SPARE NO EXPENSE…MISSING: Mitch Truman, heir apparent to an entertainment megacorporation. He may have fled his parents for the sake of love, but if magic is involved, the reason could be darker...WEALTHY: Daniel Truman, CEO of media giant Truman Technologies, doesn’t care how much it costs—he wants his son back. He'll hire the best to find his heir, even if their motives are suspect...EXPERIENCED: Kyle Teller's done this job before. He knows the tricks of the trade...

Don’t restrict your creative property to one media channel. Make the essential leap to transmedia!From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives you the tools to weave a narrative universe across multiple platforms and meet the insatiable demand of today’s audience for its favorite creative property.This, the first primer in the field for both producers and writers, teaches you how to:* Employ film, television, games, novels, ...

WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED...For years, Jason Chase was at the head of the pack, shadowrunning with the best in the business. When time dulled his flesh and cybernetic edge, he knew it was time to get out, or get dead.Now, his past has come back to haunt him. To protect a young girl from the terrorists who want her dead, Chase must rely on his years of experience, and whatever his body has left to give. And everything he's got, he'll need as he comes face-to-face wi...

DANGER AT EVERY TURN...In the magically active world of 2053, some say dragons are the most powerful beings on Earth. Certain elves disagree with that belief in the strongest, most violent terms. An ork of the Seattle ghetto. Kham usually worries about more mundane problems, as day-to-day existence is tough enough. But all that is about to change. Drawn into a dangerous game of political and magical confrontation, Kham not only learns to never deal with a dragon - he also discovers...

PREY FOR THE HUNTER…The world of humans knows her as Striper, the deadly Asian assassin and martial artist. She has come to the City of Brotherly Love seeking revenge, and made it her killing ground. But she is not the only predator stalking the dark underbelly of the Philadelphia metroplex. There are other hunters prowling the night, and some possess power even greater than hers.Some may even want her dead.When the moon rises full and brilliant in the dark night, t...

NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS…Aina remembers the world of centuries ago—she was there. Now she's here in the Awakened era of shadowrunners and simulations, magic and metas. And she may have brought an old nemesis with her...This new evil is as ancient and powerful as time. It does not bend before assassins, megacorps, shamans, or dragons. Aina, Harlequin, and their fellow immortal elves might have the power to stop it...but will she be able to convince them to joi...

LOYALTY. HONOR. REPUTATION.In 2055, Newark is an overcrowded urban nightmare populated by hordes of SINless indigents living in abject poverty. Violence is rampant. Brutal gangs and vicious criminals control many sections of the city like feudal lords.Amid this harrowing landscape, Rico gathers his team: Shank, Thorvin, Piper, and the eccentric shaman known as Bandit. The job is to free a man from a corporate contract that is the moral equivalent of slavery, but that is onl...

WASHINGTON IS BURNING!Andy is happy as a shadowrunner wannabe, but when he accidentally gets involved with real runners, the game of Let's Pretend is over, along with his safe corporate life.Andy's half-brother, UCAS Army Major Tom Rocquette, has some doubts about what he's involved with, too. Why, for example, is he being ordered to mercilessly massacre the Compensation Army, a group that, like him, only seeks justice?Andy and Tom, along with runners Markowitz and ...

THE LIFE OF A LIFESAVER...DocWagon—saviors of the needy, rescuers of the desperate. Willing to go anywhere, rescue anyone, as long as that “anyone” has forked out enough advance cash to justify the effort.Reporter Simone Hart has embedded herself with a DocWagon team to see what their life is really like, and she’s in for a wild ride. From an OD’ing celebrity to an aggressive team of hackers, from pesky gangs to an extremely rich and powerful client teeteri...

BACK TO THE WALL...Several executives have been killed, and it's up to Machiko, a female member of a megacorporation's elite battalion of Elven samurai, to uncover a diabolical blackmail scheme. All of the evidence points to the megacorp’s biggest rival orchestrating the murders while an amazing communication matrix is taking shape. Staying alive long enough to bring the perpetrators to justice now means defeating a high-tech foe with unlimited powers and absolutely no mercy!

LOST SECRETS ARE THE DEADLIEST SECRETS OF ALL…Shadowrunner Katar Hawke knows the score on the streets. Every job is to be executed swiftly and simply—no muss, no fuss, and with as little help as possible. But when an extraction of a seemingly ordinary grad student from a Central American dig goes south in a big way, Hawke has to keep them both alive while he figures out what he’s stumbled into—and how to get out of it in one piece.But nothing a...

THE MEANEST STREETS...James Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of the city’s dingy streets and back alleys. He puts all that to the service of whatever clients he can dig...