Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence's longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending... Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today's fears amid tomorrow's technologies. From the far corners of the galaxy to the inner reaches of the human heart, the exciting stories in At the Helm will thrill, inspire, and make you wonder--do humans have what it takes to build a better future? Or are we doomed by our own failings? Foreword by Jay Allan. "Scout" by Will McIntosh. "Gelassenheit" by Chris Pourteau. "Rubbish with Names" by Felix R. Savage. "Galaxy's Edge" by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole “A God Among Us” by Rhett C. Bruno "Just An Old Fashioned Lust Story" by Christopher J. Valin "The Quarium Wars" by E. E. Giorgi "Death-Life on Kepler 452b" by Hall & Beaulieu "The Tunnel" by Andreas Christensen "Caterpillar" by Isaac Hooke "The Null" by Vincent Trigili "The Machine" by Mark R. Healy "Bottled Lightning" by Philip Harris "The Gambit" by Rysa Walker "Control" by Will Swardstrom "The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe" by Robert Jeschonek "Magnet" by David Adams "Stasis Dream" by Josi Russell

    *Also read the first few chapters of a new sexy standalone coming soon. If you love romantic comedies with many heartfelt swoon-worthy moments, sexy alpha heroes, feisty heroines, and happy endings, then you’ll be hooked by this series. Date Me: Hot shot pilot Erik Murphy conquers the online dating world when he needs to find a date for his ex’s wedding. Everything is not as it seems in this laugh-out-loud steamy read. Save Me: Ryan Wagner is fresh out of the Marines and adapting to his life in Florida. He runs into his old best friend, Lizzy, and the sparks fly. Fall in love with this sweet friends-to-lovers romance. Study Me: A Student Teacher Romance. Houston Dale is tired of teaching the future doctors of America, until he is taken with his student, Marley Murphy. This broody, alpha has a dark past he doesn’t want Marley to have any part of. Break Me: Mysterious bad boy, Pollux Clark, is on a mission. When he lands himself as Katy Vanderlin’s fake fiance things heat up. Can these two keep up the fake relationship, or will they give in?

    Addison Maxwell is crushed when she loses her job writing an online tech column for Intuition Magazine. No job means no income, and no income means giving up her dream of living in New York City and being forced to move back to her small town in Georgia.Enter Nathan Sweet, Addison’s gorgeous new boss. With his smoldering blue eyes and chiseled jaw, the thirty-year-old looks more like a model than an executive. On his first day at Intuition, he offers Addison a way to keep her job – take over writing the sex column. The only problem? Addison doesn’t know much about sex.Fortunately, her hot new boss is all too happy to teach her. But Nathan has a dark side – he’s prone to bouts of irrational jealousy, and his sexual preferences include whips, chains, and all sorts of delicious punishments.Will Addison be able to keep up with the gorgeous and powerful Nathan Sweet? Or will the dark and damaged billionaire scare her away? NO GOOD FOR ANYONE When Lindsay Benson buys her dream house, a cute little cottage on Cape Cod, she can’t believe her luck. Until she meets the next door neighbor, Chace Davenport.Chace and Lindsay have a history – after one hot night a year ago, Chace disappeared without so much as a phone call, leaving Lindsay confused and broken-hearted. And after a run-in with her sexy, dark-haired new neighbor, Lindsay realizes he’s the same jackass he’s always been.Chace never meant for things with Lindsay to get so complicated. He has his reasons for leaving her, reasons that are too dark and serious to share with anyone. He’s hurt Lindsay once, and he’s determined not to do it again. The only problem? He can’t seem to keep his hands off her…But will he trust her enough to let her in on his secrets? And if he does, will Lindsay be able to accept him for who he really is? FOR HIS PLEASURE When twenty-two year old Nicole Masters gets a highly coveted internship working for one of the largest advertising companies in the world, she can't believe her luck. But Jameson International isn't just any company. It's owned by thirty-two-year-old business mogul and celebrity, Red Jameson.Red is known for his high flying lifestyle; dating models and hanging with the rich and famous.The powerful billionaire can have any woman he wants, and the naive college graduate can't imagine making much of an impression on her new CEO. But when Red Jameson takes notice of her and invites her up to his secluded office one day, everything changes.As it turns out, the powerful businessman also has a voracious sexual appetite, and it's been whetted by none other than Nicole herself. And Red needs to be in charge at every turn.Nicole isn't just any girl though, and Red Jameson's shocked to find that the young intern is more than a match for him in a battle of wits and will.**ALSO INCLUDES: FOR HIS TAKING, FOR HIS KEEPING, and CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT.**

