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...

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...

What could go wrong?So what if Trudy doesn't fit in with her silver-spoon classmates? She's a little poorer, a little... stranger. But everything will be fine as long as they never notice.Besides, Shelter Island is sunny, sweltering, and idyllic. She's having the time of her life on summer holiday with her upper-crust friends. But the island's smiling beaches are also a disguise.Why are her friends so nervous when storms roll i...

**A Morgwn warship arrives in Bridges, bringing whispers with it.Ora Buckmaster knows the town Council must keep their defection from Morgwn under wraps or else.But the town has a powerful ally.**The Lock-Maker King rules the North with his mystical powers. He brings such fertility to the land that the town is growing rich. As a result, Bridges is unwilling to give up their strange ruler.But the ship's captain wants to meet with the Morgwn Town Master urgent...

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 strangers interrupts festivities, that outcome...

Zoey Collins Cardinal needed a lifeline. Tragedy gave her 1-Ocean.Being the great niece of mother of A.I. Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean Zoey is rolling in green. In fact, she's living in the threadbare shadows of a great house that once belonged to her father and was passed down to her uncle. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades. So, even alone, Zoey is ready to fight to surv...

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...

Zoey has avoided the powerful magnates in the Cardinal family for decades. Her life as a 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 C001-Oisín, Ocean, and influential C.E.O. of Cardinal Machines, also decided that Zoey would attend Cardinal Summit. And Zoey knows she has to go, too. The ...

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...

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...

The torch has been passed at lofty Cardinal Machines. Rene and Clary Cardinal's attempted theft of C001-Oisin unit, foiled. And Zoey Collins is back from Soleil Moon Base. Finally, she can reunite with her android again. Last time she saw him, he was badly injured. Now? Ocean's fully restored, and as bright and beautiful as ever. He's a sight for sore eyes, which presents its own problems.Easing back into her life is impossible with Noah feeling the heat of his impending court date...

**Ora wants no part of it.But once the Fates know a thing, it is known for all time.**Still, the Lock-Maker King and Lord Eldeghel speak of a new destiny that involves her. However, for Ora becoming a warrioress and Scinan Chief has long been enough of an achievement.When she withdraws to the solace of the wild, that's where the first arrow falls.She's spared when a Fate sacrifices himself in her place, and it's in her scramble to save him that Ora first mar...