Jennifer Brozek

INTO A DARK, DISTANT FUTURE... The year 2084 may be decades away for us, but in the Sixth World, it's now. However, the decades in between are filled with wild events: The Awakening. SURGE. The Night of Rage. The assassination of the dragon elected president, Dunkelzahn. Through the Decades takes you from now to then, with seven original stories by grizzled veterans and brash newcomers to the shadows. Representatives of the newly established Native American Nations battle political skullduggery and assassins in their quest to form a more perfect union. Prime shadowrunner Ryan Mercury returns in a tale of his early days, and a love found, lost, and found again while running the shadows for Dunkelzahn. An exiled changeling returns home to try and pick up the pieces of his shattered life after the Year of the Comet. And legendary shadowrunners Wolf and Raven confront a bold new world-including dealing with their own children-as they get up to their usual tricks in today's Sixth World. These and three more new stories reveal glimpses of the Sixth World's storied past...and provide the foundation for the future of the murky world that is Shadowrun.

WHEN HOME BECOMES A PRISON... Fixer BlotterBabe has been around longer than most people realize. Long enough to have built herself a secure home in a protected park reserve. She greased all the right wheels, paid off all the right people, forged all the correct documents, hid all the tracks of her passing, created the perfect security systems inside and out. She planned for every contingency-except one. The need to escape from her own home. After realizing her sanctuary has been discovered, BlotterBabe brought just the right people to the right place to help her flee from her gilded cage with everything she holds dear-but she is too late. Now she has to escape the underground complex she spent decades building. The enemies are inside the perimeter. They have control of the security systems. Spinrad Global will stop at nothing to keep her a prisoner in her gilded cage. BlotterBabe and her friends must risk everything for her freedom-including their lives.

FOUR SECRET AUDITIONS... Fixer BlotterBabe must have exactly the right actors for a production that requires very specialized talent. The actors must not only be skilled, they need to have the right attitude and an ability to adapt to extraordinary circumstances. A Kiss to Die For: Kintsugi and Sartorial choose love over duty, but their respective families will do everything in their considerable power to stop them from being together. See How She Runs: Terrapin witnesses a murder and is handed a package destined for some important and lethal people. Now she is running for her life. Unrepairable: Landon and Liana love vexing megacorps for fun and profit with their Matrix show. Unfortunately, the megacorps always play dirty, and will do whatever's required to shut them down for good. The Kilimanjaro Run: Charlotte, Neema, and Elijah embark on an unexpected adventure that turns into a nightmare when they discover nothing is what it seems. They are left with no choice at all when choosing between the abhorrent and the right thing to do. FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS RUN OF ALL... Having auditioned thousands, BlotterBabe is out of time. It's come down to these few teenagers. Either they will save the day or lose it all... "Cons, lies, double-crosses, flat-out thievery-all the fun stuff. Auditions reads like that great first act of a heist movie. Everyone's showing off their particular set of skills while Brozek teases us with threads of what's to come." -New York Times bestseller Peter Clines, author of The Broken Room "Brozek spins a clever introduction into the world of Shadowrun in Auditions. It's perfect for newcomers, but also showcases shadows that have never been explored yet feel perfectly familiar." -Crystal Frasier, author of Pathfinder: Spiral of Bones

AWARD-WINNING AUTHORThe omnibus edition of Jennifer Brozek's acclaimed Melissa Allen trilogy.Never Let Me Sleep. What would you do if you discovered that everyone, in your house, on your street and in your town was dead? Then you discovered you weren't alone-and whatever was out there was hunting you? Melissa Allen knows. With only a voice on the phone to help her, Melissa must find out what happened, stop it from happening again, and do it before the monsters get her. Finalist for the Bram Stoker award.Never Let Me Leave. What would you do if you found yourself locked in an underground lab with a murderous alien hunting you? Melissa Allen and her new friends know. With no help from the outside and time running out, it's up to Melissa to keep herself and the other teens safe. How can she do that when she's not sure who she can trust? Someone in the lab helped that alien escape. Someone human.Never Let Me Die. What would you do if your sister was shot and your brother was kidnapped? Melissa Allen knows. It's been six months since the attack at PAR Lab. Melissa, Carrie, and Adam have settled into a semblance of domestic bliss with Agent Heather Shaker as their guardian. But someone has been watching them, taking photos and keeping notes. Someone who seems to know everything about them. Someone who has no problem trying to kill them.This special edition features all three books in Jennifer Brozek's Melissa Allen series: Never Let Me Sleep, Never Let Me Leave, Never Let Me Die as well as the bonus short story, "Never Let Me Feel."

