David Liss

"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"--

In a sweltering trailer park in rural Florida, Lem Altick is peddling encyclopedias to pay for college. Then, before his eyes, a couple of potential customers are shot dead. The killer, the strangely charismatic Melford Kean, has struck without remorse and with remarkable good cheer. But the self-styled "ethical assassin" hadn't planned on a witness, and so he makes Lem a deal: Stay quiet and there will be no problems. Go to the police and take the...

Returning to mid-eighteenth-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the prot©♭g©♭ of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver, stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies.

A conspiracy that threatens to topple the fledgling banking system of the post-Revolutionary War United States, brings together Ethan Saunders and Joan Maycott on opposing sides, with the outcome that will forever change their new country hanging in the balance.

Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.

Four terror-inducing novellas from acclaimed bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Christopher Golden, and Jonathan Maberry beginning with the premise: "A stranger comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead--for a price." In Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children," an acute diphtheria outbreak kills most of the children in an isolated village in nineteen-century Ontario. Then a stranger arrives and...