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The alien race Akara have a secret; they've discovered the location of a planet that is home to a primitive human civilization, another ancient “seeding" of the legendary Progenitors. But, this planet lies in the territory of the Otuka, spacefaring alien predators who consider human flesh to be a delicacy and the planet to be their private hunting preserve. Unwilling to confront the Otuka, the Akara have passed the problem on to their human allies, the Lunar Free State. Now, the LFS needs to decide what to do about it.

Eight years ago, Emmie Silvey was born on Halloween during a full moon. Raised in Providence by her widower father, she's a strange, yellow-eyed girl, plagued with visions of impossible worlds and fabulous beings. Inextricably linked with a violent young woman named Soldier, together they must face the monsters and unearthly forces that have shaped their lives and threaten their futures.

A world scarred by terrorist attacks and global pandemics fights for survival. Unbound by invasion, a millennia old enchantment ends. A daughter of Earth must learn to wield the very power she fears. Dr. Katarina O'Brian, a molecular biologist, fights from her lab in Memphis, Tennessee to find a cure for Reaper, a deadly virus plaguing humanity. During another late night at work, a mental voice touches hers, chiseling a crack in her mental fortress and tempting her to explore the powers she suppresses.

Only the elders of the Valley remember life the way it used to be, when people travelled in automobiles and bought food others had grown. When the ratio of male to female was nearly the same. Before the bombs fell, and a deadly virus claimed the world's men. Now, civilization's few surviving males are guarded by women warriors like Dian, the Valley's chief protector, as fierce and loyal as the guard dogs she trains. When an unexpected convoy of strangers rides into her village, it is Dian who meets them, ready to do battle....

2029. Fentanyl, nitazene, captagon and synthetic poisons kills millions. As the body count grows frustrated value engineer Rave Maps takes direct action infiltrating Chinese drug labs and Mexican cartel strongholds. Once that effort proves futile Rave pivots, joining one of the first tourist excursions to Mars aboard a Chinese ship. The journey provides her one desperate, risky chance to destroy her own Digital Twin before game-changing AI technology falls into the wrong hands.

An exhilarating science fiction and fantasy debut novel about a young woman's trials and tribulations after discovering her life isn't what it seems. After winning the Women's Division I Basketball Championship, Sasi Avias suddenly finds herself in a strange realm that is threatened by a dark force. Could she be the descendant of the Goddess from the prophecy to save this realm and her own? Join Sasi Avias on this intriguing adventure to try and save the world!

In the aftermath of a devastating act of war in the South China Sea, the core of the Earth has been exposed and the magnetic field that protects the planet form the sun’s radiation has been compromised. But with the destruction, a miraculous enigma has also been discovered. From the coast around the war zone, a group of mystically atypical baby girls was born, the Cold Daughters. But will their unique physiology be enough to save humankind?

Eleanor sees fragments of the future, but despite her efforts, she can’t alter destiny. Even as a young woman surviving in 1943, she believes the visions are a curse from the devil himself. But when she finds a grifter with the ability to read her mind, she realizes she is not alone. A killer stalks those with gifts. Eleanor tempts fate and sets out to stop the murders. But in her quest to protect those like her, Eleanor discovers something darker than murder living in the souls of men. To be victorious, she only needs to unwrite the future.

Lena "Horror" Horowitz leads the Daughters of Forgotten Light, one of three vicious gangs fighting for survival on the deep-space prison of Oubliette. Their fragile truce is shaken when a new shipment arrives from Earth carrying a fresh batch of prisoners and supplies to squabble over. But the delivery includes two new surprises: a drone and a baby. Earth Senator Linda Dolfuse wants evidence of the bloodthirsty gangs to justify the government finally eradicating the wasters dumped on Oubliette. There's only one problem: The baby in the drone's video may be hers.

Chief Warrant Officer Benjamin “Benno” Sanchez has devoted over 20 years of his life to the Alliance of Liberated Systems’ Navy, defending his colony world from the continued encroachment of the Terran Union. His young daughter has been virtually orphaned for years, but his time away is coming to an end. On Adelaide, 14-year-old Mio Sanchez chafes at the limitations placed upon her. With her father away and her mother long since passed, she struggles with an indifferent foster family and yearns to leave her simple life and join her father in the Alliance Navy.

Twenty-five year-old Azriel doesn't know much of the world beyond Shiva Puri, the village where she and 200 other farmers live in the foothills of California. Dreams of becoming a professional dancer have been dashed by injury, and it seems her marriage to Daniel, the village manager, is the crowning achievement of her young life. Azriel's rural existence is pleasant, if not exhilarating, and so the world goes on. Until it doesn't.

A direct sequel to Born to War, this book contains adventures of Kordon Elenius and his two daughters, Silveria and Wealla, who live in the distant future on a planet on the other end of the galaxy. The girls have been born and now discover the world of magic, technology, and the endless war. They have not yet any idea of what awaits them and what difficult challenges they and their father have to overcome.

Eichard, an organic farmer from Repreter, has one last haul of horch to sell at the Tri-Star System Farmer's Market. His retirement plan includes the installation of NanoDream Electronic's shipbrain Electra Five-Seven-Niner, the world's first of its kind. When he is boarded by pirates in the middle of the Lawless Zone, the memory of his dead daughter haunts him, and the pirates get more than they'd bargained for.

Joa continua buscando a sus padres, una forma de conectar con ellos, negándose a aceptar el silencio. Por fin, una llamada de Gonzalo Nieto, maestro y amigo de su padre, arqueólogo famoso como él, la pone sobre una nueva pista que la traslada a Egipto. Sin embargo, Gonzalo Nieto no llegará a acudir a su cita con ella en El Cairo.

El 27 de noviembre del año 2012, la embajada española en México tuvo que notificar a Georgina Mir, como único familiar vivo, que su padre, un famoso arqueólogo, había desaparecido, sin dejar ningún rastro, hacía tres días en Palenque, donde realizaba una excavación. Como una cruel broma, Georgina sintió que el destino se divertía con su familia: 13 años antes, su madre también había desaparecido.