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The Prox don’t even notice us. They are simply devouring and reclaiming every scrap of metal they encounter. They have destroyed several colonies, killing everyone and leaving only wreckage in their wake. Captain Jeff Bowers is a shell of a man, reduced to solo missions where he can’t piss anybody off. He is spying on the Prox, when his ship crashes and he dies...kind of. When he wakes up, he discovers he has a new body and mysterious powers that could save the Earth or end all life as we know it.

Ross Buzzell presents Book 5 in the Birthright: A Boronian Saga.

Captain Jeff Bowers has been resurrected by an alien race - leaving him with mysterious powers...powers that could turn the tide of galactic war in the humans’ favor. While testing those powers, a final experiment lands Jeff and his crew in an alternate reality, very much the same as their universe...and very different. Uncertain who to trust, Jeff discovers that enemies are friends, and old friends turn out to be enemies...and nothing is as it seems.

On a distant planet outside the reach of the Confederation, Garret Cushing finds himself in dire straits. Struggling with a guilty conscience and his life in the balance, he decides to do the unthinkable: turn himself over to the Confederation in exchange for protection.

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a...

Morgan Montgomery is waiting to die. Branded a traitor by her tribe, the Ikati shape-shifter has no hope for mercy - until Jenna, the Ikati’s newly crowned queen and Morgan’s former ally, offers one last chance for redemption. Morgan must infiltrate the Rome headquarters of the Expurgari, the Ikati’s ancient enemy, to destroy them once and for all. The beautiful renegade has just a fortnight to complete her mission or forfeit her life. But she does not travel alone.…

Refugees in a hostile parallel universe, Captain Jeff Bowers and his crew narrowly escape to neutral space. But Jeff is haunted by a vision that just won’t let him go, and it sends him a quest he can’t justify or explain. At the same time, he is obsessed with finding the love of his life - Jo Taylor - who is still alive on this reality string. But when he finds her, will she be different? How different?

An invincible alien army is closing in on Earth. Only one broken man has any hope of stopping them. Power up your weapons, boys - this shit is about to get real. Crossing the universe in search of a nameless Peruvian shaman, Jeff Bowers finds him...and the ability to control his own mysterious powers. Only the destruction of the universe stopped the Prox from attacking Earth. Now, here in a new universe, another Earth is staring down the most ruthless alien army imaginable.

Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world. In the penultimate volume of The Gatekeepers series, a massive storm arose that signaled the beginning of the end. Now the five Gatekeepers must battle the evil power the storm has unleashed - and strive to stop the world from ending.

Breaking a bargain with a god is impossible, or so they say. Which means Hannah is Cthulhu's forever. But she still hasn't learned to use her powers at will and old Tentacle Face isn't happy about it. His minions drop Hannah at Cain's doorstep with orders — make her useful in a month, or she dies. Cain isn't sure what's worse — damning her to an eternity serving Cthulhu, or letting her die. No matter what he does, he'll lose her.

I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door there was going to be trouble. Lots of it. And trouble's the last thing I need, since I'm not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet 13 billion light-years away. Plus, if there's one thing I know, it's that humans can't be trusted. We scare them. We can do things they only dream about, and honestly, we make them look weak as hell. Cuz they are.

On break from her vendor booth selling bittersweet swags at a craft fair, Lolo Henley accidentally witnesses illegal activity down along Atchison’s waterfront and runs for her life. Ever short of his dream for ordination at St. Benedicts Abbey, gardener Karch Riley rescues Lolo from an unholy search party. As trouble mounts, Karch discovers veiled threats on the adjoining college campus and teams with law enforcement to protect the innocent. Evidence of illegal gun purchases becomes linked with the abbey’s Vicar Copley, Karch’s harsh boss. Trouble deepens when human trafficking ...

After a dying man mentions a sleepy town in upstate New York, Jack Winchester races to the infamous community to uncover the dangerous culprit behind an unsolved disappearance, but the threat from his past is still playing games. Set days after the end of Cry Wolf, this pause-resisting thriller throws Jack into a world of fear, brutality, and the hands of a state hospital where no one is safe, and no one escapes.

Gears have been turning for centuries, and war has broken out. Cha Ming and Feng Ming rush to shore up the North’s meager defenses before devils from the South overrun them. No country can escape. In Gold Leaf City, Wang Jun has betrayed the North. He loathes his own actions, but he will do what he must to protect his beloved. He weaves a deep web while walking on the edge of a razor. A single misstep will cost him everything.

Once a god, now a target. Darius wakes surrounded by blood. Most of his mind has been stolen, and the dark figure that took it wants the rest. Caught in a centuries-old war between the human empire and fiery rakkan invaders, he soon learns his fearsome powers have made him an enemy to many. Unable to tell friend from foe, he must fight to escape the one hunting him, the one who seeks to turn him into a mindless puppet. His only allies are his panther and the captivating but callous Alexandra, who promises to restore him to former glory. But can she be trusted?

This is book four of The Vagrant Chronicle series, a dark fantasy story that follows a mercenary investigating the strange reemerge of magic.

A Amy Campbell le cambió profundamente la vida la extraña muerte de Tom Levy hace ya 12 años. Amy vive a sus 37 años de una forma solitaria y tranquila en uno de los mejores barrios de Londres, Chelsea, pero con muy pocas amistades y realmente tampoco tiene mucho interés en los hombres que se le acercan. Una y otra vez le vienen a la mente las últimas palabras que Tom le dijera antes de morir. Y por más vueltas que les da no les encuentra el sentido.

Llankaray’s grandmother left a rich inheritance: her medicine, an undefeatable spirit, and the stories of her Mapuche ancestors. These tales are forever etched in Llankaray’s memory—and the soil of their beloved Patagonia. She begins with Fresia, a gifted Mapuche medicine woman who communicates with plants. She raises her granddaughter, Pirenrayen, to be a strong healer and leader for her people. And then there’s Chekeken, a Tehuelche woman who was once kidnapped and sold but escaped.

The war with the profoundly alien Arduans has ended, and the Arduans have come to call humanity their allies. Most of them - the Arduan warrior caste refuses to accept defeat. Now known as the Kaituni, they are waging a war of extermination against all members of the pan-Sentient Union, human and Arduan alike. What's more, the Kaituni have an unexpected weapon in their arsenal: the alien Arachnids, once thought driven to extinction. The Kaituni drive the Arachnid fleet ahead of them, inflicting untold damage.

Jess and Mason begin their search for Faison and find themselves in a world where everything is turned upside down. Jess' relationship with Lucifer takes a turn she didn't expect, which prompts God to give her a mission she's not sure she'll survive.