Sci-fi/Fantasy

THE ATLAS SERIES
BY BECCA C. SMITH

ATLAS

Every four days. Commit one act of atrocity. Keep the balance or the planet dies.

Thrown into a reality she never could have imagined, Kala Hicks is pitted against the forces of good and evil. She must choose whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it burn. And four days later, she’ll have to do it again.

GRIGORI RETURNED

Grigori Returned is the second book in The Atlas Series.

Just seconds after Kala Hicks had to do the unthinkable, she’s thrown back into a world she didn’t choose and frankly could do without.

Attacked on all sides, Kala must battle the Titans now, and Cronus himself wants to take her down.

Learning more about her past and who Atlas really is, Kala finds a hidden power within that changes everything…

THE UNDERWORLD

Book 3 of The Atlas Series.

Kala Hicks finally accepts her role as Atlas only to find out that her next mission is to die.

Sent to the Underworld, Kala must find the lost Olympian gods and bring them back to earth to face the Titans. But plans never seem to work out the way they're supposed to...

IVORY
BY HINA MCCORD

As a child in the desert kingdom of Gryth, Ivory witnessed the brutal murder of her parents at the hands of a sinister race known as the Lecs.

Now Queen of her people, a vengeance-fueled Ivory launches a final battle to annihilate the enemy once and for all. But on the eve of war, betrayed by her own kind and left in the hands of the Lecs, she's forced to learn the shocking truth about their two peoples, and the diabolical curse that's plagued them for centuries.

Armed with newfound knowledge and unexpected allies, Ivory must face the real enemy that's haunted her all her life, and make a choice that will mean the difference between a new beginning and the end of the world.

Ivory is an exercise in duality made reality; an exploration of darkness and light, male and female, sun and moon… seen through the eyes of two cultures ripped apart by an ancient evil whose pain resonates through the ages like the beating of a drum.

WHITE HORSE, DARK DRAGON
BY ROBERT C. FLEET

A powerful tale of modern times and ancient magic.

Jim Marlowe and his young son came to Central Europe on a routine scientific assignment: to study the environmental impact of a multinational corporation's planned mining operation. But nothing in the mountains of Karistan is quite what it seems - from the village witch with her mysterious past, to the intrigues of Jim's employer.

And, hidden in ageless caverns and towering hills is a myth come to life, an awesome inspiring legend that will change the lives of all who enter its domain.

THE HEART OF IRELAND SERIES
BY MARNI L.B. TROOP

JOURNAL ONE

Casey is a Faerie, but not in the way you might think. She’s not a little creature with wings or magic dust. If not for her tall, pointed ears, this regal princess could be mistaken for a human. She is gifted among her people in that she can see into anyone’s thoughts. She can remember every detail of every event that has occurred among the Faeries since her birth.

In TIR NA N’OG, Casey watches as the Faerie kings slaughter Ith, a stranger from across the sea and man of peace who believes the Faeries to be the gods of his people, the Iberians.

Little do the kings know that when you kill an innocent, humans seek vengeance. Ith’s people come in great numbers to slaughter their “gods” and take Ireland as their new home. Caught in the middle, Casey tries to find a way to bring peace to the two peoples so they can live on the Island together. After things do not go as she plans, the humans prove victorious. At the moment the Faeries surrender the Island, she and her people are transformed into the magical creatures that inspire legend, and Ireland is changed forever...

JOURNAL TWO

For over 2000 years, Casey has chronicled the mostly uneventful history of the People living in Tir Na n'Og and their interactions with the Others in the Upperworld. Then came the vision, a message in her mind that a red-robed man was coming to the Island. He does come, and he brings with him new powers that help him to turn the Others against the People.

The People fight back, but the robed man's powers and cunning quickly prove to best those of the People. There are even signs of change within Tir Na n'Og! Casey must step out of her role as Chronicler to either stop the stranger or at least minimize the damage… but then there is the problem of the Angel…

THE RISER SAGA
BY BECCA C. SMITH

RISER

Black swirling holes churning madly in the center of every corpse. This is how eighteen-year-old Chelsan Derée sees the deceased. Her ability to connect to the black spinning holes allows her to control every dead thing within a four-mile radius.

