The frontier knows her as a lady of quiet charm and sky-bright eyes. What it doesn’t know is the steel beneath her smile. When Mia Lang rides a stagecoach across bandit country, fate—and the Barton brothers—put her courage to the test. In a land where kindness is scarce and survival costs blood, one woman learns that even the softest voice can command fear.
Tim investigates a 4.7-million-year-old message written specifically for him, discovering seven billion consciousness fragments trapped in quantum agony. Granting them mercy through a dangerous energy transfer, he gains profound understanding of reality while awakening sister ship Meridian-8. But Meridian races toward a facility containing something worse than The Silence—and 199 similar mysteries await across the galaxy.
Carrie and Carl have been married for about a year. Before the wedding, Carl attended Carrie’s family’s annual family reunion and had an awful experience. Now, a year later, she has convinced him to give her family another chance before they go to an all-inclusive Caribbean resort for their one-year anniversary. Nothing goes according to what Carl expected.
It is said that advanced technology can appear to be magic — but the statement begs the question: what's technology? What's magic? A man using a lever to move something is said to be using a tool — technology. But a man who solves a problem in his head is doing what? Maybe technology and magic are facets of the same thing?
I'm standing in line at the frozen custard stand at the carnival when I become aware of someone standing "close" to me. Then the "someone" - who turns out to be a young girl - moved, just a little, so that now she's standing almost beside. Then I hear her say, "That ice cream sure looks good, doesn't it? Bet you'd like to buy me a cone, wouldn'tcha, Mister?"