Jory always felt something for Nug and Groth. When he didn’t flicker on either one he knew he needed the comfort that only his parents could provide. Jory made it to his family only to discover that another coup was about to take place. Groth and Nug knew Jory was theirs even without a flicker. Finding out their man was under threat. No way. Who knew it would bring them face to face with the Gods.

The cyborg cowboys of Carbon County thought they'd finally won the day…The Theta shroud designation was always meant to be an outsider—a spy and saboteur lurking on the fringes of the elite cyborg soldiers. So even as he built a personality out of the dust of Diamond Valley, Montana, Troy Lehigh stayed apart from his brothers while they lived and loved. A Theta could never hope for such a bond.His only desire, from the first moment he stole his consciousness from the soulless programming that controlled him, was to destroy the consortium that doomed him to solitude. He would've done it too, except his brothers chose love over war and trapped him in their midst.But then, a hundred and fifty years ago, he met a sassy soiled dove in a Montana saloon…Nell Dearly had wandered too far from home and was struggling to survive. But the long-lost farm girl has no idea just how far out she'll go…The cyborg cowboys of Carbon...

The Intergalactic Dating Agency promised him a bride from this small, blue planet… With her allergy to water -- water, that keeps everything on Earth alive -- getting worse every day, reclusive billionaire heiress Marisol Wavercrest assumes she is going to die. So when she's offered one chance to survive, she has to take it. Except that chance will take her to another world that's nearly 100% covered by water in the company of an alien merman...who claims she is his fated mate. As commander of the western fleet on Tritona, Coriolis Kelyre fought long and hard against the cruel land-dwellers who poisoned the seas. When he's given one last task after the war -- to take an alien bride to help save his world -- he'll do what he's told, just as he's always done, even if the bride he's sent to retrieve makes him question everything he's sacrificed. Their predestined union is supposed to save a fragile planet, but a perfect storm is brewing between the enemies seeking to tear them apart and the tidal wave of their rising desire. Intergalactic Dating Agency Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides Mermaids of Montana

The Intergalactic Dating Agency promised him a bride from this small, blue planet…With her allergy to water — water, that keeps everything on Earth alive — getting worse every day, reclusive billionaire heiress Marisol Wavercrest assumes she is going to die. So when she's offered one chance to survive, she has to take it. Except that chance will take her to another world that's nearly 100% covered by water in the company of an alien merman...who claims she is his fated mate.As commander of the western fleet on Tritona, Coriolis Kelyre fought long and hard against the cruel land-dwellers who poisoned the seas. When he's given one last task after the war — to take an alien bride to help save his world — he'll do what he's told, just as he's always done, even if the bride he's sent to retrieve makes him question everything he's sacrificed.Their predestined union is supposed to save a fragile planet, but a perfect storm is brewing between the...

Book 1, Season 1 - 2nd EDITION (June 2016) - A fantastic tale of love, war, friendship and dragons! Follow the journey of Johnson Farthing as he races across an ocean carried by a beautiful sea dragon to rescue his sister from slavers. But this is just the beginning, and his world and that of his friends is about to change forever.If Johnson Farthing thought that life as poor cart pusher in the coastal town of Wead-Wodder was going to be his lot in life, then he was about to get a rude surprise, and not necessarily a good one.Once it becomes clear that his beautiful younger sister has been kidnapped along with the daughter of the Prelate, his life is completely turned on its head. Farthing has to rush across a vast ocean and a huge continent carried by an incredible Sea Dragon and accompanied by a strange magician if he has even a chance to save his sister Rustina.And very strangely, neither the rich Prelate nor his chief of police seem keen to even lift a finger.Dirt, the first book in a huge, continent spanning saga where dragons are an intelligent, cultured people, magicians cannot destroy mountains with a magic wand and the heroes have no wish to become tyrannical kings and queens.vBut through all the dramatic events, the battles of life and death, Dirt is a place of humour, love and ultimately, the quest to find a home."I told Truk you would be slacking off the minute he turned his back," shouted the old fool, Barkles, who sold greasy vegetable pasties from a dusty stall on the corner. "Young people can't be trusted, I told him. I was right too.""Shut your face, Barkles," Johnson shouted back as he grabbed his coat from his hand cart and put it around his shoulders to ward off a faint chill in the sea breeze. "I have been down that hole every day non-stop for nine days, and you know it too, since you have been feeding me your disgusting pies for most of them.""Pastries, slacker. Not Pies; Pastries.""I thought pastries were just posh pies?""Can be.""Well, yours ain't posh. So they are definitely just pies.""Ain't seen you complaining!"Find out more at www.AWorldCalleDdirt.comThe Dirt Webiste brings you even more information about this incredible world:Full Details of all the booksCharacter DescriptionsArticles on the geography, history and culturePronunciation GuideMaps of the worldThe articles are written in-character and any information that might spoil your enjoyment of books you have yet to read are protected with spoiler alertsPlus, on some articles, C.C. Hogan has added his own sidebar notes about why he has made certain choicesThe Abbey will be continuously updated so check back often!The Dirt SagaSeries OneDirtBloody DirtThe Fight for DirtHope, the sequel to series one(Includes the story Mistry, a prequel to Series Two)Yona - Standalone Short StorySeries Two - Coming winter 2015/16Girls of DirtDragons of DirtPeople of DirtSeries ThreeTBALook out for updates to the Dirt Saga

