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In the 24th century, the sovereign lunar city of Lumena prospers while Earth burns in the Long War. When the conflict reaches the Moon, Lumenian scientists discover an alien artifact that promises salvation—and unleashes catastrophe. An experiment spirals out of control, and the starship Oneiros vanishes into the depths of space and time.

An informant in hiding. Killers on a mission. This is the perfect time for cupcakes. Sterling Carter lives in Wandering Springs, a small Washington town on the Canadian border. During the day, Sterling toils in a local bakery, learning a new craft. In his free time, he reads mystery novels, listens to his favorite music, and plays with his cat.

Rodney McCready has a dream. He’ll have to lie, cheat, and murder to get it. Rodney McCready hopes to join a Central Washington crime family. Belonging requires loyalty and ruthlessness—two qualities Rodney has rarely embraced, but now must exemplify. Failing to become a member carries disastrous consequences for Rodney, so he’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goal. To prove his dedication, Rodney commits a crime so heinous that his life will never be the same. Now, dangerous acquaintances surround him on all sides.

Sheriff Tom Jessup works to keep his county nice and safe. Unfortunately, things aren’t staying that way. A questionable death in Whitman County takes Jessup out of jurisdiction to Spokane, Washington. He’s following family blood, and it’s led him to a double murder. The Spokane Police Department has their best team on the case, but they’ve just hit a roadblock. This leads them to a man neither trust. He’s a questionably motivated officer who answers only to himself. Meanwhile, Jessup struggles to connect additional cases across county lines.

When Lex Alexander called upon his mad engineer friend for help creating a racing simulator, he expected to break a few track records. Instead, he broke time. To get the clock ticking again, he will need to travel to other timelines and alternate realities to pick up the lost pieces of his own world. Will he survive clashes with alternate versions of friends and foes? Or has time run out… literally.

For once, things seem calm for Fel Masker and his family. But the dark schemes of a shadowy mastermind are ready to hatch. Ancient foes are on the move in the Greater Lands. Uncovered secrets cast doubt on a long-trusted adviser. Hidden threats lurk beneath the cities of the world. Forgotten armies rise to march again.

Over a century after World War 3 a new menace to humankind has arisen. Reptilians out to rule the planet and make it their own. They already control much of Asia and now they are focusing on North America. Which might explain why the Family has lost contact with the Free State of California. Warriors are sent to investigate. Only to find they have walked into a trap.

From out of the horror of World War III a new menace is spawned. Claiming to be the gods of old, they intend to grind what is left of humankind under their heel. When they send a shapeshifter to destroy the Home, the Warriors decide to retaliate. But to take on the Lords of Kismet, the Warriors must travel to a distant land far across the sea. And once there, they find themselves pitted against creatures possessed of incredible powers.

Three Warriors have fallen, stricken by a mysterious malady. To save them, another Warrior must lead four green trainees into the last place on Earth any sane person would venture….the Valley of Shadow. Once the domain of a madman, the fog-shrouded stew of virulent toxins harbors creatures born of nightmare. To make it there alive is the ultimate challenge. To make it out again is a feat few have achieved.

It’s time that Detective Dallas Nash returns to his Major Crimes assignment after suffering a personal loss. His supervisor assigns him a cold case to ease him back into the job. The thirty-year-old unsolved murder leads to a startling revelation—Nash and his friends saw the victim right before her death. Before he can work the case, though, dispatch sends him to a wintery crime scene. A snow-covered body lies in an open field, and Nash has no witnesses or immediate suspects.

When Jacob Kidwell’s body is discovered, his death appears to be an accident. Major Crimes Detectives Quinn Delaney and Marci Burkett discover layers of deception wrapping the young man’s life. They also find someone meddling in their investigation—a friend of the deceased hoping to help. He’s sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong and creating new problems for the detectives.

Doyle Flanders has finally found peace working as a custodian at Lone Star Family Fun Time, free from the limelight and out of trouble. But when he’s unexpectedly thrust into the role of Yango the Yeti, the theme park’s beloved mascot, everything changes. Now, Doyle can’t go anywhere without children following him and loyal fans clamoring for a picture. Adding to the problem, the local mob is looking for the man who should have worn the costume that day.

Global nuclear war had left the earth a stinking cesspool, polluted by radioactive fallout and poisoned by chemical toxins. Mutations abounded. Barbarians reigned. Against them all fought the Freedom Force, civilization’s last hope for survival. And when Los Angeles fell victim to a mindless incursion of savages, it was up to the Force to lift the siege. Matching violence with super violence and death with megadeath, Blade and his comrades blew into the City of Angels like devils out of hell–and L.A. would never be the same.

After narrowly surviving their last adventure, the Masker family knows there are forces plotting against them. Worse, a precious artifact is unaccounted for, almost certainly in the hands of a dangerous foe. The only option is to head north to follow the trail of the thief. When the hunt leads them to a plague-ridden forest not far from Fel’s sister, he has to make a choice. Does he risk the disease to recover what’s his? Or does he leave empty handed?

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Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not at all like the classic detective novels he has read incessantly since childhood. But his best friend and annoying neighbor Rudy quickly points out that his routine "cheater" case is rapidly taking on all of the features that Stanley steadfastly insists are mere fictional tropes of the genre. Stanley isn't too sure how he feels about this. But as a professional, he forges ahead, despite getting out of his comfort zone.

Fel and the other Maskers knew recovering the gifts of the past was worth the danger, so long as they could keep the worst of the bygone contraptions out of the wrong hands. They couldn't have predicted a wave of violence beyond Beffshire’s walls would summon a powerful inspector. Now he is convinced the Maskers are hiding something. Unfortunately for them, he’s right. But there is something shady about this inspector. Letting him claim their inventory might not simply destroy their legacy, it might deliver powerful artifacts directly into the clutches of forces with sinister aims.

The Warriors of Alpha Triad face their greatest threat yet when their survivalist compound is invaded. Not by an enemy army. Not by the horrifying mutants. This time a shapeshifter is loose among the Family. Able to change into any of them at will, it is killing like there is no tomorrow.

In the mountains of Baja California, a man they called El Diablo was raiding civilized settlements and leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Backed by the Freedom Force, Blade stormed into the Baja to put an end to El Diablo's reign of terror, but had he finally met his match?

When a past love calls for help, John Cutler returns to Seattle. He didn’t want to go, but she offered the one thing he needed more than distance from her—money.