Kelly Dolan has been missing for nine years. The college graduate was preparing to start her life with a new job in a new city when she vanished over Labor Day Weekend. For almost a decade, her sister Quinn and private detective Paulie Carmichael have been searching for her. After an armed robbery at a lakeside store turns to murder, they become convinced a serial killer is targeting the small town of Hogan but can't convince the police.

Blue collar Sci Fi in the vein of Firefly.Running a starship repo company isn’t easy or cheap. It’s just an endless string of fuel costs, ship maintenance, legal red tape, unhappy debt bailers, shady associates and uncooperative dock officials from one end of the galaxy to the other.Nathan Teller owns and operates Milky Way Repossessions, a company that tracks down and repossesses starships. And although he's only managing to break even on his debt, he woul...

A sci-fi crime novel set in a dirty, corrupt universe.The starship repossession agents of Milky Way Repo are sent to the desolate settlement of Bad Rock to retrieve a vessel. Once there, they become entangled with a notorious thug running a smuggling operation for the Syndicate. Struggling to do the right thing while trying to complete their job, things go seriously awry with deadly consequences."The Milky Way Repo universe is populated by hard working men ...

Dive in and buckle up, nothing is as it seems…In a galaxy controlled by powerful corporations and crooked government officials, captain Nathan Teller and his crew struggle to keep their starship repo business afloat.Faced with escalating debt and their starship on lockdown, Nathan and the crew reluctantly accept a dubious repo job that sends them on a thrilling chase through the cosmos.As old enemies lurk, and new threats become apparent, they must overcome their bi...

Someone is angry in Hogan, Ohio.Residents of the small town are plagued by vicious, anonymous letters. The personalized notes land in mailboxes with devastating effect, revealing secrets and deeds better kept unknown. Whoever the sender is, they know the town and the people who live there.Reporter Tim Abernathy is assigned to the story and tasked with finding out who is sending the letters and why. The letter writer doesn't want to be found, however, and will kill to keep h...

“Imaginative and richly rendered . . . Sparks frames all of this in haunting, near-poetic detail, such that the readers can smell the toxic red sand and perhaps taste the blood. Recommended for people who crave fresh post-apocalypse chaos—because Sparks’s post-apocalyptic chaos is pretty fresh, at that.”—NK Jemisin, The New York TimesPowerful war machines of the far-future collide across a barren desert world in this post-apocalyptic debut novel fr...

Months into a war with the Mitasterites, sniper captain June Vereeth and fellow T.U. soldiers find themselves on the frozen wastes of P-75 to defend a fuel dump. Disaster strikes when a cave-in saves Vereeth and four soldiers from a cataclysmic blast. Now they have little food, no radio, no map and no way off the planet.P-75 is winter world of mysteries and dangerous wildlife--and a tomb for many lost souls. As the hell-bent Mitasterites return to the surface, will this unforgiving...

Grady operates undercover as a Mutant Hunter rescuing colonies from extermination. He discovers his cover is blown when he escapes a trap set by other hunters only to find the attack on him is part of a rapidly unfolding crisis.When his new partner Shrilla, finds out that Grady isn’t who she thinks he is, it’s all she can do not to put a bullet in his back.Now they are the hunted and have to put aside their mutual distrust to save themselves, their agency and a mutant world ...

Wanted: Translator for first contact. Immediate opening. Danger pay allowance.Estlin Hume lives in Twin Butte, Alberta surrounded by a horde of affectionate squirrels. His involuntary squirrel-attracting talent leaves him evicted, expelled, fired and near penniless until two aliens arrive and adopt him as their translator. Yanked around the world at the center of the first contact crisis, Estlin finds his new employers incomprehensible. As he faces the ultimate lan...

Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad – the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war – but something has gone catastrophically wrong.Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncove...

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling ov...

FROM A USA TODAY bestseller and Audie-nominated author:A thousand years ago, an alien invasion set humanity back to the Iron Age. Slowly, we recovered, colonizing the Solar System in peace.And discovered that an unknown force is stopping us from exploring any farther.But before the cause can be discovered, a slow-burning conspiracy threatens to explode into System-wide war. With enemies at home and in the darkness beyond, a team of unlikely heroes—a janitor, a merce...