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...

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...

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 tim...

Zoey has avoided the powerful magnates in the Cardinal family for decades. Her life as a 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 C001-Oisín, Ocean, and influential C.E.O. of Cardinal Machines, also decided that Zoey would attend Cardinal Summit. And Zoey knows she has to go, too. The ...

Somewhere between Green Gables and Avonlea there is a Blue Castle.... Lucy Maud Montgomery, internationally best-selling Canadian author, wrote about girls who escaped into the wild when the world stopped making sense. Her girl-protagonists straddle the line between 'civilized' towns of the 1900s, and the mystic wilds of magical girls, young psychics, and natural witches. 29-year-old Valancy Stirling had always been out of step. Elfin and something of a changeling as 1920s ladies go, she's...

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...

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 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...

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...

Candy MacCann, party animal!Said no one. Ever.Still, when one of Candy's wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it's just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy's guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there's sure to be gift-giving, egg-nogging, and a heated pool-party under the winter sky.The food?! Everyone knows the food at Ivy's to-dos is to die for! And when a secretive band of armed stranger...

Zoey suffered many losses on her way into the Collins household. But she wants to put all that in the rear-view mirror. She's thriving with her life private investigating and bagging bail-jumpers. Recent edition to that routine, Cardinal Machines law enforcement android C001-Oisín -- Ocean -- blends at least 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 resi...

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