From the internationally bestselling author of "After the Party" comes a delightfully funny, brilliantly poignant novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew.
Lydia, Dean and Robyn don't know one another. Yet. Each is facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed, single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is eighteen. Gorgeous, popular and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident of her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she's failing her classes. Now she's falling in love for the first time.
Lydia, Dean and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It is a letter containing a secret--one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.
"So good that I practically inhaled it," praised the "Daily Mail "(London). "The Making of Us "is a literary gem that will remind readers of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.

The Taurus Reach: the source of a secret that has driven the great powers of the 23rd century to risk everything in the race to control it. Now four new adventures—previously untold tales of the past and present, with hints of what is yet to come—begin the next great phase in the Vanguard saga. Witness the dawn of Starbase 47, as Ambassador Jetanien faces choices that will shape the future of Operation Vanguard. Follow journalist Tim Pennington as he reaches a crossroads in his search for the truth. See how the crises on two colonies transform the lives of Diego Reyes and Rana Desai. And travel with Cervantes Quinn to a deadly confrontation that will change everything—all in one unforgettable Star Trek collection.

HAVE TECH, WILL TRAVEL
STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Need a gigantic, marauding starship explored? Is your global computer system starting to break down? Call in the crack team from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Overseen by Captain Montgomery Scott from his office at Starfleet Headquarters, the S.C.E. can build, rebuild, program, reprogram, assemble, reassemble, or just figure out everything from alien replicators to doomsday machines. Just don't expect them to perform miracles -- unless they absolutely have to.
Captain David Gold, his first officer Commander Sonya Gomez, and the crew of the "U.S.S. da Vinci" put their lives on the line to save a colony world threatened by a deadly alien and rescue a ship trappedin the ravages of interphase.
Join Starfleet's miracle workers for a wrenching journey through the new frontier

A TURNING POINT FOR THE STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS
After the catastrophic events of "Wildfire, " the S.C.E. crew of the U.S.S. "da Vinci" is in disarray. Half of the ship's complement were killed at Galvan VI, and the survivors must put their lives back together. Corsi, accompanied by Stevens, tries to make amends with her long-estranged father. Abramowitz attempts to lose herself in her work, only to be confronted with an old rival -- and her own emotional fears. P8 Blue goes home to find her world confronting a crisis that threatens the Nasat's very existence.
But it is Captain Gold and Commander Gomez who face the most difficult trials, as they find the road to recovery a difficult one. Each confronts demons from the past and the uncertainty of the future, leading to a bitter confrontation from which neither may ever truly recover....

The second novel from the acclaimed Vanguard saga, based on Star Trek: The Original Series! The Taurus Reach: a remote interstellar expanse that holds a very old and potentially cataclysmic secret, the truth of which is feared by the Tholians, coveted by the Klingons, and dubiously guarded by the Federation. At the center of this intrigue is Vanguard, a Federation starbase populated by an eclectic mix of Starfleet officers and civilians, whose lives are forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Reach and steadily peel them away...one after another. In the aftermath of Harbinger, Commodore Diego Reyes commands Vanguard while waging an intensely personal struggle, tasked to uncover the true significance of the Taurus Reach while simultaneously concealing that mission from his fellow officers-and even his closest friends. As the Daedalus-class U.S.S. Lovell brings some of Starfleet's keenest technical minds to help, the U.S.S. Endeavour makes a find that could shed further light on the enigmatic meta-genome that has captured the Federation's interest-if its crew survives the discovery... Deep within the Taurus Reach, an ancient and powerful alien mind has awakened prematurely from aeons of hibernation, alerted to the upstart civilizations now daring to encroach upon the worlds in her care. With the stakes for all sides escalating rapidly, the alien lashes out with deadly force against the interlopers, propelling the Vanguard crew on a desperate race to understand the nature of the attacker, and to prevent the Taurus Reach from becoming a war zone.

Before they became the crack team of engineers we've all come to know and love on the "U.S.S. da Vinci," the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team had plenty of adventures throughout the galaxy. Now some of those exploits are chronicled, featuring special guests from all across the "Star Trek "universe.
WHAT'S PAST
Progress: Captain David Gold's previous command brings him and former "Starship Enterprise(TM) "medical officer Dr. Katherine Pulaski to Drema IV and a special young woman named Sarjenka.
The Future Begins: Learn how Captain Montgomery Scott found himself in charge of the S.C.E.--also featuring Geordi La Forge, Admirals Alynna Nechayev and William Ross, and Robin Lefler.
Echoes of Coventry: During the height of the Dominion War, Bart Faulwell is part of a team that must crack Cardassian codes.
Distant Early Warning: In the 23rd century, the "U.S.S. Lovell "helps in the construction of Starbase Vanguard in this special prequel to the hit novel series.
10 Is Better than 01: An inside look at the culture of Bynaus, home of 110--the future Soloman.
Many Splendors: Before they were reunited on the "da Vinci," Sonya Gomez and Kieran Duffy had a whirlwind romance aboard the "Starship Enterprise."

STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Their motto: Have tech, will travel
Need to build a subspace accelerator while under attack by a deadly local predator? Need to rescue a starship from interphase without getting trapped there yourself? Call in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team, specifically the crack team from the "U.S.S. da Vinci." Under the guidance of Captain David Gold and his first officer, former "Starship Enterprise"(TM) engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, the crew of the "da Vinci" can construct six impossible things before breakfast.
Overseen by Captain Montgomery Scott from his office at Starfleet Headquarters, the S.C.E. crew put their lives on the line to rescue a space station from catastrophe, and face off against a deadly alien race of technology thieves with the aid of Lieutenant Nog from Space Station "Deep Space 9" (TM).

Romemeets Star Trekin this alternate universe depicting the dark side of everyone's favourite characters. RESTORATION reveals the rise of Empress Sato. Aided by the power of a starship from the future, Sato looks to cement her control over the Terran Empire by forcing the Andorians under her control while simultaneously using the Terran and Andorian forces to crush the Vulcan rebellion. THE SORROWS OF THE EMPIRE shows Spock taking control of the Terran Empire and putting a plan into motion that will bring the Empire to an end. But it seems that Spock has miscalculated, as a harsher force emerges to take over and enslave all humans. In THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS, after a hundred years of domination by the Cardassians and the Klingons, humans struggle to survive. A man known as Jean-Luc Picard agrees to take an elderly, doddering scientist, Noonien Soong, to a planet where he's heard there is a human-machine hybrid...