Science Fiction

Coming soon . return to Prythian with TWO new books in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Pre-order ACOTAR 6 for 27th October 26, and ACOTAR 7 for 12th January 27. <BR><BR>The third book in the EPIC Crescent City series from multi-million and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas.<BR><BR>Maas has established herself as a fantasy fiction titan - Time<BR>Think Game of Thrones meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a drizzle of E.L. James - Telegraph<BR>Spiced with slick plotting and atmospheric world-building ... a page-turning delight - Guardian <BR>Sarah J. Maas does not disappoint . To be devoured with relish - Mail<BR><BR>****** <BR>A WORLD IN DARKNESS.<BR>A BURNING SPARK.<BR>A BLAZE OF STARS.<BR><BR>Bryce Quinlan is stranded in a strange new world. She's going to need all her wits about her to get home again and return to everything she loves. But that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri's dungeons. Stripped of his freedom and the happiness he'd fought so hard for, he's without a clue as to Bryce's fate. Hunt is desperate to help his mate, but until he can escape the Asteri's chains, his hands are quite literally tied.<BR><BR>In this breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Midgard is brought to the brink of collapse, and the fate of the world rests on the hope of rebellion. But the fight for survival, freedom, and love may cost everything Bryce and Hunt have.<BR><BR>House of Flame and Shadow was ranked #1 in UK TCM charts week ending 6/2/2024

Dr. Sherry Faulkner has developed a way to save every comatose patient, no matter their issue. Though when they awake, they will find themselves with a new problem: a plague is ravaging the planet.Vessels and Travelers: A Story of Miracles is a post-apocalyptic novel for the rest of us. The hopeful, the optimistic-the reader who longs for answers, not dead ends, from the future. Mark Tipton's newly awakened characters are determined to establish a new world in the spirit of peace and cooperation. Their story may just awaken readers to utopian possibilities as well.

"Bennett R. Coles ranks among my go-to list in SF. Entertaining and intelligent storytelling and terrific characters. In Winds of Marque, Coles may well have invented a whole new subgenre that has me scrambling for a description--Steam Space?  Whatever you call it, a blast to read. Here's hoping that many more adventures are in the offing for Blackwood and company."  —Steven Erikson, New York Times bestselling authorThe first novel in an exciting science fiction series—Master and Commander in space—a swashbuckling space adventure in which a crew of misfit individuals in the king’s navy are sent to dismantle a dangerous ring of pirate raiders. In a dense star cluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star sailing ship HMSS Daring is running at full sheet with a letter of marque allowing them to capture enemy vessels involved in illegal trading. Sailing under a false flag to protect the ship and its mission, Daring’s crew must gather intelligence that will lead them to the pirates’ base.Posing as traders, Daring’s dashing second-in-command Liam Blackwood and brilliant quartermaster Amelia Virtue infiltrate shady civilian merchant networks, believing one will lead them to their quarry. But their mission is threatened from within their own ranks when Daring’s enigmatic captain makes a series of questionable choices, and rumblings of discontent start bubbling up from below decks, putting the crew on edge and destroying morale. On top of it all, Liam and Amelia must grapple with their growing feelings for each other.Facing danger from unexpected quarters that could steer the expedition off course, Blackwood and Virtue must identify the real enemy threat and discover the truth about their commander—and their mission—before Daring falls prey to the very pirates she’s meant to be tracking.

Billy the Kid, or Kevin Barrow? Rosita Luna, or Trisha Davis? Who are these people and why has Martin been dragged back to Lincoln to find them!?At the end of '4 Empty Graves', Martin Teebs finally got his happily ever after....or did he? With nagging doubts about the six months between the end of Old Lincoln Days and his final trip back in time to Lincoln, Martin must examine exactly what became of Kevin Barrow and Trisha Davis, the two young people who looked suspiciously like Billy the Kid and Rosita Luna? With the possibility that he might be implicated in their disappearance, Martin makes a desperate trip to modern day Lincoln, enlisting the help of Steve from Capitan, in order to tie up any loose ends that might have the past (and the FBI) coming to get him. From the past, Rosita implores Billy to try to reach Martin, if only to let him know he's about to be a father again. Billy's trip takes him nowhere near Martin, but back to the most sad and dramatic moment of his life. Will he learn from reliving the tragedy, or will his trip only leave behind pieces of himself? 'Pieces of Us' is the harrowing 7th installment of the 'Back to Billy' saga!

