Deadly technology, missing students, and a secret organization of ninjas come together in this propulsive story set in the world of G.I. Joe.When Stan’s mom gets the job offer of a lifetime at a cutting-edge tech company, Stan packs his bags and exchanges Chicago for Springfield, home to DeCobray Industries.Saying goodbye to big-city life is only the first challenge Stan faces in moving to Springfield, a town that’s eerily under the thumb of his mother’s po...

Tomorrow is yesterday.It is 2056. Mathematics professor Elisabeth Gabai is fascinated by multi-dimensional forms that have no equivalent in reality. Then, her boss sends her to the site of an artifact that might have come straight from her theories–or from the technology of an advanced civilization.Twenty-eight years earlier, physicist Max Webber is hell-bent on improving Einstein's theories of relativity. His latest concept seems flawless, except it predic...

100 fathoms below …The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent.Trapped in enemy territory and hun...

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?This is what Harold’s widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To compliment his income in small town Maine’s scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after his trus...

When the government thinks they have a lead on an inexpensive energy source, they throw together a research project for it, disregarding some unfortunate occurrences with similar research previously. The theory is that they can create a wormhole that will constantly allow energy through, then they'll convert the energy into electricity and feed it into the grid. Maxwell Carter works a maintenance job at a government research facility.The research lab he works at has an accident, mo...

"A rising star in the genre!" – Ronald Malfi, author of BONE WHITE"A vital part of this generation." – Brian Keene, author THE RISINGDemon lights, granted wishes, strange things, and brutal love at the Lucky Lounge Motel. A haunted sister, desperate parents, a little human touch, and the end of the world…These are the stories whispered among dead leaves, the script etched bare for all to see. When the chills sink deep and your heart begins to pound…are you alone?

For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the US Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Aghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter but was diplomatically restrained fro...

A man on the run. A traitor on the loose. One last chance to set the record straight.After months on the run for an assassination they call justice, David Shaw and Natalie Hale have built a new life in the shadows. But when a hit squad tracks them down in the Caribbean, it's clear their enemies aren't done with them yet. Someone with deep connections wants them dead—someone with the power to erase them for good.That someone is Connor Roark. A dirty CIA offi...

Move past the ESG culture wars and make better choices for your business.Embracing ESG—environmental, social, and governance goals—isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't address their material long-term risks may save a few dollars today, but they're putting themselves, their stakeholders, and their investors in jeopardy.ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you move past the noise and...

North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural divide—these issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State. For that reason, North Carolina politics and government are increasingly of interest not just to North Carolina citizens but to journalists, political observers, and people across the country. Political scientist Christ...

He vowed to defend his brothers-in-arms. Now, he'll stop at nothing to avenge them.After a deadly ambush leaves Marine Raider Captain David Shaw gravely wounded, he returns to the US to face an unwanted medical retirement. But when he's invited to observe his team's next mission in Yemen, he watches in horror as their helicopters are shot down—wiping out the men he swore to protect.Shattered but determined, Shaw refuses to stand down. With nothing left to l...

As the mana fields continue to grow, the numbers of mutated, and mana created, aggressive creatures grow right along with them.Even though Max is tired of teaching his skill, he accepts one more gig for it, training a double handful of people who have both mechanical and teaching skills.While Alex and Mark's guild has put out a call for members, they have a single qualification. Prospective guild members must make it to the guild hall physically in order to join.Max...