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Bella is defective. You need to take her back.Nine-year-old Bella D’accourt has always known she was different; she was born into a controversial ‘designer baby’ eugenic programme, difference is in her DNA. Bella has been designed to be exceptionally beautiful, but when she uses her sadistic, manipulative charm to seriously injure another child, her mother brings her back to her creators and demands they 'fix her'. Thus begins Bella’s new life among scientists and other eugenic ‘Subjects’ at the mysterious Aspira Research Centre in Cumbria. But an enemy lurks in the shining ...

Their planet was dying and everyone knew it. The only question left was what to do to save everyone from themselves. With time running out, their only realistic chance of salvation was The Sanctuary Project. (Part Two of Two) "An intelligent, vividly imagined novel…" — The Prairies Book Review

Their planet was dying and everyone knew it. The only question left was what to do to save everyone from themselves. With time running out, their only realistic chance of salvation was Project New Hope. (Part One of Two) "Reflective, intelligent, and highly gripping…" — The Prairies Book Review.

Set in the beginning of the 22nd Century, at a remote archaeological dig site bombarded by unsafe levels of radiation, an aging Jack Harrison must race against time and his own personal demons to make the discovery of a lifetime (known as the Revelation) and gain the recognition he feels he's been denied for decades. Together with Long Shot, an AI unit stationed at the site to help him analyze the materials he finds, Jack recalls the events that lead him to this place in his life. All the while, a religious cult, the Svechi, are determined to stop Jack (and the Revelation) at any cost.

The second installment of the 2084 trilogy.

Jen is closer than ever to getting home but at what cost? The world is in chaos and the pathogen is spreading. Deep South must choose between loyalty to his country and the faith of a friend. He let Jen down once. He won't do it again. The stakes have never been higher. Together of apart, their world is changing. They will need to be sharper than their enemies and stronger than their fears. Follow the Path of Jen. Reborn is a geopolitical science fiction thriller written with an eye on current events and with a love of zombie fantasy and military fiction.

Morpheus is the god of dreams but he can’t hide from the nightmare of his existence. He has been separated from his brothers, tortured and brutalized while a female scientist attempts to make him hers. El lives in fear. Her ex-husband is always in the background, always trying to take her kids from her. When she discovers this poor battered man, will she help him even though her life is already complicated or will she leave him for others to help? When they meet, everything changes for both of them. Has she helped him to escape his past or has he simply dragged her into it?

Derek Jenner, the Crypto-Hunter, is back! Something is terrorizing the inhabitants of the Garden State, leaving a trail of missing persons and mutilated bodies in its wake. All signs point to the Jersey Devil, a creature long considered a hoax even in the cryptozoological community. Desperate for answers, the authorities summon Derek and his team to investigate.

The colony on Haven-7 has gone rogue. The colonists have split into two factions: the Techborn and the Dusters. The Techborn have always ruled the planet. They control the remnants of the crashed starship that brought humanity to this new world. The Dusters… they eat Techborn dust. Now, the Techborn strength is waning. Their weapons are getting old, and radiation leaks from the aging reactors have created mutations. Some of these, like their brutish troops known as Tuskers, have proven useful—but others are abominations.

Despite the death of a traitor and key conspirator, the plot to use the GhostWalker experiments to undermine the security of the US by foreign interests still exists. The GhostWalkers themselves must race against the clock to neutralize the danger.

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels, NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help.

Lucas Ramsay thought he was ready. He thought his plan was foolproof. But he was wrong. When the Baaku come for him on a remote Earth outpost, they challenge everything he knows to be true. Soon, he’s on the run as a renegade, someone who’s willing to cross the line and do whatever it takes, all in a quest to find those he lost and set things right. He vows to never stop searching.

Two years ago, a super solar storm triggered a CME pulse that crippled the country and destroyed the electrical grid. What remains of the country’s leaders are hiding a secret: something that threatens not just the US but the entire world. The Gulf Coast town of Harris Springs, Mississippi has suffered from gang attacks, famine, hurricanes, and has battled a crusading army of religious zealots. Now, they face their greatest challenge: outsmarting a tyrannical president and escaping an approaching pandemic.

In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost. The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?

With the doomsday ship only days away from impacting the Earth, humanity's demise seems all but assured. In every corner of the world, news of the impending destruction has led to chaos, looting, and the collapse of the rule of law. As the foundations of civilization crumble around them, Jack and Mia must race to find answers to perhaps the most important questions of all time. Why have the Ateans repeatedly eradicated life on our planet? And could the key to ending the cycle of extinctions be locked somewhere within the Salzburg Chromosome?

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends have their own secret aberration that would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badland....

When a mine owner thinks that he's above the law and continues to utilize slave labor to keep his mines running, Barnabas, a former Ranger One, must fight for justice.

War is imminent. After a successful rescue of his comrades and a narrow escape ahead of the Darkkon invasion of Vallus, Art and the team must head to the planet Fengar, in the heart of the Galactic Conglomerate, to bring news of the attack. Midway through their journey, Art’s team is intercepted by a Special Operations Darkkon ship and thrown into a vicious battle. Boarding the enemy ship, they come across a rare, ancient piece of Yau technology believed to have been infinitely lost - but it’s not the only Yau technology at the enemy’s disposal.

The Kobani continue their offensives against the Krall, attacking production worlds, and destroy or steal ships from the Krall fleet, which the enemy needs to resupply their invasions. The Kobani create a multispecies settlement on Haven, a gentler habitable world near deadly Koban. They gain the trust and technological assistance of freed former Krall slave species, the Torki, Prada, and resurrected Raspani. Their ranks and Mind Tap learned skills are increased by spec ops recruits from Human Space.