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 | A clandestine society, financed by a billionaire, has created a new infectious virus capable of inserting genes which determine the way individuals feel about sex. The FBI and CDC have been targeted first, in hopes that infected personnel will hamper any investigation. The virus spreads rapidly, but its effects are not noticed by individuals to begin with?and when discovered, the change in sexual attitudes is not recognized as something induced into the body from an outside source. When an FBI investigator finally does suspect that something unusual is going on, the Center for Disease Control is contacted and brought into the investigation. It is quickly discovered that indeed a virus capable of changing sexual attitudes is spreading over the world. While the FBI and CDC are racing to discover the originators of the virus and to create a cure or vaccine, the investigation is hampered by the fact that the agents themselves are becoming infected. The men and women trying desperately to stop the sex virus have to cope with their own changed attitudes and hope the virus can be stopped before society is irrevocably changed. And it may already be too late.
|  | BIRTHRIGHT is the powerful story of a traditional American family driven ever westward by changing climates and economic conditions until they finally are faced with the loss of their farm and, more importantly, the loss of the way of life they had followed for countless generations. All this comes crashing down on Harry Isaacson, the heir to the farm, on the morning of the auction. As he makes his final rounds of the old place he recalls his own life, that of his parents and his grandparents, and he gropes for an answer that will allow him to continue farming and pass the knowledge on to his own children. He must not break the chain of life on the land. Harry's Native American wife, Judith, is gone with the children, moved to the city to survive. Harry remembers his grandfather's wisdom and the teachings of Long Joe, a Native elder and relative of Judith, and he tries to steady himself, to face his bleak prospects with courage and grace. The story is resolved in a breathtaking ending full of twists and surprises.
|  | [Sequel to Birthright] COVENANT continues the story of Harry and Judith as they struggle to start over on a long-abandoned farm on the banks of the San Poil River on the Colville Indian reservation. This beautiful Valley of the Cliffs is the ancestral home of Judith's people. The family must live in a tipi and work the soil with Harry's grandfather's last draft horse, an ancient mare. Almost no one believes they will succeed. From skeptical neighbors to authorities outraged at their primitive living conditions, they meet resistance everywhere they turn. Only Walt and Frances, an elderly farm-couple facing their last days will help them.
The neighboring rancher wants their place as part of a development he is planning and will go to any lengths to get it. A group of survivalists, outsiders who have moved to the valley, form a militia group and see Harry and Judith as impediments to be removed. Local authorities have a list of crimes they accuse Harry of and soon he is the focus of a major investigation. They say he has led a plot to bomb Grand Coulee Dam. Again, the ending will surprise and shake you.
|  | The Wampum Keeper is an historical novel set in 1651 in the Niagara region of present-day Ontario and New York State. It chronicles the fortunes of a Chonnonton wampum keeper and his family when an Iroquois League army attacks their town. The French Jesuits' ill-fated mission to the Hurons is a central focus of the story.
|  | RESTLESS SHADES takes us through ten different tales of lurking horror at its finest. The scarefest begins from the start of the book and doesn?t let the reader off the rollercoaster ride of shrills and thrills until the final page. If you?re looking for a feeling of dreadful enchantment, Paul Melniczek’s book RESTLESS SHADES can satisfy an appetite for horror. His tales are beyond what the generation X?rs are raised on - the typical slasher and gashers... RESTLESS SHADES is sure to send those chills down your back and send horror connoisseurs into a heart-thumping of fun!
|  | Zsuzannah’s Bedroom is composed of four stories that take place in the past (approximately 1150 AD), the not too distant past, the present and a little in the future. Within these stories you will find icons and archetypes that you are familiar with. In all stories you will find HUMOR. The reason being... "Sex is funny" ...
|  | Melody Chalis survives each vampiric night by feeding off of the blood of her lovers until one night when she is confronted by Eric, the elder vampire. She can either join him, or face a horrible death by the sun
|  | The Adventures of Biff and Buff: Quite Possibly the Two Smartest Dogs in the World THE ADVENTURES OF BIFF AND BUFF is a collection of short stories about two Golden Retrievers, their family, and their friends, and the everyday events that become adventures for children and their parents to enjoy. Besides having the ability to speak, as have all animals, Biff and Buff bring to every experience the exuberance and enthusiasm associated with dogs. They also have academic sophistication, artistic and pragmatic talents, as well as compassionate, understanding, and helpful natures. Biff and Buff complete a family. Mom and Dad and their girls, Garrett and Raine, constitute the core cast of characters. In this collection, the IRS, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Ray (a not-so-good-humored ice cream man) develop a special relationship with Biff and Buff. The reader is also introduced to Boom, Toady, Piddle and Puddle, who are best friends and who appear in other stories. Of those who make things happen, watch things happen, or wonder what just happened, Biff and Buff certainly make things happen. Whether it's helping a little girl in a learning center understand subtraction, or ensuring their friends' safety at night, Biff and Buff rise to the challenge with inventiveness, imagination, and ?magic.'
|  | I, Robert Winstead, was brought here by someone I did not know for some purpose I had yet to discover. But I also knew that only by fulfilling that purpose would I be allowed to leave...assuming I survived the journey. Somewhere among the hallways and denizens of this haunted environment I would find the answer. I had to.
|  | Collected herein are the stories of another character created by Pat Welch that will please those of us who still miss the Grey Mouser stories of Fritz Leiber and the Retief stories of Keith Laumer. Brendell is a member of the Thieves Guild and these are his adventures as he tries to gain his Journeyman status. On this world there are thieves but they have a code of honor and only steal when under contract and have a set of rules to live by. In these stories, Brendall must obey the rules but he will bend them as much as possible in order to do the right thing by his own instincts. There is plenty of magic, twists, double-crosses, dragons, demons, and delightful reading and if you are a fan of well written light fantasy with a well drawn lead character, this is one of the best ones to come along in a while.
|  | DREAM REALM AWARD WINNER 2001 Does anyone truly know how they would behave if they were forced to choose between their duty or their life? Are heroes born, or are they made? In RUSH TO GLORY, Robert L. Hecker weaves an intriguing story of two brothers--fliers in the bloody skies over Europe--who bear each other no love and who were cetainly no heroes. Filled with vivid detail, peopled with rich, concrete characters and spiced with an intriguing love triangle, RUSH TO GLORY keeps the action constant and the tension high. One reviewer said, "If I were ever to consider authoring a novel about World War II, this is the one I would like to have written." This World War II epic is reminiscent of Band of Brothers, but centers around the B-17 fighter squad.
|  | A well written and thoroughly engaging tale, Cousin Feely is an excursion into the many, varied, and often funny trials of Bob Skinner Junior. His hometown of Grunion Glade values football above all else, and the lineage of the meager population is a matter of great pride, prejudice, and at times heartbreak. From the birth of his odd cousin, William Feely, to the day of his son's graduation from college, the journey through Bob Junior's life is a trip that immediately captivates the reader and holds fast to the end. This book is about being different and about compassion and courage and the cost of change. It's about Bob Junior's relationships and the natural growth that comes with the passage of time...
|  | When the Williard brothers get going, any resemblance to a real war is purely coincidental! Sgt. James Williard uses his position as the hauncho of a medical dispensary in Vietnam as a base, while he and his crazy medics turn the war zone into a party zone. Williard's two brothers, Jerry, a naval ensign and Jason (Jumpin' Jase) the Marine fighter pilot who regualrly loses 15 million dollar planes join the fun and then it is like no war ever recorded. Wilder than M*A*S*H, a hilarious romp.
|  | After the war the zany Williard brothers and their paramours go looking for adventure and find all they can handle when they decide to see if there really is a dinosur still living deep in the Congo. Flying a beatup old seaplane, the brothers are shot up, shot down, chased by the Mafia for carrying drug money they don?t know they have, captured by pygmies and forced to undergo the dread palm wine drinking contest, where failure means being fed to Mokele Mbembe--and if they survive all this, the Godfather is waiting back in New York to feed them to his pet shark.
|  | The Williard brothers are tired of the sedentary life. When one of them falls heir to proof of Bigfoot--or possibly an alien--various government agencies began chasing them and their girlfriends, hoping to recover alien technology, if that’s what it is. Deep in the wildest Part part of The Brooks Moutain Range in Alaska, the chase comes to a head, with the CIA, Russians, NSA and Mafia all vying with the Williard brothers and an Eskimo girl to win the prize.
|  | It started with a corpse sitting in Jim's office chair...
Who's Waldo? Jim sat across from the dead man, an unfired gun in his hand. "Who the hell are you, Waldo?" he said in the angry tone that helped keep the fear bottled up. "How did you get in here? What are you doing at my desk?" Sitting in the chair opposite the body, he stretched out one leg in deference to the dress sword at his side. The weapon's scarlet tassel clashed with the burgundy fabric of the chair, as did the red plume in his hat. "What the hell happened to you, man?" The corpse didn't answer, its arms stretched out wide on either side, staring at the ceiling.
|  | In these five stories you will meet Keith Richardson, a former Police Officer turned Private Investigator. He changed professions abruptly after his partner and best friend was shot in the line of duty. He blames himself. You will learn about his strengths and weaknesses. You may forgive him, although he can not forgive himself. You will pity him. These short stories feature Private Detective Keith Richardson, who has one adventure after another and somewhere in the whole mess gets involved with the government. Crystal Blue Keith discovers something he did not expect while investigating a girl's missing identity. Spring Break See what happens when a Private Investigator goes on vacation. The Governor Keith is hired as bodyguard for the Governor. The Eagle Was a Sitting Duck A murder in a nearby building leads Keith on a merry chase. Ruby Just when you thought Keith was clear of the government, they come back.
|  | "The Wrong Places" is a comedy of manners masquerading as a mystery.
Marcel Maki (Marc) is a gigolo and a "kept man". He doesn't see it that way, and he's the writer. The reader should know better. Marc's a ghost-writer, specializing in celebrity autobiographies. When his wealthy university "sweetheart" asks him to look into the disappearance of her father he resists until she and her family make it clear that he has no choice but to do what they want. Trouble is, all the members of the family want different things.
|  | A book for everyone who is interested in naval history, Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium tells the story of how Canada nearly lost her submarine service in the 1990s after decades of dedicated duty.
|  | The book includes the Hachi Genri, Seiho Gendai Budo Nyumon, (Eight Principles, Seiho’s Introduction to Modern Budo); Sword and Psyche: Religious Influences on the Psychology of Japanese Swordsmanship; the names and kanji of the waza of Eishin-ryu iai, with commentary on each; a collection of short articles on related subjects; a list of all Japanese names and terms used with their kanji; and extensive bibliographical notes on the works cited.
|  | Blairview: Listen to Your Heart, is a romance/mystery, the main part of which is set in a remote town on the coast of Maine, and involves the rocky romance of Morgan Blair, heir to his family's estate in Maine and fashion model Jessica Thorne. The story follows the couple through almost ten years of their lives, their two meetings, their marriage and divorce. It then follows each separately yet still joined by the common bond of Morgan's brother, Patrick, a charming ne'er do well with whom Morgan doesn't get along.
|  | Finally, there is a book that tells you how to handle the toughest problem in our organizations, homes and sports today - how to talk to someone when you are irritated, angry or hurt. Did you know when you are upset you disconnect from that part of the brain where you effectively solve problems? You can't think straight. According to The Most Important Conversation Is the One You're Not Having the tool Report Report Report allows you to quickly gain control and get your power back.
|  | The Body Shop consists of a novella and twelve short stories. The title piece is the most engaging and original story in the whole collection. Its 40,000 odd words pack in a fair amount of black satirical horror. Set in a post apocalyptic future where life is very cheap and rapidly cannibalised, we discover the human body to be very much in need of a Dr. Frankenstein figure (Edgerton) to put us back together. Of course there's a high monetary cost, and disregard of gender and ethics. For our hideous human vanity will do anything to procure a functional body. My favourite moments are when the heads (only), of the injured rich, argue about their needs. They've been waiting for a body for years. Even become a little community, that gets to sing carols with Edgerton once a year!
|  | DREAM REALM AWARD WINNER 2001 Edited by a master writer; Piers Anthony! No one sane wants either of the two most powerful positions on the planet Nublis. Emperor and archon, supreme judge, are slaves to 3,000 years of tradition. The emperor can abdicate. Only death can free the archon. But the planet of Nublis is rich and the ripe plum desired by a pirate who would be king. Can those who have pledged their lives to serve their world save their world? This incredible collection of books is composed of three trilogies: Nublian Chronicles I - The Julian Trilogy The Wages of Justice The Wages of Sin The Wages of Greed Nublian Chronicles II - The Felix Trilogy
|  | Book two from Nublian Chronicles I - The Julian Trilogy Who shall sit in judgment of the judges, should they become corrupt? Unholy alliance and weapon without defense, who shall free the worlds from the conscienceless? Who shall choose the one who cannot be corrupted to free all the fearful voiceless suffering injustice? Where lies the duty of an emperor? Only to his people? Or to all?
|  | Book three from Nublian Chronicles I - The Julian Trilogy Concubine's son, illegal witch child, consummate trader for a world in bondage. On Nublis he proved his worth. But the prophecy was only that one would be born who might have the strength to endure and end the bondage of a world.
|  | Shattered words, trust abused, maimed and slowly dying, who will hear the soliloquy of the silenced? Nublian Chronicles II - The Felix Trilogy Golden Silence Dark Angel The Artemesian Mandate |  | Sanctuary of peace in the grasp of demon spawn, love is forbidden to the one leashed between the realms. What price will he pay for tasting the forbidden? Part Two of Nublian Chronicles II - The Felix Trilogy
|  | Vice of men consuming greed, the defense awakens near too late. Hell hound and full moon, what price a demon to defend the light? Book VI in the Chronicles of Nublis Part Three: Nublian Chronicles II - The Felix Trilogy
|  | Beyond priceless is friendship to the one whose price has been established, to the one too useful to be allowed the title person.
|  | The 8th title of my Nublis sf/fantasy series and my first romance, Fortune's Hostage is a bittersweet story featuring a strongminded heroine with no looks whatsover. Princess Sybilla of Lodebar is forcibly married to her mortal enemy, Prince Darius of Illyria, and falls deeply in love with him. When she discovers that her reluctant bridegroom is carrying a torch for another woman who is as beautiful as she is not. Sybilla decides that all is fair in love and war and sets out to win him for herself.
|  | The much-acclaimed A Circle of Arcs, which is a unique blend of time travel, actual historical figures and speculative fiction. The sequel to A Circle of Arcs, A Distant Bell is in the works and is anxiously awaited by her readers. Joan of Arc and an alien sorcerer, time travel and a centuries-old mystery, Gilles de Rais on a modern city street, why?
|  | The Spirit Dogs of Sirius is the ninth title in Kate Saundby's acclaimed Nublis series and a Dream Realm Awards Finalist. Following the biggest heist of his career, interplanetary jewel thief Alar Zarkadon rescues the only daughter of the wealthiest man in the Interplanetary Synod and becomes a media hero. Since he's anyone but who he seems, the last thing Alar needs is public attention, and even his magical spirit dog, Min-Ha, can't help him get out of this one.
|  | Change your sex; change your life! One day thousand of gates suddenly and mysteriously appear on Earth. No one knows where they are from. Some think it is the start of an alien invasion. Others credit God. When the old and the sick go through these gates, they become young again and their illnesses disappear. But there are several problems! Not everyone makes it through the first time. Some people simply disappear. When you go through a gate, your sex changes -- men become women and women become men. And no one can go back through the gate a second time. Everyone who tries disappears. When Don accidentally falls through a gate and becomes Donna, he and his friends face a life-changing adventure, for THE SEX GATES are more than they seem to be.
|  | Aase’s Daughter is the tenth title in Kate Saundby’s acclaimed Nublis series and a Dream Realm Awards Finalist in the Cover Art category. When Jesse de Raven’s flyer strays off course and crashes on her isolated mountaintop, goatherd/mountaineer Linnea Aasedaater violates the most sacred precept of her mysterious Ursi tribe by rescuing an outsider. Her subsequent banishment sets a series of events in motion which will change the history of Jesse’s people and hers forever.
|  | False identities, the persistence of memory, and the refusal to admit that love can not save you, combine in a razor-edged crime novel that establishes Randall Silvis as one of the preeminent practitioners of the literary art. The hero of this novel, Mac Parris, isn?t who he appears to be. A wildlife photographer living under an assumed name, he knows firsthand that the most dangerous animal of all is the one behind the camera. He has spent his adult life hiding from the FBI and his own past, while locked in a feverish pursuit of revenge. Although a master of self-denial, Parris has not learned to subdue the one quality that might prove his undoing: his compassion for the other wounded creatures with whom he shares this planet. So when a young woman with secrets of her own asks for help in finding her brother’s killer, Parris puts his own safety at stake?along with his freedom, and maybe even his soul.
|  | After helping kill her husband to protect her child from his father’s Satanic Order, Margerite embarks on a dangerous deception to cover up the murder. She pretends to be an Order priestess to keep the others from taking Wolfram away, but finds she cannot shed this falsehood so easily. Given in marriage to her husband’s opponent to seal the end of the feud, she finds her youngest stepson has been instructed to continue her training in the black arts. |  | Blowing the whistle on one of the biggest food manufacturers carries a risk. Charles Turcott may have understood that he was taking a chance but the intentional use of unhealthy and adulterated food was endangering thousands of people throughout the world. He couldn?t just stand by and wait for people to die. |  | Before Little Mary came to The Three-Headed Circus, twenty-one-year old Harvey’s only worries were keeping his deceased father’s circus running and trying to get Tabs, the beautiful wire-walker, to notice him. Then Harvey meets Little Mary, a three-foot woman who impacts his circus in a way he could never imagine. There is more to this novel then meets the eye, I loved it!
|  | At night Sandi's perfect life seems less than perfect. The only child of a well-to-do family that runs an art gallery, in the light of day she's beautiful (although she doesn't think so), and engaged to a successful stockbroker. But at night, there are the whispers? Are the whispers trying to say something, or is she simply insane? Sandi doesn't understand, and is sure her family and fianc? won't either. She changes her major from art history to psychology to look for answers. Then, one evening in class, the professor tries an experiment in self-hypnosis and, the whispers get a voice, her voice.
|  | A lonely, disgruntled adventurer named Doc Cowles and his associate Stan Samuels encounter a prophetic woman while exploring the Egyptian ruins of Giza. Cowles and Samuels are enthralled by her captivating persona as they follow her through the embattled Middle East, and eventually to the United States. Within days they are joined by four others and as a team they journey across the country, struggling with their troubled pasts and their ominous futures.
|  | Zane Smith gives us a United States after the attacks on The World Trade Center. In this alternate reality, the US swings to an ultra right-wing position in which personal freedoms have been suspended. Interwoven with newspaper excerpts to portray the growing political and social atmosphere, Zane Smith places his characters in a time and place that could frighteningly become reality.
|  | Cold River: a survivor's story is about man's desire for freedom during a time when none existed. Jozef describes the village in which he grew up with such emotion and sadness that the reader can hear the snow crunching beneath his expectant mother's feet as she makes her way through the snow drifts. |  | The fabled Doomstones, in which reside the world's good and evil, have been wrested from their rightful guardians by Sekia Soulrender. Destroyed will be these stones of light and dark, order and chaos, unless the companions of Soulmender Ashroud can retrieve them. There are the Shepherd, possessed by a dead man's soul, the Fernfolk, ravaged by the Timing and Sundered from her Bondmate, the Irthmog king, held in thrall by a cursed weapon, and the bhujan, a beast who carries with it a shame beyond enduring. Can the companions stop Sekia from remaking the world in his own vile image? Can they defeat the Balgern, the Devourer of all that is good? Or will the Soulrender succeed in bringing eternal death and despair to the world? |  | Thirteen-year-old Ronnie, part of a trio of best friends that seems to be falling apart because Amy and Jimmy are growing up faster than she is, finds solace in the company of her island's eccentric catlady, an eighty-three-year-old retired concert pianist.
|  | A fantasy adventure based on an Icelandic myth for readers of all ages.
