A generically engineered gladiator saves the daughter of a senator from being ravaged by drunks. The gulf between their places in the Five Systems is unbridgeable, no matter how much Kyden longs for even a glimpse of her in the arena audience. They can never be together… or can they?
Fifteen original science fiction and fantasy tales about women and men who offer pleasure, comfort, companionship—and other things not so easily defined—for a price.
Alexander is determined to keep Lucas out of the State’s hands even if it leads to the destruction of the entire Resistance. But how far will he go in his attempts to thwart Thaxter? Will the Resistance be able to trust him ever again?
Work as a Supernatural investigator is never fun, but Nola has a gift for communicating with supernatural entities. When her newest assignment takes her to a place where she can sense nothing, the last thing she expects is to end up in an alternate dimension.
A dangerous man from Josie’s past returns to wreak more havoc and destruction. Along with him comes a hostage, Josie’s great-niece seven times removed. The trade off—a keycode for the life of her niece.
Leo Spearman cares about one thing: finding a cure for his brother Gaeth’s “Steel Elbow,” a deadly disease that is slowly turning his bones into metal. Yet when they decide to leave Earth to cure him, they find themselves breaking galactic law to get it.
Fifty years ago, Captain Nina Brooke hand-picked a crew from across the world to accompany her on the mission of a lifetime. Today, they’re all waking up. The Posterity is making her final approach to their new home planet, and the work is about to begin.
An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars to offer humanity help. But they can only take a tiny percentage of the population back to the colony planet Atlantis, and in order to be chosen, you must compete and Qualify.
The Hlad are one race, the only race beneath the Great Abyss. Until an alien craft crash-lands on Hlad from the Great Abyss. One alien survives the massacre that follows.
As Nolan becomes an unwilling spy, the State strikes, leaving the Resistance reeling. Casualties mount and Alexander is drawn further into the fold as he learns that the leak may have come from Nolan.
Carmen Vincent had never accepted the official story of what happened to her astronaut mother after the Mars disaster. When government agents show up at Carmen’s door, she realizes someone is still trying to cover up the reason why Earth abandoned its space program.
A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti’s biggest concern was getting the kids’ athletic clothes washed in time for practice this evening. Now, Earth has been forced into participating in some high-stakes intergalactic reality television.
At the end of the 24th Century, Special Inspector Michael Pedroni pursues Jax Marlin, a beautiful and elusive vigilante. It’s a wild cat and mouse chase that will take him from Earth to the Bacchus Dome and beyond.
When Cillian’s daughter accidentally poisons a bison-sized alien child, he goes to prison. But intervention by another alien sends him and his family on a journey to a nearby solar system.
In this book of twelve YA short stories – Fantasy, Paranormal, and Sci-Fi – readers decide which story will become a book by filling out a special questionnaire.
An anthology of 53 memorable flash fiction stories, ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.