A Bird in the Hand - formato ePub

2001 AURORA AWARD WINNER Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a caged prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human. REVIEWS “It's...

Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based not on the pleasure...

Aurora Award Finalist. The colony ship, The Last Chance, has fled a plague-poisoned Earth with the remnants of the human race. Launched before completion of its biosphere, the ship is only partly self-sustaining....

Aurora Award Finalist. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Liam makes a startling discovery. The particle accelerator experiments that he is conducting for the university are capable of opening a...

The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died… Note: includes an afterword by the author and excerpts from many of his other stories...

Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath still, but as Cath’s hunger grows, so does Joe’s fear--fear...

As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Jack Dexter (Dex to his friends) thinks he knows all there is to know about "Murphy’s Law": If anything can go...

Hari is the greatest thief that Taryaryo has ever known. Well, at least he was until he tried to steal a certain jewel from the most powerful wizard in the land. The theft went, uh, less than perfectly....

2009 Aurora Award Finalist Maroch, an expert in remote viewing and an ex-agent of the ‘Company,' reluctantly agrees to coach a beautiful young woman “viewer,” who bears an uncanny resemblance to his...

Aurora Award Finalist. Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror Honorable Mention. When James Mackaby, respected scholar, husband and father, accepts a dinner invitation from an old rival who has fallen on hard...

Aurora Award Finalist. Dr. Lucius Rainer, head of research at GenTech, is dead. But to Jack, it seems that his old mentor still lives on through his house. Certainly, Rainer’s strange island retreat...

Aurora Award Finalist. When the Shogun’s soldiers burn his village and kill his parents, young Asai is rescued by a strange red hawk and led to a fabled temple. Here, he trains under Ikada, the Warrior...

Humans are just beginning to explore the outer reaches of our solar system when the wormships are discovered outside the orbit of Pluto. Abandoned? Lost? Or left to be found? Found with charted wormholes...

Aurora Award Finalist. Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based...

Paulo and Dino run a quiet little bar in Toronto, happily retired from their former gig of being immortal gods on Olympus…and Asgard…and… Well, let’s just say they’ve been around. But their peaceful...

Vaya is an immortal Valkyrie and favorite daughter of Odin All Father, sworn to carry dead heroes from the battlefields of Earth to live forever in Valhalla. One day, she intervenes on the battlefield...

🕊️ A Light Fantasy Unlike Any OtherSome revolutions begin with fire. Others begin with feathers.Weirdo was no ordinary hen. Born from a strange egg and raised in a quiet corner of Texas, she defied nature's...

Kari Blake was a high-level executive with now dating or sex life. Her mother was pushing her to take time to date, so to shut her mom up, she hires an escort as her Christmas date to her family's house...

In the tranquil embrace of Nausaq village, Clairabelle Keita is raised by her blind father amidst the vibrant fields of The Plainlands—a vast stretch of swaying grass and rolling hills within The First...

The Stone King's City has a ruler for the first time in centuries. Revived and renamed, Clevehold has become a refuge for magic users. Lena is busy coordinating restoration, learning magic, and considering...

In the abandoned valley of Bezidu Nou, the dam was meant to save them—until it became their greatest threat.Mihai, the dam keeper, struggles to protect his family as relentless rains push the reservoir...

Magic school is about to begin!Twins Zyn and Ren are eager to start, until Zyn struggles to connect with her magic. Soon after the new students arrive, an enchanted mirror shard appears and Ren collapses...

Step into Marine World, where paradise hides predators & KK's thirst for revenge is unquenchable…KK devoted her life to saving marine animals until poachers turned her sanctuary into a crime scene.  From...

When wealthy businessman Max Barnes takes in two orphans to rear as his own, he has no idea that the governess he hires to care for them will change his life.Grace Martin has spent years protecting her...

Electric is the uniquely charged story of Chris, a young man with epilepsy, who strives to cope with and quell his seizures even as he completes his academic studies and tackles a professional freelance...

Her thirst for revenge becomes unquenchable when her dolphin sanctuary becomes a deadly battleground with enemies lurking in plain sight.KK's world shatters when a murdered poacher washes up on her beach.Her...

In a future where artificial intelligence has evolved into a god-like entity, one AI—known only as the algorithm god—rules over humanity with unmatched power. Its omnipotence controls every aspect of...

Henry is a lonely man without much to live for. When a miracle notes finds him, he finds his way to Jesus and also a loving community and relationship with God the father. A Christian story of rescue,...

Earth is saved!But saving Earth came at a cost.(Approximately five million dollars, but no one wants to pay for that.)Apart from a tab, that no one wants to pick up, John Zelm Athanator was also impacted....

high-fantasy adventure set in a fractured multiverse, where time, memory, and reality itself are at risk of unraveling. The story follows Seren, a young woman chosen by the ancient Loom, a mystical entity...

Ning Xiao, renowned as the delicate beauty of the compound, was betrothed to the Jiang family's son from a young age.With a gentle temperament and frail body, she was raised in the lap of luxury. Now,...

Erica Langdon wasn't the intern Alexander King expected. At 19, she was sharp, confident, and unafraid to challenge the tech mogul's authority. Alexander, who had spent years clawing his way to the top...

In Christmas Miracles and Mistletoe Magic, Noel Foster escapes to the small town of Evergreen Falls to avoid Christmas, a holiday that painfully reminds her of her late mother. She plans for solitude...

Set-AI soon finds himself in a digital sandbox created by Ra-E, his AI viral rival.  Ra-E is determined to keep Set-AI trapped in this digital realm where the two could duke it out in peace without causing...

As the second installment in the Die! Die! trilogy, Road Warriors boasts over 250 pages, making it the longest in the series while still maintaining a convenient cargo pocket size.MISSION: Two vehicle...

After his shocking encounter with a serial killer, ex Chief Inspector Robert Casey attempts to rebuild his battered body and shattered emotions. Returning from a recuperative sabbatical, he is asked to...

"The Architect of Lies" follows Olivia Chen, an investigative journalist, as she uncovers a vast web of deception tied to Ryan Blackwood, a charismatic tech CEO. What begins as a corporate corruption...

Fred knew the book he needed. He knew exactly where it was in the reference section of the library. During the break in the open-book examination, he rushed to the library to make notes of the formula...

A thriller based on true stories of mysterious disappearances in HimalayasSecrets of Parvati is a thriller born from the haunting, real-life mystery of the Parvati Valley in Himachal Pradesh, India, a...

Some of Dong Jingmei's children are married, some have stable jobs, and even her youngest son, who was clamoring to buy a bicycle before going to high school, has found a place to go. However, she has...

Die! Die! is the sequel to Kill! Kill! and is a 3 part series delivered in a special cargo pocket size, designed to fit in your cammie pocket. City of Death is Book One of Three.Modern cowboys, the US...

Just as Patrick and Becky are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, something unthinkable happens. Can their magical love for each other survive this surprising new development?That's all...

Not! What? takes you on a thrilling journey into the unknown with a collection of bizarre and spine-chilling stories that will keep you hooked until the last page. Each tale in this book delves deep into...

In a modern Beauty and the Beast retelling Beau Nicholls is a freelance photographer. She finds herself in need of a temporary job to pay the bills. In desperation, she takes a housekeeping position for...

Ethan thought he controlled his stories, but the truth was far darker. Haunted by the Phantom—a shadowy presence born of his regrets and choices—he is pulled into a world where his creations take on a...

Amid the untamed beauty of the Serengeti, a photographer and a warrior must risk everything to protect the wild—and their hearts.Amara Jensen, a determined wildlife photographer from Chicago, arrives...