    In “Vortex,” by Gregory Benford, astronauts find a once thriving microbial lifeform that carpets the caves of Mars dying off. A code monkey tracks down the vain creator of a pernicious software virus that people jack cerebrally in “RedKing,” by Craig DeLancey. In “Number Nine Moon,” by Alex Irvine, illicit scavengers on Mars are on a rescue mission to save themselves after one of their team members dies. A young girl’s thirst for vengeance becomes a struggle for survival when she is swallowed by a gigantic sea creature on an alien planet in “Of the Beast in the Belly,” by C.W. Johnson. In “The Seventh Gamer,” by Gwyneth Jones, a writer immerses herself into a MMORPG community to search for characters being played by real aliens from other worlds. A woman armed with a rifle stalks a herd of cloned wooly mammoths in British Columbia in “Chasing Ivory,” by Ted Kosmatka. In “Fieldwork,” by Shariann Lewitt, a volcanologist struggles with her research on Europa where both her mother and grandmother suffered dire consequences. A daughter pays homage to her mother with mega-engineering projects to deal with climate change over eons in “Seven Birthdays,” by Ken Liu. In “The Visitor from Taured,” by Ian R. MacLeod, a cosmologist in the near future is obsessed with proving his theory of multiverses. The citizens of a small town on a “Jackaroo” planet object to a corporation placing a radio telescope near local alien artifacts in “Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was,” by Paul McAuley. And finally, in “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee,” by Alastair Reynolds, a graduate student defends her dissertation on a solar anomaly that threatens humanity.

    Unsolved Serial Killings is a compilation of over twenty criminal dossiers on serial killers that were never caught, including:The Zodiac Serial KillerThe Frankford SlasherThe Original Night StalkerRapid City Serial KillerThe Babysitter Serial KillerHighway of Tears Serial KillerI-70/I-35 Texas Serial Killerand many more.

    Some of the stories are inspired by true events. Find out which ones inside this scary collection. "The Girl I Married" Jonathan noticed that after marrying Jeanette, she starts acting strange. As if she is not the same girl he dated. Why is she so different and what secrets is she hiding? "I`m Sorry Daddy" After an accident at work, Mr. Williams starts developing unusual symptoms. He is turning into a monster and there is nothing to stop this. "The House Next Door part 2" Jessica decides to find out what happened to her friend Sarah. What new discoveries will she make and will the same fate befall her?

    Though she wanted to be taken away from it all, she never dreamed that it would be to a magical universe where she would have her very own Sorcerer of Bairn! Tall, blonde, and totally ripped, Andri is no stereotypical sorcerer. And with a powerful talent that allows him to access both good and evil, he’s prepared to care for Primrose in every way. Will this Pappa also be able to protect her from the menace that endangers all of the droblins?Readers Beware: The Magic of Twelve Series is intended to leave the audience enchanted and wanting more. Each of these fantastical love stories features sizzling scenes that may leave the reader as uncomfortable as the heroine’s bottom. Tread carefully with the Sorcerers of Bairn if you are sensitive to high heat.

    Book 1 - Fierce Dawn by Amber ScottBook 2 - Heartsblood by Carolyn McCrayBook 3 - Soul Search by Amber ScottBook 4 - Fated by Carolyn McCrayBook 5 - 8 Hearts Beat As One

    Click on the inside feature to view covers, read blurbs, and see book trailers. 1. (YA horror) The Zombie Chronicles 2. (Adult Paranormal Romance) Eternal Vows 3. (YA Vampire series) Crush 4. (YA Paranormal) Enchanted Castle 5. (YA Fantasy & Sci fi) Castaway

    All animals... The Territorial Council isn’t thrilled with her new title of Shepherd, but they don’t have any more control over the appointment than they have over her. All they can really do is wait for her to screw something up – which Alex is determined not to do. Everything changes when a chance encounter with a genetically modified Shifter leaves Alex shaken and initiates a quest to locate its maker. In a desperate bid to save her pack, Alex must infiltrate the Parallax Corporation – an international organization with their hands in everything from biomedical engineering to publishing. They have now expanded their efforts to include terrorism and are attempting to breed the perfect weapon. Despite years of training and enough money from her live-in pack of misfits to finance a small country, Alex finds herself woefully unprepared to tackle the new threat. To make matters worse, Alex must work with a mysterious man who’s been trying to kill her since the day they met. Together with her pack, Alex must learn how to stop the biological cloning and find those responsible for the plan before it really does become a global threat.

    over one million words of divinely (and diabolically) inspired fantasy, adventure, and romance.Join the freshest voices in urban fantasy and paranormal, New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling authors, on unique journeys to heaven, hell, and worlds beyond.

