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Joe's body is failing him. In order to make his last weeks of life more palatable, he goes into full digital immersion. This new process will allow him to play in a virtual environment with a fake but healthy and strong virtual body. As soon as he steps into this new environment he meets his virtual assistant, an Evolving Intelligence (E.I.), who takes the form of someone close to him. But before Joe and Spooky can begin playing the game, they are both summoned to a reality where magic is real.

A parasite-carrying asteroid has unleashed a zombie plague upon the world, forcing nurse Zoe McCallister to flee her overrun neighborhood with her badly injured husband Oliver, their dog Louie, and Jurnee, the little girl Oliver rescued from a burning vehicle. Following the plan she and Oliver made, Zoe seeks refuge for them in an abandoned church some fifteen miles away.

Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy’s life. Days ago, he found himself at the mercy of his archnemesis, Octagon, and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who gave him two weeks to settle his affairs - and prepare to die. Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing tragedies, the world’s greatest hero is returning to where it all began in search of the boy he once was...and the girl he never forgot.

The Banished Lands has a violent past, where men and giants clashed in a war for supremacy and near-extinction for the vanquished. Now men rule the land, giants little more than a memory, lurking in the wilds and dark places. This tale takes place ten years before the events of Malice, book one of The Faithful and the Fallen, within the Darkwood, a great forest that splits the western realms of Ardan and Narvon.

They came from the night sky, lighting the heavens like the promise of salvation. But they didn't bring deliverance.... They brought something far, far worse. Something that turns people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. And it's spreading. A reporter follows her story of unspeakable horror south of the border and finds it's worse than she imagined. A wounded fighter pilot finally gets his chance to return to duty but is faced with a mission that could cost him his wings, or his country its chance.

Desmond Taylor - a free-spirited loner and heir to a family fortune - didn't mean to fall in love. But when he stumbles upon a beautiful archer deep in the wilderness, they begin an electrifying and wild romance like no other. To make matters even more complicated, the woman is the goddess Artemis.

With humanity joining the alliance to fight the Naxli invaders, the war should be turning in their favor. Unfortunately, the enemy must not have gotten that memo. Across the galaxy, the Naxli strive for total domination. To create a stronger resistance, Gunny Pelletier is sent to work with the various races, but he and his team soon discover that reaching common ground and coordinating military action is far more difficult than they’d imagined.

Two old farts surviving a grid-down apocalypse by fate or chance, or could be rotten luck according to their bickering, find themselves bound by circumstance of survival to live out their days together. Bad luck seems to be a daily occurrence for all in this apocalypse of no food, no water, but add to it a hurricane, pandemic, and old age, and two grumpy old men, and you have a story of resilience and humor sure to entertain you in a quarantine.

Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins - finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.

Disease contaminated their ship; any moment one of them might become infected and spray lethal sparks to the others. There was no cure - except prevention. And, that meant three spacemen left to die! Commander Al Andrews had closed and locked the energy-proof, neutralizing bulkheads against the creeping red glow that infected one quadrant of his circular space ship. Now, he stood in the control center, in the midsection of the revolving wagon-wheel ship, looking at Oakey Matthews.

When a scavenger captain offers her an unusual job in the middle of nowhere, Delphine accepts and tags along. But will she manage to get the treasure they're looking for when she has to operate a seadrone all by herself? When the treasure is buried in a spaceship graveyard two miles under water? And when the challenges she faces go beyond her wildest fears? This story was inspired by Point Nemo, a place located as far away from land as possible where spaceships go to die.

He'd been to Mars, but who hadn't? He'd also been to the orbital stations around Jupiter, and once, even to distant Neptune. But as he lay dying, he couldn't help but think that perhaps there was more to life. Had he really achieved everything he had wanted to? Had his life been worthwhile? With just 15 minutes to live, he recaps some of his life's adventures, and realizes that perhaps there are things he missed out on along the way.

The year is 2051, and The MedMoore Group is the largest pharmaceutical and medical device producer in the world. The introduction of a new device, The Electric Mask, was revolutionary for Denise, a reclusive burn victim. But when a visit from her estranged sister opens the floodgates, the horror of childhood memories rush in, demanding resolution and the mask is the perfect tool.

Everyone has things they are passionate about; things we want our friends to try and experience. So we’ve convinced each other to try different things. We talk about these experiences to see if we can just get one more person to join us on our hill to die on.

Rueben saved New York City and almost got the girl. Given where he started, Rueben should have peaked right here and now. Or at the very least got a vacation. Except there's another warper in town, and he has it out for Rueben and his friends. The World Summit will see the largest gathering of world leaders in one spot. The perfect opportunity for this new warper to cause world instability. One deadly drone per leader...the perfect plan to wipe out all global leadership in one fell swoop. What's more, this diabolical mastermind has figured out a way to stop Rueben's "repeating" powers.

Dying again is not enough. Now Rueben must go to another universe with his greatest enemy. Earth-Z is ground zero for the world destroying virus. Too bad Rueben lives on Earth-A.

Magische Flammen toben. Klingen zerfließen. Seelen werden im Eifer des Gefechts zu Asche. Das große Finale des Krieges um den Ersten Tempel steht bevor. Die letzten Trümpfe sind ausgespielt, sämtliche Reserven sind erschöpft und selbst die Götter haben sich auf den Kampf des Volkes eingelassen. Das Universum steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Die Ketten, die die Welten einst zusammengehalten haben, sind gesprengt. Das eisige Wasser der Ostsee kühlt den glühenden Sand der Grenzlande.

Der russische Cluster. Der Boden bebt, als sich der Feind nähert. Die zornigen Götter blicken stirnrunzelnd vom Himmel herab. Geheimdienste sind in einen brutalen Kampf verwickelt. Hunderttausende empfindungsfähiger Wesen metzeln sich munter gegenseitig nieder. Dies hier ist nicht länger bloß eine Quest in einem Spiel oder ein belangloser Wettstreit zwischen Clans um ein rohstoffreiches Stück Land.

Nachdem Hoshiko und Ben den Zirkus in Brand gesetzt haben, sind sie nun auf der Flucht. Doch Bens Mutter wird alles daran setzen, um ihn zu finden und Rache zu nehmen; ihn in die Enge zu treiben und dazu zu zwingen, sich für Hoshiko zu opfern. Denn die tödlichste Show der Welt ist wieder zurück. Und wenn Ben dachte, er würde ihre dunkelsten Geheimnisse schon kennen, dann muss er nun feststellen, dass er das wahre Ausmaß des Schreckens unter dem Kuppeldach erst jetzt kennenlernen wird - als die neue Attraktion des Zirkus.

London in der nahen Zukunft. Die Gesellschaft hat eine Spaltung vollzogen: Die Pures leben komfortabel und luxuriös, während die Dregs ausgegrenzt, geächtet und unterdrückt werden. Manchen Familien der Dregs werden ihre Kinder entrissen und zum "Zirkus" gebracht, wo die jungen Artisten zum Amüsement der Pures hungrigen Löwen begegnen oder waghalsigen Hochseilakte liefern. Hoshiko ist der Star auf dem Hochseil - sie vollbringt jeden Abend Unglaubliches, 30 Meter über dem Boden, ohne Fangnetz.