Matthew S. Cox

Sarah Wright knows her unlife is about to get crazy-everything feels too normal.She doesn't need a spirit oracle to warn her of imminent craziness. Seems every time her life after becoming a vampire starts to come close to resembling normality, all heck breaks loose. So, an idle moment of feeling almost bored is as dark an omen as it gets.It doesn't help her unease when one of the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse manifests: Sophia has agreed to go to Girl Scout camp for a week away from home.Before Sarah can determine who abducted her littlest sister and replaced her with an exact replica, her not-so-summer job taps her for another errand. She needs only to recover a sword an unknown vampire stole from Arthur Wolent for equally unknown reasons... if she can find it.Sounds easy.Which means it's going to kill her.

There's only one thing bergirl loves-almost-as much as helping people: Star Prince comics.Before the Nolmek accidentally made superheroes real, Kelly Donovan often escaped into the pages of her favorite comic series to forget about bullies and her parents always complaining about their jobs. Star Prince and Ms. Omni might be fictional, but they saved her as much as any living hero could.When Dad surprises her with a copy of the latest and greatest video game set in the Star Prince Universe, Kelly dives right in, too excited to think.Alas, diving in turns out to be far more literal than she expected. bergirl and her best friend Paige-a.k.a Will-O-Wisp-end up stranded inside the MegaStation, helpless to interfere while Dad puts together a most nefarious plan. If the girls cannot defeat the virtual Dr. Infinity in time to escape, her father's orbital machine will rain down an unimaginable horror on innocent people... adding pineapple to every pizza on Earth.

Brooklyn Amari is so excited to have a kid, she's beside herself-literally.The six-year-old isn't her daughter, but a copy of her in all ways except age. Despite a seventeen-year age gap, being around Pandora makes her feel like a kid again, which means mischief. Who has time to destroy all of creation when there are pranks to play?Brooklyn inherited powers some might call demonic from her father, but also epic laziness. From her mother, she came down with a severe case of conscience. While she tries to do the right thing, having little respect for the law and weak impulse control sometimes results in destructive shortcuts, blood, and screaming.Lawrence again asks for her help investigating a fire. Upon learning eighteen people died, Mom's gift of morality cramps her desire to laze around having fun. Once a psychic hit reveals how twisted the arsonist is, Brooklyn fully commits to hunting him down.Problem is: he knows she's coming... and her friends aren't fireproof.

Sarah Wright has a job to die for.She never asked for it, never even filled out an application. To be fair, she didn't ask to die either. Ever since she woke up as a vampire, she only wanted to unlive in as ordinary a way as possible. Alas, the realities of undeath and awakening to the greater existence of the supernatural made certain demands of the family.Her friends have ordinary summer jobs. Sarah runs errands for the vampire boss of Seattle. It isn't such a bad gig when she's not being shot at, chased, clawed up, thrown around, or scrambling to keep her family safe.A 'simple' job to determine the intentions of vampiric exiles new to the area predictably blows up in her face and leaves her playing chicken against an elder bent on destroying society.At least if she messes up this time, the world won't be destroyed... probably.

Monarchs often face the consequences of a predecessor's actions-but death is asking too much.Kitlyn and Oona never wanted power, only to love each other... a potentially deadly desire in a kingdom obsessed with a twisted notion of purity. After years hiding the truth, even from themselves, they sit on the throne together as queens. It only took bringing an end to a horrible war-and the direct intervention of a goddess-for the citizens to accept a marriage between two young women.Earning the respect of two kingdoms affords them the opportunity of learning how to lead, but goodwill won't last forever in the face of complacency. Their resolve is tested as beasts long thought mythical are spotted around the kingdom, threatening the citizens. The sightings take an ominous turn when a stranger wielding unknown powers strolls into the throne room.Worse, the ancient curse still stalks Kitlyn. A cryptic message from a ghost offers her only chance to survive... if she dares risk the safety of the kingdom to spare her own life.

Nothing has complicated Sarah Wright's life as much as losing it.Discovering vampires and other supernatural creatures are real took the sting out of being murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She's enjoying her new reality, even if taking a knife to the heart was the sanest thing to happen to her since.Not quite a year into being an immortal, Sarah's embraced the supernatural world hidden beneath the veneer of modern society. Vampirism is crazy fun as long as no one's trying to kill her (again). She's doing her best to keep her head down and help her kid sister sell Girl Scout cookies, but it's not quite as easy to stay off the radar after becoming an official member of vampire society.A random attempt on her unlife proves old grudges haven't been forgotten.Somehow, Follows Rules Girl has made enemies of the immortal kind.Aurelie's decree of protection obligates her to respond, all but guaranteeing a city-wide war among the elders. Worse, the Wright family will be at ground zero... unless Sarah can find a way to stop it.

