When college-bound Eliza falls into a cruise-ship pool, she doesn't expect to fall in love. And when navy recruit David pulls her from the water, he finds her surprisingly hard to resist. But a whirlwind of rescues, candlelit nights, and beachside mi...
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreade...
When you control minds, only your heart can be used against you.Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice. As wil...
When everyone can read your thoughts… except the girl you love.Raf, a regular mindreader, is in love with Kira, the only girl in school who can't read minds. Raf struggles to keep his thoughts about her private, but secrets are something that only ...
Sparking a revolution can get you burned.Julian Navarro wants to fulfill the mission of his dead parents -- to spark a revolution and win mindjackers equal rights in a mindreading world. His jack ability lets him control the instincts of others, but ...
The remnants of their minds haunt him.Sasha won’t survive if he has to erase any more souls. He needs a jacker Clan that won't force him to use his unique and horrible skill. When a slick revolutionary Clan leader offers him a chance to serve a hig...
When your mind is a weapon, freedom comes at a price.Four months have passed since Kira left home to join Julian's Jacker Freedom Alliance, but the hole in her heart still whistles empty where her boyfriend Raf used to be. She fills it with weapons t...
Warrior faery princes can be very stubborn. Especially when they possess your body. Fourteen-year-old Finn just wants to keep his little sister out of Child Protective Services -- an epic challenge with their parentally-missing-in-action dad moving t...
Sneaking out of the palace wasn’t one of Aniri’s best ideas. But she’s the Third Daughter of the Queen of Dharia -- zero responsibilities and zero royal duties. She’s just the backup daughter, in case her older sisters’ arranged marriages -...
Aniri’s life is supposedly perfect -- she’s beloved by the people of Jungali and betrothed to their handsome prince. He’s a noble barbarian who’s pledged to use his skyship for peace, but the threat of a second skyship in the hands of rival c...
THIS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN THE Royals of Dharia Trilogy.The war has begun, and with the Queen of Dharia on her deathbed, Aniri’s excessively-proper eldest sister, First Daughter Nahali, finally sees her chance to claim the crown. Aniri and Nahali ha...
What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender -- a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid -- after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. B...
In a world filled with mindreaders, Zeph is a mindjacker who wants to stay hidden--even if it means the cute mindreader in his Latin class is forever out of his reach. He uses his ability to lock and unlock minds to gain protection from a ruthless mi...
What does it mean to be human? Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He’s the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders -- the human/machine hybrids who run the world -- in solidarity with ...
What if you could paint with reality?Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiti...
When mindreaders run the world, being a jacker makes you a weapon.Zeph can break open the toughest minds -- or lock the weakest -- which only means every Clan leader wants to own him. He did as he was told, kept his head down, and tried to shut out t...
Zeph always knew he was a weapon. He didn't count on being a spy.He'd made a dangerous bargain with the Director of Jacker Technologies at DARPA--he would let Wright test his mutant mindjack ability if she'd release his parents. Simple. Occasionally ...
All he wanted was peace; all he had was hope.Zeph had spent half his life hiding what he was -- keeping his mindjack powers away from dangerous men and running away from everyone he loved to keep them safe. Now that his life is finally coming togethe...
The Mining Master of Thebe is all alone -- not counting the scavenger drones, foundry nanites, and magtread tractors buzzing across the tiny Jovian moon. When a spindly tower of rocks mysteriously appears at the pole, it’s enough to vex the Mining ...
Kamali LeClair's dance is her prayer—and her rebellion against the human/bot hybrids who run the world. In Paris's annual showcase for the creative Olympics, she'll prove she's the best of what's left of humanity... and then refuse the ascende...
What if you knew there was life after death? Eli is back from the dead… and determined to stop the powerful ascenders who blasted him out to the void. But in the three days he was gone, the world moved on. The girl he loves is determined to build a...
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health.It's a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues.Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she'd give anything to take th...
The choice you make is the future you create. Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it's Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray's job to keep the clean-energy grid running.Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving fa...
Humanity is trapped in a loop.As the world heats, it takes more energy to keep humanity from dying—a feedback loop that makes net-zero carbon increasingly impossible to reach.Akemi's job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily dis...
When the world is drowning, diplomacy is more than handshakes and headlines.Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not th...
SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her...
SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler cleans mineral-rich nodules of microplastics, our pollution having reached even the most remote locations, when the crew finds something that shouldn't be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six...
SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita's a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she's certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on...
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you en...
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the greenbelt, but a young woman's curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpun...