A galaxy away on a tropical island, Duncan Blackburn wasn't unhappy when he heard Empress Evangeline hadn't died two years ago, but he certainly wasn't going to get drawn back into her problems on the eve of war. Running around as a back-channel diplomat was not on his agenda, and nothing could convince him to trade fire over some dirt clod far from any homeworld.Yet he is a little curious when his sometimes-hunting-him bounty-hunter girlfriend, a guardian dismissed for war crimes,...

For thirty years, I trusted the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus for my eternal salvation and the major tenets that went with it. I only had one problem. Raised with an iron-clad certainty in the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, I had to take them seriously, studying as if they were the words of eternal life.But the more I studied, the more they seemed not to say what I had been taught. Why were there so many commands, as if God expected obedience, when the preacher said it was al...

Life is tough when you're a fourteen year old girl. It's even tougher when a quick joyride in your mom's spaceship leaves you stranded light-years from home. But with the help of a well connected space Lord, Aiyela might have a big push in the right direction.If only she only she can land a job, land her ship without exploding, and generally not embarrass herself.

After meeting lord Yasha, life was starting to look bright when Aiyela decided to take a shortcut on a cargo run.The next thing she knows she's being chased by a Frankensteinian ship, and falling into the hands of a blood-thirsty pirate captain! Between her wits and her shiny new All-Tool, she might make it out alive.If her mouth doesn't do her in first.

A suspicious distress signal pulls fourteen year old, mechanical genius, and socially inept girl, Aiyela off course to investigate a frigate without a crew, drifting in space, with the unknown lurking in its cargo holds.What looks like wasted time doing a good deed, may turn out to cost more than Aiyela bargained for when she finds out someone else is looking for the ship too.

Winter Haven is a coming-of-age story.In the small, isolated town of Winter Haven, Tyler and her best friends are high school graduates pondering what to do with the rest of their lives.Cordelia decides to become an actress, while Jennifer struggles with her family's penury. And Tyler falls in love for the first time.Tyler Martin falls hard for Devon Lecusken when he saves her from drowning; but, she does not realize that love is a two way street, and Devon, for all...

What would you do if you discovered you were a key to human salvation? Living his very ordinary life, Jacob soon discovers he is one of the gatekeepers. What is a gatekeeper? If you die near a gatekeeper you automatically go to heaven...or hell, depending on which gatekeeper you are lucky or unlucky enough to die close to. Will their power remain a secret or is the only way to help, a full reveal?

A high tech software and medical conglomerate is capitalizing on decades of advancement and the evolution of medical and computer science, which may enable the seamless merging of the human mind with the modern electronic world. Created and born in a laboratory, seven-year old Toby Crawford is an engineered test subject for new research on human simulation and artificial intelligence. Toby is a genius with a photographic memory, otherwise enviable gifts; Toby was born with a limited short-...

In this free illustrated short story from the popular Halflings series by Heather Burch, Nikki and the Halflings team intercept important information regarding the kidnapping of Hollywood's hottest teen celebrity, Mandy Mosen. Will they be able come to the young starlet's aide in time, or is Mandy's fifteen minutes of fame about to end? Includes a bonus first chapter from Guardian, the next full novel in the Halflings series!

The Voq are a harmless alien race on a small and insignificant planet. But the virus that's now destroying them must be contained before it spreads to other worlds, especially to Earth. Dr. Roland Price has been summoned to space station Observer I to assess whether the eighty million Voq can be saved. If not, the military plan to annihilate the entire race before their disease harms anyone else.But could Price's mother be right, as she remains on the infected planet to argue for th...

In the Sunset Desert of Alpha Centauri A Four are three immense structures. For nearly thirty years, these massive mines have used United States of the Zodiac prisoners to dig uraninite out of the ground by hand. No-one escapes from Alpha Four. Once you are sent there, established wisdom considers you as good as dead.It's time for Ant and Cleo to prove established wisdom wrong...

Joe always dreamt of driving his own car. When his wish comes true and he takes his brand-new sportscar for a spin through town and country, his adventures soon take a turn for the unexpected.A childrens book for young and old, The Little Driver takes a fresh look at our obsession with cars through the eyes of a boy still young enough to take nothing for granted.'A delightful fairy tale... highly recommended for children and adults alike. The Little Driver will make you lau...