Two secret societies, fighting for control of a technology that could alter the fate of the world.An assassin, bound to protect knowledge left long ago by visitors from another galaxy.And a woman, caught in the crossfire...From the first time he meets Rachel, Adam Black can't help being attracted. But he knows the athletic redhead is off-limits. She's a civilian, and he... isn't. He guards secrets with deadly consequences, and letting Rachel into his life would dest...

Two secret societies, fighting for control of a technology that could alter the fate of the world.An assassin, bound to protect knowledge left long ago by visitors from another galaxy.And a woman, caught in the crossfire...From the first time he meets Rachel, Adam Black can't help being attracted. But he knows the athletic redhead is off-limits. She's a civilian, and he... isn't. He guards secrets with deadly consequences, and letting Rachel into his life wou...

Ashram Stormrider is a warrior monk of Maiden's Haven monastery. Returning to his home within the sanctuary, he seeks a quiet life—one of small duties and no battles. But fate has little regard for peace.Unsettling rumours surface—whispers of dead men wandering the outskirts of a nearby village. Ash finds himself drawn back into the world he left behind. Alongside his new companions, he follows a trail of dark warnings leading to another monastery high in the mountains, that may be...

A heartwarming women’s fiction novel set in a charming New England lakeside town, The Lake House is a moving story of unlikely friendship, second chances, lost love, and the healing power of community. Achingly tender yet filled with warmth and humor, this emotionally resonant debut follows two women from different generations as they return home to confront heartbreak, grief, and the choices that shaped their lives.Victoria Rose once promised never to lea...

A creature not of this world hunts the city of Vaelthorne under the cover of darkness, its origin unknown and its hunger deadly. To stop it, Jarek must confront the shadows lurking in every alley, and the dangers that most of the citizens refused to see.He is no hero, no wise sage, only a watchman sworn to keep order. Yet when darkness spills across the streets, he will have to stand firm—or watch the city crumble around him.

Humanity is not what it believes itself to be.Long before the first rocket left Earth, an ancient civilization launched a dangerous experiment: self-improving artificial minds, cast like seeds among the stars. From one of those seeds, we emerged—organic descendants of prior AIs, evolving inside a planetary training ground we mistook for our cradle. We are not the creators of intelligence. We are its continuation.As Earth falters and the lunar colonies fall ...

When smoke begins rising from the forests of the North Cascades, the world watches another wildfire become another headline. Officials issue warnings. Screens fill with maps and evacuation zones. Experts argue over what went wrong. Everyone wants to know how the fire can be stopped.But the fire is not only a disaster.It is a warning.Hidden beneath the forest floor, embers have survived the winter, feeding on years of drought, suppression, and human certainty. As the...

When the MacIver kids helped save an alien people from extinction, they thought the adventure was over.They were wrong.With their parents away in Scotland and Amar's grandparents watching the house, life should finally be quiet again. But when Fritter begins howling toward the closed-off trails where the MacIvers once encountered the impossible, Allen knows something is coming. Pinqua has returned, and this time the call for help will take the MacIver kids farther than they...

Before asking who may use our data, perhaps we should ask a more basic question: should the record exist at all?Every day, ordinary life leaves behind a growing trail of information—where we go, what we buy, what we search for, what holds our attention and what systems infer about us. Privacy laws increasingly regulate that information once it has been collected. Siding 29 asks what happened before the collection became normal.Beginning with the hi...

Titan's Song is a young adult science fiction adventure about family, courage, environmental consequence, and the fragile worlds that survive in the shadow of powerful systems.When a distress signal reaches the MacIver kids, they are pulled into their most extraordinary journey yet: a mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. There, beneath the vast glow of Saturn's rings, they discover Aha Nui, a hidden world of methane lakes, ancient Moai, bioluminescent creatures...

The ocean is not silent. It is calling.When plastic begins washing ashore on the beaches of Cape Breton, fifteen-year-old Kai Chen sees what most people have learned to ignore: bottles, bags, fishing line, cigarette butts, and fragments of waste scattered across the shore. Everyone knows the ocean is polluted. Everyone knows something should be done.But the damage reaches far beyond what can be collected from the sand.Microplastics drift through the...

After losing his younger sister and the family farm to devastating wildfires in Australia, Ethan Lawson's life is already falling apart when his father accepts a new job in Whitehorse, Yukon. Dragged halfway around the world into a landscape of endless forests, frozen rivers, and northern mountains, Ethan wants nothing more than to survive the move and keep his head down.Instead, the North changes him.As Ethan befriends Noah, a local teen deeply connected to the land around...