Returned

One conspiracy solved, Joie faces an even greater problem: What happened to Romana Pham? With new allies and a new mission—even a new lease on life—Captain Daring is back, and deadlier than ever. Will it be enough? Returned, Book Two of a new, cyberpunk trilogy, where nothing is what it seems and Captain Daring can't be sure who to trust. Be sure to start with Revoked and the complete the series with Reborn.
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Nothing New

A bored government worker falls in love with a renowned physicist but discovers possible mistakes in her calculations that could lead to disaster.An ex-physicist turned government bean counter falls in love with a physicist working on a means of space travel that could create tunnels to other parts of the universe. As their relationship grows into a full love affair, doubts grow in his mind about the safety of the concept and the experiment to demonstrate it. He believes it could lead to a disaster but is thwarted by his lover and the scientific bureaucracy.
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Malfunction

Investigator, Sergeant Logan Farrell, has never been convinced the human race deserves saving. But it looks like he's got the job anyway.It's been five hundred years since we fled the remnants of a dying Earth in search of a new home. Twenty-four ships, each carrying ten thousand Chosen Ones. All sleeping peacefully...until people start dying in cryo.Malfunction or murder? Hopefully, the former—a serial killer in the fleet would be drastic for morale. But Logan is determined to find the truth. Unfortunately, he's got a new partner—and he works best alone.Katia Mendoza, hot-shot homicide detective, has been woken from cryo to assist with the investigation. But is she really interested in solving the case, or does she have her own agenda?Before he can answer that question, though, they become targets themselves.Nothing like a few near misses with death to bring a couple together, and Logan finds himself falling for the alluring...
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The TGSPGoSSP 2-Part Trilogy

Lampooning both the Fantasy and Sci-fi genres, the TGSPGoSSP skewers over-played tropes in Monty-Python fashion, calling on well-established satire and dark humor, popular culture, and a plethora of deadpan "dad jokes." If nobody has to explain the jokes on Big-Bang Theory to you, the this Two-Part Trilogy might be the perfect thing to read on the toilet... while still on the time-clock.Imagine if Monty Python’s Flying Circus lived in your head or you were a cynical curmudgeon (like a cross between a broke Donald Trump and Clint Eastwood’s character from Gran Torino) but weren’t mean enough to actual articulate the thoughts about people that sometimes amble through your head, begging to be voiced. That sort of lampooning might migrate to the fingers and be printed, rather than vocalized… and remember there’s a difference between libel and slander—they are separate crimes according to the law.The TGSPGoSSP 2-Part Trilogy mocks our beloved niches in genre fiction. All three books take shots at the usual suspects, both Fantasy and Sci-Fi in...Part A: The Epic Quest of Big EpicnessPart II: Start Wreck-The Trouble With ToastersLet me tell you who they TGSPGoSSP are: a bunch of imaginary friends who live inside my head and keep me just inside the thin line that separates the foil-hat basket-weavers from the asylum admin. Yes, I have imaginary friends… and half of them even like me.
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Big Sky Dog Whisperer

-a Henderson's Ranch Big Sky story- Petty Officer Jodie Jaffe brought her war dog home after they were both blown up on a SEAL patrol. But her dreams of a normal life are shattered by her dog's PTSD nightmares. SEAL Team 6 dog-handler Stan Corman left his war dog's ashes and a part of himself overseas. For three years he's been training new dogs under Montana's Big Sky. Knowing he'll never be whole again, he hopes his dogs can save lives even if he no longer can. But when Jodie brings her damaged dog to the ranch, Stan faces far more than he counted on...or knows how to handle.
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Val

As if taking what mattered most to me wasn't enough, i was made to waste 11 years of my life. Now, I'd pay back the favor in Kind...it wont be as long as 11 years, just one tiny sharp pain and they would be out of their misery. Bill settled, debt PAID IN FULL.Sentenced a victim, Discharged a Hit man. She's out on the loose and the only thing on her mind is Payback. After years of torture and survival and pain and gain, she'd stop at nothing to make sure the people responsible for making her life hell these past years are out of the picture.Does Valerina succeed in this quest for payback? or does it only lead her to more heartbreaking truth?There's only one way to find out.
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Halls of Light

The Cult of Rae have been dealt a blow, but they are far from defeated.Now, as the summer break approaches and Tar Ebon is attacked, Emma embarks on a desparate journey with new allies.But things do not go as planned, for the Cult of Rae are back with a plan for ultimate revenge, including bringing back their banished leader and gaining access to weapons that could end the world.Can Emma and her allies stop the Cult of Rae before they use the Halls of Light to bring about the apocalypse?The third installment in the Mageborn Saga, "Halls of Light" takes place six months after "The Cursed Tower" and around twenty years after The Shadow Trilogy book "Shadows Fall."Read now to jump into the magical adventure.
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Warden

What would you do if you woke up with no memory of who you once were, in a body that was not your own, and everyone wanted to kill you? vThe year is 2619. The line between man and machine has blurred. Humans routinely live out their days in virtual reality. Robots roam the streets. Drones rule the skies. And cyborgs are common. Rhea is one of those cyborgs. A melding of flesh and machine. And yet that is the extent of her knowledge. Her mind has been wiped. All that she once was, erased. She has only two friends in the world. The tech who brought her back from the brink. And his robot helper. Together, the three of them roam the Wastes between cities. They earn their keep by salvaging spare parts from the Old World. This while trying to stay one step ahead of the mutants that call those plains home. And then, when Rhea saves the life of another cyborg, her world changes. She must make a choice. Go with the cyborg and risk it all to help a doomed city. Or flee, turning her back on a world that cast her aside and left her for dead...
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THE MAZE - A Thriller Short Story

Melissa and Anna’s gap year in Paris is nearing its end and Anna is desperate for one last adventure before heading back home. A journey into the Catacombs would be the perfect last thrill. Melissa is terrified and can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen… Is she worried about nothing, or will the subterranean maze become their worst nightmare?Melissa and Anna’s gap year in Paris is nearing its end and Anna is desperate for one last adventure before heading back home. A journey into the Catacombs, a vast underground network of tunnels and caves, would be the perfect last thrill. Melissa is terrified and can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen… Is she worried about nothing, or will the subterranean maze become their worst nightmare?
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Christmas Over the Bar

US Coast Guard Rescue Pilot Sly Beaumont lives to fly. Saving lives off the treacherous Columbia River Bar rates as a really cool bonus. As are the fine ladies who flock to the uniform. Petty Officer Hailey Franklin may be new to the USCG cutter Steadfast, but she's a second-generation Coastie and knows all the guy's lines. But when a storm-tossed Christmas rescue throws them together, neither one is ready for the lightning that strikes.
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Neutron Star

Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters. Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization throughout Known Space. A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space! Contents: · Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv If Oct ’66 · A Relic of Empire · nv If Dec ’66 · At the Core [Beowulf Shaeffer] · ss If Nov ’66 · The Soft Weapon · nv If Feb ’67 · Flatlander [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv If Mar ’67 · The Ethics of Madness · nv If Apr ’67 · The Handicapped [“Handicap”] · nv Galaxy Dec ’67 · Grendel [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv *
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