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...

Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk.When Detective Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know what to expect. The place used to be a tourist attraction, but the safari tours were discontinued long ago due to rampant poaching. Only a handful of researchers live there now, including Jan Corbija, the young woman who reported the breach.The deeper Va...

It's the newest, most thrilling sightseeing cruise in the Alien Safari brochure.For ranger Jan Corbija, ferrying rich tourists around the aquatic wonders of Hesperidia's islands helps to fund her important scientific research. But her final 'White Water' tour of the season might just be one sail too many when passengers steal her equipment for a dive into uncharted depths, triggering a tragic series of events.A leisurely cruise becomes a race against time when a young girl ...

New species. Old wounds. A fight for supremacy on the galaxy's wildest planet.When Hesperidia's satellite defense system suffers a catastrophic failure, the meteor shower it was supposed to repel rains down over the terrified tourists on safari. Three large surface impacts trigger a crisis intervention from the colonial authorities. It results in the removal of the current governor, and auditions for a successor are soon underway. Jan, Alien Safari's pre-eminent ranger-scientist, f...

Explore. Protect. Survive.When Jan has to leave Hesperidia for the first time in decades to attend a crucial summit, she's forced to abandon the search for a missing keystone creature, the majestic cor'arkhis. Countless species in its secluded ecosystem depend on that apex animal for survival. Its absence poses a troubling mystery that could have profound consequences for wildlife in the region.So she recruits her lawman partner, Vaughn, to take up the search in her stead. ...

Excitement and danger collide on the galaxy's wildest ride.With Alien Safari's reputation in tatters after the tenax disaster, Jan invites a select group of influential journalists to experience Hesperidia for themselves, hoping their reports will sway public opinion back in her favor. In partnership with Detective Vaughn, now the operation's permanent Security Chief, she launches an all-or-nothing intercontinental tour, incorporating the thrilling highlights of all the previous to...

No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you.Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for the bargain price of...well, that would be telling. You'll have to see for yourself. So come on in. Don't be shy. Make her an offer. She never refuses anyone.There's just one thing I should mention: each purchase comes with an absolute guar...

A murder investigation at an interstellar beauty pageant draws two detectives into a deadly mystery.Detectives Rappeneau and Thorpe-Campbell are from different worlds. One's a debonair number-cruncher with a posh accent, the other's a hard-edged burn-out a hair's breadth away from suspension. They'd settle for a week of eye candy and full body massages. But there's been a vicious murder at the famous lunar resort of Pont de Rêves. And with a half-billion-credit purse up for grabs, ...

Untamed. Unstoppable. Unleashed.A sudden vicious attack on a safari patrol ship crossing the savanna plains cripples the vessel and almost kills one of the rangers inside. No one got a good look at the creature responsible, but one survivor reports animal features that don't correspond to any known species on that continent. Jan organizes a search party to try to locate the aggressive intruder before it wreaks further havoc on the ecosystem.The bigger quest...

Reach the dizzying heights of adventure … kilometers below.When an old acquaintance arrives seeking refuge on Hesperidia, Vaughn and Jan reluctantly give him sanctuary. Trouble follows wherever he goes, but he's also custodian of an extraordinary alien secret that he's used to save countless lives across the colonies. This time, however, his own nine lives may have run out. Diurnal, the most feared hit squad in the galaxy, has tracked him all the way to the Hesp. A...

A daring leap to avoid disaster finds a hidden world of adventure.For survival, for love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.Includes all three (newly revised) books in the trilogy: The Eleven Hour Fall, The Elemental Crossing and Kate of Kratos.

Alone. Double-crossed. Pursued across thousands of miles of alien desert on his beloved hoverbike, Finnegan is holding onto two things dearer than life itself: the priceless biotech prize he's stolen, and the opportunity for revenge against the treacherous employer who left him for dead. He's never met her, but he knows all about her family, the most ruthless criminal syndicate of the inner colonies.But when he finds a beautiful stranded woman badly wounded in the middle of nowhere...