Disgraced former cop Clarke Lantham doesn’t mind making his living as a PI. He doesn’t mind the long hours, living in his office, or even dealing with bill collectors, because it keeps him in the city–as close to heaven as he’s ever likely to get. Fortunately, the world needs private detectives.

Unfortunately for Lantham, on this particular Saturday morning “the world” consists of a fretful mother with a missing daughter, and the place he has to go to look for her has a name every bit as ominous as hell: Suburbia. With only a teenager’s blog and diaries to go on, and time running out, Lantham chases the puzzle pieces from the posh shadow of Mount Diablo to the kink clubs of San Francisco to the genetic engineering labs of Stanford.

Tailed by mercenaries, framed for murder, and forced into hiding, he somehow must keep his head in the face of a world where the normal rules of reality don’t seem to apply…all for the sake of a nineteen-year-old girl whose face he sees every time he closes his eyes.

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In early January, a group of friends gather for an annual retreat: eight artists, scientists, and authors cloistered together in a mountain mansion for ten days of games, conversation, exhibition, and hedonism away from prying eyes.

The biggest Sierra snowstorm in over twenty years, however, is not part of their plans.

When an avalanche buries the house, cutting off all hope of hiking out, they must somehow survive and stay sane while waiting for rescue—which becomes difficult when they all start having the same dream.

“Down From Ten is a brilliant, sometimes creepy take on a bohemian cozy with surreal underpinnings and an irrepressibly touching ending.” –Gail Carriger, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Parasol Protectorate series

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The Award-nominated author of The Antithesis Progression and Down From Ten brings you a genre-spanning collection in the American Gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor, Ray Bradbury, and Ambrose Bierce.

Bedtime stories aren’t just for children anymore.

Contains: Lilith, Angels Unawares, The Coffee Service, We Create Worlds, Control Room, The Man In The Rain, and Train Time, plus six original poems a new introduction for every story.

A Man Walks Into A Bar…

Joss Kyle is a one-time National Security Advisor who barely escaped Washington D.C. with his skin intact. For three years he’s lived by his wits and the fall of the cards in the criminal underworld of South America, but jumping planet for Space Station Sidon means walking into an ambush more dangerous than any he’s yet faced:
A man named Alex Hart wants to play cards with him.

Their meeting will fling Joss into a game playing for highest stakes there are: control of the entire solar system. Chased by a revolutionary leader, agents of a corrupt senator, and an underworld boss known only as The Green Lady, he quickly discovers that in the looking-glass world above the gravity well, survival, like poker, is just another sport. And in this contest, it isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you rig the game.

“…lovingly detailed, well-written thinking man’s science fiction at its best…with more twists than Chubby Checker…” –View from Valhalla