A rogue Overmind is on the loose.A million souls hang in the balance.The Solaran Defense Forces make the difficult decision to evacuate the colony of Robichar in order to avoid a direct confrontation.But when Captain Elya Nevers gets shot down during the evacuation, his squadron and the admiral in charge have to think fast to rescue their pilot before the Kryl overrun the system.Fighting to survive in hostile territory, Captain Nevers discov...

Hurled into the great unknownRipped from Earth and transported to a strange new world, archaeologist Eliana Fisk is taken captive by the leaders of a native tribe.What do they want with her? She’s not sure, but they don’t seem friendly.When she discovers evidence of an ancient sacrificial ritual, Eliana fears she’ll be next. Can she avoid becoming an offering to their bloodthirsty god?And how in the worlds will she ever get back home?

When down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn lands his next contract, he's just happy to get the gig.The skip he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his debts won’t pay themselves.Unlucky for him, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all, and Gunn faces off against a tentacled creature out of extraterrestrial nightmares—a telepathic alien wearing his skip’s skin like a onesie.And that's only his first day on the job.Things spiral as Gunn and his...

The Kryl invaded in the dead of night.The Nevers family had to flee. Yuzosix, once their home, must be left behind.Along the way, young Elya Nevers develops a strange habit... he begins to collect bot parts. Something about it soothes him.But this strange obsession soon catapults Elya into an inescapable conflict, one that will shape the man he becomes.And plant the seed of his destiny.Spare Parts is a space...

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What they don’t know may doom the livable worldsCaptain Elya Nevers and the Furies face a different kind of danger back home as they bid farewell to fallen comrades, wade into the murky realm of Solaran politics, and hunt for knowledge about the Telos relics—while being hunted themselves.Overmind X is still at large. She's hungry to get her talons on the next artifact of alien power. Will she find it before the Solarans get their own house in order?...

Every ruin tells a storyAcross the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars—and vanished.Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity’s encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as...

NO GODS. NO KINGS. JUST THE IRON AND GRIT.A cynical wanderer, Kael is a man defined by his refusal to submit to any form of manufactured authority. He seeks only pragmatic survival and the freedom of the shadows, traveling the Wastes with his companion, Razor—a seven-foot, blight-marked Stalker whose silver stripes pulse with the latent energy of the dead world.But Kael's journey south is a relentless gauntlet, forcing him to systematically destroy every li...

1497, Renaissance Rome: As the teenage daughter of Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia Borgia is a young noblewoman immersed in all the glamor of the Vatican Palace.Yet after a brutal killing shocks the city, Lucrezia learns that a dark truth lies beneath the surface of the Papal Court: in their ruthless quest for power, her father and brother are willing to poison their enemies.Her family are murderers.After discovering that her new husband is next to die, Lucrezia struggl...

The rain in L.A. didn't clean anything. It just moved the dirt.In the sprawling, rain-slicked landscape of 1940s Los Angeles, the war is over, but for Jack Delaney, the ghosts of the Pacific have simply moved into the precinct. A battle-hardened veteran turned police detective, Jack survives the daily grind of petty crime and deep-seated police corruption by keeping his head down and his bourbon close. However, his precarious peace...

James Hernandez is the fifth…and least popular member of the pop boy group Thunderbolt. Even if this was the case, he never lets it get the best of him. Because even if some delusional solo stans go online and mock him to filth, he's making enough money to fund his sister's education and maybe start a business when he eventually outgrows the music industry and gets discarded into the "has-been" category—like all the other washed-up singers, and of course, the "never-was" singers.

First published in 1947, Essays from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals is a collection of essays from The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Rambler, The Idler, and from many less well-known periodicals. The essays included represent the prose of the eighteenth century from 1709–1790.Though the book has been arranged primarily with a view to its use by students, the general reader cannot fail to be delighted with the genial, ...