After the bombs fell and the old world passed away, two sides emerged from the destruction: the Union and the Rebels. For years a great civil war raged, ending in a fragile truce. Now the Lord Marshal of the Union seeks to unite the land, this time using chests of coin rather than bullets.

Dominic was one of the finest Rebel soldiers to grace the battlefield. With the war at an end, he sets off across the Wastes, seeking a new life. But after a violent clash with the Union, he finds himself a reluctant participant in the Lord Marshal’s push for peace. Dominic is paired up with Lerah, an idealistic young soldier with no love for the Rebels. Their unlikely partnership takes them to the most dangerous parts of the Wastes. As tensions mount and blood begins to flow, friends become enemies, and allegiances begin to melt away.

One pill. Countless side effects.

From J.M. Lanham comes a heart-pumping thrill ride that puts a science-fiction twist on the future of medicine, technology, and philosophy.

It’s 2021 and Paul Freeman just landed a job with Asteria Pharmaceuticals, a world leader in revolutionary drug development. Paul knows the company’s future is riding on the success of their latest product – a sleeping pill designed to interact with the human genome to deliver the perfect eight-hour sleep cycle.

Just a few blocks from Asteria’s Atlanta headquarters, troubled self-help guru Donny Ford is selling a different kind of drug, empowering followers to take control of their lives using a sacred meditation technique skeptics believe may have already taken his mind to a dangerous place.

3,000 miles away, war-hardened journalist Claire Connor sits captive in a top-secret facility hidden deep in the Costa Rican jungle, guilty of two offenses: seeking help for a sleep disorder, and asking too many questions.

When these worlds collide, the three will discover just how far some companies are willing to go to protect the bottom line.

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The debut novel by J.M. Lanham, The R.E.M. Effect is a new addition to the science-fiction thriller tradition of Michael Crichton, Blake Crouch, and A.G. Riddle.

Dive into a psychological science-fiction thriller that explores Big Pharma corruption, clandestine government experiments, and the mysteries of the human brain to create a world where taking a pill could mean taking lives.

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The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.

Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.

But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen’s fertility—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society—and lead her to unthinkable deeds.

Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window.

When the Curiosity rover uncovers a human skull buried beneath the surface of Mars, humankind is faced with one of the most challenging and troubling enigmas it has ever encountered. The brilliant but arrogant physicist James Carpenter is put in charge of the investigation and will stop at nothing to find the truth. However, pitfalls abound because in the universe of Vastitas, nothing is what it seems and the very logic of space and time is questioned.

Two hundred years in the future, astronaut Daniel Novikov has his own problems to deal with. After a worldwide conspiracy leaves the human race struggling to survive, Daniel comes to the realization that only he has the knowledge needed to avert disaster. But no amount of experience could have prepared him for what he encounters in outer space.

The two men, separated by hundreds of years, race against the clock in this engaging science fiction thriller that challenges us to ask ourselves two questions:

Who are we and what are we doing here?

A 10,000-YEAR-OLD ALIEN CONSPIRACY…
AND THE TRUTH ABOUT HUMANITY’S ORIGINS MAY LEAD TO ITS DESTRUCTION.

The X-Files meets The Da Vinci Code in this fast-paced sci-fi mystery series exploring the secret alien origins of civilization. This special set contains the complete trilogy: Shadow Memories, Shadow Space & Shadow Sunset.

When private investigators Kurt Desmond and Cassie Atwood find 10,000-year-old cave paintings hinting at human civilization’s shocking origins, they're immediately thrust into the middle of a millennia-old conspiracy. But these secrets aren’t meant for their eyes, and as the pair pursue the truth, they discover that exposing the actual story of humanity's origins might also lead to its destruction.

Out of options, and with the walls closing in from all sides, Kurt and Cassie must ally with those who have hidden the truth in order to save the world from those who want to expose it any cost.

During an age of dwindling energy resources and greedy corporate expansion, Earth receives a warning from a not too distant star system: We are aware of your existence. We will end you.

The colossal mining vessel Ambition undergoes a militarized refit and is sent to confront the alien threat of Pegasi 51. Catastrophic events along the way stretch a seventy year voyage into a seven century odyssey. All communication to and from home has been severed, and the civilization waiting ahead has remained ominously silent.

