May 2012Spawn Of The SolsticeCharles L. SandersThis supernatural thriller brings together terror, suspense, guilt, hatred, deception, heroism, and redemption—and the healing power of love. May 2012The Eyes Of The StarsJ. Malcolm StewartChicago Homicide Detective Paul Gminski is haunted by dark dreams of his late mother. Unable to rest, Paul and his partner Ivey become entangled with the serial murders of a mysterious group called the Council of Six. Someone of something is killing the group’s members, each of whom possesses a piece of an ancient collection of relics called The Eyes of the Stars. May 2012Death On ZanathLee GimenezHumanity reached the stars, colonizing planets deep in the galaxy. But a century later, the T’Akons, a powerful alien race appeared. The machine-based aliens conquered the colonies with their advanced technology. They also began their quest to remake humans into their own cybernetic likeness. On the planet Zanath, the aliens create cybernetic-hybrid humans that now comprise a majority of the population. Unmodified humans are shunned on Zanath and forced to live in ghettos. One such human is Kira Zo, a soldier. She is smart, beautiful and headstrong. Her parents, against the wishes of the government, bear another unmodified child. The enraged T’Akons kill the infant and her parents. Vowing revenge for the death of her family, Kira organizes a Resistance movement. The group is an uneasy alliance of defiant humans and hybrid defectors. She also seeks the support of the Elayans, an alien race from the other side of the galaxy and mortal enemies of the T’Akons. But the T’Akons crush the Resistance, and Kira and what’s left of her group flee Zanath. They continue the rebellion on Earth, which is now a technologically backward planet left in ruins by nuclear war. May 2012The Battle Of CaerlonJoel GatesBritannia is shattered by war. Rome has withdrawn, leaving the island kingdom in ruins. Eleven Rebel Kings have elected King Lot as High King in direct opposition to The Council of Kings. The Council has elected Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon- the former High King- as their Dux Bellorum, or War Duke. Arthur has assembled a force of the land’s mightiest heroes into The Pendragon Legion and has taken the field against the rebel kings. Meanwhile, King Lot, his own forces comprised of Uther’s greatest generals, has allied himself with the darkest of magic in his bid to defeat The Pendragon Legion and become Britannia’s High King. The ensuing war pits fathers against sons and brothers against brothers as the battle between good and evil threatens to engulf all of the land. May 2012Danse MacabreThomm QuackenbushWhen one dresses largely in black and belongs to a Wiccan coven on campus, having an older boyfriend who thinks he is a vampire almost makes sense. However, when Roselyn’s lover Dryden becomes an actual vampire—albeit a reticent one—and her preternatural roommate Shane is mistakenly taken hostage in her place, it is up to Roselyn to take on the cockroaches of the daemonic world without ending up on the wrong side of a pair of fangs. May 2012AxeTerry GrimwoodMiddle-aged teenager and rough diamond Steve Turner plays part-time rock and roll and dreams of the success that he knows has passed him by. He has found love at last, so perhaps it is time to give up. Then a scrap of yellowing paper covered in handwritten guitar chords comes into his possession and he finds himself increasingly obsessed with untangling the music—obsessed, that is, to the point of neglecting himself, his friends, and Lydia Walker, the woman he loves. The Song is deep and complex and when mastered unleashes forces that he cannot control: violent, vicious forces that boil up from Hell itself to reap a bloody harvest of flesh and souls. The darkness infects everyone within reach: Lydia, Steve’s lover; his closest friends; and the policewoman assigned to track him down because people have disappeared and there are others, including Lydia, whose life and soul are in mortal danger unless The Song can be silenced.

May 2012

The Vagabond Resistance has found a new ally in a ship of legends, but will its enigmatic commander help their cause or bend the Resistance to her own agenda? When the Third Leader Jasky tracks down the legendary ship Leviathan, Earth ambassador Hugo Halespear finds his skills as a diplomat in demand once again. Jasky hopes to use Leviathan to unite the Resistance and take the fight to Andromeda, but Leviathan’s commander has motives of her own. A disgruntled renegade fith scientist is also tempting disaster with his reckless behavior, and Hugo finds himself taking charge of a rescue attempt to save both the scientist and the knowledge he possesses from the grasp of the Andromedans.

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May 2012

Rakshasa is a demon. He doesn’t know where he came from or how he came to be in the first place. All he knows is that he feeds on the dying thoughts of men and that he is hungry.

Engendered in ancient times in the north of India, he wanders, doing exactly what he wants, killing when and where he pleases until he attracts the attention of a god. Fleeing for his life, Rakshasa must now come to terms with what he is and his place in the scheme of things. Hiding from the gods, he delves into the world of men, following individual lives and impacting on them. As his knowledge grows, so does his dissatisfaction and he wonders whether he must always be a demon or whether he can change his nature.

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