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Working at the local grocery store and surviving high school used to be the hard part. Now the real problem? Time and space keep breaking. The JackSkip Detective Agency (and bait shop—long story) is way out of its depth. Reality is cracking open: demons are slipping through, alternate selves keep showing up, and something big, furious, and cosmic is behind it all. Skip and Jack (careful, that’s trademarked by the Tuna Conglomerate) and Annabelle, aka A.B., are the victims of a bizarre pivotal location, a town that is at the center of a Universal Conflux of Doom.

The past has returned to haunt Evelyn. Having put aside matters of a family larger than she ever conceived of, Evelyn must now confront the consequences of past choices, both hers and those of others. Though she returned for a specific purpose, civil war ravages Peldra, and Evelyn finds herself...

There are some things you just don’t expect to find in deep space. A 1947 Wisconsin license plate is one of them. Rix Banner has finally made it back to Patience Station, where life is settling into something almost respectable. His mechanic shop is busy, Calypso needs repairs, his friends are launching businesses, and for once there might even be enough credits coming in to pay the bills. Then a battered piece of chrome-plated junk turns up in a crate from halfway across the galaxy. It’s from Wisconsin. Rix’s Wisconsin.

Tedd saved the world. Their thanks: a bounty on his head.With the Manager gone, humanity wasted no time declaring war on every robot left standing — hunting them for parts, for sport, and for credits.Now a new force is emerging from the wreckage. They call themselves Phoenix.Their mission...

Heya, friend. Rusty here, coolin' my heels in the frostiest snowstorm in the stars. See, our latest job is on an ice moon where the forecast is 24/7 blizzard, with a hundred-percent chance of "Heck no, you ain't flying in this." With Nessie stuck on the tarmac, Mike and I are bustin' out an old-school solution: our classic big-rig from Earth. Let me tell ya, ain't nothin' can plow through a frozen alien tundra like nine tons of American steel.

Osheen Shupple has been working his entire life to resolve the paradox of a desperate audio message from years ago, one which holds a horrifying secret that will change the course of history. His plan: build a time machine and return to the source of the message. But he can't do it alone. Fortunately, the universe has supplied a perfect team: an archaeologist serving twenty-eight life sentences, a veterinarian with an identity crisis and no original body parts, a cheating university student, and a famous but very, very dead starship captain.

Inspector Ryken really doesn’t want to audit your spaceship. Unfortunately, it’s his job. As a member of the elite Bureau of Necessary Intervention, he has to judge the viability of Steadings: fringe communities made up of people sick of utopia. But Ryken is burnt out, his ship's computer has just hit the EDM listening, door slamming stage of robot puberty, and he is one incident away from being quietly fired. He needs an easy job.

Tedd helped build an army to take the fight to Phoenix. But Wyatt Voss has other ideas. Ambushed, attacked and bleeding out across the desert, Tedd's only move left is the one nobody saw coming—fighting alongside the enemy. The endgame is here. No rules. No mercy. And no way back.

Parenting is never easy, but it’s a hell of a lot harder when your toddler is a chupacabra. Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Reggie has embraced her fate as parent to an adopted toddler, Eldi—a bloodsucking chupacabra with a fondness for goats. Reggie wants nothing more than to...

This story began with a simple idea: What happens when the extraordinary crashes into the ordinary — not with explosions, but with ribs, sweet tea, and a family trying their best? Book One is about finding peace in the middle of chaos, choosing love in the middle of fear, and learning that...

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

First contact was a bug. Saving humanity is going to ruin his nap schedule. For Fitzwilliam 'Fitz' Chen, the biggest bug in his life was a misplaced comma, not an intergalactic distress signal. His perfectly calibrated world of naps and minimal effort shatters when a clueless alien race, the Phlibb, mistake his smart-home glitch for a cry for help. Now, as Earth's accidental First Contact Liaison, Fitz faces the ultimate disruption: saving humanity from well-meaning cosmic chaos.

Jaz Surdley has never been especially good at handling trouble. Unfortunately, trouble has recently become very interested in him. What begins as an ordinary problem with an extraordinary machine quickly turns into something much larger, stranger, and considerably more dangerous. Before long, Jaz and Brandi are caught up in a mess involving criminals, aliens, questionable technology, bad decisions, and a universe that appears to have developed a personal grudge. They are not heroes. They are barely qualified to operate unsupervised. But somehow, they may be the best chance the universe has.

Tropical drinks, Cold War secrets, and temperamental Tikis... Welcome to a wonderful, crazy paradise. It’s 1959. Burned-out spy Don Hula just wants to fade into his tropical island hideaway and forget the world. But when bizarre phenomena begin shaking up a remote chain of South Pacific islands—think underground labs, South Seas assassins, and neighborhood Tikis with existential angst—Hula’s forced back into the game for the weirdest, most dangerous mission of his career.

Worcestershire, 1987: When cash-strapped Vale Television, the smallest station on the ITV network, goes bust, Victoria Bloom sees her career come to a crashing halt. Forty years later, happily retired, Vicky reminisces with her granddaughter as they watch a show she once worked on, now repeated on a nostalgia TV channel. Later, when a stranger offers her the chance to revisit the past, Vicky returns to the start of the year when it all went wrong.