Elisabeth Flaum: 7 books

Ida Geraud has powerful enemies. She expects trouble to find her; even at the edge of the galaxy, on the backward desert world of Tafari. However, she doesn't expect it to come looking for the deceptively youthful, bookish man beside her on the bus.She really doesn't expect to find herself in the middle of it anyway.

Jon Winters is an ordinary guy, with a pretty good life. One day he wakes up and it's all gone. Maybe this is the afterlife; maybe it's a dream; or maybe he's just gone crazy. All Jon knows is that he wants to go home.But getting there will demand more from him than anything he's ever done: courage, teamwork, and even love.

David remembers the stories from his childhood, stories of a magical world and a gateway it is his family's duty to guard. As an adult he no longer believes them - until his older sister wakes him in the middle of a frosty night to save the real world from destruction.

Dell Roja, one more underemployed brown man living in the wilds of Los Angeles, wakes up one morning to find everything he knew suddenly ripped away. The world around him, alike in many ways, is yet starkly different from his own, and there's something distinctly strange about the pallid young man who comes to his rescue.

Heading home from the assignment she thought would never end, explorer Marta Anders shares a ride with a handsome young pilot, and a mystery that will change everything she thought she knew.

Their colony destroyed, Alia Grant and her unusual friend set out to find the culprits - and to learn how to live with the consequences.

A mysterious stranger rescues a young woman from a violent attack. But he's a mystery even to himself, with no memory of who he is or how he ended up in that dark alley. Nevertheless, she finds herself drawn to him, unaware that solving his mystery will force her to come to terms with her own past - a past she would much rather forget.