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This hard sci-fi novel is the first book of the Time-Flow Stories, a series of tales about Witt Ryllin, a young man who abruptly gains the ability to psychically control the flow of time. He sets to work, figuring out how to use his new gift to help his family and perhaps even improve his college prospects. This is far from as easy as he’d first hoped. Through all this he must deal with his sarcastic friend Jesse. A friend who’s sometimes helpful, but at least as often a big part of the problem. Oh, and Witt’s got girl trouble!

After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.

Earth, 2053. Scientist Quinn Buyers discovers motherhood is not the joy-filled experience she thought it would be. Adding to the sleepless nights, boundless love, and ceaseless worry, Tig, her cyborg husband, is never home. Her AI meerkat has also run away, and her best friend is mysteriously missing from CyberSleep's cryogenic freeze.

Paris, November 2048 – eine Entdeckung, die die Welt verändert. Das Raumschiff Carl-Weathers sendet die ersten Bilder von dem Schwarzen Loch, das sich im Zentrum der Milchstraße befindet. Vollkommen gebannt bestaunen die Menschen die Aufnahmen, aber einigen reicht dies nicht. Unter ihnen ist die krebskranke Milliardärin Ellen Duvall, die wissen will, was sich hinter dem astronomischen Phänomen befindet. Zu spät erkennt sie ihren Fehler – und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

Months after the expedition through the portal, Tyler Drake is still struggling with the gruesome consequences. So the call for help from Mexico comes just in time: Adriana's brother is missing—and seems to have made the journey alone to the world beyond the cave. Another race against time begins—and this time, the team has to contend with not only the dangers of an exotic world but also with terrestrial adversaries and an extraterrestrial threat, the existence of which they never even suspected. Will they succeed in saving not just one boy but an entire world?

Although the exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground, Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family's fleet...and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off - because this time, the war has come to her. Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire.

Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

An alien being has escaped to Earth. The portal is occupied by American troops, and the only humans who have ever set foot on the alien planet are in CIA custody. To make matters worse, a hostile force is now threatening both Xibalbá and Earth. Can Tyler and Adriana save their new friends on the other side of the portal—and save their home planet from invasion at the same time?

When the Box appeared in his front hallway one day, Ciáran MacCool had no idea where it came from or why it was there. It started by showing him ways that it could help him out. Then it started giving him assignments to perform. At first, they were minor… yet still clearly beneficial. Sometimes they were serious. Sometimes they were very dangerous. At least one almost got him killed. That hadn't been part of the plan, but fortune is a fickle bitch.

AC 438 - Sieben Jahre leben Anna und Elias wieder auf der Erde. Sieben sehr schöne Jahre, in denen es ihnen an nichts mangelt. Als die KI Vater eines Tages ein unbekanntes Wetterphänomen untersucht, realisiert Elias genau zwei Dinge: Anna und er hätten nie zurückkommen dürfen und er würde den Tag nicht überleben. Noch 0,153 Sekunden: Erkenntnis ist gnadenlos. Die KI Vater steht vor einer unlösbaren Aufgabe. Ein Dilemma, das ihn über seine Grenzen treibt.

Der 5. März 2092 ist kein guter Tag. Major Jarle Dennoy, Geologe für die ESA, ist mit seiner hochschwangeren Frau auf dem Weg in die Klinik. Sie schafft es nicht. Während er seine Tochter in den Armen hält, erfährt er, dass Chiron, ein 228 Kilometer großer Komet, die Erde in sieben Jahren zerstören wird. Juni 2099. Zucchero lebt auf den Straßen Roms. Die Welt geht vor die Hunde. In wenigen Stunden ist es soweit, für sie ein Tag wie jeder andere. Sie wird Zeuge, wie bestens ausgerüstete Attentäter eine gepanzerte Limousine angreifen.