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COULD AN ANCIENT MARTIAN ARTIFACT HOLD THE KEY TO SAVING EARTH?

When a chamber containing inscriptions from an ancient civilization is found deep below the surface of Mars, science reporter Claire Echols is thrilled to be covering the story of the century.

But someone seems determined to stop her.

Is it the wealthy entrepreneur leading the ongoing...

Who is Eberin Das?

Decoding an ancient message that survived the destruction of Mars could be the key to avoiding the same fate for Earth in this action-packed sequel to The Cold Light of Stars.

The Flock has unleashed a wave of targeted attacks on research facilities across Earth and the terraformed areas of Mars. But are they the enemy or one of Claire’s few potential allies in saving Earth?

Her only clue is the ancient, cryptic journal left behind by alien rebel Eberin Das of the Ufretan Alliance who tried—and failed—to save Mars from...

TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

In the final book of The Icarus Code, Mars is one giant step closer to life outside the domes, but a budding war between the five colonies could bring progress to a screeching halt. Meanwhile, back on Earth, leaked information has a growing segment of the public convinced they’re not the only intelligent life in the galaxy.

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A man’s heart, plucked from his body with no exit wound, is found inside a fully intact crystal ball. Impossible? Or merely IMPROBABLE? A new historical fantasy thriller from the author of The CHRONOS Files.

Nine heiresses are missing in Gilded Age New York with no ransom demand. Journalist Miriam Cole’s sister was the first to vanish twelve...

The adventure continues in SLIPSTREAM the second book of the IMPROBABLE Trilogy, a new historical fantasy thriller from the author of The CHRONOS Files.

Miriam finds herself stranded in an alternative reality where subtle changes in the timeline have her struggling to keep her allies and uncertain as to exactly where she stands with Elias.

Nine...

Miriam’s adventures conclude in SPLIT INFINITIES, the final book of the IMPROBABLE Trilogy, a new historical fantasy thriller from the author of The CHRONOS Files.

As the Vanderbilt Ball approaches, a series of unexplained earthquakes have New York City on edge. Miriam’s attempts to understand their cause lands her in the place she least wants to...

From the bestselling author of the Chronos series comes a page-turning novel of time travel, fast-paced action, and history-changing events.

When two time-traveling historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, history goes helter-skelter. But which one broke the timeline?

In 2136 Madison Grace uncovers...

The United States’ past is hijacked in a time-warping adventure of future interdimensional, high-risk games by the bestselling author of the CHRONOS series.

History is turned inside out when off-world travelers challenge Tyson Reyes and Madi Grace to a real-life game of Temporal Dilemma. Three rounds from the opponents and Hitler takes Europe,...

With a madman in control of the timeline, one wrong move could be the last for time travelers intent on stopping him in this mind-bending novel by the bestselling author of the CHRONOS series.

CHRONOS historians Madi, Tyson, and Katherine and their cohorts are on the enemy’s trail, fixing the mess that sociopath Saul Rand has made of history—and...

It’s never wise to talk to strangers…and that goes double when they’re dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station—she never knows where she’ll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and...

A Delphi Trilogy Novella (2.5)

Leah Pfeifer has spent two years in an isolated cabin in Colorado with her almost three-year-old daughter, Anna, trying to protect the girl both from her inherited psychic ability and from the government organization that would be happy to exploit it. Trouble seems to find them anyway, and a panicked phone call from...

What if your mind became your worst enemy?

Struggling with evolving psychic abilities, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan and her equally exceptional friends are on the run from the ruthless Graham Cregg, leader of a covert operation known as the Delphi Project. Cregg has already killed repeatedly to test Anna’s ability. Now, he and his father, a...

A psychotic killer hijacked her mind and her body. She’s taking them back.

Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan is on the run from the very government project that created her abilities. Now they seek to weaponize the gift she doesn’t want and can’t control: the invasion of her mind and her body by spirits, some of whom have their own unusual powers....

An Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner—Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction.

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day...

A Kindle exclusive CHRONOS Files novella.

Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he’s never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn’t understand why Kate can’t remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World’s Fair Hotel....

To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists’ hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key — one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy — her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the...

A Kindle exclusive CHRONOS Files novella.

It’s 1984 and the only things on Prudence Pierce’s mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna. Her mother might also be a teensy bit angry about the medallion Pru swiped from the...

The Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear.

Kate...

