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...

"His shift just got supernatural, dimension-crushing, and very sparkling.Meet Sid. He's a security guard. Tonight, an interdimensional rift is about to crash his quiet routine, puking out four anime tropes who have zero regard for facility rules (or his sanity).This is a laugh-out-loud noir-fantasy for fans of genre parody, anime satire, and the eternal struggle of a single exhausted human being."An 80-page genre-bending novella – perfect for a single sitting."

In a city built on elegant lies, can a broken man save anyone—or is he just another weed waiting to be pulled?1951, Los Angeles. It's a city of bright lights and dark alleys, where the smog clings to the concrete and justice is a commodity for the highest bidder.Sergeant Jack Delaney is a man on the edge. A decorated veteran of the Pacific theater, he's still fighting the war in his head, haunted by the artillery fire of Peleliu and a "beast" that threatens to tear through ...

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...

What would you do if you discovered the food feeding your starving city was harvested from a living human consciousness?In the rain-slicked, suffocating maze of Neon Los Angeles, reality is entirely manufactured and memory is just another commodity bought and sold by ruthless mega-corporations. Jack Delaney is a data-detective, a cynical investigator navigating the treacherous line where digital rot bleeds into the physical world. When a high-profile case involving a missing "Shado...

It was August of '75, and the Los Angeles heat was mean, sticky, and oppressive. Sledge Jackson didn't need another job—he needed an air conditioner. But when a woman in a white linen suit walks in with a bag of cash and a story about ghosts in the Amazon, you don't say no. You pack the .44, grab the team, and go to war.

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).An ID Book Club SelectionClay Edison has his hands full. He’s got a new baby who won't sleep. He’s working the graveyard shift. And he’s trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park h...

A New York Times bestselling LitRPG indie bestseller, for fans of The Legend of Zelda and Dungeon Crawler Carl.For thousands of years, there has been a cycle: a Demon King rises and conquers, and a Hero is reborn a hundred years later to defeat him. Each time, civilizations are ground to dust beneath the Demon King's hordes, but humanity has remained secure in the belief that a Hero of legend will always save them. There's just one slight...

Jake Melkins is a few months away from turning twenty-one. By the Seceltor Empire’s laws, he will have to go to a breeding camp, or directly into slavery. Neither choice appeals to him. All this changes with the arrival of a space-and-time-traveling being known as Evaran at the space station turned rest stop that Jake lives on.To make things complicated, Greecho, the slaver who abducted Jake as a kid, has arrived at the station. He and his crew, along with his twenty-two-year-old h...

2018 Writer's Digest eBook Award - First Place Winner for Science FictionLos Angeles: 2065A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim's disappearance is recorded on any of the building's many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment's memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery.To find the missing woman, Private Detective David Stalin must unravel a crime wit...

“One of the most thrilling writers working today. Miss him at your own peril.” – Blake Crouch, The Wayward Pines TrilogyThe shocking conclusion to the AFTER post-apocalyptic thriller series!AFTER #6: DYING LIGHTAfter a bloody battle with mutant Zapheads, Rachel Wheeler's life hangs in the balance as the world falls apart around her.To save Rachel, a small group of survivors must find a missing baby, a hyperintelligent Zaphead with m...

**Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1** New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this tag team Thriller Short, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child feature New York City policeman Vincent D’Agosta, who becomes involved with the theft of an ancient Incan sacrificial knife. But before D’Agosta can apprehend the thieves, they meet an untimely de...