When country boy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It’s also a city in turmoil, thanks to an ancient accord to change governments and the rising political demands of Beasts: the Unicorns, Dryads, Minotaurs, and other magical creatures on whose labor and bodies Tabat depends. And worst of all, it’s a city dedicated to killing Shifters, the race whose blood Teo bears.

When his fate becomes woven with that of Tabat’s most famous Gladiator, Bella Kanto, his existence becomes even more imperiled. Kanto’s magical battle determines the weather each year, and the wealthy Merchants are tired of the long Winters she’s brought. Can Teo and Bella save each other from the plots closing in on them from all sides?

Former Gladiator Bella Kanto has been exiled from her beloved city of Tabat, finding herself aboard a hostile ship bound for a frontier town, her only friend a puppy. She’s lost the magic that kept her young and vital, and for the first time is suffering the depredations of age. When she encounters an old lover along the way, she has a chance to escape—but does she really want to take it? And who is the mysterious woman Selene, who keeps appearing to Bella?

Meanwhile, former printer’s apprentice Lucy and her friend Maz, a student from the College of Mages, have been kidnapped from Tabat and are being taken to the Southern Isles in search of ancient magic in a place called the Coral Tower. They fear what will happen when they get there, particularly when their kidnapper realizes he’s wrong about Lucy’s identity.

Dragons, oracular turtles, steam dirigibles, magical artifacts, and more combine in a kaleidoscopic tale that continues the saga of the city of Tabat and its inhabitants.

Return to a beautifully wrought and immersive world where intelligent magical creatures fight for their right to be free in a system that makes use of their work—and sometimes their very bodies—in a city full of revolution and riot, ready for the return of its lost Champion: the reluctant Bella Kanto.

Fireworks, riots, and rousing speeches all mark the vast societal upheavals taking place in the city of Tabat. But personal upheavals reflect the chaos as well. Adelina Nettlepurse, noted historian and secret owner of Spinner Press, watches the politics and intrigue with interest, only to find herself drawn into its heart by a dangerous text and a wholly unsuitable love affair with a man well below her station.

The match offered by Merchant Mage Sebastiano Silvercloth would be much more acceptable, but Sebastiano is hampered by his own troubles at the College of Mages, where the dwindling of magical resources that threatens the city itself. And worse, his father demands that he marry as soon as possible.

When Adelina’s best friend, glamorous and charming Gladiator Bella Kanto, is convicted of sorcery and exiled, the city undergoes increasing turmoil as even the weather changes to reflect the confusion and the loss of one of their most beloved heroes.

Meanwhile the Beasts of Tabat—magical creatures such as Dryads, Minotaurs, and Centaurs—are experiencing a revolution of their own, finally questioning a social order that places them at its lowest level. But who is helping the Beasts in their subversive uprising?

In this second book of the Tabat Quartet, award-winning author Cat Rambo expands her breathtaking story from Beasts of Tabat with a new points of view as Adelina, Sebastiano, and others add their voices. Tabat is a world, a society, and a cast of characters unlike any you have read before.

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO UNMASK—GET READY TO GLOVE UP!

Imagine never touching another human being…

Robert Luxley has a biological problem he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his bare skin and you’re paralyzed for fifteen minutes. Lonely and isolated, he’s turned his “special trick” into a lucrative career as a hired killer. He thinks he’s one of a kind—until one day he’s confronted by a young girl named Cassandra, who tells him he’s not alone. She has it too, and the two of them are not the only carriers of—

Sensory Deprivation Syndrome (SDS)

SDS is an extremely dangerous medical condition. Carriers can render anyone they touch blind, deaf, or otherwise senseless, in seconds. Hospital physicians have reported potentially related cases involving loss of touch, taste, smell, memory, pain, balance, and sense of direction—questioning whether many previously observed medical impairments have been misdiagnosed and were, in fact, symptoms of SDS.

Fearing discovery, Luxley follows Cassandra through a dark underground network of “Deprivers” in a desperate hunt for her missing brother Nicholas, taken hostage by a radical group of carriers with a terrifying agenda. Luxley doesn’t know who to trust, or who is safe to touch, but he needs to learn Cassandra’s secrets fast. As knowledge of SDS spreads and panic erupts—including mandatory registration, glove mandates, and the global call for isolation camps—no carrier anywhere in the world will be safe.

