"Paranoia is a mild state, relative to the one I found myself existing in after vaccinating the Colony."Once he saved the Colony's population from a deadly virus, Dr. Samuel Marks knew the U.C.E. would uncover how his friends accomplished their mission. The lab's vaccine was a lie; Samuel's own unsanctioned research yielded the miracle cure and when the U.C.E. discovered it, they would take it. But, his tree was the only hope everyone he cared about had for survival; he had no othe...

Book Two of the Society in the Shadow of Civilization series....Accepting the Society in the Shadow of Civilization as a part of her world, Samantha Marquet knows one thing for certain: what seems impossible today is already possible tomorrow. Returning to her life in Novica, however, reminds her how much else remains in question.Torn between the man who dedicated his life to protect her and the boyfriend who claims to love her, but, may be working with the enemy, Sam focus...

Her past was a lie. Her present is suspect. Now, The Future is coming for her….Samantha Marquet knows she's being watched. What she doesn't understand is why. After living with the sensation for seventeen years, sometimes she wonders if it's all in her mind.Until the night her Shadow Watcher steps across her path, turning her world upside down.Recognizing his presence immediately, Sam isn't afraid; she wants answers. But, the handsome stranger doesn't give her any i...

Twelve thousand years later, low on reaction mass and with 20,000 colonists aboard, Ark One is coming in hot. Captain Sandra Jensen and Astrogator Dooley Peeters have a plan to save her. There is the question of how they will be received, on an Earth that has returned to barbarism. That is, if they can slow her down enough to get a shuttle away..From what they can see, North America is headed for war. As if that wasn't bad enough, Dooley has an insane crush on 'The Ice Queen,' Captain Jens...

Thaumaturgic, talismanic, ensorcelled, runic, spectral, in essence bewitched all words that describe the sorts of shops, folk and wares you will see in Need street. Need Street was also home to Lily. Banished unfairly she yearns to return. Two things stand in her way, Archer and Lux, the Shade brothers, one she loathes and one she doesn't want to think about, but she is powerless to stop. They are the reason she was banished in the first place. Allowed back finally, can she stay, how will ...

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

You can take people off Earth, but can you take the Earth out of people? Humanity's first mission to Mars hits a nasty speed bump. Personality, passion and persuasion form a deadly triangle on the first Martian colony.This new novelette by science fiction author Frank Severino cynically explores notions of character, class, human expansion, legacies and what the future might regrettably consider inspirational or historically valuable.

From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32 authors to follow.Open the Box of Darkness to delve into a nightmare world of the macabre. Within these pages lurk refugees from a madman's nightmares. From traditional terrors such as vampires...

About Bottoms UpI hope you will enjoy reading this story. It's about a detective, Dick Reeder, whose career was in a downward spiral. To boost his confidence, his Chief gives Dick what he believes to be an easy case to solve. Uniforms nabbed a stoned teenager dumping large water cooler bottles into the City Reservoir. Analysis of the substance shows it to be plain tap water. Dick works the case with some buddies on HomeLand Security. Things are not what they seem.From the st...

In a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme.Bedlam threatens to engulf the world—unless Oscar can stop it, which he's willing to try, provided he has an enormous breakfast first.When the Tremblees, Arabesque's ambitious aide d'camp, stumbles across a translation of an ancient language revealing the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for greed and vengeance.With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst lu...

From the - 2 Promises series - book 2 of 2.The ancient Egyptians worshipped the oldest of Gods leaving a legacy of their relationship with the underworld. In modern times, dangerously rich businessmen plot to unravel this knowledge to rule the world. Beth Martindale is reluctantly drawn into a sinister plot to secure powerful ancient artifacts. This gripping story weaves a plot that moves through ancient Egypt, medieval England, the canals of Amsterdam, and alleys of Cologne effort...

Set many thousands of years in the future Mankind now inhabits more than one hundred and fifty thousand planets. The planets have long been overcrowded and Man needs to expand to survive. Following the earlier great explorations of thousands of years ago when civilisation was prosperous the Starship Stinedern searches for the descendants of those great explorers – if any remain.