When Tory Simmons accidentally fell into the underworld during a school field trip he never dreamed that life could be so different. At that moment S?ggi’s warning of ?Once you get in you can?t get out!? was a shocking reminder that children do disappear every day without a trace. Tory was now faced with an unknown destiny in a forbidden territory harboring horrendous creatures beyond his imagination. He will explore unique trails and valleys, encounter magical friends as well as terrifying enemies to fulfill a prophesied fate that will determine the final outcome of the badlands and the protected territory.
|  | The Book of the Black Sun is thirty-two Lovecraftian stories arranged in eight clusters of four stories: a micro story, a flash piece, a short story and a longer short story. Each cluster is named after a chapter in the Book of the Black Sun. References to the Cthulhu Mythos, strange mandalas, spinning eldritch gates and other themes are woven throughout the book so that the reader learns more about the mythology of the Black Sun as they read along. The final result is a creepy, self-referential mandala in itself.
|  | Lady Rebecca seems to have a perfect life. A doting father, a man who loves her. But all that changes when a dark stranger enters her life and people begin to die, horribly. When fingers point toward her as being responsible, and thinking her love lost forever, Lady Rebecca finds herself forced to make a choice- wed a man she despises or be destroyed by the villagers, who distrust her because she has "The Power".
Lady Rebecca's choice leads to a centuries long search for Damien, the ark Sorcerer to gain vengeance for what he did to her and those she loved.
WARNING: Contains explicit adult situations.
|  | The Image of Christian is a fable about fame, celebrity, and other illusions. Christian answers a "help wanted" ad on the Internet and gets more than the job he desperately needs. His new boss, Grace, owns bits and pieces of this and that all over the world.
|  | In an erotic future society genetically enhanced pets have overrun the world and driven humans into vast barricaded enclaves, where social and sexual mores have undergone drastic changes. When an alien spaceship crashes in the wilds, two competing enclaves form expeditions to recover the advanced technology. A battle between them is certain, but first they must fight their way through an overgrown countryside where intelligent animals rule supreme. [EPIC 2000 Finalist]
|  | Book 3 of the Felix Trilogy. Wages of Deception takes place in the future, during a time when a new emperor is about to be crowned and take a new bride. He decides to take one last "fling" and switches places with his rogue half brother; resulting in surprises for both and the new bride to be!
|  | Georg has always known how his life would go. He would take over as Lord when his father died. But when his brother, Marcus, who has been studying with the wizards, suddenly dies, Georg is chosen to take his place. He is far from happy about this, but a member of his family has always been expected to work with the wizards. When they refuse to take his other brother, Edward. So he agrees to go.
Once there, he realizes there is something peculiar about his brother's death. Nobody seems to be willing to tell exactly what happened to Marcus. So he sets out to find out what happened. He begins by befriending the companions of his late brother. He soon finds out that his brother died from attempting to use a powerful magical relic. He also finds out that he also has the ability to use this relic. Will he agree to use this ability and accept his new position with the wizards?
|  | The Compact ending the "Atlantis thing" prohibited Diluvian interference on Terra. But treaties are made to be broken and, from the beginning, some Diluvians meddled. Others were assigned to observe and, occasionally, report back.
|  | THE MURDER GAME is a 70,000 word romantic mystery about a mystery game designer whose game goes murderously wrong. |  | On the remote grounds of an isolated Mississippi penitentiary, a long buried evil crawls towards the surface, the unbridled rage seething within it's rotted form matched only by the poisonous virus incubating inside it's surging veins. |  | What would happen if a hole in space suddenly appeared above the North Pole? Who stands ready to use the event In their tireless quest for power? And how would they do it? |  | [The Dark Staff Series -- Book 1]
Having the attention of the gods is not always a blessing...
The long, magical wars ended when the elves left the lands of men, conjuring an impenetrable barrier to keep the humans out of their new realm. They left man only with the sorcery he could create, taking all the creatures of magic to Ishan with them... except for one...
|  | Before & Beyond is a collection of stories by the supreme master of fantasy... Patrick Welch
...What can you expect to find within this volume? I won't even try to describe it. Nothing I say can prepare you for Patrick Welch. Even a man of words like me, can scarcely think of the appropriate adjectives to heap upon him. And being the modest fellow he is, it's unlikely that he'd do more than blush and turn away in any case.
At least on one level, I truly envy some of the people reading this intro. Those of you that have yet to experience your first Patrick Welch story ...because you have no idea of what's in store for you.
Those of you that have read him, know exactly what I'm talking about.
Steve Lazarowitz |  | Get ready for a very weird ride with these ten stories. Each is designed to chill your spine as you wander the border land between fact and fiction, reality and imagination, reason and insanity. Aliens, vampires, ghouls, ghosts, zombies and unbalanced lunatics all await you within these pages. A terrific assembly of twisted tales for Halloween or anytime. |  | The Nazi treatment of the Gypsies and other people during World War II is a matter of fact. Although mention is made of certain events and political and military leaders within the historical context of the period, this is a work of fiction and no reference is intended to living persons. |  | "The Orpheus Box" is the story of Thomas Edison’s etheragraph, an invention created for communicating with the dead. |  | Inyan is a stone-age hunter with a simple task: to hunt and kill something, alone and unaided, to earn the right to be called a man by his tribe. Yet gaining manhood involves a more difficult challenge, as a ghost from a previous life tempts him with sexual desires. Irresistible and absolutely evil, she seduces him yet again, as she has done so many times in the past. |  | When a laboratory technician on the verge of retirement accidentally infects himself with blood from an emergency room patient, he intends to report it?until government agents swarm the hospital, confiscating every sample of blood taken from the patient?at gunpoint. Deciding not to report the incident just yet for fear of being thrown into an isolation chamber, he goes home?and falls violently ill. By the time he recovers and returns to work, scary things are happening. Everyone who has come into contact with that patient is being systematically killed. On the run, he accidentally infects a woman living in the shadows of the underworld. She becomes ill as well, but survives. Then they begin feeling younger?and younger. Why would the government want to suppress something like this? After barely escaping federal gunmen, the two of them set out on a journey to try to find out what kind of infection they are harboring--while still retaining their freedom. Their path takes them on an odyssey across Texas and into the mountains of Arkansas, where they find that their adventures are just beginning?and may lead them all the way off earth! |  | Have you been terrified lately?
Would you like to meet a shape-shifting coyote or a cannibalistic beetle? Or does the prospect of discovering a valuable Indian artifact intrigue you? Perhaps you?re more of the hunting type, or an adventurer of the mysterious and unknown.
|  | One picture may be worth a thousand words, but is it worth your life? Female photojournalist Glenn Prentiss becomes entangled in murder and espionage in this riveting political thriller. Who is threatening her: the CIA, the ex-boyfriend, or the American military? Or could it even be the man who is on the run with her? Extreme Exposure takes you from the pastoral settings of rural western Maryland to the nation’s capitol as Glenn races to keep one step ahead of danger.
|  | Days on the Banks of the Acheron is a collection of stories that will put you on the edge of your seat and grab you by the throat! |  | "Frightful October" takes you across shadowed cornfields and along the twilight streets of suburban neighborhoods, beneath dark forests and through haunted houses, in this short story collection centered around Halloween and the darker aspects of the fall month. These chilling tales can be whispered before an autumn bonfire, or in the confines of an evening chair, but regardless of the surroundings, the terrifying atmosphere has already been set in place, and you're the invited guest. You'll have shivers crawling your spine, as you turn each dreadful page of this wickedly delightful book.
|  | Snow is falling. The fire is in the hearth. The presents are under the tree and it is time for ... horror! Since Dickens' Eberneezer Scrooge, Christmas has been a holiday of horrors. GHOULTIDE GREETINGS offers fifteen tales to add a chill to your holiday season. So break out the eggnog and prepare to meet the haunted clock in the hall, the strange ornament that no one remembers putting there, the little girl lost in the storm, the curse of a thousand cuts and many more.
|  | Since her grandfather's death three years ago, Joanna Blake has been unable to leave her house. Every time she walks through a doorway, she walks into the past. As a result, she has become a sickly recluse. Concerned villagers send the new doctor to pay a house call on her. Sparks fly between the two and, determined to prove that she's not insane, she brings the doctor into the past with her. This begins a series of adventures in Edwardian England as the two attempt to resolve their separate issues with events and people of the past, and they grow increasingly closer to each other.
|  | Step into a world of wizards, magic and monsters. Armed only with an ancient scroll and an enchanted stone, fifteen-year old Tokar and his twelve-year old sister, Laila, must battle the evil wizard Var to save their father, friends and homeland. |  | WARNING: Mad World Collide is an outrageously zany sci-fi comedy that will laugh you into the funny farm.
In year 2021, Robert Davichi thinks he has the worst computer job in the world --until a hacker threatens his life and starts bringing down corporations and governments. In the midst of this the military tries to conquer America via the Internet, a neurotic computer gains consciousness, and starts communicating with evil incompetent aliens from afar---and the President finds an abundance of gas in his alimentary canal. Robert's life is thrown into cosmic chaos trying to solve one disaster after another. The story careens between Japan, America, and a spaceship orbiting near the moon.
"The book will entertain a wide range of readers" according to Peter Heyrman, a fiction writer who is published in Twilight Zone magazine. Peter, with a sense for the warped, edited Mad Worlds Collide stating it is "funny, and on the edge".
|  | The demented mind behind GRAVEROBBERS WANTED (NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY) and SINGLE WHITE PSYCHOPATH SEEKS SAME is back with an another outrageous blend of the humorous and the horrific. Extremely large and vicious red fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) are on the loose in Tampa, Florida, and those who don't immediately become ant chow must figure out how to stop this attack before the entire city becomes overrun by the creatures. Whether you love ants, hate ants, or have no real opinion of them as long as they're not currently stinging you, you'll love this over-the-top, action-packed, tongue-in-cheek insects-on-the-rampage thriller!
|  | n 1949 Ronald Shepard, the son of servants to a millionaire playboy living on a private island off the coast of South Carolina, meets Marilyn Monroe. This begins the child's movement from innocence to the eventual experience that results in an obsession with sex, power, greed and ambition that shapes the rest of his life. |  | Tarot cards, rock stars and magick ? oh, my!
|  | Shadows of the Rose is a varied collection of short stories, but all have one thing in common, an ending with a twist. They take place in various times, various places, from medieval witch trials, to the far reaches of space and future.
|  | The highly anticipated sequel to The Pet Plague...
The Pet Plague began on earth with genetically engineered pets with near-human intelligence getting loose and practically overrunning the world, with perhaps the only chance for salvation a downed alien spaceship. Now in Space Pets, Jamie Da Cruz and his buxom girlfriends, along with his loyal animal companions, Fuzzy Britches the multihued cat and Woggly the dog are forced by circumstances into exploring other worlds suitable for humans in an untested spaceship. Their quest is complicated by enemy humans aboard who want the ship for themselves and will use any means--including sexual seduction of Jamie--to capture it. Space Pets is an epic, erotic journey in search of a new home for humanity--but in the end it might turn out that earth is still the best the universe can offer, if only it can be tamed again! Watch for more stories to come in The Pet Plague Universe.
|  | Eleven-year-old Tawnee Morgan and her toddler sidekick, Kira, are on a predestined adventure in the Underworld. Their task is to collect the missing treasures that will restore the Magical Pond’s powers and save the Protected Territory from the Gorgon’s rule. Guided by a kindly and wise unicorn, the threesome clash with evil mythical characters like the notorious Griffon. Throughout the journey, the ruthless Gorgon and her partner, the Gargoyle, add more stumbling blocks to the challenge. Unable to aid the brave trio with their quest, Tory, Margr?t, and the Innocents wait, wondering who will become the next ruler of the Protected Territory?or if they will all perish. |  | In the mid-32nd century, kids still went to school, still had teachers, still had rivalries. They were pretty much the same as kids from any other century.
Renee Goletsuki was not normal.
Renee had many problems fitting in with the other children at school. Since her parents were always away, she had trouble fitting in at home. And born of a homo Sapiens mother and a homo Magicus father, Renee had trouble fitting in anywhere.
She was tired of having trouble. Now it was time to make some
|  | All Maggie O?Hara ever wanted was a nice, normal family. Living alone in a small town in Ohio, her dreams seem to come true when she discovers a family she never knew?3,000 miles away in Ireland.
Her mother’s family welcomes her with open arms.
Her father’s family is trying to kill her?and they?re not the only ones!
Meanwhile, posing as a pub singer is "Brian," the Daoine Sidhe assassin who is irresistibly drawn to Maggie, while under orders to destroy her.
Maggie discovers her ancient roots in modern-day Dublin. Her father bequeathed her both a gift?her half-fairy heritage?and a curse. She is a Nexus, a conduit from the magical world of Tir na Nog to the mortal realm.
Touch a Nexus and your wish will come true! |  | Immortals are a race so illusive most believe them a fairy tale of space. Many tales differ, but all declare them the most deadly race in the universe with a technology beyond imagining and physical abilities beyond belief. With powers so vast, they have paid little attention to humanity. Until now. Xenda, a human colony of royalty, castles, and courtly lifestyle, was a quiet pastoral world until the arrival of two Immortal women who vied for the love of the planet's king. But before they left, he was dead, and the planet and its people were ravaged by invaders. Peace came with the defeat of evil Fionna by Dia, but now Fionna is back, and Dia is dead. To save this world, Col. Val Grant and his crew of the finest minds in the galaxy face an enemy who cannot be beaten.
|  | They knew it was wrong to purchase a kidney off the Chinese black market. But what the Taylor brothers didn?t know was that its unwilling donor was an executed prisoner--and an immortal 5,000-year-old being from Chinese mythology. Pursuing them to Washington, DC, this ancient king will stop at nothing to recover what was once his.
Inspired by the true story of how the People's Republic of China sells organs harvested from its deathrow prisoners.
|  | THE SOUL CAGES is the story of Sarah, who as a child is captured by Valek, and taken to his soul cages on Solis. Valek is in the business of selling Solance, a mind reading serum that takes human souls as a major ingredient.
At the onset of the novel, Sarah and her sister, Amana have manages to escape the soul cages, only to be ambushed at the Allerton Circle (a gateway to another world). A mysterious man who arrives through the Allerton Circle, sporting a shield and a sword...
|  | Twilight Crossings is an exciting anthology featuring novellas by four of the most intriguing new voices in fantasy and speculative fiction today?Jeanne Allen, Jeanine Berry, Shannah Biondine and Sheri L. McGathy.
Twilight...a time when reality blurs and a universe of infinite possibilities seems to shimmer before our bewitched eyes.
Twilight Crossings?four novellas that will transport you to dazzling new worlds...
|  | A clerk working in the census bureau discovers a series of anomalies in the population of a small city located in the Ozark Mountains. Intrigued, the clerk continues to investigate. He finds that, on average, the population of the city and surrounding valley, are a little smarter, less religious, more thrifty, marry less, have a higher level of education, are more sexually liberated, have fewer illnesses and many other positive traits. The city also refuses government money for schools and roads, has little crime and no sign of racial unrest. None of these factors would mean much taken alone, but together, they spell out a population that is distinctly skewed from the normal. Surprisingly, hardly anyone in the valley realizes that most of them are different from the average. They simply think they live in a good place among good people. Then the investigation starts... |  | "Undying Love" is an erotic love story, set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Northern New Mexico. Would-be author Richard Curry and his friend, John are camped on the western edge of the Sangr? de Cristo Mountains of Northern New Mexico. Fifty years ago, while camping in the area, Curry discovered a hidden valley, nestled deep in the mountains - a valley that doesn't appear on any map - where he found a village of strange folk who have had no contact with the outside world since the wagon train arrived in 1850. There, he met the village Healer's daughter, Eve, a beautiful, sexy, apparent 18-year old.
This is the story of how they met, fell in love, and ultimately were separated, how Curry devoted his life to trying to return, and the awesome secret of Blessed Valley that the rest of the world must never learn: neither Eve, the settlers, nor the tribe of fair-skinned "Indians" at the other end of the valley have aged since they arrived.
WARNING: This book contains adult situations with descriptive sexual content.
|  | The narcotics underworld of the 70s was a deadly place, even for a man named Lucky. Beneath the shallow surface of glitz and glamour lay the dark depths of life against the law. In limbo somewhere between the hippie age and the selfish 80's a band of castaways tries to keep alive a dream of freedom and friendship.
|  | A novel of modern Buddhism.
Materialism engulfs the U.S. and Japan, but?.
...a small Buddhist Camelot blooms from the corruption of the martial arts in America, the powerful secret doctrines of an obscure Japanese Buddhist sect weave five young Americans into an epic of love, treachery and mysticism, this unblinking trans-Pacific novel charts an intricate game of strategy, romance and betrayal as two dynamic women, and three alpha males, vie on a spirit quest into the jaws of Hollywood’s lust and wealth.
WAZA? The Work is just begun.
|  | A thousands years from now they will still be faced with the same problems...
For the past two hundred years, Longforest has been the home of a collection of people who call themselves 'The Company', a band of warriors, priests, druids, and a few who defy easy description. Based in the druid community, they have defended their home and sought to keep un-natural creatures out of the world. They are not an army, nor do they follow any King or leader except the one they appoint. In every major conflict, the Company has been present to bring an end to the war either by making peace, or defeating the aggressor.
|  | Alexa is keeping a secret from her husband and being half werewolf isn?t it. After all, he’s a full-blood. Despite their abnormalities, Matt and Alexa York have settled into suburbia and gone out of their way to look like the couple next door. |  | This collection of short stories is a great way to introduce yourself to Fictionwise Author Of The Year Darrell Bain. The stories are annotated by the author and interspersed with excerpts from his popular newsletter as well as articles published elsewhere. Read about the little girl who can talk to animals, but no one believes her. About a young autistic boy who changes the world by playing with magnets. About an invasion by aliens who look like birds. Find out about the strange pets Neanderthals keep. Discover how a loser in the sex wars uses science to enhance his chances, with catastrophic results. Learn how the world ended?or did it? Laugh at the antics of authorities trying to corral a grade school supergenius who won?t be stymied in her quest for knowledge. These and other stories will give you hours of reading pleasure as you delve into the fiction and non-fiction writing of Darrell Bain. |  | Pilot had been dead for just over 5000 years. But he still got around pretty well! It’s amazing what a demon in the service of Satan can get into. Inside his ancient leather jacket, a brown rat stirred, troubled by dreams of cats no doubt. Pilot’s nightmares were far worse. It’s not easy to forget 300 years in the Lake of Fire. Now he sat astride a large and dangerous jet-bike, the best that 23rd century military technology could supply. The rat woke and crawled up onto his shoulder, sat and surveyed the view. Beautiful green rolling hills with azure blue skies punctured with puffy clouds of grey anti-aircraft missile explosions. It almost looked like Wales. Pilot looked at his pet rat, an animal that inspired almost universal hatred. ?What will we do today?? he asked his familiar. ?Kill, maim and torture?? he said, imagining that the rat had answered, as after all, a rat cant talk. ?Ah, the usual so!? He pressed an immaculately manicured thumb to the starter button, and with a lion-like growl the engine started. With no ceremony or parting quip, just a fly catching smile, he flew off towards the distant gunfire, the grass and wild flowers bowing to him in his jet-stream wake. He would add his own bit of homegrown Hell to the conflict. After all, practice makes perfect, and he had been in practice for thousands of years.
|  | Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. |  | In the skies over war torn Europe, a Lancaster bomber with its crew is fighting for its life. Myers Stone had exchanged his books on Archaeology to help fight this war. His role as a mid upper gunner lets him shoot at the enemy. Unknown to him, the gunner in the forward turret holds a secret so important that he and his country will do anything to find it. Karl Wurt is new to the crew, an American of German birth who has come to help fight the war, but he holds a secret and is now following a plan that will force the Lancaster down into the hands of Hitler’s forces. His secret is held inside a spy pencil. The microdots of three tablets from the era of the King of the Lydians, the famous and wealthy Croesus will give the German historians and archaeologists the location of the lost fortune of Croesus and his treasure house of gold.
|  | Herman Melville said it best when he proclaimed that every path eventually leads to the sea. For it is the sea that holds our most sacred and terrifying fears, yet it also holds a glorious mysticism over us as a race, an attraction so strong that most of us flock to beaches, river banks, creeks, and lakes at every opportunity to stare out into the vast blueness and wonder: what's out there?
