The prototype android left to Zoey Collins turned out to be precisely the 'hotshot' Cardinal Machines lawyers described, when they tried to persuade her to sign away her rights to him. With Cardinal Machines like Ocean harvesting mineral-rich asteroids and terraforming the moon, Zoey sent Ocean where he could do the most good: back to the LAPD SWAT team and the FBI. Why would she check with Ocean about that?But when the luminary suddenly begins to rebel, it's time to ride to the re...

The Future Is Here.“The series successfully showcases future voices representing the vast spectrum of the speculative fiction genre.” —Library Journal“The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has quietly been shaping the next wave of genre storytellers—with a legacy that’s as cosmic as the stories themselves.” —SciFiNow.co.uk“The gangbuster of science fiction short story collections. Outstanding.” —Midwest Book Review

During a stolen night out with Ocean, calamity strikes, and the shooter is inexorable, as only a robot could be. He's gunned down by Zoey's C001-Oisín prototype law enforcement android, Ocean. But the damage is done to humans and androids alike. People lie crumpled and extinguished all around her, and there's never been an android shooter in the history of artificial intelligence. This kind of violence? It flies in the face of programming. It's not supposed to happen. And... it's suspiciou...

Discover the power of 1-Ocean.Zoey’s used to being alone, struggling to keep the family home and make ends meet. She’s never had a real role in her mother’s wealthy family. Yet when her great aunt, A.I. pioneer Katherine Cardinal, passes away Zoey is shipped a stunning prototype Cardinal Machine. An android called 1-Ocean.Her P.I. instincts see a way to make easy money using 1-Ocean to catch bail jumpers. But her biggest job goes sideways when her target is...

**Find the elf King or burn....It's a pity he's only a legend. Right?**Ora has been a nomadic warrior and 'messenger-man' in the High North all her life.But she's honour bound to settle in a foreign town with a very different culture. There, not a soul believes in warrior women, their leadership or authority.Yet when the fires start -- burning unchecked -- and assassins hunt in the halls of the Council, she's among the first to act. Ora stops a killer and is...

Candy MacCann, party animal!Said no one. Ever.Still, when one of Candy's wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it's just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy's guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there's sure to be gift-giving, egg-nogging, and a heated pool-party under the winter sky.The food?! Everyone knows the food at Ivy's to-dos is to die for! And when a secretive band of armed stranger...

What flies on moonlit wings?An ancient predator...A balloonist turning the tide of a battle...A vengeful Valkyrie...These characters and more await in stories born of the magic of moonlit wings and the need--the power--of transformation.Embrace the night. Embrace the magic. And fly...Experience the magic of moonlit wings in these five science fiction and fantasy short stories by Tracy Eire, Ember Fane, ...

Somewhere between Green Gables and Avonlea there is a Blue Castle.... Lucy Maud Montgomery, internationally best-selling Canadian author, wrote about girls who escaped into the wild when the world stopped making sense. Her girl-protagonists straddle the line between 'civilized' towns of the 1900s, and the mystic wilds of magical girls, young psychics, and natural witches. 29-year-old Valancy Stirling had always been out of step. Elfin and something of a changeling as 1920s ladies go, she's...

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Zoey suffered many losses on her way into the Collins household. But she wants to put all that in the rear-view mirror. She's thriving with her life private investigating and bagging bail-jumpers. Recent edition to that routine, Cardinal Machines law enforcement android C001-Oisín -- Ocean -- blends at least as well into the mix as she does into his occasional S.W.A.T. team and F.B.I. assists. For the first time, she's starting to feel like she has a partner in crime. And it's hard to resi...

Graduation is closing in fast for Zoey Collins and she's facing tough choices when it comes to what to do next. Being the great niece of mother of A.I., Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean she's rolling in green. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades.Zoey's trying to make it on her own when her great aunt dies, leaving her a prototype Cardinal Machine called Ocean. Both beautiful and buttoned-down, this machine ends...

Zoey has avoided the powerful magnates in the Cardinal family for decades. Her life as a burgeoning Private Investigator has no contact with theirs, and the formidable Cardinals turned their backs on her long ago. But you don't walk away from a legacy that easily. Zoey's late Great Aunt Katherine, the woman responsible for giving Zoey her beloved prototype C001-Oisín, Ocean, and influential C.E.O. of Cardinal Machines, also decided Zoey would attend Cardinal Summit. And Zoey knows she's go...