An anthology of previously unpublished work includes contributions by favorite genre authors and a selection of up-and-coming writers

"A trucker sets out to protect an abandoned child in the Utah desert...Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without an accident. But then he finds a mute Hispanic child who...

The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power – hailed as a "breathtaking account" by James Patterson, "masterfully written" by historian Douglas Brinkley, and "the finest book" ever written on the subject by Lt. Commander William Liebenow, the man who rescued JFK and the PT 109 crew in August 1943. In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid...

"The man known only as Cross and his skilled team of urban mercenaries are back (Blackjack, Urban Renewal), but this time they are on the defensive as they receive a series of cryptic messages. The question is, are they being warned or hunted? A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Chicago the reigning number one city in homicides has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71, and it's the...

When a snowstorm traps a pair of strangers in an abandoned cabin deep in the Alaskan bush, they have two choices: work together or die. Search and rescue crews identify the missing persons as Richard Maynard, an Alaskan family man, and Mel Drummond, a city slicker from New York twenty years his junior. Hypothermia, starvation, and bloodthirsty wildlife aren't the only perils that face this unlikely and unlucky duo-a deadly specter from Richard's past...