Brandon Jones, a handsome, hopeful young actor, stands on the verge of fame and fortune—when a car accident shatters his life, bringing his career to a screeching halt. Isolating himself from anyone connected to his once dazzling future, he cuts off his friends and family, turns to booze for company, and withdraws to a small apartment on Sunset Boulevard. Now the only people he begrudgingly interacts with are two neighbors, a drag queen and a student paying her way through college as an escort.

Brandon’s convinced he has nothing to live for, until a startlingly beautiful young couple moves in across the hall. Spying through the peephole in his door, he grows increasingly obsessed with his new neighbors—and the parade of damaged strangers who visit them at all hours. Then something seemingly impossible happens that convinces him this mysterious couple can help restore all that he lost.

Brandon insinuates himself into their lives, and finds himself on a journey from despair into hope—as an ancient secret from the dawn of time draws him head-to-head with a terrifying foe bent on destroying everything he’s now come to love.

Once again, Steven-Elliot Altman dares to place his readers in the company of an embittered antihero, in the same manner that inspired Paul Goat Allen of the Barnes & Noble Review to call his bestselling novel, Deprivers, “One of those rare novels that will haunt the reader’s subconscious for a long time.” The author has produced a timeless work that tempts our greater demons and provokes our higher angels. Imagine Leaving Las Vegas meets City of Angels and American Gods, and you've glimpsed the haunting power of Severed Wings.

Keeper of the Winds

by Jenna Solitaire and Russell Davis

Rainbow Brigade

by J. A. Pitts

Severed Wings

by Steven-Elliot Altman

How to control the bloodlust?

The Way of the Wooden Stake

One man rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body terribly transformed  . . .

He strains to overcome his murderous instincts through Zen meditation and blood deprivation.

He is reclaimed by the Ministry, an underground society waging war with the undead.

Again and again he will find his will tested, and his thirst tempted, by the killers who demand his allegiance  . . . and the Zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step  . . .

He must walk a tightrope between the living and the dead  . . . to master himself and his hunger. And the way of the wooden stake. . . .

The 25th Anniversary Revised Author Edition of LA Times Best-selling Author Steven-Elliot Altman’s controversial Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires. Foreword by New York Times best seller Nancy Holder, author of multiple vampire novels and Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.

A gritty dystopian future.

Cities in the ruins of Earth have turned into Jungles.

Safe havens to shelter the rich, the privileged . . . but not so safe.

He rules this part of the Jungle: a young man, a streetwise leader, a legend.

They call him BANDER SNATCH.

Now a powerful, telepathic alien race has chosen Bander Snatch for a new mission, and he must meet the ultimate test on both his own devastated turf and the most exotic of worlds.

The first in a rollicking, galaxy-spanning SF adventure series that will make your imagination spin!

McGill Feighan is a “Flinger”—able to teleport himself or anything else as far away as he can imagine (as long as he’s been there before). He can travel across the universe in a flicker and a flash.

But that’s not all.

The Far Being, known as Retzglaran, has interfered with McGill from his birth, and is the source of his powers . . . and his persecution.

When McGill was only four days old, an interstellar crime syndicate known as The Organization put out a contract on his life.

What does the universe have against him? And can he learn to control his powers enough to survive the assortment of people who have taken far too much interest in his life?

As a young man, McGill sets off on an unguided quest for the Far Being, a journey that will take him to the most fantastic worlds, among the most incredible alien species. It might be a fun adventure . . . if the whole galaxy wasn’t out to kill him.

Final book in the rollicking, galaxy-spanning SF adventure series that will make your imagination spin!

You’d think life would be easy and fun for a “Flinger”—someone who can teleport himself or anything else wherever he wants. But McGill Feighan has been frustrated on his galaxy-wide quest to find the meddlesome Far Being Retzglaran.

It was supposed to be a fun weekend on the Bird World called Rehma  . . .  a place of nestlings and birdsong. But instead, that vacation turns into a frightening go-round with a mysterious mutant virus and repeated assaults by galactic goons who have wanted him dead since he was four days old.

And McGill doesn’t seem any closer to finding the Far Being.

