Ratatoskr Press: 49 books

When Pa left Pete in charge of his sisters on the farm overnight he stated only one rule: no talking to the Greens. No need to spell that out, Pete thinks. Every child knows never to speak to the Greens. An easy rule to follow. The Greens keep to themselves. Then a Green turns up in...

After spending the last four days of her life hiding out from a deadly solar particle storm in an underground bunker, trapped with six treacherous women and a trio of girl assassins, Scout Shannon just wants to find the man who conned her mentor and leave her home world for good. Alas, the...

When a cosmic monstrosity swallowed the Earth, the survivors fled to hide among the stars. The scars on Kara's mind linger from infancy to adolescence. The monster follows them wherever they go. Kara knows this whatever the others say. Then Kara and her family crash land near an empty mining...

When a sentient species emerges from the ocean of a world its colonizers thought was uninhabited, the diplomatic wing of the League of Worlds sends three ambassadors to negotiate the terms for the colony to remain. Two boast decades of experience in negotiating with other species on behalf of the...

Ethan and his family live on the outskirts of town, between civilization and the total lack of it. Ma always keeps the shotgun handy. Ethan's brother announces a nighttime visitor as "a dead man coming up the road". The man surely looks halfway to death, but Ethan fears his brother,...

This box set collects Against Impassable Barriers, Over Freezing Altitudes and At Galactic Central, the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the Travels of Scout Shannon series. Stranded on the far side of the moon with her friends, Scout Shannon waits for rescue from galactic central. Hunted by...

Humans live throughout the solar system but the factories on Earth stopped producing. No new ships, no new stations. Find an old ship to salvage? Someone died there. Maybe many someones. April knows this better than anyone. She cleanses haunted spaces, removes ghosts left behind by hull breaches,...

The goddess Ninedinni loses an epic battle with her consort/son and falls to the sea. She washes ashore and a laconic fisherman's widow rescues her. Ninedinni feels the life already growing inside her. The cycle repeats: birth, childhood, adulthood then battle. For so many lifetimes Ninedinni...

Humankind has reached the end of its adolescence. The time has come to leave our solar system nest and see what the rest of the galaxy has to offer. Marie Marguerite has also reached the end of her adolescence, and she is ready for the great adventure of life on a generation ship heading to...

One day a sphinx came to the city at the center of the world, ate half of the guests at the prince's wedding, and settled to roost atop the palace. The cost to free the city of this beast? A single tear from her eye. The cost of failure? She eats you. Sacmis watches as her mother dances...

Scout Shannon wants nothing more than to leave her home world and its petty squabbling factions behind. Galactic central with all of its excitement and opportunities awaits her. She makes it as far as her own planet's orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on...

When a demon takes up residence in the princess's chambers, the onmyoji of Heian-Kyo find themselves fatally outmatched. They send for a famed onmyoji from a distant prefecture but his widow Chiaki arrives in his place. How can this old woman succeed where master onmyoji failed? The...

Puabi stole secret knowledge. Her punishment? Banishment from the city. She walked out. Then she slipped on an ensorcelled jewel that hid her from sight and walked back in again. The rest of the knowledge still called to her, begging to be learned and mastered. Puabi hides in the houses...

Sequestered behind screens, shielded from the world, Shiori hates the life of a noblewoman in Heian-Kyo. She endlessly paints the mountain home she misses. She longs to convey all, the sights and sounds and even the smells. Then she finds a most evocative technique, one that costs her...