Lorana, a young dragonrider with a gift for healing and telepathy, rushes to find a cure when a mysterious fatal illness infects the dragons just when a deadly cycle of Threadfall is due, and realizes the answer lies with Wind Blossom, a geneticist whose mother created the dragons hundreds of years earlier.

"They came to the Comstock Lode drawn by the promise instant wealth. It was the richest deposit of silver the world had known, and drifters and dreamers, builders and thieves, fought, worked, schemed, and died to extract it from the earth--or to profit from those who did. For Val Trevallion, a Cornish miner with trouble in his past, it was a chance to build a lasting future--and settle an old score. For Grita Redaway, a beautiful actress, it was a...

After discovering that zombies have destroyed his Minecraft village, Steve embarks on a mission to mine forty diamonds in order to make a diamond sword that he can use against the walking dead menace.

It sounded simple enough - Wyatt Valeron is hired to escort a man from Paradise to Denver Colorado. However, upon arrival at the secluded mining town, he learns a sinister tyrant named Gaskell controls everyone and everything. His hired 'enforcers' maintain a form of law that supersedes all outside authority. To break a rule can mean punishment or even death. Wyatt does what comes naturally and ends up sentenced to hang. With the Valerons going into...

China Bayles, part owner of a combination herb shop and tea room, is drawn into a murder investigation when the widely disliked Casey Ford is killed just days before signing an agreement to sell his mining rights in the slowly reviving art community of Indigo, Texas, which would have resulted in store owners being evicted and the town's certain death.