Mary E. Pearson

A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations. A son destined to lead, thrust suddenly into power. Three fierce young women of the Rahtan, the queen's premier guard. A legendary street thief leading a mission, determined to prove herself. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. When outlaw leader meets reformed thief, a cat-and-mouse game of false moves...

With war on the horizon, Princess Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, and finds herself at cross-purposes with her love, Rafe, and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down.

Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and...in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it. Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own? A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered...

A new, original science fiction story by Mary E. Pearson, which features characters from and takes place in the near-future world of The Jenna Fox Chronicles. In "The Rotten Beast," a sixteen-year-old girl named Allys, living in a near future version of the U.S., is vehemently opposed to the way scientists are meddling with human and artificial life. In fact, she blames such scientific overreaching for the illness, which is killing her. When she...

When a boy goes to the library, he realizes he can pretend to be and to do anything by reading books.

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other-Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries. Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last....

Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network. Locke must infiltrate the home of a government official by gaining the trust of his daughter, seventeen-year-old Raine, and he soon finds himself pulled deep...

Kazi ist auf den Straßen Vendas großgeworden und schlägt sich als Taschendiebin durch. Doch als eines Tages Königin Lia persönlich auf sie aufmerksam wird, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig. Von nun an ist Kazi eine Rahtan und gehört der königlichen Leibgarde an. Sie erhält den Auftrag, die Verräter ausfindig zu machen, die für den Großen Krieg verantwortlich sind. Vermutlich haben sie bei einem feindlichen Rebellenvolk an der Landesgrenze...