Eagle (Jacob Hull) (32 page)

New Carson Series

The Social Contract

Richard Locke has never known a world without order. Disease is a myth; the introduction of symbiotic
nanobot life assistance has eliminated such things, rendering medicine obsolete. Civil unrest and war are also extinct, as all of society lives under the watchful eyes of Public Security and the Commission of Oversight. Aside from the fact that his nanobots will run out of juice when he turns sixty, Locke has little to worry about.

But all is not as it seems. As Richard Locke discovers, there are secrets hidden at the core of this new society—deceptions which, if uncovered, could bring civilization as he knows it to its knees. Those who would keep those secrets soon turn their attention to him, with lethal intent. While conspiracies scheme and chaos engulfs the city, Locke must race to find the answers he needs, as the lives of his friends and family hang in the balance.

Steelknife Series

Glasswitch

When he retires from the front lines in disgrace, Brellan expects to find many things: boredom, isolation, and perhaps the chance for a fresh beginning in a new home. Any of those things sounds better than a life of war against an army of monsters, led by witches who can use a simple mirror to warp a man’s soul.

What he finds, however, is that his new home is nowhere near as peaceful—or isolated—as it first seemed. The evil behind the war has made its way to Stonehollow, and Brellan is the only one capable of stopping it. Yet as he again faces the terrible creatures he has fought all his life, Brellan must confront the most terrible, inhuman monster of all, the one he left the wa
r to avoid…himself.