Eight passengers embark on The Jenny, a luxury yacht designed to revive the golden age of travel. Unfortunately, they can't sail twenty-four hours before being overtaken by a U-boat loaded with pirates. As if piracy weren't bad enough, the passengers and crew must face a threat even more terrifying than murder and mayhem: jury duty Dare a man trust his life to a jury of fools? Action, mystery, courtroom drama, and comedy collide on this ridiculous trip as the pirate Captain, Robert Montane, seeks his redemption on a madcap adventure that will bring him face to face with a society that has no...

Ghosts, devils, grave-robbers, killers, lovers, pirates, and dead Rock-and-Rollers. These are only some of the inhabitants of Jason Phillip Reeser's short story collection Cities of the Dead. Each of these thirteen stories is set in one of the many above-ground cemeteries in New Orleans where the dead refuse to be buried. Not every story has a ghost, but every story is haunted by the inevitable ghosts that lurk in the shadows terrorizing our darkest corners: regret, guilt, fear, obsession, despair, failure, and loneliness.

The Lazaretto: A central quarantine system built in response to the rampant interplanetary epidemics that once ravaged the colony worlds of the Euxine System. Its simple design is centered on one premise: survive the forty-day quarantine without contracting an infectious disease. If you are lucky, you will be free to leave the quarantine moon, otherwise, you will not be allowed to leave the Lazaretto. Ever. Gregor Lepov arrives to discover just how paranoid and dangerous such a world can be. Hired to find a woman's missing son, he must carefully pick his way through a depressing healthcare...

If Jason and Jennifer Reeser were going to indulge their life-long fantasy of visiting Paris, they weren't going to play by the rules; no hotels, no guided tours, and none of those four-day-and-three-night packages. They would live in the City of Light as if they belonged. Setting aside two weeks in April, they ignored the experts and set out to find a Room With Paris View. "When you first encounter a city or a woman or a good book, you learn more about them, and fall in love with them the more you discover, but you will never quite match that moment when you first encountered them, knowing...