JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE IT'S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Springfield Model 1880. Trapdoor rifle with bayonet. Vengeance optional. With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder—whether it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's problems . . . His junior officer, Lieutenant Grat Holden, is coming after him. With the help of an ornery ex-sergeant known as "Hard Rock" Masterson and fiery guerilla fighter Soledad, the young lieutenant will face off with war chiefs, banditos, and cutthroat outlaws. That's just for starters. Then he's got to take down a man who has enough guns for a small army . . . Live Free. Read Hard. Views: 363
Jonathan Quinn has had better years, but now most of the trouble is behind him, if not forgotten.There is one issue that remains unresolved—the break between him and his partner, Nate. Quinn has come to accept the only potential path to healing the wound is via the passage of time. The secret world has other ideas. Quinn and his girlfriend, Orlando, are hired for a new mission, but they must include on their team the operative who is one of the few to have ever seen the face of the job’s target. This operative is unknown to the client, but not to Quinn and Orlando. Now, to stop a plan that could slaughter tens of thousands of people, they must turn to the one person who wants nothing to do with them. If they can even find him in time. Views: 362
From New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera, a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home—even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. Views: 362
Three people are forced to land on the planet Rhea. A world now known as the planet of the damned. What happened to this once great civilisation is clouded in rumour and legend. A cautionary tale for those who wish to hand their lives over to machines. The crew take the opportunity to explore the planet and, in doing so, they uncover exactly how much of the nightmare is still in play.People often ask what inspires me to write poetry.I would have to say like many poets we are not creatures of habits, but instead are free spirits full of compassion and mellow drama, and are inspired by things that touch us. For me poetry is therapeutic and a way of cleansing my troubled soul. Purging my emotional suffering into ink on paper allows me to share with others who might be going through the same growing pains most experience in life. Due to the absence of the Deity in our country we are a nation of dysfunctional families, but there are some who still put God first. A family who attends my church is the example of how we as a nation should be raising our children. Having adult children they still unselfishly foster children. They are not a young couple, but have so much to give by opening their home to the least of these precious little ones. I have great admiration, love, and respect for them. Their love is not temporary as they eventually adopt many of these children. More oft than not it is the precious little ones that are the pistons that keep my wheels turning. It is easy to be inspired by a child because they are of a pure heart. Children are easily amused by the simplest things, such as turning a box into a car or perhaps a plane or even a playhouse. It is the smile on the face of a child and their precious busy little hands that give me the most joy. There are no sour grapes in their household, only sweet ones on the vine, because they receive constant nurturing from everyone around them. Views: 362
A vignette of the human experience, set to a backdrop of science fiction. A character oriented story about the end of the world.The planet's water supply is contaminated. What is left is being guarded by the military. But what does it matter when that will be eventually consumed too?This is a story of the last few days in a city without water and the accepted fate of one man who wasn't interesting or important enough to be on any ration lists. Views: 362
Quinn Sutherland, second in command of the Tribe, a group of powerful telepaths, has always been certain of who and what he is—one of the good guys. All he wants is to keep his friends safe—no easy feat when everyone in the world is after them. While on a rescue mission, he meets a mysterious FBI agent, who appears to know a lot about them, and seems to want the same thing he does. But her assignment could literally mean the death of him...When Melody Lyons is inducted into the Federation's elite Bureau of Time Management, it's the pinnacle of her ambitions. Only when she's sent back to the twenty-first century to eliminate a group of rogue time travelers, she never guesses she'll fall for a man who died two thousand years ago... Quinn awakens emotions she hadn't known existed, and for the first time, her loyalties are tested.Books in the Beyond Human series:Unthinkable UnspeakableUncontrollable Views: 362
Many tales warn us to beware the Fay Queen: yet when she steals-away Rouger, his friend Luna sets out to find her magical realm.A small key made of a mistletoe berry provides her first clue, a box containing all our fears another.Yet it’s the secret of the Fay Queen’s eternal beauty that will ensure her success–for the queen may take the youth of any girl foolish enough to willingly approach herMany tales warn us to beware the Fay Queen: yet when she steals-away Rouger, his friend Luna sets out to find her magical realm.A small key made of a mistletoe berry provides her first clue, a box containing all our fears another.Yet it’s the secret of the Fay Queen’s eternal beauty that will ensure her success – for the queen may take the youth of any girl foolish enough to willingly approach her Views: 362
Seventeen-year-old Duncan Greenfire is alive. Three hours ago, he was chained to the rocks and submerged as the incoming tide washed over his head. Now the waters are receding and Duncan's continued survival has completed his initiation as a Sea Wolf. It is the 167th year of the Dark Age. The Sea Wolves and their Eastron kin can break the glass and step into the void, slipping from the real world and reappearing wherever they wish. Wielding their power, they conquered the native Pure Ones and established their own Kingdom. The Sea Wolves glory in piracy and slaughter. Their rule is absolute, but young Duncan Greenfire and duellist Adeline Brand will discover a conspiracy to end their dominion, a conspiracy to shatter the glass that separates the worlds of Form and Void and unleash a primeval chaos across the world. 'Epic fantasy at its scary, fun, sarcastic, shock-laden best' THE BOOKBAG. Views: 362
On New Ceres you will find coffee houses, highwaymen, drinks, gambling and illegal high technology.New Ceres' New Enlightenment constrains society as well as liberating old thoughts and literature and drinking customs. The planet plays interstellar politics to defend its independence and it recruits refugees from Old Earth and the conquered New Alliance planets to maintain some dangerous habits.Meet the world of New Ceres, an exciting and dangerous place. Its water is green and its inhabitants are sophisticates.New Ceres is precarious: its New Enlightenment constrains society as well as liberating old thoughts and literature and drinking customs. The planet plays interstellar politics to defend its independence and it recruits refugees from Old Earth and the conquered New Alliance planets to maintain some dangerous habits. On New Ceres you will find coffee houses and highwaymen, drinks, gambling and illegal high technology. Views: 362
The angels fell in heaps of blood and broken bones. Cassie Larke watched, like all humans, as they died on the streets and the world grew dark and cold. Twelve years later, Cassie discovered a strange man adrift at sea, with no memory of who he was or where he came from. When no one else can see him, Cassie begins to wonder if he's an angel.People are dying, and someone or something is after Cassie and her wayward angel. Does she have what it takes to save them both? Views: 362
Emmeline is a young, single mother all alone in the world. After being attacked, she was cast out by her family and is having a hard time making her way in the world, Desperate to assure her son's future, she gave him up to her mother to raise—only to have him stolen away from her completely. Now he is sick and she must find a way to heal him—but how?Enter Skahr, a Kindred warrior from another world who needs some healing of his own. A prophesy has foretold that Emmeline is the one he seeks but he must promise to help her find and heal her baby first. As the two go on a quest together, Emmeline finds herself drawn to the big, scarred warrior with his surprising strength and quiet ways. But will the two of them get back her baby before it's too late?And will they have...Time to Heal?Author's Warning: Though I have tried to handle it delicately, readers should know that my heroine, Emmeline, is the victim of sexual assault. If you... Views: 362
