Ian Thomas Healy

When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground, nobody has ever escaped from the maximum security facility. Until now. A parahuman terrorist called Misrule...

Orcs used to be a fearsome fighting force, and the unleashing of the Horde brought terror to Humans, Elves, and Dwarves time and time again over the centuries. Nowadays, there aren't any more Ultimate Evils, Necromancers, or Dark Wizards left to hire the Horde. Paug Blumpkin is smart for an...

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." ~T.S. Eliot When Just Cause hero Orb is murdered using a new kind of nanotechnology, Mustang Sally will stop at nothing to find and bring to justice his killer. Not even her longtime mentor Juice's dismissal from his position as team leader can...

Chef Muffin is no adventurer, but she's going to have to figure out how to become one. She's got to prepare a fantastic dish for a royal wedding, using ingredients she's never heard of, that she'll have to travel the breadth of the world to find. If she fails, she loses her livelihood, but if...

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Jackrabbit is stuck in a time loop, living the same day over and over again. Jackrabbit is stuck in a time loop, living the same day over and over again and it keeps resetting, no matter what he does. Jackrabbit is stuck in a time loop, living the...

La Capitana and the other teens of the neighborhood watch have spent their entire lives wondering why they have parahuman powers but not the genetic marker known to grant them. Their investigation takes them across the country to New York City....

When Ava Zhang washes out of Just Cause Chicago, she figures her career as a superhero is over. Then she gets the opportunity to partner with experienced hero Detroit Steel, and the two of them work to halt the distribution of a dangerous new designer drug called Wool....

When Harlan detonated a new kind of bomb to destroy the alien fleet, he was thrown through space and time. Now lost in spacetime, dying, more alone than any human ever has been - he never expected to be rescued....

From a single short story written in 2001 to a sprawling series of more than 20 books, the Just Cause Universe is a superheroic reflection of our times. Encompassing more than 60 years of history, these tales fill in the gaps, tell the side stories, and broaden the depth of the JCU. Although all...

With the Confederation on the brink of war, the Watchtower organization struggles to maintain peace despite the ongoing threat of the Secessionists....

It was supposed to be a simple job for The Ghost, a 300-year-old unkillable mercenary: Interrupt a prisoner transfer and deliver the prisoner to those footing the bill. Jingshen had done jobs like it thousands of times. But this time, it all goes wrong....

As the world warms, civilian and commercial traffic through the Arctic increases. More people means a greater need for help, and Just Cause Arctic Circle is the superhero team assigned to find those who are lost and endangered....

Sharks. In space. It's exactly what you think it is. What more do you want?...

Making the Cut is the flagship show on the FoodieTV network, giving recent high school graduates a chance to win a scholarship to a prestigious culinary school. Midori is from San Francisco, and grew up in a family that owns a restaurant. All she ever wanted to do was cook, but in Japanese...

High school reporter Sherri "Bax" Baxter is content being an outsider, with a reputation as a nosy busybody among the students of Jericho High. Instead of friendships, she focuses on objective journalistic integrity, because it will get her out of the dead-end Texas oil town and into a...

A collection of eight tales ranging from horror to superhero, science fiction to post-apocalyptic, that examine the darker aspects of the world. Bread and Circuses: This weary warrior has been fighting battles for a very long time. Dental Plan: Robert's teeth are falling out left and right...

Steal big. The crew: Olivia, the Director. Anjanae, the Artist. Pancho, the Techie. Kennedy, the Actress. Jerome, the Money Man. Vajra, the Thug. The target: A painting of Anjanae's deceased mother, stolen from her and presented for sale by a professional artist. The job: Steal it back and don't...

Times are tough in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Angel, an ex-prostitute-turned-assassin, has just killed her ex-boyfriend without making a dime on it. Camaro, a courier, is wanted by the Feds for smuggling coffee and evading pursuit. And Haiwee, once the greatest hacker on the planet...

This collection includes both previously-published and all-new stories: THE MIGHTY PECULIAR INCIDENT AT MUDDY CREEK: What starts out as something simple as a train failing to stop winds up as something mighty peculiar indeed. CLOCKWORK CHLOE: Bert Tillory can get any woman to say yes, but who is...

Once, John Irish was a legend in the porn industry, partying with the likes of John Holmes, Peter North, Nina Hartley, and Seka, but now he's on the far side of fifty, and Ron Jeremy won't even return his phone calls. Desperate for any kind of paying work, he's sunk to the level of bit roles in...