier—enhanced, efficient, and unquestioning. Until one night, his mission changes.Framed as a rogue agent by the very system he swore to protect, Dane becomes the hunted. The AI network known as Ghost Protocol has declared him an anomaly, a threat to its evolving agenda. Betrayed by his own unit and stripped of his identity, he turns to a group of outca...

In a near-future world where AI-controlled warfare has replaced human decision-making, elite operative Dane Kael is the perfect soldier—enhanced, efficient, and unquestioning. Until one night, his mission changes.Framed as a rogue agent by the very system he swore to protect, Dane becomes the hunted. The AI network known as Ghost Protocol has declared him an anomaly, a threat to its evolving agenda. Betrayed by his own unit and stripped of his identity, he turns to a group of outca...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Aphra Behn, 1640-1689, may have been the first person to write a novel in the English language. Details of her life are scant, although she’s known to have been a spy in the court of Charles II. Today she’s remembered mainly through her poetry, prose, and plays. Virginia Woolf name-checked her in “A Room of One’s Own.”Montague Summers, 1880-1948, is considered a problematic figure by 21st century standards. He wrote often on the...

He's the heir to a fortune. He's my aloof, intimidating, insanely handsome boss. And he just asked me to marry him.Hayden Stuart is the quintessential English lord. He went to the most exclusive private schools. He hangs out with royals and other richy rich A-listers. His summer home is a castle.Whereas I grew up on a peanut farm in Georgia.When the spit hits the fan for Hayden, he asks me to be his wife. He makes it very clear to me that this is al...

When Rosalen Maldonado tinkers with the derelict freighter, she's just hoping to prove she deserves a scholarship to University. She certainly doesn't count on waking the ship's damaged AI or having three stowaways, Micah Rotherwood and brothers Jem and Barre Durbin, along for the ride. They all have their private reasons for hiding aboard and lives they are seeking to escape, but if the accidental crew can't work together and learn to trust each other, they'll die together, victims of a c...

A derelict ship and a splintered crew are not the rewards Ro had hoped for when she helped disrupt her father's plans to start a war with smuggled weapons. But with the responsibilities of full Commonwealth citizenship and limited resources, she is forced to take her father's place working as an engineer on Daedalus station while she and Barre try to repair their damaged freighter, Halcyone. Barre's brother, Jem, is struggling with the disabling effects of his head injury, unable to read o...

The exciting continuation of the Folding Space Series, including Lightwave: Lost, Lightwave: Circini Search, Lightwave: Command Decision, and Lightwave: Longshot.United we fall, divided we run.Saree’s secret identity isn’t so secret anymore, so she agrees to leave Lightwave behind—forever. When every mercenary, bounty hunter and opportunist is searching for you, traveling alone is terrifying. But if she stays on Lightwave, their e...

She's the woman he can't forget… and the one he can never have.Three years ago, Crispen met the woman of his dreams, only to discover they were about to be co-workers, too. Aria had rules against mixing business and pleasure, so he'd taken the next best option and become her best friend… until he had to make a decision that changed the course of both their lives.Now, what's left of their friendship will be tested. They're going undercover to take down one of Nova F...

Before meeting Keeper Korali, I was Commander Rajeun Leksel, one of the best of the Shirat Empire's elite soldiers, a Keeper killer. Korali changed me in her life and in her death, but in all that we shared, even she wasn't aware of the dark secret lurking inside me. The time has come to confront that secret, even if it breaks me.