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Forty years after the Wild Card Virus' release, the World Health Organization decides it's time to take a delegation of Aces, Jokers, politicians, and journalists on a fact-finding mission to learn how other countries are dealing with the virus that reshaped humanity. Leading the team is Gregg Hartmann, a senator with presidential aspirations and a dangerous ace up his sleeve.

George R. R. Martin and science fiction's top authors delve into the adventurous superhero universe Wild Cards in the sixth book of this fan-favorite series. Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent.

Down on her luck and her dad's hospital bills mounting, Megan needs money fast and with jobs hard to find, she joins a surrogate program. What’s the worst that could happen? Levx never wanted to come to earth during the evacuation of his planet. But their species are headed for extinction if they don’t find mates among the humans. Three of his brothers have found females including producing offspring. Now, their father has issued a command that all princes not bound must find a lover and reproduce.

When the lighting caught him, Prince Taurian of Renjer braced for travel, gripped by the piercing claws of the Demon-like Tryn on his back. When he awoke, his prey was gone - as was his true form. Instead, Taurian stood as a man, weak, naked...and staring down the barrel of a shotgun.

One night can change a life forever.... As a respected elementary school teacher, Isabella Givens is not the kind of woman to visit bars, drink all night or take a stranger home...until she meets him. Tall, handsome, and full of trouble, Kohl is a bad decision waiting to happen. Suddenly, Isabelle is two shots and one dance away from changing her life. Prince Kohl has returned to Earth injured and in need. He knows that somewhere on this planet there are crystals that can turn the tide of a war that has raged on his world for years.

Zeke and his friends have been with each other constantly since coming to Brindolla. They found the power to support themselves via potent magic that would make their wildest dreams back on Earth seem tame. All of that comes crashing down when one of War's generals manages to wound Orlow’thes, the guardian of the waters, near the Continent of Beasts. Their fight scattered Storm Company to the winds, and this place only gets weirder and wilder as time passes.

Aliens exist and humans are on the endangered species list. So when I save the life of a kid, the last thing I expect is to be thrown onto an alien jail on a planet where the jailers are at war with the inhabitants. All I have to do is figure a way off this hellhole and I look to one being who might help me. He’s one of the most dangerous prisoners here, even though he looks like a sexy angel. But he’s not like anyone I’ve ever met before…stirring desires in me that I can’t, shouldn’t act on. Yet he might be my only chance to escape.

Ash Thibodeaux has spent her entire life in the shadow of the Dragon, feeling its hot breath drift across her soul in stories regaled by her aging Gram. The tales and fables that are woven in the dark could chill a heart...if Ash didn’t have a darker knowledge...and task. Demons wash through the land, possessing friends and strangers alike, and Ash is the only one that can see, or stop, them.

Veteran Petra Arceneaux might be too damaged for duty, but she's still got a maritime mission: piloting illegal charters that install black-market bionic devices for desperate patients. When dangerous combat technology resurfaces in the body of the ship's surgeon, she races against her own failing health to find the killer before bloody history repeats.

When Jestine Darnell is rescued from her sabotaged starship by the crew of the Destiny, her only objective was to complete her mission and keep her promise to save a world from slavery. Love was the last thing on her mind. However, she did count on losing her heart to Kerry Marchant, the ship’s second in command, who makes his distrust of her painfully obvious, despite the chemistry between them.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

In a future where the line between the digital and the tangible blurs, Code of the Immortal invites listeners into a mesmerizing world of high-stakes duels and hidden agendas. Aiden, a celebrated virtual gunslinger known for his unparalleled prowess, yearns for something beyond the confines of the digital realm. Little does he know that Evelyn, a brilliant hacker from the depths of the underground, holds the key to a game-changing secret.