Kirjahaku

From the Author of Absolute Zeros, comes another exciting story in the ICF Universe Ian Bernard is very far from home. Newly promoted, and possessed with a healthy fear of the outdoors, he's left his wife and son for the first time on a deployment to the sun-scorched dunes of Anius. Dust-storms, sand-worms, and black mold - Buck-Sergeant Bernard is fighting just to keep his head above the shifting sands. But a simple workplace accident uncovers a conspiracy implicating the ICF's elite special operations unit-the Commando Raiders. Caught in the crossfire, he'll face murderous commandos, military bureaucrats, and a particularly tenacious safety investigator. Up against a ticking clock and the galaxy's finest warriors, it'll take luck, wits, and guts if he hopes to clear his name. Unfortunately, time isn't the only thing in short supply.

Apex Prey follows the investigative work of a misanthropic, Queer homicide detective. A woman speeds along an empty highway, her blue SUV covered in blood and scraped metal as she flees the scene. She has her four-year-old daughter in the car, while the killer clings to her roof. Any time she slows down, she can hear the terrible scratching of its claws grow louder.Five hours later, Colorado Springs detective Charles Davner is awoken by a call. Tasked with tracking down the murderer of a highway patrolman, he'll start by piecing together the dead cop's last call-a traffic stop involving a bloody SUV, a woman, and her daughter.Following the woman's trail back to Pueblo, he discovers another detective, Andrea Morales, investigating a murder at gas station in town. Matching wounds on the victims, a deep slash across the throat with a serrated blade, convinces the two to join up. Searching for leads sends them to the woman's house, and an interview with her daughter leaves them with a sketch of the killer-one with red eyes, razor-like claws, and hundreds of sharp teeth.As more bodies begin to surface, they'll track the monster back to Colorado Springs, finding the clues to its origins in a labyrinth of sewers beneath the city streets. With more deaths each day, Charles and Andrea know they're running out of time to stop it. Teaming up with a university zoologist, they'll hunt the creature in its lair, ultimately confronting it in a fiery conclusion.

For the troopers of AZH-01, life is an exercise in routines.Wake up, respond to alarms, stand in formation-slack off in between. Get your gear, don't break scram-time, and stay out of Sergeant's crosshairs. Securing the edges of populated space isn't the glory and excitement they were promised, but these aren't the Inter-Stellar Coalition Force's best and brightest. Rania doesn't mind routines. Routines give her something to hold on to, they guide her as she finds her niche in the sweaty locker room of military life. Just like the other troopers, all she wants is to do her job, stay out of trouble, and get one day closer to getting out. That routine is shattered when something claws its way through the station's doors. Something swift. Vicious. Hungry. With the chain of command shredded and the power knocked out, it's a race against time for Rania and the other troopers of AZH-01. They were just trying to get through the day, now they're fighting to survive the night.