Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren is not most cops. A gifted psionic with a troubled past, Kirsten possesses a rare combination of abilities that give her a powerful weapon against spirits. In 2418, rampant violence ...
Nina Duchenne walked away from a perfect life of wealth and ease to pursue a noble idea. Unfortunately, her hope of becoming a forensic investigator drowned in two years of mandatory street patrol. After one tragic night shatters her dream, she finds...
When thirteen-year-old Natalie Rausch said she would die to meet DJ Crazy Todd, she did not mean to be literal. Whenever WROK 107 ran a contest, she would dive for the phone, getting busy signals and dead air every time. She never expected to get thr...
For most twelve year olds, being kidnapped is terrifying. For Althea, it's just Tuesday. Her power to heal the wounded and cleanse the sick makes her a hunted commodity in the Badlands, a place devoid of technology where the strong write the law in b...
As far as Riley McCullough is concerned, her best friend getting 'dragged' off to Puerto Vallarta for the first two weeks of summer vacation was the end of the world―at least until the bombs fell. Life in suburban New Jersey with her mother has bee...
Secrets, guilt, and shame―Annabelle Morgan has them all in droves. Fortunately, only one can kill her. Anna's gift, psionic control of electricity, tends to go haywire in moments of high emotion. One such episode leaves her homeless after her fathe...
Ten-year-old Emma doesn't believe in faerie tales or monsters that secret children away in the night-until she meets one. She lives in a quiet village at the edge of Widowswood with her parents, her Nan, and her little brother, Tam. Ready to abandon ...
God's will be done. After eleven years as a priest living by these words, Father Antonio Molinari never imagined who would teach his strongest lesson of faith―a vampire. Part of a secret order within the Vatican, he is sent to investigate and debun...
Mamoru Saito was well suited for life as a samurai of Matsushita Electronics Corporation, except for one thing his conscience. In 2418, Japan has reinvented itself as an anachronism of feudalism and high technology. Corporations govern entire prefect...
Risa Black will decide the fate of an entire planet. After all, an angel told her so.
Orphaned young, she grows up among the resistance, fighting to give the people of Mars command of their own destiny. Two governments from Earth vie for co...
She saw it coming. She knew it would happen but no one believed her. Almost a year after tragedy shattered her family, sixteen-year-old Paige Thomas can't break free from her guilt. Her mother ignores her, doting on her annoying little sister, wh...
Once again safe at home, Emma clings to the comfort of family, and tries to put the fright of the Banderwigh behind her - but deeds, even good ones, often have consequences. With a new reality of spirits and magic open to her, Emma feels a strong con...
In August 2021, they tried to disprove the adage that violence doesn't solve anything―by killing everyone. No people, no problems. Fifty years later, humanity has emerged from the ashes. As if nuclear war wasn't enough, a cruel virus followed o...
A collection of eleven stories from nine authors set in the Divergent Fates universe. Delve into the Badlands in The Old City with Althea from the Awakened series, as well as JS Hughes' Last Flight, J.P. Sloan's Snake Oil, and Wilbert Stanton's Proph...
Designed to be the perfect assassin, Kate is as beautiful as she is deadly―everything she touches, burns.
The government attempted to engineer a pyrokinetic the likes of which the world had never seen, but their plans went awry. Her power ...
In the aftermath of World War Three, the most famous face in the world belongs to a nine year old girl. Maya Oman is the daughter of the woman who controls what's left of civilization, the CEO of Ascendant Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Her smile i...
Under the watchful eye of the Mother Shrine, twelve-year-old Wisp ekes out a simple, but challenging life with Dad, foraging for food and losing herself in old books from the world that came before. She loves the Endless Forest―except when the Tree...
A druid’s work is never done… even if she’s ten years old. With the Silk Thieves no longer a threat to Widowswood, Emma enjoys the solace of home and the peaceful routine of her chores. She is happy to be with her family, but still hasn’t qui...
Sarah Wright woke up a few times after parties in strange places―but the morgue's a first. At eighteen, she's eager for a taste of independence, moving out of state to attend college. A change of scenery is extra-needed due to a...
