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Endless Blue
The appearance of the warp drive from the long lost spaceship, Fenrir, triggers an epic quest for Captain Mikhail Volkov.  According to the drive's computers, Fenrir had been lost to hypothetical 'nowhere' of subspace, but with the drive's housing covered with coral and sea life, obviously Fenrir has gone somewhere.  Faced with genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humans need a miracle to survive.  On the chance that Fenrir's mysterious location holds such a miracle, Mikhail jumps into the unknown and crashes into the endless blue of the Sargasso Sea.  Every ship that misjumped from any race that discovered travel through subspace has crashed into its waters, creating a graveyard of rusting spaceships.  On the Sargasso's great oceans, humans live alongside aliens.  His ship damaged, his younger foster brother lost, and his sanity rattled, Mikhail discovers a secret that might save the human race if he can repair his ship and return home.


"A fast compelling read." -- Romantic Times Book Reviews on Tinker


 

Steel City MagicSteel City Magic
Steel City Magic: An Omnibus of Tinker and Wolf Who Rules.

The Science Fiction Book Club presents both books in one.

"A fast compelling read." -- Romantic Times Book Reviews


 

 

Wolf Who RulesWolf Who Rules
Tinker and her husband, Windwolf, return in WOLF WHO RULES. The action picks up immediately after the end of TINKER. Windwolf finds himself besieged from all sides.  Viceroy and head of the Wind Clan, he had been able to guarantee the safety of everyone in his realm, but faced with an oni invasion, he has had to call in royal troops and relinquish his monopoly of Pittsburgh, which is stranded on Elfhome. He now struggles to keep the peace between the humans, the newly arrived Stone Clan, the royal forces, a set of oni dragons, the half-oni children who see themselves as human, and the tengu trying to escape their oni enslavement.


Meanwhile, Tinker strives to solve the mystery of a growing discontinuity in Turtle Creek. She's plagued with inexplicable nightmares that may hold the keys to Pittsburgh's future. The only clue from the Queen's oracle to help Tinker is a note with five English words on it: Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Oni, and dragons and tengu – oh my!

"Engagingly quirky characters, culture clashes, magic, high-tech devices, and even spaceships combine in a rousing worlds-spanning adventure." -- Locus Magazine.


 

A Brother's PriceA Brother's Price
On an alternate Earth, where the population is ninety percent female and a man is sold by his sisters to marry all the women in a family, Jerin Whistler is coming of age. His mothers are respected landed gentry, his grandfather a kidnapped prince, and his grandmothers common line soldiers blackballed for treason, trained by thieves, re-enlisted as spies, and knighted for acts of valor. Jerin wants to marry well, and his sisters want a husband bought by his brother's price.

"Don't plan on getting anything else done if you start a Wen Spencer novel; they are exceedingly hard to put down!" -- Nebula Award Winning Author CATHERINE ASARO


 

TinkerTinker
Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elfin court, the NSA, the Elfin Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what’s really important – her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel toed boots, and a junk yard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.

2003 Sapphire Award Winner

"Oh, man, this book is so good. A light, clever, sexy SF-fantasy-romance that's just a whole lot of fun to read. Right up there with the best of the "scientific magic" books, and a clear "A" rating..." -- SF Site


 

Dog WarriorDog Warrior
Seemingly abandoned as a toddler, and raised in a series of foster homes, Atticus has always known that he wasn't human. He thought he was a freak of nature. He believed he was one of a kind, alone in the world... 
...Boy, is he in for a surprise.

"Wen Spencer just keeps getting better." -- Analog


 

Bitter WatersBitter Waters
Ukiah Oregon has never had a normal life. As a child, he was found running with a pack of wolves. Captured, he was adopted by a lesbian couple and civilized. He works now as a private investigator and expert tracker in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is gifted with photographic memory, keen senses, and the odd ability to detect things down to a cellular level.

Ukiah and his senior partner, Max Bennett, are just returning to Pittsburgh after the events of Tainted Trail. Before they even land, they have a new tracking job -- to find a boy missing from his backyard. Driving straight from the airport, Ukiah and Max start another adventure, one that will involve kidnapped children, a drug-dealing biker gang, a UFO cult, a hostile federal agent, the Pack, Max's new love Samuel Anne Killington, Ukiah's FBI lover Indigo Zheng, his two adoptive mothers, and his infant son, Kittanning.

"An engrossing, thrill-filled adventure, full of fascinating alien--and human--weirdness." -- Locus


 

Tainted TrailTainted Trail
Ukiah Oregon and his senior partner, Max Bennett, are flying to Oregon to find Homicide Detective Kraynak's missing niece who vanished while researching Ukiah's origins.

Nominated for the 2002 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best SF

"Spencer continues to amaze, cranking up both suspense and wonder." -- Aurora Award Winning Author JULIE E. CZERNEDA


 

Alien TasteAlien Taste
Ukiah Oregon and his senior partner, Max Bennett, are summoned by the police to the home of four college students. Three of the coeds have been hacked to pieces and the fourth is missing, presumed kidnapped into the nearby Schenley Park. Wired for sight, sound and global position, Ukiah starts the desperate search for the missing woman. Deep in the dark rainy woods, he finds her - insane, armed and deadly. His fight for his life marks his entry into a secret war between aliens.

Winner of the 2001 Compton Crook Award

"Spencer takes readers on a fast-paced journey into disbelief. [Her] timing is impeccable and the denouement is stunning." -- ROMANTIC TIMES (4 star review)


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