Take my hand, Dear Reader, and swim with me through this journey of sixteen tales of watery terror. As we swim, if something reaches out of the darkness and gropes for your ankle, if something pulls you deeper into the depths of liquid madness, if your breath is stolen from you and you find yourself inhaling nothing but muddied water... do not fear, for it is just the ocean reclaiming what is already hers: your soul.
|  | Let your eyes adjust to the darkness contained within this unparalleled tome of terrifying poetry. Let yourself be drawn down into the mausoleum of decayed verbiage and grim visions, meeting the poets your mortician always warned you about. These seventeen international authors gathered in the cemetery are already well known within horror poetry circles for their diverse imaginations. Deftly shifting from free verse to sonnets, from grotesque to darkly comical, the Cemetery Poets scream from beyond the grave with deadly accuracy. Editor Peggy Jo Shumate asks, "Do you have a dread of shadowy places?" The answer, after reading Cemetery Poets: Grave Offerings, will undoubtedly be a resounding yes! Step inside the cemetery gates and
savor every wretched flavor of fear ever conceived.
|  | Ireland. Home to incredibly green grass, rocky shores and magic. And evil. It was fear of facing that evil that had kept Cassie McGuire away for ten long years. |  | What scares you?
Whatever your reason for needing to be scared, I'm happy to report that this book should do the job for you. Gail Davis, Eric S. Brown, and John Grover have all entertained with their stories in the Swamp, and many other publications, both on the web and in print. This collection of their tales cover a broad range of settings and experiences, and I have no doubt that the depth of the talents of these new stars on the scene will delight and disturb you.
|  | ?Do not fear me. Fear what lives within me.?
In 1839, Kevin Eston makes a pact with an evil spirit in order to save his life. He is also granted conditional immortality- any person who takes his life will in turn be slain by the bloodthirsty demon that he harbors. For nearly two centuries after pledging his soul, he has wandered the land, avoiding human contact as much as possible, for fear of the consequences of interaction. In late 2001 he returns to Sagawaukee, a small Minnesota town that stands where an Indian nation of the same name once existed. A century ago he found amidst the Sagawaukee people the greatest peace he had ever known, but now, in modern times, only ongoing strife awaits him. Before Kevin even enters the town proper, he is involved in an altercation which leads to murder, and from that point onwards, bloodshed begets more bloodshed?
|  | Are you a single mom?
Me too. I've been raising two kids on my own for about two and a half years now. It hasn't always been easy, but when my daughter comes up behind me to hug me and tell me I'm the best mom in the world, it sure is worth it!
I've learned a lot since I've been on my own. I've had to. Now I'd like to share what I've learned with others.
|  | Have you ever thought how much kinder, and gentler society would be if only women ruled the world? Author Sandra Faella has, and she offers us a glimpse of just such a future in her romantic fantasy ?Fallen Angel?.
|  | They're back! Moses Mneh, Rita Ten, Walter Centaurus, and the evil President of the New Worlds Confederacy live again in this reissue of the SF cult classic of the 1980s. A mixed band of humans and renegade Simminoids races against time to build Space Ark-Earth's last hope to escape an exploding supernova...and the dark force that will pursue them to the very limits of the universe.
|  | Greed brought them to the land of the Inca and small pox and civil war allowed the Spaniard Pizarro with his cannons, steel breastplates and horses to conquer one of the Greatest Empires in the Western world. |  | A wide-eyed paleographer from Antares arrives on the Greek isles to study ancient inscriptions with a sharp-tongued communications professor. Blundering through the lexical labyrinth, they discover love among the runes, until one gloss too many uncovers a thread of deception that leads straight to disaster for both their planets. |  | A meteorite crashes to earth and a strange virus kills all the adults in the world. What would you do? Ryan and his brother travel south, stopping in towns on the way, searching for survivors, determined to save mankind. They've made a promise - never give up - never say die, and always help anyone they can find, even when those children seem to have reverted back to savages.
|  | Marc Sanchez leads you on eighteen trips into mayhem, madness, and the macabre. You?ll witness murder by Internet, some very personal demons, some excessively assertive non-smokers, a couple of everyday psychos, a dangerous Goth chick or two, an absinthe brewer that is out of this world, a handful of unusual vampire hunters, the harvesting of human endorphins for profit, and a few other surreal and frightful nightmares. Twice nominated for the Literary Pushcart Prize, Sanchez will spin your psyche and introduce you to his rabid muse.
RAMSEY CAMPBELL says this collection is "Raw, dark, and bleak."
|  | Second Edition - "a Robert Ludlum like thriller!"
DIVERTING THE BUDDHA examines the impact that the politically well connected have on our world. It is a large canvas novel that picks up were THE QUIET AMERICAN left off. As with the Graham Greene novel, this work looks in depth at the devastation political elites create when undermining grassroots democracy. This novel uses actual events to make clear just how thwarting a people*s democratic aspirations leads those thwarted to undertake the desperate acts we label as terrorism. |  | This epic adventure story allows its readers to witness a birth: the nativity of a most abhorred entity, Death. Immortal people once lived in a world filled with blessings. Death, whether from natural causes, aging or disease, could not touch them. With gods and magic at their fingertips, the inhabitants still felt a voidinside: an emptiness arising from unhappiness
|  | One by one they walk to the podium to tell their story. Family members whose relatives became infamous for crimes of unspeakable violence and unbridled insanity. They unweave their tales to an auditorium filled with young medical students tasked with writing extensive essays on the criminally insane mind. The victims of the gene pool step forward, some young and some old, some in good spirits and others solemn and grim, and regale the fascinated group with tales...
Every family has buried skeletons locked away. Some simply refuse to remain in the coffin?.
|  | Denizens of the Cityscape and Other Vengeful Verses
Are they stories? Are they poems? Once you start reading, it won?t really matter. From the secrets of ?The Village Pond? and the ?The Old Stone Mill,? to the strange encounters with ?The Vine? and ?The Jigsaw Puzzle,? to the cast of doomsday characters that make up the epic ?Denizens of the Cityscape,? these short yet stylized visions produce a novels-worth of cold chills and dark truths. Whether you?re a fan of fiction or a fan of poetry, these sixteen poetic tales will be unlike anything you?ve ever read.
|  | "The admonitions were all around; theologians beseeched humanity to bring themselves to God, the Scriptures enlightened us of the Second Coming, oracles and seers foretold of the inevitable. The end, indeed. Armageddon or the Apocalypse as some would call it. Revelations had descended from Heaven with a vengeance. Humanity stood in dismay as God showered the world with tribulation.
We've all read the tales of the Apocalypse, but Augur provides a twist that will take one woman and you into the belly of hell only to rise again in preparations for the next 1,000 years."
|  | The long awaited sequel to A Circle of Arcs; this fast-moving historical time travel has been likened to riding a kayak through the rapids.
If you were blind and could only see in your dreams, would you ever want to wake up?
|  | Masters of the Sex Gates is the highly anticipated sequel to the mindblowing novel, The Sex Gates. |  | BFGS is an exploration of human experience and emotion. Chimera & Severin lead you into the underbelly of society - all life is here, from pre-history to post-apocalypse. The players are all here - the black sheep of the family, the tortured artist, the unborn, the Porn Star, the murderer, the Underground Icon, fetishists, vampires, sadists, goths, body modifiers, obsessives.
BFGS is a must have for all connoisseurs of erotic horror.
'Dark, erotic, edgy, tense, strange, and pure dead brilliant. This book will make more than the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.' -- Kailleaugh Andersson
WARNING: This title contains EXTREMELY graphic sexual content.
|  | "It illuminates. It demonizes. It pulls the strings of the puppets controlling the strangest of passion plays within a corporate structure. Everyone, every thing, is a target of Mr. Donihe’s wit and off-kilter worldview...
There are shades of Philip K. Dick’s wonderfully inventive The Divine Invasion (minus the lurid pop singer), trading up Zen Buddhism for unconscious Gnosticism. Malachi manifests where Elijah would stand revealed; and the Roald Dahl-like midgets hold the pink laser beam shining into our hero’s mind. Religion is lambasted under the scrutiny of Corporate money- crunchers, and nothing is what it seems." - From the introduction by Jeffrey A. Stadt.
|  | SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNPLUGGED is a post-modern fantasy filled with anti-heroes and anti-climaxes. An allegorical tale, the story satirizes many of our everyday obsessions, including: the pursuit of wealth and materialism; the thirst for empty spectacles and violence; and climbing whatever social, political, or economical ladder is before us. Join the man and his Nemesis, the obese tabby, and a host of others for a nightmare roller coaster ride from realm to realm, microcosm to microcosm: The Carnival, The Fray, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and The Court of The Crimson Ey'd King. Pretentious gobbledygook or an unparalleled anti-epic of the surreal and absurd? Read on and find out. |  | A grand epic wasteland of surreal pandemic plague. Pollution quotient in the southern delta nether regions of the state of Louisiana, the dustbin of the Mississippi river and the nation, whose motto is the "Sportsman's Paradise" but is a paradise of colorful denizens all grappling for a slice of lassez bon temps roule, "let the good times roll", but now all are grappling for their very lives. Nature had to fight back sooner or later, and now what will happen to this tourist state gone amuck with middle-ages plague?
| | | | Above all things, what do the damned desire? Company. And of course, the devil drives a Volvo? But is this the devil or the bintu llha, daughter of god, one of the true creators, or some crazy woman off her face? Without knowing, Adam is drawn to her and falls completely, but does not fail completely. What can the the devil do with the key to heaven?
| | There is power in the magic of childhood. When Lord Roland returns from the Crusades with his mind broken by war and starvation, it is only young Smudge who can soothe him, adapt to his imagined world, and begin the mending process. But Robert has no intention of allowing his brother-in-law’s mind to repair. Perhaps the only thing that can save Smudge, the only thing that is truly ?real?, is the power represented by a finger of tin.
| | The gods have retired. A great future has come apart?the Macro-Virus has reduced almost all the technical wonders of the settled worlds to a pre-computer chip level. And, naturally, civil war has erupted. The Older Worlds Republic are desperate to retain their crumbling hold of New Potomac from the upstart Federacy of the Free Worlds, and now people are being used to wield the terrifying weapons that were once attached to remotely controlled droids. Sebastion, a writer of war fiction, is now a war correspondent for the Republic, and marching under the same sapphire sky as the troops: confused, poorly trained, misinformed. How implicit is the writer in all of this? How much does the pen owe the sword?
|  | From the Pushcart-nominated author of "Szmonhfu", comes another grim tale of personal humiliation and social disease. "United States" was written in the late 1980's in the north of England when Goths ruled the world, parties were the only reason to go on drawing dole and this yet-to-be author clearly should have known better. The novel is split down the middle like a pickled brain.
Part One: The Founding Fathers is an inexcusable effrontery, exploring contemporary attitudes towards personal space and the role of chemical enhancement on the group ethos; a desperate yearning for the way of old flesh.
Part Two: The Bill Of Rights is a probing interrogation dealing with physical simulations of personal identity in a future terrorised by biochemical liberty and blind to the travesty of human traffic; a begrudging acceptance of the global terror to come.
|  | Jane Templeton Rice is the highest paid fashion model in her industry. Her whole life stretches out in front of her like extravagent courses in a Chinese banquet. The night of the Gaultier show why did Jane go 'walkabout'?
We follow this delicate young redhead on a blistering erotic adventure of discovery. But we soon find out that Jane has a problem. Her ability to dredge up the very deepest fantasies from her lovers is both an erotic firestorm and a millstone around her slender neck. How pure the intensions of her lovers must be. How honourable. For one small slip of conscience will result in a filthy bloodbath of man-raped sexual identity unwoven. And what of the SZMONHFU, the alien race of super beings, what is their part in Jane's illustrious future?
SZMONHFU in many ways tells the tale of Pinocchio - but in the biogenetic horrotica world of Hertzan Chimera that impending maturity takes on a haunted inevitability stripped from the original kids' story.
|  | ANIMAL INSTINCTS started out as a concept very similar to some of the key themes in Doctor Moreau’s Island of genetic freaks ? although it became more of a social than genetic study of cross pollination.
What would happen if you transplanted animal mores, needs and, yes, instincts into contemporary cultural settings. How would the reader perceive the twisted narrative? Could this animal mentality affect the way the stories were actually written. The way a panting gazelle is torn apart by hyenas, could the very fabric of the written sentence suffer grammatical shearing and tearing of structure when subjected to the animal passion of these tales?
In this jaw-dropping collection of pure animal lust you will find reflections of the horror of the whim of survival and how it could at any moment be upon us in its hordes, devouring our minds. Bears feed at salmon-fat summer beaches. A bullfighter is gutted open by his love for the joust. Crab shells hide emerging sexual swap. Macaque monkeys greet as only they know how.
It will all seem very confusing, disgusting, amoral and wrong ? and it is all you deserve.
|  | DEPTHS OF SAVAGERY is a collection of 13 tales of barbaric heroic fantasy. Through tales involving ancient Celts, Vikings, other-worldly Crusaders, and Confederate Guerillas, the human animal is dissected to the bone. Desperate times call for desperate actions, and the primal callings of the inner soul are put to the test in this savage collection. Whether it is stories of ancient Celtic warfare, Viking society, aboriginal paganism, or psychometric archeologist Elijah Blackthorn observing the past, DEPTHS OF SAVAGERY taps the veins of the human soul and pushes one to the brink to decide: how much is it worth to survive? Come trod through the bloody footprints of history and feel the primal pulse of the beast that is mankind.
|  | An eclectic, erotic and fun collection of science fiction, fantasy, humor and non-fiction by Darrell Bain, author of the best selling science fiction novel The Sex Gates. Includes the short novella God vs Boilerroom McScam. With an introduction by Deron Douglas. |  | The king is dead, long live the queen! Well, not if the King of Nadwich and the dead monarch's three royal ministers have anything to about it. It's up to Sir Christopher Evergild, the Royal Champion, to see that the new queen survives to take her throne--even if she is so ugly she's been locked away for twenty years with only trolls for company.
Chris is prepared to do his duty, even if The Ugly Princess does turn out to be the lunatic she's always been rumored to be. What he isn't ready for is having his entire world turned upside down and inside out?and having to decide between love and the fear that has haunted him most of his life.
|  | Step into the mind of the horror writer and the artist, as G. W. Thomas shows you the ropes with fourteen articles on creating horrors of your own. He talks about writing flash fiction, micro fiction, collaborating, the dos and don't with editors, how to write a better Cthulhu Mythos tale, going to conventions, how to price artwork, how to promote yourself as an artist and more. The book is profusely illustrated with finely-crafted cartoons that won't help you in the least!
|  | Come, take my hand and journey with me through ten levels of Hell that will leave you shaken, stirred, and remembering the tormented screams of the damned long into the black night. Live in the nightmares of a small girl plagued by nightmares that are all too real, feeling the terror beating in her little heart as a witch straight from Hell haunts her every dream. Follow as we descend into the horror of sleeping with the dead, which only those sacred few will ever know or understand. Take a stroll on a deserted beach, but be careful not to step on the bloated little body that has washed up there with its bulbous eyes accusing you of murder. Join us as we watch the angel of death come to take our beloved into the next life, all the while wondering if we will be received in the same gracious and loving manner. Join us, for death is a beautiful evil that none can escape.
|  | This collection of truly superb horror it a must for all readers interested in only the best! |  | Space Stations and Graveyards is a collaborative effort involving three of the most talented young horror writers today. Space Stations and Graveyards is a collection of 24 stories that reflect their love of science fiction and horror. And many of the stories within are actually an amalgam of the two genres.
This book is a treat for the mind and soul... a Must Read for those familiar with these talented writers... and a Gotta Try for those that are not!
|  | Editor John Edward Lawson welcomes you to a world where flesh-greed rules the day. He has assembled a host of writers who are committing the worst atrocities known to man...to paper. This anthology aims to go where no others have, beyond the "mouth of madness" or the "belly of the beast" and straight into the minds of cannibals. The subject matter alone is guaranteed to raise eyebrows even among readers who have had everything thrown at them.
Of Flesh and Hunger promises to be the most controversial anthology of the new millennium, shocking readers not only with its extreme subject matter but with the deft prose our authors specialize in. The stories are at turns surreal, comic, gory, drenched with atmosphere, and action-packed; one common thread is the unique take each author offers us, keeping the subject fresh for your consumption. Take a seat at the feast and put yourself at the mercy of flesh and hunger.
|  | Who believes in ghosts? Tate Stirling doesn?t, but with all of the weird things that keep happening in her cabin, she’s finding it difficult to discount the chance of paranormal intervention. She can?t tell anyone, though, especially not Piers Lafournier, her new boss. He?ll use any excuse to run her out of town. And there’s no way on earth is going back to New Orleans where a painful past waits to drag her down once more. Ghosts, spirits and mysterious night visitors be damned. She’s staying put--and Piers might as well start getting used to it. |  | Nearly one-thousand years after his death, the dire mistakes of the great wizard Aldulan have borne their hideous fruit. Demons from the depths of the world of Arioc have clawed their way to the surface, vowing to invade the land of Termeydiun.
|  | By 3015, the world has changed a great deal; it is now divided into two main blocks comprised of The East and The West. Many of the old prejudices appear to have disappeared. A ‘gene’ for homosexuality has been discovered and has subsequently wiped out all justification for discrimination based on sexual orientation.
|  | Who wouldn’t welcome the opportunity to do some things over with better results the second time around? College student Jane Whitley unexpectedly inherits a turn of the century old hotel that serves as a nursing home for the elderly residents of a hidden coastal town in North Carolina. She moves from her New York home in Brooklyn to tiny St Helena’s Island and Seneca Hollow. But inheritances come in all shapes and sizes, and rainy days always seem a bit gloomier when your memories are filled with melancholy. Jane is still coming to terms with her new life when hurricane Gordon barrels down on Eatonville and a future she’s not sure she wants. |  | Darrell and Betty Bain spent a year working in Saudi Arabia. While there, they took two vacations, one to Damascus and one to Bangkok. Betty wrote letters to the folks back home describing what they saw and did. Darrell was so impressed with his wife’s descriptive powers that he made copies of the letters. They’ve remained in his files for almost twenty seven years now. While embarking on a remodeling of their office, Darrell found the letters and re-typed them, then submitted them for publication so that others might enjoy Betty’s letters, too.