Kerys Loring hopes an expedition to a distant alien ruin will make her career - assuming she lives long enough to still have one. Her last team made a significant find, but her bosses took all the recognition and grant money. When Avasar Biotechnolog...
Sophie lives in a most peculiar cottage at the center of the Forgotten Forest, its inside much larger than its outside. You see, the house must be large, for it holds a great troll as well as a little girl. As one might expect, wo...
At eighteen, Sarah Wright never had to cope with a death in her family before―least of all her own. Two weeks after waking up as a vampire, she's starting to feel comfortable in her fangs. Sarah's doing okay, if you don't count ...
Twelve year old Piper Bailey wouldn’t trade her friends for any amount of money―unfortunately, when her dad inherits a fortune, she doesn’t have a choice. She’s happy with her little house in Syracuse and hand-me-down clothes twenty years out...
Princess Oona Talomir enjoys the little things that come with her station: a handmaiden, her lavish bedchamber, and scores of fancy dresses―the duty to win a decades’ long war, not so much.Oh, did I mention assassins?Seers foretold the conflict w...
Everything Risa Black believes is a lie. Her angel is dead, the cause she's killed for is as false as her metal eyes, and the one man she thought she could trust has deceived her for sixteen years. Smothered by deepening layers of conspirac...
Sarah Wright knows she’s in for a rough week when a ghost asking for help is the least frightening thing she has to deal with.A month after waking up as a vampire, unlife is feeling pretty sweet. Her mood swings are easing off, she’s got a decent...
Eleven year old Kiera Quinn is sure she's having a nightmare. She doesn't believe a nap that started in her suburban bedroom ends in an empty wasteland. She doesn't believe everyone she's ever known may have never existed―and she definitely doe...
Two weeks after Maya tried to save the world, little has changed. Little, except for a nine-year-old’s building fear that her ex-mother’s revenge waits around every corner.When her face appeared on every still-working video monitor along the East...
Fantasy roleplayers often get deep into their games, but thirteen-year-old Keith Croft is about to take it to a new level.He's been invisible for seven years, smart but not working hard, athletic enough, but too lazy to excel. His parents are sorta c...
The Far Side of Promise is an anthology of short stories encompassing multiple genres.Eric lives in two worlds, one real, one virtual… and the line between them blurs in Ouroboros.In The Tower, Alex Grant is a man who gets what he wants -- until he...
The universe holds various immutable constants: death, gravity, taxes… and the Wright family road trip. After a couple months as a vampire, Sarah’s mostly adjusted to her new unlife. Despite being eighteen and immortal, she embraces staying at ho...
Most Citizens hold Outcasts in dim regard, but Sima never expected they’d throw her off the planet.In 2411, overpopulation has spread a plaque of filthy, congested city to the corners of the Earth. Government has raised corruption to an art form, a...
Division 0 Officer Aaron Pryce understood any day on the job could be the last for him or his wife-but he never imagined he'd be the one to kill her.As it turned out, the world of professional sports frowned on using Telekinesis on the field. So, a c...
Safety is at best a relative thing in 2073, fifty-one years after nuclear war scorched the world. Kevin found a quiet little place to hole up with the woman who came to mean more to him than his lifelong dream, and a little girl she took in after th...
Brooklyn Amari knew not to get in a car with a stranger. When a man tried to lure her -- she killed him.As if taking a life at the tender age of ten wasn’t bad enough, her childhood home burned to the ground two years later. She doesn’t remember ...
Brooklyn thought nothing would ever surprise her again after learning her father is an extraplanar being―until the police ask her for help.For most of her life, the cops have been a thorn in her side, always in the way of a good time. By sevent...
Brooklyn Amari doesn’t ask for much, only the ability to make it through life without destroying the universe.Working as a firefighter is her true calling, satisfying her deep, primal draw to the flames. Immunity to burning courtesy of her half-ext...
Emma tries to balance her newfound abilities as a druid with only being ten years old. Chores and having to go inside before dark leaves only a few hours a day to save the forest―or at least her home town.Strange magic plagues the people of Widowsw...
Sarah Wright doesn't think something as minor as death should get in the way of her future.With the worst summer of her life behind her, it's time to start focusing on her education. An immortal vampire-even if she is still new at it-pursuing a degre...
