Newt Run is a town that shouldn't exist, a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. It's a town at the center of a broken universe, and broken universes have the bad tendency to fall apart.Newt Run is also a novel, but the world of Newt Run was much too large to fit inside a single book. These short stories, or 'modules', extend this world, probing into its deepest, smallest secrets.In 'A Static Dance' a young dancer questions her sanity when confronted by a voice t...

Newt Run is a town that shouldn't exist, a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. It's a town at the center of a broken universe, and broken universes have the bad tendency to fall apart.Newt Run is also a novel, but the world of Newt Run was much too large to fit inside a single book. These short stories, or 'modules', extend this world, probing into its deepest, smallest secrets.In 'Dead Birds', a homeless man takes it upon himself to find out why so many pigeon...

Frank Gilman travels to Minneapolis on business. When he checks in at his hotel, he receives a message from someone he doesn't know. The message asks Frank to meet the sender at a place called The Lido. His first reaction is that the message was intended for someone else, but the further he investigates, the more mysterious the message becomes.

PERCY JACKSON meets ERAGON in the new epic saga from bestseller Peter Lerangis – get the inside track with this exciting free e-journal!“A high-octane mix of modern adventure and ancient secrets… I can’t wait to see what’s next” Rick RiordanWhy wait till February? A discovery like this is too big to hold back! Find out the secrets that nobody else knows in archaeologist Burt Wenders’ top-secret journal, detailing events that happened a century before The Colossus Rises. Hav...

Her life was nothing but training. Ripped from her world, she'll need more than discipline to survive.Julia is pure dedication. The 19-year-old gymnast works herself to the bone each day to prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games. A competition she'll never reach.When she's summoned by a wizard to save his people, she'll be stranded on an alien world where women are sheltered, magic is real, and there's no way home. As she comes to terms with her new role, s...

Now with all new content by John Ringo!Paradise LostIn the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and sma...

Adventure strikes Risgan, treasure-hunter, gambler, collector of magic relics.From jungle pygmies to powerful shamans to sea pirates, it's a fight to the end, on land, sea and air.Shipwrecked off a dangerous coast in an unknown land, Risgan stumbles upon a mysterious cult in the ruin of ancient temple grounds. An odd but alluring acolyte takes him under her wing, but the legend of their long dead saint leaves Risgan's blood running cold. The miracle-working...

"Love the writing, characters and story." --Kevin Anderson, author of the Dune novels about the Icefire story on which this novel is based.Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For fifty years, the ruling Eagle Knights, who fly on the back of gian...

PERCEPTION is a near-future mystery that can be read alone (no cliffhanger!)ETERNAL LIFE IS TO DIE FORSeventeen-year-old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP—a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans.Zoe's carefree life takes a traumatic turn when her brother Liam is murdered.The only one who can help her find o...

Ellie Colson is the only one who believes in the end of the world.As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus—one she believes will wipe out mankind. With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiance Chip to safety.But he's already been scooped up and quarantined—and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to break Chip out before ...

They burned his world to the ground. Now he’ll infiltrate theirs.When Will Stark returns home on his birthday, he finds his life in ruins—his house engulfed in flames, his family gone, and a team of professional killers waiting to finish the job. But Will survives—and is pulled into a secret war between rival factions of a powerful, centuries-old society known as the Aliomenti.These people possess gifts beyond imagination. And they see Will as more than jus...

Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?Sixteen billion dead. In humanity's last brush with the Merkiaari, it was nearly wiped out in a war that spanned decades. When survey ship Captain Jeff Colgan discovers a new alien race, he's required to investigate.As the aliens discover Colgan's ship and begin to hunt him down, the captain's mission changes from one of study to one of survival.Hard Duty is the first ...