A random act of nature changed Mason's life forever. He lost his parents on that fateful day, even his memories of them.But he gained something in return.Mason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening.Despite being raised in a government lab, Mason has put a life together for himself. He uses his ability to work as a private investigator, specializing in missing children. He even has a crush on a woman.Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her.Mason is unlike any man she's ever met. To her surprise, she finds herself caring about him more than she ever thought possible. But he has secrets.Now someone is following them both, and he wants those secrets. Views: 9
Epic Space is a hilarious take on contemporary culture as viewed through the twisted prism of 'Martin', amoral architectural consultant with a penchant for a long lunch and powerful friends, including members of the Cabinet and HRH the Prince of Wales. Written in weekly diary form, Martin's world is a mad and woozy version of our own: one in which Martin and his friend, the nanofuturologist Beansy, can invent Kryptogel – a new building material developed using 'hard air'. It's a world where the property wing of the Church of England builds buy-to-let almshouses while 'bouncy mega-mosques' have helium-stiffened minarets. An arts correspondent is sacked by a Sunday newspaper and replaced with his own overdressed architectural dachshund. Soot becomes a valuable stock market commodity. A hipster skyscraper is called the Blard. And an ambitious plan is hatched to turn the North around so that it faces south. Big questions are asked: Is Texture The New... Views: 9
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“Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main
character you’ll love.” —Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling
author of the Jack Reacher novels “When a master of her craft offers to tell you a story, let her. The results are dazzling.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series. The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, and the Midnight Crossroad trilogy adapted for NBC’s Midnight, Texas, has written a taut new thriller—the first in the Gunnie Rose series—centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose. Set
in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as
Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially
by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the
border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian
wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose
has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate
crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. They’re searching through the
small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic
practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct
descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg’s blood can save the young
tsar’s life. As the trio journey through an altered America,
shattered into several countries by the assassination of Franklin
Roosevelt and the Great Depression, they’re set on by enemies. It’s
clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their
mission. Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client, but her
oath will test all of her skills and resolve to get them all out alive.
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