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.

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.

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.

Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.

In a world where heroes soar and villains lurk, these are the stories of those who defy expectations, who rise from the ashes of adversity and carve their own paths in a world that tries to hold them back.Follow a wingless boy who dares to challenge the sky, building a rocket from scraps, snatching his dreams from the mouth of despair. Hard lessons are learned when a convenience store clerk learns that there are shades of gray when debating what makes a villain and how heroes are born. A young woman seeks vengeance in a world of magic and betrayal, only to discover the true meaning of ...

The Invasion Arrives An enemy armada is on the way to Earth, intent on erasing humanity. Returning home with bad news is hard, especially when 458 years have passed since their departure. Time dilation from traveling beyond the speed of light has extended their lives, but the world they left behind and hope to save has forgotten them. The Pioneer crew must convince the government to build an armada of ships so a portion of the population can escape the robot incursion. Their celebrity status helps, yet they can only spirit away a tiny portion of society. The rest must burrow deep into ...

Nothing but wildlife and women... Ash Brimlock the fire mage is done with his days in the kingdom's army. Looking to get away from it all, he applies for a job as a ranger on a monster reserve, a haven for rare magical creatures. Everybody thinks that fire mages and forests don't mix. He's going to prove them wrong. He'll work alongside two ladies. One's a real ranger with a bow and arrow and the snug outfit to match. The other's a shy, cute herbalist. Together, they will face misbehaving pixies, lost unicorn foals, and a grumpy phoenix or two. This isn't about slaying enemies and saving ...

In a single ruthless blow, Commander Lorraine Adamant’s favorite uncle murders everyone ahead of him in the succession for the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Only luck and the paranoia of her bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, saves Lorraine’s life. On the run in a single starship Lorraine should never have commanded, with a crew she can not trust, she swiftly learns her uncle’s hounds are hot on her heels. She must gather every skill, every trick, she has ever learned if she is to survive—and pray the uncle who taught her those tricks is a step behind.

Aliens conquered Earth. In mere minutes, our key cities lay inside impenetrable Domes with humans scrambling to survive within. But the aliens didn’t expect the survivors’ tenacity. And, crucially, they didn’t expect humans to use the scraps of their own futuristic technology against them. NASA scientist Tarek Kutriah may have created a way to fight back. With the aid from an unlikely survivor – Smash – a local high school student, Tarek must beat the aliens using their own intelligence. To win, both Tarek and Smash must dodge alien patrols, organize scattered survivors without ...

On a near-future New Year’s Eve, a disabled, malfunctioning UFO tumbles through the atmosphere and almost collides with Central Pacific Airlines Flight 855. Both ditch in the Pacific Ocean. Alone and floating in a raft, Central Pacific pilot Kup Winston decides to swim with sharks to save the life of the alien commander of the UFO he almost hit. He soon regrets his act of compassion when he learns that Earth is about to become the dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of convicts from an overcrowded alien world that has socially engineered itself out of options.

Verdan Blacke is an Imperial Wizard, a researcher by preference but soldier by necessity. Surviving an intense battle, Verdan is cursed by a hex witch in her final moments. Without any good options, Verdan escapes the ever-increasing pain the curse inflicts by performing a self-made stasis ritual.

A Titanic clash of two Great Galactic Powers is about to begin! Commodore Raptor has disappeared in deep space, but the conspirators have hired the dangerous mercenaries of Dark Star Company to attack and seize his starship. And that would be the lesser of Raptor’s problems for the Mercurian Empire has dispatched its legendary Grand Admiral to conquer Nestorian Republic and to thrash Starfirians and he has amassed a vast invasion fleet. All the while Nestorian Republic is descending into chaos and civil war as the Election Day nears and Roofus closes in on the identity of the man behind ...

In the year 5514, what we would call magic has evolved into dark biodynamics. RT, short for Redder Torch, is on her way to Taltrix, the most prestigious space cruiser university in all three regions of colonized space. She's reuniting with her older brother Avi, and together they hope to find safety, far from the shadow of their father and his dangerous legacy. Grave Torch, their father, is a notorious criminal held in a supermax prison after the Final Wars when he kidnapped his children and made a desperate claim.

This collection contains the first three books in the Underworld series: Level Up or Die, Through the Belly of the Beast, and Sanctuary. Elorion has just finished a VR gaming session to find a monster waiting for him. With nineteen other students who have also been kidnapped, he is now subject to the whims of a thousand-year-old succubus and must survive deep under the earth in the lost realm of the Underworld. Gifted with the ability to use magic and advance in power, he is given an ultimatum: Level up or die.