THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT…Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, knows the dark byways of Seattle and the city of Cheyenne. He knows when to take chances and when to take cover. But when a megacorporate exec demands payment of an old debt, Dirk finds himself where the familiar rules don't apply anymore.THE DARKER THE SHADOWS…The Kingdom of Hawai'i is a tropical playground...with a sinister underside. Dirk must navig...

AN UNLIKELY PAIR…Sly is a shadowrunning veteran. She's survived more missions than she cares to remember, and has the physical and emotional scars to prove it. But no matter how violent it became, it had always been business as usual. Until now.Falcon is a kid. He thinks he hears the call of magic, and the voice of one of the Great Spirits seems to whisper in his ears. He’s come to the urban jungle of Seattle to seek his calling.Thrown together, vet...

2XS, THE HALLUCINOGENIC CHIP OF CHOICE…To Excess—that's how they say it on the streets…before it destroyed their minds.Private detective Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows those streets. He's watched the change with the world, as the powers of magic grow and alter the balances of power. He thinks he understands even the deepest shadows and the darkest of hearts. He is wrong.Now there's something out there beyond his understanding. Something foul and al...

BLOOD AND MAGIC……rage in the streets of Seattle. The shift of a few blocks of gang turf costs lives, innocent and guilty, silenced forever and then forgotten in the city's deepest shadows.Lone Star, Seattle's contracted police force, fights a losing battle against the city's newest conquerors—the gangs. From his years of undercover work, Lone Star officer Rick Larson thinks he knows the score. The gangs rule their territories by guns and spells, force and i...

A CONJURED KILLER IS LOOSE…Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured from another dimension. Now she's in a heap of trouble with the dead mage's employer, an organization with something to hide.Fortunately, KKRU reporter Carla Harris is in a position to help. Carla needs a big story to give her c...

THE STREETS ARE ABOUT TO EXPLODE…And Puyallup’s local paranormal investigator Jimmy Kincaid is caught right in the middle of it. The neighborhood’s criminal syndicates are on the brink of all-out war, and if they go at it, the streets will run red—literally.But Jimmy’s got more problems besides trying to keep the peace between feuding mobsters. Someone’s sending him a very particular message by sending him severed limbs. And then there’s the pairs of hitmen...

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT…When Rachel Meyer’s boyfriend Warren Storey is abducted by a mysterious party, she hires shadowrunners to find him and bring him back.But the runners uncover a plot by one Doctor Oslo Wake to transform all metahumans into the walking dead. Wake is developing a new strain of the virus that still causes vampirism, and Warren has become a test subject to create these unstoppable creatures. If Rachel is going to save him, she’ll need help...

FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB.And a Whole Lot of Trouble...It should have been a simple walk in the corp. Stroll into a mid-level corporation disguised as a nameless mid-level manager in a suit, deliver an unknown data package to an isolated network, and stroll out again.But nothing is ever simple in the shadows.Now five shadowrunners are on the run themselves. Framed by their employer, the mysterious Mr. Johnson, and marked for termination ...

DESPERATE TIMES...He was only a "beginner" shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to break the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. His quest that took him to a mystical citadel in Australia, where, with the aid of his shadowrunner friends, he recovered the strange artifact he hoped would prove helpful.DESPERATE MEASURES...But instead of anything that even remotely resembled help, an unexpected a...

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS…On the trail of her missing brother, shaman Rashida bint Tariq bin Feroze al-Nazari travels to South Africa to interrogate a corp executive who may have actually seen Qasim. But the meeting turns into a trap she barely escapes, and Rashida realizes she and her shadowrunning team have stumbled onto something much deeper than a rash of missing children.Their search for answers will take them from the glittering neon towers of Dubai to ...

THE BIGGEST—AND LAST—HIGH OF YOUR LIFE…There's a new "drug" on the streets, promising a phenomenal—and deadly—high. But the dealers pushing it aren't selling a substance. They're working with a "corpse light"—a creature of pure magic that gives the customer a euphoric rush...as it drains the poor addict's life away.Romulus was the first to see this new scourge in action. As a shapeshifter, he's a freelance agent to the Lone Star police department. His wolfish strength and s...

A SPRAWL TREASURE HUNT...In the abandoned factory known as the Crypt, society's castoffs have found a place to call home. Some of its denizens are hiding or on the run; some have nowhere left to go. But the Crypt protects its own, providing care for street kids, as well as medical and magical healing for those in need. It also sports an illegal tap into the Matrix, and hosts a coven of some of the most successful shadowrunners around.But when a disgraced corporate mover tak...