Rick and Stephen have nothing in common except Sarah, but when Stephen tries to scare Rick away, he accidentally kills the prophesied hero of another world, throwing both men headlong into a land of magic, treachery, wonder and death.Hunted by all sides of a growing power struggle, and bound by little more than mutual confusion, the two unlikely companions are soon at odds as one of them abandons the life he left behind and the other seeks to return to those he loves.But th...

Once upon a time, Tsui jockeyed mechs with the best of them, maneuvering the multi-ton mechanical behemoths of modern warfare like trained dancers. There wasn't a model he couldn't ride like he was born to it.That was a lifetime ago, though, if you counted the years, and these days Tsui found himself doing a lot more counting and a lot less jockeying.That was why he was taking this job on another has-been mining colony on another dusty moon around another terraformed planet...

A common cold takes an unexpectedly sinister turn, revealing the monsters within us.

In 2136, humanity makes its first proven alien contact. In 2137, James Herrick is framed for killing it.Herrick is a small-time criminal with a streak of bad luck and an attitude to match. Past his prime, he depends on biomechanical upgrades to give him an edge, but upgrades are expensive -- even on the lax-lawed planet of Gidae -- and he's already dodging his mechanic's enforcers when he gets framed for killing the alien.Now, Herrick must outrun not just the enforcers, but...

Kelly McGinnis has spent her adult life trying to do the right thing, but as a newly down-sized mother of twins and the wife of a man living with Muscular Sclerosis, she also knows that trying isn't always enough.While interrupting a scene of police brutality, Kelly unwittingly releases a real, live demon. After she manages to kill the creature through gut instinct and blind luck, she is approached to join a secret group of demon hunters who reveal an underworld of monsters and mag...

As an old-fashioned college English instructor, Frank Middleston loves the traditional classics of literature and considers the current boom of paranormal Young Adult fiction to be a travesty of the written word. With his 50th birthday looming, however, Frank has failed to achieve anything but literary rejection with his own years of writing. When Cole Harper, a young and immediately popular adjunct at the college, strikes a record-shattering deal for his new YA novel, Frank is pushed to h...

After the horrific events under the streets of New York City, Kelly McGinnis quit the team of demon hunters who had recruited her and did everything she could to put the experience behind her. Six months later, life is nearly normal, complete with bills, school for her children and hospital visits for her husband.Dreams of Umber — the handsome and intriguing incubus she saved — continue to tease Kelly's sleep, but it is only when far darker dreams — and worse — begin to infect her ...

An epic interstellar tale of war from a master of science fiction.One more tour on the red. Maybe my last.They made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago.Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of. They became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up. We called them Gurus.It took them a while to drop the other shoe. You can see why, looking back.I...

Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins to unravel, Mary finds herself wondering, “What would Margaret Atwood do?”

In the year 2010, an alien virus nearly wiped out the human race. A thousand years later, mankind has recovered and ventured into space. There has been no sign of the aliens since. Humanity remains confined to the Solar System.All that is about to change.Mazzy Webber is a lowly janitor on a third-rate cargo ship. Deeply in debt, when his captain decides to turn pirate, he leaps at the chance.A modern Robin Hood—minus the part where he gives back to the poor—Webber l...

During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's father knows exactly what she went ...

“A harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago TribuneThe inspiration for the USA Network series ShooterHe was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the k...