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Marie Fontaine is one of the best assassins OutLook ever produced—precise, untraceable, unflinching. A master of deep cover and infiltration. Her new mission should be routine: eliminate a list of whistleblowers threatening powerful interests. No names. No questions. No complications. But Savannah holds ghosts. One of them wears a familiar face.

Aiyana and Kendra Cassidy never anticipated becoming the key to humanity's survival. As leaders of the Heavy Lift Corporation, their objective is clear: secure humanity’s future among the stars. Politics? Who needs it, when the galaxy is calling? The consequences of failure are stark: three-quarters of Earth’s population face starvation within decades, and the Solarian Union’s dominance could become unassailable. Success, however, means a rebirth for humanity—a chance to explore the stars, establish new colonies, and reclaim control over their destiny.

In the hidden world beneath modern Boston, power is currency—and blood is never just blood. Shadow Bound is a dark, slow-burn urban fantasy about dangerous alliances, buried truths, and the thin line between hunter and prey. With sharp dialogue, layered politics, and a supernatural mystery at its core, this is a story where no one is safe, nothing is as it seems, and survival means choosing who to trust before the shadows close in.

Welcome to the world of 2113. The country has shattered into 10 squabbling nations, and the solar system is on the edge of colonization. Technologic wonders abound. Yet, it's not unlike our own. People meet, fall in love, face assassination at their wedding - well, perhaps not. Meet Aiyana and Kendra, Cass and Ken to their friends, a genius physicist and a retired movie star with a mysterious past. They live quietly, get along with their neighbors, don't have problems at work. So why did they have to run for their lives from their wedding?

Some loves never fade. Some break you open. Some build you into something that cannot be erased. Before she was a war hero. Before the Artemis War. Before the Terran Federation. Kendra Foster-Briggs was a sensie star, a survivor, and a woman falling in love with someone she wasn’t supposed to keep. Rose Emmons was everything Kendra didn’t know she needed—brilliant, brave, and burning with a fire that refused to be controlled. Their connection was electric, dangerous, and real in a way nothing else ever had been.

The Cassidyverse is vast. It spans centuries, stars, and stories whispered in orbit, shouted from rooftops, or muttered into a whiskey glass at the end of the world. In The Shape of the Fire, Adam Gaffen returns to the sprawling, genre-bending universe that began with Into the Black and The Heart of Space — and he’s brought some of your favorite chaos agents with him.

Set 100 years in the future, the book opens with the wedding of two female friends - Kendra (Ken) Foster-Briggs, exotic actress and film producer and Aiyana Cassidy (Cass), half Irish/half Native American graduate from MIT with a doctorate in optical engineering to Derek James, a man of independent means. The only problem is, instead of the reverend marrying them, he pulls a gun on them, forcing them to run like hell.

What would you do if you were...Hunted? Despised? A vampire? You'd try to escape. Where do you go when the whole human race is against you? The future. But beware - you might not like what you find. And you can't go back. Dive into an alternate Earth where vampires are real and are the hunted, not the hunters!

In a world where angels and demons are destined to destroy each other, can forbidden love rewrite their fate? Dive into the electrifying world of "Godsfall: The Book of One" by Adam Gaffen, where urban fantasy collides with steamy paranormal romance. Meet Kalili, a formidable demon, and Faith, a radiant angel, whose love story defies the very foundations of Heaven and Hell.

In The Cassidy Chronicles, you met a new universe of people in a sweeping saga set in Earth's 22nd century—Kendra, Aiyana, Daniela, Davie, Mac, Diana, and Sheba. You know them all and more, but no novel can tell all the stories. Five novels aren't enough. And so we bring you Into the Black, the first collection of tales from the Cassidyverse, aimed to fill some of the gaps in your favorite characters' lives. In all, there are 11 stories, skipping lightly over parts of four centuries.

Kendra and Aiyana's world is as vibrant and rich as ever in this new collection of thirteen pieces of short fiction. You might think their world runs on fusion power, or antimatter plants, or maybe even warp drives. But it doesn't. It runs on emotions and relationships and heart. What happened after Kendra's near-disastrous Christmas party? You're not going to believe it!

Lila Martin never expected to die on a first date. After a string of failed relationships, she reluctantly gives the Flare dating app one last shot—only to match with Ethan, a man who seems too good to be true. And he is. Because Ethan isn't just charming—he's a Grim Reaper. Worse, Lila is his next scheduled collection. But instead of reaping her soul, Ethan offers her a choice: die as scheduled, or become a reaper herself.

In the ruthless underworld of high-stakes crime, Dakota Chase lives by one simple creed: Trust no one. Steal everything. Dakota is a master planner with a knack for pulling off impossible heists, but her latest job is her biggest challenge yet. With a crew of skilled but unpredictable misfits, she sets her sights on the ultimate score that could set them all up for life—or bury them for good. When a job goes sideways, the line between friend and foe blurs, and Dakota must navigate a web of betrayal, shifting alliances, and personal demons.

How do you end a war you want no part of? Cass and Ken just want to get back to their plans for exploration. That doesn't seem to be in the cards, though, so now it's time to think outside the box. If the leaders of Artemis won't listen, maybe it's time for new leaders. New tools, new crews, new challenges, but the same Cass and Ken: they're not going to let anything stop them!

Cass and Ken fled their wedding when an assassin tried to kill them. They ran from Los Alamos to Las Vegas to Massachusetts and finally to the flooded remains of New Orleans. Now Kendra will try to recruit her employer to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but everything has a cost. She may have no choice but to pay it, however. Cass has problems of her own when she discovers that a friend is in jeopardy because of her. Can she organize a rescue attempt?

Some friendships are so powerful, they bend space, time, and the rules of childhood itself. Kendra Cassidy has spent centuries shaping the future, but there’s one story she’s never told—until now. Quantum Quirks is her sideways autobiography, a heartfelt and humorous look back at her earliest memories of Aiyana, the best friend who would one day become her wife. From their first wild adventures in the Northern Imperium of the 2080s—building impossible contraptions, outsmarting teachers, and occasionally outrunning the law—Kendra and Aiyana prove that growing up is anything but ...

Things have gone sideways for Cass and Ken. Kendra took on one final job for her employer, and has discovered the truth behind it. Cass recruited a pair of agents to help her rescue a friend. Now, they depend on their wit, skills, and a set of unlikely allies to escape with their skins intact. Dive into the exciting conclusion to The Cassidy Chronicles, Volume One!

When Kendra agrees to host a holiday party, she expects a night of laughter, a bit of rebellion, and maybe even a kiss under the mistletoe. What she doesn't anticipate is a series of eerie events that suggest her best friend Cass's mother might be right about the fae and the ancient spirits of Yule. As water turns to wine and shadows seem to move on their own, Kendra must confront a world she doesn’t believe in—and her growing feelings for Cass. But when a prank goes awry, unleashing mischievous spirits, Kendra finds herself in a perilous game with the fae, where love might be the only ...

Explore hidden sci-fi desires, get taken by Mothman, travel back to the myths and tales spiced up with fiery lovers. Get lost in this steamy collection and embrace the shifting magic with these sizzling stories of passion.

The Primus, Vasilia Newling, is facing her worst nightmares. A revolution on Luna. Titan and the Asteroids abandoning the Solarian Union. Defections from within her own government. All because of those damned Cassidys! But she's still as ruthless as ever.