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A father’s promise and a seven-month trip to the edge of the solar system. In 2059 Dawn Lucius, an aerospace engineer, leaves his small son on Earth to make first contact with the Sane, an alien ship that has gone silent in the Kuiper Belt. One by one, his crew, his supplies and his ship fail him. What he finds aboard the Sane makes him the Star Map Draftsman, the holder of an office that can bend dark matter, and puts him in the middle of a cold war between three federations of the Orion Arm: Moreth, which owns the Star Bridges; Ashton, which guards a drug that makes people immortal; and Strath, whose princes will go to war for him. The hardest discovery is closer to home. Time has run differently for Dawn, and on Earth seventy years have passed. Federation War is the first book of the Star Map Draftsman hard science fiction series. Note on the text: I write my novels in Chinese. The English edition was translated with DeepL and Grok, and the covers were made with Grok.

Exsanguination. It’s a word Alister Cain is all too familiar with, and one he dreads. When a case where the victim was found drained of blood falls on his desk, the Occult Crimes Consultant finds himself in the sights of a violent UFO cult with ties to an ancient deity. The cult is desperate to find their way back into its good graces, and with supernatural assassins in tow, they’ll kill any who get in the way of their dark ritual. Bloodletting is the first Alister Cain occult crime novel, a dark, fast-moving horror thriller.

If you can’t trust your memories, what can you trust? Aris Ravenscroft is sworn to protect the Emperor, a hero beloved by all, until foreign memories invade his mind and nearly get him killed during an assassination attempt. Kestrel, a street-smart orphan, finds his own head filled with memories that aren’t his, and they say his world is nothing like it seems. Together the two must make sense of the alien memories and uncover the Emperor’s true colors while dodging the mysterious Inquisitors, crooked politicians, and a host of other dangers. It’s an epic fantasy of intrigue and conspiracy in a world where the greatest villain might be the biggest hero.

One minute Asa was trading tarts in the town of Featherbottom. The next, a Nightmare Storm hurled him across Airlandia and stole every memory he owned. Alone in a land of flying jellygoats, stampeding sharkuffalo, lobadiles and other hungry predators, young Asa has one shot at getting home: a grumpy mountain panther matriarch named Cayenne Redpaw, chosen by The Maker to be his guide. Their trek crosses forests that float, hills that roll and plains that wander, where every step could be their last and every lesson could make Asa the hero he was meant to be. Full of heart, humor and high-stakes adventure, An Unexpected Adventure is a roaring good time for anyone who has ever felt small but dreamed big.

The Zan Empire thrived for two thousand years on the trapped magic of one man: Ren Long. When he escaped his eternal prison to save his beloved Zhao Ling, he destroyed that power, and magic itself vanished from the world. Book II of The Heavenly Mages, a fantasy saga rooted in Asian myth and legend, follows what comes after the magic is gone.

Zhao Ling takes a full scholarship to the Imperial Academy of Magic for one reason: to free her father from debtors prison. Then a voice in her head claims to be the source of magic itself, the last trace of a vanished Heavenly Mage. That connection pulls her into an empire-wide conspiracy that could unleash an ancient evil and tear her nation apart. The Name of Magic is the first book of The Heavenly Mages, an epic fantasy of academy rivalry, forbidden power, and a young woman who must decide what she will risk for her family and her country.

Tobias Weatherspoon is wanted for the murder of his father. A murder he didn’t commit, yet all the evidence points to him. Now on the run from the Sky Marshals who want him dead, the former courier and some unexpected allies must root out a conspiracy whose tendrils run deep into the heart of their floating nation of Stratos. They will expose the rot, or they will die trying. A fast, twisty steampunk conspiracy thriller set among airships and floating cities.

Sir Samuel Percy saw it coming. The Dialectic revolutionaries, preaching justice while sharpening their knives, have already toppled one empire. Now they are about to burn the capital, and the House of Lords refuse to listen. With his wife and daughter safely away, Percy turns his quiet estate into a fortress of traps, arrows and cold steel. Only he and his lethal servant Fang remain when the mob smashes through the gates, howling for noble blood. One minor lord. One blood-drenched night. One last stand against the revolution.

Alister Cain, a haunted occult crimes consultant, is plagued by chilling visions of a blood-soaked woman screaming for help. Teaming up with Detective Steve Zhang, Alister dives into a treacherous world where the Chinese Mafia’s dark rituals intertwine with ancient supernatural forces. Their hunt leads them to a sinister plot: the woman from Alister’s dreams is destined to become a Ghost Bride, a sacrificial pawn in a macabre union with a fallen crime lord. As they face shapeshifting fox demons and vengeful spirits, Alister and Steve must race against time to save her from a gruesome end. This prequel short story is perfect for fans of supernatural crime and unrelenting suspense.

Ezra is seventeen, homeschooled, Chinese American, and very much in love. He has been pining over Crystal for ages, and what should have been the best day of his life, the day he learns she loves him back, turns into the worst when he discovers he has superpowers, because powers always kill their host. After a horrific accident Ezra is carted off to be studied, poked, prodded and experimented on until either his powers take him or one of the other superpowered residents accidentally kills him. Now Ezra has to learn the most important lesson of them all: how to live with dying. Terminal is a heartfelt, high-stakes superhero story about first love, found family, and making every day count.

Stephen Matthews is the perfect spy. He just doesn’t know it. Stephen always thought his dreams were only dreams. What he hasn’t realized is that when he sleeps, he can see through the eyes of the people around him. Soon he is approached by a mysterious research center that wants to unlock the limits of human potential by harnessing lucid dreaming. What Stephen doesn’t know is that their research has hidden depths: he is being bred to be the perfect spy, a true sleeper agent. Thrust into a world of violence and terrorism, Stephen must learn to harness his power fast if he wants to save his own life and stop an attack that threatens to tear apart America’s information infrastructure.

Sherlock Hamster is a smart-mouthed, quick-thinking, hard-nosed P.I. with a knack for landing in the middle of fur-raising situations and deadly danger from notorious ne’er-do-wells. Whether he’s framed for a theft he didn’t commit, tracking down kidnapped colleagues taken by brazen bad guys, or chasing hijinks through a haunted house, you’ll have a blast riding along on his first three adventures, collected together in this omnibus. A fast, funny middle grade mystery bundle for young readers who love clever animal detectives.