This is her first letter, describing their vacation to Damascus, Syria. It’s been a while and perhaps the city has changed some, but its well worth reading Betty’s talented prose as she relates their experiences and describes the city. |  | The Second Book in the AEssyrian World Series, the saga continues...
This series centers around the turbulent but steamy love affair between an 800 year old alien general and a human doctor from Earth. Book One in the series is Naked Venom. |  | Femmes de la Brume . . . Women of the Mist . . .
Will introduce you to the women of speculative fiction and characters that will forever reside within your memory as well as the Mist. These tales are born from the imaginations of beautiful mystical women. Separately, they shine, command attention? but together, they have become the Mist, inhabiting your dreams . . . or perhaps your nightmares.
BONUS: Included within the paperback is an introduction by Tamara Thorne.
|  | There’s something strange about the beautiful coyote that starts roaming around the farm. Then it disappears for a while. When it returns, there’s something even stranger about it, and it’s not just its deteriorating appearance. Now it seems to be having an effect on Bob, one so horrible he will no longer… |  | Book Three in the Chronicles of Tiralainn - Volume Five
The adventure concludes in this, the last installment in the BOOK OF DRAGONS saga. The long journey is almost over for Rhyden Fabhcun and the Oirat. They've made it to the ancient, underground city of Heese, but so have their mortal enemies, the Khahl. The ruthless spirit-queen Mongoljin has grown more powerful than even the Oirat's greatest ally, Trejaeran Muirel, and in the end, it will be up to Rhyden to face her in a desperate final stand. And if Rhyden fails, he'll not only lose everyone and everything that has grown dear to him-but also face banishment in a nightmarish realm of eternal darkness. |  | Just prior to the war’s end, Merline, a Gaean spacer-fighter, gets captured, after learning that Slade, a Second Corps captain, deals in illicit drugs. Slade confines her in a military penal work force. Hogar, a former Second Corps captain serving a twenty-Earthyear sentence, fights the other criminals, and prevents gang rape. Desperate, owing to his inability to protect Merline from lecherous guards, he employs bribery to produce an investigation. Marlenn, Commander of Second Corps, informs Merline that the war just ended. In the battle of wits pitting the mistreated prisoner of war against the Commander seeking to conceal what happened to her, the quick-witted woman strikes a deal whereby she marries Hogar, who accompanies her to Gaea.
Hogar discovers that Merline is the captain of a rock-hopper ship. After winning a fierce battle with scalded pride, he agrees to serve as Mate. Hogar defuses the anger of Riley, a Gaean crewmember who hates Columbians. Forced to assume the responsibility of heading a Gaean family while serving as his wife’s second officer, Hogar avoids the pitfalls abounding in a new life as fascinating as it is difficult.
Eventually, Hogar gains the full respect of the four crewmembers, all of whom bear painful emotional scars. Hogar prevents a tragic outcome when Riley seeks to wed Danica. He secures a bride for Merline’s nephew in classic Gaean fashion, albeit with a few variations of his own. The competitive Columbian slowly metamorphoses into a Gaean family-head who feels at home in his new world. This stirring narrative, the first volume of the two-volume fifth novel of the series, plus its sequel, Trial By Fire: Final Reckoning, continue an ongoing saga of futuristic action, adventure and romance.
|  | [The Dark Staff Series -- Book 2]
As a prince in hiding comes of age, his world is beset by unexplained evil. Brendan, The Keeper of the Song, is a former slave who became King's Bard, and has kept many secrets down through the years. Not the least of those secrets is that he's not entirely human. Loyal to the royal family, he undertakes a mission to reach the prince and deliver unsettling news of an unexpected danger in the guise of a magician named Tabor who wants the throne for himself.
|  | Schoolteacher FAITH CODY thinks she has the perfect summer job as nanny to NICHOLAS PRICE's two visiting children, but the children are kidnapped, and she and Nick are compelled to join forces to steal the ransom -- documents incriminating vicious criminals. |  | Dark Vigil is a collection of 11 short stories and one novella. The collection is comprised of 12 unique tales of horror that explore the realm of religion. From the realization of wanting in Replicate, to the yearning to leave God's grace for the damnation of hell in Touched, to the release of hope in Conceded - The First Circle of Hell, makes Dark Vigil an eerie and twisted book sure to please any fan of religious horror.
|  | [Sequel to The Image of Christian]
Sex and spies, limousines and luxury hotels--Christian is on top of world. He feels more like it's on top of him. The media says he's been blessed by the gods but the media is comprised of liars and fools; Christian is under a curse, and knows it. He doesn't know why, or how to escape. In a freestanding novel that ends the story begun in 2003 EPPIE finalist, The Image of Christian, Christian tries to take apart what the gods have wrought. Can he succeed and find love in a world of illusions? His life depends on it.
Warning: Contains explicit descriptions of adult sexual situations.
|  | In this collection of stories, D. Harlan Wilson deconditions the boundaries of reality with the same offbeat methodology that energized his first book, The Kafka Effekt. Stranger on the Loose is an absurdist account of urban and suburban social dynamics and of the effects that contemporary image-culture has on the (in)human condition. These stories operate on a plane of existence that resists, and in many cases breaks, the laws of causality. Parrots teach college courses. Fl?neurs impersonate bowling pins. Bodybuilders sneak into people's homes and strike poses at their leisure. Passive-aggressive glaciers and miniature elephant-humans antagonize the seedy streets of Suburbia. Apes disguised as scientists reincarnate Walt Disney, who discovers that he is a Chinese box full of disguised Walt Disneys . . . Wilson's imagination is a rare specimen. The acorns of his fiction are planted in the soil of normalcy, but what grows out of that soil is a dark, witty, otherworldly jungle.
|  | Gorelets is a collection of "sudden horror poetry": 52 ultra short shockers guaranteed to make you squirm!
Originally written on (and for) handheld computers as part of a successful online experiment at Arnzen's gorelets.com, each of these little "caplets of gore" pack a powerful punch. With titles like "Zombeanie Babies," "Teasing the Cyborg," "Brain Chunks," and "The Embolism of Evil" you know you're in for an unpleasant surprise.
Released in print on Halloween 2003, this exclusive electronic edition from Double Dragon Publishing includes 21 BONUS POEMS unavailable elsewhere, bringing the grand total of the collection up to 73 poems!
|  | This unique collection, authored by Bram Stoker nominated poet, Sandy Deluca, includes four memorable stories. In addition you?ll discover over fifty poems which read like mini tales of magic, fantasy, horror and forbidden love. The collection is presented in three parts and each teaches us some very interesting lessons about destiny.
In Part I, PATHS OF WICKED WOMEN, you?ll meet a young woman who is obsessed with the undead. She searches endlessly, walking nightly through the streets of Manhattan, in pursuit of her desires. She meets a charming and sensuous nightclub owner named Xavier. He draws her into VERMILION TEARDROP and imprisons her in a world of blood, sex and heaven. In the end he ultimately grants all of her wishes.
In Part II, entitled PATHS OF FANTASY, Ms. Deluca explores other worlds. She takes you on a journey in THE STARSHIP NEPTUNE. In this science fiction thriller a predator lurks in the shadows of a generation starship. The author creates exotic references to distant planets and details artistic techniques used by alien painters. In the end a pact is made and blood pours throughout the spacecraft.
Part III, entitled PATHS OF DESTINY, explores spirituality, witchery and the secrets of the female soul. In her story PATHS OF DESTINY Ms. Deluca introduces you to two female artists. They are from different backgrounds, but their souls are linked. They come together during a crippling New England blizzard and discover that their destinies are one.
|  | Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism, and the end of the human race . . .
God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-like machine called the Walm - an interdimensional doorway that brings His New Children into the world. He loves these new children, but He doesn't love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it ...
Featuring: a narrator who sees his body from a third-person perspective, a man whose flesh is dead but his body parts are alive and running amok, an overweight messiah, the personal life of the Grim Reaper, lots of classy sex and violence, and a motley group of squatter punks that team up with the devil to find their place in a world that doesn?t want them anymore.
"This generation's Vonnegut!" - Vincent Sakowski
|  | A psycho-sexual fairy tale about a multi-gender screwing toy who is purchased by a razor dominatrix and brought into her nightmarish worlds of bizarre sex and mutilation.
"Razor Wire Pubic Hair is freaky, funny, brutal, techno-noir, limit-situation stuff set in a bad-dream future that's ultimately a metaphor for a present-day journey into the relentless nature of desire and the delicious permeability of gender. Somewhere right this second David Cronenberg, H. R. Giger, a young David Lynch, and a wizened Doug Rice are smiling because they know something extraordinary has just birthed in the Arizonan Desert of the Real. Read this, duck, and cover."
-- Lance Olsen, author of Freaknest
WARNING: This title contains graphic sexual content.
|  | The Kafka Effekt is D. Harlan Wilson’s debut book, a collection of forty-four short stories loosely written in the vein of Franz Kafka, with more than a pinch of William S. Burroughs sprinkled on top. A manic depressive has a baby’s bottom grafted onto his face; a hermaphrodite impregnates itself and gives birth to twins; a gaggle of professors find themselves trapped in a port-a-john and struggle to liberate their minds from the prison of reason?these are just a few of the precarious situations that the characters herein are forced to confront. The Kafka Effekt is a postmodern scream. Absurd, intelligent, funny and scatological, Wilson turns reality inside out and exposes it as a grotesque, nightmarish machine that is always-already processing the human subject, who struggles to break free from the machine, but who at the same time revels in its subjugation.
|  | Jack always had the nightmare, but it seemed to be more frequent lately... he'd be a young boy again, standing in a shallow swimming pool. At the other end were his parents, proud and approving; he'd swim to the middle then find himself in the middle of the ocean... on other occasions he would find himself in a great Cyclopean city of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths with the words "Cthulhu Fhtagen" drumming in his ears.
After leaving the seminary Jack find himself on the road to Timber Bay, the road home. Where he must confront a family secret that goes back thousands of years.
"... H.P. Lovecraft has been the biggest influence on my writing. Being a former Evangelical Christian Pastor and Biblical scholar, I was completely intrigued by Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. It was closer to the truth {in my humble opinion} than I cared to think about, and has been a source for many tales." -- Marc Sanchez
This is a MUST read for those that love HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos or darker tales of mystery and intellectual horror!
|  | Are heroes born, or created? Abducted by aliens and given the standard hero contract to rescue a maiden, kill a monster and save a world, Arthur MacDonald is in a unique position to discover the answer to that question. Or to discover the question is unanswerable.
A freestanding novel, Glory Unbound continues the story begun in Adornments of Glory, following Arthur to Diluvia, Terra's sister planet. Is Arthur a hero? Does he become one? Or does he die? (a hint--the answer to at least one of those question, is "yes.")
|  | [The Dark Staff Series - Book III]
Reluctantly leaving behind Brendan's world and their friends, Abby and Tristan follow a path into a darkness lit by diamonds, and find themselves in a place where magic is rarely known, and where evil doesn't always need the impetus of the Kiya to grow strong. But magic draws magic, even here -- and they are dropped into the care of a startled ship's captain -- who also happens to be a very powerful mage.
In order to track down and trap the Kiya, they join forces with an unusual array of allies, including the captain-mage, a smuggler who once held the Kiya -- and threw her away -- and a prince of questionable character.
Meanwhile, Tabor plays at a dangerous game with his demon father and the less than human High Priest, Braith. In an attempt to gain power of his own and free himself from his father's sadistic control, he secretly employs magics that help him stay a step ahead of the others in an attempt to gain the Kiya before Abby and Tristan collect yet another part of the prize.
|  | The Earth has become the adopted home of a group of aliens who possess super abilities and have chosen to repay the world by fighting crime. Jake Mordant runs a private detective agency that, like others, is down on its luck because the super aliens' altruistic efforts are driving them out of business. Even the police in many large localities are feeling the pinch. Things are so bad that Jake even resorts to taking cases searching for missing pets.
|  | Wordhunger was formed in 1999 as an Internet collaborative group for surreal and fantastical fiction and it had (and still has) an unquenchable thirst for the strange world of words, where words live and breathe and sound succulently and even mean something within the context of the stories we forged with the help of such words. It's hard to describe the process unpretentiously. That's because none of the Wordhunger collective have ever been unpretentious. All the writers here present speak with one voice.
Double Dragon Publishing will bringing to the reader an edition of WordHunger each year as it is released.
|  | Dream Sequence and Other Tales from Beyond is not your typical anthology. The twenty short stories in Dream Sequence will task your mind, your emotions, the very way you see the universe. Steve Lazarowitz superbly blends fantasy, science fiction and horror into a speculative fiction cocktail that will challenge you to think at right angles to reality.
|  | Follow the adventures of Simon Turkle, a government investigator in a fantasy world comprised of two vast and conflicting continents. The style and social strata of this world is similar to our own in the early Victorian era, although there are certain technological differences brought about by a relatively small population and vast natural resources. One continent is Republican, while the other which Turkle serves is Monarchist. The author paints on a canvas with dark colors that will remind you of Blade Runner and 1999. This is a dark fantasy and an alternate history all rolled up in one! |  | [sequel to Westchester Station] Return to Westhester Station, an intertimensional train station where you'll meet every manner of person from the Goddess Venus (for a make-over) to the keeper of the station. If you've read Westchester Station, you must read Westchester Station: The Assault! |  | This is an era where the youth or doubters no long accept what is told to them. No longer are they willing, like their parents to believe those in power are truly responsible and caring. Too many examples of their failure in parliament or from disasters seen on the nightly TV news have proved that trust is no longer possible. The governments? line, as well as the positions taken by big companies fall on disbelieving minds.
|  | Someone using poisoned darts is killing people in Los Angeles and taking their heads! Is it a mad man, or a rogue native of Ecuador's Jivaro tribe of headhunters? Or both?! Det. Henry Warner, with the help of a beautiful anthropologist from Ecuador tries to track down the blowgun killer. And when the killer flees to the deep forests of Arizona, can Apache policemen capture him before he kills them all?!
|  | The second of the NJ Mysteries finds newspaper reporter Natalie Joday once again facing a murder investigation that is way too close for comfort. But this time, when death strikes, the focus is on the Bergen Evening Star. It all starts in the most innocuous of ways, when the paper’s previously ignored advice columnist (finally) starts getting letters.
|  | Natalie Joday, a newspaper reporter with a knack for getting at the facts, is pulled into a murder investigation by a tormented young woman's cry for help. But her compassion turns to fear when she discovers her brother, always a magnet for trouble, is somehow involved. A lifetime of painful run-ins with the legal system has left Natalie wary of the police, so she sets out to solve the case herself by uncovering the secrets of the past--even when the secrets are her own.
|  | Del Mitchell is a horse rancher in Wadsworth, Nevada. He's also known as a man who never turns down a dare, no matter how brash or outrageous. Twila Bell is rumored to be a harbinger of disaster. Town gossips says she's accident-prone, maybe even a spell-casting witch. Her own kin call her the Bell from Hell. How can a man famous for taking reckless dares resist the temptation of pursuing romance with a girl like Twila Bell? And how could either of them guess their fateful meeting might presage the greatest luck of all?
|  | Momento Mori (Latin for Reminder of Death) contains 36 of Angeline Hawkes-Craig’s speculative fiction stories. Each of these tantalizing tales remind the reader just how much death is interwoven into life. From Richard III to the American Civil War, history and horror are blended together to give a fear-filled twist to old perspectives. In the much published, ?The Foundling?, a horrific realization unfolds in an 18th century Foundling Hospital within the dirty, urban squalor of London, England. Also featured is the horror tale, ?Premonitions? ? a short, but terrifying story that was awarded Horror-Web’s Best of Horror-Web 2002 Contest Fiction award. In ?The Heir?, a witch helps shape the course of history and gives new meaning to Queen Mary's nickname, Bloody Mary. After your trip through history, suit up for a few journeys into unexplored space for a visit with monsters of a new sort. Take a journey to Tudor England ? run through the wilds of Scotland ? hop aboard a space ship to Mars ? But, wherever you venture, make sure you say your prayers and check behind you for vampires, ghosts and witches?because they?re all out there lurking ? waiting to remind you of death.
|  | In her first collection, Wendy Brewer takes you on a fast-paced journey through the dark and twisted channels of her mind with 15 tales of fear, insanity, lust, obsession and nail-biting terror. |  | Here is a collection of stories for those of you who shudder at the thought of gulping down one more of Aunt Ida's "famous" cookies, who dread facing another interminable discourse from Uncle Earl about pig farm economics. If the first few notes of "Away in a Manger" cause you to grab something sharp and look around frantically for an eye to stab it in this book was written for you.
|  | In the future, whites have become a minority and are treated as second-class citizens by the colored majority. Whites are discriminated against, relegated to shantytowns and allowed to do only menial labor under segregation laws that are beginning to amount to little more than slavery. As conditions grow worse, white volunteers are worked to death in mine pits and the tar sands, where conditions are so brutal that serving as test subjects on alien planets begins to sound better than anything on earth, no matter what the danger. |  | In a time where a gov-drug addicted citizenry on Terra and the rest of closer known space are fascinated by infinite partitions of teen angst holo-sitcom pablum, a burned out man decides to stalk an odd phenomenon through known space, a person with massive traces of mutant pheromones. Hudson follows her until he ends up on a series of gossip -stalker networks filmed by small drone probes, good entertainment for billions of bored Terran viewers throughout the system. A juvenile effort, this very early first SF novel was written as soft (SF) surreal techno-fantasy. |  | A brand new science fiction novel from the author of The Sex Gates and The Pet plague. Twins Steve and Jane grow up in a dystopic earth ruled by giant corporations. Faster than light space travel has been discovered, but extracts a terrible price. The immutable mathematics of the theory dictate that only half the ships leaving earth will make it to their destination, and of those which do, only half will return safely to earth; hence the name: Crazy Ships. With those odds, crews and colonists are drawn from the criminal class or from political prisoners and sentenced to serve on a ship.
|  | In 2039 Los Angeles, half ruined by devastating quakes, is in the hands of three policing forces -- the National Feds, the State Militia and the city's own Local force, all of them squabbling over jurisdiction. Religious intolerance grows under the watchful eye of the CCP, and survival is a precarious game of chance and cunning.
And in this maelstrom of disaster, two Local detectives, working on their first case together, try to find a drug dealer with a secret he's willing to sell -- if he lives long enough.
