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For fans of Firefly's found family and The Expanse's factions in conflict, KIN SHIP: String of Stars is a character-driven, hopeful space opera about the crew whom a powerful, ancient ship chose to call kin.
Salvage ship Captain Oren Jandt spent eleven months alone in the dark between the stars, collecting ancient artifacts in a losing race against grief. He finally decides to put a crew together aboard the Lucky Seven and chase a very promising salvage lead. Then he and his newly recruited crew of outcasts make a life-changing discovery. Sleeping inside an asteroid in pirate-infested border space is a 1.37-kilometer Progenitor ship, ancient beyond reckoning, stirring back to life. She scans the crew to their very bones. And, as a pirate ship closes to attack Lucky Seven, she sends them a single word. Kin? Jandt answers "Kin," and the giant ship destroys the pirate vessel in an instant. Now every faction in the known galaxy wants Zoh — the authoritarian Corp, the reptilian Tingur, the caniform Xicans. And one of them is willing to kill to get control of Zoh. And aboard the Lucky Seven a grief-stricken captain, a sensor officer who can detect every lie, a wisecracking pilot who cares deeply about his shipmates, a security officer with NEVER RELENT tattooed on her knuckles, and a robot physician who is about to discover what it means to become truly sentient — must survive long enough to find out why the ancient ship woke up. And what she needs from them. Because Zoh has been lonely for a very long time. And she did not choose them by accident. In the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold and Becky Chambers — a found family space opera with real stakes and no grimdark. Book One of the four-book KIN SHIP series. -
Alex is a vigilante vampire hunting Titus, a rogue vampire committing mass killings in Houston. Emelia is a human paranormal investigator with the tools to track him. Can they stop the killer when they too are the hunted?
STOKER RULES is a supernatural thriller from the mind of Dan Perez. The name of the novel comes from the revisionist vampire mythology. Thes vampires don’t follow Bram Stoker’s rules and tropes for vampires. Crosses, garlic, stakes, holy water, and sunlight: do they affect these vampires? Nope. Do they still need blood? You bet they do. Set in the glass-and-steel urban landscape of Houston, STOKER RULES creates an all-new vampire world, where vampires exist under the radar, mostly hidden from the day-to-day lives of the city’s residents because of their unique abilities. A powerful ancient Roman vampire named Titus threatens to blow their cover and reveal their most jealously guarded secret in the process. Can the vampire-human duo track him down and stop him? Is it even possible? Find out in this fast-paced thriller that combines elements of paranormal mystery, romance and adventure. Never forget: these vampires don’t follow the rules! [video width="640" height="360" mp4="https://dans-books.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/REVISED-VERSION-2.mp4"][/video] -
In the sleepy town of Port Covenant on the Texas Gulf Coast, a sinister eldritch conspiracy threatens the children who live there. Who is behind it? The Tide Pool is a Lovecraftian coming-of-age Young Adult novel. In the sleepy town of Port Covenant on the Texas Gulf Coast, no one ever gets bitten by mosquitoes. There hasn’t been a hurricane since the Calamity of ’62. The waters are peaceful. Fishing, crabbing and shrimping catches are abundant. Ellie Morgan, a bold, skeptical 16-year-old, becomes curious about these unusual boons. She wonders about the perfectly circular tide pool in a rocky outcrop on the beach. At nightfall a whirlpool forms there, accompanied by colored mist and strange sounds. Her mother, a practical nurse, dismisses these anomalies and heads off to evening services at Our Lady of the Tides Church. And then one day Ellie notices a small patch of bluish scales growing on her arm. Can Ellie and her friends (who also discover scaly patches on their skin) uncover what’s going on in the town? And what do they risk by trying to investigate?