When his wife and daughter are killed during a gang-related drive-by at his daughter’s birthday dinner, engineer and ballistics expert Michael Holt is left shattered—and ignored by the very system meant to protect him. The police call it "collateral damage." Case closed. No suspects. No justice.But Michael isn’t wired to let things go.Haunted by grief and driven by purpose, he turns to what he knows best: precision. He constructs a custom-built crossbow and begins hunting t...

The storms of Keryth-9 don't roar. They scream.Captain Elian Voss and his Marine squad have seen their share of hostile worlds. But when they're deployed to the mining outpost on Keryth-9, they find something far worse than they expected.The planet is alive.Beneath the endless desert, beneath the glittering shatterglass that coats everything, something ancient is waking. The Riftborn—crystalline creatures that stalk the tunnels—are just the beginnin...

In a city where every life is recorded, existence itself is controlled by the Ledger.High above the streets rises the Spire, a towering archive where the names of every citizen are carved into stone and preserved by ancient magic. Births, deaths, marriages, property, identity—everything that proves a person exists is written there.Everyone is recorded.Everyone except Cheri.For as long as she can remember, Cheri has lived quietly in the margins of the city, c...

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen aro...

The ground never stops moving on this world. Neither do the orders.Captain Elian Voss leads Task Force Faultline, an elite tactical squad deployed to a frontier planet shaken by endless quakes and riddled with insurgent sabotage. Voss follows regulations like armor—unbending, unyielding, necessary. It's the only way he knows to survive the weight of past failures.Combat medic Mara Lys has never fit the mold. She saves lives the rules say she shouldn't, challenges decisions ...

When Eve meets a mysterious, controlled man with a dark past, her quiet life ignites into obsession. Love turns seductive, dangerous, and impossible to walk away from.

When his wife and daughter are killed during a gang-related drive-by at his daughter's birthday dinner, engineer and ballistics expert Michael Holt is left shattered—and ignored by the very system meant to protect him. The police call it "collateral damage." Case closed. No suspects. No justice.But Michael isn't wired to let things go.Haunted by grief and driven by purpose, he turns to what he knows best: precision. He constructs a custom-built crossbow and...

The wicker coffin remained upended where it had been dropped headfirst in the open grave. But it was the pale arm reaching from beneath – fingers curled around the woven edge – that froze the mourners where they stood.In the rain-soaked Scottish Highlands, Detective Inspector James Corstorphine arrives at what should have been a simple funeral. Janet Knight wanted only to rest among the birdsong and wildflowers she loved. Instead, her burial become...

The young oak tree with freshly budding leaves seemed unremarkable until his eyes travelled down to the wooden plaque set into the ground. The words sent an icy chill through his heart: They shall remember you.In the Scottish Highlands where secrets settle like mist in the glens, Detective Inspector James Corstorphine is summoned to a macabre scene – a gamekeeper hanging from an ancient oak, ensnared by an intricate trap of wire and bone. ...

Longlisted for the McIlvanney Scottish Crime Book of the YearA mother calls for her child repeatedly in the soft summer air, her voice rising with panic. She leans over the glass balustrade, her eyes searching the dark waters of the loch. Her only child is gone.The disappearance of a three-year-old girl from her isolated home in the Scottish Highlands shook the nation. Three years later, the world may have forgotten the blo...

Detective James Corstorphine’s blood ran cold. His wife never left her clinic door unlocked. Inside, her receptionist sat bound and gagged, tears streaming down her face. “He’s taken Shamila.”But Shamila’s abduction is just the beginning. When human remains are discovered dressed as a scarecrow in a Highland farmer’s field, Corstorphine realizes the cases are connected. The victim worked at Carstairs State Hospital – the same institution where Shamila once treated ...

An ear-shattering scream pierces the quiet Glasgow street as a mother stands frozen in her doorway, groceries strewn at her feet. Her son holds a bloodied knife while his father lies dead before him.As Logan Martin begins his prison sentence for the brutal murder of his father, the eighteen-year-old’s aunt hires private investigator Teàrlach Paterson. She believes Logan is innocent and wants Teàrlach to uncover the truth.Teàrlach’s visit to the Martin famil...