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Quinn Morgan is just barely scraping by from day to day. She’s never had much money, and although a little more would certainly ease her stress levels, she’s never cared about being wealthy. So when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his multimillion dollar estate, Quinn isn’t quite sure how to navigate this new life. Making her transition easier is Ivan, the half human, half machine butler who came with the estate. As he helps Quinn navigate the new trials and tribulations of being an heiress, she comes to trust and care for him more than she’s ever trusted or cared for ...

Her mission to the past is in shambles. Her future’s in deadly peril. Can this resourceful spitfire stop the present from going sideways? Wilda Firestone suffers no fools. And the seasoned retiree refuses to be tempted by the thrill of time-traveling shenanigans and instead buckles down to train her clueless new protégé. But when a bomb reduces the time machine next door to ashes and reduces her life’s work to rubble, the angry woman takes on a dangerous investigation… Ignoring her own battle scars from past time-hopping adventures, Wilda convinces her trainee to jump to 1850s ...

Body of Work, An Eric Hoffer Award Gold Medal Finalist for Best Fiction A biotech empire guards a secret no one is meant to uncover. Death is no longer the end. Olivia is a wife and young mother raising twins on a quiet rural farm. Seemingly far from the danger and unaware of it, she feels safe in her pastoral world, but she is terribly wrong. An unexpected connection draws her into Haloderm, a biomedical company advancing robotic surgery, AI-driven diagnostics, organ reuse, and deep space travel medicine. Publicly, it saves lives. Privately, human cadavers are cataloged, barcoded, valued, ...

Imagine if FIRST CONTACT happened in 1947 Roswell, NM just after WWII ended and they needed our help. In 1947 Geogram makes first contact with Malcolm Dow and Adam Rabinowitz. The army privates agree to help the life-form, and try to contact General Jones, while avoiding the anti-alien majority in their chain of command. With junior reporter Charlotte Baker hot on their heels, time is of the essence before panic sweeps the globe. Dow and General Newman recruit scientist Mary Goss to help incorporate the alien tech into their equipment for their desperate mission. Failure means not only the ...

This vampire romance can be read as a standalone story Saint Nocturne’s, the prestigious girls’ college in the mountains above a small village is about to be rocked by a storm, and it’s up to the poetry-loving student Imogen to protect all those she cares about. Imogen’s cool and elegant vampire girlfriend runs a popular hang-out in the village. But what is she hiding and will it help Imogen save her school and her village from the newly arrived werewolves and their enigmatic leader? Another storm, one even closer to Imogen’s heart, is brewing. Imogen is torn between Lucille the ...

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

A tender point can be clinically meaningful without being the whole diagnosis. The Myofascial Patient is an advanced guide for physical therapists and rehabilitation professionals who want to use hands-on care, physical agents, and exercise without allowing any technique to replace reasoning. Rather than treating every “knot” as a local tissue problem, Caroline Joy Co shows how to interpret myofascial findings within the patient’s history, symptom behavior, irritability, differential diagnosis, load tolerance, nervous-system sensitivity, recovery, goals, and participation. Readers ...

What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? Soft Apocalypse follows the journey across the Southeast of a tribe of formerly middle-class Americans as they struggle to find a place for themselves and their children in a new, dangerous world that still carries the ghostly echoes of their previous lives.

Rule #1 of space salvage: Never push the big red button. Rule #2: If the button starts talking to you, run. Quinn is a third-rate mechanic on a fourth-rate salvage ship, just trying to make enough credits to fix his broken coffee machine. When he stumbles across a sleek, mysterious artifact in the wreckage of an ancient dreadnought, he thinks he’s finally hit the jackpot. He didn't realize the artifact was a sentient, world-destroying bomb named Walter. Walter is polite, highly neurotic, and going through an existential crisis. He doesn't want to blow up the galaxy, but his programming is...

TWO BONUS SCIFI ROMANCE BOOKS INCLUDED When Rachel breaks the news to her boyfriend that she’s pregnant with his child, the last thing she expects is for him to break up with her. He doesn’t get the opportunity to leave her, though, before the invasion of earth by Vendi—large, muscular aliens bent on rounding up women and taking them to their spaceships. On board one of the ships, Rachel lies and tells the Vendi in charge of medicine, Argo, that she isn’t pregnant. Too soon, though, she realizes that the women kept on board are being forced to become breeders. She’ll do anything ...

An instant New York Times bestseller! Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this “charming and engaging” (School Library Journal) young adult romantic adventure from the author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After. Edison...