A gorgeous, good-hearted cowboy from 1887 falls for a modern, adventurous elementary teacher.Zack Fairfield hates living a lie, but that's what this time traveling cowboy must do to fit into the 21st century. He catches his secret crush's attention-until she heads for Colorado at the end of the summer.Birdie Kellogg wants a summer fling with her brother's best friend.She isn't looking for a relationship.She isn't looking to move back home.She isn't looking to get pregnant.But it happens anywayThen she attempts to meet with the father of the child only to discover he returned to the past.What else could go wrong?TIME FOR CHANGE is a western romance that shows anything is possible when love is involved.**Time for Change is a complete stand-alone and can be read without reading any of the other books or spin-off series, but if you prefer to read in order, start with Time to Save the Cowboy as the characters and families do interconnect.**Books in Western Time Travel RomanceTIME TO SAVE A COWBOYTIME FOR LOVETIME FOR CHANGEBooks in Love's MagicCOWBOY'S CUPIDREBEL'S CUPIDFIREBRAND'S CUPI

The galaxy is a dangerous place. Habitable planets are controlled by powerful factions, and the space between them is fair game for pirates and expansionists alike. The best way to get ahead in the Void is by hiring mercenary companies to use their ships and mechs to claim and defend territory.Most mercenary groups are run by morally gray upstarts who will do anything for the right price. One company is the exception: the Triple C. Led by former mech pilot Henri Durroguerre, it has gained a reputation for honoring contracts and minimizing collateral damage.Astera Ramos, a runaway turned mech pilot, is new to the Triple C. Eager to prove herself, she volunteers for a supposedly straight-forward reconnaissance job on Baldalan that quickly turns deadly.After guiding Astera back to safety, Henri realizes that the fatal contract was not as simple as the Kolos Admiralty made it out to be. He recruits Astera to help him uncover what is happening on Baldalan, and the Triple C unwittingly becomes entangled in a sinister plot that threatens to disrupt the balance of power in the Void.

Is love enough to heal the pain of the past?Olivia Bailey and her sister know one thing for certain: they are in dire need of some time away from their normal, work-driven lives. While their bakery business has served them well, neither realized just how strenuous running their own business would be. Eager for a change, the girls set off for a trip around Scotland. But things quickly go awry when an unlikely incident sends Olivia tumbling off the side of the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye. Rather than meeting her near-certain death, she opens her eyes to find herself transported through time and hidden away in a castle with two of the most damaged, but handsome, men she's ever laid eyes on. She knows she needs to find a way back home to her sister, but as time passes, Olivia realizes that the only way for her to find peace might just be to accept where fate has placed her. With friends among the castle's staff and their intriguing laird to keep her occupied, the heartache of being ripped away from the life she knew before begins to heal. However, despite Olivia's efforts to move forward, her troubles are far from over, and she may be in more danger than she ever could have imagined...Paton Buchanan thought his sacrifice would mean something when he willingly stepped into the land of the fae to save his friend. Instead, the years spent in their prison cost him and everyone he loved everything. Once released, Paton has nowhere to go but the home of his youth. But overseeing his late father's land comes with its challenges and finding any semblance of happiness for himself seems unlikely until a strange lass from the future arrives and reminds him of the people he'd once loved so much. Her perpetual optimism and kindness make it easy for him to fall in love with her. Slowly, the hurt inside him begins to fade. But her life belongs in the future, and he knows he cannot ask her to sacrifice that for him. Will his love for her be enough to convince her to stay, or will he be forced to lose yet another person he loves? And if she does stay, do they have what it takes to keep one another safe from the outside threat that looms over them both?Read all the books in Morna's Legacy Series:Love Beyond Time (Book 1)Love Beyond Reason (Book 2)A Conall Christmas - A Novella (Book 2.5)Love Beyond Hope (Book 3)Love Beyond Measure (Book 4)In Due Time - A Novella (Book 4.5)Love Beyond Compare (Book 5)Love Beyond Dreams (Book 6)Love Beyond Belief (Book 7)A McMillan Christmas - A Novella (Book 7.5)Love Beyond Reach (Book 8)Morna's Magic & Mistletoe - A Novella (Book 8.5)Love Beyond Words (Book 9)Love Beyond Wanting (Book 10)The Haunting of Castle Dune - A Novella (Book 10.5)Love Beyond Destiny (Book 11)Love Beyond Boundaries (Book 12)The Curse of McMillan Castle (Book 12.5)Love Beyond Magic (Book 13)

Third in the Columbia Basic pack, wolf shifter Derrick is number one in romance and passion. Determined to find a mate as dominant and fiery as himself, Derrick won't settle for just anyone. When Derrick and his pack start receiving mysterious text messages indicating impending doom, they realize it's up to them to protect the innocent people who are in danger. With the stakes rising, Derrick is hellbent on uncovering the truth, starting with his new neighbor. Despite her beauty and mystery, there's more she's hiding.Time-traveling witch, Meghan, has waited forever to meet Derrick, her fated mate through time and space. Finally, he's in her house and in her arms. She'll do anything to keep him there. But she's prey to an evil she can't quite name-and it will stop at nothing to destroy her. The wolf and witch set out to find a future together despite the odds stacked against them. Can Derrick keep his witch in his own time without losing her to a world where he can't follow?

