Sheri S. Tepper

Jason Lynx is an antigues dealer who has a taste for solving puzzles more than the Sunday crossword. A startling discovery during an early morning walk with his dog catches Jason in a tangled web of intrigue and murder. The carefully posed body of a casual acquaintance, plus an unsolved murder from police records, begins to reveal a terrible secret that someone is willing to do anything to keep. The list of suspects and motives begins to narrow ominously as Jason's investigation exposes a raging storm of illicit passion, greed, betrayal and retribution that has disturbing relevance to his own life and threatens to draw him into its relentless spiral.

I thought I could escape the Beast … but he already devoured my heart. When the Beast took me and dragged me back to his cell, I thought my life was over. In the darkness, he watched me. Yearned for me. Tasted me. He loved my scars, called me a beauty … Made me irrevocably his. Until his owner finally let him out … And his final task was to destroy my father. The only thing that stood between them was me. Faced with an impossible choice, I run. But even the beauty can’t escape the claws of the Beast.

Bientôt, Chernon prononcera le voeu des braves comme tous les adolescents de son âge. Il accablera d'insultes les dissidents qui quitteront la garnison par la Porte des Femmes. Il partira à la guerre : c'est sa mission, son honneur d'homme. Stavia, elle, tâchera d'oublier Chernon. Comme toutes les jeunes filles, soumise, elle apprendra la médecine, s'initiera au savoir des livres anciens. Peut-être même se joindra-t-elle à l'une des missions d'exploration des zones de désolation. Les femmes ont tant à faire pour retrouver les connaissances d'avant le cataclysme ! Ainsi va la vie dans la Fédération. Aux hommes la noblesse des armes, aux femmes l'humble mission d'assurer la survie de la communauté. Injuste, cette discrimination rigide ? Mais à y regarder de près, le pouvoir, le vrai, n'est peut-être pas là où on l'imagine...

When the Sea King declares war on the small kingdoms of Norland, and forbids any ships from sailing on the rising waters that threaten to flood humanity, a princess must awaken an ancient killer to save the world.

When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and theirb religion. It seemed the natural thing for the settlers to maintain the last Owlbrit temple, with the strange statue that was its God. When when that God died - disintegrating overnight - it seemed equally natural to start preparing its replacement. Maire Manone came to Hobbs Land to escape the harsh patriachal religion of Voorstod, but Voorstod hasn't forgotten her - or forgiven her. But the men who arrive on Hobbs Land to find and return Maire to her homeland haven't taken Hobbs Land's God into account ...

Leo knows the value of never grassing and that you never grass on your friends. Everybody, too, knows the gang leaders in town. And you don't grass on them. Not unless you don't value your life. And then Leo is unlucky enough to witness the murder committed by a man called Armour, one of the gang leaders. Leo is petrified as he realises what he is witnessing and even more petrified when he realises that Armour has seen him ...

Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -- of the trio.Joining her half-brother Paul, the famed linguist, on a two-person scientific expedition, Jewel Delis has come to Moss to observe the phenomenon of dancing light and to help decipher the strange musical "language" that accompanies it. But there are other mysteries alive on this exotic world covered in ever-shifting vegetation -- and something more than illuminations has enticed her away from a disastrously overpopulated homeworld to seek answers at the universe's unexplored edge. For Jewel herself is a question mark with a radical agenda that will put her at perilous odds with her planet's ruling powers -- and with the inscrutable alien races she encounters -- as she risks all for justice for the endangered beasts of the Earth.