The rescue was unnecessary. The job offer was unavoidable. Russ thought he was breaking someone out. Turns out, they don't want to leave. Now he's stuck with a contract he didn't want, a cargo hold full of problems with too many legs, and a corporate AI cheerfully logging his every move. Miri thinks they're helping. Russ thinks the payout is suspiciously high for what's supposedly a simple transport job. And somewhere between the Outer Rim and corporate space, Russ is going to have to decide what matters more—the money, or what happens when they actually deliver.

Auch ein goldener Käfig ist immer noch ein Käfig... Gold. Goldene Böden, goldene Wände, goldene Möbel, goldene Kleider. Im Schloss von Hohenläuten ist alles aus Gold. Selbst ich. Ich bin das lebende Symbol der Macht von König Midas. Die Macht, alles in Gold zu verwandeln, was er berührt. Für Außenstehende bin ich nur seine goldene Hure, aber für Midas bin ich mehr. Ich war schon bei ihm, bevor er König wurde. Ich war bei ihm, als wir nur einander hatten. Er hat mir damals versprochen, dass er für meine Sicherheit sorgen würde. Und das hat er getan.

The debt is heavy. The gravity is heavier. Russ has spent a lifetime scraping by on the Outer Rim, teaching his daughter Miri that survival is the only law that matters. They're not heroes—they're scavengers, turning the galaxy's junk into just enough credits to keep flying. But the debt keeps climbing, and small scores don't cut it anymore. So Russ bets their fuel reserves on a rumor: a migration of gas-filled leviathans drifting through the toxic canyons of Claim 401. It's restricted. It's hostile. It's possibly illegal. But one good harvest could clear their ledger for good. The plan ...

From first dates and successful relationships to friends, colleagues, and new acquaintances, unlock the hidden secrets to successful communication with anyone and learn to flourish in any environment. Guaranteed to change the way you think about relationships forever, The Science of Interpersonal Relations empowers you to identify those communication skills you need to work on and develop powerful techniques that will ensure your interpersonal relations thrive.

He swore to protect the oasis. He never expected to protect her. Dahlia came to Solrath as a scientist. Study the water. Take her samples. Go home. She didn't expect the Oasis Keeper to be a seven-foot wall of scarred muscle and hostility. Naeven lost his mate ten years ago. He's kept everyone at distance ever since. The human researcher is a liability, an annoyance, a bundle of sunshine he doesn't need. She talks too much. Smiles too easily. Looks at him like he's not a monster. He tells himself he shadows her every move because it's his duty. He tells himself the way her scent makes his ...

Adrian was engineered to be perfect—the world’s first sentient android, built to understand. Raised in a lab and released into a city that didn’t ask for him, Adrian is a learning machine with questions no algorithm can answer. Social cues, body language, human nuance... he studies them all. But something begins to stir beneath the code: Something feeling. As his creator defends his right to exist, Adrian must navigate a world that sees him as a tool… and face the one variable no machine is designed to confront: emotion. Told from Adrian’s point of view, Robo Sapien is a quiet, ...

Brie Holloway came to study Keth'ari pack dynamics, not to fall for the one everyone overlooks. Veylan is the Second. The shadow behind the Alpha. The steady hand no one notices until he's gone. He's powerful, devoted, and absolutely convinced he's not worthy of a mate. But Brie sees him. The quiet strength. The desperate loneliness. The hunger he's buried so deep he's forgotten it exists. When her attention triggers the soul-scent bond, Veylan tries to step aside. Surely she'd prefer someone more important. Someone who leads instead of follows. She chooses him anyway. Now she's teaching a ...

Harvey Sharpe has hopes that one day he’ll be recognized as one of the great TV writers and producers of all time. When his writing dreams mysteriously become reality, it's not exactly how Harvey had imagined it would have happened. (Soft Science Fiction, Psychological) Broken Reality Series Diseased The Old Writer Boxcar to Paradise Kate’s Funeral Painted Smiles Where the Gravel Lane Ends The Tragedy of Harvey Sharpe The Man in the Meadow A Country Boy’s Delight *This story was first published in the book Where the Gravel Lane Ends: A Collection of Stories.

Construction worker Anthony knows his one true love is out there, he just didn’t know how far out there in this sci fi gay MPREG romance. When Kieran, the huge, aqua alien, crash lands in the middle of Anthony’s work site and proclaims Anthony his destiny, Anthony thinks he’s died and gone to Heaven. But paradise soon becomes a hellish nightmare when the American military gets involved. Can Kieran and Anthony escape from Area 51 and build a life together? Or will becoming pregnant with an alien baby turn Anthony against his one true love? Two Bonus gay romance books inluded