One autumn evening in New York, Jack Flanders walks into an all night coffee shop, and finds himself stepping out into the tropics. He encounters his long lost uncle, Sir Henry Jowls, who convinces Jack to steal a green stone. But Sir Henry is replaced by another Sir Henry, who insists Jack return the stone to the mythical city of Mer-Kahbah. To reach that city, Jack must cross the Twilight Realms of the Hungry Ghosts and they are quite hungry.

Invisible balls of energy are causing hallucinations within the walled city of Old Quebec. Jack and Mojo try to locate the source of these "eyes". When a little girl with pigtails, smoking a cigar, is seen about town, Jack suspects Litte Frieda is involved. When Jack speaks to Claudine on his cell, she appears before him; when he hangs up, she vanishes.

While Jack Flanders is being chased by a zombie, his phone rings. It's Mojo waking Jack from his nightmare and inviting him to New Orleans. Later, strolling through the French Quarter, Jack is amazed to see Claudine, from Montreal. Or had he just met a voodoo priestess who can shapeshift into the woman of his dreams? And who is that zombie that keeps following him?

Jack and his crew accept an invitation from an eccentric billionaire who has built a castle on a Carribbean island. What first appears to be a replica of a medieval fortress turns out to be a very high tech castle, with robot valets, and rooms with floor-to-ceiling plasma screens. In the middle of the night, Jack's crew begins to encounter their own "personal demons", first in their dreams and then right before their eyes.

While Jack Flanders is scuba diving in the great barrier reef off Belize, he discovers a sunken pirate ship. On board are two skeletons poised as though playing chess, and every time he returns, the pieces have been moved. One of the pieces looks a lot like Jack.

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.

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.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.