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He used to weaponize contracts from a desk. Now he enforces them at gunpoint in deep space. Cal Ransom is a corporate lawyer with a career in freefall—and TrustUs! has found the perfect use for him: indenture on a spaceship repossession crew. His first assignment is straightforward on paper...

Hiding in plain sight, Protocol 9 agents live among us. Protocol 9 was designed as the ultimate safeguard—a top-secret government program to counteract viral outbreaks or chemical weapon attacks. But no one expected to use it: until something turned the population cannibal. For Special...

In the late 2020s and early 30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world’s wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late 30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. It was a bloody time.

In High Earth, digital entertainment is everything. Shows. Virtual worlds. Simulations - there’s something for everybody in a city where working for a living has been rendered obsolete by technological advancements. Even a short walk outside to visit with others is no longer necessary. Just load into the network and you can be with anyone, anywhere. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis; a live reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes.

Truth Medici has three questions: Can he rescue his siblings from the clutches of the evil Starbrite Corporation? What will it require of him? And where does he need to go next to make it happen? When he meets Justinian Merkovah—a strangely ageless spellcaster, teacher of religious law, and nomadic exorcist—he's one step closer to discovering the answers. With his experience providing security to the rich and terrible, Truth accepts a gig as Merkovah's bodyguard. What better way for Truth to grow as a mage?

Seventeen-year-old Truth Medici scavenges for scraps to eat; weathers his parents' abuse; and battles derelicts, killer pimps, and demons in the soul-crushing stretch of desperation he calls home. Even the cops steer clear of the toxic Harban slums. But just across the canal live the magical elite, with their wealth, flying carpets, gorgeous mages, and custom spell beasts, all thanks to the patronage of the almighty Starbrite Corporation. Getting there, and taking his three vulnerable siblings with him, is Truth's only dream.

As parts of everyday life begin to fade away, one teacher struggles to keep a semblance of normality for the teenagers in her classroom. But what can she teach to students who know they will one day be the final remnants of mankind? "The Last Teacher" is a story from The Great De-Evolution series about the lessons that are most important in life.

B Company, 3rd Bat, 75th Ranger Regiment - a unit that's fought in every US engagement from D-Day to Black Hawk Down. They are the last American boots on the ground in the entire Syrian civil war...on the last day before the Fall of human civilization. When they are tasked with stopping a unit of Spetsnaz operators from inserting under the chaos, an advanced Russian Navy frigate becomes the last place left on Earth for the Rangers to find refuge.

After recovering Patient Zero, Alpha must escape Africa to end the ZA once and for all. But they can feel the hot breath of a reinforced and vengeful Spetsnaz team on their necks - and there can be no escaping the reckoning of an ultimate sniper showdown between Ali and Vasily, and an incomparably brutal iron-cage Texas death match between Predator and Misha. For the first time, all the teams will come together and must fight as brothers for any chance of making it back to Britain. And only one thing is certain - not everyone is walking away from this one.

When he stepped through a mysterious, shimmering door in his basement, Alex found himself flung through time. Now, he is called upon to rescue the young girl who is thought to be the Chosen One - the savior of Kragdon-ah. A dangerous journey, new and deadlier creatures, and hairs-breadth escapes make Lost in Kragdon-Ah a worthy successor to A Door into Time.

The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right. He would try harder. With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick. Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway.

Truth knows everything about the mind-controlling Starbrite. Well, everything except for who it is, where it comes from, and where it is right now. Without anything to identify his world's creator, the question remains: Can he actually kill the malignant entity believed to have the lifespan of the stars themselves? Somewhere, high above the calamity it's caused, Starbrite still reigns. Unseeable and enigmatic, it touches the world through the minds of its slaves.

When it comes to instigating an apocalypse, it's been a promising start for Truth Medici. But to really get things rolling, he has a monumental undertaking ahead of him: break the systems that keep the immortal Starbrite alive and finally shatter the source of his power. Invisible and impervious to magic, Truth is the one man capable of decapitating the mastermind behind the wicked system controlling his world.

Asher has moved on from Station 18. The Jarl's Den is a deployment hub, its walls lined with portals to dying worlds. Undead hordes. Machine uprisings. Frozen wastelands full of monsters in the dark. Each apocalypse holds survivors praying for salvation, and the Stations forge the warriors to...

She came to Alaska for a wedding. She didn't expect the end of the world. Nora wasn't looking for love. Twice divorced and tired of heartbreak, she came to Alaska to watch her best friend get married and maybe figure out who she can be alone. Instead, she ends up stranded in the frozen wilderness after their plane goes down, trapped with someone she's not sure she can trust. Theo is the only other survivor. He's handsome, irritating, and far too good at getting under her skin. While the cold could get them first, something more dangerous lurks in the snow.

Abandoned young, I was left to fend for myself in a place ruled by fear and control. Silver runs everything—rations, medicine, currency—and those like me, carriers of the infection, are treated less than human. Everyone I love is gone. All that's left is my sister, but she vanished into Zone T years ago, and I won't stop until I find her, even if it means stepping onto his boat.

Fighting her way through the dark underbelly of civilization, Juliet Bianchi has become a top-tier mercenary with a heart of gold and a killer smile. A shadowy, high-priced operative embedded with high-tech AI, she goes by the moniker "Lucky," and the life she once led as a metal scrapper seems eons behind her. Now, armed with her very own formidable monoblade and fresh ink warning all others not to mess with her lest they become very dead, she's taking a step away from business to handle something personal.

Life is good at Sanctuary. Peaceful. But peace never lasts. While away on a routine supply run to Andorra, Dan receives a message that chills his blood: strangers have arrived at their home. With fresh blood comes fresh bloodshed, and Dan finds his leadership challenged in the worst way when others can't see the danger he does. They've fought hunger, violence, tyranny and madness… but they've never had to fight a threat from within.

Winston Green was once a hero—a man who rescued women and children while scavenging for food among the desolate ruins of the city and its terrifying undead. These days, he's stuck at the Old Met looking for missing cats and stolen garbage bins while his mates in the Blood Guard hunt down and kill the last few Infected behind the walls of New London. When two university students are found dead in an abandoned field, it could be Winston's chance to redeem his former glory.

In their city-state of Hyperion Proper, conformity isn't forced—it's earned. Adversity has been eliminated, crime is nonexistent, and on their thirtieth birthday, every Sovereign citizen receives a custom-designed partner—a Supplicant—engineered for devotion, built to meet their every want and need. For Isara Poeima, that partner is Maxim: flawless, breathtaking, irrevocably hers. She's dreamed of him her entire life, spent nearly a year perfecting him, and now she's moments away from finally seeing him in person, hearing his voice, feeling her hand in his.