Being a middle school exchange student is hard enough for Pavel. Add to that the constant bullying and it's almost too much. Until the night he finds the wishing well. But the wording of a wish is a tricky thing. Pavel didn't mean for anyone to get hurt - much less die. When someone turns up who knows about the wishing well, Pavel thinks help has finally arrived. But he's wrong.

Sixty two years after the ill-fated first settlement on the moon, Geoff Jones returns to the site forever burned in his memory. A place stained with a mix of emotions: courage, triumph, fear, loss. Love.He faces it because he's the only one left to remember.He faces it so he'll never forget.

Faith can move mountains and, when betrayed, destroy lives. Zack and little brother Peter are taught their father was sent from God to bring the Word to a chosen few. When Zack sees Dad abusing his position all his beliefs falter. Everything else happens so fast: the yelling, the fighting, the shootings. Then Zack and Peter are whisked away by Dad. And the gun slides out from under the seat.

Snowfall on Christmas Eve is a magical thing.But Jeff Killian doesn't believe in miracles - and he expects this to be his final Christmas. His only wish is to spend it with his estranged daughter but that would take a Christmas miracle - and the power to believe - and those only exist in TV movies.After years of bad luck can Jeff believe enough to make his final Christmas wish come true?

Some memories are better left buried. When Dakota Harper was six years old she had an imaginary friend and they played together in the woods with fairies.Seventeen years later, Dakota's imaginary friend finds her again.And he doesn't want her to leave again - ever!

This was the day he'd been waiting for, training for.This was the day he'd dreamed about.This was the day he'd get his daughter back.Peter had seen her go down the slide only to never come out the other end. After ten years in prison Peter was determined to find Melanie.No matter what - or who - tried to stop him.

Dan is a family man working in temporal mechanics the day his daughter dies. After that day nothing else - and no one else - matters: he is solely focused on breaking the temporal barrier and traveling back in time to save her. The key, he discovers, lies in the simplest things - pictures. He's forsaken everyone and everything for the chance of a lifetime but even that may not be enough.

For Mary the decision was easy: she hadn't planned on it, wasn't ready for it, and had no plans of being with the father. So the baby had to go. And all it would take was a discreet trip to the clinic. When she spots the picketers she stops and pretends to shop at the Christmas curio sidewalk stand. But the stand has more than knick-knacks for sale - including a very special snow globe.

Framed for crimes he didn't commit, Markus is on the run. His plan - to melt into the crowds at Way Station Forty Two (halfway up the space elevator) - is derailed when, on a passing shuttle, he spots a familiar face -- his own face! Caught up in a conspiracy theory he doesn't remember and with assassins closing in the one thing Markus knows for sure is that his time is running out!

The lone survivor of a hostile invasion . . . a troubled commander home from a long mission - their worlds collide under the tyranny and oppression of the new rulers of Earth and its allies in the breathtaking first volume of a stunning new space opera - The Union: To The Brink.After five years on a successful deep space first contact mission discovering a race called the Serty, Commander Joe Morris arrives at a crossroads in his life. The rest of the tri-species crew of the 71st U...

Hank promised he'd be home for Christmas. But his final mission in the war against the slugs takes him light years away - no hope of return. If his unit doesn't destroy the slugs' teleporter millions will transport to finish wiping out the population. When he finds the teleporter's destination set near his house it's a race against time. If he fails, his family will be the first to die.

Burt has a secret. Despite his elderly appearance he's older than he looks - much older. But the problem with living such a long life is you create a larger past. And sometimes, your past can catch up with you.