Showing results for "Change" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

When a wounded warrior in a mirrored mask seeks the help of two best friends, elemental forces bond to them, granting immense power and a burden older than Time itself. Thrust across dimensions and into a cosmic conflict, Cooper and Reid must uncover the truth, unlock the secrets of their powers, and choose to accept the path that fate has chosen for them, or write their own futures.

Dr. Hammersmith is angry and Erin and Sean have to try and escape. Erin deal with the betrayal and torment Sean put her through? Kate thinks she sees Helen and is confused. She thought she'd killed her years ago. Now Kate knows she's innocent. Will Charlotte believe her? Will she be able to prove it?

Partying too much, picking fights with her Mom...Holly's senior year of high school has become a bit of a mess. She has no idea what she wants to do next year, and she's sick of the pressure to have a plan. When she's shipped off to spend some time in Chicago with her Aunt Miranda, she starts to feel more like herself. But, Holly's about to have bigger problems. The world is on the brink of a viral outbreak that will change the way humans live for years to come. It begins in all the major cities. People are changing into crazed animals, impervious to pain. Nobody knows why.

In the world of Kaslon, the people are able to transform into a chosen animal form, bestowed on them during their coming-of-age ceremony. The world is a peaceful one, and people live in harmony with the amazing animal life around them. For Siray, a young female about to go through the change, a unique sequence of events has her realizing just how much the world about you can alter overnight. Targeted for her special abilities, and forced to take sides in an emerging war, Siray finds new friends who fight to save her, while an unknown power desperately hunts her from the shadows.

Nearly a year has passed since Callie’s father lost his battle with alcoholism. If you ask her, everything is fine (thank you very much). She's almost done with her first year of college, and she’s nearly succeeded in locking away the painful memories of her father and their life together.

The cosmic choice approaches. As underground education networks thrive despite complete educational apartheid and international sanctuary systems successfully preserve American academic refugees, Cuchu Ramirez and Matias Kim journey back 500 years to witness the Threshold of Change—civilizations at their absolute peak, unaware that European contact will soon transform the world forever.

In this short story, which takes place directly before The Change: Life, you will meet Jacob and Mia, and get a tiny glimpse into how their very lives are tied into the fate of the world - to the Changed themselves - and to the enigmatic creature that appears out of nowhere to destroy all that it sees, both humans and Changed alike.

Turtle is scavenging a drowned town when she saves a stranger’s life. There’s something special about Kai—an attraction she’s never felt before. She would do anything to see him again. But Turtle can never truly be with Kai, because Kai is Normal, and Turtle is one of the Mer, kids whose genes were illegally hacked before birth and who now have working gills as well as lungs. Turtle lives on an old cruise ship with the other Mer in order to be close to the water she needs to survive.

Lacey is your average teenager. She goes to school, tries to maintain a "D" in chemistry, and spends Friday nights creeping on her crush on Facebook. She is ordinary except for one thing: She can change the future. After Lacey is introduced to the Fate-Changing Regime, her life turns upside down. A fanatical group opposing the FCR will stop at nothing to eliminate them.

America, 2055. Cass is equal parts excited and nervous to leave her Sapiens Movement enclave. Stepping away from her technologically conservative family for the first time, she sets off for college with dreams of saving humanity. But as the Sapiens girl falls for her cybernetically enhanced roommate, her deeply programmed beliefs begin to glitch.... Confused in a world that no longer makes sense, Cass barely registers the horrific accident that leaves her near death. When she wakes up, she discovers the same technology she's always hated is the only thing keeping her alive.

Change is coming, one scale at a time. Raiden’s eyes were opened to the horrors that lay beyond the Sixth Realm. Now he is pushing for change for all the realms, for both human and dragonkind alike. The support Raiden hopes for doesn’t come, but the weight of what is happening isn’t something he can let go. With Egan at his side, Raiden finds the strength he needs and leaves his home once again. Only this time he doesn’t know if the crown will still be waiting for him when he returns. Whatever the cost, he is willing to see it through.

When the line is drawn, what's important enough to risk everything? In this sequel to My Night Breeze, Audra and Mateo have been struggling to keep their friends safe, while continuing to uncover the mystery of her past. There is tension between the 'Elements,' and Audra finds herself the unwitting key to a hopefully peaceful resolution. She finally has more of a life than she ever envisioned; but the timing is all wrong. Will she be able to find out the truth of her connection in time, or will the enemy overtake them all?

Seleska and Nasataa are racing to find the keys that will unlock the Halroc, hidden in three different countries hundreds of miles apart. But with Atura and her disguised manticores searching, too, the race is getting hot. Can Seleska find the keys first?

Elara Flameborn has always kept to the quiet edges of the room, certain magic belonged to braver apprentices. But when a warm living fire awakens in her palms, everything she believes about herself begins to change.

When Sarana rides into a fantasy land on a silver-white horse, she just wants to get away, to run to some place safe. She has no idea what dangers she will face or that she will find the gift that changes everything. Will she be able to keep it?