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For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water, and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away - and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border.

From a woman who lays claim to Chet's heart to a land ripe for grazing, the Arizona territory begins to open its arms to the dauntless determination of the Byrnes family. But with every success there comes a rising danger. There’s a sheriff who refuses to do his job. Trigger happy outlaws competing to kill them. And a mysterious rancher who’s hell bent on running a herd across Chet's land - and forcing the Texan into a war...

Taken captive on a ship in the former Caribbean, Ryan and his companions must work as part of the crew or perish at the hands of the captain. But the mutant in charge of the vessel is the least of their worries. Each day is a struggle as they face rivalry among the sailors, violent attacks, and deadly storms. Worse, a powerful enemy is hunting the ship to destroy everyone on board. Fighting for their lives and those of their shipmates, the companions must find unity within the chaos or die in the attempt.

Steeped in beauty and mysticism, the canyons of Mesa Verde, Colorado, survived the blast that altered the American west. Hired to track a group of missing children, Ryan Cawdor and his band follow the trail to a legendary city carved in stone, older and stronger than the nukecaust. The inhabitants of the palaces of light are more than warriors and survivors; they are masters of mind games that prey on illusion. And true believers in a metaphysical end game poised to push the companions over the edge of reality…into certain death.

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift retrieves an astronaut's remains. An engineer who dreams of orbiting Earth joins a search for debris and instead uncovers an old neighbor's buried longing.

I got pregnant after a fiery one-night stand. Unaware that he is the grandson of the Multi-Billionaire Mafia King, Mikhail. What was even worse? An arranged marriage. Randy approached me as if he owned me. Teasing me with his perfect body. His voice cut deep into my core, and before I knew it, we were at his place. During the time we spent together, he took me to the moon and back. However, in his eyes, I felt no compassion.

As a young lady waits for the subway, the roar of an approaching train becomes a very different kind of roar - and the train becomes a creature of quicksilver and flames. It could be a case of nerves, or a trick of the lighting in a dark, deserted rail station. Or it could be the defiant cry of a creature older than humanity.

It’s 2090, and NanoGov has exploited nanotechnology to overtake the planet. The super-rich have converted to Mod, the two-dimensional ruling class. Jeremiah Prior, a three-dimensional disgraced Fringe detective hiding in Antigua for the murder of his partner, is forced back to Manhattan to prevent his estranged daughter from converting to Mod.

The great gene mapping project of the late 20th and early 21st centuries had located every trait on the double helix. Splicing, and then cloning, had made it possible to determine the inclusion of any desired characteristics or the exclusion of any fault. Humans could be designed like an automobile, created for specific purposes, and then reproduced exactly and endlessly by cloning. And they had, by the thousands, when trust in ordinary biology had become too risky. And to ensure that biology would mind its own business, genes for sexual preference had been controlled.

Avery Fisher has joined the cast of hit TV survival competition Scavenger Hunters. While on set, he hopes to find a direction in life off the back of a failed art career. He also hopes to reconnect with an old friend from art school, one Kyle Zimmerman. He is Avery’s last connection to art, and the only other person who knows Avery’s darkest secret.

Months after the war that ripped the territories apart, Faldoa still heals. Now King Nonk rules the countryside with a merciless grip, rebuilding the decimated army. But soon foreign invaders tear through his realm. Meanwhile, in the Territories, the troublesome necklace finds new life with Chele as its host. As it comes back to power, it senses another, stronger, deep in the human claimed land, forcing Chele to seek it out.