A CHRONOS Files Novella

Simon Rand’s life isn’t exactly linear, but he’s okay with that. He was older than his mother when they first met, and he’s traveled pretty much everywhere and everywhen the CHRONOS key can take him. Much of his childhood was spent in the 1890s on the Cyrist Farm with his friend, Kiernan Dunne, but summer vacations meant...

The complete collection of CHRONOS Files and CHRONOS Origins novellas and short stories. Includes the new short story, “Ashes and Rose,” as well as never-before-published CHRONOS mission files.

Three Novellas:
Time’s Echo
Time’s Mirror
Simon Says: Tips for the Intrepid Time Traveler

Short Stories:
“The Gambit”
“2092”
“Splinter”
“Whack Job”
“Kate Down...

Bestselling author Rysa Walker (Timebound) takes readers on a time-hopping adventure in this stand-alone series set in her CHRONOS Files world. Written by fan favorite Heather Nuhfer (My Little Pony) and featuring pulse-pounding art from Agustin Padilla (Smallville).

Nineteen-year-old Clio Dunne has lived a life of secrecy. Her world-saving,...

Zombie cheerleaders. Murderous scarecrows. A haunted house high on the hill.

Enter Haddonwood is an action-packed homage to popular horror, with clever nods to everything from King and Koontz to slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween.

Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey’s reach. He can see it...

A demonic crow. Psycho slashers. And a very big, bad wolf.

Enter Haddonwood is an homage to popular horror, with clever nods to everything from King and Koontz to slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween. Includes twenty-four illustrations created with Midjourney AI.

Since the beginning of time as we know it, the Councils of...

The monsters in his head could kill us all.

Where Wolves Fear to Prey is the mind-bending conclusion of Rysa Walker and Caleb Amsel’s Enter Haddonwood trilogy.

For all of human history, the dueling Councils of 72 have maintained balance between Good and Evil. Seventy-two angels and seventy-two demons working in the shadows to ensure a careful...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

Tig isn’t a detective. She just played one on TV. Will that be enough to help her find the killer?

Acting jobs are scarce now for former TV teen detective Antigone Alden. So when a teaching position opens up at Southern Coastal University, Tig packs up her teenage daughter and heads home to the Outer Banks of...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

A QUESO MISTAKEN IDENTITY?

Tig Alden’s neighbor is a royal pain. Rebecca Whitley has managed to annoy pretty much everyone she’s met since she followed her youngest son to Southern Coastal University two years ago. Whitley’s little dog, Leo, doesn’t respect boundaries. She delights in leaving scathing reviews...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

BRIGHT LIGHTS, DEAD BODY
Three days before Tig Alden’s planned vacation to New York, a Broadway producer is killed at a wedding on the Outer Banks. Everyone thinks he was the accidental victim of a botched political assassination. But the politician assumed to have been the target thinks there’s more to the...

SKELETONS IN EVERY CORNER
Everything is set for a fun-filled Halloween on the Outer Banks. Tig Alden’s father, James, is in town for a benefit performance and her daughter, Paige, is busy with the high school’s annual Haunted Swamp. Things take a dark turn, however, when an actual corpse pops up among the vampires and zombies...and James finds...

In this prequel novella to the Coastal Playhouse Murder Mysteries, Antigone Alden and her daughter Paige return to the Outer Banks in the wake of Caroline’s untimely death. While paying their final respects, they realize Caroline’s black opal has disappeared. But as Tig searches for the missing heirloom, she discovers that her mother’s house isn...

BURIED LEDES AND BURIED SECRETS
When Ruth Townsend’s job and marriage both end abruptly, she heads home to the mountains for a fresh start. She’s intent on reviving the local newspaper but with only two dozen subscribers it’s a struggle. What she needs is a good mystery...but nothing ever happens in sleepy little Thistlewood.

Then Edith Morton is...

A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART?

When the rusted-out remains of a vehicle with a unique vanity plate are hauled out of the Freedom River, journalist Ruth Townsend and her best friend, Wren Lawson, think they’ve finally learned the truth about the disappearance of their high school friend, Tanya Blackburn. The rest of Thistlewood may have believed...

Previously published as Jessa Archer.
NOW YOU SEE HER...NOW YOU DON’T

When Ruth Townsend discovers Tessa Martin’s body in an abandoned factory, sprawled across a Ouija board, she does the responsible thing and calls 911. But by the time Sheriff Blevins arrives, the girl’s body has vanished.