Captain Ly Sulafat, Ambition's 30th - and likely last - commander, leads this final generation of weary travelers into a hostile star system, ill-prepared, and far too inexperienced to confront what awaits them.

The seven hundred year journey has ended. Time for war.

Are your swashbuckling pirates battling killer robots?
Is a masked slasher lurking in your cozy mystery?
Does your space opera have too little space and too much opera?

When genres collide, Jed is there to pick up the pieces…and have a whole lot of fun in the process.

Jed Ryland is an agent of the Crossroads, always on watch for incompatible universes smashing together. This time out, a dystopian society where teens are forced to battle for their lives is invaded by monsters from a sword-and-sorcery fantasy realm.

Jed’s mission: keep the teens alive, repel the invasion, topple the oppressive government, locate the artifact pulling the worlds together, and prevent the utter destruction of both universes.

Piece of cake.

The Mind Warriors of T'rox, intent on being the supreme sentient race in the galaxy, annihilated the home world of Adden, a place where the people had lived telepathically connected in peace and harmony. Their species slim chance to survive rests in a distant colony, genetically altered to block telepathy and evade detection by T'rox.

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Private detective Eric Beckman can read minds. He's used to weird cases, but this one may be his most difficult yet. A beloved relative has disappeared into a suspicious psychiatric hospital and Eric has no choice but to go in after her.

Getting in is easy—he knows how to fake insanity. Getting out … not so much.

The asylum's director has some personality issues of his own and is doing more than just treating patients. Now that Eric is one of them, his mind may be headed for a fate worse than death.

His only hope for escape is to work together with the other inmates. But collaborating with schizophrenics has its own challenges, even when he knows what they're thinking. Unless he can get word to the outside, the case could cost him his sanity.

[i]Sanity's Thief[/] is a standalone book.

Includes "Atomic Underworld" from New York Times bestselling Author Jack Conner!

A Multi-Author Box Set of Select Bestsellers. Thousands of pages of apocalyptic fiction for a bargain price. This is Volume III (3). Look for other books in series for more great stories!

When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest terrors becomes real. Perhaps it's nuclear war with its poisonous radiation, hideous plagues or chemical contamination, rogue artificial intelligences controlling killer robots, or zombies that turn our friends and neighbors into inhuman monsters. What can the common man or woman do in the face of apocalyptic fears?

Atomic Underworld by Jack Conner: Washed-up professional gambler Tavlin Metzler is done working with the shadowy criminal network that lurks beneath the city streets, but when a brutal and mysterious set of murders occurs in the very bedroom of his old mob boss, Tavlin gets drawn back into the mix.

Contact Us by Al Macy: On May 22, 2018, every person on Earth sneezes. Hours later, an alien spacecraft appears over New York City and broadcasts a dire message of impending doom. The future of the human race will depend on the whims of a solitary extraterrestrial who appears in the form of Walter Cronkite

Soul Stealer by Joseph J. Bailey: Heaven has fallen. The legions of Chaos have overrun the world. Uërth is in ruins. With the Heavenly Host’s fall, Angel Swords rain from the heavens. Only the most honorable and purest of heart are able to take up the Angel Swords and wield them against the throngs of Chaos.

Into the Dark by Brian Spangler: Emily wakes to find that her world has plummeted into darkness--the clouds have spilled out of the sky and taken the sun.
And there is more to the mist than just the dangers of being blind--the fog is poison, killing everything in its path.

Nano Z by Brad Knight: Fired from his job of twenty-two years, Mack is contemplating his bleak prospects when he unwittingly helps Amber, a fourteen-year-old girl with a dark, troubled past. Mack tries his best to protect her as they travel through lawless lands with roaming undead.

Outzone Raider by Mike Sheridan: 2041. The Great Global War is over. What's left of America is in chaos. Beautiful but cynical exo-robotic operator Vikki Gurin supplies Outzone bandit Dima Aslanov with information he needs for daring raids, but when they steal vital supplies destined for the federal government, he takes a step too far.

Crash Landing by Jim Rudnick: As the first wisps of atmosphere touch the badly damaged explorer ship Drake, only its AI remains. The pilot and nine of the ten occupants are dead. The only live human lies in the robo-doc tank in the rear of the ship, half awake, half in a stupor, not knowing that the rest of the crew is dead.

