Gregory D Little

They fled their world to escape death, but it may have hitched a ride.The human colony of Anaranjado is a harsh world. Alternately baked by relentless sun or frozen by endless night, only its people's willingness to cybernetically augment themselves and their unnatural sense of collective harmony has allowed it to persevere for as long as it has. But that unity is about to receive its most serious test. Because Anaranjado's sister colony, Coldgarden, has died, and Coldgarden's survivors are coming. Stefani and Karl find themselves separated, scattered across the planet's broiling day side. Taken into custody by the colony's militia, Karl must maintain the illusion that he is the human he appears to be lest he be subjected to disturbing experimentation. Meanwhile, Stefani is running out of time to cure her baby from the deadly disease that has plagued the child from birth.In the frozen depths of the planet's night side, Marri runs afoul of a strange cult which has entirely given up flesh in favor of machine. Rescued at Giana's behest, Marri must bury the hatchet with her former enemy to uncover the cult's secrets and what threat they may pose to the planet's residents, both old and new.As this strange family attempts to find its way back to each other, tensions build and power players prepare their final moves. An elemental conflict is brewing, one between the order of Anaranjado and the chaos of Coldgarden.But the real battle is something none of them expect.

Which is more deadly: the secrets we keep from each other, or the ones we keep from ourselves? Stefani Palmieri is a woman on a mission. A long-hidden technology, the Bridge, consumes her every waking moment, a compulsion that seems to come from outside her. All she knows is she has to get it working as fast as possible, while ignoring the sense that she is not herself. Struggling to adjust to a life of school, a home, and a family, Marri Palmieri misses her time as a homeless orphan. At least then she didn't feel the inexplicable urge to kill her adoptive mother Stefani, nor did she have visions of a strange man following her, a man no one else can see. Karl Yonnel has lost the two things that mattered most: his life in the Lancer Corps and his relationship with Stefani. Dishonorably discharged for doing his duty, he ekes out a living ratting out criminals for money to police who'd just as soon see him dead as a traitor. But when Stefani approaches him with a new job, he'll be forced to infiltrate those same police to uncover a growing conspiracy that threatens the entire city. As Coldgarden's long-buried secrets come to light and the city begins eating itself from the inside out, Stefani, Marri, and Karl will have to contend with threats both human and alien in their desperate efforts to save their dying world.

In humanity's last city, you're either consumed by a monster, or you become one. Sheltered in their fortress city, the last humans live in constant peril, assailed from without by alien invaders and from within by a deadly disease intent on mutating every citizen. After her best friend's grisly death at the segmented claws of the alien revenants, Ward Chief Iazmaena Delgassi vows to restore safety to her city by running for a magistrate position on the city council. For if the aliens ever truly penetrate the walls, humanity will lose itself to the jaws of the hungry beasts. On the night of her hard-fought victory, Iaz finds her boyfriend dead by his own hand, his last message to her a warning. Now alerted to the conspiracy orchestrated by Gene Sequencing, a tyrannical government agency with no accountability and a monopoly on the disease's deadly secrets, Iaz forms a conspiracy of her own: a secret team to steal and decipher their restricted files. For reasons Iaz doesn't understand, Gene Sequencing is determined to destroy her. Vowing to protect the city from threats both inside and out, Iaz must balance her duty with her desire for justice. If she fails at either task, humankind will be a thing of the past, just another extinct species.

The Artisan Guild is on the run. And it's Ses's fault... Betrayed by one she trusted, Ses led her father's demonic enemies to his secret headquarters. Now she and the survivors must reach their new home - the forgotten city of Ocypode. But something is already waiting for them there. What seemed the perfect haven is the perfect nightmare. Ocypode is a city that forgets its nights, and hundreds of poor souls have vanished. Ses must unravel the mystery ... or she'll go missing too. But some in the city know more than they are letting on.The secret servants of the imprisoned gods have wicked plans for Ocypode, and Ses is forced to tap into dark powers to discover the truth. She has defeated the gods before.But how far will she have to go to defy them again?

The gods are rightfully imprisoned, and Ses intends to keep them that way. But her rebel father has other plans. Gregory D. Little's Unwilling Souls is a pulse-pounding chase through an epic fantasy world of skull cities, demonic conspiracy, and a magical industrial revolution fueled by harvested human souls. Ses is the daughter of a business mogul and a terrorist, each trying their best to kill the other while pretending she doesn't exist. An apprentice jailer of the gods, Ses spends her days learning to forge the tools needed to maintain the gods' prison. When the prison is mysteriously attacked on her sixteenth birthday, Ses is forced to flee after the secret of her parentage is revealed. Suddenly on the wrong side of the law, Ses realizes the very father who abandoned her may be the only one who can protect her. But some secrets are darker than parentage. On her way to find her father, Ses will uncover truths about her family and herself that will shatter her understanding of the world and risk the return of the gods themselves.Editorial Reviews"I think there's a certain sort of creativity and storytelling ability that some people are just born with and Gregory D. Little is one of those people."-- Taylor Hansen @museignitedreads"Anyone that likes suspenseful stories, magic, and fantasy books with rich worlds, will love "Unwilling Souls."-- Melissa Dalton Martinez, THE BOOK BREAK"Unwilling Souls by Gregory D. Little is the epic fantasy book I've been waiting for for years."-- Nerd Girl ★★★★★ Five Stars"I can honestly tell you that this novel has some of the most creative and beautiful worldbuilding that I have read in quite some time."-- The Novel Girl Reads"I found Ses easy to like, there's intrigue and deception and let's not forget walking skeletons, soul driven magic and huge spiders - really, what more could you possibly want?"-- Lynn's Books