When an angel returns to Earth, millions will die.A being born of darkness bends the Angel to his will, intent on covering West City with a rain of fire. The authorities close in on Archon, forcing him to act in haste. His meticulous plan to seek san...
In the wake of a twenty-year war, the people of Lucernia struggle to believe their former enemies aren’t demon-loving savages. However, that’s easy compared to the more alarming change: accepting their nation now has two queens.Many citizens in a...
Ten-year-old Emma has battled dark creatures and protected her home from errant magic, but an unexpected letter brings her scariest trial yet―attending a wedding in Calebrin.Da’s younger sister has invited them for her ceremony, but Emma dreads t...
Five months after becoming a Vampire, Sarah Wright’s unlife has gone back to relative normal -- until demons start coming out of the woodwork.Before graduating high school last June, she never imagined she’d wind up staying at home with her paren...
Six months ago, Harper Cody stressed out over finding the right college-now, she'll be thrilled if she makes it to her eighteenth birthday.Unexpected nuclear war destroyed the world she knew along with her dreams for a future. Violent thugs took away...
Eight months ago, the skies burned.Harper Cody's life in the town of Evergreen is far from the comfortable suburban existence she enjoyed growing up. The urge to survive hardens all, even the sweetest girl in her class. Safety is difficult to find, b...
Saving the world isn't easy. It's even harder when you're only nine.Kelly Donovan used to be a nobody. Well, a smart nobody. Skipping ahead a year in school made her the smallest kid in fifth grade and a target for bullies in search of an easy mark. ...
Sarah Wright faces many challenges typical to any college student: tons of work, second-guessing her major, and trying to find time between classes to drink blood.She’s adjusted to her new vampiric self. It’s fun being immortal, despite a mostly ...
Nine-year-old Maya dreads living in the Habitation District with her new family. It’s not the lack of video games or her shabby clothes, or even wondering if she’ll eat from day to day -- it’s the giant target on her back.Her ex-mother’s offe...
Althea struggles to adapt to an unexpected twist in her life -- not being kidnapped in six whole months.The strange police from the faraway city claim the abilities she thought of as magic are really ‘psionics,’ and say she is far stronger than a...
In the realm of imagination, characters live out a thousand different lifetimes in hundreds of worlds, offering an escape from the mundane. This book contains a selection of twenty-seven chapter ones from my standalone novels and first-in-series book...
Kelly Donovan wants to save the Earth from aliens, but her plan has a serious snag -- she needs to do it before bedtime.
It’s been a few weeks since the Nolmek scattered giant crystals around the world that unintentionally gave some pe...
Ten months after civilization burned in a rain of nuclear fire, Harper Cody faces a situation scarier than shooting bad guys -- having hope.The people of Evergreen try their best to cling to the modern world, but life inexorably slides toward a socie...
Sarah Wright has gone through a lifetime of mess in a mere five months, but her most difficult challenge yet is making it through Thanksgiving without spilling blood.It isn’t only her extended family tempting her to sprout claws. A vampire hunter h...
It started with the insects.The mass die-offs had been a warning unheeded. Before society realized the danger, the Earth had inexorably begun a transformation into a place where life could not survive. A small group found shelter in the Arc, an under...
Freeing a centuries-old murderer from a ghost jar usually ends badly.Sarah has finally adjusted to unlife, at last comfortable with herself. Her college classes are going well even if she isn’t fully committed to her current major. Her one frustrat...
Brooklyn Amari exists to destroy the world-but she doesn't want to.It's not every day a person finds out their father is an ancient demon, two powerful armies expect her to end creation, and everything people think about celestial beings is completel...
Nine-year-old Kelly Donovan helped save the world from aliens, but now she has an even bigger problem-someone's trying to ruin Halloween.Life is difficult for the world's tiniest superhero. Her genius plan to save her parents from supervillainy in on...
Kirsten Wren's job has gone back to normal-ghosts are killing people again.After twenty-three rough years, Fate seems to be giving her a break. Her adopted son is happy. The new-well, first-boyfriend is doing everything right... and she hasn't seen a...
