A quirky new space opera featuring charming characters and sarcastic spaceships. Perfect for fans of Seven Devils.A witty and thrilling space opera with a touch of romance from the author of The Knife and the Serpent.Glenn is a normal graduate student (aside from his kinks and genderfluidity), living a normal life with his normal girlfriend, Vivy (a spy for an interdimensional agency with her own kinks).When Vivy i...

One Man’s Obsession: One Heck of a Steamy SagaCharlie wasn’t prepared for a journey like this. Upon opening his briefcase, the airline pilot finds a leather diary chronicling a captivating series of encounters that progress from innocent to reckless to ravenously sexy.As he delves further into her written accounts, his fascination transforms into a burning obsession: How can he find this incredible woman? As Charlie follows the clues left in her diary, he w...

Lyra finds herself navigating the difficult transition into her hybrid nature. Seeking a reprieve from these pressures, she finds comfort in an unexpected new friendship that offers a sense of normalcy and understanding.However, as Lyra opens up and begins to rely on this new confidante, the stability of her surroundings begins to change. Small disagreements and unexplained incidents start to create distance between her and others. While she focuses on mastering her physical abilit...

Seven years after the galaxy awoke from a period of collective amnesia known as the Gap, the citizens of Absalom Station have established a new normalcy living at the hub of recently discovered interstellar Drift travel. But all is not well for the founding members of the Starfinder Society, as tensions between the living and undead inhabitants of the station come to a violent head. Now, the undead starships and invading troops from the dead world of Eox besiege the station, threatening ev...

One Man’s Obsession: One Heck of a Steamy SagaCharlie wasn’t prepared for a journey like this. Upon opening his briefcase, the airline pilot finds a leather diary chronicling a captivating series of encounters that progress from innocent to reckless to ravenously sexy.As he delves further into her written accounts, his fascination transforms into a burning obsession: How can he find this incredible woman? As Charlie follows the clues left in her diary, he w...

From Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera, exploring technology, family and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.Tamsin and Glenn, ordinary as anyone in the Bay Area. Tamsin is shocked when her grandmother is murdered.But the surprises keep coming when she finds out that grandma was an oligarch in exile from an adjacent universe in the Nigh-Space co...

This book serves as a guide for those who are teaching or learning American English. Topics include the rationale for studying the language; the history behind numerous American words and phrases; aspects of figurative language; American proverbs; shades of meaning in American English; American names for people, places, and things; catchphrases, slogans, and mottoes; American historical documents and speeches; American acronyms and initialisms; and word games in American English. The book ...

Britta Keath knows she'd better find a new employer before she's fired from the coffee shop for doing her job, and when she hears about an open position in the same building, thanks to a chance encounter, she transitions from barista to office manager in the blink of an eye. Her new colleagues, with the exception of Brody Eriksen, seem very nice, and she knows she'll just have to figure out how to deal with the grumpy man.Brody Eriksen knows his needs are simple and few. Find a fix...

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways. This book collects some of the best funny fantasy fiction published in the past decade. Included are works by Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as up-and-coming talented writers.Includes the following stories:“Dave the ...

After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of Sleep.Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least he and Minna, the one companion who has found a way of travelling with him, are no longer pursued by the psychotic and vengeful Lector.But now Zax has been joined once again by Ana, a companion he thou...

This “witty, heartfelt sci-fi romp” is the dazzling third installment in a diverse space opera series for fans of The Expanse and John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire—from a Hugo Award–winning author (Tor.com)The ancient alien gods are waking up—and there’s only one spaceship crew ready to stop them . . .Aliens known as the Liars gave humanity access to the stars through twenty-nine wormholes. They didn’t mention t...

The secret of Tristan Bantam: Tristan, who has inherited precious papers that tell of the lost kingdom of Mû, has a dream that portends an apparently incomprehensible fate. At Paramaribo, in the sultry heat of Dutch Guyana, Corto finds himself entangled in a sordid tale about a stolen inheritance, while surrounded by such strange characters as Kerster, an unscrupulous lawyer; Jeremiah Steiner, a former university professor, and Madame Java, “hotel” manager and expert knife...