The Hive: 10 books

Strake-on-Sea’s arcade has been dark for almost a year. But no more: at long last its doors are welcoming once again. And though it’s off-season—it’s only March, after all, and summer won’t be here for another few months—the reopening is cause for excitement among a handful of Strake-on-Sea’s...

A brand new standalone story set in the Ruby Celeste universe!  Seven years, Mona Holmes spent working as a hit person. Seven years of blood; bullets. Bodies.  All that ended when her sister Callie came along. Mona got out; settled down; found a girlfriend, and a life. A...

Philip is a twenty-something aspiring writer. He’s also a space tourist, taking a trip to set foot on the moon.  In the final hours of approach, Philip meets Tom: a fellow traveller in his mid-sixties. As their module crosses the last stretch of silky space, they exchange stories: of life,...

A chance encounter puts Ruby Celeste and her crew on the path to the city of New Calais. It is home to the Church of Ife, a tight-knit but simple community who believe themselves descendants of the first woman to have made the trip from surface to sky island. They promote peace and love. They...

Tired, strung out, and overworked Samantha Brown’s week goes from bad to worse when a collision with a stranger sends her folder of graphic design work flying—right into a well-placed puddle. At least she has the weekend to fix the damage. But the weekend is rarely peaceful. Samantha...

Captained by Morris Flute, the two-man trade ship Exceptional Luck has lived up to its name—at least until coming under attack in a sprawling floating rainforest. In his last moments, Flute desperately fights to drop a beacon—and then something streaks from the abyss and his world turns black....

Prepare to enter a dangerous place—the world of sky pirates! After arriving at The Pharmacologist’s Eden, a grand floating port run by the cut-throat Rhod Stein, Ruby Celeste discovers the deckhand she arranged to purchase has been sold out from under her and replaced with a man kidnapped from...

A face without a face - an unmasking that leaves the mask. Once every few hundred years, the sun god, the Akhen takes on human form and descends to earth. Each Unmasking of the Face of the Akhen ends one era and begins another; the last one created the Faustian Empire. Where and when will the...

Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world’s population. The survivors all had something different about their minds. Now, at the start of adolescence, their children enter a trance-like state known as the Changeland and emerge either with special mental...

A collection of the first three books in the Ruby Celeste series: a fantasy series with loose steampunk inspiration, following the crew of an airship and their captain, the quick, smart, sometimes explosive Ruby Celeste. Included are the following titles, accompanied by blurbs: RUBY...