Kirjahaku

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE, HARD CHOICES FORCE UNEXPECTED FAMILY ALLIANCESSometimes happy endings don't stay that way.Over a year after Melanie Fielding helped her mother Diana Landreth overthrow a repressive North American government headed by her grandmother Sarah Stephens, she faces even more problems.The new Netwalk technology that allows Sarah's personality to exist after death is developing in unpredictable ways. Rogue Netwalkers emerge, allied with Diana and Melanie's long-term foe, the Freedom Army.Worse, Melanie is forced into an alliance with her estranged brother Andrew Stephens, at the demand of the international Corporate Courts. The Courts control a mysterious entity, the Gizmo, which is somehow connected to Netwalk. As they learn more about the Courts and the Gizmo, Melanie and Andrew realize that Diana may not be trustworthy.That the Gizmo and the Courts have a dangerous agenda that isn't what it seems-and Sarah may be their best tool to stop the Gizmo from fulfilling its goals.

THE STAGE IS SET...LET THE GAMES BEGIN After defeating Waykemin's Witches Council, Katerin Leader and Rekar Kinslayer face new challenges. Waykemin's overseas ally, Chatain, Emperor of Daran, has abducted Katerin's daughter Witmara. A new threat arises from the East which requires Katerin's attention, so it falls to Rekar to aid Witmara--which supports Rekar 's vow for vengeance upon Chatain. Meanwhile, Chatain's estranged half-sister Betsona aids Witmara's escape, and encourages her to overthrow Chatain. When Rekar arrives in Daran, Betsona helps her. But does Betsona intend to use Rekar and Witmara to become Empress? At the same time, the rift between the Seven Crowned Gods splinters beyond recovery. How do the actions of Rekar , Katerin, and Witmara play into the war between the Gods? Battles at the Nerean Gate and the Spring Festival in Daran decide the fates of Gods and humans...and things will never be the same.

SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE....An accident placed Katerin Healer in the village of Wickmasa when Wickmasa's healer Makri killed himself after his magic-gifted horse proved to be contaminated by an enemy.Katerin only plans to stay in Wickmasa until the spring, when Wickmasa's new Healer can return from training.BUT....Things keep happening in the secrets-laden village.And now, along with her new love Metkyi, Katerin finds herself as part of a team set to overthrow a corrupt leader and replace him with his estranged daughter Rekar .Will they succeed? Will Katerin and Metkyi have a future?Or do the Seven Crowned Gods have other plans?Note: This edition includes the short stories "Return to Wickmasa" and "Crown Anniversary," previously published.

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE INHERITANCE OF THE PAST...OR CAN YOU? Rancher Ruby Barkley and her ex-husband Gabe Ramirez are competing head-to-head for the AgInnovator game show's new one-shot award, the Ag Superhero. The winner walks away with $3.75 million per year for five years, with no accountability or need to re-earn the Superhero, unlike the Innovator's other awards. But issues beyond those raised by their long-ago acrimonious divorce face Ruby and Gabe. Fence cutting. Rogue biobots destructively ranging beyond programmed parameters. Physical attacks. And the realization that they may need to reunite to save their son Brandon from indentured servitude. Then the secret shadow of Gabe's hidden inheritance reveals itself. Will he step up to the Martiniere Legacy-and what role will Ruby accept in any future they may share?

WHAT DOES ASCENSION TO POWER REALLY COST? Six months after the triumphant collaborative conclusion of the AgInnovator Superhero game show, Ruby Barkley and her ex-husband Gabriel Martiniere still struggle with the professional and personal fallout from their victory. The Superhero money allowed Ruby to launch her line of agricultural biobots. But one of the RubyBot spinoffs, the Defender, leads to unsettling revelations about crop tampering using body-modified indentured workers. Their son Brandon uncovers even more disturbing information about the abuse of indentureds as he campaigns to end it. All of these disclosures lead back to the Martiniere Group, the family corporation controlled by Gabe's malevolent uncle, Philip Martiniere. Meanwhile, Ruby and Gabe wrestle with what form their resumed relationship will take, as Ruby contemplates whether she wants to take on the role of a Martiniere wife. The revelation that Gabe's father is not who they thought, and Philip's attempt to force Ruby away from Gabe confirms her decision. But the need to rescue one of Brandon's valued indentured informants turns celebration into catastrophe. Will Ruby and Gabe be able to recover from this disaster-or will Philip triumph yet again in his campaign to destroy Gabe?

Exiled heir. Rebel. Husband. Father.In 2029, Gabriel Martiniere testified against the Martiniere Group's forced imposition of mind control programming on unwilling indentured workers.For his pains, he was forced into exile for over thirty years. Forced to divorce the love of his life.But he's still coming. Still bent on vengeance against the man who forced him into exile, Philip Martiniere.Gabe will win...or die trying.Biobots. Corporate soap opera. Agricultural technology. Horses. A mix of science fiction, western, and women's fiction themes.

