The Medusa Virus is killing everyone. It petrifies their bodies, almost as if they are turning to stone. When a cryogenic chamber is set up to freeze one hundred sufferers until a cure can be found, Kasumi is chosen by lottery to take a place. Her twin sister Shizuka, however, is not. Kasumi takes her place already filled with survivor's guilt for the sister who will most likely die while Kasumi is in cryogenic sleep. But things are never that simple.

Sometimes the world can be a dark and frightening place.  Jill Kismet knows all about just how dark and frightening, because when all hell breaks loose she’s the one turning back the tide.  Jill Kismet is a hunter with an edge, one that’s almost as dangerous to her as the things she hunts.  She walks a very narrow line between the good guys and the bad guys, never knowing if she’ll tumble over the edge.

The daughter of a governor to a settled planet, Kris enjoyed a life of luxury and prestige--but she felt it was more of a prison than anything. In an effort to make her own way in the universe, she joined the marines. Unfortunately, the military of the outer rim planets lacks the support it needs to continue operations, as there isn’t much conflict like there used to be.

Meet Tohru Honda. She's a fairly typical Japanese schoolgirl, except that her parents are dead, she lives in a tent, and she is overwhelmingly positive and polite. Still, life for her is pretty normal until she meets Shigure and Yuki Sohma (who are both devastatingly handsome in the way only manga men are---meaning they could be mistaken for girls).

The Host takes place in the future where a parasitic alien race who call themselves ‘souls’ has taken the minds and bodies of humanity, continuing the lives of their hosts relatively unchanged. Melanie Stryder is a ‘wild’ human without a host, living in rebellion—until she’s caught and Wanderer is inserted into her spinal column to take over her body. Only Melanie’s presence refuses to disappear and Wanderer has to deal with the overwhelming emotions she had for the men in her life—her younger brother Jamie and her love, Jared.