Books with author Robert Allison

"[Tick] more than stands its ground in a crowded field of dystopian fiction. Rose is a good writer of dialogue, and is deft at slowly doling out information. The story is exciting, fast-paced, and full of surprises." - IndieReader Review"A dark and lush tale; tightly woven and compelling." - Judge, 3rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards"The pacing of the book is a work of art; the tension ebbs and flows at just the right times." - The Online Book ClubJo Bristol has a tick ... she has visions of killing people. Los Angeles is under attack from cyber terrorists, and in an effort to stop them, the city uses spy drones to seek out civilians with brain abnormalities and adjusts their brains to remove any criminal tendencies. Jo has spent her life evading the drones and brain manipulation by keeping her tick a secret, until a week before her seventeenth birthday her visions threaten to become reality. Having always wanted to be a painter, Jo knows any adjustment to her brain could alter her artistic sense and she could lose all that makes her who she is. She must do everything she can to hide the darkness in her mind or lose her muse completely.The first in a 3-Part series, a young adult near future science fiction thriller trilogy. TICK is the beginning of Jo's adventures, and will continue into two more books.

Outcasts of Faerie have lived unseen and secluded from humans. Until now.When a strange dark magic threatens the human world, sixteen-year-old Nola seeks the help of Kelty, an outcast faerie she discovered with her rare magic sight, to help her stop it.Reluctant and wary, Kelty must choose between turning her back on the helpless humans or sacrificing her chance to return to Faerie, which is only possible if she remains untainted by human contact.The outcast responsible for Kelty’s banishment is playing his own dangerous game. He might be the answer to defeating the dark magic. He also might destroy them both.Will the truth be discovered before the dark magic is unleashed upon the human world?For fans of fast-paced YA fantasy, intense plots, and breathtaking magic, The Nameless is a tale unlike any other.“The Nameless provides a genuinely unique twist to a young adult and teen genre that I didn't think had any more twists to give.” --Readers’ Favorite

A dangerous faerie lurks behind an empty throne.Still living as a faerie outcast in the human world, Kelty is summoned by the Court of Outcasts, where another faerie—one with a dark past, a skewed sense of reality, and a penchant for influencing minds—offers her the throne. Accepting would force her to forfeit her dreams by remaining in the human world for the rest of her days. But refusing could spell disaster for the humans she now hopes to protect.Meanwhile, Nola struggles with fainting spells as her human body rejects the faerie magic now within her. She tries to stay away from the outcasts, but when the mysterious new guy in school lures her friend Lauren away, she follows them to a place she never thought she would see—and may not be able to leave.Fighting separate battles against a common enemy, Kelty and Nola find themselves questioning everything as they struggle to decide what truly matters—and to survive with their minds intact.This second installment in the Tales of an Outcast Faerie series is a magical, fast-paced tale where life-altering decisions loom, relationships falter, and the insanity of one powerful faerie threatens to break them all.

Jo Bristol spent most of her eighteen years of her life trying to prove the purpose of her art... that is, when she wasn’t spending time in prison for murder. Having succumbed to the will of her violent visions—or her ‘tick,’ as she calls it—what was once a secret became her reality, and Jo did the unthinkable. What she did not expect was that her skills as a killer would eventually save her life—and a few others—amid a terrible and confusing war between FutureTech, the corporate security system of Los Angeles, and the armed cyber-terrorists, Alias-X. Now, in the safe in the haven of a military bunker, Jo struggles to find purpose beyond painting inspirational murals. Those who once benefited from the healing effects of her artwork are halted by new, more obscure influences, and the people who once heralded her positive influence have moved on to solve the mysteries of a war no one knows how to win. But when a secret messenger insists to have answers about her tick and the enigma of her brain, Jo makes the bold decision to cross the California desert back to her destroyed hometown of L.A. in search of her answers, and the last remaining member of her family who might know the source of her tick: her mom.Vice is Part Two of the Tick Series. Part Three, titled Mark, will be released in 2019.

Another monster collection for monster puzzlers! Hard on the heels of its bestselling sister volume, The Amazing 1,000 Puzzle Challenge, this visually stunning full-color feast of 1,000 puzzles and games will keep puzzlers, their family and friends amused, intrigued and perplexed for many months. Some of the finest puzzle-designers in the world have contributed to this book, making it a simultaneously fascinating and frustrating mental challenge. The Amazing 1000 Puzzle Challenge 2 contains just about every imaginable type of printable puzzle. From number puzzles to visual-spatial posers, crosswords to lateral thinking puzzles, word games to mazes, this massive collection of brainteasers is guaranteed to banish boredom. Like its highly successful forerunner, this puzzle book is unusual in that all of the puzzles are in full color. This immediately gives the puzzle-designer a whole new world of opportunity in terms of laying red herrings and displaying black humor, anything to leave puzzlers in a purple haze.... But puzzlers need not fear. If a puzzle proves to be just too tricky, too fiendish or simply incomprehensible, then the answer section at the back of the book will explain everything, giving not just the answer but also, where necessary, the logic behind the answer.