She's never been on her own. Her whole life, Callie was pampered, protected—and imprisoned. Then she lost it all. How can she survive on her own in such a dangerous universe? She needs someone to save her. Luckily, she knows just the one she wants—if she can figure out how to catch him. He never wanted to be a bodyguard. Born to serve in a beast battalion, for Zenith, getting banished was an unexpected dream come true. Now he's free to fly the wilds of Montana, Earth, answering to no one in the universe—if he can avoid a certain needy female with a knack for rubbing him the wrong way...and the right one. The new Big Sky Intergalactic Dating Agency is ready to launch! But not everyone believes in the promise of matchmating true love, and Zenith and Callie have only one chance to decide if her fear and his freedom matter more than a forever together.

A young slave girl flees from the Lord who owns her, choosing to die in the mountains rather than become one of his 'pretties'. When that death seems all too likely, she is found by one of the Dragon Kindred and Tika's life takes a twist she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams - or her worst nightmares.There’s really no way to prepare…for something…like this…Step into the shrouded realm of mysteries – a place where ordinary people have extraordinary abilities, where dark shadows hide unspeakable evil and pure light veils unbelievable power…Tray and Ember Pateman are gypsies, living on their own, hiding in plain sight. They appear to be average high school siblings, but appearances can be deceiving. Gifted with supernatural abilities, they must learn to wield their epic powers before the approaching evil arrives.Join them as they face off against the wicked shadows. Unearth a clandestine culture. Discover the shrouded unknown. Begin to unravel the mysteries in Ember Rising Light, book one in the epic fantasy six novel It Begins...the Series.Will you dare…to brave…the dark?

The rebellious miners of Ydro-Down have won a fortune in the rare crystalline mineral that empowers intergalactic passage, but other players on the Rim won't take the loss without a fight. Arjay—incarcerated as Miner 870—has pledged his considerable hacking prowess (and a few other illicit skills) to saving Ydro-Down from those who would subjugate its people again. But there was a time he championed the rule of law, and when he accidentally uncovers a legal loophole that might legitimize the miners' claim, he dares to hope maybe he can reclaim the charmed life he lost.What he found was a half-feral girl.Tick's mothers buried her in the heart of Ydro-Down to protect her when their colony was attacked for the valuable qubition found there. Imprisoned in cryo, Tick wakes to her world still in danger. Though she's kept herself barely alive scavenging the depths, her encounter with the big, clever miner convinces her to seek a life out of the...

The Omega Reclamation Crew is in trouble. After the loss of their homeworld and generations spent in the cold darkness of space, fewer eggs hatch every year—and now only males. Losing hope, the ORC asteroid mining ship DeepWander has one chance to make a deal at the Luster, an astronomically infamous gathering of salvage and retrieval mercenaries. But the orcs need dates to the big bash... Welcome to the Intergalactic Dating Agency! Crusher Teq was hatched for one task: breaking space rocks. To save the DeepWander, he'll crush with his four bare hands, if necessary. When the Big Sky IDA sends delicate Earther females, Teq knows he's too big and rough to take a wife-mate. He vows to keep all his hands to himself—even after one soft, alien kiss threatens to ignite his i'lva: the mystical light of orc legend. With her young son at risk, Adeline Barlow had only one thought: get as far away from their painful...