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.

Compiled by intrepid journalist Neve Pride, this archive of recordings spans the months after dragons emerged on earth, chronicling the communities that sprang up amid the destruction, the scientists, military leaders, and experts searching for a defense, and those steadfastly seeking the missing. Neve and her young daughter Bex travel among the wreckage speaking to those left behind and surviving, against all odds. Neve records everything for history, and in the hopes of locating a clue as to where the dragons came from and how one might stop them.

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.

Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?

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.

A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood like NEVER before! Emma wants to be a Healer and has been assisting her local healer for a while now, but strange things start to happen to her. An opportunity comes to learn the healer's skill from her grandmother; whom she has never met, she takes the chance. Warnings on her journey tell her the town is cursed, but when she arrives and meets the handsome local blacksmith, she wonders if things can't be all that bad. Until people start to go missing and a hurt wolf comes to her door. This book is a CLEAN FANTASY ROMANCE and a fun retelling of the ...

High in the Alps, buried in ice, lies a secret that could change history. Professor Cariello regrets ever agreeing to join his Harvard colleagues on an expedition to the Gorner Glacier. It's February. The weather is brutal. And when one of his team members falls into a crevasse, Cariello risks everything to save him. But what he finds deep in the ice defies belief: the perfectly preserved body of a child, frozen for thousands of years—and clearly no ordinary child. Before Cariello and his fearless companion Therese can begin their research, they’re swept into a murder investigation. A ...

These interconnected stand-alone fairy tale retellings are set on the continent of Solstice, where dragons do their own thing, and enchanters run amok. If you enjoy strong heroines, clean romance, and fantasy worlds with a dash of intrigue, then lose yourself in the fairy tale world of The Kingdom Tales today. Box Set 1 includes Kingdom of Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Kingdom of Slumber: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty, and Kingdom of Cinders: A Retelling of Cinderella.

Three full-length fairy tales filled with intrigue, romance, and suspense! This collection contains: Traitor's Masque: A Retelling of Cinderella, Goldheart: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, and Pirouette: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

2021 Riverslea Edition. Fairy tales and magic are usually restricted to the realm of fantasy, but all this changes when an archaeological dig unearths things that would have been better left buried. Ancient artifacts created millennia’s ago by aliens, restores some magic to the world, as two disparate sorcerers, begin to wield power that could twist all the preconceived laws of nature. Adopting the name of a Hebrew High Priest of those ancient times, one of these sorcerers seeks ascendancy and power, and allies himself with moguls of great wealth in an attempt at world domination. His ...