During a stolen night out with Ocean, calamity strikes, and the shooter is inexorable, as only a robot could be. He's gunned down by Zoey's C001-Oisín prototype law enforcement android, Ocean. But the damage is done to humans and androids alike. People lie crumpled and extinguished all around her, and there's never been an android shooter in the history of artificial intelligence. This kind of violence? It flies in the face of programming. It's not supposed to happen. And... it's suspiciou...

Graduation is closing in fast for Zoey Collins and she's facing tough choices when it comes to what to do next. Being the great niece of mother of A.I., Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean she's rolling in green. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades.Zoey's trying to make it on her own when her great aunt dies, leaving her a prototype Cardinal Machine called Ocean. Both beautiful and buttoned-down, this machine ends...

**A Morgwn warship arrives in Bridges, bringing whispers with it.Ora Buckmaster knows the town Council must keep their defection from Morgwn under wraps or else.But the town has a powerful ally.**The Lock-Maker King rules the North with his mystical powers. He brings such fertility to the land that the town is growing rich. As a result, Bridges is unwilling to give up their strange ruler.But the ship's captain wants to meet with the Morgwn Town Master urgent...

Welcome the Future of Crimefighting. Fasten your seatbelts.Zoey is a rising private investigator with a flair for tracking down bail jumpers and cracking cases.With her trusty Cardinal Machines law enforcement android, C001-Oisín - also known as "Ocean" - by her side, she finally feels she has a partner in crime.But as anti-android sentiment continues to plague the U.S.A, Zoey's dream of making Ocean her passion project in her personal life seems im...

Discover the power of 1-Ocean.Zoey’s used to being alone, struggling to keep the family home and make ends meet. She’s never had a real role in her mother’s wealthy family. Yet when her great aunt, A.I. pioneer Katherine Cardinal, passes away Zoey is shipped a stunning prototype Cardinal Machine. An android called 1-Ocean.Her P.I. instincts see a way to make easy money using 1-Ocean to catch bail jumpers. But her biggest job goes sideways when her target is...

The prototype android left to Zoey Collins turned out to be precisely the 'hotshot' Cardinal Machines lawyers described, when they tried to persuade her to sign away her rights to him. With Cardinal Machines like Ocean harvesting mineral-rich asteroids and terraforming the moon, Zoey sent Ocean where he could do the most good: back to the LAPD SWAT team and the FBI. Why would she check with Ocean about that?But when the luminary suddenly begins to rebel, it's time to ride to the re...

Zoey Collins Cardinal needed a lifeline. Tragedy gave her 1-Ocean.Being the great niece of mother of A.I. Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean Zoey is rolling in green. In fact, she's living in the threadbare shadows of a great house that once belonged to her father and was passed down to her uncle. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades. So, even alone, Zoey is ready to fight to surv...

Zoey Collins, born into the preeminent Cardinal family as Katherine Cardinal, is settled and happy with her life private investigating and bagging bail-jumpers. Recent edition to that routine, Cardinal Machines law enforcement android model C001-Oisín -- Ocean -- blends as well into the mix as she does into his occasional S.W.A.T. team and F.B.I. assists. For the first time, she's starting to feel like she has a partner in crime. And it's hard to resist making her beautiful prototype a pas...

Zoey has avoided the powerful magnates in the Cardinal family for decades. Her life as a burgeoning Private Investigator has no contact with theirs, and the formidable Cardinals turned their backs on her long ago. But you don't walk away from a legacy that easily. Zoey's late Great Aunt Katherine, the woman responsible for giving Zoey her beloved prototype C001-Oisín, Ocean, and influential C.E.O. of Cardinal Machines, also decided Zoey would attend Cardinal Summit. And Zoey knows she's go...

What could go wrong?So what if Trudy doesn't fit in with her silver-spoon classmates? She's a little poorer, a little... stranger. But everything will be fine as long as they never notice.Besides, Shelter Island is sunny, sweltering, and idyllic. She's having the time of her life on summer holiday with her upper-crust friends. But the island's smiling beaches are also a disguise.Why are her friends so nervous when storms roll i...

**Ora wants no part of it.But once the Fates know a thing, it is known for all time.**Still, the Lock-Maker King and Lord Eldeghel speak of a new destiny that involves her. However, for Ora becoming a warrioress and Scinan Chief has long been enough of an achievement.When she withdraws to the solace of the wild, that's where the first arrow falls.She's spared when a Fate sacrifices himself in her place, and it's in her scramble to save him that Ora first mar...

This novella is a prequel to the Folded Earth series....To be a legend is a heavy thing.It could strip everything from him.Young elf prince Ruel Mirariaf is on the cusp of adulthood when he learns his destiny is in the hands of faceless Fates he may never even meet.A story told to comfort sets him on a quest that may close out his childhood with a last blaze of freedom...