Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept, which means he can communicate through dreams with other dimensions and, under certain circumstances, travel between them. Howard discovers that our world is only one of several dimensions swirling in time and space, and that one of the others, peopled by unimaginably powerful monsters, is approaching Earth for the first time in millennia. The last time the dimensions coincided, our world was saved by the breaking of a powerful golden mask in the Chinese city of Sanxingdui. Together, Howard and Cate travel through time and space, meeting other Adepts and avoiding lurking monsters, in a quest to find the three fragments of the golden mask and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

What would you do to survive the apocalypse? Jack Gee, hiking the New Zealand mountains, is blissfully unaware of the Hemorrhage virus sweeping the world. A desperate message from his wife Dee alerts him, and he must return to Hamilton. On the way, he is captured by man-eating monsters and taken to their meat locker. To escape, he will need to draw on all his experience as an outdoorsman, but first he must find the will to survive. Surrounded by Variants, Dee is trapped in her Hamilton basement with a group of survivors. With Jack missing, and dwindling food supplies, she must leave the basement, her only defence a Katana. The nightmare has just begun. Will they find each other in the chaos?

Blake Dent is a bounty hunter who catches criminals for a living. He lives by the mantra that he’s retired until he needs money to get by, which he spends on lavishly indulgent boy’s toys. His only real goal in life is adding a curved TV to his enormous gadget collection.But when someone starts brutally murdering people, Blake is forced to catch the killer by the inept and under-funded local police. Lured by the promise of a life-changing sum of money and blackmailed by his past, Blake must identify and stop the twisted murderer before their horrifying mission is completed.Take one portion of darkness, add a large handful of humour, sprinkle a helping of mystery on top, and you end up with Bubblegum Smoothie, the first book in the Blake Dent thriller series from Ryan Casey, author of the Brian McDone books.

It's their first attemptSafe Haven is going to try making a permanent settlement in the mountains of Georgia and every soul there is ready for the break. They've traveled for more than nine months, with few stops. Now, they can finally quit living from trucks and try to rebuild what they've lost.Except...Bad things are coming. Safe Haven thinks they've endured the worst the apocalypse has to offer, but they've actually been lucky. That's about to change and all the descendants on the planet can't stop it. Magic is nearly powerless against the effects of a nuclear war and the entire camp must make a choice: Do we stand or do we run?Book Eight: Carved in Stone.Order your copy today!*Includes Dog scenes, updated Eagle teams, and more.