For survivors of nuclear war, normal is what they make of it.Harper Cody never figured out what she wanted to do with her life, until planning a future became pointless. No longer stressing over choosing a college major, her biggest worry is making it to the end of any given week alive. She's mourned her dead parents, mourned her missing friends, and sacrificed her innocence to protect her little sister.The girl who couldn't kill bugs has a body count.Life in Evergreen, Colorado isn't easy, but it beats the alternatives. Electrical power is about as reliable as a thirty-year-old Ford, gangs could attack at any moment, and medicine is fast depleting. Little by little, they've rebuilt a sense of civilization, even if it's closer to the 1800s than Starbucks and malls.Two strangers on horseback arrive bringing word of other settlements and a means to contact them, peeling the scab Harper used to seal away her grief. Her friends might be out there... but searching for them could cost her life.

Division 0 Officer Aaron Pryce understood any day on the job could be the last for him or his wife-but he never imagined he'd be the one to kill her.As it turned out, the world of professional sports frowned on using Telekinesis on the field. So, a "career ending injury" quietly sent him to West City to escape anti-psionic Britain. Joining Division 0 made for a drastic change of lifestyle for a once-famous Frictionless player, but meeting Allison made his exile worth it.Two years into his new life as a cop, he corners a psionic suspect in the middle of a robbery... and she compels Aaron to shoot his partner. Despite his love for his wife, he loses an agonizing battle of wills. His mind-and his world-shatter. When he wakes, the store is gone. Only a field of debris and dead civilians remains.A department telepath attempts to verify his story, but triggers another fatal backlash, killing several officers. Considered a murderer with out-of-control powers, Aaron has no choice but to go rogue.On the run from the law, he has one goal: to find the woman who killed Allison-and end her.

Nine-year-old Kelly Donovan helped save the world from aliens, but now she has an even bigger problem-someone's trying to ruin Halloween.Life is difficult for the world's tiniest superhero. Her genius plan to save her parents from supervillainy in one easy step proved impossible... at least not without destroying the Earth. Superpowers, good or bad, aren't going away any time soon. Mom's as likely to hug her as trick her into a ridiculous trap, but at least her dad's mellowed out a bit. Lately, he seems focused more on being weird than evil.Small favors.Kelly's looking forward to the happy normal of trick-or-treating... until candy starts disappearing. Convinced a mysterious supervillain is responsible, she and her best-only-friend Paige rush to stop all the sweets in the world from evaporating. Alas, with only a week left and zero clues, humanity will likely suffer an even worse fate than enslavement by an alien race: the end of all Halloweens.

Designed to be the perfect assassin, Kate is as beautiful as she is deadly-everything she touches, burns.The government attempted to engineer a pyrokinetic agent, but their plans went awry. Her power to command fire as a living extension of her psyche exceeded expectations, except for one problem: her skin is hot enough to destroy most materials on contact. Useless for infiltration, they declared her a failure and tried to kill her at the age of seven.Years after escaping, she hides on the outskirts of society in the shadows of East City, hiding under the wing of a Syndicate underboss. Kate kills without hesitation to earn the favor of the only person ever to show her kindness, but her happiness is as false as her holographic clothing.An eerie figure offers end to her curse, if she joins The Awakened-a group of psionics as powerful as she. To find them, she must travel thousands of miles across the country, but with her condition, she can't exactly fly commercial. Desperate for human contact, Kate sets out to cross the Badlands on foot, unconcerned with danger.Cured or dead... Either way she wins.

Brooklyn Amari exists to destroy the world-but she doesn't want to.It's not every day a person finds out their father is an ancient demon, two powerful armies expect her to end creation, and everything people think about celestial beings is completely wrong. Such news would break most people. Fortunately, Brooklyn's tough. She's also kinda lazy, which works, since saving the world requires she do nothing at all.Good chance her life has gone off the rails when giant lightning-spitting birds are the least of her problems. Her friend is in deadly trouble with a gang and the warmongers hatch a devious new plan to destroy the Armistice-a.k.a the world-without her.Sitting on her ass ignoring everything won't cut it anymore.Worse, she can't stop thinking about the eco-terrorist mage attacking industrial sites across the country. Chasing people down is totally not in her job description as a firefighter, but such a strong psychic fixation is a big red flag. If Brooklyn's limp excuse for a conscience doesn't wake up, something bad is going to happen... probably to a bunch of innocent people who don't deserve it.