The kon piset on Harmony Home have always lived in peace, and Speaker For The People has been one of them, even if she seemed… different somehow. They are her family and she would fight to the death to keep them safe. But soon the Others return—creatures from the old stories and legends, aliens that used to kidnap the People for their own mysterious purposes. Speaker is their next victim, imprisoned aboard their alien craft, being carried away fro...

Love and magic might change the world, but will that change be good for anyone?Sumi has served in the City of Temples for so long she's almost forgotten her own name; she even thinks of herself as just the high priestess of the dark goddess Maldita. Sumi trains those who possess magic, sells their talents, collects their tithes. When the occasion demands it, she even offers up her own body as a vessel, so Maldita can preside over Her congregation in person.But now people from...

The Sci-Fi and Fantasy of Tomorrow Selected by Masters of Today
28 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators
Get ready to get carried away . . . to places no one has ever gone before.Turn the page . . . from dark fantasy to dystopian nightmare, from magical realism to military science, from paranormal urban fantasy to post-apocalyptic power trips . . . and beyond.Take flight on a starship powere...

(Previously published as Crowns Peak #1 - Creeper)Slavers have come to Crowns Peak.For Creeper, a street urchin living rough in the slums, that fact is just one more in a long list of everyday realities she has to deal with. But what if there were a better place for her, a place where she might be safe? Safe from the coming winter, from the older littles who bully her, from the king's guards who want to take her, and perhaps even from the slavers.Creeper might just ...

There's been a murder on the asteroid mining platform, Platform Eight, and Officer Cordova must find the killer - it's her job - but this case is a little more personal than she's admitting…

With hostile dragons threatening the land, can a princess save her kingdom and its dragonscale throne?Something's rotten in Ipurra, and Princess Shalee hopes it's not her own family, but she's not convinced. Her younger sister is a spoiled brat, her brother, the crown prince, a drunk and a bully, and her father encourages them both.When the king demands a huge party for Shalee's birthday, she must organize the feast, attend it, and pretend she enjoys it while preventing the...

In a family of priests and priestesses that are touched by the gods, Eztli thinks of herself as the least—least favorite, least gifted, least loved. She seems to have very little in common with them, and even less to offer the people of the city.But when a fearsome warlord arrives to bring blood and slaughter, Eztli scrambles to protect the prophesied one, the world's only hope for survival: her younger sister Zumi.No five-year-old should have to stop a war no matter what t...

Returning victorious from removing the slaver blight from the system, there is no time for a hero's welcome for Officer Cordova and her team. Evil has followed her home to her precious Platform Eight, and wants see Amy destroyed once and for all, along with everything she holds dear—family, friends, and even her sanity…The latest and last in the Platform Eight series - adventures of Officer Cordova.

7th in the Platform Eight series of short stories:When Amy Cordova's grief over her lover is interrupted by an old acquaintance with a desperate mission, she must pull herself together long enough to strike at the very heart of darkness: the slaver fortress.The only way in is to become the monster she'd slain, but even from beyond the grave, Gunnar Quinn is a tenacious foe that won't let go once he has his victim…

On an entire city rocketing through space, bursting at the seams after only eleven years, Pensa Dee and her precious daughter, her momma and her sisters and their families are heading for a new world.Pensa Dee lost her husband, thanks to his tomfoolery and a cracked seal, but when her heart isn't breaking, she's getting along well enough with her baby girl at home and her databases at work. At least, until she notices a glitch in the nav system that hints she and her family and the...

Blast from the past…Tal and Josue have survived the battle of their lifetime, but now someone from their past has come looking for them. The Desolate is broken. The client is a lying scoundrel. The pay is unbelievable. The job is a set-up.But who is the trap baited for?It's up to Tal to find out, while she and her best friend take on a heist that will foil them at every turn… as long as it doesn't get them killed.

Cops in Space.When humanity spread to the stars, it took its best and worst with it.Creators, inventors, healers.Thieves, killers, slavers.Amy Cordova is a police officer on space station Platform Eight. She deals with all kinds of people, all kinds of situations, all kinds of crimes; when a Very Important Person is murdered on the station, she must discover exactly who did it, but...The victim isn't innocent.The suspects aren't guilty.An...