Blue Shark Publishing: 34 books

MAGIC SAILS INTO HARMS WAY   Matthew Panagopoulos is a loner, a Greek-American, a long-suffering fan of the Cleveland Browns, and a lieutenant in the United States Navy.  He’s also one other thing.   A wizard.   The wizard thing...

They came to Europa to see if the icy moon harbored life—but found only death. It takes only moments for a catastrophic failure to send the lander smashing down into the little world's cold surface, scattering twisted fragments of steel across ten miles of blue ice. The crash leaves Mission...

It is a fact of history that when Neil Armstrong set Apollo 11 down on the moon he was running dangerously low on fuel. This Pushcart Prize-nominated story recounts an alternate history in which the lunar module crashed and man's journey to the moon ended not in triumph--but tragedy. A decade later,...

The Fates rule human destiny. The first spins the thread of life, the second measures it, and the third CUTS. Except Fred Stewart has an in with the Greek trio. A car accident gave him the ability to see parts of the future, an ability he's exploited to make himself rich. But now darkness is rushing...

Paul Merrick had always lived a charmed life--right up until the moment when the Gulfstream he was in went down over the Sahara. Now his life has been transformed into a horrific, lurching disaster in which his very survival is in doubt. Because in the terrible new world of After the Crash, it's not...

What happens to man's best friend after man is gone? That's the question three uplifted dogs have to answer after humanity is wiped out. In a story that is by turns funny and heartbreaking a marxist Irish setter named Red and a German shepherd named Buzz follow a mutt named Church as he braves the...

The second son of a minor barron, Robert Smallmeadow dreams of impossible glory, impossible because he lives in the shadow of his cruel older brother, Ethelred. And then Pope Urban II proclaims the Crusades. Robert’s dreams of glory may come true—if he can find a sword. And he does find...

The rules for slaves are simple--keep your head down and train hard. For it is only your training that can save you in the Coliseum. All this Thrace knows. But he forgets it in a moment when a young slave's cry of terror rouses him from his sleep. The boy, young Africanus, has found a body--and...

What’s an ancient god of death to do in the modern world? Anubis, Egyptian Guardian of the Veil, has a problem—two runaway children. HIS children. His search for his beloved twins has brought him grief and worry and a trip to Minneapolis. He’s meeting with an “artist” who churns out commemorative...

The smart beachgoing tourist packs plenty of sunscreen, uses a blanket to keep the sand out of his shorts, and always watches when the kids play in the ocean. But how many tourists know what to do when the rotting denizens of Hell come shambling out of the green Pacific? This is the problem for Lincoln...

The Nine-Eleven planners were inventive—and ruthless. But the world’s lone superpower has learned al-Qaeda’s tricks and hit back hard. The terrorists are on the run. Until they up their game. The Sheikh is a new breed of terrorist, infinitely more dangerous than his predecessors...

Any spec ops mission is bound to be a dangerous and nasty affair—but this one is RIDICULOUS. Not only does the President of the United States send Commander Achilles Black’s ghost team to a dying world, but he forces Black to take along a senior political advisor. But that’s only the beginning...

When dealing with a new alien species, even a small misunderstanding can be lethal. First contact specialist Father John Cardinale thinks he understands the question posed to him by Bakra-Third-Singer of Tales--but he's wrong. By the time he REALLY understands, it's much, much too late. This compelling...

In the year 2083, the United States of America is a very different place. FBI agent Jason Xia (pronounced "Shaw") is sent to investigate a terrorist threat. What he finds instead is the most famous missing person in American history, Callie Cook, a beautiful, young senator whose unexplained...