What would you do if everything you knew about the world around you was a lie? That's the question nineteen-year-old Zoren has to face when the space station he lives on is attacked. He is left for dead, and wakes up to find everyone has disappeared. Why were they attacked, and where did everyone go? The answers are out there if he dares to leave the space station, but one thing’s for sure, Zoren’s life is never going to be the same again...Immortality for Life is the second book in the Aurora Saga, but can also be enjoyed as a standalone story. Excerpt: There was a bright flash of light in the space outside, which lit up the room. Zoren instinctively flinched, closing his eyes, before moving his hand to shield them, but at that moment, and without warning, the ceiling of the room caved inwards. There was a suddenly rush of air into the room, followed by a deafening roar. Zoren was blown off his feet and thrown across the room. For a moment he lost all senses, and then he felt winded and disorientated. His ears were ringing and all he could hear were muffled screams. His vision was blurred, and he was finding it hard to make out where Sabri and the others were. He tried desperately to move, but his leg was trapped underneath the debris from a large girder, which was swaying perilously above him. Zoren noticed a figure rush over to him. ‘Zoren! Are… you… all right?’ Sabri said, panicking. He could barely reply. ‘I… I don’t... know.’ He turned his head to the right and, behind Sabri, could just make out some fuzzy shapes, which he assumed were Supora comforting her two children. He squinted as a large black figure appeared behind her. She turned and appeared startled, before Zoren heard a dull clap and Supora collapsed to the floor, as if she had been shot. The children froze in shock, then the noise sounded again and they both slumped to the floor. ‘Sabri!’ he cried out, turning back to her, but at that moment she was hit and collapsed next to him. Dazed, he looked up to see four figures dressed in black space suits and helmets. Another entered the room and then two of them carried Sabri away. ‘What do you want to do with this one?’ the muffled voice of the man who was nearest to him said from within his space suit. ‘He’s trapped.’ ‘It’ll take too long to free him. Leave him!’ another replied. ‘We have all the others. There’s no more time. We need to leave.’ ‘Who… are... Who are... you?’ Zoren tried to say, but his vision blurred again and the room started to spin. He felt light headed and fell unconscious. Other books in the Aurora Saga The Aurora (Book 1.) Kalrea's Legacy (Book 3, due out Oc/Nov 2014.) Views: 24
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstone continue the wild, epic saga of Tim Colter with the building of the transcontinental railroad—and the making of the American Dream . . . Twenty-two years have passed since Tim Colter and his family were ambushed on the Oregon Trail, forcing the young boy to find an unlikely ally in one-eyed mountain man Jed Reno. Now a widowed deputy U.S. marshal and Civil War veteran, Colter is finally ready to remarry and settle down—until a dangerous new assignment becomes a life-or-death struggle for the soul of a town and the heart of its people . . . The Union Pacific Railroad is laying down tracks connecting the great northwest to the rest of the country. But two rival factions have set their sights on the town of Violet—aka Violence—to gain control of the rails. It's Colter's job to tame the rampant greed and rising tensions. But... Views: 24
It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now. Views: 24
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide - and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can 'catch up' to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone's schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history - to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody - from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid - is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive. Views: 24
"You are the Bridge..."Yanked out of her life by the mysterious and uncommunicative Revik, a spy from a different race, Allie discovers that her blood may not be as "human" as she always thought.In a modern-day Earth much like ours, Alyson Taylor spent her life distancing herself from Seers, a second race of beings discovered on Earth and enslaved by humans. After getting in trouble with the law and with her own race in question, events in her life start to spiral out of control. When Revik appears, rescuing her from a group of anti-human terrorists and dragging her into an inter-species war, she learns that the world is nothing like it appears to be...and that she has far more in common with Seers than she ever wanted to believe.When Revik tells her she's the Bridge, a mystical being meant to usher in the evolution of humanity––or possibly its extinction––Allie must choose between the race that raised her and the one where she might truly belong.A psychic, science fiction romance... Views: 24
The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up.For Annie, it’s a trip back to her old stomping grounds from her days when she and her late husband, Wayne, ran an automobile dealership. It’s been more than three years since Wayne’s death and since Annie moved to Stony Point, Maine, to take possession of Grey Gables, her late grandmother’s old Victorian home.Now Annie returns to Texas, as Betsy is being honored at the convention for her ground- breaking work as a needlecrafter, and many of her works will be on display at a special exhibit.Accompanying Annie are three of her Hook and Needle Club friends: Mary Beth Brock, Kate Stevens, and Stella Brickson. Everything is going swimmingly until a death in Betsy’s exhibit throws a pall on the road trip, and doubly so when Annie and her friends become part of the short list of suspects.In her first mystery away from the friendly confines of Grey Gables and Stony Point, Annie is drawn into the unseemly incident, and she lends her considerable talent in solving riddles to the handsome police detective assigned to the case.Will the unlikely sleuths help nab a killer, or will they end up caught in the middle with no way to get out? Join Annie, Mary Beth, Kate, and Stella as they deal with death in Texas on this adventurous road trip! Views: 24
She'll do anything to protect her family ... even mate with the sexiest alien she ever hated.
Lexi Garcia is fed up with Draconians. The dragon shifters have ruined her life! They came to Earth asking women to sign up for their mating lottery. In exchange, they've offered to share advanced technology with humanity.
But someone on their armada is selling other--forbidden--Draconian technology to greedy criminals, and the black market in advanced technology has ensnared Lexi's family. Her father owes money to a tech-dealing mobster--who wants her sister as payment.
To save them both, Lexi has no choice but to join the lottery and submit herself to a Draconian. Sure, the one she's been matched with is super sweet, seven feet tall, muscular ... devastatingly sexy. But she hates him.
Doesn't she?
Nash Or, Commander of the Draconian Navy, knows Lexi is meant to be his. Her strength and loyalty are as compelling as her sexy curves. He just needs to convince her that not all Draconians are bad. Can Nash put a stop to the underground technology that's enslaving humans while he woos his sassy bride?
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Fresh out of a disciplinary that almost ruined her career and landed her in jail, Summer King is ready for a much needed night on the town...or at least a tour around the bar district in her local space station. But it seems this King girl can't stay out of trouble and causes a brawl within minutes of her arrival.Roz Taren is a mercenary, leader of the Wildcats, and a man who knows what he wants. Right now, that's the pretty girl in the purple dress. Rescuing her from the unwanted attentions of a bunch of drunks lands her right in his bed for the hottest weekend he's ever experienced.Then she's recalled and Roz discovers his little firebird is a fleet pilot (aka insane crazy with a side of total fruitloop). Fleet pilots live fast, die young and leave legends behind. When he receives word her ship is lost with all hands, Roz must bury her along with his heart.Only this firebird isn't your garden variety. This bird is a Phoenix...one out to tame a Wildcat. Views: 24
