Re-Quest: Dark Fantasy Stories of Quests & Searches - format ePub

"Editor's Pick: A collection that refuses easy categorization. Spanning cosmic fantasy, noir mystery, and psychological horror, … balancing scale with intimacy is one of the collection's strengths. Smith...

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...

A struggling Hollywood actor falls into a life of crime in this highly anticipated second novel from Hollywood Hustle author and four-time Emmy Award nominee Jon Lindstrom.Twenty years ago, Jake Ferguson...

"Maria Semple is a treasure." —Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story...

The monsters aren't just in the shadows anymore—they've made the Obelisk their hunting ground.As blood spills and the Halls descend into chaos, Iona and her allies fight to stay alive in a school that...

I've had my eye on her for four years, but she's my best friend's much younger sister and off limits.She is a breath of fresh air.Feisty, sassy, and strong-willed.She's also Brody's younger sister.There's...

From beloved author Mary Connealy comes a delightful Western adventure brimming with danger, laughter, and unexpected romance—a tale of a runaway teacher, a bewildered widower, and five rambunctious boys...

She's his curvy military pen pal turned best friend. He thinks he's way too old for her. Then one kiss in Key West rewrote every rule they ever made.RyleeI never planned on falling in love with my pen...

The Antediluvian Extravaganza's Fortune Teller has spent the last months taking care of a complete stranger, a woman. Gemini was found in the woods, unconscious and left to the elements. The highly traumatized...

Sometimes wonder finds you when you least expect it.Cece Belle is a high-functioning neurodivergent. She's also a big believer in destiny, but when her soulmate Robby dumps her mid-flight to Israel, she...

Desire is easy. Walking away from it is the real danger.She's known from the start that he isn't her type. Too charming, too careless, too used to women falling at his feet. Introduced through mutual...

They say the stolen rose blooms best.When Ethan Keating Mendoza is hired as a gardener at an old Victorian residence in central Indiana, he has one clear mission: make the roses bloom. Ethan's life is...

The next technology might replace you. Or it might kill you. Alan Harrison is a former insurance analyst struggling to build a new private investigation business with the help of his state-of-the-art...

Violet Dey gets a frantic call from her childhood friend, Fiona Madison. Fiona's husband vanished after a night out. The local sheriff was quick to close the case.But Fiona knows her husband, the good...

She came to Brighton to save her brother—she never meant to steal a king's fortune… or his heart.Charlotte Bathurst has spent years scraping together every spare coin to bring her ailing brother to Brighton,...

In 1989, Xanadu is a place built on second chances. Once a glittering Caribbean hotel for Hollywood's elite, Xanadu is now a quiet refuge run by Cliff Sandalwood and his wife Julia, far from the chaos...

A summer-camp wedding. A serial killer on the loose. And a wedding party trapped in the woods.Allie's once best friend is tying the knot at a nostalgic summer-camp–themed wedding in a remote forest campground....

The golden years just turned deadly.When Tippy Chambers signs Myrtle up for a volunteer shift, Myrtle finds herself at Greener Pastures Retirement Home helping set up a 1950s sock hop. The party is complete...

Fated Consciousness- Fate's Final Battle  is book 7 of the Fates & Mates Series and the Finale.Beneath a savage blood moon on the thinnest Samhain veil in recorded history, the fated mates of the...

She negotiated seventeen treaties. She never expected to become one.When the Ashveil-Solaris Accord demands a political marriage to end a thousand-year war, sun-elf diplomat Caelindra Voss signs on the...

America's food supply has become toxic, and the authorities call on the great investigator Zeb Dasher to solve the case!

Two very different worlds collide when Prince Thomas receives a proposal from the King of Cromwell. Thomas's family is kind, loving, and generous with the family servants, calling some of them their best...

Sienna Rubens doesn't wait to be rescued. She drives straight into the enemy's compound with a van full of her signature red-glazed cupcakes, a fully charged phone, and absolutely zero plan to fail. Her...

God Never Leaves Us Alone tells the story of three women linked by the mysterious hand of destiny. An engaging read that reminds us that love and life go on, even in the most extraordinary circumstances.

Sol (short for Soleil) always thought her love life and her Broadway dreams were on two separate tracks—until she finds herself swept into a complicated showmance that's too real to ignore. After a devastating...

A decade of love ended with one vicious fight.When Elsie's brother announces his divorce and their no-nonsense grandmother cuts him from her will, Elsie makes her soon-to-be ex, Petra, a desperate proposal:...

Secret Service Agent Allie Gordon has one rule: Don't get involved with the subject of an investigation. She broke that rule once and paid the price. When a US senator is threatened, Allie goes undercover...

Spring has arrived in Olde Towne—and with it, the promise of fresh starts.Chloe Taroni's first annual pet adoption fair is meant to bring the community together. With her best friend, Janey Cathcart,...

Grugnar has a job: follow a map to a Wizard, don't set anything on fire, and train to learn how to control his magic.Grugnar has a crystal.The crystal likes fire.It also has opinions.When a routine quest...

Claire Donovan wasn't looking for forever—just a laugh. One bored evening, she signs up for CryptidCupid, the supernatural dating site promising "matches to die for." What starts as a joke quickly spirals...

A single photograph.A family's hope.A man caught in between.In a world where tradition clashes with ambition, Nivika dreams of independence, but every step forward seems blocked by expectations she never...

Two weeks until graduation from Kogetsu, every girl seems to be falling over themselves to confess their feelings to Makoto Kawanishi. He's sensitive, the top swordsman of Kogetsu (and from the top-ranking...