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The body count is rising, and so is Nel's temper.Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has spent her life avoiding clingy exes, but she never dreamed she'd be escaping across the stars. Now she and a fleet of refugees are hunted at every turn by the only woman she ever made the mistake of loving. And Nel, used to outrunning everything, just lost a leg. Facing her life's new trajectory is hard enough, but when Nel starts hearing the deadly signal they t...

WITHOUT EARTH, NEL HAS NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN Hot-tempered Dr. Nel Bently is not cut out to save the world. After her last project ended in fire and death, Nel must put aside her distrust of just about everyone and embark on a lo-fi search for a deadly radio transmission. Earth's survivors are torn between the austere superpower of IDH and the high-tech grassroots Los Pobledores. At every turn more allies go missing and Nel questions where ev...

IF SOUND KILLS, HOW CAN NEL GET THE WORLD TO LISTEN?¿Archaeologist Nel Bently dreamed of finding a ground-breaking site--she just never thought it would be on another planet. When she arrives on Samsara however, Lin confesses the trip took longer than Nel thought. Two years longer. Throwing her anger and homesickness into her work, Nel wonders if she just made the biggest mistake of her life.Then one of her team's lead officers takes a walk wi...

Saving the world may have doomed them all.Keplan reels in the wake of grief and guilt at the blood on his hands. Outside the city walls, however, winter grows fiercer and droughts longer. Alea reforged the fractured world twenty years before--so why is it withering before his eyes? Then, just as he masters being a monarch, a prophet arrives spouting scripture about a One True God. Keplan's own mother killed the last gods, yet this one matches ...

How to Curse a Kingdom" - Cameron J. QuinnPantheon outcast and god of war, Armon fears more rejection when he's called home to marry the goddess of creation and balance. But Demtrie accepts him--even without the disguise necessary for his former lover. No sooner does he find happiness than he's plagued by the phantom cries of a baby. And the truth may curse the kingdom where he once found solace."How to Curse A Kingdom" takes place within the ...

Enter the strange, dark worlds of four science fiction authors in this anthology from Amphibian Press."The Stalk" - Ariele SielingJack is a Digger, dumping dirt into the massive, mysterious Hole day after day. When she is summoned to the Stalk, a looming space elevator, however, she fears the worst. After all, every Digger summoned to the Stalk leaps to their deaths.This short story is a chilling science fiction retelling of Jack and the Beans...

The only person on Earth she trusts ... is in space Archaeologist Nel Bently left Chile in the wake of murder, vandalism and UFO sightings. No sooner has the school semester started when cops are at her door. Accused of a murder she's not certain is her fault, Nel has no choice but to go on the run. She starts a game of connect-the-dots across New England following her gut and clues left by her elusive alien-benefactor-turned-almost-girlfriend...

NO ONE FIGHTS DIRTIER THAN AN ARCHAEOLOGIST Archaeologist Nel Bently has her own crew, her own research, and a private patron to fund her passion for dirt. With her trowel barely into the dry earth of Chile's coast, however, Nel learns she and her crew are being watched. Los Pobladores, known to Nel only as vandals and looters, take issue with any archaeologist brave or stubborn enough to set boots on their land. Nel is both and far from willi...

How can they win a war when their greatest enemies are themselves?"Death hurt less than I thought. I wish I could bring that peace back with me. War doesn't scare me now, or this strange city, or life at home continuing without me. When she brought me back from that beautiful peace, my humanity stayed behind. I'm the only thing that terrifies me, now." Blood stains the land. With the gods' desperation, Azirik's mania grows. Away from her newfo...

¿To save their world she must destroy her own"I expected a hero to save us all. Turns out, I was thinking of the wrong part of the story. In the beginning, we aren't saved. There are only fragments and grief. The pieces must be gathered and flames kindled before I'm reforged. I don't know what shape I will take. Those pieces might become a hero... ...or a monster." A mad king's genocide destroyed Alea's home and left her sanity in tatters. The...

I did not appreciate peace until I was rotting in a Banis prison cell. Now I just want to stifle the person crouched in my head. I left looking for wisdom. Instead, I went mad." No one was prepared for the chaos mending the world unleashed. With Alea and Arman gone and the queen dead, Athrolan faces civil war. The kingdom fractures between two heirs-the disinherited and senile Daymir Blackhouse, and the Dhoah' Laen's rumored child. Except Alea...