In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them.Thieves, dragons, nightmares, fairy warriors, pookas, enchanted bear-men, and other magical creatures will delight you in these unique tales of possibility, courage, and hope.This anthology ...

Elderly, unarmed, and extremely dangerous.Ajay Andersen was the best hacker the NSA had ever hired. He sank corporations, toppled governments, and broke cryptography. All of it. Retirement hasn't slowed him down one bit, thank you very much.His granddaughters are threatened, and he's going to need to step it up a notch. Biotech corporations and criminal enterprises hold the keys to survival, but ubiquitous surveillance threatens to reveal Ajay’s every move....

Nothing is as it seems in the Colony of Edge.Ash Morgan lives for her science. She doesn't want to rescue children from their insane mothers or solve murders or explore ruined cities. She certainly doesn't want to think about the ethics of the planetary domination Edge has been tasked with. All she wants to do as a biologist is create life in her little colony on the distant planet of Sky. Is that so bad?Unfortunately, someone needs to solve those murders. ...

All things found. All things fixed.Jude Demarco will take any job in the station-city of Nicodemia, so long as it doesn't involve religion or art. People care too much about religion and art, and where there's passion, life gets messy.Then Charlotte Beck walks into his life with a lit cigarette and a lousy deal. She needs him to track down a stolen painting--one sought by art collectors, criminal masterminds, and the Catholic Church. To find it, she needs to locate the men wh...

There are some mysteries all the tech in Texas can’t solve.Things aren’t always easy for the Sheriff of Dead Oak, Texas. Cybernetically modified biker gangs roam the skies, dangerous outlaws prowl the streets, and gunslingers threaten the delicate balance of a Texas gone sour. J.D. doesn’t mind. He’ll hold hard the line of justice, no matter what it takes.Sometimes things aren’t so simple.When a rancher is murdered, it’s going to take all of J.D.’s ...

Survival is not enough.The Pinewood Camp for the Gifted turns privileged children into survivors. Into hunters. Into killers.Teenager Kylie Andersen’s abilities are killing her, and only the most drastic measures will keep her worst enemies from exploiting her deepest weaknesses. When she decides to spend the summer away from her grandfather in a camp that promises to teach her survival, she realizes one thing very quickly:Survival is not guaranteed.Behind i...

War blazes all around, but it's not J.D.'s war. Not this time.There are two bounties out for Francis William Brown. One alive. One dead. J.D. finally catches the man he’s been after all these years when Francis comes without hardly a fight.But it ain't ever that simple. A bullet in the skull would be proper for what Francis has done but keeping him alive might be the key to ending the war that's tearing Texas apart. J.D. needs to decide if keeping a promise...

Accidents have a way of hiding sins—and haunting sinners.Jude Demarco: handyman, medic, investigator. He isn’t the first guy the cops call when a murder strikes in the station-city of Nicodemia. Nor is he the second or third. He likes it that way.But an innocent man is murdered by the rarest of guns, and Demarco might be the only one they can trust with the case.Demarco’s investigation threatens to unearth deadly secrets surrounding the wreck of the Benevolent—a wre...

Retired, reclusive, and too smart to die.Hacker Ajay Andersen knows his retirement isn't always going to be sunshine and roses. He's committed to protecting those he loves, and sometimes that's not going to be easy.But things get complicated fast when he finds Silas Cardoso's body in his living room.An environmentalist entrepreneur threatens the very wilderness he once protected. Mercenaries hold information that could endanger Ajay's granddaughter ...

Here Comes the Sun!Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak…but there are signs of hope.In SOLAR FLARE, we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and water-powered boat. Sail through the skies in a floating hydroponic dirigible. Sk...

On the cutting edge of humanity, rules are made for one thing.No, it is not "to be broken."Biologist Ash Morgan loves breaking rules, but this is ridiculous. Edge is humanity's bastion on the frontier of space and science. She plays fast and loose with the Edge's ultra-strict governing AI, but even she's willing to admit that maybe there are some laws not meant to be broken.When a fellow colonist asks for help delivering a child, Ash agrees against her...

Murder has found its way to the colony of Edge.Ash doesn't want anything to do with tracking down a killer. She doesn't want to delve into the anger and darkness that caused such a horrible event. It frightens her deep down into the core of her being.But.Well, it's just that she's curious. More so when she discovers the killer might not even be from Edge. Was this the murder of an innocent scientist, or an attack from a neighboring col...