Lucas: 1331 books

50% John McClane 50% Robin Hood 100% trouble Reeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance “exfiltration specialist” Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world. In,...

Incurable prion disease eating your nervous system? Abandon everyone you love. Go to a clinic in a universe where prions can't replicate. Sherry Rogers fills her days as best she can with her rattletrap nervous system. When aliens attack the clinic, however, she finds herself behind...

If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead’s work—or expose him as a fraud. When a tragic death devastates the conference, only Dale suspects murder. Computer geeks care about code. But do they care enough… to kill?

Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate. Liberate? The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it—and failed. Nobody expected that once the alien...

BEYOND CIVILIZATION Antarctica? Uganda? No place so nice. This crew of Internet professionals, summoned to the isolated Oregon Coast to design a new Web application, find themselves WITHOUT WIFI Then things go bad. Like, dead body bad…

Midnight at the datacenter. Crimping cable, testing circuits, and— —dodging bullets? Toby just wants to finish tonight’s install and go home, but gunfire and spilled blood mean he might never go home again. But one gunman turns into a team. Hostages. And stakes higher than...

Elizabeth and her friends enter a vacant old house on a whim and soon discover that something is not quite right. What started out as a fun day to explore, became a nightmare as they get locked in a cellar. They soon discover the house is haunted, as apparitions of the past present themselves to Elizabeth...

An indecent indiscretion! Emma Hayes has gone from making hotel magnate Cesare Falconeri's bed to running his household, including handing out expensive parting gifts to his numerous conquests! But each time, it's chipped away at her heart. Until one night, inhibitions lowered, she reaches...

A HOLIDAY WISH Marcus, the Marquess of Hawthorne, vowed never to fall in love. He should have vowed never to marry. Caught in a compromising situation, he’s been forced to wed the young woman he was trying to rescue. Beautiful? Yes. But his new bride’s apprehensions seem worse than his own, and...

Harlem, 1926. As the West Indies and the Harlem Knights wage a bloody turf war, the Irish, Italian and Jewish mobs circle like sharks and a helpless community bleeds. But one of Harlem’s darkest denizens has been called by the old gods in answer to the people’s prayers for help. He stalks...

Where people gather, danger awaits. Where there is humanity, there is unrest. These two ideas meet at Unrestival. The Middletown series continues rolling through American culture. This time around the apocalyptic series stops at a New York festival dedicated to purging the unrest of humankind. Find...

"I can make you explode with pleasure…" Kassius Black rose from the ashes of his catastrophic childhood driven by revenge against the father who abandoned him. With near complete ownership of his father's assets, Kassius's last vengeful step is to present him with an heir he'll never get to...

"Does anyone here present…" Scarlett Ravenwood takes an enormous risk interrupting Vincenzo Borgia's wedding. He's rich and powerful, whereas she's penniless and alone, but she needs his help…to protect their unborn child! Vincenzo's furious that Scarlett kept the pregnancy from him,...

She thought she'd found the perfect man in her dangerously seductive boss, Eduardo Cruz, but "Get out!" wasn't exactly the morning-after treatment she'd hoped for. Holding her wilting bouquet, Callie waits for her groom-her best friend, a man she'd never kissed, or even wanted to kiss. But...