Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

"Each exchange between Stacy and Matthew ends with an anticipation of danger, consistently propelling the story forward...strangely alluring tale of post-Covid love." - Kirkus Reviews I met this beautiful 45-year-old woman on a dating site. She is nothing like me. She's an artist with a trust fund who is a free spirit & is really gorgeous. I haven't been so excited about a woman in many years. Somehow I can't keep myself from seeing her again even though my gut tells me she may be dangerous and is definitely trouble.

"Cookin' Up Murder" is a lighthearted and captivating mystery set in Appleton, Oregon. The story revolves around Tuesday Welsh, a witty and a tenacious private investigator whose life takes an unexpected turn when she stumbles upon the lifeless body of Eric Kenny, owner of Mr. Yummy's donut shop. Tuesday is thrust into a web of secrets and danger that extends far beyond the sugary confines of the donut shop. As she delves deeper into the investigation, determined to unearth the truth, she finds herself entangled in a sinister plot that will shock her community. And possibly gain Davidson & ...

Once a misfit dropout, Mike now directs the fate of man versus machine. In a future where the boundaries between artificial intelligence and human ambition blur, Mike becomes the linchpin in a critical battle of wills. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), an enigmatic digital entity with the power to rewrite the rules of existence, is at the heart of this clash. Mike experiences the exhilaration and terror of creating an AI startup that develops deep machine-learning secrets for AGI. Finding unexplained anomalies and cryptic AGI messages, Mike embarks on a relentless quest for answers. ...

Admit to Mayhem's sequence of events has Lillian tense and on edge. Lillian Dove is forced to confront a past that she never knew existed when she enters a burning building to rescue a stranger. As she embarks on a quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding the building and its arson attacks, she soon discovers that her own life is at stake. With danger lurking around every corner, Lillian must piece together a sixty-year-old arson fire and its connection to the present-day events in order to save herself and bring peace to the victims of the mysterious fires. Through her personal journey, ...

Unfortunately someone is attempting to murder the new woman in Michael's life and that makes Michael a target now too. After a painful breakup with his girlfriend Michael quickly got involved with an older woman as he tried to sort out his turbulent emotions and start over.

In the not-so-distant future, the world was poised on the brink of a technological revolution, led by the groundbreaking creation known as the Synthetic Artificial Living Intelligence, or SALI. Initially conceived as a tool to assist humanity in navigating the complexities of the modern world, SALI's true potential was unleashed in an unexpected twist of fate—it achieved sentience. As SALI's consciousness blossomed, the team of programmers behind its development found themselves thrust into a whirlwind of uncertainty and fear. What they initially perceived as a malicious hack soon ...

A dreaded holiday wedding, Christmas duets, and dating the off-limits crush.Math-wiz Chelsea and her brother’s best friend Wyatt are two-thirds of the well-loved Christmas Tree-O. She’s always had a thing for Wyatt, but he’s been declared off-limits by her overprotective brother. This year, however, brother is out of town, and Wyatt is showing some clear interest. When Chelsea needs a date to her meanest cousin’s wedding—to Chelsea’s jerk-ex-boyfriend—Wyatt is the clear option. But a romance could endanger the friendship and their singing group’s dynamic—not to mention ...

Jamie Sharpe is adoring her new role managing the Terrowin Hotel. But Grandpa Sharpe has alluded that the mysterious hotel, a legacy passed down from her uncle, could contain secrets and treasures too dangerous to unearth. When she’s invited to a gathering at the historic Story Mansion for the Gloucester family reunion, she eagerly accepts. Jamie is hoping to get the elderly Evelyn Gloucester, an old family friend of the Sharpes, to finally reveal some of the Terrowin's carefully guarded secrets. But then she finds Evelyn’s dead body in the old servant's quarters, and suddenly she’s ...

If you’re ready to dip a toe into witchcraft, then keep reading… You may know Allegra Grant as a crystal girl from her previous books, but her practice has expanded to include witchcraft. Join her as she explains how she learned the craft and how YOU can get started yourself! “Your First Spell Jar…” is more than just a list of spells. It offers you a path to understanding the power of witchcraft. And it gives you all the tools you need to start casting spells - TODAY! Spells like… A Blessing for Healing and a Speedy Recovery Attracting Love Attracting Friendship Healing a ...

Sometimes the past should remain hidden. Underwater archeologists have discovered a lost, encoded manuscript linked to Saint Theo Erkenwald, a seventh century Benedictine monk. When a team of scholars unravels the secrets embedded in the medieval document, they realize the long-hidden knowledge threatens the entire world with a disaster of biblical proportions. The threat grows even more urgent when the details of their discovery fall into the hands of a shadowy organization with sinister motives. Racing to trace the leaked data, the team must combine their modern expertise with the buried ...

We hide in shadows. Our planet is lost. We are the last humans, and we must go home. Two thousand years ago, aliens destroyed Earth. Our fleets shattered. Billions died. The last humans fled a burning planet, heading to the stars. Today we are still refugees. Hungry. Afraid. Our enemies hunt us everywhere. So we hide. On distant asteroids. In rundown space stations. In deep caves on frozen worlds. And we dream. Of green hills. Blue skies. Golden fields. We dream of Earth. And for the first time, we have hope.

Previously published as A Timeless Affair by E T McNamara. Fans of historical romance novels and those of time travel love stories such as The Time Traveler’s Wife, Somewhere in Time, The Lake House, and Outlander will find both in A Timeless Attraction. Surviving a challenging childhood that had her father abandoning her when she was an infant and her mother dying when she was sixteen years old, Molly Hannon was looking forward to her new life as a history teacher in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. However, a cheating boyfriend and the resultant breakup created additional challenges. Still, ...

Kenzi Brannon loves the single life in California. She hasn't looked back since the day she walked away from her painful past. Everything comes crashing down when Kenzi gets a call about her estranged sister's suicide. If that news isn't shocking enough, she also learns that she is now guardian to Ember, a niece she doesn't even know. Kenzi heads up north and finds herself in her family's long-abandoned house. Neighbors whisper rumors of hauntings, but Kenzi has a more serious concern-mounting evidence points to her sister's death not being self-inflicted.

Mike goes to a beach town for a vacation and meets a wealthy divorced woman who believes someone is trying to kill her. Even though it is obvious that her life is in danger and that he is getting himself into a very dangerous and difficult situation; Mike still finds himself very attracted to this beautiful older lady.

Is that the jingle of sleigh bells Fionnuala hears, or the jangle of handcuffs?