But that’s the least of her problems. It’s 2320 and Chelsan Derée has to survive another year of high school, which for her is pure and utter torture, mainly due to the fact that her schoolmate Jill Forester’s favorite activity is making Chelsan’s life a living hell. If that isn’t enough, Chelsan’s impossible crush on Ryan Vaughn makes her brain do somersaults on a regular basis, especially since she is positive he doesn’t know she exists. And being eighteen Chelsan has to deal with the pressure of whether or not she should take a little pill called Age-pro, which cures aging, making the world eighteen forever and highly over-populated.

When Chelsan’s mother, Janet, is brutally killed, along with everyone else in her trailer park, Chelsan finds out that she was the intended target.

Chelsan must use her power to raise and control the dead to save herself, protect her friends and take down the man responsible for murdering her mother.

REAPER

Reaper is the second book in the best selling teen series The Riser Saga.

Chelsan Derée thinks she’s finally going to be able to live the normal, healthy life of a teenage girl who can control the dead. She thinks she’s free of psychotic grandparents, serial killers and government assassins. But no such luck - a child named Elisha, who desperately needs Chelsan to rescue her from an I.Q. Farm, is disrupting Chelsan’s dreams.

Chelsan has to help Elisha because she knows the harrows of I.Q. Farms: secret warehouses full of genius children used as lab rats and given Age-pro (a pill that freezes the aging process, making them children forever).

It’s only been two months since Chelsan’s first traumatic ordeal, but she still has to deal with the drama of constant fighting between her best friend Bill and her boyfriend Ryan and having to deal with her grandparents (which is saying a lot since they’re always trying to kill her!).

But all of these things are going to seem pretty minor when Chelsan discovers a plot so horrifying that it may destroy the world. She will have to learn more about her power to raise and control the dead so she can stop the evil that threatens everything she's ever cared about.

RIPPER

Book three in the best selling series The Riser Saga.

It’s been five months since Chelsan Derée’s harrowing ordeal with Elisha. Chelsan hasn’t heard a peep out of her (nor from her sociopathic grandparents), and she is counting her blessings.

But when the new girl in school, Eva, appears to be after Chelsan’s head, Chelsan soon realizes that she’ll never be safe. Elisha is back and she has a new team of 300-year-old assassins to do her dirty work. Their first target is Chelsan’s Gramps: Vice President of Population Control, Geoffrey Turner. Chelsan must use her powers to help save the man who is responsible for killing her mother.

Chelsan and her friends are yet again thrown into peril in order to save the world from Elisha’s sinister plans. And Chelsan’s tentative relationship with Turner is put to the test as they once again have to work together against a common enemy.

Chelsan must defeat Elisha once and for all in the third installment of the bestselling series the Riser Saga.

ATLAS RISING

BY BECCA C. SMITH

The Final Chapter of 'The Riser Saga' & 'The Atlas Series'

Kala Hicks has been Atlas for 300 years, committing unspeakable acts every four days to keep the world spinning, and she’s mentally exhausted. Her only shred of hope to end it is a prophecy that says the Atlas curse will be broken by Chelsan Derée. Upon Kala seeing her newest mission in a vision, she knows it’s finally time.

Chelsan, on the other hand, not only has no idea that gods, demons and angels exist, but that she is the one person in the entire world who can break Kala’s curse, and she has zero clue as to how to do it. What’s worse is that Kala’s newest mission is something that Chelsan would destroy everything in her path to make sure that Kala fails at.

Will Chelsan fulfill the prophecy to save Kala from her curse? Or will she let the world burn to save the one she loves most?