Sometimes We Ran by Steven Drivick: Our hero had it all: A great job, a beautiful wife, a nice car. As he approached middle age, all the comforts of life were within reach. Then the zombies came and it all disappeared in a flash. Now he walks in a shattered, post-apocalyptic world filled with hungry undead and desperate survivors. His long walk to escape the dead is slowly becoming a death march.

Minor Demons by Randall Morris: The Dragon made a mistake. Years ago, he branded the demon Shadow's father Abbadon traitor, guilty of conspiring with the angels, and currently tortures him in the lowest circle of Hell. Armed with Michael the Archangel’s short blade, Shadow vows to rescue his father no matter what.

Lethal Seasons by Alice Sabo: In the near future, a virus has whittled down the human race. The remaining population struggles in a world ravaged by extreme weather. Cities are empty, farms deserted, factories abandoned. When three wildly different young lives intersect, a chain reaction of death and violence will change the course of the future.

BANGKOK, MARCH 2018. The world looked on in horror as millions of innocent lives were snuffed out in a matter of hours. Countless men, women and children slaughtered without mercy, torn apart by a violent mob that attacked without reason, motive or warning.

Tom Freeman saw the aftermath. He reported on the tragedy and looked into the eyes of the sole survivor, and what he saw looking back sent him running home to the United States. Back to safety. Back to a place where the world makes sense, and the putrid stink of the dead doesn't haunt his nightmares.

He didn't run quickly enough. They're coming.

Remain indoors...

Gather supplies...

Find a weapon...

They're here.

A warrior never questions when his fated's life is in danger...

Kerven has served his duty proudly. General Braen has offered him a command and the experienced warrior is ready to tackle it without question. The only thing that could make him falter in his actions is... well, what if the right woman is at the wrong place at the right time? Isn't that enough to make a warrior question his duty?

Paula Allen has been sent to Jumel, and there she will remain. At least until her mission is done and the cure for a deadly virus is attained. The trouble with that? Oh, just a war with an alien race that won't back down, blocking access to the cure.

And the Brion warrior who has decided that she's the one isn't helping either. Now, if he wasn't so damnably hot and convincing, maybe focusing on the fate of the universe could be easier...

Alien Warrior's Challenge is a novella set in the Brion universe. It can and should be read as a standalone, though some of the characters are first introduced earlier in the series. If you like your hero Alpha as hell and your heroines brave, bbw and willing to fight for what is right, then this is the book for you!

Red Team Alpha. An elite military unit. Twenty highly-trained veteran warriors, Mars’ best. They are ready to face whatever dangers threaten the Confederation. They are capable, dedicated, armed with the best technology Mars has to offer. And they don’t exist, at least not officially.

Now the team will be called upon to face its greatest test. On a planet in a newly-discovered system there is a mysterious wreck, the remains of an ancient ship. The discovery is a momentous one, first contact and proof that mankind is not alone in the universe.

It is a job for the Team, but even these crack soldiers will be tested to the limit of their abilities as they uncover the dark horror within, a technological nightmare that threatens the very future of humanity. The soldiers of Alpha will fight, ignoring the odds as usual, but this time they will be caught between two enemies.

For they are not the only ones who know about the ruins. Even now, the notorious Gavin Stark and his Alliance Intelligence forces are on the move, seeking to seize the ancient vessel and the priceless technology within for their own purposes. And they are ready to do whatever is necessary to gain the priceless ship…including wiping out Red Team Alpha completely.

One hand of cards and it's all over but the crying...

Cass Kennedy finally gets what she's been dreaming of for the past ten years: a drifter ship to call her own. All the sim time and battle training is going to pay off in spades as she sets her course for the future. She'll be living on her own terms, not those of her father.

But drifting through deep space with a crew of nutty strangers on the DS Anarchy carries a lot more surprises than she bargained for. Nobody told her that her ship is falling apart, that dead chickens are something you really want to hang on to, and that the OSG has big plans for the universe that don't necessarily jibe with her plans for herself.

Jump onboard with Cass and her crew as she charts a course toward an alliance that will either make her or break her as Captain of the DS Anarchy.

