It was Christmas Eve when Kate saw the young boy, struggling to hold the groceries in the supermarket. When she offers to give him a lift, it isn't long before his sadness hints at a deeper tragedy. What happened that Christmas at the Hogarth place? And can Kate make this Christmas better for him and his family? Featuring the first two chapters of Peter James's latest chilling novel, Perfect People.It was Christmas Eve when Kate saw the young boy, struggling to hold the groceries in the supermarket. When she offers to give him a lift, it isn't long before his sadness hints at a deeper tragedy. What happened that Christmas at the Hogarth place? And can Kate make this Christmas better for him and his family? Featuring the first two chapters of Peter James's latest chilling novel, Perfect People. Views: 36
Madeline felt that her lines had fallen in pleasant places when she was asked to go to Morocco with her employer, a charming American woman—so charming, in fact, that Madeline soon discovered that she was doing her best to manufacture an engagement between her secretary and her nephew, Brooke Van Cleefe. Certainly Morocco was a place made for love. It’s very air breathed romance. But, life being what it is, Madeline's heart was captured not by Brooke but by the glamorous Doctor Victor Tourelle-the one man who seemed permanently unaffected by Morocco's romantic spell ! Views: 36
Two women, one's life falling apart and the other's falling into place, form an unlikely relationship that leads them to a revelatory crossroad of faith. Views: 36
In a tender story of fateful encounters and second chances, Karen Leabo maps the territory of true yearning and its power to heal old sorrows. Though it's been years since Sloan Bennett has seen Lana Gaston, time melts instantly when he comes to her rescue during a Texas thunderstorm. Lana was everything a teenage bad boy couldn't have . . . but she felt like his for three magical weeks. Then she broke his heart--and Sloan walked away from Destiny, Texas. But now he's back, wearing a badge, and wondering if fate has decided to give him another chance. A struggling single mom, Lana can't help looking back at all the wrong choices she made. With Sloan so close again, she's filled with old regrets and deep new longing. Could the silly souvenir of a policeman's badge, given to her by a fortune-teller, have more meaning than she ever dared to dream? Once, Lana didn't have the courage to tell Sloan how much she cared. So she hurt him instead. But as his... Views: 36
2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of humans. It’s a volatile situation that threatens the peace and stability of the entire solar system.Emerald Blair is a Troubleshooter. Inspired by the classic superhero comics of the twentieth century, she’s joined with other mods to try to police the unruly Asteroid Belt. But her loyalties are tested when she finds herself torn between rival factions of superhumans with very different agendas. Emerald wants to put her special abilities to good use, but what do you do when you can’t tell the heroes from the villains?Only Superhuman is a rollicking hard-SF adventure set in a complex and fascinating future.Review“Only Superhuman is a heady comic book fix for the discerning SF reader, filled with a sense of wonder and a sense of seriousness.”—Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sisterhood of Dune“Many writers have written about superheroes, but nobody does it like Christopher L. Bennett.” —Stanley Schmidt, editor of Analog“Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the story is the better for it.” —Mike W. Barr, author of Camelot 3000“A tour de force that tells a fascinating story with flair, imagination, and weight.” —TV Zone on Star Trek: Ex MachinaAbout the AuthorCHRISTOPHER L. BENNETT has had multiple works of short fiction published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact as well as the online magazines DayBreak and Alternative Coordinates, and has written critically acclaimed novels based on Star Trek, Spider-Man, and X-Men, all of them with a hard science slant. Only Superhuman is his first original novel. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Views: 36
Scott is 5' 10", broad-shouldered and a British Royal Air Force multi-skilled aircraft technician and engineer. He is highly experienced in the work he enjoys and is frequently trained in the black-arts of attack and defence. His intensive training is to be purposefully useful for the dangers he is about to face, both on Earth and Mars.
In the prequel to this book, An Alien Affair, he has already used his military expertise to destroy a Grey Empire galactic cruiser and its servile crew in order to survive a life-threatening ordeal. He knew he had to win the battle as his colony lover, a six-foot tall blonde and beautiful woman called Frell, and the pilot of her spaceship named Drang, were both at risk as he was himself. He loves this woman as she does him, although the memory of their passionate liaison is completely removed from his memory after each meeting. She loves Scott with all her heart and now she owes him her life. He is already the father to a daughter from a previous encounter and now there needs to be another from this most recent abduction. She is finally heading home, with the memory of their passion but also sad at leaving him - again. She has the makings of another child within her, while Scott has been repositioned back from where he was lifted. Frell has her own agenda and has taken the required steps to leave him with...knowledge. It proves to be in her favour, in a way she could never have imagined. Having destroyed the Grey ship they have earned themselves the distinction of being the most wanted humans in the Grey-owned cosmos. The Grey Empire does not understand the meaning of losing, whereupon they now deviously plan to trap them. This is where, An Alien Rescue, begins.
After depositing Scott at his wild campsite, they begin their return to their Mothership. This is when Frell and Drang are compromised by the Greys, captured before leaving Earth's solar system. Their absence is reported and their secret off-Earth colony is anxious for their safety - fearing the worst. Scott is contacted by members of the same colony as they need his expertise, skills and knowledge to locate their missing crew and friends. Following his recalled secret life, his resurrected memories are used not only to influence his decision in joining the rescue mission but also to give him the determination and the mental strength to save them all.
The Grey's have a secret base on Mars, a planet where ferocious living fossils have survived desiccation and extinction in deep subterranean lakes. They are the carnivorous survivors of a ruined past that thrived with life on the red planet that was once green and blue. An aged US Marine, abducted from the jungles of the Vietnam war, is discovered; but why has he been kept prisoner for so many lonely years? This once-upon-a-time soldier is on the brink of a mental breakdown, but his discovery by the rescue team assists his recovery, allowing him to use his military experience in a way the United States Marine Corps could never have imagined.
Earth too has a secret Grey base, where UFO sightings are frequent. On this particular occasion, a US nuclear submarine is perted from its secret mission to observe what may be happening. Earth's last secret base holds many answers concerning Earth's past. Scott is bewildered by all that he learns with each and every discovery, all adding to his growing determination to destroy the Grey Empire. He is a man on a mission, a lethal machine looking for a fight.
The Greys consider humans to be likened to a virus, stupid and animal-like in their behaviour and habits. They have underestimated Scott's abilities for this reason and will pay for their misguided error. He is a different kind of biological weapon. He's like a walking time bomb and set to explode.
Views: 36