REVELATION
BY M. WILL SMITH

Morey Baum has just made one of the most significant discoveries in all of science. Linking a quantum computer directly to his brain, he was able to visualize the origin of the universe and see solutions to problems that the rest of the scientific community struggled with for decades. He is unable to announce it to anyone because it has been impossible for him to transcribe it into words or mathematics. To add to his predicament, he has a terminal condition and only months to live. So he must try to pass his revelation on to someone who can carry his work forward. He has chosen a close colleague, Megan O’Brien. Megan’s religious beliefs are making it difficult for her to accept this honor despite her intense interest and desire as a scientist. In the meantime, others are attempting to either steal or destroy the discovery. And so begins a wild ride to escape the conspirators and at the same time find ways to bring his discovery to the scientific community in an understandable form. Along the way Morey and Megan get help from several unlikely sources when some of their pursuers become their allies. The story is about how intense professional competition, greed and dogmatic beliefs can sometimes get in the way of rational judgment and the search for truth.

THE LIGHTHOUSE
BY M. WILL SMITH

It is hundreds of years in the future. Life on Earth has been nearly eradicated following a collision with a comet and only scattered survivors exist. Some have escaped to another planet, some have dug in underground, and a few have carved out an existence on what remains of the surface. For some of those left on the surface, their lives have been managed by a small group of immortal men known as The Controllers. The Lighthouse centers around one community living on the surface. Their lives are directed by a voice coming from an ancient lighthouse. They live primitive lives behind a powerful fence and their youth are required to be taught how to live by the lighthouse. Reading is strictly forbidden, punishable by death. But outside the fence live a few immortal women who have accumulated a vast library of books. Over the centuries a hole has worn under the fence and a few villagers have crossed and have been exposed to the dreaded books, including two ten year olds, Jake and Sarah, whose reading sin is found out and they are forced to run away across the fence to escape certain punishment. The Lighthouse is about how they team up with the women and other escapees from the villages to defeat those who control the lighthouse.

LOVE & DARK SERIES
BY BECCA C. SMITH & HINA MCCORD

VESSEL

Shea Harper is starting college with her best friend, Aidan. She calls him her spirit-twin because they were born at exactly the same time. He’s never left her side. But when she meets the enigmatic and ego-centric vampire, Lucian, that all changes. He wants her. And Aidan wants to keep her from him.

Aidan isn’t just jealous; it’s his duty to protect her. Shea is a Vessel. As much as Aidan is sworn to protect the light within her, Lucian is sworn to drag the Vessel to the depths of hell to release his father, Caelius, from his Enochian prison.

At their cores, Lucian and Shea are darkness and light and should never find common ground. But forces beyond their control tie them together, and neither one of them can fight their true destiny…

That they are bound to each other forever.

FIRST BORN

Caelius is free, and the world is his.
Shea trains with Lucian to master her powers as an elemental so she can beat Caelius and free them all from his twisted desires. But when Aidan warns Lucian that one of his sons has been taken by Caelius, Lucian goes off to confront him alone.

Lucian fails and is imprisoned and tortured. His only comfort is the apparition of his childhood love, Nefertiti. Caelius reveals that she is a vampire and his master plan is for them to rule the world together, as his new Adam and Eve.

Meanwhile, Shea will stop at nothing to get Lucian back, including working with Nefertiti’s daughter, Mekytaten. Together with Aidan, they find Lucian broken and twisted by Caelius.

Shocked by a devastating betrayal, Shea must decide if she still wants Lucian and if his ex-Egyptian lover’s plan will be enough to destroy Caelius before he returns to full power and devours the world whole.

GUTIAN CODE

The battle is lost. Caelius has won.
Lucian has sacrificed himself by giving his body and mind to Caelius to save Shea and the others. The only obstacle that remains is for Caelius to take Shea’s soul and restore himself to full power.

But Shea isn’t giving up. She won’t rest until she has Lucian back by her side and Caelius is destroyed. Unfortunately, her mother, Molly, is now with Caelius and has no memory of her daughter. Nefertiti is no longer an ally, as she will do anything to protect the children she has left.

Meanwhile, Lucian is being systematically tortured by Caelius, his mind twisted until all his memories of Shea are erased and he only sees Caelius as his one true love and savior.

Will Shea and Lucian overcome the impossible obstacles set in their way and finally kill Caelius? Or will Darkness win and destroy the world and everyone they love with it?

THE ATLAS SERIESBY BECCA C. SMITH