Something has gone terribly wrong in transit.
Pioneers looking for a new start were selected to escape a dying earth, and travel to a far off colony in cryogenic sleep, but something has gone wrong.
After the crash landing on a remote planet nearly kills the crew, Adam the pilot must work to save the survivors, among them Tricia the only woman he has ever cared for. Searching the sand-covered planet, it becomes clear that they are far from safe.
If the burning sun, scouring storms or violent inhabitants hunting them does not finish the dwindling group, the luring call of an unknown voice promises them safety. With each step mysterious forces follow at the periphery urging their demise.
The true danger may be their own human nature as supplies dwindle, and exhaustion sets in.
Will they overcome their baser instincts and survive ... or succumb to them and perish?

Edited October 2016

“But what are we without dreams?”

Book 2 of The Seekers series continues the story started in the critically-acclaimed, multiple award-winning The Children of Darkness.

[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]

Against all odds, Orah and Nathaniel have found the keep and revealed the truth about the darkness, initiating what they hoped would be a new age of enlightenment. But the people were more set in their ways than anticipated, and a faction of vicars whispered in their ears, urging a return to traditional ways.

Desperate to keep their movement alive, Orah and Nathaniel cross the ocean to seek the living descendants of the keepmasters’ kin. Those they find on the distant shore are both more and less advanced than expected.

The seekers become caught between the two sides, and face the challenge of bringing them together to make a better world. The prize: a chance to bring home miracles and a more promising future for their people. But if they fail this time, they risk not a stoning but losing themselves in the twilight of a never-ending dream.

A tribe under threat.
The Lawgiver out for revenge.

As we approach the third millennium CE, we find the human race forced to live below the surface of the earth in order to escape the portal of extinction. With their greed and avarice, they have devastated the once benevolent Earth mother, brought her to the brink of destruction. Now, they live underground in tribes that must constantly fight for their right to survive. Fight others. Fight The Lawgiver. Fight the Natrik. This is the chronicle of the Zetite tribe, inhabitants of Tunnel X19, told by their valiant leader, Rohan, as they fight for their survival in a damp subterranean world over three hundred feet below the surface of the Earth.

Argus Wade was born into the Ministry, an archaic and barbaric religion that's taken ahold of the Republic. He knew from an early age that he was different from the other students who learned there: the threat of death - or worse - loomed over him because of his special gifts.

When he tries to protect his daughter from this fate by hiding her from the Ministry, he finds out that all he's managed to do is make things worse. He's running out of options and growing more desperate by the day.

Meanwhile, the galaxy is facing a new conflict in the outer reaches: a rebellion is forming to tear down the Republic, led by a charismatic upstart named Darius Gray. Battle lines are being drawn and everyone is choosing sides. But, they are all going to find out that the cost of war is higher than anyone could have anticipated...

Martin Rigsby is a long-time Federation navy captain of an outdated star carrier looking forward to retirement when he receives a distress signal from a human planet near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. He finds a planet in ruins, under assault from an ancient enemy of mankind, the Krai’kesh. He must use every trick in the book to try to contain the emergence of this new enemy and prevent the utter destruction of humanity.

Emergence is the first in a new science fiction series set in the Saga of the Seven Stars fantasy universe. It is a science fantasy/space opera book featuring high technology, fighter pilots, marines and intelligence officers, along with manipulation of matter and energy, gravity and so much more.

Buy Emergence now to journey beyond Earth to the far side of our galaxy.

INFECTION - POSSESSION - GENERATION

What if the alien who wants to kill you looks exactly like a friend?

Chief Security Officer Jas Harrington must protect her starship’s crew from hostile aliens. For the efficient if quick-tempered Jas, that hasn’t been too hard up till now. But the captain is drug-addled, and he’s hungry for the bonuses he gets from finding valuable resources on new worlds.

When the captain won’t listen to Jas’ fears about a mysterious planet, he is compromised by contact with a strange life form. A life form that threatens to take over the entire ship and return to Earth, where it can spread its deadly infection.

Now Jas is in a race against time, fighting to quarantine the alien infection and prevent the aliens from achieving their goal: Generation. She doesn't realize it yet, but as she fights to save her crew, the future of all humanity hangs in the balance.

Generation is book one in the Shadows of the Void space opera serial.