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Graduation is closing in fast for Zoey Collins and she's facing tough choices when it comes to supporting herself. Being the great niece of mother of A.I., Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean she's rolling in green. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades. Zoey's trying to make it on her own when her great aunt dies, leaving her a prototype Cardinal Machine called Ocean. Both beautiful and buttoned-down, this machine ends up installed in Zoey's now-empty front room.

Trudy Tough is an up-and-comer in her set. She must be. She's been invited on a summer holiday by some of the most luxurious girls in her school. They're headed out of New York City to a beachside getaway on Shelter Island, a gorgeous location with a dark and turbulent history. Those bygones include an urban legend that all Trudy's new friends seem to know...yet no one wants to talk about. But it's still there, under the peach cobbler and beach parties, as storms streak the nighttime sky, and thunder cracks above the mansion like the hoofbeats of a great beast.

The prototype android left to Zoey Collins turned out to be precisely the "hotshot" Cardinal Machines lawyers described when they tried to persuade her to sign away her rights to him. With Cardinal Machines like Ocean harvesting mineral-rich asteroids and terraforming the moon, Zoey sent Ocean where he could do the most good: back to the LAPD SWAT team and the FBI. Why would she check with Ocean about that? But when the luminary suddenly begins to rebel, it's time to ride to the rescue.

Sam Mason, a philanthropist and billionaire, has a goal to help other people. Young married couple Margarita and Marcos, followed by classmates Dana and Marilyn, round out a group of full-time students turned hot-shot covert operatives trained to rescue and transport kids from dire circumstances to Bear Island Camp. The stakes are high, as many of the kids in detention centers along the border are in danger of being sold to the cartel for their trafficking pipeline. Will they succeed and help Sam achieve his goal?

Young elf prince Ruel Mirariaf is on the cusp of adulthood when he learns his destiny is in the hands of faceless Fates he may never even meet. A story told to comfort sets him on a quest that may close out his childhood with a last blaze of freedom. The great harts -- an dyr -- were once Kingmakers. But where are they now? Can a boy on the cusp of manhood track an elusive rumor through the wild?