Some people attract stray cats. With Mattie Blackman, it's demons.At work, in her car, even at the foot of her bed. And with the FBI on the hunt for a rogue demon master, she's desperate to get rid of them. Thwarted at every turn to solve her problem through legitimate channels, she turns to Shore Haven's sexy mage for the answer: a fate she refuses to accept.But as the serial killer's victims pile up, Mattie realizes there's only one way to stop a demon ma...

Mattie Blackman is the last living descendent of the Goddess Morta. As the new Hand of Fate, she discovers her powers over the undead can't help solve her problems with the living. When Shore Haven's supernatural community is threatened and her friends begin to disappear, Mattie must solve the mystery on her own. This time, she and her demon Blix face a sorcerer with magic more dangerous than death itself--one who wants nothing less than her immortal soul.Legacy Soul is th...

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.Fiction River is an original fiction anthology seri...

Nothing can hurt the dead. They’re lucky that way.As Mattie Blackman's personal life with Rhys heats up, the dead frantically appeal to the Hand of Fate for help. An ancient evil is stirring.Cursed by a vindictive cult of sorcerers that law enforcement doesn't dare confront, Mattie gathers her friends and allies to stop a dark ritual with the power to tear her whole world apart.Mystic Jive is the fourth book in the Hand of Fate urban fantasy series.

LET THE SPIRITS REIGNAs Grand Marshal of the annual International Spirit Festival & Gala, Mattie Blackman soon discovers that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Some days, even the Hand of Fate can’t get much respect. The week-long bacchanal has brought every sort of spirit, demon, shape-shifter, and vampire to town, and one of them is preying on the supernatural citizens of Shore Haven. With the authorities trying to keep the story quiet, Mattie will need more than Morta’s magi...

Sometimes, every deal is a bad hand.Mattie's oath to Morta is under siege, and now there's hell to pay. With an immortal sorcerer and his demon on the rampage, and a feud about to explode between the lycans and the witches, only a bad deal with the dead can help Mattie lift a centuries-old curse and rescue Rhys. But neither Mattie nor her friends suspect there's a deeper, darker plot that threatens the lives of everyone in Shore Haven.For Mattie Blackman, the Hand of Fate m...

A CONSPIRACY OF MAGICIn this alternate history thriller, 19th-century technology and the supernatural collide outside London, when airships and aerialists from across Europe converge on the Isle of Dogs for an air show. Among the crowd, a master thief with his eye on the Queen's jewels, a Metropolitan Police inspector, and a former royal wizard dead set on kidnapping the commander of the most powerful army in the world—Queen Victoria of Britain.

Worlds and species collide on the planet Hesperidee in this classic winning tale of love, duty, and the future of humanity.Genetic engineering has been the key to helping the colonists on Hesperidee survive for decades. But after making first contact with an alien life form, they are confronted with a question for which they have no answer: What is it that makes us human?

A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, AND GOLDThe embargoed planet of Aurum contains the richest deposits of gold in the galaxy. Accessible only once every four years to the wealthy elite attending the Gold Festival, master engraver Renly Harkness is determined to rescue his missing brother.Accompanied by the beautiful half-breed, K’Sati, and haunted by a debt he fears he can never repay, the pair embark on an exploration deep into the forbidden zone of this plague plan...

Ex-cop Mike Bane is a shape-shifter with two beasts. One is a 300-lb black jaguar with a taste for turtle meat, the other is a psychotic Olmec shaman named Tehuantl with a taste for blood. When the cat is happy, everybody’s happy. When the cat is unhappy, Tehuantl comes out and people die.When Mike accepts a job at Mythica, America’s only supernatural theme park, he discovers an unexpected kinship with the park’s werewolves. For the first time in his life, he doesn’t feel like a mo...

The future is here.the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field. From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic Fantasy to Post-Apocalyptic Worlds, these are the winning writers who have mastered every version and vision of sci...

Following the bestselling, widely-praised Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova offers a new adventure of solar system discovery like nothing previously imaginedIn the bestselling novels Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova dramatized the latest discoveries about our own solar system in an epic tale of near-future exploration and development. Now Bova turns his attention to one of our system's greatest mysteries—Saturn.Earth groans under the...