    Z, the eccentric college professor who has taken her under his wing; not Benji, the endearing, attractive classmate who insists on following her around; and certainly not Cy, the beautifully dark and mysterious boy who sits in the first row in Dr. Z’s Astrobiology class and asks far too many questions. When Rory witnesses Cy being abducted by soldiers in the middle of the night, she finds herself immersed in a world that holds more secrets than she could imagine, even darker secrets than her own. From #1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire, experience the perfect combination of her bestselling books Providence and Beautiful Disaster. This New Adult Sci-Fi Romance is an action-packed, whiplash-inducing roller-coaster ride. Page after page, this unpredictable, dark, and sexy nail-biter will keep readers guessing until the very end!

    Lost worlds where T-Rex and Velociraptors still roam and man is now on the menu. Laboratories at the forefront of cloning technology experiment with dinosaurs they do not understand or are able to contain. The deepest parts of the ocean where Megalodon, the largest and most ferocious predator to have ever existed is stalking new prey. Plus many more thrillers filled with extinct prehistoric monsters written by some of the best creature feature authors this side of the Jurassic period.

    PillowPrincess Ari never dreamed her future husband could be the sexy Falcoan Commander, Rurik of the Fifth. The man tormented her when they were children, causing her untold humiliations. There is no way the magic of the Marriage Chalice will chose him for her. Shifters are too hot-blooded to rule and Rurik is a falcon shifter.Fate has it's own plans and is giving her the one man she'd never want for her very own.Retribution by Jaycee ClarkLife seems full of promise, for Reya Lynx. With her husband, her pregnancy, and her career, she knows it's time to go before The Council to claim mateship, but keeps holding back. It's been a long time since peace has surrounded her, and she's learned peace doesn't last. Detective Lorenzo Craigen has just about had it with his wife and her procrastination of the inevitable. In one night, he reminds her who she belongs to--always has, and always will no matter how many centuries they had been parted.Bad Moon Over Texas by Melissa SchroederLonestar Wolf Pack Book OneNot Available ANYWHERE else!A woman trying to forget the past.Ever since taking the job as sheriff in Sanderson, Texas, Alex Littlefoot has always thought there was something a little off. After the incident that cost her partner his life, she was lucky to get the job. Still, the town is different, as are the residents, especially Jacob Sanderson, the town's mayor.A man intent on building a future.Jacob Sanderson understands commitment. His wolf pack has protected the town for years and it rests on his shoulders as the Alpha. When members of his pack and others start to show up around the county mutilated, he has to work with the new sheriff to figure out what is going on--without letting her know his a shifter. If he can keep his hands off her, all will be well. But after one heated kiss, they both find it harder and harder to resist their attraction.A killer intent on murder.As the death toll rises, their work together draws them closer to each other. Secrets are revealed and Alex's entire world is changed in a single act. But even as the new lovers form a fragile alliance, someone is watching their every move--someone intent on killing them both.Rise of the King (King of Prey Series) by Mandy M. RothSabrina lives a relatively sheltered life. Her overprotective uncle means well but can sometimes go too far. When he shows up with a sexy hunk she's dreamed about, it's all Sabrina can do to control her emotions. As old lies are uncovered, she has to decide if she should open her heart to a man who has made using women an art form and who also happens to have wings. He's also the rightful king of the Falco, and it's time he rose to his position and accepted his destiny, even if that destiny includes her.The Savage King (Lords of the Var) by Michelle M. Pillow (A Dragon Lords Story)When Agent Ulyssa Payne's mission ends unexpectedly, she finds herself trapped on the barbaric planet of Qurilixen. Alone with no hope of rescue, she's taken prisoner by the catshifter king and left in a harem to await his claim. By a strange twist of fate, her captor is killed and now she's at the mercy of his son--the new savage King of the Var. Kirill is one incredibly sexy alpha piece of complication this agent hasn't been trained to handle.Warriors of Darkness by Mandy M. RothColonel Alejandro Vargas is more than frustrated when his job gets a whole lot tougher due to the arrival of two civilian doctors, one of whom is human and his mate-- Dr. Deryn Murray. In a place where time and space have no boundaries, ancient enemies would like nothing more than to eradicate them both, just when they've found each other.

    Contains:- Evidence of angels- The Hungry moon- Grief- The Secret Shih-Tan- Men of Maes- Fairy story- Suffer Kate- Spirit-Jump