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 ...

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...

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....

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...

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 art or religion. People care too much about art and religion, 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 that's sought after by art collectors, criminal masterminds, and the Catholic Church. To find it, she needs to lo...

You're never too old to change the future.A resident of a nursing home discovers something strange when he orchestrates his escape heist. A mother must decide what to do when four copies of her son return from the Duplication War. An elderly villain writes one last letter to her superhero daughter.Fourteen stories of justice, beauty, and innovation that prove you don't need to be young to be ambitious. Too old to make a difference?Step aside, kid. We'r...

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. ...

When bounty hunter Winston Brand woke in the ruined warehouse on the outskirts of the cyber-dystopia of Austin, Texas, he had three questions.◆ What kind of truck drove over his noggin to make it hurt so bad?◆ Was the person responsible for all those bullet holes coming back anytime soon?◆ And why for the love of Texas did Chester Goodwin want his own daughter back "dead or alive"?Pulse-pounding sci-fi western with bounty hunters, gunfights, and a whol...

In the Gravity Lounge, every sin has its price.Jude Demarco can track anyone in the station-city of Nicodemia, but there are some places even he can’t follow. When a down-on-her-luck dancer goes missing, Demarco will sacrifice everything to find her, but a darker secret lurks behind her disappearance. A murderer is loose, and his killings follow an ominous pattern.Demarco must weigh the cost of backing down against the dangerous cost of success.And ...

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 ...

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...

How does it end? In a catastrophic ball of fire or a triumphant blaze of glory?Is there a difference?Ash Morgan has a plan. She’s going to launch herself into space, steal the knowledge of old Earth from the space station Traverse, and return to the Colony of Edge in a fiery blaze of glory. It’ll be the greatest heist the planet Sky has ever seen, and Ash has every detail figured. Every role has been filled.Ash only knows two things about heists:Nothin...