Unfortunately, Elias Singer is about to learn that his new partner has a dangerous secret all his own... |  | Eons ago powerful mages cursed all magical beings to walk the land only in the dead of the night. The people of Dodano hide behind their shuttered windows and locked doors, never looking upon the creatures in the moon light. Gradually growing to despise all magic, they have even turned against the mages and outlawed their powerful art. |  | They say the Spanish Flu started in the resort town of San Sebasian, Spain, but whether it did or didn?t it was one of the causes that helped end the First World War. The epidemic that spread across the world killed millions of people and the young were more susceptible than the middle aged.Thousands of soldiers on each side of the war died within days of contracting the disease. |  | Two tales to delight Korn lovers. Includes the novellas "The White Trash Witches Coven" and "Pavane for a Scream Queen". |  | Nineteen years ago, Executive Officer Joy Grant of the Rough Rider became the first human to set foot on Zorti. Captain Kirk Rogers bent regulations (not a new thing for that only son of a wealthy and privileged family!) by taking his ship uninvited into a system that was already inhabited, and by making contact on his own authority. He broke another rule when he accepted the local Elders? invitation and went down to the surface to meet with them himself, recalling his exec to the ship after she had established communication with the telepathic Zortians. Rogers continued doing things his own way when the Elders asked that he spend the night among them ? and after that night, his officers never saw him again. |  | A collection of stories from Jason Brannon. If you loved his other DDP collections and stories (Five Days on the Banks of the Acheron, Space Stations and Graveyards,Atrocitas Aqua,Scary Holiday Tales To Make You Scream) you're really going to love these! |  | Servitude never prepared Stracc to be a fugitive, nor did it prepare him for involvement in the affairs of nobles. Certainly, it never prepared him to deal with something as powerful as the Cursed Sword of Ariendal. Was the Sword responsible for his missing reflection, or was the cause even more sinister? With the help of the beautiful Thea along with Captain Taylor of the late king's guard and a host of unusual characters, Stracc must unravel the greatest conspiracy of all. |  | One second before the last program dropped, Stewart punched his last tracer, an automated information agent he had just adapted. And on it's tail rode the Nano Nuke. Asta La Vista, Baby. |  | For thousands of years man has traveled the galaxy using the corridors generated by the L'arobi Frame. Now, the Ami-Den Alliance seeks to gain control of the mechanism to satisfy their lust for conquest. There's only one problem... no one knows where it is. |  | Sheri L. McGathy, the author of such stories as The Ancient One (From Within the Mist anthology) and Thief of Dreams (Twilight Crossings anthology) presents her latest fantasy novel: Within the Shadow of Stone, a journey through legend and myth to the time of the standing stones. To a world where warriors are bound to the silent megaliths and the Shroud Born walks within the mist. |  | "Each age calls forth its own prophet, a poetic oracle who sees past the heavy drapery we call "the world" to the prime reality that lies beyond. You should feel both ecstatic and terrified that our age has elicited M. J. Hewitt as its prose-lapidarian. Ecstatic, for Hewitt himself truly resonates with the daemonic muse, a voice that echoes from the depths of Tartarus and beckons forth, by turn, angels, devils, monsters, and gods. And terrified, for Hewitt sings not of arm-in-arm brotherhood and cozy lovingkindness, but rather of Yeats's "blood-dimmed tide," an aeon drenched in gore-bespattered corpses and unrelenting pain for the pitiable humans left alive.
"BLOODLAND TALES shimmers with the decadent imagery that Clark Ashton Smith conjured so easily, and in these opalescent prose-poems Hewitt both acknowledges his debt to "Klarkash-Ton" and progresses even further into a darkness-drenched universe without redemption, mercy, or salvation. There is no way to reach out to those we care for; only broad-axe slashes that leave gaping wounds. There is no bright afterlife with grace and holiness; only transmogrification through pain and torture as humans become parasitic spirits who lure others into torment. Love is destined to end in disillusionment and despair, and we learn our world itself is the black-tinged dream of distant alien beings our brains cannot even comprehend, beings who survive only through our suffering.
"You will find no words of comfort in this scarlet landscape. But for those who are able to realize the Baudelairean beauty that lies in decay, the Sadeian pleasure of witnessing another's hopeless prayer for mercy, the Lovecraftian awe of glancing into unilluminated gulfs in which madness dwells, Hewitt fills our descent into chaos with exquisite scenes, mixed in equal parts, of glamour and gore.
"I've joined the Cult of Hewitt. It's time you signed your soul away and joined as well." |  | A co-ed flees out of the Muskoka woodlands of Canada pursued by a horrible creature. A beautiful psychic is being stalked by a deadly stranger. These incidents draw divorce attorney, Kyle Morrow, into a battle that leads him far beyond the courtroom, into a realm that exists between light and darkness... a land of nightmare and shadows. It is the battleground where good and evil clash, in a struggle for Morrow's life, his sanity, and ultimately his very soul. Twilight Dynasty is a tense, supernatural thriller. It tells the tale of the lives forever changed by Morrow's encounter with his mysterious adversary... the master of this twilight dynasty. |  | The Heart Stone. From the moment he learned of its existence, Aren Lohenrin, an adept of the Temple of the Sky Gods in Ruthher, knew he was destined to penetrate its secrets. The fist-sized purple crystal pulsed and glowed like a living thing, yearning to burst with the immense knowledge and Power the legends said the ancient Sky Gods themselves had stored within it.
|  | If the suit fits, wear it.
What happens when a piece of technology is left behind, only to be found by the lesser developed inhabitants? |  | Wetbridge: The Tale of the Water Princess is a tale of reckoning. Wetbridge is tale that will take a lovely, but stubborn Princess to a dark and desperate place. Come and embark on this journey with Elexa, The Water Princess across a landscape of an extraordinary land of fantasy. Step lightly upon the lilies and come to a place unlike any you have experienced. |  | Book III of the Sex Gates Trilogy
The exciting conclusion to The Sex Gates trilogy. The mystery of the sex gates has at last been solved, but a horrible dilemma arises. |  | Whether it’s a young man trapped beneath the sea in the belly of an iron behemoth or an old women trapped within the confines of an abusive marriage, Michael McCrann paints dramatic portraits of people in unpleasant situations. Sometimes they?re good people, sometimes they?re not-so-good, but always the characters that inhabit these dark worlds are fleshed-out in remarkably vivid dimensions. The twelve tales of dark fiction contained in Midnight Tableau are sophisticated, character-driven, and crafted for a discerning adult readership. The stories include; Lured, La Ara?a Afortunada, Forever Isabella, What Needs Doing Will Get Done, Awake, Down the Cellar, The Rubbish Man, The Pledge, The Wail of the Banshee, The Lizard's Tale, Close Your Eyes, Sweet Angel and the novella, Coven of the Unwanted. Each of the settings ? from the exotic to the commonplace ? are more than mere backdrops. They are carefully fashioned to lure the reader into the fictional nightmare. The plots are filled with thrills and twists. The malevolent forces within range from creepy-crawlies and viscous garden gnomes to more esoteric antagonists like an evil little secret from the past. But, ultimately, it will be the people ? the predators as well as the prey ? that remain to skulk in the mind for some time to come. |  | In just a few hours, Abner Hayes' wife and daughter are going to die, and the only way he can save their lives is to team up with a deadly computer virus and travel through time and space in a virtual universe that itself has only hours to live. Through suicidal game worlds, virtual landscapes that threaten to devour the unwary, and a series of insidious cyber traps, Abner and the virus must stay one step ahead of sinister forces that will stop at nothing to destroy his family in order to steal their incredible secret. Spliced with dark humor and intricate characters, The War Bug is a non-stop roller coaster thriller into a terrifying future. |  | Rare humor that brings laughter to the halls of oncology, 57 Good Things About Chemotherapy provides precious relief from the stress and worry of cancer. Written by cancer survivor Alec Kalla and illustrated by Andy Williamson, this book makes cancer patients, survivors and caregivers smile, laugh and rid themselves of pentup emotional stress. |  | A Time of Destinies - Elgard
[The First Book in the Destinies Trilogy]
It is a time of destiny in the lands around the Vall'nar Sea. The old gods, long abandoned and forgotten, are awakened, and seek to settle old scores and draw the tribes of mankind into a bloody death struggle.
|  | For thousands of years demiurges have ruled over the world of Gaea?first the Sky Gods, then the S'hazons. When the S?hazons predict that a comet will strike Gaea and destroy all life, they offer a way of escape to the adepts of the House of Lohenrin. They will open an interdimensional portal to a new world called Tarshan. |  | [Book II of the DaySpring Trilogy]
Elinna Serru dreams of becoming a Preceptor of the House of Lohenrin. The adepts of that ancient house are trained in the healing arts by the S'hazons, light beings who came to Atlaua from another dimension and aided the Preceptors in vanquishing war and disease. Elinna longs to realize the full potential of her natural khi power and develop her healing gift for the good of her people. |  | Throughout mankind's history, there has always been a fear of the dark and the strange. A terror of things which hide within shadows, and what may emerge from inside them... Perhaps another world brushes against our own, leaving a doorway open for something fantastic and malevolent to enter. Legendary creatures - have they ever existed? And if so, do they still walk the earth, in perpetual twilight, unknown and dangerous? |  | Understanding Low-Carb Dieting
LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIETING FOR YOUR DAY TO DAY LIVING
There has been so much talk about Low Carbohydrate dieting that it is no wonder many people are confused. Understanding Low-Carb Dieting will show you the basics of a low carbohydrate diet. It will not promote one diet over another; it will however provide you with the tools, menus and recipes that will allow you to incorporate Low-Carb Dieting into your day to day living. Expect to lose weight, if you pursue a low carbohydrate lifestyle, but also, expect to feel better as a side effect.
Understanding Low-Carb Dieting
LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIETING FOR YOUR DAY TO DAY LIVING
There has been so much talk about Low Carbohydrate dieting that it is no wonder many people are confused. Understanding Low-Carb Dieting will show you the basics of a low carbohydrate diet. It will not promote one diet over another; it will however provide you with the tools, menus and recipes that will allow you to incorporate Low-Carb Dieting into your day to day living. Expect to lose weight, if you pursue a low carbohydrate lifestyle, but also, expect to feel better as a side effect.
|  | Epiphanies and revelations?. Each of the ten stories contained in this strangely wondrous collection explore the oftentimes mysterious, sometimes miraculous, nature of belief. From cobwebbed basements to desert wastelands, these stories offer up a host of dark landscapes where outside forces intrude upon our daily lives and manifest opportunities for change -- both physical and spiritual.
|  | Dark Demons: Tales of Obsession, Possession, and Unnatural Desire
They are the places we refuse to visit, but can't help but feel drawn there. They are the thoughts we avoid thinking, but in the end they take over our minds. They are the desires that unknowingly burrow into our hearts and infect the rest of our lives. They are the demons found in Dark Demons, a collection of sixteen stories that reveal the personal horrors of characters possessed by loss and obsessed by their own fears and failures. From the extremes of the overtly erotic and the savagely brutal to the subtleties of the melancholy and macabre, these stories offer up a glimpse into the darkest mirror possible: the human psyche. |  | THE FISHERMAN'S SON is a children's novel filled with fantasy, adventure and the heroic qualities of a brave, young boy. At the same time, it includes accurate and beautiful descriptions of life under the ocean, villages similar to those of real nineteenth century island villages, and cities similar to those of ancient Greece and Rome. Part of the book is based on research accounts of what may have happened to Atlantis if it once existed.
. |  | Twenty-one tales of imagination and wonder ranging from the humorous to the adventurous to the tragic. Visit far-flung locales, journeying from ancient China to besieged fortresses to exotic alien landscapes, each inhabited by its own unique kind of miracles; psychic leeches, flying cities, paintings that spring to life, and mystical battles that span the aeons. Heroes and villains come in many forms with barbarians battling deranged tyrants, glamorous jewel thieves tackling ancient goddesses, eccentric inventors confronting foes that defy all scientific logic. Join these and others in their search for love, truth, identity, and redemption. |  | Ebook Guerilla Marketing covers everything - research, preparation, action ? that authors need to find their readership, catch readers? attention and maximize reader sales opportunities.
|  | Hate was in his genes and ever since his ancestor Karl Toxopeus had fought the Zulu horde and endured British occupation and their concentration camps, he and Boer ancestors hated the British and anyone remotely associated with them. Becoming a German spy and going to America to uncover the truth about the Manhattan Project was his way to ensure that Germany would win the war and the British would lose it. His discovery in America showed that once the Americans had joined the British after Pearl Harbour, America had turned into a huge industrial giant producing planes, ships, bombs and anything that would help them defeat Hitler and his Nazis.
|  | There is a secret history to the World and it is known to only a few. Beyond the history books and behind the headlines, there are mysteries that can never be revealed, unbelievable stories that can never know the light of day. Only a small group of brave, dedicated men and women dare know these things. Only a few can know the unknowable. They are the protectors, the soldiers who hold back the onslaught of Darkness. For centuries, they have worked in the shadows, keeping the enemies of civilization at bay.
|  | This is a novel that travels through time. Back to the time of the Vikings and their voyages to the new world; it also covers events in the Second World War when an American soldier murders a fellow solider to assume his identity and it takes you to the present to a researcher working on the Arlington cemetery on a village where escaped slaves once lived. Follow a mystery where a young woman meets a medical student, a veteran from the Vietnam war and find out how the past becomes merged in the present.
|  | Meghan and Georgina befriend a boy, Lars Petersen, in their class and find that he’s frustrated, lonely and missing his friends back in Norway. Georgina helps him with his English and Math and discovers that his hobby relates to the history of the Vikings. Through her initiative she gets one of her friends who Meghan helped rescue his prized racehorse in the Bag of Bones Mystery to help Lars in his search for the truth about the Vikings in America. This friend has a sailing vessel and he allow them to sail his yacht up the east coast in search of likely places where Lars Petersen believes are undiscovered landing sites where the Vikings reached New England. This is an adventure both in the present and in the past as we discover and experience the journey that one Viking longboat took in its exploration from Iceland and the search by a modern Viking descendent to prove how masterful the Vikings were in their exploration of the world in the 10th century. |  | While waiting to attend a summer ballet dance school in Long Island, New York, Georgina and Meghan two 16-year olds help their uncle in an archaeological dig on one of America’s wonders of the ancient world where a city of 20,000 people rivaled anything in Europe in the 12th century. There they work on beautiful artifacts and discover a love stone, a tear that joined two people together even in death. A break-in into the tent storing the artifacts becomes one of many robberies in the archaeological world. Back at their summer dance school one of the student instructors is wearing a small necklace that holds an Indian artifact and it leads the girls into a ring of thieves who are responsible for many similar robberies of priceless records of man’s history in America. |  | Throughout time, man has been an unwitting pawn in the battle waged between heaven and hell. The seductive wiles of evil threaten to consume humanity’s inherently good nature, with one soul hanging in the balance, a soul that could tip the scales to either side in this eternal combat. Luke Masterson, loving father and devoted husband, is that man. Made in God’s image, yet birthed from politics and spawned in the very fires of purgatory, his is a grand destiny, a fate that would bring damnation to mankind and hell to this earth. With the final battle drawing near, Luke must determine to which side his allegiances lie, with his deceptive father, or with the aging minister who reaches out to him to draw him to the light. Can he change his destiny and rage against his very nature, or is he cursed to succumb to it? Every trial, every series of events in his life has been a test to prepare him for this moment, where the outcome of the war is in his hands alone. Is the intrinsic gift of free will enough to sway him from ruination and defy his predestined ascension to the demonic throne? Perhaps? but hell’s not taking any chances? |  | Kestryl, the Bladesman of High Gondylar, has every reason to believe Penthor, the heir to the Gondylarian throne, has committed treason. Yet, Penthor’s assassins have failed and Kestryl sets off on a long journey to find Cyanne, the true heir to the throne. Exiled at the age of five, Cyanne is now a young woman and could be anywhere. Even if he finds her, Kestryl has no idea what she might be like, or whether she will choose to return to the Great Dukedom. |  | Science. Magic. Both sources of unimaginable power. All that prevents ultimate control, ultimate power, is that science and magic do not exist in equality in the same dimension. |  | This is Jonathan Lyons? second novel and is titled Machina. It is a speculative, metaphysical, philosophical, and very unusual novel that pulls in notions about reality from quantum mechanics, string theory, various religious tomes, Descartes, Eastern notions of reality and the universe, the Schroedinger probability wave, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and more, to deal with the question of what happens when "God," whatever that is, dies. Who finds out, and how? And what would they do to set things right? Grand conspiracy and the old Remote Viewing psychic spy programs come into play. |  | Daniel has been trained by the Roman Church to rescue those who have sold their souls to the Prince of Darkness. God often intervenes and offers a final opportunity for repentance as long as it happens before the man in the tall hat arrives for his payment. After forty years of service as a Redeemer, Daniel is called upon for one last assignment. He survives attempts on his life, joins up with a team of physicists at a Top Secret lab, and becomes part of an experiment where three people are transported into the depths of Hell to stop the conquest of earth by demonic forces. If you believe that God and the Devil struggle over every human soul; if you believe in the possibility that Heaven and Hell are real; or even if you believe that all of us can use a second chance this is the book for you. |  | "Calico" is something of a breakthrough novel in that it spans a bridge which is only now opening for two-way traffic. The author describes "Calico" as a "western/romance/adventure/mystery with a twist"...the twist being that its cowboy hero/protagonist just happens to be gay. |  | This collection of tales comes from the quill of Penemue, fallen angel and bringer of ink and pen to the children of men. Listen as he recounts his tales, both new and old, of his brethren demons when they walked the earth of men. This volume contains twelve stories from the darkest new authors in horror today. Tales that will not only haunt you, but will also delight. |  | Young Jann was one of the most talented adepts the Academy had ever seen, and, as his Master Speritus believed, someday his magical abilities would take him far. If only it weren?t for one obstacle: Jann was not of royal birth, and as a Plebeian the Quirinabi hierarchy would never permit him to obtain a high office at the palace. Had they forgotten that Jann was also a former gutter brat who had once been a promising thief on Market Street? He knew how to break the rules to get what he wanted. |  | Little did Kalen know when he made a promise to an old man, that it would some day cost him something more precious than the kingdom he ruled. His daughter Angelina was always headstrong, like her mother. When circumstances made her leave behind the life she had always known and journey into the unexpected, she jumped in with both feet. It would take her on a trip filled with surprises and more adventure than she could have imagined and an outcome that was not expected. |  | This book is a good example of what comes from mixing politics and beer. It resulted from a night of camaraderie and debauchery with my brothers. Sometime during the festivities, one of us thought up the idea of what might happen should a real, though intelligent, Redneck ever get to the White House. We all laughed like crazy at the prospect and had great fun discussing various scenarios and situations. Perhaps we also vented some of our frustration at the labyrinthine entanglements of our present political process and how it works or doesn?t work. At any rate, once I sobered up, I thought the idea might make a good book. |  | Someone wants Francine Devereux dead! She has no idea why. An attempt to kill her is prevented by Jaarl Larssonn, an engineer from Alaska’s North Slope oil fields where something mysterious--and deadly--is happening at an experimental pump station. |  | Crossings features twelve stories at the intersection of genres, set in worlds disturbingly familiar and far distant. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and romance elements converge to produce a whole greater--and stranger--than the sum of its parts. |  | Retired film star Flora Fielding was diagnosed with cancer. Her solution: she had herself put into suspended animation, and invested her fortune in cancer research. She expected to return to life in five to ten years -- but is awakened into an utterly different world, 1433 years later. |  | He is the ghost eater, and he has no name.
Robbed of his life and his identity, his only purpose is to fulfill the quest the animal spirits have given him: leave his people and journey into the land of the Enemies. Find an Enemy woman?and make of her an ally.
| | Immortality isn?t all it’s cracked up to be. Yet what if you have no choice? Worse, what if you do have a choice? Enjoy a dark fantasy from the word processor of award-winning author Patrick Welch, author of The Body Shop, Westchester Station and Brendell; Apprentice Thief. |  | After a tragic accident in a Seattle truck stop, the enigmatic antagonist Michael journeys home to his reclusive family in their mansion atop Mt. Foraker, in Alaska. There, upon the snowy peak of Champion Mountain, Michael will confront the dark secrets of his past, his family, and his origins’secrets which he has desperately avoided for nearly two decades. Champion Mountain is an apocalyptic tale of family, politics, responsibility, bitter resolve, and dysfunction. |  | The saga continues, sequel to WolfHeart.
