First Contact Thriller

Deep in the icy black of the North Atlantic, a state-of-the-art submersible makes a chilling discovery—a metallic object slicing through the water with impossible speed and precision. Moments later, systems fail, lights die, and terror takes hold. On Mars, a European rover transmits the image of a stone—etched with unknown symbols—just before vanishing from the data grid. Entire neighborhoods in Nevada disappear without a trace. And in the French Alps, a champion cyclist vanishes mid-race, his GPS pinging him thousands of miles away—then gone.

Sometimes, getting what you want is the worst thing that can happen. Dell Eckhart lives on the wrong side of the portal. The side where the ruin and devastation left behind by the war makes everyday life harder than it’s ever been. More than anything, he wants to win a ticket for passage through the portal. He’s running out of chances, but he’s not going to let that stop him. He needs that ticket. It’s the only way to save the one person he truly cares about. There’s just one problem. That person is actually an android. And androids aren’t allowed through the portal. Doesn’t ...

Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.

As part of the Greatest Generation, Major Anthony Spinelli, a World War II fighter pilot, flew into combat to save his family and keep them free. Two years later, he lost them in the blink of an eye, leaving Tony rudderless and without purpose. Then, on a dark, moonless night, in the skies above 1947 New Mexico, he has an encounter that will change humanity forever. However, when an accident threatens to unleash unimaginable destruction, Tony must race against time and unwinding plots to save us...and maybe himself along the way.

Light years from Earth, an alien planet forced their queen from power and cast her into space. For millions of years, the queen's ship wandered the cosmos, until it crashed on Earth. As a child, Michael Hems first lost his mother to cancer, and then his father to the bottom of a bottle. Growing up in a small town, Michael's friends became his life. The only one he knew. The only one he wanted. But the night he found the ship, everything he loved was thrown into jeopardy.

When humanity stopped choosing, the universe stopped listening. Humanity has all but perfected a kindness: a system that gently smooths away the hardest human moments before they can break anyone. No one has to bear what they cannot carry. No one has to choose what they cannot undo. It is humane, it is universal, and it is quietly erasing the one thing that ever made us visible to whatever has been watching. Then, at 3:17 a.m., in a quiet laboratory, a cluster of human-derived cells does something it should not be able to do. It chooses. At a cost. For another. Moments later, the console ...

In 2018, Canadian archaeologist Ron Jackson makes a mind-boggling discovery in Antarctica - right before disappearing without a trace, leaving behind only his controversial theory that humans have lived on Earth far, far longer than we think they have. Decades later, in 2042, when Jackson's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, an unlikely pair of investigators, Agatha Devenworth and Pano Hofer, begin investigating whether her death might be connected to Jackson's disappearance.

One of the world's wealthiest and most influential men, journalist Laurent Michaelmas lives in a penthouse overlooking New York City's Central Park with his superintelligent computer, Domino. He attained his fame and power after hacking into the worldwide computer network. He then went on to use his unique gifts to create a version of the UN that would ensure global peace. In short, he and Domino secretly run the world. But now, a Swiss doctor has cured an astronaut believed to have vaporized in a shuttle explosion during an expedition to the outer planets of the solar system.

David Marsh is a dead man on a dead world. Abandoned on Pluto after a mission gone wrong, he survives on recycled air and stubbornness. When a thermal anomaly beneath the ice refuses to stay quiet, he opens the hatch. What he finds is a station that has been sleeping under the surface for 472,000 years. It has architecture that responds to his heartbeat, five synthetic beings designed to prepare a biological host for godhood, and a maintenance drone that has classified him as contamination to be removed. Their commander is Jane — cold, strategic, and certain that without her, David will ...

In this stunning continuation of The Space Within, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Madeline Wyle (Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain) confronts a mysterious man known as Resident 9 (Mandy Patinkin), who possesses impossible knowledge of her past. As her investigation into alien abductions expands and inexplicable DNA alterations intensify among those taken, a former NASA scientist (Michael Shannon) emerges with evidence of an alien artifact, further suggesting humanity's next chapter may be unfolding.

A hidden star lineage. A forbidden contact event. A global disclosure war that could change what it means to be human. Rowan Mercer has spent his life studying ancient mythology, sacred sites, and power spots, searching for the hidden architecture behind human history. Then the orbs begin. At first, they appear in the sky. Silent. Blue-white. Impossible. Then they begin answering him. When Rowan quiets his mind enough to listen, a non-human intelligence from Arcturus begins speaking through him. The being calls itself Athren, and it knows things no human should know. Ancient sites are not ...

