Her fight begins the day the world ends.Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she's made the best of her parents' divorce. But in one way, she's special: on her fifteenth birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she’s ever known, yet somehow it passes her by.Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs ...

Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats.He knew he'd get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable: his idol, the SF master, Chester Blackwood.To Eddie's great surprise, however, Blackwood has secrets of his own, and instead of outing him, the master story-teller quickly embroils Eddie in a real-life mystery of time t...

After her research mission goes awry, Lespeth is desperate to go home and put the nightmare behind her.Unfortunately for her, home is light years away.Trapped in 1921 Hollywood, all she can do is find a way to blend in with the aliens who surround her until she can get back to her native planet. And that’s going to mean dealing with the hoodlums, drug dealers and dope fiends who dwell on the city’s dark edges.She doesn’t know that her journey is about far more than ...

Zombies, werewolves, vampires, rival Bowie tribute bands, and conjoined twin mobsters…it's all in a day's work for Ace Stubble, a gritty lawyer whose clients are the undead and paranormal.Ace should have learned a long time ago that "easy" jobs are never that easy, but how could this one go wrong? All he needs to do is find the right re-animator to put some life back into the dead man's hand that his friend Pixel Patterson has acquired. There could be a good deal of money ...

When reformed dream hacker Nix Nighthawk's sleep chip malfunctions, he is forced to seek help from a world he is trying to avoid—his old friends in the pirate dream network. But that world has changed, and Nix soon finds himself at the center of a complex plot to overthrow the vast corporation that controls every aspect of society. Betrayed by his lover, his friends, and even the technology that defines him, he has to choose: go back to living his safe and controlled existence, or be the h...

Fans of William Gibson, Jonathan Letham, and Richard K. Morgan will enjoy Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque.What's a private detective to do in a future where nothing is private any more?For Ted Lomax, the answer is to find clients who need their info kept off the grid, and that's what Ted has done for years, skirting the high tech that runs the new California and living on the fringes of society. But when his daughter is accused of murdering her boyfriend–an age...

Mike Parker does what's expected of him. He helps out with his uncle's gas station after graduation even though he feels he should be going off to war. And while he wishes the prettiest girl in town would notice him, she never does, so he keeps a respectful distance.But all that changes for Mike late one night when an old pick-up pulls into the gas station, riding on a flat. And the person who gets out just isn't who she appears to be. One kiss later, and Mike Parker will never be ...

Two lost men, each with a shot at redemption that's bound to a mysterious manuscript.Kichiro Nakamura has lived on the edges of two cultures, a white foundling raised by Japanese parents in a small California fishing village. He dreams of getting published in the science fiction pulps, but the bombs that fall on Pearl Harbor destroy that dream. Struggling to hold on to his fragile identity, Kichiro must decide who he wants to be, but in a world torn by war and hear...

Moose knuckles is a collection of short gay erotica romance stories, steamy, refreshing and perhaps a bit inspired by reality. Perfect for you to read a story on the go or to devour entirely in one strike. For sure its content will make you feel hot by putting yourself in the character's skin and living their passion, excitement and sensuality through them.

It’s another open and shut case for Ace Stubble, lawyer for the undead and disembodied. At least that’s what he thinks. When Cordelia Dearborn—a ghost with a shady past—hires Ace to rid her home of pesky, freeloading descendants, Ace figures he’ll have no problem collecting his fee. But there’s more to this case than a cranky old ghost and houseful of unwanted people.Everyone in the Dearborn family—the living, the dead, and the mentally ill—has a secret or two, and Ace can’t avoid ...

This anthology contains action, adventure, spicy tales, and some swishing tails. A rare treat of compiled stories in one place. Enjoy!

Armand Lévesques "Die letzten Dampfer" entführt den Leser in eine Welt, die es so nicht mehr gibt: auf die großen Ozeandampfer der Jahrhundertwende, jene schwimmenden Zwischenwelten, in denen das Schicksal von Menschen aus den unterschiedlichsten Gesellschaftsschichten für Tage oder Wochen auf engstem Raum zusammentraf. In sechs kunstvoll miteinander verwobenen Überfahrten erzählt Lévesque von Menschen, die zwischen zwei Kontinenten, zwei Identitäten oder zwei Leben unterwegs sind. Eine ru...