Geof Johnson
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When a down-and-out android blows himself up in a crowded store, killing Jack Hartley's young wife, it changes Jack's life forever. In this society of the future, android technology has advanced at an incredible pace. Androids are no longer glossy robots. They look, think, and feel exactly like humans, with all of the emotional problems that can bring. Human society is struggling to adjust to these startling advances. Androids are abused, assaulted,...
2) Random Call
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It seemed like a fun social media game to Finn Garland. Log in to the website and get connected to a totally random person and have a conversation. The longer you talk, the more points you score, while competing with other members worldwide for the highest weekly total. Finn first tried it on a stormy night in late spring, and got connected in the most unlikely way - to June Harrison, in Westhampton, Long Island, living 80 years in the past. Finn...
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Zeta colony seems like the perfect place to settle and raise a family. The air is clean, and magnificent forests cover the planet. Its only city has a friendly, small-town atmosphere and a strong economy, thanks to the export of super tree lumber to Earth and other lumber-starved planets. But when houses mysteriously start collapsing, killing the unsuspecting families inside, scientist Ed Ralston begins to suspect that the genetically engineered super...
4) Shadow Witch
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Two months without a major crisis has lulled Jamie and his friends into a false sense of security. On graduation weekend, their lives are thrown into chaos once again when a seven-year-old runaway girl shows up on Fred's doorstep, desperately needing their help.
Sammi Price is a Shadow Witch, with a rare power that has enabled her to find the people who are best able to protect her from her abusive foster father, Duane Gundy. He's violent, obsessive,...
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Brady Lockhart - a divorced, unhappy audio engineer - buys a gramophone, and discovers a secret drawer inside it, filled with mysterious old records. He is fascinated by them, and every time he hears them, he has vivid, inexplicable dreams about a beautiful young woman from 1935, Lorraine Sinclair. At first he thinks she's merely a figment of his imagination, but the more he listens to the records, the more he realizes she's something else, perhaps...
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When a demon suddenly appears on the Appalachian Trail near Jamie's home, killing and mutilating hikers, Jamie and his friends are forced to take drastic measures to deal with it. Jamie's magic is useless against it, and their search for a solution to the monster takes them to the last place they ever would've imagined going, a dangerous world of wizards and witches.
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Shep Foster is cyber security analyst for the NSA. His job is to hack a white supremacist group, the Aryan Alliance, and discover the source and purpose of their funds before they commit a deadly act of terrorism.
Shep is good at his job.
He is a logical man.
His faith in reason becomes shattered when he receives a blow to the head and begins to have frightening, realistic dreams, as vivid as anything he's ever experienced. At first, he tries...
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Calvin Duffy thought his life was normal until it was not. The abnormalities begin as minor things suddenly changing- the color of a familiar wall, a highway exit he has driven past a hundred times, the names of children in his neighborhood - but none of these changes seem to register with anyone else. To them, things are the way they've always been.
The abnormalities gradually get worse. Someone from his office building vanishes as if he'd been...
9) Red Witch
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Barely weeks after defeating the sorcerer Renn, Jamie and his sweetheart, Fred, believe their lives can finally return to normal. But their world is thrown into turmoil once Fred discovers she has magic of her own. When Fred's powers attract the attention of two dangerous witches, she faces a terrifying ordeal that tests her firecracker determination. Jamie finds that even his immense powers are sometimes not enough, and he faces a torturous trial...
10) The Specials
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A terrible danger is approaching. The castings by the Circle of 13 have finally revealed clear portents, omens of death and destruction on an unimaginable scale. Now the powerful sorceresses know they must give Rilla and her friends a new mission: go the territory of the Industrials and recruit their help. A difficult task, as there has been no contact with this technically advanced society for twenty years, and they consider Rilla's people to be...
11) Wizard Born
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When Eddan, an ancient sorcerer, is mortally wounded by a bitter rival, he escapes to Earth and gives himself a chance to be reborn as Jamie Sikes. The boy grows up oblivious to his nature, safe and secure in a loving family. Or so he thinks. Jamie is destined to become a sorcerer, and the more Eddan's memories and power bubble up in Jamie's consciousness, the more powerful he becomes. But he finds out it's not all fun and games when he realizes that...
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When Tirra, the Holy Seer of Danea, runs away from her temple in the middle of the night, she forces Kol, her guard, to go with her. She's had a vision that if she can reach Milliandrum, a city hundreds of miles away, she'll be free of her power, free from the temple and free from the hated High Priestess Seranna. But Seranna offers a reward for her return and sends Maras the Tracker after her, an unshakeable pursuer with powers of his own. It becomes...
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Complications begin to grow for Jamie and his friends when they agree to use their magic to stop a mercenary-turned-assassin from starting a major war. College life is harder than Jamie imagined. Keeping up with classes, training with his track team, and still trying to maintain the Rivershire School and the clinic on Eddan's world are taking a heavy toll on him. Jamie is struggling to keep it all going, and in doing so, he's had to tell more people...
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When an anonymous tip about corruption and crime leads Archie Macintyre back to his small hometown, he thinks he's found the big story he's been waiting for, one that could save his flagging career as a journalist. He's more than ready to give up bartending and one-night stands that leave him feeling empty and lonely. He's especially tired of having to write sappy feel-good stories to pay the bills.
One of those sappy stories leads Archie to Poppy...
15) Switch House
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Josie Switch has led a hard life. Orphaned by a killer at the age of eight, followed by several miserable years of foster care, she's then forced to live on her own after turning eighteen.
She thinks her troubles may be over when she learns that she has inherited a historic house in a college town three hours away. Josie jumps at the chance to move there but quickly discovers that this unexpected gift comes with disturbing strings attached. The...
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Devastated by the death of his father, Zach Webster's life gets worse when his mother moves him away from his friends in the big city to Whitmer, a tiny town tucked in the farthest corner of western North Carolina. They settle into the home of his late great-great uncle, an inventor whose secretive laboratory is still in the basement, hidden behind a locked steel door, the key lost somewhere in the old, Victorian house. With little to do for entertainment...
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Rilla comes from a line of powerful sorceresses going back countless generations, all of them leaders in the ancient war against the elves. With talented bloodlines like that, Rilla should be the most powerful of them all. But she has a problem: She can't cast a single spell. Matters only get worse when her mother vanishes one day, abducted by their ancient enemy. When no one seems willing to risk their life to rescue her mother, Rilla decides to...
18) The War
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War is coming. The three nations know it and are preparing for it, but it will be a war like no other, against an enemy from far away, bringing horrific machines of destruction. Somehow, the different territories, Rilla's, the Elves, and the Industrials, together with the Pixies, must learn to fight as a cohesive force to repel this invader from another world. All their years of bitter squabbling and conflict must be set aside if they are to master...