K. B. Spangler

Five years ago, U.S. Army Warrant Officer Rachel Peng joined the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies, a top-secret federal agency which blended cutting-edge cybernetics with communication and information technologies. Today, OACET has gone public, its Agents revealing themselves to the world as cyborgs capable of talking to, and taking control of, any networked machine. Rachel's new job as the OACET liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police is not what she would call fun. She and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, are usually bored senseless or are fighting with their coworkers. Neither of them are prepared when a routine act of harassment plunges them into a murder investigation. And they certainly didn't expect for the evidence to point directly at Rachel and the other cyborgs. The murder is only the beginning. Soon, Rachel and Santino find themselves deep in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer and his hidden agenda. The killer has planned for every contingency, every possible outcome... except one. Rachel herself.

Digital Divide

Three thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly put to service teleporting people and cargo across great distances, which allowed mass colonization throughout the galaxy. It has also allowed Lancaster, the organization which controls access to the Deep, to grow wealthy and powerful. Cross Lancaster, and you are forced to travel between planets using standard faster-than-light technologies. Nobody wants that!Tembi Stoneskin is having a very bad day. A Witch in service to the Deep, she spends her days disarming bombs in shipping stations. On her way home to Lancaster, the Deep shows her the aftermath of a weapons test powerful enough to slice a moon in half. While the Deep is a vast intelligence, it is a terrible communicator, and relies on its Witches to translate humanity's requirements into thoughts, moods, and impulses that it can understand. Tembi is a young Witch, but she is a skilled translator and she has learned to listen to her powerful alien friend.As they set off to find the source of the weapons test, Tembi and the Deep are pulled into the ongoing war between Earth-normal humans and genetically modified humans. But all wars are founded on excuses, and the Blackwing army has much more to hide than a simple shattered moon.

The Blackwing War

Conspiracies, political cover-ups, acts of terrorism... As one of the first cyborgs employed by the federal government, Rachel Peng though she had already lived through it all. Then, without warning, fourteen blocks of downtown Washington D.C. are gone, blown apart by bombs unlike anything Rachel has ever seen. The evidence is even more troubling, with each new clue suggesting their own people might be behind the attack. Rachel and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, might not believe that the Department of Homeland Security is responsible, but the rest of the country does. As tensions mount and the city begins to burn, Rachel learns that none of her usual investigatory techniques apply--for the first time in her long career as a cop, finding the bad guys might not be as important as learning why they wanted the public to rise up against their own government. But even if Rachel and Santino can discover the killer's motive, it might be too late to stop what he's put into motion.

Maker Space

Three thousand years from now, galactic transportation relies on the sentient energy field known as the Deep. Its immortal human emissaries call themselves Witches, and they control how the Deep is used. When eight-year-old Tembi Moon wakes on an unfamiliar world, she knows the Deep has to be involved, but to leave her home planet and become a Witch herself? No, that life isn't for her. Or so she thought. At sixteen, Tembi takes her rightful place with the other Witches. They believe the Deep is a tool; Tembi knows it's a person with its own hopes and dreams, and a wicked sense of humor! With a war coming that could cost the lives of millions, Tembi has to find a way to convince the Witches that the Deep wants them to join the fight. Because something worse than war is coming, and the Deep needs its Witches to be ready.

Prequel to the Deep Witches Trilogy

Stoneskin

Hope Blackwell, the world's second-worst psychic, is tired of dealing with both the living and the dead. Between wrangling the ghosts of the Founding Fathers, medical school, and dodging the paparazzi, she's got her own problems (and that last attempt on her life left her more shaken than she'll admit!). So she packs up her friends and heads to Las Vegas for some high-octane escapism. Their vacation is cut short when paranormal investigators show up with a story about ghost ships in the nearby Sonoran Desert. A desert is a strange place to search for pirates, but Hope knows all too well that the dead are everywhere. She tags along to make sure nobody will run into trouble if they find a homicidal ghost or two. Hope wasn't expecting the long-dead Spanish nun, or her pack of vengeful chupacabras. And they are just the beginning-this desert is full of ancient secrets, and psychics must beware.

Spanish Mission

A Josh Glassman Book

Russians Came Knocking

All Hope Blackwell wanted out of her spring break was a quiet Mediterranean vacation. Sun, sand, local cuisine... and tracking down Archimedes' ghost to learn if he's been tampering with the fabric of reality. But when you're a psychic whose specialty is communicating with the dead, a trip to Greece means you'll come face-to-face with legendary heroes. And monsters. As Hope and her friends explore the lost ruins of an ancient civilization, she soon learns she has attracted the attention of one of the most famous women in history. Helen of Troy is nothing like her stories, and she's got a problem she thinks Hope can solve. Hope isn't too sure about that-if righting a 2,500-year-old wrong was that easy, wouldn't Helen have found the time to do it herself?

Greek Key

Brute Force

Nearly a year has passed since the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies went public. Agent Rachel Peng has adapted to her new life as the cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but for Peng and her team, murder is usually just the beginning. This time, the body is found in the unlikeliest of places, and the race to recover a stolen piece of antiquity will put Rachel and her team against one of the country's most powerful political figures.

State Machine

When a girl learns she's on a government watchlist, she and her best friend, the ghost of Benjamin Franklin, confront the federal agent assigned to her case. The three soon find themselves investigating the murder of a senator's aide and the suspicious deaths of almost a hundred of the Fed's fellow agents, cyborgs who are part of the mysterious Pocket President Program.

K. B. Spangler

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