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While dashing through the airport, four siblings (aged 5 through 15) pass through the wrong gate and find themselves transported to a different place entirely:
the in-between world that links
all the many realms of the cosmos
Even if they wanted to go back to their parents in the real world, that decision is taken out of their hands when the bridge home is destroyed behind them. They have no choice but to move forward and explore the nilands of Overtwixt, strange floating islands linked by countless bridges—stone bridges and rope bridges and winding staircases and soaring arches, every kind of bridge imaginable, and more besides.
And towering above them all, the imposing fortress niland of Twixt itself... where the Vizier rules with an iron fist, turning bridge after bridge into rubble so the peoples of Overtwixtcan never escape.
Confronted with this strange new world—and the evil that threatens to destroy it—the four siblings must answer the same question all new visitors to Overtwixt face:
Who will YOU choose to be?
R.L. Akers' conflicted detective Gray Gaynes comes full circle in book 6 of the mystery series that bears his name... and the truth finally comes out.
Following the bombshell revelations of the re-opened Mad Batter investigation, NYPD detective Gray Gaynes finally has a killer in custody — and the proof he needs to secure a conviction. But the truth is worse than he imagined, for there was more than one killer... and the second killer, still at large, was the very one who murdered Gaynes' own wife.
Unfortunately, Gray is now suspended, his badge and gun confiscated following the exposure of his debilitating neurological conditions. He has no authority to continue his investigation, but neither can he let it go. As one friend after another shuns the disgraced detective, his life will spiral out of control until he's left with nothing but a quest for vengeance.
And once he reaches the end of his hunt, he will face the most devastating revelation of all... that nothing he believed about this last year was true.
Meet Gray Gaynes: a brilliant investigator, but also a man deeply wounded by his own personal tragedy... A man who can no longer hide the irrevocable changes he is undergoing.
Fade to Gray is on sale now, along with Gray's previous mysteries.
Gray's adventures are complete! For now...
An all-new contribution to the lore surrounding everyone's favorite lost city...
ATLANTIS: Twilight of Mankind
In a time before recorded history, most of humankind lives in close proximity to a single magnificent City located on the Isle of Atalas. Ruled directly by a Pantholon of twenty-three gods, society remains in a pre-industrialized state, but great strides have been made in the realms of engineering and genetics.
In pursuit of absolute power, one of the four ruling members of the Pantholon sends his demigod son D'Akaio on a series of missions designed to undermine his rivals; as D'Akaio's fame grows among the common people, so too do the stories told about him (eventually becoming the very legends that informed Norse, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman mythology).
Meanwhile, D'Akaio's half-sister Adana launches her own private war against the Pantholon, working with an underground resistance movement to quietly rescue the women and children who are scheduled for sacrifice before the gods.
Events build toward a confrontation between brother and sister, even as the City and its depraved society speed toward prophesied doom.
You've seen the big-budget summer action flicks. You've read the books, maybe played the video games. You've heard all the conspiracy theories. But this is the real world, the present day. If the unthinkable happened, if we faced an actual, verifiable threat from outside our planet...
R.L. Akers' GRYPHENS Saga tells that tale.
Blending military thriller and science fiction – with an emphasis on the science – new author R.L. Akers produces a well-crafted story peopled by characters you'll grow to love and hate. When the threat from outer space becomes known, the U.S. government is caught unprepared. With time running out, the military must adapt to an entirely new variety of warfare. Pilots and soldiers must be recruited, trained, and deployed to defensive installations in orbit above North America, and technology must take a giant leap forward – with considerable assistance from a surprising source.
But there are those who would halt these preparations: mercenaries and even traitors within the ranks. What motivates them to betray their world is unknown, but they will stop at nothing to prevent the newest branch of United States military from fulfilling its mandate.
From the shadows of rural England to the bowels of Area 51's Groom Lake installation, from the most remote corner of our planet to geosynchronous orbit thousands of miles above, the Gryphens Saga comprises a single well-researched and believable story about humanity's real-world response to the threat of alien invasion. You won't want to put these books down!
Gray Tones: The Case of the Elevator Slaying (the first three chapters)
Atlantis: "One Day in Atlantis" (the first eight chapters)
Prometheus Rebound: Prologue ("K
Prometheus Rising: "The Call"
Prometheus Revealed: Chapter 48