Kings, Lords, and generals are winding up dead, all from the same cause. When Lord Zodiac and one of his wives are found dead, Samantha discovers that a clever assassin is at work. Being young and full of raging hormones, she is not the best choise to hunt the killer down. Her demonic looks and the occasional flare of temper makes her a rather poor choise. However, she is the only one who can ?feel? the assassin’s presence. |  | Hate manifests itself in many forms. For the Irish and those linked to the IRA, hate seeps from every pore and it is directed to the British who have humiliated Ireland. Patrick O?Connor released with hundreds of other IRA prisoners still has a burning desire to harm the enemy of Ireland and he takes his plot to England to the very symbol of Britain’s greatest engineering feat, the umbilical cord that links Britain to the Europe, the Chunnel and against Andrew McCain, a police officer who killed his brother.
|  | For twenty years Earth has been exploring the stars using faster-than-light stardrives whereby a manmade black hole pulls the ship through space. Dangerous to themselves and everything in the vicinity, the twenty-four starships, led by the flagship Horizon, have opened up new worlds to colonize. |  | TWISTED TAILS IV: Fantastic Flights of Fantasy is overflowing with some of the strangest fantasies you’re likely to find on-or off this planet. So, watch yourself...there be dragons here. And vampires. And sorcerers bearing all sorts of mischief. Beasts, goblins and ghouls aplenty. And things that poke with sharpened sticks at the unprepared mind. They crouch in the recesses, ready to spring at the slightest provocation or opportunity. The sort of things that hide in deep shadows and lurk in the darkness of night...or cavort in the full light of day, trundle, creep, crawl and dance their way across the stage of your imagination. Some of the works presented here are fearsome, level five heart-stoppers and others are downright funny. All are twisted. Twisted in the manner that only our convoluted cogitators...our warped, wonderful word-workers can provide. | | In all the universe, there exists only one sentient species: Humankind. Originating from Earth, by the 31st Century humans have reached acoss the galaxy thousands of light years, never finding another race or species that was sentient. | | Gargantuan global software monopoly Expedite Corporation set out to create an artificial intelligence to serve as a semi-sentient server manager of the world’s information networks. Their success wildly exceeds their expectations, but comes at a very human cost. | | Raised in the giant state-run orphanages, John Smith risked everything to purchase his freedom and become one of the Privileged. But when he discovers he has been betrayed, he realizes only he can save himself from those seeking him both on Earth and in space. But can he? | | Luci was trudging through a terrible storm to get help -- Jeff had once more beaten Mom in one of his marijuana rages, this time breaking her arm.
Unexpectedly, a boy came to her rescue, and offered his assistance. Only, this was no ordinary boy. He fixed all of Mom’s injuries -- and then the horror started. But horror turned into something else, and Luci became part of a team to help save humanity. |  | The Terran/Martian Wars are over. Earth has been devastated by sixteen years of asteroid bombardment. Civilization on Mars is gone. Civilization on Earth is teetering on the brink. Three hundred and eighty-five million dead. Billions more emigrated to other planets. | | As a computer gamer, Brian enjoyed the occasional trip into VR. But now he faced the ultimate game, the ultimate trip, the ultimate adventure ... | | | | The story of Simon Turkle continues with this short story by Conan McPhee. |  | "There’s a big difference between knowing ABOUT werewolves," said Uncle Andre, making a sweeping gesture to include all of us, "And knowing WEREWOLVES." He thumped his fist to his chest, striking the center of his being. "Werewolves aren?t always the villain, y?know." His pointed smile drifted across his mouth again, full of pride. "We can be heroes, too." |  | When Dena Harris and her two daughters moved into the house in tiny Benevolence, Oklahoma, they didn?t realize they?d be sharing it with several ghosts, one of which has diabolical plans for Dena’s youngest daughter. As the ghosts grow stronger and Dena grows weaker, she soon finds herself trapped in the house, her worst fear about to be realized. |  | Sex spurred the Internet’s growth in the late 20th century. In the middle of the 22nd, sex drives the automaton industry. Seventy years after the Holy Wars officially ended, ?tons are needed. The world is a smaller place; its population has climbed back to over a billion, former coastal areas are under water and much of the Pacific Rim has disappeared into the Pacific. |  | "Trust no one", the Immortal told Captain Dav Vad. Her ship and crew held hostage, the Dishonorably Discharged Ex United Universe pilot is marooned on the planet Chosen. With the help of her two Arti Intel German Shepherds, she is given a mission to find a King Attuicus that has mysteriously disappeared. On the trail of the King, she rescues a young Roman girl, meets a woman who can heal with a touch and a Prince and General on their way to defend the City of Ka?an from the Barbarians. But, one of them is a spy and soon they will possess the knowledge of how to destroy the city and bring the downfall of the New Roman Empire.
In the end, Dav realizes she trusted the wrong person.
| | Terris Firedragon is not quite human -- but he’s not a dragon either, despite his name. Inheriting a curse from his grandfather, he’s made the best of life. Now his friends are in danger and he’s been drawn into the trouble just by association. He puts his unique talents -- and the curse -- to work for a good cause. |  | The process of finding and getting the right job is old -- a concoction of some higher power to make most stable and confident people feel nervous, anxious, overwrought, tense, and generally self-conscious at a very important time when they need all their faculties!
This book will help you to pinpoint your weaknesses and form a plan that will help make you more effective during this critical time.
| | Raven is not liked or even trusted at the King’s Court. However, as the King’s Messenger he has understood is duty and never failed, even when he’s faced with a final message that could mean his death. |  | When the main character dies in the first ten pages, where can a story go from there? Primarily: to Hell and back again. But there is a price for returning from The Road, for coming back from the dead. Olivia Claria Severus is a patrician woman in Ancient Italy. She is a senator’s daughter, a senator’s wife, and now, at nineteen, a mother at last. Her troubles begin with her son’s birth and her death mere moments later. She finds herself on The Road to the River Styx to await the Ferryman, but before she even has her fare or sees the ripples in the water heralding the approaching boat, she is ripped back to the world of the living and into her weakened body. It is then that she learns the truth about Aeschylus, her aged playwright: He is a vampire, and now, so is she. Unfortunately, something at the river with power saw her, and covets her for its own, and will do ANYTHING to get her.
|  | No one likes to lose a favorite relative, but it’s far worse when that person is murdered. | | Dushan was already three days dead when I met him....
Left to die in the tomb of a murdered Kolti priest, Prince Tahir finds
himself working to avenge the death of someone he never knew, at least in
life. (Originally published by Eggplant Productions, Winter Sampler 2000)
| | Father Daniel travels half the world to meet a woman who is not what she seems. It isn?t until he starts running from the law that he realizes this latest assignment to redeem a soul may be the most unusual of his career--another episode in the Soul Redeemer Series. Join Father Daniel (from Tall Man in the Hat) as he works against time and the authorities to bring a soul back into the fold of God. |  | Together again...
Award-winning fantasy authors Jeanine Berry, Sheri L. McGathy, Shannah Biondine, and Jeanne Allen reunite to bring you TWILIGHT CROSSINGS II, another extraordinary anthology born within the enchanted realms of twilight. |  | There is nothing sweet about Sweet Darkness, the latest feat from skilled writer and editor Richard Logsdon. Darkness, a collection of fifteen short stories for the very mature reader, is an exploration of the world of the lost and the damned. In fact, in one of the collection’s sharpest pieces, ?In Hell,? the narrator describes the work’s hero, Sandra, and the antagonist, Father Harold Blackstone, as individuals ?absorbing each other’s darkness.? And in many respects that is exactly what each of the characters who inhabit these stories does. They are people, who are caught up, some by choice and others by circumstance, in the brutality of devil worship, pornography, sexual obsession, and sacrifice. |  | The sudden theft of the museum’s prized fossil begins the disappearance of children in the small rural community of Spoonerville. It is only through the ingenuity of Andrew and Michael that the truth of why these terrible events are happening and what the fossil actual is. But without a way of stopping the fossil and his guarding creatures the world might find itself under the command of these fierce creatures from another world. |  | Cold Case Mysteries is a compilation of two wonderful mystery stories by Karen Lewis. They’ll catch you on the first page and keep you glued to the pages to the bloody end! |  | Kevin Leary, flawless to the world but haunted by his grandfather’s murderous legacy, seeks refuge at a lakeside cottage that appears idyllic but overlooks the underwater ruins of an asylum for criminally insane children. Tormented by visions of the fire that killed the inmates decades earlier, Leary flees with his family in the dead of night. But the morning sun finds him in a rowboat with a bloody oar in his hand and his family mysteriously vanished. Leary must overcome the demons ? both above and below the surface ? that threaten to pull them all under. | | The scientists on Mars have problems, not the least of which are experimental mice that somehow got lose during a quake. Between political power plays, mice in everything and damage from the quake, the people stationed at the Carter Complex already have more trouble than they can handle... but there is more on the way. | | Something has followed Tim Smith for all his life as he found himself shuffled from one foster family to another. Now, at eighteen, he’s decided to escape the city.
He’s found peace in a small Maine town....
But he can?t outrun the trouble that has followed him all his life. |  | "There’s a big difference between knowing ABOUT werewolves," said Uncle Andre, making a sweeping gesture to include all of us, "And knowing WEREWOLVES." He thumped his fist to his chest, striking the center of his being. "Werewolves aren?t always the villain, y?know." His pointed smile drifted across his mouth again, full of pride. "We can be heroes, too." |  | The first age was the Age of Arrival, at the end of which the Spirits were banished from the world and the First Gods vanished.
|  | A young guitarist yearning to hit the big time. A spurned woman looking for revenge. A rock n? roll god with a dangerous history. The Orpheus Industry takes readers on a tumultuous journey where one man’s quest for stardom may lead him to sacrifice everything. Caught up in somebody else’s game, can Oscar discover who is pulling the strings, and can he bear to give up the dance?
Set in a parallel world where the Greek gods never went away, this tale of sex, drugs, rock n? roll, mythology and mayhem weaves together the patterns of classical stories with modern urban humour, dark fantasy, eroticism and political intrigue. It’s fast-paced and always entertaining, and you won?t want to put it down.
|  | The corporate-funded police force of Old New York dropped its investigation into a man’s mysterious death by fire. Spontaneous human combustion is the rumored cause, but a down-and-out private detective, a former member of the Old New York Police Force, soon learns that this wasn?t the only man to die this way. |  | There is a world that exists within our world. It is the world of shadow. A realm where anything is possible, a world where nothing is as it seems, a world that few have ever seen and returned to tell the tale.
In this world new kinds of monsters are born, the likes of which have never been seen by human eyes, new kinds of terror exist and new fears are discovered.
Sometimes this world crosses into our own, it is then that we get our first glimpses of it, such as when gooseflesh crawls up you arm or when the hair stands up on the back of your neck. It is when you feel you are not alone in the room or that you are being watched, when you are afraid to enter the dark cellar alone or refuse to keep the closet door open when you go to bed for the night.
It is in the darkness, the shade and the shadows that this realm takes shape and form, reaching out and calling to us in an everlasting attempt to ensnare us, to tempt us and claim us for their own.
Some have entered this world and been touched by it. Some of those have come back to tell the tale and some? have not. These are there stories.
So come take my hand and let me take you in the realm of shadow, just for a little while. |  | The people of Masterville Valley carry prions in their bodies that could make the world a much better place-but most of humanity will never willingly accept them, for once infected, a person is able to reason much better, rejecting religious, sexual and political dogma. Being born with the prions or trying to infect others with them carries a death penalty in most Islamic nations. In America and the rest of the world, the Masterville prions have become a political football because religious leaders are so utterly opposed to them, despite compelling evidence that they imbue their carriers with a much saner life style, both sexual and social. When a newly elected moderate president is assassinated, his successor again begins using a secret cabal of the National Security Agency to spread lies and deception about Masterville Valley and its prions. The happy, peaceful people of the valley are forced to fight back, and they begin their battle by secretly spreading their prions out into the world, including the halls of congress and into the president’s own inner circle. But will the prions take effect in time to save them from zealots intent on completely destroying the people of Masterville valley and the hope for a peaceful earth it represents? | | | | |  | Officer Richard Berry has a problem. Not only has a smuggling ring for robotic transistors (that would enable robotic terrorism) set up shop in his district, but a fellow officer had turned up dead in the lake. So now Berry must infiltrate the neighborhood posing as an immature Dysfunctional robot ? a robot that looks and acts very much like a human ? to find the culprits. But who knew that in this disguise he would meet Dannielle Lawrence, the woman of his dreams? A hardboiled police whodunit of the future ? where robots and people interact -- when they shouldn?t. | | |  | Finding a key leads two brothers into finding a cave that holds a terrible secret. Within the hidden chambers lies a golden sarcophagus. In the coffin is an insane pharaoh suspended in sleep for centuries and who is waiting for his trusted follower to insert the special necklace that will awaken him. If he regains his powers then the world will be lost and it is up to Andrew and Michael and their friends to find a way to prevent it from happening. |  | Exploring Sapper’s Bog brings Michael and his friends upon the strange tree where dozens of shoes and boots have been nailed to its trunk. A sudden movement in the nearby bushes and the appearance of a strange creature drives them screaming home in fright. Their experience becomes important when suddenly there are thefts in their town, and health concerns over an epidemic downstream, which leads them into searching for the truth about Sapper’s Bog and the time of the First Word War. The exploration of an underground labyrinth of tunnels and its sudden flooding leaves Michael trapped as the water rises and threaten to drown him. Alone and nearly in total darkness his only hope is that his friends can get help and somehow rescue him before it’s too late, when suddenly a cold hand touches his shoulder and he discovers he is not alone. |  | A strange and unexpected call from a lawyer brings the Small family to the Bahamian islands where an ancestor lost his only daughter in a kidnapping 150 years ago. Michael, Andrew and Meghan have the keys to discover what happened to this young girl whose painting is almost identical to Meghan. But they have to deal with a zombie who under a blood oath taken so many years ago awakens to find where the young girl has been kept for 150 years when the Sorceress put a curse on him and left the girl, Georgina, under the care of her pet. |  | A letter from an elderly aunt brings the Small family to Britain. There the children discover that Dame Hesselford, their mother’s great aunt is being haunted. They decide to find out what is happening and why someone is trying to force the old lady from her home. Their search brings them into the mystery of the lost treasure of Queen Boadicea, a British queen who fought against the Romans. Their attempt at solving the mystery brings them into an underground passage and when their way to escape is blocked, it is up to the ingenuity of the children to find a way out. |  | To the unaccustomed traveler, the overlands is a place where temperature swings and fluctuations in humidity bring on rapid fatigue; where the sun washes the body with searing ultra-violet rays that accelerate aging and decay; and where technology is abandoned in favour of hard toil and long work days. But worst of all, it’s a place of mortality.
That didn?t worry Carlos though. A shadow-hopper through and through, he left behind his high-tech, psychedelic world to indulge in the simple life. But now he’s vanished, and its up to his reluctant klassmates to find him.
|  | The author of The Other Side of Infinity offers a collection of short stories and a novella that entices and dares the reader to suspend disbelief. Typical Kane, a vein of cynicism immersed in a strange brew of humor and sobriety snakes through these pages. Take a bumpy ride through a turbulent sea of extraterrestrials, ghosts, bizarre science, time travel, alternative realities, a teetering human psyche, a perilous manifest destiny.... Enjoy! |  | Michael Cavandish’s PHD thesis about the shortcomings of stealth aircraft wins him more than just his PHD at a very young age. When an F117 stealth bomber is shot down by a third world country he is also awarded the rank of Major in the armed forces and conscripted into service to find an answer to this problem. He soon finds terrorists literally in his own back yard preparing to destroy the eastern seaboard. |  | Evil just got a whole lot funnier. |  | Eastern California, 1942: Alone, Tsuko Ataki strolls the boundaries of Tulenar Internment Camp. Too late, he sees the silver wolven creature waiting in the full moon’s light. The creature leaps. His head trapped in the werewolf’s jaws, Tsuko Ataki can?t even cry out as he’s dragged through the barbed wire ?
Be prepared for a wild werewolf adventure with bizarre twists never read before. In the aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Maxwell Pierce commands Lakeside Assembly Center, where Japanese-Americans are processed for internment camp. Bitten during another tour of duty, Max believes the beast was by nothing more supernatural than a rabid timber wolf.
The head of Tulenar Internment Camp is political hard-baller Doris Tebbe. Like Max, she doesn?t believe in werewolves. Only David Alma Curar, a Navajo healer who has tracked Max’s bloody trail, believes in the evil that stalks the camp. But this werewolf hunter doesn?t want to kill Max. He has his own reason for keeping him alive. |  | Set four years after the events in Fallen Angels, FALLEN ANGELS BIOGENESIS picks up the story of Jake Silver and Alex Robison and their crusade to find the truth about the existence of alien intelligence!
SOMEONE HAS SURVIVED THE DESTRUCTION OF AREA 51.
Now, they have a new plan to bring the world to its knees: an extraterrestrial virus with the combined destructive power of Ebola, the Hanta Virus, and the common Flu strain has been unleashed on the United States of America. It’s up to Private Investigator Jake Silver and Dr. Alex Robinson to find a way to stop the virus, and save the lives of billions. Along the way they will encounter a few familiar faces, as well as a host of new ones. Will they be in time to stop this new biological threat?
From the author of Fallen Angels comes a novel filled with intrigue, mystery, and action. This thriller is sure to keep you turning the pages from beginning to end! |  | Lazette Gifford, Managing Editor of Vision: A Resource for Writers (http://lazette.net/vision) and the owner/site administrator of Forward Motion for Writers (http://fmwriters.com ), presents a collection of essays on the philosophy and act of writing. The collection of short essays covers everything from accepting that you are a writer to setting goals, and from writing short stories to resurrecting older manuscripts.
She also hopes to convey the joy she has found in writing and the enthusiasm that can help writers past the disappointment of plot lines that don?t quite work and the inevitable rejections, while still maintaining their love of creating stories. | | John Leary of the NYPD Detective Squad is investigating the Noble Affair. His ex, Marcella, has been assigned the same case as a reporter for the Tribune. They both need information; so who’s using who? |  | In this book, depression breaks the signal. Depression has hid Jacob Sims from himself for his entire life. Then, one day, depression is gone. Jacob learns what he’s been kept from and who’s kept him from it. | | A short "gotcha" science fiction story of alien invasion by best selling author Darrell Bain. The aliens are tiny but powerful. Things looks bad for earth until a marine general decides to give the aliens a lesson in English. |  | Welcome to the America of your childhood fantasies. When traveling carnivals came and left seemingly overnight, when the fish your father caught was related to dinosaurs, and when that strange animal you found in the ditch obviously was a space alien.
In this collection of stories, return to the land of innocence and imagination. Prepare to laugh, to be scared senseless, and above all, to remember what it was like when a simple towel around your neck made you the greatest superhero of them all. |  | Sir James Greybold, a crusading Templar Knight, falls victim to a plot conceived by those to whom he has sworn allegiance. Dishonored and accused of treason, he finds his true enemies are hidden among his own ranks, and the tower of his code weakened by the siege of lies laid against him. Left for dead in the desert of Palestine, he survives, but is seduced by the lure of vengeance and sets upon a new quest, one forbidden him by oath, one called evil by men of knowledge and spoken so by God.
