What Happens when you miss someone you've never met? With an alcoholic brother and a complicated friendship with her best friend’s boyfriend, twenty-one-year-old Katie Winters has always used photography as an escape. But when a teacher prompts her to explore the very feelings she’s been trying to ignore, Katie finds herself painting three mysterious words under an abandoned bridge: I miss you. The feeling is real, but after searching her memory, Katie can’t think of whom she could have meant. Then Katie meets Robin, and environmental ...

The only person on Earth she trusts ... is in space Archaeologist Nel Bently left Chile in the wake of murder, vandalism and UFO sightings. No sooner has the school semester started when cops are at her door. Accused of a murder she’s not certain is her fault, Nel has no choice but to go on the run. She starts a game of connect-the-dots across New England following her gut and clues left by her elusive alien-benefactor-turned-almost-girlfriend.  Running from the law isn’t easy with her field pack and a handful of scorned exes ...

The year:  2157  The mission:  change everything The Unit:  Democratic State Force Base 1407  Call handle:  The Wildcards Seven Corporations control what was the United States of America. The food supply and its production is controlled by American AgCo. All agricultural seeds in the United States have been genetically designed to fail outside Corporate control. At least, that's what the Corporations say. There's a rumor that a seed bank has survived the destabilization that brought down old America ...

It costs a lot to win. And even more to lose. Seven Corporations rule the former United States with seven codes of conduct based on their ideas of morality. Comply with the code of the Corporation that holds your Citizen Contract, or suffer the economic consequences. Or fight back. For sixty years the Democratic State Force has been fighting to return representative democracy to the country. Living in the no man's lands between cities and hanging on by their fingernails, the thinly spread guerrilla force hasn't gotten far. But they have a secret weapon: ...

How can they win a war when their greatest enemies are themselves? “Death hurt less than I thought. I wish I could bring that peace back with me. War doesn’t scare me now, or this strange city, or life at home continuing without me. When she brought me back from that beautiful peace, my humanity stayed behind. I’m the only thing that terrifies me, now.” Blood stains the land. With the gods' desperation, Azirik's mania grows. Away from her newfound family, Alea struggles to control the horrors in her mind and the ...

It starts when you're always afraid. Seven Corporations run the former United States on the codes of conduct their founders set down. You're signed into a Corporate contract the day you're born. And the fear of dropping in the Citizen Standing Scores keeps people in line. What choice is there? The Democratic State Force has fought for the return of democracy for decades, but they need the restless population of America to fight beside them if they're going to stand a chance. But when your Score goes down, so does your life. It's time for a new ...

'How to Curse a Kingdom' - Cameron J. Quinn Pantheon outcast and god of war, Armon fears more rejection when he's called home to marry the goddess of creation and balance. But Demtrie accepts him--even without the disguise necessary for his former lover. No sooner does he find happiness than he's plagued by the phantom cries of a baby. And the truth may curse the kingdom where he once found solace. 'How to Curse A Kingdom' takes place within the Starsboro sector of the Starsedge Universe and follows Trent and Zurik's ancestors. ...

'I did not appreciate peace until I was rotting in a Banis prison cell. Now I just want to stifle the person crouched in my head. I left looking for wisdom.  Instead, I went mad.” No one was prepared for the chaos mending the world unleashed. With Alea and Arman gone and the queen dead, Athrolan faces civil war. The kingdom fractures between two heirs—the disinherited and senile Daymir Blackhouse, and the Dhoah’ Laen’s rumored child. Except Alea’s mad son is unaware of the power ...

NO ONE FIGHTS DIRTIER THAN AN ARCHAEOLOGIST Archaeologist Nel Bently has her own crew, her own research, and a private patron to fund her passion for dirt. With her trowel barely into the dry earth of Chile's coast, however, Nel learns she and her crew are being watched. Los Pobladores, known to Nel only as vandals and looters, take issue with any archaeologist brave or stubborn enough to set boots on their land. Nel is both and far from willing to give up the site that will make her career. She must keep her crew, her friends, and her life's work ...

Some heroes are as broken as the world they must reforge A mad king's genocide destroyed Alea's home and left her sanity in tatters. Wracked with grief, she now faces a lonely life in a strange city. The war has other plans. Caught in the crossfire between the gods and their creators, Alea's new friend Arman abandons his idyllic jeweler's life-and his humanity-to protect them both from the coming terror. Across enemy lines, bastard lieutenant Brentemir Barrackborn is horrified by the blood on his hands. If he has any hope of redemption-or surviving the ...