Blevins is convinced that Tessa is playing an elaborate...

LIGHTS, CAMERA,...MURDER?

Thistlewood is all decked out as a picture-perfect Christmas village and the ideal backdrop for a holiday movie. The entire town is abuzz with excitement until one of the actors, Oscar-winner Audrey Shaw, turns up dead in her trailer on the set.

Ms. Shaw’s star faded decades ago, and her failure to show up for filming...

MURDER IN MUSIC CITY

A girls’ weekend in Nashville takes an unexpected turn when Ruth’s ex-husband vanishes, leaving behind a suicide note and the body of his business partner. It’s clear that Joe was involved in something highly illegal, but Ruth has a hard time believing he was capable of murder and Cassie refuses to accept that he’s dead.

...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

Black bear, black bear, what did you see?

When a crack of gunshot disturbs her morning birdwatching, journalist Ruth Townsend is certain it’s the neighbor she’s already warned twice about hunting on her property. She takes off through the woods to confront him, but stumbles upon more than she bargained for--a...

This short story, which appeared originally in Dark Beyond the Stars: A Space Opera Anthology, answers the question that Katherine never would: What really happened in 2092?

Aflând că nu mai are mult de trăit, bunica lui Kate îi încredințează nepoatei ei de șaisprezece ani un medalion albastru straniu, care are puterea de a-i permite să călătorească în timp. La început sceptică, adolescenta descoperă în cele din urmă că bunica spune adevărul și că acest dar vine de undeva din străfundurile ființei ei: chiar din ADN....

Adesso che i Ciriani sono a un passo dal realizzare
il loro terrificante e apocalittico progetto,
le opzioni a disposizione di Kate sono ormai
poche, tanto più che, a ogni salto in avanti o indietro
nel tempo, rischia di innescare pericolosi
spostamenti nella linea temporale. A peggiorare
la situazione, ci sono inoltre i dubbi sulle
persone che...

This CHRONOS Files short story appeared originally in CLONES: The Anthology

A familiar blip of green light in the corner of his room has Kiernan Dunne hoping the new arrival is Kate, so that he can abandon the rescue he’s planning. But the time traveler who just blinked in is a future version of Kiernan, and judging from the number scrawled on...

Saul Rand is one of a select group of genetically-engineered CHRONOS historians who study the past firsthand. Convinced that he can create a better future than random chance and human blunder, Saul’s main challenge is circumventing the system’s safeguards--and he thinks he’s found the perfect opening move.

A strange glowing circle buried in her great-great grandmother’s garden transports a historian to the site of an underwater crypt. Will Madi escape from the Cyrists or is she in too deep?

Coping with multiple timelines and double memories is a challenge, even for seasoned CHRONOS historians. For the one canine who lives inside a CHRONOS field, they’re a major headache. Can Daphne find a way to save her pack from the Circles-That-Whine?

“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we...

Human cloning.
Technology evolves faster than we do.
The law shields us from our worst temptations.
But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach—perfection and ascension… or delusion and destruction.

In this collection of clone-themed stories, ten of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal...

From humanity’s first contact with alien life, to the challenges of space travel, to colonies established light years from Earth, this anthology celebrates the wide sweep of space opera at its most sublime. Eleven of today’s bestselling authors join forces to bring you these tales of action, adventure, and brilliant imagination.

There are...

Time travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past. And what if it were possible to travel into our own, more recent past? Would we be able to change our present, or are we prisoners of predestination? Is...

Alt.History repeats itself... From the creator of the #1 bestselling Future Chronicles anthology series comes a collection that turns the world you know upside down.

In Alt.History 102, twelve top speculative fiction authors re-imagine the world - as one where a beautiful actress becomes a spy for the Allied forces, as one where the Internet is...

Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence’s longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...

Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today’s fears amid...

The end is nigh! The villains have won and the world will pay the price.

Feast your eyes on this feast of horrors. Twelve all original and never before published stories that’ll make you ask who the villains really are. Under the right lens, you might find your works to be dastardly, horrible—vile.

Discover what makes a villain in Jessica West’s “...

1984 meets The Incredible Journey in thirteen dystopian tales by some of today’s most accomplished writers of science fiction.

In this title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles series of speculative fiction anthologies created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, discover tales of dark futures, tragic pasts, and a present that’s run off the...