So he sets out with the assistance of the crimson-crested Dr. Th’hweet to put things right on Rehma. It’s going to take an alien wing and a prayer  . . . 

An epic adventure of interplanetary warfare from the author of the McGill Feighan series.

The aliens wanted to use their world for war games. The humans were ordered to leave or die.

Some left.

Some died.

Some didn’t.

This is the story of Lieutenant Darcy Lee. She and her comrades in the human military found themselves in a desperate face-off against giant alien vessels. Against impossible odds and incomprehensible alien technology, they had their imagination, guts . . . and maybe a little bit of blind luck.

Third book in the rollicking, galaxy-spanning SF adventure series that will make your imagination spin!

McGill Feighan is able to “Fling”—or teleport—himself or anything else as far away as he can imagine. As such, he makes a rather substantial living by Flinging anything and everything, for a fee, to the far corners of the universe.

His real quest, though, is to find the Far Being Retzglaran, who has meddled in his life since birth.

Oh, and he’s trying to avoid the dread Organization, which is trying to kill him at every turn. They’ve had a contract out on his life since he was four days old, but they’ve been unsuccessful. So far.

Now McGill teams up with an Actuni plant-monk—who is not your everyday sentient cactus—as they flee the PsychSection of the Flinger Network and seek an encounter with the most ancient of all mysteries.

It is a thorny dilemma indeed.

Transient. Ethereal. Delicate.

Insignificant. Mere insects . . . 

Like all the human beings trapped aboard a vast starship on a generations-long journey to a new home.

The Mayflower is run by an immortal captain who views himself as a god.

Gerard Metaclura was just a normal man until a terrible accident left him near dead, his body destroyed. But his brain was installed as the sentient command core of the generation ship.

At first Gerard was confused by what had happened to him. Then angry. Then bored.

Now he is the ship, controlling everything on board . . .  including 25,000 helpless human passengers.

These mayflies . . . 

Transient. Ethereal. Delicate.

But maybe they’re not willing to be so helpless and insignificant after all . . . 

Mayflies

Second book in the rollicking, galaxy-spanning SF adventure series that will make your imagination spin!

McGill Feighan is able to Fling—teleport—himself or anything else as far away as he can imagine. He embarked on a quest across the universe in search of the Far Being, who has meddled in his life since birth.

But it’s not so simple to find an elusive supreme being, especially when McGill is pursued by the dread Organization, which has a contract out on his life.

McGill’s journeys take him to the sea world Delurc, whose inhabitants combine the sociability of sharks with the compassion of piranhas. This is not exactly a perfect place for a nineteen-year-old with healthy hormones . . .

It looks like McGill Feighan is in some hot water . . . but fortunately, he’s unsinkable!

From the author of the Journeys of McGill Feighan series

Erased = Victory

What if you created a devastating technology—the Time-Space Separator Unit, the “Tisser”—that could literally erase a person or place from the time-space continuum, as if they had never existed?

What if you were part of a rebel group rising up against a corrupt, oppressive government?

What if you decided to use the Tisser as a weapon and eliminate your enemies from the fabric of the universe itself?

What is the true price of freedom? And how do you patch up the holes you leave behind?

The Branch

by Mike Resnick

Caverns

by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.

Animal

by Munish K. Batra and Keith DeCandido

Reefs

by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

Hold Your Fire

edited by Lisa Mangum

Lava

by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

edited by Kevin J. Anderson

Keeper of the Earth

by Jenna Solitaire

Cliffs

by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

Rise, Do Not Be Afraid

by aaron a. abeyta

The Sleeper Awakes and Men Like Gods

by H.G. Wells

The Jewel of Seven Stars

by Bram Stoker

The Lost World

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

War of Omission

by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

Island Realm: Book One of the Crystal Doors Series

by Rebecca Moesta and Kevin J. Anderson

Fire on the Border

by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

Jules Verne’s sequel to Poe’s classic The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

A captain seeking a lost brother.

A sailor obsessed with redemption as he hides a dark secret.

A wealthy onlooker intrigued by possibility.

Brought together by coincidence, they embark on a journey into the uncharted waters of the Antarctic.

