Bøger af Melissa McCann

They didn't want the secret to preventing galactic war. Now, only they can guard it.When newly-unemployed dock worker Salome Jones inherits a near-derelict spaceship from an uncle she never heard of, she thinks she finally has the key to freedom. Joining forces with Skyler Rysen, a charming rogue with an urgent (if not exactly on the up-and-up) cargo, Salome and the crew of Luminous Void set out on their first mission. Unfortunately, some things are too good to be true. Unbeknownst to Salome and company, the ship has a bounty on it and a secret hidden in its databanks that could start a galactic war, and somebody wants that secret badly enough to capture the ship and kill all her crew. Salome has no intention of letting her faceless enemies get their hands on the secret, but what can one small ship and her ragtag crew do against all the forces arrayed against them? The answer is, whatever they have to!

Space, time, cause and effect. Call them all relative.In King of Midwinter, once again, Persis has to save her twin brother Briar from his own bad judgment, even if it might mean selling both their souls. In Peor, a badly damaged clone soldier may be the only hope for a pair of twins on the edge of destruction. In Water, Wind and Whispers, Crystal thinks she's gotten away with her ex-boyfriend's ill-gotten gains until she's forced to spend the night on a tiny uninhabited island. Unfortunately, the island is uninhabited for a very good reason. Feodora Dempsey is the custodian of her great-grandmother's peculiar collection of old spells and cantrips-until it's stolen by an unscrupulous politician and she realizes the book might not be as harmless as she always thought. In High Tide, five generations of witchy women have lived in the old house on the beach. A stranger with a bad temper learns much too late what that really means. In A Very Cthulhu Christmas, there's something coming down the chimney, and it isn't Santa Clause. Audette Godfrey has been everywhere, finding treasures that should probably have remained lost. Now she's after one last thing-the final frontier.

Islands have a Mystique... The island that looks lonely and far away may be the cradle of some other tribe with strange customs and costumes. Actually, that describes Vashon pretty well. The island cultivates hippies, yuppies, artists, musicians...and writers. When asked to write something about islands, these particular writers produced the stories in this book: In Mistress of Hemlock Cottage, when Audrey inherits her grandfather's house on Anderson Island, she quits her hateful job and moves across the country to start a new life only to find herself haunted by the past. In Here & Beyond LLC, Borgan is tired of touring the great sights and cities of the world. A tour of the island of purgatory sounds exotic-as long as you don't get off the bus. In Cl-Clunk, Cl-Clunk, Clunky-Clunk, Moose the mighty dachshund takes up ratting. In The Best People, an asteroid is about the destroy the Earth, and the Notorious Derrenasty D is one of the elite few chosen to escape to the island planet destined to be the cradle of humanity's future. Only he's lost the departure watch that will tell him when his turn comes to board the ship. In Water, Wind and Whispers, Crystal thinks she's gotten away with her ex-boyfriend's ill-gotten goods until a storm forces her to spend the night on a tiny uninhabited island. Unfortunately, the island is uninhabited for a very good reason. In Island Magic Tales, Jane Valencia shares a collection of Native American myths and fairy tales--how the earth is formed as an island in an endless ocean, a tale set on the island of Ireland and a few that happen on an island just a step to the left of our world. In Watching from Heaven, Christian comes to Vashon Island hoping to hide herself away in isolation, but islands only look isolated when you see them from the outside. In Modern Love, Scott is making the trek all the way to Vashon Island, thinking he's going to dinner with his oldest friend. If only she wasn't determined to set him up with the perfect date... It's not like Scott can't make his own love connections.

Praise for The Blackwood Curse: Queen of Corruption: "...a cross between H.P. Lovecraft and Jim Butcher with some Barbara Hambly thrown in.""I love Hal...a very dry and witty sense of humor.""I want to live in this story."A Fallen Hero...When Hal Crompton comes back from the war burned, broken and battered, he thinks he's through being a hero. All he wants to do is hide himself away and heal his wounds--body and soul.However, on his return to the neighborhood where he grew up, he finds that his childhood friend Alistair has been tampering with occult forces in hopes of waking an ancient, evil goddess, and it will take a hero to stop him

Praise for The Blackwood Curse: Queen of Corruption: "H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs meet Jim Butcher"A Fallen Hero. . .When Hal Crompton comes back from the war burned, broken and battered, he thinks he's through being a hero. However, on his return to the neighborhood where he grew up, he finds that his childhood friend Alistair has been tampering with occult forces in hopes of waking an ancient, evil goddess, and it will take a hero to stop him.

Praise for Symbiont: "Vivid, sharply-drawn characters.""A never-say-die action adventure.""A story about what really makes you human."Who you are had better be more than skin deep.Mega-star holo-play personality Emma Sloan teeters on the edge of death after a freak studio accident burns over eighty percent of her body. In a last-ditch effort to save her life, desperate doctors implant her burned skin with a bio-engineered symbiotic organism.Emma isn't the first person to be implanted with a new skin. When the other Symbionts break out of the hospital and escape, Emma is forced to help track them down or be destroyed like a lab animal. But her new skin has survival imperatives of its own, and it is more powerful than its designers intended. Emma isn't going to be easy to kill

Praise for The Blackwood Curse: White Knight: "...a cross between H.P. Lovecraft and Jim Butcher."This time, it's family...Hal has successfully closed Alistair's para-dimensional gateway, but life in Woodhill hasn't returned to normal. Claire is still in Alistair's clutches, lost somewhere in the multi-verse, and Hal has no idea where or how to find her. A clue arrives in the form of a message from Alistair and a deed to a house that once belonged to Alistair's great-grandfather. Somewhere in the house is an artifact that Alistair needs in order to bring his hideous goddess back to conquer Hal's world.If Hal can find it, he can use it to get to Alistair...and Claire. Meanwhile, Claire's younger brother Nathan has been increasingly impatient and anxious about his sister. If Hal doesn't find the artifact soon, he may have two children to rescue in addition to stopping Alistair's megalomaniacal ambitions. This time, he won't be able to do it alone