2025 Colorado Book Awards Winner: Science Fiction2024 Discovery Editor's Choice Award ShortlistFor fans of Red Rising, Altered Carbon, and the Bioshock franchise.How do you bargain sickness for life?Nicholas Fiveboroughs is a Sicko, someone that takes on others' illnesses. In a city where diseases can be transferred, the rich buy longer lives without pain, and the poor get a short life of constant sickness. Maybe it was fate, or maybe someone is looking out for him, but after Nicholas barely survives his latest affliction, he gets the chance to try and change things. To finally stop the whole disease transfer network. Tensions escalate as Nicholas infiltrates a higher society he doesn’t understand, and starts to fall for the very person he needs to manipulate to be successful. And between run-ins with a talking animal and genetically modified humans, the world around him just keeps getting stranger. Can Nicholas tear down the disease transfer architecture? And can he do it without losing his own humanity along the way?

Olympia Blunt wakes up in a strange hospital, far away from everything familiar and haunted by memories of an Earth invaded by aliens. Taken captive and thrust into a galaxy lightyears from home, she soon gets tangled in the affairs of an alien civilization.Facing her new reality Olympia finds out that the keys to her fate now holds the formidable Prince Adlai. Feared by many and heir to the alien empire, he has big plans for her. After Olympia coincidently saves the prince from an assassination attempt, he trains her to be his personal bodyguard, his Untouchable. But as Adlai grows more fascinated with her, her role becomes complicated.Soon, Olympia finds herself walking a razor's edge between her own desires … and a plan to liberate the enslaved humans.A captivating interstellar tale, G.J. Krefft's THE UNTOUCHABLE is a story of ambition, passion and deception.

Nick Abrahams still holds the official world record for the number of space launches, but he’s bored stiff with his job hosting space tours. Only when his wife leaves him, however, does he try to change his life. He accepts a tempting offer from a Russian billionaire. In exchange for making a simple repair on Neptune’s moon Triton, he will return to Earth a multi-millionaire, enabling him to achieve his ‘impossible dream’ of buying his own California vineyard.The fact that Nick must travel alone during the four-year roundtrip doesn’t bother him at all, as he doesn’t particularly like people anyway. Once en route he learns his new boss left out some critical details in his job description—details that could cost him his life, and humankind its existence... Hard Science Fiction.