Just Don't Open the Door

By MARK PELLEGRINI

Sean lives next to a weird house with bricked-up windows and an overgrown yard... One day, he sees the strange man living next door leaving in a panicked hurry, offering one brusque warning

The Greenery Has Come Again

By PAUL LUCAS

James's childhood home is no longer his own, and returning proves an uncanny experience as the mystery surrounding the giant tree his mother named Yggdrasil blooms like the greenwood itself

Mission 21

By SCHUYLER HERNSTROM

Codename Joker: he's the best at what he does-wet works ops against the reptilian aliens that eat human flesh Can he keep his perfect record when a bystander gets caught in the crossfire?

Sail Safe

By VONNIE WINSLOW CRIST

At Port Crystal, the facility director's daughter is...not her daughter Can Radko Urban get Sally Brogan, who was kidnapped as an embryo, off the station before they're both made?

Shakespeare Among the Stars

By JILL HAND

Lured onto a space cruise by romantic letters from a handsome holo actor that turned out to be part of a marketing campaign, Kivrin has run out of money and is stuck working the waste tanks

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

By TONY BEAULIEU

A young girl's parents die mysteriously while investigating a strange book: The All Story When Paige Hamil finds her parents' notes and The All Story, Valvidian Corp agents aren't far behind

Shallow Ripples

By LAUREN E REYNOLDS

Polluted yet picturesque, the streams and creeks near Andy and Joey's small town attract their fair share of partying teens despite the disturbing rumors and legends-and deaths

Scent of the Yaka Aka Yo

By J. MANFRED WEICHSEL Three castaways find themselves on a mysterious

island inhabited almost entirely by women... and their strange king who condemns the men to death by the sinister Yaka Aka Yo

The Fourth Gift

By DAVID SKINNER

Baltasar, one of Ulrik's many Menders, diligently performs his task of recreating the Solar System-until a mysterious anomaly forming around the Moon threatens the outcome of the Plan

The Sarcomancer

By DONALD JACOB UITVLUGT

Zain, priest of the old gods, continues his trek across Leng in search of his brother and comes across a destitute village that has been deprived of its young by a mad flesh-crafting sorcerer

The Last Day in Iram

By JAMES HUTCHINGS

You have had a vision that the city of Iram is doomed The paranoid sultan is privy to the same portents, but refuses to allow any to leave the city-will you escape before the end comes?