Three tales of Chamal, where the genes for intelligence are a free-floating trait and all the warm-blooded animals can interbreed -Harralld is a pilgrim of Jobe, an ancestor who once walked around the globe, who gets involved in border wars among several chamalian breeds. Before he is done, he meets a scientist from Earth, come to see if the team here has discovered the secrets of chamalian genetics.Jerome Sullivan has discovered those secrets, but before he can tell anyone...

Guy Stanger is a scout just coming of age on the icy world of Asgard. Scouts have been waiting for decades for Colony Day, the arrival of the breakthrough colony, and now it's here.Using a soliton drive, the colonists have traveled from Earth at the speed of light, leaping across space and time in an instant. Now they are 25 light years from home, expecting the scouts to help them learn to live on a world gripped by an ice age, and Guy is prepared to do all he can.This is n...

How you can have a decent space opera if you can't travel faster than the speed of light: Stay in the spaceport, everything will come to you.Alex has come to the spaceport on Minos following the trail of his long-lost grandfather - who hasn't been heard from for more than 100 years. His family runs a vast interstellar business empire, made possible by the soliton drive. The drive lets you leap across space and time. To you it only seems like an instant, but to everyone else the yea...

Nothing ever happens smoothly on Chamal.Intelligence is not confined to a single species on Chamal, but floats freely among the various breeds of warm-blooded furry creatures. One step separates the wild from the wise and the wise recognize the moral depravity their biology presents.When the human scout ship Cousteau arrived, the wise saw them as purebred angels, come to judge them for their sins and destroy their world. So it is no wonder they tried to des...

Space cadets go looking for trouble ... and find it!You don't need an academy, just put those cadets on ships of their own, give them their lesson plans, and see what they come up with.The Solar Patrol cadets on the Able Countryman find an abandoned military base in an asteroid, left over from the war.Nanotech was invented on a Tuesday, and on Thursday the war began. The invention of self-replicating and almost self-conscious cog oil brought about the end of the nat...

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions-from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers-the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals and families to our country, and how these contribute to the agency, growth, and vitality of America. This book was intended to move the discussion of immigration, generally speaking, and of immig...

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy. Join us as we explore strange new worlds. Original Novella: New Beaches by Daniel Hatch: Power, corruption, and danger rise with the tides. Short Story: Man or Mech by Rebecca McFarland Kyle: Underneath the shiny, indestructible surface is the soul of a man. Novella: Invisible Friends by Steven Sawicki: He’s just an all America...

From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a compelling tale of romance and suspense, the first book in a connected duo! (PLAYED is Book #2 of the Deception Duo).Kayla Sheridan had longed for love, marriage and a family. Now, after a miraculous whirlwind courtship with the man of her dreams, she is his wife. But on their wedding night, he vanishes, leaving Kayla with the bitter realization that her desire has made her an easy mark for deception.Nick ...

Keep your friends close …When the long-time bartender at Dooley’s Pub is murdered, the police believe a violent gang of thieves is responsible. But Shauna Murphy, Dooley’s fiery granddaughter, thinks Mack’s killer is someone she knows. In addition to stealing money, the thieves stole her grandfather’s collection of autographed baseballs, leaving behind the only forgery. The lead detective doesn’t take her seriously, and Shauna reluctantly turns to long-time family ...

Grappling with hidden family secrets, forbidden passions, and a business in peril, the adopted daughter of a Louisiana mogul must confront the past to bring peace back to her hometown.The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall was a brokenhearted girl when she left Heaven, Louisiana. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hel...

In a gripping novel of atmospheric suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a woman returns to her Texas hometown to confront deadly lies . . .The town of Bad Luck, Texas, is home to all kinds of secrets. Shelby Cole had her share, before she left to start a new life. After almost ten years away, a mysterious package arrives at her Seattle home. There’s no return address, just a photograph of a little girl. Shelby knows imm...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a savvy attorney in small-town Texas will stop at nothing to catch the man who murdered her mother in this steamy thriller.Lawyer Alexandra Gaither revisits the three men who were with her mother the night she died twenty-five years ago. None of their charms can stop Alex's determined search for the truth–she's not leaving without one of them being arrested and convicted.When Alex's investigation uncovers d...