Whose voice will Greybold heed? The compelling demands of his own desire? Or the quiet whisper of his conscience?
|  | The Alliance Live Action Role-Playing game has chapters all over the country and this rules system is based on over 20 years of use. Included are large sections explaining how a LARP works, what you can expect to find, advice on how to get the most out of the game, and plenty of pictures, charts and graphs. The rules themselves are easy to understand and designed to provide the most fun, so players can jump right into the game without having to spend hours studying or arguing over silly details.
Michael A. Ventrella is one of the fathers of modern live-action role-playing games in the United States, having helped form the first major LARP in 1989.
This edition also includes table-top rules if you don't have a chapter near you or don't feel like getting out for the exercise!
|  | Fate has a gun aimed at the hearts of Joy Gambini and Dante D’Angelo. If a happily-ever-after exists for either of them it won’t be found in their undercover assignments. |  | Mark Conner wants to be a pianist, but when he transfers to Southeastern Louisiana University, he is told he doesn?t have the talent. Mark’s obsession with Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer, and his fascination with the Occult lead to a horrific tale of desire, fame, and revenge.
"...Korn has fed upon Poe, Lovecraft and Richly Sinewed Music, but above all upon himself! I thought the first two-thirds of Rachmaninoff’s Ghost splendid, but its last third of Jungian nightmare literally took my head off. If Korn’s photo is not on the front of Time magazine, as a result, injustice will sure be done..." -- D.F. Lewis
"Michael Korn is a protean talent, slouching roughly toward Bethlehem." --Jeff VanderMeer |  | Dure is a city where dreams die, a dark and gritty mining settlement under the heel of the imperial Talarian League. The city walls draw a prison of fog on coastal cliffs around Elysa Ustanon, a prostitute who learns that she is the first of three prophesied Dreamers who will shatter the illusion of reality." Sea storms bring Rourke Artomey, a famed investigator and man of science running from his own illusions. Rourke works to end a rash of abductions that have plagued Dure but quickly finds himself staring down Elysa’s strange powers. |  | The City of the Golden Sun is the sequel to the well-received children’s fantasy adventure novel, The Fisherman’s Son. In the first book, the main character, Wiley O?Mara, rescued six boys trapped in an ancient city submerged beneath the ocean. Now he and the other boys return to ?The City of the Golden Sun.? Once there, Wiley takes a backseat to Keegan, the son of King Reginauld, and to the magnificence of the ancient city itself. Wiley and his friends immerse themselves in the daily life of the city, so that both Wiley and the reader can truly experience ?The City of the Golden Sun.? In the third book, it will be up to Wiley and the boys to bring news of this ancient culture to the now impoverished island. |  | In these fourteen tales, Erik Tomblin examines the darker landscapes in our lives, which we know exist, but refuse to explore for fear of the truth. From the classic question of a soul’s existence to an inter-dimensional, tragic love story, Casting Stones portrays the unexpected consequences of those who dare acknowledge these frightening regions of mind, space and time. |  | There are whispers of slain men and of bodies being discovered all around the Saint Louis area of the 1920s. In Grantsville a gangster turns his eyes on a vibrant eighteen-year-old named Gloriana Fuller. Jack Diamond dresses like the movie star, Rudolph Valentino. His automobile is long and sleek and extravagant. While Gloriana finds his presence electrifying, she suspects he may be the notorious Eddie Richardson who beds very young women and drowns men in the river. Hadn?t he served time in jail on bootlegging charges?
After a hasty marriage they enjoy a steamy relationship. But the fruit of their love possesses a rotten core. Law enforcement agencies are paid off; Eddie reigns with a firm hand, keeping all competitors out. Gloriana is blinded by love until the horrendous truth unveils. Gloriana realizes Eddie’s evil side after she catches him with a girl in bed at his lair at the Moonlight Inn. He disgusts her. His gang kills, plunders, rapes, and profits from illegal moonshine. And their evil deeds are raising political interest in Washington. Prohibition laws made Eddie rich and he will not change his ways, not even for Gloriana.
But there’s a train speeding toward him on the same track, a stranger in Grantsburg seeking to end Eddie’s career...and win his wife. But can even the rugged, handsome Prohibition Agent T.W. Walker save her and send Eddie Richardson to prison? Washington lawmen soon descend on the area, arresting everyone who aided Eddie; and that includes Gloriana. Is it too late for her, or can she and the lawman get the evidence he needs to send Eddie to prison for life?
|  | Samever is an ancient city, with ancient ways. Soon the lives of its people will change forever. |  | "I am recording: Tim Meadows here doing his thesis: The matrix of grave markers are neatly trimmed in the evanescent moonlight. Helixes of crickets surround the paddock of mist. Silent screams bob up from cavernous graves of the recent dead. The banks of mausoleums stand on the north end flanking a thatch of dark woods. That is where the man lies who is forever alone. For a change he is sleeping both day and night. Then perhaps he will trap himself in the brick walls for two days in a row, mouthing Gregorian chant. Yes, he is a religious man. He scribbles astral charts and makes little Christian fishes like the symbol from 1000 A.D. It is almost the millennium again. Does that mark suffice again? Or will it be replaced by something else, something more arcane to fit these strange times?
A collection of six short stories and one novella. Contents:
"Eternal Questions Posed at the International House of Pancakes" "And Now, the Wizard of Gore, May I Present the President" "The Great Find of the Nontraditional Computer Cowboys" "Rags to Riches to Hell" "The Unwelcome Guest" "Letters from Skitzo" "Confessions of a Ghoul"
|  | Dante de Montcada, a disillusioned Spanish knight, longs for rest after nine long years of fighting on the bloody fields of Palestine. In a land barren of peace, where Fortune casts her hard gaze on both the innocent and the guilty, Dante labors to save all that is dear to him. Compassion for the innocent, and the courage with which to defend them, is the very axis upon which his violent world turns. But at a time when honor is everything and disobedience is punishable by death, Dante runs afoul of his king, Richard the Lionheart.
And a king’s request is a knight’s command. Or a hangman’s opportunity.
| | Brendell, the hero(?) of the Dream Realm Award-winning Brendell; Apprentice Thief collection, returns in an all-new adventure. As an apprentice thief, he has little choice but to take any contract offered. This one, however, could end his career before it even begins. And watch for the new Brendell novel, Brendell/Rogue Thief coming soon from Double-Dragon! |  | Man, the ultimate toolmaker, believes he had conquered the sky as he has done the land and the sea. With his sleek fighters flying at speeds well above that of sound or in planes that can carry 1000 passenger, man believes he’s in command. Yet his smugness evaporates when he suffers a BIRD STRIKE. Its disastrous consequence shows the truth; man is just an uninvited guest. Once you read this book and follow the exploits of a man who uses birds to create disasters, you will never feel safe in the air again. |  | Two ships, Alcyone and Solira, an alien vessel, in trouble from unprovoked attacks and in need of help.
Two captains, one still aboard his disabled ship, the other picked up by Alcyone’s sister ship Electra, and accused of desertion.
A daughter eager for reunion with a father she hasn?t seen in years.
The father who all but abandoned her, who has long been secretly conducting illegal scientific experiments and profiting from the venture.
An ambassador in a hurry, eager to take credit for first contact with an alien species.
And a minor crew member aboard Electra, whose unexpected abilities eventually unite them all. |  | No time to find your guide in a mountain cave in Tibet? You?ve come to the right place. Demystify yourself. The Cup and the Bucket is a book about karma, the soul, reincarnation, the Tarot and pizza.
A practical guide to living a new age life in a young soul world...
| | | | | | This lost journal entry from Vampire Hunter Marcus Specter dating back to 1699, details his wife and daughter’s final night on Earth, and his failure to protect them from his greatest enemy, Caitlin.
Learn more about the characters of Specter and Caitlin, featured in the upcoming Double Dragon book "Caitlin" by Terence West! |  | "Humans are no longer one species," Ryl continued, idly rolling the wine in her glass. "Some of us regressed a million years and leaped into a future that might have been, becoming Metas. On Earth, the Rhesus plague deleted a huge chunk of genetic diversity in humans, taking with it a very special gene. As you reach out to the stars, to explore new worlds, to seek the sanctuary planet, Gaia, you will meet other species and situations that telepaths cannot deal with. A dangerous toy, Dim5 travel, for it opens you to predation. As a small gift to help you on your journey, to warn you when the path to be trodden is perhaps not the safest one, twenty-five men and women from the twentieth century were taken, adjusted slightly and delivered to you. These are the C20s." |  | From the author of "Knock Them Dead Job Interview Strategies" |  | Evil Looms From An Ancient Place
OPR Chairman Wess? daughter woke up this morning covered in blood that wasn?t her own. Now she is being charged with a murder that she has no memory of. It’s up to Nick Bishop and the Office of Paranormal Research to prove, or disprove her innocence.
Their investigation sends them into a confrontation with an ancient evil and their newly created Soldiers of Darkness!
In a winding tale that involves the FBI, Wiccans, zombies, and a Triad of Egyptian Gods, can the Office of Paranormal Research find out what’s happening to Lexy Weiss?
Join Nick Bishop and the Office of Paranormal Research in the thrilling sequel to Phantoms! |  | Sensations in Centigrade gallops out of the chute like an enraged bull. Max gives us a journey through the dim love-darkness of contemporary romance. He pens a joyous bittersweet romp through the life of a modern day war widow, with all her romantic obsessions, deceptions, and pitfalls. |  | Missing, Presumed Undead is Elmore Leonard meets Dashiel Hammett meets Terry Pratchett with China Mieville peering through the window (they got along fine until Terry spilt his tea all over Elmore’s Italian sports jacket . . .). It has an intriguing mystery driven plot, dipped in funny syrup and set in a classical fantasy-style world with the mood and magic driven "technology" of a Casablanca-style 30’s detective story. It isn?t so much hard boiled as char grilled, with a side salad. |  | So this here was Frank and me's first slap of some action - the first chance we had of really getting ourselves fogged up. And it all seemed like one of those open-and-shut deals to me, but not Frank: a missing glass tycoon, a sexy dame with a psycho dog, an ogre, a shady street thug with a stink you could climb up, the Magicrime Analysis Division of the City Watch (yeah, they snuck in...), a couple of Watchstables, one Zagynese Gryphon (maybe worth a whole pig pen full of guilders), and a bunch of other punks that were along for the ride. You'll see. It all turns out sweet enough, I guess. For most of 'em, anyways...
Rhys
|  | Jake Silver is an ex-FBI agent who just wants to settle into the quiet life of being a private investigator in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Christina Anderson, the daughter of Jake’s newest clients, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Anderson, is an average high school student who appears to have been abducted and raped. Wanting to cut through the red tape of an official investigation, the Andersons have come to Jake to find out who did this to their daughter.
Reluctantly accepting the case, Jake unwittingly heads off on the biggest adventure of his life. Little does he know that he will be pulled into an intricate web of conspiracies and lies surrounding the Andersons that will lead him into a headlong confrontation with Area 51 and the dark secrets contained there.
"Fallen Angels" is a fast paced thriller that delves deeply into the UFO and Area 51 Mythologies. |  | Margaret Taft is the silver-haired captain’s mistress who desperately needs rescuing. ?Mad? Jack Wyndlam is the one man capable of doing that, but his interest is only in pirate’s gold. Silver meets gold, spinning a legendary tale unlike any heard before on the high seas. | | The annual convention of the Fable, Fiction and Fantasy Muses has started in Atlantis... And this year there are going to be a few changes! The Musing of Four Muses is a cautionary tale for writers who ignore their gifts. |  | The Internet’s favorite thief is back, and his world will never be the same! The sequel to the award-winning Brendell; Apprentice Thief finds Brendell in conflict with his own Guild as he battles to save himself from their treachery. But in order to win, he will have to face not only the Thief’s Guild, but all the Guilds which control his world. Is he seeking a prize even a thief with his unmatched skills cannot steal? |  | In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don?t care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren?t caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found?if you don?t die first. |  | The tidy world of schoolteacher Karen Hudson turns upside down as she embarks on a reckless chase from a small town in California to a jungle in Mexico, searching for the truth about the man who has captured her heart. One day after Michael Browning professes his undying love for Karen, he vanishes. Then she learns he is wanted for murder. Stunned and disbelieving, she sets out on a dangerous quest to unravel the mystery, making her the next target for murder.
Michael Borbeau, alias Michael Browning, never intended to mislead Karen, or fall in love for that matter. Only the need to protect his daughter forced him to choose a new town and a new name. Now, the whole mess is threatening to surface, and he must flee to keep his daughter safe.
Will he ever see his beloved Karen again? Will she discover the truth before the killer strikes again? Will she succeed in reuniting with the only man to ever unlock her heart?
|  | Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief,
Forger, drunkard, burners, and cheats?. |  | Aspiring off-road racer, Tom Guthrie, is down on his luck when he meets well-heeled Elizabeth Claymore. She is in southern California to open a West Coast extension of her successful Manhattan art gallery. He’s trying to figure out what women want. She’s trying to prove to her father that she can succeed on her own?as soon as she learns to drive. Tom decides the only thing Libby can drive is a man crazy. However, what Libby teaches him is that a person can?t win unless he’s in the race. |  | Leaving the bright beauty of Dacey’s reality behind, Abby and Tristan find themselves in a dying world draped in gray, where the people are bereft of hope until their arrival. Here Abby finds at least the semblance of peace and a time to rest....
However, the peace is an illusion in a place where the demon has already sat his ingenious trap, and the two will face a dangerous struggle that will drive them apart. |  | A vacation to the Inland Passage off the coast of British Columbia brings the Small family into a disaster when a kayaking accident forces the children to be left alone on an island while their father takes their mother for medical treatment. They seek shelter and find a hermit and his strange pet. That pet, a ?white? black bear becomes a tool to stop the unsanctioned clear-cutting of the majestic Douglas fir and redwoods that for some are considered a wonder of God. |  | Meghan and Georgina live for riding and when the local doctor invites them to ride two of his prized horses their happiness has no limit. Both 10-year old girls are fierce competitors and their archrival Cassie challenges them in the district-jumping contest. But this is only the beginning of a challenge to both Georgina and to Meghan. Lives are at risk as Meghan finds, escaping her kidnappers in a ride that is worse than anything she has ever experienced and is more challenging than a jumping contest. Riding in darkness in a fierce thunderstorm is almost beyond her ability, but if she doesn?t find help people will be lost. |  | Disappointed about not getting into summer riding school Meghan finds herself shipped off to the Emerald Pioneer Camp. There she discovers that the equestrian instructor isn?t what he appears to be ?a riding expert?. A sudden fire and its consequence force Meghan out into the darkness when she is found bending over the unconscious riding instructor who accused her of starting the fire. No one believes her and she has no where to go but into the darkness of the land that surrounds Baitfish Lake and a land that once considered sacred to the Indians. |  | Six years have passed since Area 51 and S-4 were destroyed in Fallen Angels. It has been almost two years since the biological threat of The Yellow Death was stopped in Fallen Angels Biogenesis. Now a new threat has arisen.
The Keeper has malfunctioned and the creators are returning to
Earth to find out why...
In Egypt, an ancient prophecy is found dating back 5,000 years that points to something horrific. It’s up to Dr. Alex Robinson and Jason Griggs to decipher its meaning and search for the truth, while Jake Silver must cope with his own demons, including the kidnapping of his daughter Samantha.
Take the final journey with Jake Silver and Alex Robinson to the most isolated place on Earth, the small island of Rapa Nui, as they search for the ultimate answers to humanity’s fate on their CRUSADE!
Fallen Angels: Crusade is the third book of the Fallen Angels Trilogy from science fiction/horror author Terence West. | | (Previously published in Dragons, Knights and Angels Ezine) Two men from another age, each with a mission that has kept them alive for centuries, meet to do battle in modern day LA.
|  | Shadowlands is a collection of stories that will leave you with a spine tinging feeling all day. From The Eye of Horus to The Raven King, you?ll want more and fear you?ll get it. I was reminded of Lovecraft, the depth and mood that McMurray brings to each story is palpable ; Killing Wisdom was like running through a nightmare. When each story ends however, it’s not always what the reader wants or anticipated. |  | Kidnapped off the Confederation research vessel Appomattox, Adam Dane finds himself on a desolate world inhabited by a Pandori boy and an energy creature with incredible powers and unspeakable plans for any crew member unlucky enough to cross its path. |  | When is a perfect alibi not so perfect? Cody Callahan and defense attorney Travis Longstreet must answer this question to save grandmotherly Lucille Prettyman from murder charges. |  | Centra, a foundling child grown to manhood, longs to learn his true identity. With no memory of his parents, no knowledge of his past, he is certain of only one thing -- he is not a wizard. Taught to fear and distrust wizards by his foster father, Centra knows he’s not one of "those spineless cowards." |  | What could an ancient Crystal, the salvation of the Elfen Race of Ra-Jee, and two from the future have in common? |  | Hoochie Coochie Man by K. A. Schuster is an atmospheric contemporary fantasy, densely packed with sensuous and sensual imagery. |  | Life in tenth century Norway had never been easy for Tore Nordahldatr. As a woman her life has a limited number of options; but, when a family with a vendetta slaughters her kin, her life changes forever. In order to escape her own death sentence, she must live disguised as a young man until her older brother can return from sea with the Viking chieftain and settle this intertribal dispute. What she doesn?t count on is falling in love with the man who befriends her, or unknowingly being taken in and "raised" by the very family who wants her dead. After accidentally taking a sword sacred to the god, Tyr, Tore appeals to the goddess Sif for protection. Sif strikes a bargain with Tyr. If Tore, living as Eirik the Silent Graafell, proves herself worthy of the sword in battle, she will be allowed to live and go free. Even if Tore is able to fulfill her bargain with the gods, dealing with her brother will be another matter. When he returns he wants revenge and he wants blood. Tore pleads for the life of Brock Thorvaldsson. Will her brother let him live? Will Tore be left alone again? Will all turn out right in this world across the Swan Road? |  | THIEF OF DREAMS by Sheri L. McGathy: Nerys Devi has met the man she could love with all her heart, the one she would share her dreams with. Yet, fate has other plans. Instead of sharing her dreams, will he now be doomed to haunt them? |  | Thor, pilot of a space transport ship, and Helena, a medical scientist, are brought together by fate during a perilous rescue mission to one of Jupiter’s moons. They become dangerously drawn to one another, even though government law prohibits their Orphilion romance?under penalty of death. |  | [From the author of Stargate: SG-1 - CITY OF THE GODS]
The news is full of global warming speculation. The US government is under attack for its stance on greenhouse emissions yet in the background, away from the camera’s eye, the real world is in decay. The Rhesus Factor is fiction, but it is up to the reader to determine just how much so, for all the issues are real the research and outcomes are happening now, yet no one seems to notice or care. Have we really reached the point of no return? Coupled with the latest scientific research conducted by Washington experts, this book is closer to fact than we realise and there is very little we can do to change the future.
|  | When a hugger doll enters Hally Varney’s life she doesn?t at first understand the danger. But Police Sergeant Clint Hendrick soon realizes that he should have paid more attention to his old granny’s superstitions. He’s discovered the hard way that hugger dolls do exist and he’s got to figure out how to get rid of this one before it kills any more people. Before it kills him and then turns on Hally? |  | Mike Solomon is a struggling young musician with dreams of rock stardom. When his band is hired to play a college party he meets a woman who quite literally changes his life. |  | Darrell Bain’s finest novel to date. Savage Survival is a coming of age novel like no other and Lyda Brightner is a character you?ll remember forever. Raped at eleven. Forced to kill. Subjected to suffering in one brutal and horrible environment after another, with no parents or guardian to protect her as she grows up. Millions of earthmen have been captured by invulnerable aliens and are being put through the strangest and most terrifying survival tests ever imagined. Young Lyda Brightner’s first experience after being thrown into the midst of undisciplined humans is horrible enough, but she doesn?t know that the trials are just beginning. She doesn?t know that only a few hundred of the millions of captives will live through the vicious and cruel winnowing process. Again and again as she grows into a young woman, she has to call on the only resources she has available: her own innate bravery, her quick mind, her unwavering belief in the goodness of the majority of humans and ultimately, an enduring hope that one day she will find someone to love. But even if she lives through all this, she will still have to face the final question. What do the aliens have in mind for the few survivors? |  | When Talwyn followed her people, the Golden, from the mist, she found herself reborn into a wondrous world of greens and blues and light and warmth.
