Eleven years before Hannibal marched his army and war elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, a dying girl was thrown into a river and left to drown.Liada was captured by slave traders and, along with a wagonload of other girls and women, was being hauled across North Africa toward the slave markets at Carthage.When she falls violently ill with fever and convulsions, the slave traders fear she will infect the other captives.Their solution is simple.They throw her into the Bagradas River and once rid of her, they continue on toward the slave markets.But Liada does not drown in the turbulent riv...

Earth, 2212. The planet is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The remnants of humanity are divided: the elite inhabit the MEGs, cities transformed into massive, high-tech protective domes, while the rest, the MASS, struggle for survival in the ruined landscapes outside. All seems well for those in the CORPORATE, but the facade is crumbling. As the climate worsens and the MASS grows restive, the AI "Silicons" are achieving sentience. In a desperate bid for survival, the ruling elite have concocted a final solution: abandon Earth for Alpha Centauri, destroying the p...

Travis dreamed of partnering with a police dog—but Fate handed him a faery and something unexpected instead…Corporal Travis McLean is a man on a mission and doesn’t have time to waste on trivialities like love or relationships lasting longer than a night or two. He has always been laser-focused on his dream of becoming a K9 officer like his parents — but that driving ambition takes a backseat when he catches a beautiful, runaway faery rummaging through his fridge…In faraway sixth-century Ireland, the evil druid Ansgar has been enslaving the fae for a dark purpose, and ...

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation. As Mel desperately attempts to find equilibrium, he estranges his family and enlists the help of a greedy grad student, Will Baker, who teaches him the skills needed to wreak revenge on a system seemingly discarding him. As his aptitudes grow, he begins to use the internet, the very thing he despised, as a weapon. Slowly, he turns terrorist to deliver his message: tha...