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Lauren didn’t ask to be a hero. But one night during the graveyard shift at Jodrell Bank, she captured an astonishing fast radio burst from an alien race. And just like that, the fate of the world was thrust into her hands. Now she’s put everything on the line to blow open the conspiracy of silence surrounding UFOs. She's on the run from MI5 and a secret organization determined to stop her. After a year of dead ends and a heart-breaking personal tragedy, she’s on the verge of being forced to abandon her personal crusade.

When radio telescope operators Lauren Stelleck, a woman with a special gift enabling her to literally see certain sounds, and Steve Andrews, a diehard sci-fi geek, detect a signal like no other at Jodrell Bank in England, a chain of events is unleashed that propels Earth towards all-out nuclear war. Can Lauren and Steve unlock the secret of the signal before our species tears itself apart?

On board an X101 stealth aircraft, Lauren, Jack, and Mike arrive at the secret location of Sky Dreamer Corp - a place equipped with technology and resources far more advanced than anything they could have ever imagined.

It's three in the morning, and we're in her bed. My body throbs from his mouth on me, my blood still whooshing in my ears. I want to make him feel like this, so I can drown in it. So I can drown in him. Goddamn, I want to suffocate in every fiber of Locke Halliwell with the woman I love at my side. He has me fragile already. She has me in pieces at her feet. And man alive, I wish that was all I had to worry about. But this life. It's vicious. It's deadly. And if I can't protect every soul I've ever loved from the past, the future is already in ashes at my feet.

They have escaped the necropolis that is now Jilrir. Rebecca, Petra, Rachael, Breanna, and Allannah are no longer locked within the gilded cage and face an uncertain future. Pursued by the dark forces of the God Commech, Rebecca begins the fight to restore The House of Maine only to find one man standing against her… their guardian, the Illyan priest Sebastian Roark.

Lera and her cousin have completed their long childhood and their training as healers. Sent to their grandparents back in Madean, they must negotiate the strange, new world and attain their werwinstans. Fate intervenes in the shape of handsome, young Ian, very human and very poisonous to the elven. Trying out her independence for the first time in her life, what will Lera decide? Where will she discover her loyalty to lay, with love or with duty?

Ever since Lauren and the rest of the team activated the Resonancy Generator near Cuba, the radio signature of our planet known as Earth Song has been changed forever. But it’s raised as many questions as it answered, including why the signal didn’t revert back to normal after nearly all the micro minds were all awoken. Could it be there is something else coded into the Earth Song signal and whose purpose hasn’t yet been fulfilled? And if so, does this relate to the buried Angelus secret that lies at the heart of all micro minds?

When rumors begin reaching Eden of strange lights beneath the seas surrounding Cuba and the presence of Russian spy ships and subs in the area, Lauren and the team quickly realize that the sightings have all the hallmarks of a waiting micro mind. But if so, why hasn’t there been an accompanying neutrino burst? The team stand on the cusp of discovering the true purpose of the micro minds, but can they beat the Russians and their Overseer masters to it before all hope is extinguished for any hope of our planet’s survival?

Can Lauren successfully draw upon all her skills to fight off both threats from the Overseers and from beyond our world? Earth Howl is the sequel to Earth Shout, and is part of the Multiverse Chronicles, an epic series of interlinked stories that includes the Fractured Light trilogy, following humanity’s struggle to survive across parallel universes.

With only four years left until the Kimprak asteroid ship arrives in our solar system to launch their invasion of Earth, Lauren, Jack and the team must track down Lucy’s waking micro minds so they can protect our world from the Overseers. But on the eve of launching a network of CubeSats, Tom is still missing in the field. What happened to him, and why is Alice, president of the Sky Dreamer Corp, so evasive whenever his name is brought up? Meanwhile, Tic Tac UFO sightings have greatly increased, along with those of the TR-3B Astras, the top-secret US antigravity military craft.

Whilst Lauren and the team work to bring Tempest’s systems rapidly online, Eden is throwing all its resources into preparing starship for battle. Production is also working flat out to replace as many of the X-craft as possible after so many were lost at the battle with the Kimprak over Antarctica. With everything now on the line, they must also attempt to create a true alliance with a former enemy if our world to have any chance of defending itself from the alien threat.

Despite being an embarrassment to Amazon society due to standing at only five foot one in her boots, Miss Eve clearly has the ear of the queen. When she appoints Eve over a more qualified candidate to become the first Amazon ambassador to Middlemass, a city ruled by men, it becomes the talk of the Royal Court. What game is Queen Anastasia playing? And what possibly possessed her to pick this social outcast to be the one to speak for the Amazon empire?

The United States has fallen, but it is not the end for Charlotte Kensett. Reunited with Jenna Plural, the Mistress of Shadows returns with a new attitude, new resolve, and a new pair of patent leather stilettos. As Jenna struggles to unite a fractured community, Kensett starts to build the most powerful intelligence service in the history of the Solar System and eliminating all opposition to her mistress’ power.

Firmly established in the House of Maine, time is running out for the Preacher and his newly acquired young wards. Aware there is no chance to save the city of Jilrir in the coming battle, Sebastian finds himself thwarted at every turn by the baron's son. As his star rises within the family of Maine, it falls in the Church of lllya. Can he bend the knee to the young girl his goddess has chosen to lead her church?

Bridget Toussaint, the teenage survivor of the destruction of the peon base by Jenna Plural, has really tried to settle into her new life in the fleet of the country’s enemy. The young girl is either mistrusted or positively despised by her peers as she struggles to find acceptance in the newly formed Solar Confederation. When the newly renamed flagship of the fleet, The Spirit of Freedom, is boarded and its crew captured by the enemy she once called her countrymen, Bridgette finds herself in a race against time and insurmountable odds.

When the messengers from Frain arrive to secure the hand of Princess Illera for their cruel, selfish heir to the throne, Torul, she hides. Forced by circumstances and her own father, Illera and her three companions journey to the cold, dark north. Fighting against her fate, Illera plunges the quartet into danger. But when she accedes to the demands of cruel destiny they must fight against a ravening evil that knows no restraint. Using her mixed blood heritage, can this innocent child learn and mature fast enough to control both herself and the forces ripping her world apart?

Tallia is approaching her coming-of-age day and will finally be allowed down the ladders from the remote village high up on the plateau in the mid-lands of Zantalth. She has been haunted the last few months by disturbing dreams of monsters trying to get to the village. As she gets closer to her coming-of-age days, strange things begin to happen to her that she cannot explain.

Musical prodigy Eddie Dean gets everything she wants. The best violin, the best boyfriend, and a place at the best music school in London are hers until her father goes bankrupt. Once the financial façade comes tumbling down, Eddie’s broke and her boyfriend couldn’t care less. The doorstep of Jimmy’s Café is the last place she expects to wash up, and her new life is made worse by the disdain of her boss’ sneering grandson. Sam Nowak is arrogant, rude, and gorgeous, and if Eddie never sees him again, it will be too soon. Shame she can’t stop thinking about him.

Sebastian was a man so heinous that mothers would invoke his name to scare their children. Guilty of unspeakable crimes during the Holy War, he set out to eradicate the churches in the name of the king in the House of Maine. Merciless, unforgiving, and utterly cruel, he was the epitome of evil. When it was believed that he had died on the final day of that war, humanity breathed a sigh of relief. The House of Maine gave him an honored funeral, and he lies at rest in his grave.

Charlotte Kensett: A woman born without the ability to feel empathy for others. The perfect recruit for British intelligence, although not all is as it seems. Finding herself the pawn in a high-stakes political game, Kensett must go on the run as she is branded a traitor by the country she serves.