Bøger udgivet af Fair Play Books

The world as we know it has vanished in the blink of an eye. All of human history, washed away. In its place, a new story of humanity, a story without the complications and twists we all know; a story without the Cold War, or Shakespeare. Without Christ.But there are echoes of our world - lone souls from all ages of our former history, shipwrecked in the new. Each and every one of them represents a living threat against the validity of this new, virgin history, none more so than the mysterious author of a subversive book passed in secret, and spoken of only in whisper. Elizabeth writes of England, of Israel and Egypt, all countries that never existed. She writes of a garden, and genesis. She writes of a promised land and a chosen people. Of revelation.The Book of Elizabeth is the moving journey of England's greatest monarch, Elizabeth I, who liberated from the constraints of her time, seeks a life free from the turmoil and strife that plagued it. In doing so, she opens a Pandora's Box she never could have anticipated, and can never hope to contain.

Astra Idari knows she's human.Others see an android with a bad memory stitched together by her ship's snarky AI. She only wants to live as she is and escape the monotony of tracking down thieves of ultra-rare starship fuel.When a job leads her to Gen Emera, Idari meets the girl of her dreams and the last living star. There's just one problem. Idari discovers starship fuel is found only in the blood of living stars.Idari has one option: turn Emera over to her shadowy employers. A Stargun Messenger protects the fuel trade; without it, intergalactic civilization collapses. But Emera illuminates something in Idari, and she chooses to help Emera escape certain death. In an instant, Idari goes from hunter to hunted.She races across the galaxy and against time from bounty hunters, pirates, living shadows, and her own fears. Emera's life depends on Idari's humanity if Idari is finally ready to risk it.

Telepathic wolves. Zombie gangsters. Sentient houses. Just another day for Kit Baldwin.Fifty years after an alien ship crashed in Break Pointe, the only protection in a strange new world is Great Power, a corporation of superhumans. If you can afford them. Most people can't.Enter Kit Baldwin, a young woman who helps people to help people. Except her power is the alien's power, and she may be more of a danger to her city than she is a help.This collection of stories and novellas follows Kit's journey in a series that's been called 'the next logical step after Watchmen.'

The Eververse continues in the second book in a series that's been called 'the next logical step after Watchmen.'Wealth. Privilege. Superpowers. Valene has it all... including a target on her back.Valene Blackwood hears everything, everywhere, always.Her superhuman sonic abilities cause her so much pain she flees to a space station to find peace. When her father dies, she must return and take over the family business - selling superhuman protection for profit.She inherits all her father's power and all his problems, including challengers to the throne. Before her feet are on the ground, someone tries to kill her. Valene survives, thanks to Kit Baldwin, the woman who gives away her help as she steals Valene's heart.But the evidence points toward a sinister plot. It becomes impossible to tell friend from foe. The more Valene investigates, the more every clue hints at a vast conspiracy that threatens not only her life, but everything she believes about her father, his company, and her past.

What happens when you can't pay your superhero bill?Kit Baldwin is just trying to get by.Rent is due. Food would be nice. A girlfriend, maybe. When she stumbles upon a crashed alien spaceship's power source, she gets more than she ever bargained for.The alien artifact draws the attention of Valene, Kit's crush, and the most powerful woman alive. Cosmic radiation from the ship gave some superhuman powers, but the Empowered sell them for a fee. Bankrupt, the city can't afford any disasters.Though Valene represents the company holding Kit's city hostage, Kit can't help but fall in love with her. It helps Valene lobbies for change, but disaster looms: her superhuman gifts are debilitating. Her deteriorating condition forces her to leave, depriving the city of its champion and Kit newfound happiness.In love and running out of time, Kit unleashes the artifact's full power, transforming herself forever, as well as the battle over what is owed, and to whom.

A black hole is tearing apart the solar system. Mairead's life is already in pieces.¿The Earth has less than a year to survive. Asteroids rain hell; earthquakes rattle cities; manic tides swamp coasts. Mairead intends to give herself to the erratic waves that erode her remote Irish island, the same that claimed her child. When Gavin, an American, arrives to scatter his father's ashes, she becomes torn between wanting for life and death. Despite the tides, fuel shortages, and closing borders that threaten to trap him on the island, Gavin can't seem to scatter the ashes. He doesn't know how to let go any more than Mairead does and they find a strange comfort in their confusion.Their affair draws Mairead back to the world of the living, but the longer Gavin stays, the more it seems there might be a future for them. There is no future. Life closes down around them. The world they know shreds. Life drains into an inescapable abyss. And yet Mairead fights, both the gravity of her grief and the restless, dissonant desire to find some kind of peace no matter how brief.