Wide Open by Deborah Coates is the first book in a series of "startlingly original" ( Booklist) contemporary fantasy novels set against the sweeping prairies and desolate byways of the American Midwest, creating "a rural backwater where the normal and paranormal seamlessly merge." ( Publishers Weekly)When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days' compassionate leave, her sister Dell's ghost is waitin...

This humorous collection of 150 haikus captures the psyche of cats, and distills the essence of kitty behavior in the five-seven-five scheme of classic Japanese poetry. The poems are accompanied by line drawings.

Deep Down is the chlling sequel to Wide Open, Deborah Coates's "refreshingly original dark fantasy debut" ( Publishers Weekly).Now that she's solved her sister's murder, Hallie Michaels has left the army and isn't sure what to do next. Her relationship with deputy Boyd Davies is tentative, there's still distance between her and her father, and she needs a job. The good news is, she hasn't seen a ghost in weeks.All that changes when ...

There's a Thing in Lake Michigan and it's after Beth's roommate. Beth wants someone else to take care of it. But when no one steps up, not even the mysterious Paul, who does this kind of thing for a living, Beth realizes that she'll have to do something herself before it's too late.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

After facing Death himself and banishing a reaper bent on the destruction of Sheriff's deputy Boyd Davies, Hallie Michaels had hoped things would finally settle down; that she and Boyd would find more time to spend together, and that the ghosts she attracts would stay in the cemeteries where they belong.But on a wintry night in mid-December, a woman is murdered with a high-powered rifle. Not long after, another of West Prairie City's citizens is killed in exactly the same way, drawi...

Between the incessant music of the stars and the spectre of a giant squid caught inside a locket ball, it is difficult for Don Horacio to maintain a restful mind.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Paxton and the neighbor's kid are inseparable—sweethearts, even, and Paxton barely six. He doesn't mind her antennae and clicking mandibles at all.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Some boys play baseball or computer games, but Brian keeps an army of shells in their dresser drawers. And every night, he fights for the honor of the Queen Conch and wears the marks of battle to breakfast in the morning.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In this first entry in the critically acclaimed Central Corps space opera series, a starship mechanic turns detective after her crewmate is murdered.Chief of Engineering Elena Shaw has never been one for shore leave, but when her starship stops at the prosperous colony world of Volhynia, she ends up spending a diverting night with a local man. She takes nothing from the encounter but fond memories-until he's arrested the next day for the overnight murder of one of ...

Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel.Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmot...

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson presents TVA Baby, A Tor.Com Original short story.How many guys carry a parasail in their carry-on? And how many guys carry a key for every kind of car in their carry-on? Just one, and he's a TVA baby, and he sure knows a lake from a river.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Driven by his dreams, Asa will stop at nothing to find Tanja Duhr again: he will leave home, disappoint his parents, cross the wastelands, and, somewhere, find the courage to tell her who he is, and how she loved him, once."River of Souls" takes place in the same world as Beth Bernobich's Passion Play, some 400 years before the events of that novel.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.