There's something magical about that sense of terror that grips you in the middle of sleep, when your heart pounds, you can't catch your breath, and you know the monster is seconds away from grabbing you. While these pages occasionally record the odd hallucination or vision from beyond, you'll find no dream sequences here. These nine stories are designed to induce nightmares.In "La Japonesa" by Lisa Morton, a college professor chasing tenure comes face to face with something with sharp claws and even sharper teeth.Weston Ochse cuts deep in "Glue and the Art of Supermodel Maintenance."Officer Warren Hastings can't escape the crime he didn't prevent in Yvonne Navarro's "Recall."In Jennifer Brozek's "Twenty Questions," Sara discovers some games must be played until the end.E.S. Magill reminds us that every civilization has its myths of supernatural protectors of the natural world. During a hiking expedition, Harris Kimball encounters the spectral guardians of California's Santa Lucia Mountains, whose mission is to stop the greatest threat to nature: humans.In Angel Leigh McCoy's "The Haunting of Mrs. Poole," Amelia seems to have it all: wealthy husband, devoted sister, perfect daughter...and a gothic mansion on the shore of the James River where nothing is what it seems.The line between reality and delirium blurs for an exhausted new mother in Alison J. McKenzie's "Into the Quiet."In Bill Bodden's "The House on River Road," Ed and Jerry discover some urban legends are more than legendary...and some abandoned houses are better left alone.Finally, Loren Rhoads grew up in a small town. She remembers how they can be in "Elle a Vu un Loup."

The bold investigators of Arkham Horror are humanity’s best hope against monstrous terrors from beyond the void, in this second collection of extraordinary eldritch novellasTo Fight the Black Wind by Jennifer Brozek – psychologist Carolyn Fern’s treatment of a patient’s terrifying nightmares tears open a doorway into the Dreamlands and the Elder Gods. The Blood of Baalshandor by Richard Lee Byers – the arcane tomes of Miskatonic University are an irresistible lure for stage magician, Dexter Drake and his assistant Molly Maxwell, where they soon fall prey to dark forces. Dark Revelations by Amanda Downum – when author Gloria Goldberg visits Arkham to complete the unfinished novel of her fellow author, its words escape the page and transform Arkham. Also featuring the essential Investigator Origins stories, drawn from deep in the Arkham Horror archives.

CADETS UNDER FIRE...Jasper and Nadine Roux are cadets at the Ritza MechWarrior Academy...the only thing stopping a megalomaniacal Draconis Combine general with aspirations of claiming a piece of space as his own-starting with their home planet. Emporia is at war, and cadets are now frontline soldiers as Tai-sa Takeji Yoshizawa shifts tactics in a brutal effort to subjugate their entire world.It's up to the siblings and their friends to stop the madman bent on conquest, but while Jasper believes Nadine is too reckless, Nadine believes Jasper is still living in the past. As both struggle to do what they think is right, the Ritza Academy comes under assault once more. It takes a shocking sacrifice to make them both see the true face of the enemy.Reunited by the same purpose, Jasper agrees to Nadine's audacious plan to make Emporia too much trouble for the leader of the Seventh Ghost Regiment to conquer. Unfortunately for them, Tai-sa Yoshizawa has his own secrets, and nothing left to lose. And even if Nadine's plan works to perfection, the cunning general has one last trick up his sleeve that could bring about the end of everything Nadine and Jasper hold dear...

