Three thousand years from now, galactic transportation relies on the sentient energy field known as the Deep. Its immortal human emissaries call themselves Witches, and they control how the Deep is used. When eight-year-old Tembi Moon wakes on an unfamiliar world, she knows the Deep has to be involved, but to leave her home planet and become a Witch herself? No, that life isn't for her.Or so she thought.At sixteen, Tembi takes her rightful place with the other Witches. They...

Three thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly put to service teleporting people and cargo across great distances, which allowed mass colonization throughout the galaxy. It has also allowed Lancaster, the organization which controls access to the Deep, to grow wealthy and powerful. Cross Lancaster, and you are forced to travel between planets using standard faster-than-light technologies. Nobody wants that!Tembi Stoneskin is having a v...

Rachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn't been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers. When she and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, stumble into a murder investigation with ties to Rachel and the other cyborgs, she realizes their many enemies will not allow them to quietly pick up the piec...

All Hope Blackwell wanted out of her spring break was a quiet Mediterranean vacation. Sun, sand, local cuisine… and tracking down Archimedes' ghost to learn if he's been tampering with the fabric of reality. But when you're a psychic whose specialty is communicating with the dead, a trip to Greece means you'll come face-to-face with legendary heroes.And monsters.As Hope and her friends explore the lost ruins of an ancient civilization, she soon learns she has attracted the at...

Rachel Peng, cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. police, is trying to catch another killer, but this time the murders are personal. Two of her OACET siblings died on her watch, and Rachel can't remember how. Fighting against grief and her fears that their deaths were her fault, Rachel has to catch a skilled arsonist who has visions of a master race with no space for anything he considers less than human . . . and she's sure he's not working alone.

Geeky Giving’s authors—15 bright stars in the science fiction and fantasy community—explore what happens when leading-edge science fuels fiction in this anthology inspired by the work at Barrow Neurological Foundation.In these pages you’ll find authors explore the consequences of targeting a virus carrier (Mary Robinette Kowal), fighter pilots with symbiotic relationships with their jets (Michael J. Martinez), ghosts on Mars (A.C. Wise), hackers targeting biologic exoskeletons (Jef...

Rachel Peng is reinventing disaster tourism from the ground up. Her boss sent her to New Orleans to check on one of OACET's cyborg assassins, but the assassin's girlfriend is too sexy to resist, and her boss's wife won't stop burning down historic landmarks. Small problems for Rachel, really, but then she kicked a nest of domestic terrorists. Now she's got to save her best friend from a fate worse than death without blowing OACET's last big secret. Oh, and somehow she's acquired a dog....

Conspiracies, political cover-ups, acts of terrorism… As one of the first cyborgs employed by the federal government, Agent Rachel Peng thought she had already lived through it all. Then, without warning, fourteen blocks of downtown Washington, D.C. are gone, blown apart by bombs unlike anything Rachel has ever seen. The evidence is even more troubling, with each new clue suggesting their own people might be behind the attack.Rachel and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, might no...

Nearly a year has passed since the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies went public. Agent Rachel Peng has adapted to her new life as the cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but for Peng and her team, murder is usually just the beginning. This time, the body is found in the unlikeliest of places, and the race to recover a stolen piece of antiquity will put Rachel and her team against one of the country's most powerful political figures.

The course of true love never did run straight… For fans of The Owl House and Critical Role comes the first volume in the lighthearted and epic adventure SideQuested**!**Magic makes the world go round, but no one in Charlie Goldskin’s world knows precisely where magic comes from. This isn’t Charlie’s problem. She’s the adopted daughter of a woodcarver and...

Two years ago, OACET Agent Rachel Peng helped a serial murderer escape from police custody. This morning, he appeared in her backyard, wearing the face of a dead friend from her days in the Army. Within minutes of his arrival, Rachel learns that the head of OACET's wife has been kidnapped . . . along with Rachel's niece.Rachel can't deny that Marshall Wyatt has helped her and the other members of the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Technologies before, but that was on his term...

Hope Blackwell, the world's second-worst psychic, is tired of dealing with both the living and the dead. Between wrangling the ghosts of the Founding Fathers, medical school, and dodging the paparazzi, she's got her own problems (and that last attempt on her life left her more shaken than she'll admit!). So she packs up her friends and heads to Las Vegas for some high-octane escapism.Their vacation is cut short when paranormal investigators show up with a story about ghost ships in...