Bøker av Kevin Hincker

"... an edge-of-your seat storyline rendered in convincing prose." - Publishers Weekly (BookLife Prize 2023) All Preston wants for his 12th birthday is a phone.Instead he gets a coding language secretly created by Albert Einstein, the power to change reality, and a magical enemy inherited from his long dead grandfather. So not the birthday he'd been hoping for.It all starts when a mysterious course in computer programming injures Preston's fingers. Because of that, he misses months of school. And when he returns he finds the world strangely altered. His old friends avoid him and strange kids from the programming club are fascinated by him. And, yes, he does have surprising new math skills, but he's also having nightmares that don't add up: dark matter missing from the universe, and his neighborhood overrun by Dark Folk.Then his programming friends enter a competition to create a game, and Preston has to use his grandfather's terrible gift-the coding language that snarls his fingers in knots - to defend them. As the competition clock ticks down, the questions multiply. What is this legacy Preston inherited? Why does the Dark Crone want his mobile phone? And, most important of all, who, or what, is The Einstein Object?The Einstein Object is MG science fantasy set in a world like ours, where people who learn a secret programming language can make real magic, although it's virtually impossible to learn that language and if you do learn it you'll wish you hadn't. Which is exactly what happens to Preston...

The Shadow Waiting on its Throne begins in the seconds after Book Two ends, as Asher discovers new psychic powers and wonders - if he's psychic, how come he never knows what's about to happen next? Crises and enemies start coming in waves, while, for the first time in years, Asher considers painting again. Even the Brazilians seem to have returned. And to top it all off, time itself is ending in three months. His sister, his parents, his girlfriend-even Veronica, his billionaire-are all imperiled, and Asher looks more and more like Skysill's only hope. And in the background the ghost mountain looms ever closer, carrying atop it The Shadow Waiting on its Throne.

Beginning in the seconds after Book One ends, The Question in the Dancer's Kiss finds Asher and Caroline as they discover that Skysill has grown much too complicated for casual drinking. Asher's infatuation with Caroline becomes more and more dangerous, and the ghosts in town multiply. When Asher agrees to authenticate a mysterious painting in Los Angeles, a painting somehow linked to Samantha, questions are suddenly everywhere: what did the Brazilians and Julian have to do with each other? With this painting? How is Samantha connected? Why do people keep trying to kill him? And, as his family secrets are revealed and his own powers grow, Asher's most important question becomes The Question in the Dancer's Kiss.

KIRKUS (starred) - "Brilliant worldbuilding, propulsive action, and an unforgettable lead."PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (booklife) - "An ambitious, surreal mystery.""A wild new take on urban fantasy!"Colored with sparkling prose and shaded in snark, this series follows Asher Gale, art investigator, "recovering" addict, unhinged ex-painter, into the dark, supernatural art galleries of Skysill Beach, where forged paintings are suddenly killing people and ultraviolet ghosts are ... suddenly real.Asher's just minding his crazy from a beachside barstool when the first ghost appears, with her save-the-world problems. But Asher has attention span and drinking issues. He's nobody's first choice to save anything. So right away you feel sorry for the ghost - she's obviously desperate. When a beautiful psychic complicates his life even further, and shadowy gangsters start killing his old patrons, it all, somehow, becomes Asher's responsibility ...-MULTIPLE KIRKUS STARS for books 1 - 5 ¿Book 1 ¿: "Masterful ... a must-read" KIRKUS (starred review)Book 2 ¿: "Bombshell plot twists" KIRKUS (starred review)Book 3: "Relentless ..." KIRKUSBook 4 ¿: "Violent, magnetic, orgasmic" KIRKUS (starred review)

The Sacrifice the Dead Will Make begins on a ridgetop, just seconds after the end of Book Three, and everything begins to accelerate. Asher becomes more and more fearful of Samantha. Aeternus tightens his grip on Skysill Beach and the eternal ghost's long-sought prize comes at last into his reach. When Peter's past is finally revealed, Asher finds he is central to the eternal ghost's plans, and as Asher's family, friends, and lovers begin to die, he must become the thing he fears most to save them. To keep the broken Path from ending the world, he'll offer any sacrifice he has to, even The Sacrifice the Dead Will Make.

" ...readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen." - Kirkus ReviewsThey created her, then destroyed the thing she lived for: her children. When, miraculously, she discovers a new family, she'll fight any battle to keep it safe.Deep in the Selkirk mountains, a mysterious queen bee fleeing the scientists who created her is rescued by, and then adopts, a boy grieving his mother's death, in this "glowing, powerful work of speculative fiction."From his dying mother Anthony inherited a beehive-and the gift to speak with bees. But as soon as she is gone her hive slips toward ruin. And then Anthony finds the Little Queen, a remarkable bee hiding a dangerous secret. She assumes control of Anthony's hive and resurrects it with extraordinary changes, then she takes Anthony in her care so he can begin to heal, too. But the family they form is threatened by those who made her, who want ownership of the Little Queen and everything she represents.* * *The bees in The Little Queen may feel like fantasy to readers who think the only creatures on the planet who ache for community, plan for disaster, and know love, are human. The truth, of course, is that bees have been doing these things for millions of years. This is a story extending that ancient and ongoing legacy.

A Kirkus "BEST OF 2023" selection!"... a journey of healing and heroism... " - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "... uproarious... scifi that gets readers thinking." - Publishers Weekly (BookLife Editor's Pick)With space-faring predators circling the planet, Earth's only hope is an aged heiress with faltering prosthetics, and her foul-mouthed, extaraterrestrial forensic accountant.Diana Roark, heiress, scientist, and adventurer, never wanted to end up as the richest person in human history. But she inherits her father's fortune, and tries to spend her wealth to benefit humanity. Then First Contact - with the alien Known Economy - utterly changes life on earth, and she's left with a business empire worth almost nothing, and emotional debts she can never repay.Thirty years after First Contact she's managed to rebuild her empire, almost by accident, when the Known Economy returns. This time they've come for payment on Earth's debt - and their price is the harvest of human sentience. Diana, now aged and sick with a disease the rest of humanity is immune to, teams up with a gelatinous purple Neoooxcolu who's been assigned as her alien Account Representative. Together they must find a way to buy the planet's freedom.The aliens will kill to stop her, if her own terrible debts don't finish her first ...