An ancient religious relic.An atheist.An innocent accident.A battle for Humanity.Cain has become a pawn in a bloody tug of war between Heaven and Hell, that's raged on since the dawn of time.Lilith, an innocent mixed into the war holds the key to Cain's heart.She now dangles in Purgatory, just out of his reach.Will Heaven or Hell win out or will her love fuel his rage?***Warning: This book is a cliffhanger and contains graphic scen...

This mystery, intrigue, and adventure story may be only a year or two away from real-life events. Two women scientists intend to capture DNA samples of discovered remarkable life forms within vents existing in the deepest ocean depths.The older and brilliant scientist reflects only on the mission — while the younger, who is both bright and certified blond bombshell, is incessantly seeing every situation in terms of its sexual implications — or sexual potential.The vents the...

In this volume, Steven Evans reports on a quarter century of work-work that resulted in a commercial product known as the PACE System. An advanced clinical management system, PACE links all care delivery set tings and reaches across multiple episodes. It offers capabilities critical to managed care, including care planning and clinical pathways, the critical pathway analyzer and clinical repository central to outcomes-based care, and more. The pages that follow describe the PACE project, f...

THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible.Sharon Stevens, twice divorced, barely making enough to support herself, would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were t...

A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction masterpiece.In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever a...

With his Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas established himself as one of the true masters of military sf—sharing center stage with such authors as Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman, and Dan Cragg in a wildly popular sub-genre of science fiction that includes such enduring classics as The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Now, with Bloodstar, Douglas kicks of...

New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas's virtuosic Star Corpsman series proves one thing: The Marines are still the toughest sons of guns in the galaxy.As Bravo Company defuses a hostage crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot "Doc" Carlyle not only saves the lives of a wounded Marine and two extraterrestrial friendlies—he averts a terrorist strike intended to kill billions. His reward? Deployment on a recon mission into the darke...

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation.Brandon Sanderson’s “Sixth of the Dusk,” set in his Cosmere universe shared by the Mistborn books and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where predators ...

Once Upon a time…the big bad wolf fell in love…Rogan Wolfe, President of Wolves Fury MC, is known to be a ruthless outlaw. He takes what he wants and isn't used to hearing the word. When an accident lands him under the care of a feisty redhead, he finds himself at her mercy.Jenna Northwood is betrothed to a man she despises. So much so she turns to magic to help her escape her fate. Only instead of running away from her problems she is faced with a new dang...

Steve White, Vietnam vet, long-time David Weber collaborator and co-author, with Weber, of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Analog contributor and military SF scholar Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga.An implacable foe with telepathic cohesion in battle, near-immortality, and eons-advanced engineering skills threatens to wipe humanity from the galaxy. What’s more, they’ve overcome their one weaknessn...

I've always had a thing for monsters.That's why I started my costume shop. And I know what you're thinking: Geez, Bee, some rich dude just giving you a whole building in the middle of LA is obviously going to have a major catch. You know what I expected? Maybe some skeevy pick-up lines, a rotting pile of garbage, bad neighbors… a few ghosts.I didn't expect a portal to a monster-god prison would be in the basement. Or that I'd be seduced by shadows.And after they bri...

-a Future Night Stalkers romance story-Captain Christine Merrill ranks as the toughest and best pilot in the Army’s Night Stalker fighter regiment. She also hides one of the darkest secrets in the solar system.Sergeant Phil Parello keeps a secret of his own beyond his growing attraction to Captain Christine the Fighting Machine.Crashed on Io’s lethal surface, the only way to survive is together. They must share their hearts and their secrets to survive The Sword of ...