Jules Verne weaves a story of exploration, adventure, and mystery in this exciting tale. An Antarctic Mystery is the unauthorized sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and brings closure to Poe’s cliffhanger ending.

Journey through the Antarctic as Verne reveals the shocking conclusion to one of his favorite childhood tales.

Jules Verne’s classic science fiction adventure of mankind’s first trip to the Moon!

The Civil War was over . . .

. . . the Gun Club was finished.

What if they changed history?

When Barbicane had the idea to repurpose weapons of war for science, his friends laughed at him. His rival, Captain Nicholl, ridiculed him for his ideas. But he didn’t let it deter him.

Would they be ready in time?

Philosophers had dreamed of setting foot on the Moon for thousands of years. Would the Gun Club have what it takes to man the first mission? Or would technology prove too limited?

What dangers awaited them in space?

Barbicane’s infectious enthusiasm inspired enemies and adventurers across the world. Would it be enough to get him and his friends safely back to Earth?

Would they let their differences divide? . . . or unite them?

Sometimes, humanity’s search for knowledge is worth all the risks.

From Jules Verne, the Father of Science Fiction, who inspired you with Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. You’ll love this classic because of the humor, breath-taking adventure, and ingenuity a hundred years ahead of its time.

Includes an original foreword by Russell Davis.

What happens when writers vacation together in a gloomy, cold summer in Lake Geneva, Switzerland . . . And challenge each other to write ghost stories?

On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (whom the world knows as Mary Shelley), John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change literary history and create a new genre of fiction—Gothic horror.

This book contains the result of their challenge on that windswept evening—three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Some of the first written works of their kind.

Lord Byron’s A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the test of time?

The Vampyre, by John Polidori, recounts the story of Aubrey and Lord Ruthven. What dark secret lies between them?

In Frankenstein, a university student unleashes a monster upon the world. Or is he the real monster?

If you love Gothic horror, you’ll love One Stormy Night.

One Stormy Night: A Story Challenge That Created the Gothic Horror Genre

by Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori; and Mary Shelley

What happens when writers vacation together in a gloomy, cold summer in Lake Geneva, Switzerland . . . And challenge each other to write ghost stories?

On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (whom the world knows as Mary Shelley), John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change literary history and create a new genre of fiction—Gothic horror.

This book contains the result of their challenge on that windswept evening—three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Some of the first written works of their kind.

Lord Byron’s A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the test of time?

The Vampyre, by John Polidori, recounts the story of Aubrey and Lord Ruthven. What dark secret lies between them?

In Frankenstein, a university student unleashes a monster upon the world. Or is he the real monster?

If you love Gothic horror, you’ll love One Stormy Night.

One Stormy Night: A Story Challenge That Created the Gothic Horror Genre

by Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori; and Mary Shelley

What happens when writers vacation together in a gloomy, cold summer in Lake Geneva, Switzerland . . . And challenge each other to write ghost stories?

On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (whom the world knows as Mary Shelley), John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change literary history and create a new genre of fiction—Gothic horror.

This book contains the result of their challenge on that windswept evening—three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Some of the first written works of their kind.

Lord Byron’s A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the test of time?

The Vampyre, by John Polidori, recounts the story of Aubrey and Lord Ruthven. What dark secret lies between them?

In Frankenstein, a university student unleashes a monster upon the world. Or is he the real monster?

If you love Gothic horror, you’ll love One Stormy Night.

One Stormy Night: A Story Challenge That Created the Gothic Horror Genre

by Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori; and Mary Shelley

Before Orwell, before Huxley, there was Zamyatin.

When society has programmed you to sleep  . . . 

How do you wake yourself up?

The One State is a world where people are merely numbers, and free will itself is a disease. Most are happy in their role as cogs in a huge machine, controlled by the ever-watchful Benefactor.

However, on the eve of the launch of the Integral—the spacecraft that will impose the One State’s way of life everywhere—starship architect D-503 meets I-330, a female number as irreverent as she is beautiful.

The Benefactor has quantified human experience, circumscribed it, reduced it to nothing but a series of mathematical equations—that is, until one man factors back in the ultimate unknown: love.

This is We, the groundbreaking novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World, the two towering dystopian works of the twentieth century.

Discover it for yourself today.