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  • There
    Nicky Penttila
    Eight stories of ingenuity at the edges of space. Where maintenance workers outsmart corporate stations. Where medical officers and botanists save colonies through partnership. Where a janitor’s kindness opens doors decades of searching couldn’t find. On platforms and stations designed to divide, these characters forge unexpected connections-across species, across class, across...
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    18,83 €

  • There
    Nicky Penttila
    Eight stories of ingenuity at the edges of space. Where maintenance workers outsmart corporate stations. Where medical officers and botanists save colonies through partnership. Where a janitor’s kindness opens doors decades of searching couldn’t find. On platforms and stations designed to divide, these characters forge unexpected connections-across species, across class, across...
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    13,60 €

  • First to Wake
    Nicky Penttila
    After emergency revival four years from their destination, Gina should be alone with eight thousand sleeping colonists.She’s not.Someone’s already up.A pilot who shouldn’t even be there.Together they have four hours before everyone suffocates.A high-stakes generation ship novella about finding warmth in the cold between stars. ...
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    8,72 €

  • The Kemp Gambit
    Nicky Penttila
    Ice scientist spots impossible patterns. Antarctic ice shelf groans with wrong rhythm. Deep in the data, signs of apocalypse. She trudges across frozen wasteland for proof. Near-future suspense where discovery equals catastrophe-and every second counts. ...
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    9,25 €

  • The Kemp Gambit
    Nicky Penttila
    Ice scientist spots impossible patterns. Antarctic ice shelf groans with wrong rhythm. Deep in the data, signs of apocalypse. She trudges across frozen wasteland for proof.Near-future suspense where discovery equals catastrophe-and every second counts. ...
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    7,32 €

  • Here
    Nicky Penttila
    Eight stories where ordinary people discover extraordinary solutions. A preschool teacher protects children from dangers only she can see. A grad student misses a Metro train, and finds herself. A widow’s grief transforms into a gift that seeds change. From a Michigan university library that has hidden depths to Maryland suburbs where justice arrives in cream-colored robes, the...
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    19,96 €

  • Here
    Nicky Penttila
    Eight stories where ordinary people discover extraordinary solutions. A preschool teacher protects children from dangers only she can see. A grad student misses a Metro train, and finds herself. A widow’s grief transforms into a gift that seeds change. From a Michigan university library that has hidden depths to Maryland suburbs where justice arrives in cream-colored robes, the...
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    15,27 €

  • Frankie Takes a Bow
    Nicky Penttila
    Frankie left home for freedom; now she has to survive going back. The Capital wants their poster child. Beth needs a maid of honor. Spike wants fancy spa treatments. Anniversary ghosts crash the wedding. Found family chaos wins. Space opera shenanigans with heart. ...
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    19,79 €

  • Frankie Takes a Bow
    Nicky Penttila
    What’s worse than being the poster child for your planet’s destruction? Being invited back to the Capital that made you famous for it-on the anniversary. Ugh. But Frankie Styles, cargo captain and reluctant icon, can’t say no when her best friend Beth announces she’s marrying into the Regent’s family.A week of state dinners, perfected manners, and questions about That Photo? Fi...
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    14,27 €

  • First to Wake
    Nicky Penttila
    After emergency revival four years from their destination, Gina should be alone with eight thousand sleeping colonists.She’s not.Someone’s already up.A pilot who shouldn’t even be there.Together they have four hours before everyone suffocates.A high-stakes generation ship novella about finding warmth in the cold between stars. ...
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    14,39 €

  • Frankie Finds a Dot
    Nicky Penttila
    Cargo shouldn’t breathe. Or fight back.When Frankie Styles accepts a simple delivery job from her off‑the‑books employer, she expects the usual-boring cargo run, terrible station food, maybe some light search and rescue.Instead, a cryo crate tries to gas her and the job detours to a research base that’s officially too toxic to visit. With her cyber‑enhanced cat, Spike, Frankie ...
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    21,09 €

  • The Elders of Arkhide
    Nicky Penttila
    Ex-military operative Mondrian Delacroix thought her days of high-stakes missions were behind her. But when the reclusive augmented humans of Arkhide come calling with a puzzle even they can’t solve, Mon finds herself unable to refuse. The assignment seems straightforward: travel to an underwater base and assist with a perplexing linguistic challenge. For years, the Arkhideans ...
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    18,68 €

  • The Elders of Arkhide
    Nicky Penttila
    Dive into the depths of The Elders of Arkhide and uncover an underwater world of intrigue and discovery! Ex-military operative Mondrian Delacroix thought her days of high-stakes missions were behind her. But when the reclusive augmented humans of Arkhide come calling with a puzzle even they can’t solve, Mon finds herself unable to refuse. The assignment seems straightforward: t...
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    16,00 €

  • Tales of Arkhide
    Nicky Penttila
    Omnibus of three novels set in the Cooperative Realm. Follow Katla Sofiasdotter from the playful explorations of her youth in Secrets of the Synths to her complex political struggles as an adult in Hidden Planet.Secrets of the Synths: Young Katla and her friend Olve uncover secrets in their island’s synth clubhouse, navigating the challenges of pretending to be synthetic humans...
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    17,23 €

