Darby Harn

Superheroes are big business. Imagine not being able to afford them.Kit Baldwin scavenges the ruins of her city for alien artifacts just to make rent. Across the river, the superhuman live in towers built on fees collected from doing what was once considered an obligation. When Kit discovers a powerful alien artifact, it pays off more than she ever could have hoped.The artifact draws the attention of Valene Blackwood, the most powerful of the superhuman Empowered. Kit's ambition to turn the object into a quick sale quickly morphs into harnessing its cosmic powers to mitigating Valene's suffering. Valene hears everything, everywhere, all the time.If Kit can't unlock the power of the artifact, Valene will be forced to retreat to the soundlessness of space. Without Valene's compassion, the stricken city is left to the mercy of Valene's ruthless father, who denies the assistance the city needs unless it can pay for it.As Valene's condition worsens, Kit becomes more and more desperate. She unleashes the full power of the alien artifact, transforming her forever, and the battle over what is owed, and to who.

Eververse Book 1

Ever the Hero

All her life, Abi has run. Now she's run out of reality.After betraying her girlfriend, Kit, Abi takes advantage of the confused nature of Break Pointe to run to a different reality. Abi tries to start over with a different Kit. When that reality begins to disintegrate, Abi discovers a shocking secret.Every dimension and reality in existence is being destroyed one by one by an unknown force. Abi runs again, barely escaping, and is trapped in another strange reality with no way home. There, she meets Miranda, a young woman who struggles to accept her own dark past. Slowly, Abi begins to confront not just the reality she's in but the truth of who she is.She struggles to find a way to get back to her original universe and warn people of the coming disaster. But she doesn't know if they will trust her, or if anything can be done to stop the end of the universe.

Eververse Book 3

Nothing Ever Ends

A rogue black hole tears apart the solar system. Mairead's life is already in pieces.The Earth has less than a year to survive. Asteroids rain hell; earthquakes rattle cities; manic tides swamp coasts. Mairead intends to give herself to the erratic waves that erode her remote Irish island, the same that claimed her child. When Gavin, an American, arrives to scatter his father's ashes, she becomes torn between wanting for life and death. Despite the tides, fuel shortages, and closing borders that threaten to trap him on the island, Gavin can't seem to scatter the ashes. He doesn't know how to let go any more than Mairead does and they find a strange comfort in their confusion.Their affair draws Mairead back to the world of the living, but the longer Gavin stays, the more it seems there might be a future for them. There is no future. Life closes down around them. The world they know shreds. Life drains into an inescapable abyss. And yet Mairead fights, both the gravity of her grief and the restless, dissonant desire to find some kind of peace no matter how brief.

A Country Of Eternal Light

Astra Idari lives a simple life as a Stargun Messenger. She hunts down thieves who steal filamentium, the fuel that allows for faster-than-light travel, collects payment, and drinks away her troubles. When she meets Gen Emera, Idari meets the girl of her dreams and the last living star. There's just one problem. Filamnentium is only found in the blood of living stars.Emera solves a lot of problems for Idari. Her unconditional love bolsters Idari, who knows she's human despite outwardly appearing to be an android with a failing memory stitched together by her ship's irascible AI, CR-UX. Emera also creates serious problems. Either Idari turns Emera over to the Scath, the mysterious empire who controls the filamentium monopoly, and goes on living her life, or she risks everything to help Emera search for The Glass Star. If they find it, Emera can replenish her waning energy in the long-lost star's hidden reservoirs of filamentium and restore her people's light. It's not losing her life that terrifies Idari, though.It's finally living.She's been just getting by for longer than she remembers, assured in her humanity, but not enough to risk it. Idari fears being exposed, but Emera sees her as she is. Emera illuminates Idari's spirit and her confidence, and together they try to outrun the shadows that threaten to overtake what little light remains in the galaxy.

Stargun Messenger

Wealth. Privilege. Superpowers. Valene has it all? including a target on her back.For the first time in her life, Valene Blackwood has peace. She's been aboard her own private space station for a year, removed from the sonic duress of the world that she suffers due to her superhuman ability to hear everything, everywhere. When her father dies, she must return and take over the family business - selling superhuman protection for profit.With her father gone, challengers emerge for control of Great Power. Valene is young, unproven, and wanting only to go back to her sanctuary in the sky. She struggles to stay focused, knowing the future of the company is at stake. The future of the Empowered. Before she has a chance to get her feet on the ground, someone tries to kill her.Advanced technology nearly rips Valene right out of her own skin. Technology only one person in the world could have invented: the woman she left behind by going up to the space station. Kit Baldwin. But Kit is a hero. Is someone setting her up? Is someone trying to ruin them both?Valene sets out to find the truth, and for the first time in her life, she has to listen. She has to stay in the world. She has to be the hero she never wanted to be.If she can survive.

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