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...

Aliens are among usAustin, Texas just got a whole lot weirder.When down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig.The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his debts won’t pay themselves.He should’ve been more selective. When Gunn finds his mark, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn faces off against a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare—a mind-re...

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?

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...

**A revolutionary quantum teleportation device promises to bring humanity one step closer to the stars.Until it fails. Spectacularly.**Archaeologist Eliana Fisk is ripped from Earth while the whole world watches.She lands on a strange new world inhabited by a lost tribe of ancient Mayans. Meeting them, getting first-hand exposure to age-old customs and rituals...it seems like an archaeologist’s dream.But what if their rituals have a darker meaning? What if t...

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.

A human cop who hates supernaturals. A succubus with a vendetta against mortals. Both must work together to catch a dangerous, bloodthirsty foe...When a series of ritual murders plunges Seattle into fear, detective Naomi Sato must seek help from an unlikely source - Agrat Bat Mahlat, a succubus summoned from the hellish dimension Gehenna. United by their hunt for answers, their electrifying chemistry deepens into a sensual bond that defies boundaries between mortal...

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...

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?...

Coming out later in life presents its own challenges, and when it's a less well-known orientation like demisexuality (a type of asexuality), those challenges are both societal and personal.I came out aged 47 after struggling to understand for so long why I experience attraction in ways that seem complicated and confusing.When you're different, everyone notices. And you feel it, all day of every day. And some won't let you forget.It can hinder interpersonal relations...

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...

Detective Sergeant Nikki Sandford is having the worst night of her life.Five minutes after the woman of her dreams dumped her in a conversation that had her questioning her sexuality once again, a man with a serious injury accosted her.One problem: he was already dead. The knife wound in his abdomen and the fact that nobody except Nikki could see him made that quite apparent.He wants Nikki to help solve his murder so he can move on to the afterlife, and Nikki is onl...