Rhys Blackshear is surely his father's son: they share many of the same gifts, and Rhys not only resembles him strongly, but has his physical strength and intellectual prowess. At fifteen, he's insatiably curious and more than anything wants to find a way to bring the simulated citizens of Saint Francis out into the real world—a desire that counters laws forbidding advanced artificial intelligence.Hyrum, his uncle and best friend, just wants Rhys to be happy. On a mopey day, he convin...

In Space, no one can hear you breathe...These stories are tasty snack bites of Wick's world, starting with a quiet telling of Hyrum's typical day, Rhys's discovery of a gift that arrives wrapped in time, building to Drew's pulse-pounding, hold-your-breath inaugural visit to Elysium. The world is no longer bound to the history of the Emperor's When, and he's tempted—very tempted—to stick his finger into time's pot…and stir.

Wick knows he's old. It's his memory that upsets him. Hovering somewhere around 120 years old, he can't remember large chunks of his life: he'd already forgotten life before living with Jax and only remembered when the transponder planted in his brain was activated. But now, with Will happily married and expecting his first child with Aisha, Wick realizes he needs to know where he came from and how he began.In the Return to the Wick Chronicles, Wick remembers an important ...

The Whens of Wick:Wick knows he's old. It's his memory that upsets him. Hovering somewhere around 120 years old, he's forgotten large chunks of his life, and Wick wants to know where he came from and how he began.He recalls an important detail: a boy named Tad who had fed and cared for him when he was struggling to survive on his own. With few details to go on—a U.S. President hung in effigy and men lighting suckers on fire—Will thinks he knows the first When to vi...

This is the combined edition of the Wick After Dark two-book series that follows The Wick Chronicles.The Space Between Whens:Fresh from a time-travel date gone very wrong, Wick reminds the Emperor: the woman he was currently holding hands with had warned him—if she survived the battle with wizards and elves, she was murdering his virginity. Time to pay up, dude. And while Wick prefers to ignore the intimacies in human relationships, he isn't sure Will can h...

The Wick Chronicles contains the first three books in the Wick series.The Emperor of San FranciscoPacifica, 2415Narrated by Wick, royal cat of the House of BlackshearOn a plaza at the edge of downtown San Francisco, Oz and Drew witness what they think is the opening of a new portal, and within it find Finn and his broken down, burned out egg-shaped ship. He has no memory of who or from which When he is, becoming a puzzle that time-tr...

The Charybdis Novels Omnibus is a 5-in-1 volume containing K.A. Thompson's Charybdis series.Charybdis: His life littered with the women he's used—including a dead hooker he'd planned on marrying—Chip Davis is ready to move on. A blue-eyed teenage wonder has found her way into his life, and he intends to run with her at full speed towards happiness. He knows she's the one, and nothing is going to keep him from holding onto her—not a dead f...

No longer concerned with maintaining the purity of the timeline, Wick and the Emperor have choices to make. Who can be saved—and should they be saved? Wick Shorts Two begins with Red Munson's wish to expose the truths of his church, take Hyrum back to Florida where he promises to remain if Valerie allows Will to save her life, follows Wick as he searches for a way to save himself, and the Blackshear family faces the scope of their lives, the pain of their history, and the hope of a future ...

Hyrum Munson spent two years walking across Florida and Midlam for one reason: to deliver a message to his sister, the Queen of Pacifica: Daddy wants to kill Red and the Prince. He has no way of knowing that the war has been over nearly as long as he's been walking, or that Levi is long dead; he certainly has no way of knowing that his oldest brother is losing control over Florida's governing Quorum and nuclear war is looming. Hyrum, an eight-year-old boy stuffed into the body of ...

Just Before Everywhen is a short collection of shorts: 3 stories in the Wick universe originally intended for online-reading, serving as a bit of a bridge between No Matter the When and the upcoming The Lost Boys of Everywhen.The first entry, When, the Olive Branch, is an edit from No Matter the When. It stayed in the book until the final edit, when the decision to remove it was made because it didn't quite fit with the rest of the book'...

The Emperor and Prince Andrew have launched Ozoo Enterprises and are ready to open the warehouse where work on the computer systems that might run Elysium is about to begin. Will also has a side project of his own: a personal transporter, one that will allow him to manipulate space—sending people hundreds of miles with the tap of a keyboard—and circumvent time, opening the possibility not only for time travel on earth, but beyond.Hyrum Munson is settling into his new post-continent...

The King is tired. He's itching to abdicate in favor of becoming a beach bum. He needs time off before his abuse of the Queen's Bad Word List invites her ire. When the crash of an air car on Union Square propels one of the Guard to force him through a portal, he has the chance to take a few days in Will's birth When to relax, recoup…and hunt the man who tormented his daughter.Jax wants the dark wizard of Saint Francis dead, and neither Drew nor Wick understands why the Emperor is w...