  • Cosmic Weave
    Nicky Penttila
    A spacecraft communications expert must choose between saving her kidnapped daughter or betraying her ship and crew when terrorists force her to sabotage a critical mission of interstellar diplomacy.Dagny Novak, chief communications engineer of the trailblazing spacecraft Breaking Light, had hoped to mend her fractured relationship with her adult daughter Osa. But their day tog...
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    14,86 €

  • Cosmic Weave
    Nicky Penttila
    When family loyalty clashes with interstellar diplomacy, one woman must gamble everything. Dagny Novak, chief communications engineer of Breaking Light, thought a trip to a space station theme park might heal her broken relationship with her adult daughter, Osa. But her worst fear comes true: Osa vanishes. Then the call comes. Osa’s been kidnapped by a ruthless terrorist cell. ...
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    25,40 €

  • Tales of Arkhide
    Nicky Penttila
    Three stories set on Arkhide, bundled together for the first time! These are character-driven space opera stories, more interested in people and ideas than action--though there is plenty of fun action! Almost no shooting or other mayhem.Follow Katla Sofiasdotter from the playful explorations of her youth in Secrets of the Synths to her complex political struggles as an adult in...
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    27,46 €

  • Frankie Takes a Dive
    Nicky Penttila
    When guests start dying in mysterious watery accidents at the glittering Valdes Underwater Resort, the indomitable Frankie and her loyal partner Spike dive in to investigate. As they navigate the resort’s luxurious domes and high-tech corridors, they uncover a sinister plot threatening innocent lives.With time running out and suspects at every turn, Frankie must use her quick w...
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    18,84 €

  • The Listeners
    Nicky Penttila
    Fractured. Adrift. But never without an extra pair of fuzzy socks.Mondrian Delacroix never bargained for a one-way ticket to the edge of known space. After her solo courier ship cracks in half mid-flight-and the front half vanishes-she’s left adrift among the unforgiving stars. Now she must solve the mystery of how she survived, why her ship broke up in the first place-and why ...
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    18,63 €

  • Frankie Takes a Holiday
    Nicky Penttila
    Frankie Styles wants to get away from it all. A week on the beach while her spaceship is overhauled is just the ticket. Too bad the weather, an old friend, and her new boss have other plans. Space opera meets comedy of manners in this rollicking moon-bound space opera!Readers who love second-chance stories, cats with attitude, robots of all sorts--and a little light espionage--...
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    17,76 €

  • Hidden Planet
    Nicky Penttila
    The day the Cooperative Realm finds Arkhide, Katla is alone on top of an active volcano, checking sensors in the sulfuric steam. Within hours, she’s standing before cameras as her planet’s only diplomat-not because she’s qualified, but because she’s broken.In a world of enhanced humans and synthetic beings, Katla’s failed implants make her the odd one out. She can’t join mental...
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    16,39 €

  • Hidden Planet
    Nicky Penttila
    The day the Cooperative Realm finds Arkhide, Katla is alone on top of an active volcano, checking sensors in the sulfuric steam. Within hours, she’s standing before cameras as her planet’s only diplomat-not because she’s qualified, but because she’s broken.In a world of enhanced humans and synthetic beings, Katla’s failed implants make her the odd one out. She can’t join mental...
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    10,09 €

  • Cargo Trouble
    Nicky Penttila
    Frankie Styles took on a smalltime cargo route at the edge of Cooperative space to get away from the constant pressure of her life in Central sector.She’s about to find out that edge space is just as turbulent as the life she left behind. And a lot weirder.A rollicking novella set in the Cooperative Realm. ...
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    16,80 €

  • Cargo Trouble
    Nicky Penttila
    Frankie Styles bought a cargo ship to escape her past as one of the famous Child Orphans of Wala. All she wanted was quiet runs hauling seed between stations-not the previous owner’s exotic pet who refuses to leave, not the Skoll shipping monopoly trying to force her out, and definitely not Morgan Cloud’s suspiciously smelly box of racehorses.When the pretty boy’s emergency car...
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    12,19 €

  • A Note of Scandal
    Nicky Penttila
    What’s the harm in a little white lie?Especially when it could carry so much good-a new life for a wounded soldier, catharsis after long years of war, and an opportunity for lady composer Olivia Delancey to finally hear her music played in public.Newspaper publisher Will Marsh hates lies. He refuses to compound the sins of his father’s generation by taking money to print propag...
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    27,56 €

  • The Spanish Patriot
    Nicky Penttila
    When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon, nothing goes as expected.Louisa Wakefield’s family, Loyalist refugees from America, seek peace among people of their faith, but instead find war has followed them even to remote Galicia.London newsman Sam Kerr, covering the troops for a story that will win him the editor’s chair, finds something else entirely.If y...
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    27,32 €

  • An Untitled Lady
    Nicky Penttila
    'Powerful. Disturbing. Heartbreaking. Smart. Occasionally gentle, often brutal. And always enthralling. An atypical setting, an actual historical event, masterfully layered characters and a sophisticated, seamless narrative -- An Untitled Lady is a standout, gripping historical romance, unlike any Regency you’ve ever read.'--USA Today 'The social turmoil in Manchester leading t...
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    25,95 €