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History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed by the Black Death. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? Robinson rewrites history and probes the most profound questions as only he can.

Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters.

New York City, 1978. Joey Peacock has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, feeding by night and sleeping by day in the macabre labyrinth beneath the city. But when they appear, whatever they are, the undead of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were, nor are the rest of us.

Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed, and later, an old story about eight children transformed into flowers. Only the person who finds their teacups can bring them back. Now the two sisters know what they must do.

Heiress to Seattle's most powerful shifter clan, Alice Corbette's destiny is set. But from the moment she encounters Brand, she will break every rule to make this dragon-shifter hers--plunging them into the middle of a ruthless power play.

For nurse Kayla Friday, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and frightening memories. Now the only clue to her sister's murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies--and puts Kayla in the sights of lethally sexy werewolf-mercenary Hart.

Twenty years ago, a barmaid fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery, one that has just fallen into the lap of freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse.

In 1978, Merle is in her first year at Corcoran School of Art. In 1870, teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of finding his voice. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries of time--allowing these two troubled artists to enter each other's worlds.

Freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse becomes the prime murder suspect when one of the queen's personal guards is poisoned. Trying to clear his name, Eddie becomes embroiled in a nasty scandal. The more he digs, the more twisted the lies become.

Temple can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember the tragedy that sent her on her personal journey toward redemption. Wandering the blighted land, she must decide where to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.