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, ...

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...

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...

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...

THE LONGEST JOURNEYSix shadowrunners. Three mysterious packages. And twelve kilometers of a dangerous, dilapidated bridge across one of the wildest sprawls of the Sixth World.It should be a simple job. Retrieve three sealed packages, then take them across the city of Lagos to their destination. All the runners’ skills will be tested—they’ll face ambushes, double-crosses, and more, and along the way they might be able to answer the question of just what’s in...

WHERE NO ONE KNOWS YOUR NAME...Thanksgiving, 2075. Shadowrunning vampire-mage Rick “Red” Lang used to make his living hunting dangerous insect spirits and twisted mages, but when he awakens after twelve years of involuntary hibernation, he finds the rest of the world has gotten even stranger.Red begins piecing together what had happened during his lost time—and who put him under in the first place. But as he journeys through the neon-drenched ruins of Chica...

Out of Time, Out of OptionsJackPointer mage Winterhawk left the shadows at the top of his game: these days he indulges his curiosity about all things mysterious and magical on his own terms. But he’s about to discover that the shadows are hard to leave behind, and old enemies have their ways of drawing him back in.Dosed with an exotic arcane poison that will kill him in days unless he retrieves a powerful magical artifact, ‘Hawk has to assemble a team fast ...

SOME SECRETS CAN KILL YOU…Kazuma Tetsu is a Technomancer—one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But Kazuma is on a more personal mission—he’s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries and double-crossing rogues—usually just another day in the Sixth World.But as Kazama digs deeper, he uncovers a plot t...

DARKNESS EVERYWHERE...The Sixth World is a dangerous place, with deadly hazards lurking around every corner. Everywhere shadowrunners go, from the top of the world to the deepest, darkest sprawl neighborhood, someone’s always looking to make their rep by taking you down.World of Shadows is the second anthology of original Shadowrun short stories, each one showcasing some of the most far-flung, treacherous locations around the world. From a scientific missio...

THE COLDEST SHADOWSArcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward—or peril. When he’s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected—even for a shadow runner.He and his own team of runners—including everything from a goblin rigger to a trol...