A menace stalks the streets of Victorian Buffalo. Costumed like a medieval physician, it brings panic, sickness, and death to a city already in turmoil over automaton rights. Fresh off a boat from Poland, Kasper Czak can't let politics or mysterious figures deter him. He's willing to work anywhere for an honest wage, including as caretaker at the Lost Waifs Orphanage. Tori Anderson, a young woman with a withered arm, also works at Lost Waifs, where there's never enough time, hands, or money for their young charges. Locked down at the orphanage with ailing children, cranky steam units, and the handsome Kasper, Tori wonders if she'll survive. But when she comes face to face with the plague doctor, she discovers her true strength.

The future is bleak. Authority controls everything from weapons and food to music and pets. What animals haven't gone extinct are highly regulated and targeted for confiscation.Annie Birchfield is a tough seventeen-year-old fighting for what's hers. After a deadly run-in with authority, she and her older brother, Cody, must take their beloved but contraband horses off-Earth to save their lives.Barely a step ahead of the law, Annie discovers that her God-given talents may provide the funds for their journey and inspire an army to fight the oppression. Their rebellious escape not only exposes Authority's tyrannical over-reach but ignites a galaxy-wide uprising.Shooting Stars Traveling Circus is inspired by the performances and quotes of Annie Oakley, as well as several performances in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Shows.

How did she come here, to this place in her life? A once shy girl, without an athletic bone in her body, overweight, a little antisocial. A gamer, more comfortable in front of her computer monitor than under sunlight. How could it be she, now, with a gun, going into a foreign land to find another programmer, a brilliant but troubled mind, and share his discoveries with what remains of the world?The world has all but fallen, and Melody is beginning to realize there is no happy ending. Too much has already been lost. Too many have already surrendered to evil. Now she must look inside herself. Why does she keep going? For what does she fight, if not victory? What is her life worth?The enemy's objective will be discovered, on the far side of the planet and buried deep, and the remaining free people of the world will try to take it from the enemy's clutches. This will be their last, desperate play for any advantage, any leverage that might let them preserve a spark of liberty in the coming night of worldwide totalitarian dominion. Melody will be there, along with those of her allies who are not already dead. She knows already that she will hold nothing back. She has only her life left to give, and she will give it.The only question left, now, is what the world will look like when the dust settles.

When preservation architect Leah Halliday falls asleep in the bed once owned by King Richard III, she has no idea it will change her life.When she wakes up, it's the year 1485. Hugh Radcliffe, trusted knight of King Richard, believes Leah is his arranged bride Matilda, who she's never set eyes on before.According to Leah's history books, Hugh was executed for treason, and for killing his first wife. When she meets Andrew Gilbert, another time traveler from the 21st century, she learns that there's more to Hugh's crimes than meets the eye.Falling in love with Hugh, Leah puts her life on the line to make things right and get back home. But is their love destined to transcend the time spectrum?

This is it! Go time. No longer can I stick my head in the sand or pretend that my kraken honey hasn't knocked me up. "What do you mean, Lila?" I hear you ask. Well, it means I'm screwed. And not in the good way. After the lightning attack on Iceen triggered my latent Skarrian abilities, they've kicked into gear big time. Not only am I a lightning cat whisperer, but I'm also a mimic.I just became the perfect compatible option for any species in the galaxy. Which is not exactly an appealing thought. If I don't get control of my abilities, it could be dangerous not only for me but for my little ones too.So we're headed home to Skarr where I can give birth and get a handle on my mimic abilities before I splice myself into a dozen different species and get stuck that way.Never a dull moment in the Galaxy Circus that's for sure.

Jayne Erixour believes she knows everything about the universe. As a bounty hunter and assassin, she's seen the worst dregs of humanity and every sentient species ever spat out of a hell realm. To her, there is no truth outside of her blaster's recoil and her resolve to let no one get too close.Hadrian Scalera is on the run from the same brutal assassins who slaughtered every member of his family, both birth and foster. He has no refuge and no one he dares to call friend, as it will mean the end of them. He expects no mercy from anyone, until the day one assassin hesitates to pull the trigger.An assassin's code is simple: Kill or be killed. No prey, no pay. Every life has a price.If Jayne doesn't fulfill her contract and kill Hadrian, she'll be the next target on the League's menu. But as old enemies return to hunt them both, they quickly learn that neither will survive unless they can learn to trust each other. Yet things are never so simple and survival means only one of them can be left standing . . .

