1970: Scientist, explorer and semi-retired Mexican wrestler Senor 105 returns to Mexico to discover the countryside is being overrun with a fresh Productsinflux of forbidden technology. He and his Parisian companion Shiela (a conglomeration of sentient Helium molecules) must travel to the Chicxulub Crater, traditionally the source of many menaces. They will have a hard time reaching the crater, as the Yucatan gang/cult the Terrible Kings don’t want them to reach it. Who is their leader and...

Newlywed Maggie Haskell has started a new life away from Collinsport. But before their honeymoon can start, Maggie finds herself trapped in a cabin in the woods with a strange man. Where is Joe Haskell? And who is the man with the face of Burke Devlin?

Carolyn Stoddard is lost. Widowed at an early age, she's the lonely rich girl, drinking her life away as her friends grow up and move on.But Carolyn's life is about to change. Because Carolyn is about to be given a set of choices. And those choices will determine whether she is allowed to live or die.It's closing time at the Blue Whale but for Carolyn Stoddard the night is far from over. It's time to face the music...

A world wide quake occurs when Black Matter condenses inside our planet with White Matter, causing the very mantle of the earth itself to begin breaking apart.The Eiffel Tower is destroyed.The Vatican is gone forever, a smoking pit.The White House and most of Washington D.C. are beneath the waves.London is demolished as if it never existed.Milions die within minutes of each other as cities collapse, damns break, waters rise and flood the inland coast...

In the Sunset Desert of Alpha Centauri A Four are three immense structures. For nearly thirty years, these massive mines have used United States of the Zodiac prisoners to dig uraninite out of the ground by hand. No-one escapes from Alpha Four. Once you are sent there, established wisdom considers you as good as dead.It's time for Ant and Cleo to prove established wisdom wrong...

Sometimes to save a world, you must destroy it.The witches of Etlantium are charged with keeping the children of Liliah safe, but when an oracle accuses the ruler of seeking to destroy his own city through civil war, there is only one witch brave enough to do what must be done.Readers of Water Witch will find this background story full of historical intrigue, enchantment, and old world mythology and legends with just a dose of reincarnation theory thrown in...

A year has passed since the Paladin Nation was exposed to the public. Their mission is still to protect humanity from whatever may threaten them. Previously, it was the human duplications, but now that they've been extinguished their biggest challenge is dealing with the complications of public image.Socket Greeny, now 17 years old, has been a Paladin cadet for the past year and is nearing the final test. But that's the least of his problems. He's trying to live two lives: one as a...

Kenssie is a demon who feeds from secrets. Lately pickings have been slim, and she has grown so weak that her shield of invisibility is slipping. As the servant of a demon who eats embarrassment she already feels like she's the laughing stock of the demonic world. But the scorn of someone who thinks that Hawaiian shirts are the height of cool is the least of her worries.A powerful fear demon is dead set on making her his slave, a position that carries seriously short life expectanc...

Now with new Content by Tom KratmanHE RAISED AN ARMYAGAINST THOSE WHOTOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIMThey should have picked their enemies more carefully.Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because...

To wake up a lost girl from the ice, two brothers must face an empire.Deep in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a long-dead people—and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze. When the star-wandering brothers Isaac and Aaron Deltana find the sleeping girl, they soon realize that they are her only hope for rescue. If they don't take her, then slavers certainly will.With no way to revive her, they set a course for the New Ple...

A master craftsman brings one of the most fascinating periods in American history to vivid life in these provocative and poignant short stories, which include the masterpieces The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Sometimes the depths of love can only be understood when lost...Scientist and vampire Sian Tallant loves a human doctor – a relationship that's taboo in the world she comes from. She knows she has to break both of their hearts by leaving him forever…before he finds out the truth about her dark heritage.Unwittingly, Taz follows her into vampire territory, where he's captured and learns that the world isn't the safe place he's always believed it was.To save h...