ON A COLLISION COURSE...It was supposed be a simple extraction from the Brussels2Rome party train. With an eclectic crowd, a willing target, and a lot of nuyen at stake, what could go wrong?Everything-as Makeda Red discovers the hard way. There's more than one target on the train, and more than one shadowrunner team in play. When someone sabotages the tracks in the middle of the Swiss Alps, she's forced to extract her client much earlier than planned. To complicate matters, other survivors are also fleeing the crash for their own reasons. One of them is trying to escape his corporate masters as well, and offers to pay Makeda to escort him to his safe haven.A paying client is a paying client, and his corp won't be looking for three people traveling together. Makeda knows it's a risk, but one she's willing to take. In the shadows, however, nothing and no one is what they seem, and before it's over, this already dangerous run may be Makeda's last...

GHOSTS IN THE DARK... Jasper and Nadine Roux are cadets at the Ritza MechWarrior Academy; a dream come true for the orphaned siblings from the war-torn planet of Hoff. For the last six years, Emporia has been their home. Sponsored to the academy by the powerful Vogel House, both cadets are expected to excel in all tasks. Their dream becomes a nightmare when the Draconis Combine lands at their door. It's up to the siblings to stop a renegade Seventh Ghost Regiment warlord when he lays claim to a piece of the Inner Sphere-starting with the Federated Suns' planet of Emporia. The border world looks like easy prey, but this warrior of the Dragon is about to learn how wrong he is. After the few MechWarriors on the planet are taken hostage, the Sponsored and Blooded cadets of the Ritza Academy fight like they have nothing left to lose. It's a fight that will cost them more than they know...

Learn the English alphabet with this one of a kind book for the little ghoul in your life. Monsters, mayhem, graveyards, and a zombie named Oscar, mixed with a little bit of science, come to life in charming rhymes and illustrations.Each letter receives its own two page fun illustration to spark the imagination of you and your ghoul. There are so many details to be explored during every read. This book is dedicated to all the little mad scientists out there, especially those who like the creepy stuff.Written by Jennifer Brozek and Illustrated by Elizabeth Guizzetti.

THE WARRIORS OF TOMORROW...The battlefields of the 31st century are ruled by the BattleMech; twelve-meter-tall, 100-ton bipedal engines of pure destruction. Piloted by MechWarriors, commanded by neo-feudal officers, owned by national governments and band of mercenaries, these 'Mechs make every other ground combat vehicle obsolete.This is the warfare of fusion-powered giants.This is BattleTech.THRUST INTO BATTLE TODAY...Allegra Greene is no stranger to the military; her father is a general, after all. But when she enters the Nellus Military Academy, she finds far more than she expected. She finds a group of friends that will keep her going, challenging training, and instructors that push her to the edge and beyond.Unfortunately, that's not all she finds, and soon the endemic politics and warfare of the Inner Sphere reach the Nellus Academy. And when their spaceship is hijacked and crash-lands on a remote moon, Allegra and her friends find themselves in a life-or-death struggle just to survive Praise for The Nellus Academy Incident: "Brozek creates well-developed and complex characters whose failures and successes, strengths and weaknesses pull you in, making you care about them and their fate. I would definitely recommend this book for older YA Lit, New Adult, and Adult readers."- Janine K. Spendlove, War of the Seasons trilogy, USMC pilot "Jennifer Brozek's superb storytelling makes me want to play BattleTech again."- M. Todd Gallowglas, Tears of Rage and Halloween Jack series"A fun read. Jennifer Brozek's BattleTech novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, takes us on a wild journey as we follow Cadet Allegra Greene from the classroom to the battlefield. BattleTech fans, this one's a winner."- Bobby Nash, Evil Ways and Earthstrike Agenda

Beneath the icy depths of this next installment, you'll be plunged into a world where 38 female horror writers give you a glimpse of their inner-demons, unleashing the hell-fire they suppress in the 'real' world. It will disturb you to discover what really lurks inside their minds, because many of these stories delve into pain that can only be experienced by women-leaving you unhinged as you curl up with them during their darkest hour.Post-partum depression, hording, anorexia, and mental health will be brought to light when viewed through the shadowy perspective of cognitive deception.Sci-fi, romance, steam-punk, and fantasy intertwine with horror to deliver unsettling, chilling stories; traditional tales of witches, zombies, werewolves, and vampires will be told in twisted new ways that will shock, unnerve, and even repulse you...and within these pages, sometimes new monsters will arise from the ashes.You will discover that women not onlly write good horror...but in some cases, can do it better.