In a world of supernatural beings, not knowing what you are is dangerous. After Reeni Dutta's ex-husband Karl attacks her at a music festival, she finds a refuge teaching cryptid construct children at Klone's Stronghold in northeastern Oregon's isolated Bucket Mountains. But things are not as they seem at the Stronghold, from the older proprietors of a nearby store and the Stronghold's leader Alexander Reed Klone, to Reeni herself. She discovers it's not just Karl who seeks to control who and what she is, but forces from her past that threaten her present. Can she learn the truth about herself and do what is needed in time to defend the Stronghold?

"I'm a young man in an old man's body."--Mike Martiniere.Clone Michael Martiniere was fated to die to keep his progenitor, Philip Martiniere, alive. Then Philip's son Gabe rescued Mike at the age of five, whisking him off to the Double R Ranch where he learns about horses, biobots, robotics--and what it's like to be loved by a family.But the toxic physical, psychological, and political legacy of his progenitor continues to haunt Mike. Philip's physical frailties cause clone effects in Mike, from arthritis and osteoporosis to cancer and heart disease. More than that, Philip has imprinted the notorious Martiniere mind control techniques on Mike, in an attempt to force Mike to submit to his will--even after Philip's death.Can Mike have something resembling a real life and win free of Philip's influence? What will it take for him to banish that toxic legacy of his progenitor--and is it worth the price? What about his horses and dogs?

EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE...Over the years, Justine Martiniere has become the fixer for the Martinieres. Have a problem? Go to Justine to get it remedied. But it wasn't always that way. First, Justine needed to escape the abuses of her father, Philip. She didn't expect to fall in love with the man she married, Donald Atwood. But she did-and then she faced the choice between remaining married to Donald, or stopping her sociopathic, megalomaniac father. Justine Fixes Everything is in part the unusual love story of Justine and Donald-and in part the saga of her rise to power, viewed in retrospect as she tells the history to Philip's clone Mike, as he recovers from surgery. It's about what she sacrificed to become powerful-and, at the same time, how that past comes to haunt the challenges she faces toward the end of her life.

WHAT PRICE DO YOU PAY FOR HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER?Ruby Barkley and Gabriel Martiniere have made it. They've defeated Philip Martiniere, and Philip's suicide leaves them an opening to reform the Martiniere Group as well as the Martiniere Family. To create their own, positive legacy.But. The legacy of the Martinieres isn't so easily repaired. Forty-five years of dominance by Philip doesn't just go away overnight. Gabe and Ruby have a lot of work to do, especially since Philip's toxic legacy endures in unexpected places.New foes arise-including the specters of age and health. The mysterious worm that interferes with digital and living memories, and glitches their newest biobot designs.Then Gabe begins to wonder-is Philip truly defeated?Can he keep his legacy safe? Or is he doomed to lose his second family, only in a slower manner than the plane crash that killed his first family?What will it take for Gabe to guarantee that his legacy endures?

What if Gabriel Martiniere's family didn't die in a plane crash when he was twelve?What if he didn't have to go into hiding after testifying against the atrocities committed by his father, Philip Martiniere?What if he met and fell in love with Ruby Barkley as himself, not as Gabe Ramirez, a broke saddle bronc rider on the run from indenture bounty hunters?Gabe's a billionaire nerd with a conscience, unlucky at love, striving to overcome the shadows of his past while searching for agritech to fight climate change.Ruby's a former rodeo queen, trying to get her degree in agricultural robotics, searching for agritech means to fight climate change, also unlucky at love and struggling with a shadowy past.Can Ruby and Gabe successfully negotiate the complexities of the Martiniere Group and launch Ruby's world-changing biobots without interference from competitors?

WHEN NOTHING TURNS OUT TO BE AS EXPECTED.... After Linda Coates gets a job offer from friend Ruby Barkley Martiniere, she sees a means to escape the growing issues created by her ambitious brother-in-law Clyde Newsome, who seemingly wants to control every aspect of Linda's life. Ruby's offer means Linda gets the chance to work closely with her friend in developing high-end agricultural robotics and manage the Martiniere Group's high-end labs around the world. What Linda didn't expect was Armand Martiniere-her counterpart who works for Ruby's husband Gabriel. Or what Armand comes to mean to her. Or the degree to which her brother-in-law Clyde wants to pursue her as part of his political ambitions. Linda needs to find a way to protect her family and remain safe...hopefully, with Armand. Can she make it happen-either alone, or with the help of the Martinieres?