Tondbert recognises the woman at the tracks at once. It's difficult to mistake a Murder Queen. The deadliest assassins in the world, Murder Queens never fail and she's come to fulfil a contract on Tondbert's head.It's the conditions of the contract that sting the most. King Brandon, the man that killed Tondbert's father, is holding Tondbert's mother and sister hostage. And he's insisted Tondbert die unarmed and on his knees. Murder Queen contracts are stone-clad. Is there any way f...

The first three books in the Kyra Sarin series, in one omnibus edition.Kyra Sarin has survived five long years fighting invading aliens on Eris, but can she survive Earth? Facing off against terrorists, the aliens she'd hoped to leave behind, and evil corporations, Kyra has to use everything she learned at war to survive.Inspired by 80s action movies, the Kyra Sarin series is on the lighter side military science. If you like sweary, over-the-top action, you...

Lila, Tondbert, Isabelle, Jenni and Osric have a problem. King Tallon Tyre has heard of their rebellion and he's not a man to cross. He's bringing an army of twelve thousand to crush them all, to drive them so deep into the dust, no one will even remember they were there.After fighting for months, struggling against the monsters and nobles trying to destroy them, can the heroes of Bytarend possibly defeat the largest army they've ever seen?The concluding novel in the Bytare...

Some people are born to advantage, privilege. Edmond was born to village idiots who put all his skill points into Luck. They knew an opportunity to win the lottery when they saw it.Edmond doesn’t want to be a winning ticket. He dreams of becoming a great hero and scholar. Impossible goals when your Intelligence and Wisdom stats couldn’t be lower.Is Edmond nothing but a walking rabbit’s foot? Will his parents’ dreams of easy fortune come true? It’s all just a lucky roll away...

Josie Stein saved humanity and they hate her for it.Josie foiled a scheming, homicidal AI. She saved the Earth from the Kalmari. But nothing is good enough for Burger Supreme: they think a ray forcing everyone to have a conscience is a bad thing.Dispatching Vesta Hartman, a captain with two itchy trigger fingers and everything to prove, Burger Supreme want the Greenstar brought to justice at any cost. Even if it means turning it to powder first.Pursued rele...

What if you really had to start again from scratch?After saving Earth for the second time, Josie thought she finally had time to deal with personal business. But a booby trap in the Greenstar's engines meant she really got away from it all.Trapped in a featureless void, with only the Greenstar’s crew and an equally odd interloper for company, she discovers that even being the first woman in a new universe won't protect her from having to solve everyone else...

The problem with a eco-friendly spaceship is that it tends to shed.Like the science-fiction serials it pays homage to, Greenstar generated promotional content and deleted scenes. Greenstar Special Features gathers them all in one place, so you don't have to risk the lower decks in search of the BetaSnax Story-in-a-Pill versions.Curious what happened to Bao Lei when the ship visited Plankton Station in Season One? 'Rescuing Bao Lei' reveals all the events th...

In a corrupt world, Kyra Sarin is the only one who won't bend.After defending the Earth from aliens, Kyra finds her battles aren't over yet. She's inherited wealth beyond measure, but there's a catch: two criminal factions want to capture and control that money for themselves.Each has a different prison lined up for her: one stone; one virtual. The only way to escape is to do what Kyra does best: kill them all.Violent Science is the third b...

Humanity’s best hope is a wicker spaceship.Josie Stein woke up a thousand years in the future and was immediately elected captain of the U.F.S. Greenstar, a recycled spaceship on a mission to stop the self-destructive aliens of the galaxy from wiping themselves out.Now the Kalmari, a homicidal race of aliens, have set their sights on Earth. How can the ramshackle Greenstar possibly stand in their way?A fun and fast-paced episodic s...

Each year we hand-pick 50 of today's top indie authors and ask them to submit a story. Then we ask a team of ruthless judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II:* a world of today where cosplay and stagecraft are bright lights hiding dark shadows* a world of tomorrow, where kitchen appliances fend for themselves and take solace in each other's arms, refugees from indifferent owners* a world of little cogs in big ma...

“A phoenix rises from the ashes because it cannot burn in them.”Dannika Dark presents the first book in her most addictive urban fantasy series to date. A world of magic so compelling that readers keep going back for more...Raven Black hunts evildoers for fun, but her vigilante justice isn’t the only reason she’s hiding from the law. Half Vampire, half Mage, she’s spent years living as a rogue to stay alive. When a mysterious Shifter offers...

“WE ALL HAVE SECRETS, RAVEN. DARK ONES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.”Book 2 in the Crossbreed seriesTwo weeks after joining Keystone, Raven Black is ready to take on the world as a criminal hunter for hire. If only her partner wasn’t a bloodsucking Vampire with a penchant for getting under her skin. Despite her lavish surroundings, Raven misses the freedom of life without rules. And Keystone’s next assignment is about to test her self-control ...