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Fantasy as fast as any thriller.Clinging to the bar running along the front of the platform, Sergeant Osric has a lot of time to think about how he got there. About how he's shooting through a forest on a rocket powered railcar. About how a grinning thief is clinging to the same bar beside him. Most of all, though, about how he's heading for Bytarend; a town no-one has heard from in almost a hundred years. There has to be a reasonable explanation...
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Tondbert Payne is running through all the daydreams he's had about meeting his true love. Roses and long walks featured prominently. None of those daydreams had him standing with his back pressed against hers, wild creatures circling them. There'd always been a lot less claws and slavering. He can't see a way out, but there must be one. After all, who's ever heard of doomed young lovers?Continuing the adventures in Bytarend, The Bite of Minds includes...
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Lila, Tondbert, Isabelle, Jenni and Osric have a problem. King Tallon Tyre has heard of their rebellion and he's not a man to cross. He's bringing an army of twelve thousand to crush them all, to drive them so deep into the dust, no one will even remember they were there.
After fighting for months, struggling against the monsters and nobles trying to destroy them, can the heroes of Bytarend possibly defeat the largest army they've ever seen?
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A dark and dangerous way to make an assassin.At the top of a high mountain, on the edge of a vast desert, the Fortress of Rust waits. The home of the greatest assassins in the world, no one knows their secret. Every fourth year they take in a hundred four-year-old girls and turn out one master assassin. The assassins of the fortress topple kings, move borders and end dynasties with their skills.Lila Ariette's mother just died, and no one in her kingdom...
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The first three books in the Kyra Sarin series, in one omnibus edition.Kyra Sarin has survived five long years fighting invading aliens on Eris, but can she survive Earth? Facing off against terrorists, the aliens she'd hoped to leave behind, and evil corporations, Kyra has to use everything she learned at war to survive.Inspired by 80s action movies, the Kyra Sarin series is on the lighter side military science. If you like sweary, over-the-top action,...
6) Planet Zero
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The aliens she thought she'd left behind are coming to find her.
Revenge. The itch Kyra longs to scratch.
In the hours since Baltasar tried to kill her, Kyra has pictured his last shuddering breath a hundred ways. Each one puts a smile on her face. The only trouble is picking between them.
Vengeance might have to wait, though. The unstoppable Xenomigrant advance means extinction for humankind, and the only person with a plan is Baltasar.
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Everything you've ever wanted is just a heist awayIn an interconnected future, hacker Chris Noonan thinks he's found the key to wealth and happiness for him and his mother. His hacks make him invisible for a short time, so he can rob a bank without them ever knowing he was there.When a heist goes wrong, however, Chris finds himself framed for murder. He needs to find out who set him up and why, before he ends up in prison for the rest of his life.If...
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Tondbert recognises the woman at the tracks at once. It's difficult to mistake a Murder Queen. The deadliest assassins in the world, Murder Queens never fail and she's come to fulfil a contract on Tondbert's head. It's the conditions of the contract that sting the most. King Brandon, the man that killed Tondbert's father, is holding Tondbert's mother and sister hostage. And he's insisted Tondbert die unarmed and on his knees. Murder Queen contracts...
9) Hard Vacuum
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Crossing 80s action movies with military sci-fi
When aliens arrived in the outer solar system, Earth began sending five hundred soldiers a month to the aliens' base on Eris. After a decade, only four soldiers have survived their tour to return home. Kyra Sarin is one of those four.
On her way back to Earth to finally see her children again, the space station she stops at is taken over by terrorists. It's the last mistake they're ever going to make.
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Jenni Styrm is staring down at a town with a dark shadow over it.Caedin Tegart, scourge of Graefditch, has just arrived by train to pull Bytarend back under the duke's rule. Tegart is vicious, with a roving eye for the younger women of the town. No one can stand against him and live.A dark and dangerous fantasy book from author Simon Cantan.
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Who says fantasy has to take itself so seriously?Bytarend is a town filled with misfits and outcasts with nowhere else to go. They want a different world, one where they're not crushed at the whims of a noble or evil magician.The odds of them succeeding are impossible. Whole kingdoms are built on the old way of doing things. But they're willing to fight the world that tried to crush them.The Bite Collection contains all six books in the highly-rated...
12) Blood Cruel
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Vampires aren't the only ones in the shadows, Katie is a Godchosen. At eighteen, she gets her own personal god. Someone to help her achieve her dreams, guide her in times of trouble, keep her safe.
Or any god but Loki might have done that. He wants her to be a vampire hunter, the very opposite of keeping her safe.
Katie's about to discover the world that lives in the shadows around her. The one regular humans never even see.
Find out just how cruel...
13) Violent Science
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In a corrupt world, Kyra Sarin is the only one who won't bend.After defending the Earth from aliens, Kyra finds her battles aren't over yet. She's inherited wealth beyond measure, but there's a catch: two criminal factions want to capture and control that money for themselves.Each has a different prison lined up for her: one stone; one virtual. The only way to escape is to do what Kyra does best: kill them all.Violent Science is the third book in...
14) Fields of Dust
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In a blistering future, they'd kill to have kidsThe world is choking on dust. Nothing grows outside the towns. The nobles rule everything, decide who can have children.Tom wants to become a father, but he was born damaged. The only cure is to become a champion in the game. A brutal contest where most players end up dead. He'll compete to give his wife what she wants; to give them both a future.