The threat is unprecedented, and the clock is ticking. With one danger gone, an even more deadly hazard emerges, putting humanity's very existence in jeopardy. Joe Hunt has dealt with the Russians, the Coalition, the Conspirators, and the Zorosians, but this next threat, a machine with a singular lethal purpose, will challenge him and all humanity like never before, and if he fails, humankind could lose everything.

OUT OF TIME – LAUNCH POINT (Book 1) A colony ship launches toward humanity’s hope… and arrives four centuries too late. In 2258 the Aurora leaves Saturn’s shipyards carrying hundreds of scientists, colonists, and the frozen genetic archive of an entire civilization. Their destination: Kepler-452 b, an Earth-class world 1 400 light-years away. Thanks to antimatter drives and a bleeding-edge Alcubierre warp bubble, the one-way trip will take the crew just twelve subjective months… while millennia race by back home. Captain Aveline Morrow leads a hand-picked team: John Ferris – ...

He found the end of the world in a core sample. The message said: They're Coming Back. Eli Croft spent thirty years at the NSA reading signals that weren't supposed to exist. Now he's retired, alone on forty acres of Utah scrubland, and the most interesting problem in his life is amateur geology. Then core sample seven comes back wrong. The isotope gradients are too precise. Too consistent. Statistically impossible to be natural. Eli runs the analysis six more times. The anomaly doesn't go away — it gets sharper with better instruments. Someone built something in the rock. Sixty-five ...

In 2004, Navy pilots encountered something impossible off the coast of San Diego. The Tic Tac incident became the most documented UAP case in history, and the most ignored. Twenty years later, oceanographer Dr. Morgan Hale discovers why. Morgan sees patterns others miss. Seven miles beneath the Pacific, her acoustic sensors detect a repeating signal anchored to the Mariana Trench. Seventy-two hour cycles. Harmonic intervals. Coordinated across every ocean floor on Earth. When she isolates the pattern, the timeline becomes clear: contact is coming. And it's not random. It's scheduled. With ...

A Navy trial goes wrong—and the USS Gerald R. Ford wakes in 1519, where modern power becomes myth and myth becomes war. A classified Navy trial goes wrong—and the USS Gerald R. Ford wakes in the Gulf of Mexico in 1519, cut off from the modern world. On a coastline that has never seen electricity, a single floodlight becomes a prophecy. Captain Mara Ellison must hold four thousand sailors together while quarantine lines, improvised diplomacy, and scarce supplies decide who lives—and what kind of power they become. For readers fascinated by the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment, ...

The lines are drawn, and the great game is about to begin.Wracked by guilt, Cassie Voges travels across a devastated landscape in an attempt to find some meaning to the chaos she has unleashed. Meanwhile, two mutually opposing forces that will determine the fate of the world prepares for an apocalyptic showdown. Global leaders unleash their formidable military might as they seek to take back what was lost, while the newly independent communities that were transformed by the alien organism aspire to rid their territories from the last vestiges of state control. With this inevitable conflict ...

The sky isn't empty. It's woven. Three years ago, an unmanned research station vanished into the upper reaches of a black, fabric-textured barrier no one understood — and the research crew never came home. The cable connecting it to the ground never went slack. Structural engineer Riley Grace built the ship that will finally climb it. Captain Cristiano Taylor commands under orders he's not allowed to explain. Physicist Dr. Nadia Garcia can't decide whether the discovery of a lifetime is worth what it might cost. And rigger Del Warrick just wants everyone to come home in one piece. Thirty-...

“Before faith could be tested… the truth had to be untangled.” Long before countdown clocks, global broadcasts, or theological crises, a quieter battle was being fought in the shadows—one of treaties, trade-offs, and the terrible price of silence. In this third installment of the Disclosure Day series, Dr. Lena Morales dives deeper into the origins of humanity’s long-secret relationship with extraterrestrial intelligence. What begins as an archival review soon becomes a revelation that spans decades of hidden negotiations—and exposes the moral fractures that set the stage for ...

Mars will be the battleground for the fate of humanity—and the future of an alien civilization—in this gripping science-fiction suspense novel. Against all odds, Lt. Ryan Braeder has kept the colonists on Europa alive, forging the refugees into a community and the ice-covered moon into a...