What was the secret of the Shades? Boomerang - pristine, lush, and verdant, with a tumbling, crescent moon that gave the world its name. It seemed perfect for human colonization, but the dominant form of life were the elusive Shades, who looked almost like humans, but behaved and lived like animals. Were the Shades intelligent beings, or were they beasts? Before colonization could begin, the survey team had to find the answer to that question, but the silent and mysterious Shades showed no interest in the humans. Not until the deeply troubled mission pilot came upon a dying Shade and first...

First came the Collapse, when the fossil fuels ran out and the world fell into a new dark age. Then, at the height of all the chaos, the legendary Merlin awoke from his long slumber and set the world on a path to using magic as the new energy base. Some fifty years later, society is based on magic use and Wyrdrune, a young New York City warlock kicked out of school for casting spells without a license, reads about an auction of artifacts unearthed in the Euphrates Valley. Among the items up for auction are some enchanted runestones of "unknown properties." Hoping for a score, Wyrdrune plots...

In the 27th century, the Russians construct the most powerful nuclear submarine of all time and christen it the Nautilus. It was intended to ensure Russian security and military supremacy, but it was never intended to be hijacked and equipped for time travel by a terrorist force determined to start the greatest war the world has ever seen -- across the boundaries of time Major Lucas Priest's elite commando unit of the U.S. Army Temporal Corps is sent back through time to find the Nautilus and stop it, if they can, and to help them, all they have is a spirited Canadian harpooner named Ned...

A demon haunts the City of Angels ... a savage serial killer who is carving his own Hollywood legend on the bodies of young women. Is the fiendish murderer a psychopath, or an evil spirit from the dawn of time? In an era when film magic is done with real magic, it's hard to tell where illusion ends and sorcery begins. Why are people disappearing? Why was the only suspect torn to pieces in his jail cell? Why do ominous shadows leave footprints on the ground? Only a bumbling young wizard, a beautiful cat burglar, a cockney punk possessed by the soul of Merlin the Magician, and the last survivor...

Darkness in the City of Light.... A beautiful model is found murdered with ancient runes carved into her body. An artist known for drunken rages is arrested and charged with ritual murder. As the bearers of the runestones --Wyrdrune, a dropout warlock; Kira, a cat burglar; Modred, the immortal son of the legendary King Arthur; and Billy Slade, a London punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin the Magician -- respond to a friend's plea to help save an innocent man, Parisian street children start to disappear without a trace and a series of savage killings brings new horror to the Rue Morgue. And...

Slaughter in Santa Fe.... The body of the nearest victim was on his back. His shirt had been torn open and his chest was mutilated, bloody runic symbols carved into it. But the eyes were what Loomis couldn't stop staring at. They were completely bleached out. They looked like opaque, milky white marbles. With the coming of the Second Thaumaturgic Age, magic has returned to Santa Fe and adept Paul Ramirez has come back to the city of his birth to pass on the old knowledge he has gained from his teacher, the legendary Merlin Ambrosius. However, he soon finds himself helping the police track...

Catseye, P.I. Name's Gomez. I'm a cat. And yeah, I talk. Because in an age of magic, nothing's quite what it seems. When you combine magic with genetic engineering, predators and crooks take on a thousand different forms. So do the good guys. Denver was a new town, new turf for an old stray tom like me. I came in search of a fresh start, but what I found was criminal. It all began when Susan Jacobs, an ambitious and beautiful young broadcaster, met up with a car bomb that blew a lot more than her ratings sky high. After what happened in New Mexico, I needed a case like this like I needed a...