Veronica arrives with her class in the spellcraft tower of the Oakhurst School of Magic to teach the bunch of young--and not particularly well-behaved--teenagers about the school's ancient spellbook....

One day when bullied Florian comes home from school, he finds a visitor in the caravan where he lives with his father. The woman, who looks older than time, tells him that his father is king of Celestia...

Tina had no choice but to escape Aurora Station on board the Starfighter Manila: the ship was about to blow up and would have killed the entire station.But they're in deep trouble. They have less than...

After having escaped from Kelso Station, Tina and her crew run low on supplies.Both stations they can visit are in pirate hands. They have to make a toss-up which would be the safest. They choose the...

Tina and her crew finally arrive on Olympus, the world that holds the Federacy Assembly. Her initial plan was to go there to present the data the left in a locker on Kelso Station fifteen years earlier,...

Verona Rupes, on the ice moon Miranda, is the tallest cliff in the solar system. If you jump off the top, it takes 700 seconds to reach the bottom. What can you do in the most important 700 seconds of...

On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs. The...

Continued from book 2:Following the destruction of the City of Glass through an explosion of sonorics, huge numbers of refugees have descended upon the Chevakian capital Tiverius.The refugees are mostly...

While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress.He was asked to take over command of a previously...

They came from the poorest cities on Earth. They were promised free food and housing. They didn't know that they, or their children, would never see Earth again.A few years ago, a military doctor walking...

Of all the things ten-year-old Cory Wilson expects to do when he moves to Midway Space Station, saving aliens from humans isn't one. An important conference is about to start at the station, not usually...

Continued from book 1Fifteen years ago, a brilliant scientist built a barrier against the dangerous power that radiates from the City of Glass in the southern land, allowing the citizens of Chevakia to...

A collection of fifteen novellettes and novellas by Patty Jansen. This collection includes the Writers of the Future winning story This Peaceful State Of War, as well as fiction published in Analog Science...

She is lost on an alien planet. He said he'd help her get home. He lied.Jessica's plane develops engine trouble over the dry Australian inland—and crashes in thick, unfamiliar rainforest.A group she thinks...

The shocking conclusion to the Moonfire Trilogy. Lana han Chevonian is one of the world’s brightest minds on the brink of making a huge discovery. There is only one problem: she is stuck as prisoner in...

A prisoner, a secret he can't remember, and the military force that will destroy planets to get their hands on it.When Fabio Velazquez arrives on the secretive military base on Jupiter's moon Io, he knows...

Jonathan Bartell is a young man, just out of university, when he signs up for the position of Quarantine Officer at the Orbital Launch Station.<p>He is part of a crop of students who flocked to...

She has a dragon, and she's not afraid to use it.Nellie Dreessen is a kitchen maid in the palace of Regent Bernard of Saardam. She has worked for two kings and two regents, has seen two royal families...

This collection contains fantasy and Science Fiction short stories that have all been published previously in venues like the Edge of Propinquity, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Byzarium, M-Brane...

Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon’s south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However,...

Revised June 2019.You intend to self-publish or have published a book or two. You're not selling very well and wonder why not. You feel you should be doing something, but the thought of "marketing" gives...

The complete series omnibus of the Ghostspeaker Chronicles.As daughter of a river trader in the kingdom of Saarland, Johanna doesn't want to marry or do "ladies' things", she wants to take over her father's...

Self-published authors are coming to realise that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling.But how do you do this?Invariably, advice given by other authors includes...

Take an adolescent boy. Make him angry. Add dragons.Saving Prince Bruno from the church crypts hasn't turned out the way Nellie had planned. The boy is morose, angry, hellbent on revenge, and incapable...

Izramith Ezmi is many things: a member of the feared, all-female Hedron guards, a war veteran recently returned from a pointless and bloody mission, and impatient, angry and above all, lonely. With her...

A wilful merchant's daughter, a mad prince, ghosts, demons and a kingdom in deep trouble.As the only child of a successful merchant, Johanna has her wits and a sense for business.The royal family is in...

Jas Grimshaw works as a mining pilot for the ice harvesting operations at New Jakarta Space Station. In his free time, he's a mindbase traveller. His mind travels on a bullet probe to other parts of settled...

Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always...

Continued from book 2Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie have come to Florisheim finding many of their kinsmen there. The survivors from the burning of Saardam who have come here are the nobles who were...

Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie return undercover to the devastated city of Saardam. In the months since they fled, the Fire Wizard Alexandre has ruled the town with campaigns of death and fear, focused...