As thievery and deceit befall the continent, a new generation of Maca leaders will rise.Daniel, the new Maca of Ishner on Thalia, struggles to right the wrongs imposed on his people for nearly two hundred years. Determined to uncover the depths of the Sisterhood's treachery, Daniel and the other young Maca of Thalia face danger, as new threats lead to a battle to save their land and people.With tensions mounting in the struggle for wealth and power, can they fend off the attack, or fall to the Sisterhood's acts of vengeance?This is the large print edition of Thalia - The New Generation, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

Their interstellar romance launched a starship...After fleeing the malevolent alien race that wiped out her homeworld, all Libra Hawke wants is a quiet life of obscurity. No danger. No drama. Definitely no surprises. But then the universe crashes Brendan Scott into her - literally - and knocks her world off its axis.He's human. She's not. She has no business being anywhere near him, not if she wants to conceal her nebula of secrets. But tell that to her traitorous heart.His curiosity about her past pokes holes in her cover story big enough to fly a starship through, while logic takes a spacewalk every time they touch. Their intense connection indicates he might be her destined mate... if he can accept her alien nature.¿¿And her power.Delve into the sexy, otherworldly romance that gave birth to captain Aurora Hawke and the Starhawke Universe.STARHAWKE RISINGThe Dark of LightThe Chains of FreedomThe Honor of DeceitThe Legacy of TomorrowThe Siege of AllianceSTARHAWKE ROGUE TRILOGYArch AlliesMarked MercenariesResurgent Renegades

When history teacher Fritz Russell walks through his classroom door, he finds himself in the company of General Robert E. Lee - over 150 years in the past.Fritz finds his sudden time trip to the past both a gift and a chance for great adventure. But when a portal opens to the Oval Office, he realizes that the mysterious gate could also be put to a more serious purpose.When the president hires him to help with national security, Fritz doesn't believe there is any danger in traveling across time and space. But will his own government consider him expendable if he cannot solve the mystery of the portal?This is the large print edition of Storm Portal, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.¿

“A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story.”—M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist“Amiably outrageous….Mandery is a worthy son of those great writers of the 1970s, Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth.”—Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic“I’ve never read anything like it and enjoyed every minute of it!”—Jessica Anya Blau, author of Drinking Closer to HomeQ: A (Timeless) Love Story is a smart, romantic, and funny novel about tender and requited love, a wonderfully original literary feat from Evan Mandery, a rapidly rising fiction star. Taking the classic love story and turning it on its head, Mandery brilliantly blends outrageous humor, existential philosophy, and heartbreaking angst while offering a wealth of satisfying surprises. Funny and wise, a magical tale of a man obsessed yet unable to allow himself the fulfillment of a perfect romance with the one true love of his life, Q: A (Timeless) Love Story is a uniquely delightful work of fiction from one of the most exciting novelists currently on the literary scene.

I originally got a parrot because an old black guy with a parrot store convinced me that would help me pick up chicks. And I don't mean the poultry kind. Picked out a parrot at this old black guy's bird store here in Seattle that was big, blue, and loud. And a princess. The loudness I didn't learn about until too late. But that was the least of my problems. First of all, turns out I did not actually pick out the parrot. The parrot picked me. Not only was the parrot big, blue, and loud. And a princess. The parrot was a witch. Not a figurative or allegorical witch. A literal witch. A witch of the spell casting kind. The abracadabra kind. A witch with a coffee addiction, and a penchant for pizza and beer. Once I entered the bird store the parrot cast a spell. The kind of spell that caused me to clean out my bank account for a big, loud, blue-feathered witch. The kind of witch who did not abide with girlfriends. The kind of witch who did not abide with not getting her way. The kind of witch who turned out to be my guardian angel and the proverbial albatross around my neck at the same time. A witch named Princess Tara.

Agent Christopher Rockford has been the best assassin in the agency for eight years, and he loves his job. He loves his solitary lifestyle. He loves keeping the world safe by getting rid of anarchists who threaten their orderly society. He loves his comfortable life as a member of the wealthy Coastal upper class.But in pursuit of a target, he meets Jenna, a mysterious civilian who belongs to society's lowest and most shunned group. Being around her is life-changing. She makes him feel for the first time, and he is instantly captivated.She boldly stands in the face of everything he has ever known and was taught to believe. He begins to see the world through her eyes, causing him to question his job, his lifestyle, and The Order he so obediently serves. It's not long before he can't imagine his life without her.There's just one problem: He knows she would leave him if she ever found out about his job. He knows this because he asked her how she felt about assassins in their government, and she was utterly disgusted with the idea, even though she believes their existence is just a myth. As their relationship grows and intensifies, he knows he cannot keep the truth from her for long.But Jenna has her own secrets to keep.Set in an orderly world of near-perfect surveillance, genetically modified humans, and extreme socioeconomic divide, this thought-provoking sci-fi thriller will take you through one man's journey of self-discovery and learning that change begins within.