Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she's a bounty hunter in a virtual reality gaming world. Kids in the MEEP, as they call it, play entirely with their minds, while their bodies languish in a sleeplike state on the couch. Irritated parents, looking to wrench their kids back to reality, hire Nixy to jump into the game and retrieve them. But when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own...

"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...

It is a perilous profession, similar to the work of a bounty hunter, pursuing often times desperate and dangerous individuals for pay. But with one major difference: Chance Gambel brings in his quarry alive, not draped over a saddle. He is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify in trials throughout the frontier territories of the American Southwest, circa 1885. Rarely aware of the consequences of his assignments, Chance...

"The universe is on the brink of war and the young android TIM-21 has somehow found himself at the center of it all. As his allies and enemies gather above the ocean planet, Mata, nothing can prepare TIM for the secrets that lie hidden below the alien seas."--Page 4 of cover.

"All the various factions that have been hunting TIM-21 finally converge around the ocean planet Mata, just as the robots launch their galaxy-wide revolution. But nothing can prepare the young android Tim--or the readers--for what happens next. This climactic chapter ... brings the Descender saga to a close and sets the stage for the next mind-bending adventure."--Page 4 of cover.

"Johnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here. Life is hard on the American frontier. Justice is even harder. But when it comes to revenge, no man can escape the righteous wrath of a wronged bounty hunter. Especially when his name is Flintlock . . . Flintlock takes no pleasure in killing. But when his pal O'Hara gets bullwhipped by a trio of lowdown prairie rats, Flintlock finds sanctuary for his wounded friend at the cabin of a kindly miner and...

Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself. With a green...

Every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack rolls over a rock, a Black Valley Rider jumps out. Bred by the law of frontier survival, Sam knows when he's outnumbered. So when he meets two U.S. Marines turned bounty hunters who are trailing the same outlaws he is, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken gambler knows where the gang is holed up. Now an unlikely posse of strangers must brave banditos, Apaches, and rattlesnakes, bound for Black...

A tracker by profession, werewolf Caleb Graham must choose between his job and his heart after coming to the rescue of his pack's new doctor Anna Moder when her past collides with his current assignment.

"X is determined to break the lords' hold on him once and for all, but being stripped of his power pushes him toward a darkness he's never experienced and a past he's never known. The secrets that surface could be the key to reuniting X and Zoe ... or they could mean the destruction of everything they have been fighting for"--