Sarah Wright has experienced no shortage of stressful situations since becoming a vampire, but she's about to face the most terrifying one yet-being the adult in the room.Nine months into undeath, Sarah's found her stride. She's comfortable in her fa...
For survivors of nuclear war, normal is what they make of it.Harper Cody never figured out what she wanted to do with her life, until planning a future became pointless. No longer stressing over choosing a college major, her biggest worry is making i...
Nothing has complicated Sarah Wright's life as much as losing it.Discovering vampires and other supernatural creatures are real took the sting out of being murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She's enjoying her new reality, even if taking a knife to the he...
Sarah Wright has a job to die for.She never asked for it, never even filled out an application. To be fair, she didn't ask to die either. Ever since she woke up as a vampire, she only wanted to unlive in as ordinary a way as possible. Alas, the reali...
Sima Nuvari never expected to see her seventeenth birthday.Outcasts seldom live long once they're too old to look like innocent children. Survival requires hard choices: crime, gangs, prostitution, drugs, or worse. Sima got lucky-they kicked her ...
Monarchs often face the consequences of a predecessor's actions-but death is asking too much.Kitlyn and Oona never wanted power, only to love each other... a potentially deadly desire in a kingdom obsessed with a twisted notion of purity. After years...
Brooklyn Amari is so excited to have a kid, she's beside herself-literally.The six-year-old isn't her daughter, but a copy of her in all ways except age. Despite a seventeen-year age gap, being around Pandora makes her feel like a kid again, which me...
There's only one thing Übergirl loves-almost-as much as helping people: Star Prince comics.Before the Nolmek accidentally made superheroes real, Kelly Donovan often escaped into the pages of her favorite comic series to forget about bullies ...
Sarah Wright knows her unlife is about to get crazy-everything feels too normal.She doesn't need a spirit oracle to warn her of imminent craziness. Seems every time her life after becoming a vampire starts to come close to resembling normality, all h...
Giant insects and murderous raiders are a daily nuisance in the Badlands; Althea faces a new, even more confusing challenge-friends.Being the Prophet had some good parts: no one dared hurt her and she got to heal people. It also had bad parts, li...
Civilization took thousands of years to build and only hours to destroy.One year after the bombs fell, the proverbial dust has settled, but real dust remains a lingering haze in the sky. The town of Evergreen has evolved from a group of stunned survi...
Samantha Moon is back and doing what she does best: solving crime, finding killers, and helping those who can't help themselves...For years, Samantha Moon has wanted to be normal. It seemed an impossible dream-right up until it happened.Sort of.N...
In her short time as a vampire, Sarah Wright has made some enemies... but she never expected to piss off the Universe.All things considered, for only being two months into her second year as a vampire, she's doing well. She's earned some status with ...
Becoming a vampire had been the most extreme shock of Sarah Wright's life-or so she thought.Fourteen months into her strange new existence, an impulsive red-headed bomb rocks her unlife to the core. As if having to cope with all the feels isn't stres...
Techies often blame problems on ghosts in the system, but sometimes it's literal.In the year 2419, the sprawling metropolis of West City offers no shortage of ways to die. In light of all the crime, illicit chems, overpopulation, and ghastly accident...
Sarah Wright's second year of vampiric unlife draws to a close in a way she never imagined... going on another family road trip.Vampires are, after all, creatures of tradition. The elders might not understand her decision to stay with her mortal kin,...
It's the end of the world as she knew it, but Harper Cody feels fine.Mostly.Surviving after nuclear bombardment isn't all bad. Alarm clocks aren't a thing anymore. No one gets stuck in traffic on their way to a soul-draining nine-to-five, their food'...
Emma planned to have a nice fun day playing with her sister and friend... not going halfway across the world.For most of her ten years, Emma always felt apart from other children in the village, always trying to be responsible, helpful, and mature. W...
Threats of doom and destruction coming from the backyard barbecue grill are a bad portent-especially when they're not from Dad's cooking. Sarah Wright has pretty much gotten into her groove with the whole vampire thing. Unlife's pretty darn nifty... ...
Sarah Wright isn't sure what to do with her future, but at least she has an eternity to make up her mind.Vampirism comes with amazing perks and a whole bunch of craziness. Two years into unlife, her insecurities are settling into place. The future's ...