Lawrence, Mark

In January of 1986, Nick Hayes, a fifteen-year-old genius, discovers he has what is probably a terminal illness. At the same time, an even stranger thing happens--a girl, Mia, joins his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friend group, and immediately Nick notices a strangely familiar man with should-be-impossible abilities following him. The man warns Nick that Mia's life is in mortal danger, and only Nick can save her.

In the summer of 1986, Nick Hayes--a prodigy, boy-genius, cancer survivor, and even a time travel dabbler, and student at Cambridge University--has begun working with the renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. When he meets a stranger who seems nevertheless familiar, Nick begins to fear his activities have created a disruption in time. Now, Nick, his ex, Mia, and new fellow student Helen must work together to avert the apocalypse of time running out--literally.

Nick Hayes is a genius when it comes to understanding the secrets of the universe; he can even travel through time. But no matter what he does, he can't seem to change the fate that awaits him personally--an accident will happen in 2011. Then in 1992, he discovers the truth that he's been lying to himself but doesn't know why. As the date draws nearer, Nick tempts fate one more time.

"... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family--and new enemies. Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself. Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way"--Provided by publisher.

Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath, forced at the age of nine to watch his mother and brother murdered by Count Renar's men, lives his life motivated by vengeance until at the age of fifteen he returns to his father's castle to claim what is rightfully his.

While his enemies march toward his castle prepared for battle, eighteen-year-old King Jorg is haunted by the murder of his family and the atrocities he committed to avenge them.

Although he is only twenty years old, King Jorg Ancrath is now King of seven nations, but he wants to be Emperor and unify the Broken Empire. To do that, he must win a majority vote and he plans to use more of the lost technology he has uncovered to that end, but one adversary stands in his way--the feared and hated necromancer, the Dead King.