When she heard the spirits within the trees call out to her, she found again the oneness she thought lost to her forever.
When the spirits showed her a future that would see her beloved trees destroyed, Talwyn vowed to protect them, even if it meant never returning to the mist again.
Within the swirling mists of time, fanciful whispers give birth to wonders beyond any known reality and shape a single moment into legend. This is one such tale...
The Ancient One |  | Max Ibach has fashioned another hemline ripper for his audience that takes place on a ranch in beautiful Idaho. When Uncle Charley dies, Jamie Sage inherits six million dollars, an Investment banking business, and a forty thousand acre ranch. The ranch adjoins the magnificent Frank Church, River of no Return Wilderness Area. Big Horn Ranch is eighty miles from a town of any sort. |  | WHERE THE REALM OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN ENDS, THE RATH HAVEN CHRONICLES BEGIN.
Where do they come from, the makers of legend, those larger than life leaders of men like Alexander the Great, Arthur, Caesar and Napoleon? | | | | When your job is patching up the histories of parallel dimensions, the last thing you need is to be distracted by personal problems. |  | Return of the Golden Age is the final book in The Fisherman’s Son Trilogy. |  | Humanity needed space. Humanity needed resources. Humanity needed the stars.
Now, an interstellar war is coming, and humanity desperately needs heroes.
|  | Mark had a problem. He only had two months to live and he had to decide between going out with a "bang" or becoming an "angel". It didn?t take him long to decide, it was really a "no brainer"... or would be. The Angel Program would strip his memories and personality and save them onto a "halo"; a storage device of magnificent proportions. He?d then be given what looked to him like a "flying bedpan" as a body.
Sometimes you have to die in order to live... |  | Genetic duplicates of people start dropping out of thin air right beside the originals. The duplicates are complete except for one little detail: they?re dead. Frank Winston begins an investigation that widens to include the mystery of a vanished airliner that had his parents on board, as well as those of the first person who found a dead twin on her doorstep, Linda Vesprie. Together, they discover that quantum physics is even stranger than scientists had believed, and that their world and an infinite series of alternate earths are in dire peril. Neither Frank nor Linda realize they are being misled when a woman from an alternate earth asks for their help. When they discover the duplicity, it is already far too late to do anything about it. Shadowy monsters, conniving federal agents, alternate worlds and a lonely scientist racing against time to save both his world and earth make this latest offering from best selling author Darrell Bain and collaborator Barbara Hodges a page-turning adventure that strings the suspense out to the last page. |  | John Wyeth was a successful man. At nineteen, he graduated at the top of his class at a respected university. By the age of twenty-two, he had survived three brutal years of warfare, serving as commanding officer for a behind-the-lines reconnaissance platoon. Now at thirty-one, he was the Senior Project Leader for the super secret think tank NATech, and he was very good at what he did. Everyone knew and no one doubted that within a few years he would be the Director. |  | Kestryl the Bladesman has been pushed to the edge of madness. Only the death of the Duke, the son of the woman he loves, will satisfy his need for vengeance. With High Gondylar on the brink of war, an assassination would destroy the Dukedom’s best hope of surviving. Trapped between the love for his country and his hatred for the only man who can save it, Kestryl must make the hardest decision of his life. |  | Not unlike a multi-layered puzzlebox, Hell has many varied levels, each infinitely worse than the last. Horrid images of horned demons and fiery rivers of damnation are the most common, though an unfortunate few have felt the searing flames within the mundane confines of their everyday existence.
Ultimately, only death may provide potential relief to those decayed souls whose guilty conscience threatens to cannibalize their very sanity, only to awake and discover that the sins of one’s past come with a horrific price, thus truly earning them a ?Passport to Hell?.... |  | Meghan and Georgina Small bring mystery into their family’s life with a visit to a pen pal, Magdalene in Mexico. The family accepts an invitation to visit Mexico and soon the four children are involved in the mysteries of the Monarch butterfly and discover that Magdalene’s family has a responsibility handed down to them since the time of Montezuma. We are taken back into time and the secrets of Montezuma and the destruction of his empire at the hands of Cortes and his conquistadors. We also become involved in a modern mystery where the sacred places where the monarch’s return from their visit to America and Canada are being raided by unscrupulous people who have found a way of taking the monarchs that fill the trees and killing them to be shipped to market where the monarch wings are made into pieces of jewelry. Follow the Small children as they solve the mysteries of theburial ground of the Monarchs both the King and his secret messengers. |  | Andrew Small has won two transatlantic tickets to attend a strange annual ritual held in CooperHill, England called RUNNING The CHEESE. Unknown to him and his brother Michael, it is the start of another adventure that dates back to the time of the Sepoy Mutiny in India in 1857 where a distant relative lost his life with hundreds of other British soldiers in the rebellion while stationed at Cawnpore. But before he died he entrusted a letter that would insure his son would inherit his estate and become the next lord of MacDonald Manor. The letter was never delivered; the son and his descendents never had the opportunity of gaining what was rightfully theirs until the iIncredible Smalls become involved with the mystery of the Snake Charmer’s Secret. |  | XENOGENESIS is a tale of change; inexorable and inevitable. Human beings are always craving change but when it comes it is frightening . . . Sometimes to the point that we would prefer death. |  | THE SEASON OF SILVER, Elfen Gold Book Two ~ The adventure continues?. |  | Brought together inside an average summer night, she pulled him in without realizing what would eventually come. College was of little importance to him, as adulthood and its life draining steps would ultimately destroy his inner spirit. She was awaiting the white picket fence of the All-American suburb dream that would be hers someday. With one spontaneous action, the first time they kissed sparked a sense of commitment, visions of love beautiful and painful to feel, and ultimately a bond forged within midnight runs, binge drinking, friendship, choices, blood, broken minds, betrayal, and salvation. |  | Based on a true event, "Her Unremembering Way" tells the story of the Bells, a rural Tennessee farm family in the early 1800s. The Bell family became the center of the first and perhaps most famous poltergeist event to be documented in America, witnessed even by President Andrew Jackson. But this wasn't just an ordinary poltergeist. The Bell Witch, as the spirit became known, not only broke dishes and threw things around, it spoke eloquently, attended church, was an inveterate gossip, teased, scolded, tortured and eventually murdered.
"Her Unremembering Way" puts the legend in a whole new light, attempting to explain how the witch appeared, why it appeared, how it affected the Bell family and why it extracted the horrible price it did. |  | Tobin is a timid boy who works as a servant for the Mage Tallander, and would happily continue to do so for the rest of his life. But just before his fourteenth birthday his world is tipped upside down. Tallander is murdered by a man named Gothar. Gothar wants to become the most powerful Mage in the world, and to achieve this aim he’s summoning demons and learning how to summon more.
He orders his first demon, Raen, to kill Tobin.... |  | Meghan once thought going to the Griffen Riding Academy would be a highlight of her life, but when she failed to make the cut she was devastated. The arrival of a letter with the logo of the Spruce Meadow Young Adult Riding School on it with its invitation for Meghan to attend in the last week of August and the first week of September, in the foothills of Alberta, was unexpected and better than winning a million dollars in a lottery. To be invited to this prestigious equestrian school was recognition that she was considered one of the better riders in the country. How her name came to their attention was a mystery? But mysteries were always part of Meghan’s life and those of her brothers and sister. Not only is she forced to achieve skills she never knew she had, but also she discovers that there is a mysterious visitor who comes to the camp uninvited. Those visits might threaten both her new friends and the prized horses in the stables where Canada’s best riders are trained. Will she determine what is actually happening? Does the camp hold a secret? |  | Confined within the straitjacket of a contemporary world, Beyond the Lunar Fringe is a cluster of short science fiction stories that sway between fits of melancholy and starts of electrifying action. Ever gathering momentum, the book crawls triumphantly toward the ragged edges of the human experience where culture and science entwine like patients and bed sheets on a restless summer night.
|  | This story traces the laughter, tears, and loves of four people as they wend their way through open doors seeking an illusive happiness.
Which door will Natalie Woods open? Her marriage of nine years ended when Damien left her for a younger woman. This is the end of her life as she knows it, and the beginning of all things new.
Which door will Diana Anderson open? Frank left their marriage because she forced an issue. Can the creative outlets she explores ultimately fill that void?
Which door will Damien Woods open? With his marriage to Natalie ended he can play out his fantasies with Carol. But is that what Carol wants?
Which door will Frank Anderson open? He has the freedom to do whatever he wishes. But what can stir his passions now that Diana is no longer in his life?
Do they all open a fresh door to find happiness or do they stay outside in the cold?
|  | Over a year has passed since Aurora, who was once Browne, escaped the Candidacy with her love, Bain to Canada. Life amongst the Resistance; however, does not bring peace for any extended amount of time as Ren, Angel, Bain and Aurora find out in Zephyr Unfolding.
| | Princess Zo? has been ordered by her father to marry Prince Evon of Saturn Four, a cruel man whose ego is as large as his family’s royal chest. But when a stranger arrives on Veloris, the Ice Planet, from its neighboring sister planet of Veloris Three, the castle and its inhabitants will never be the same. |  | After the grisly murder of a family including their seven-year-old son, Nick Bishop and the Office of Paranormal Research have been called into to solve this mystery. |  | Dragons were living on Venus and were in their 63rd century of recorded civilization. (while mankind was still only in their 21st century). Even more incredible they were watching Earth television, absorbing our culture while creating their own. Follow the exploits of Redwing and his partner Grey Scream as they foil the bad guys in "Redwing, Dragon Detective"! |  | Chenille didn?t expect to see a horse, much less a unicorn by the stream that morning. But there it was! And even more surprising was its offer, yes offer! ...of a ride. It seemed this unicorn’s name was Thunder and they could communicate. |  | An amazing discovery has been made on Jupiter’s third largest moon that could lead to the
extinction of mankind. |  | While working a smuggling case for Astute Investigations, Denver detective Wil Bregon is drawn to San Francisco’s rollicking Barbary Coast. Formerly an Eastern lawyer and experienced gun for hire, Wil’s not daunted by outlaws and ruffians or prowling foggy dockside taverns. But he isn?t prepared for ghostly visitations from his dead wife or finding himself powerfully attracted to a young blonde who bears a noticeable resemblance to his late spouse. Harmonie Ashlar is a charlatan, a girl with a local reputation for staging pranks for monetary gain. Is she purposely masquerading as Wil’s deceased wife as part of some confidence scheme? Has someone paid her to threaten Wil’s sanity, or is his own imagination playing tricks on him, in an eerie, inexplicable Sleight of Mind? Wil Bregon seems to be everything Harmonie has always yearned for: a man who’s handsome, resourceful, rugged, and shrewd. He’s also deeply troubled?and there is someone watching the pair. Someone willing to do anything to keep them apart. Caught in a web of deceit, can Harmonie and Wil escape the danger looming over them and the lingering phantom of Wil’s turbulent past? |  | In the future, Monitors are stronger, smarter and longer-lived than normal humans. They also have a sex drive much higher and more versatile than other people. Monitors face constant danger when they infiltrate and observe various cultures for possible violations of The Articles Of Hegemony. When Janet Presley became a Monitor, she never expected to wind up investigating a planet where females outnumbered males ten to one, and yet were completely subjugated. Nor did she ever think she would have to pose as a sex slave in order to save her life and that of her libido-enhanced companions. The long trip to Arrowhead is enjoyable, with six highly sexed Monitors aboard ship, but as they discover exactly what they?re getting into, Janet knows the fun and games will end very shortly, perhaps ending her life as well. The male dominated society of Arrowhead is determined to resist incorporation into the empire by the only means possible; they will see to it that the Monitors vanish forever. And there’s one other problem, one the Monitors have never seen before? |  | Rest In Peace...
...Like Hell
Death came without warning for college student Michael Fullerton, but death wasn?t the end.
|  | Amelia Karidokkus has spent most of her life staying away from her hometown and the past. A turn of events forces her to confront the choices that led to a ruined marriage, a crashed career, and has kept her from pursuing her high school sweetheart Jeff Herrington. In another turn of events Amelia is thrust into a decades old family controversy that could ruin those she loves. If she can solve the mystery and outwit a murderer she just might finally find a home for her heart. |  | The Rat-Catchers? King is a twisted retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in a modern setting. A new housing development under construction in a low-income area promises a renaissance for the city, but there’s just one problem.
Rats.
Increasingly concerned over the publicity the rats might bring, the mayor orders the search for an exterminator to solve the problem. The search brings a new kind of exterminator to the area?a being with more than 600 years of experience in culling a community’s unwanteds.
At first, all appears well. The rats disappear.
Then the pigeons?then the city’s homeless.
Then the children? .
Only two men notice the children are gone?or remember anything at all about them.
And these two men must confront the rat catcher’s king?a battle that pitches everything they hold dear against an ancient and intractable foe. |  | For 150 years the Kankenni (Cantrips, to humans) have hidden underground in terror of the humans who once massacred them. Their ability to walk between the worlds of body and mind can?t keep their children from dying, or their race from becoming extinct. |  | What if the ?gods? of yesteryear were actually from another universe, deposited in our spacetime as the result of a freakish accident? Immortal in their new home, how would these gods react if one person could restore the natural order of things?
In the SCIENCE CLUB KIDS series, Pandora, the first woman of ancient Greek myth, is about to punish the Titans for their violation of inter-universal export laws when their universe collapses, sending Pandora, the Titans, and the Olympians to the universe of Earth. The Titans and the Olympians gain godlike powers in this new universe, but Pandora has been replicated in some strange fashion, her existence having been broken apart into many instances of her life, each instance representing Pandora at a different age.
Led by Prometheus, the Titans will stop at nothing to prevent Pandora from remembering her true identity. |  | THE ORIGINAL SEX GATES NOVEL
This is the Sex Gates novel as originally written by Darrell Bain alone. It has a completely different ending, and it contains one more major character and several more supporting ones. In this original version, all questions are answered and all issues resolved in this one book. It is being published now in response to all the fan mail and interest the trilogy generated?and continues to generate. The Sex Gates has already become a science fiction cult classic and this book should be a significant addition to the sex gates universe. |  | Choctaw Princess or Lady...which is she?
Upon reaching womanhood the Choctaw princess Winona receives a vision that will fulfill an ancient legend. But she will undergo challenges and heartache before she finds the answer, and a love so deep and true it will make her whole. |  | Georgina buys a beautiful figurine at an action and discovers that it is much older than she thought. Her mother uses her contacts and finds that the figurine of a beautiful Irish Colleen is called The Fenian Messenger.Learn about the attempt of Irish rebels and veterans of the American Civil War as they plan to invade and conquer Canada and hold it for use as a bargaining chip to force Britain to give Ireland its freedom. But Georgina discovered that the Fenian Messenger holds a secret and that secret could ruin the political future of an Irish politician who might soon become the leader in Ireland. |  | Writers are the only true magicians in the world. They create worlds with words, and in the case of fantasy, they bring magic into our lives. Because of writers we can converse with dragons, follow a quest for the sake of good, and find love lost through the centuries. |  | Working in Mexico allows Michael Small an opportunity to uncover ancient tools of man. One he discovers with Victoria Windemere is a startling discovery of a Roman sword, a commander’s sword. From the engraving on the sword it points out that the owner was the commander of the Ninth Legion. How that sword got to North America is a mystery. Follow the journey of a Roman vessel as it heads to Britannia and gets captured by a fierce storm and blown off course. Go with the Smalls to Britain and walk the Roman Roads. Find the clues to one of the greatest mysteries on what happened to the Ninth Legion when 5,000 Roman soldiers, centurions trained in battle disappear, in land that Rome had not yet conquered; a land where the Picts do not accept defeat and fight to save their land from the might of the Roman Empire. |  | At the age of sixteen, Abigail Wyeth was thirty-three years old.
|  | Since their introduction in Medics Wild!, the zany Williard brothers? adventures have become increasingly science fictionish in nature, involving a real dinosaur in the Congo one time and factual evidence of Bigfoot (or more likely an alien) the next, but this escapade tops even those past exploits for strangeness. THREE FOR THE MONEY takes place after the turn of the century when the Williard brothers of Vietnam war fame are beginning to show their age, but aren?t ready to slow down yet. They are headed into their wildest adventure yet, involving a treasure worth far more than their inherited billions even if they can collect the money, which becomes increasingly doubtful, because others want it, too. Their attempt to find the money and the baffling object that may be the real prize will set the stage for their antics to last for many, many years to come. Of course first they have to defeat the mysterious Mister H and his beautiful assistant, the CIA, the FBI, and the Mexican army, then find the money, collect the unknown prize and escape with their lives. That’s a tall order for anyone--except the Williard brothers, the most amazing trio to appear in fiction since The Three Musketeers! |  | Thirty years ago, Zachary Cane was held prisoner and tortured by an ancient vampire known as Caitlin. With the help of a local coven of witches, and a vampire hunting order called the Gwyliad Wriaeth, they destroyed Caitlin. |  | Karma a regal, queen like cougar holds within her realm a secret that has mystified aviation historians for 75 years. What happened to a German Princess who dared to challenge the wide Atlantic when flying was in its infancy? Michael and his sister Georgina discover in New Brunswick something that will change the records of who first reached America from Europe in 1927. Hidden in her territory, Karma holds the secret and it is up to her to reveal it. This mystery relates to the contest that the London Daily Mail ran to encourage the first non stop airplane flight across the Atlantic for 10,000 British pounds. |  | Few people know that Canadians played a vital role in the American Civil War. Work with Michael and his friend Chris when they find a can of Double Eagle American gold coins hidden in an old stone bridge near their home. In the can is a short note that brings a part of history to light that few people today know about. The Knights of the Golden Circle were formed to finance the second rising of the South. Learn about the Civil War and discover how an actor on the stage changed the history of America. |  | It produced the loudest sound ever heard in man’s recorded history. The eruption in 1883 on the island of Krakatoa was not only heard but its effects were felt halfway around the world as tides were affected. Over 36,000 people were killed. Discover a mystery where Michael Small becomes involved in finding why pigeons failed to return to their roost in a major Homing pigeon event. In that search he also discovered the pigeon’s owner, a friend of Michael’s cousin, has a mystery dating back to the time Keith Walsh traveled across the Pacific on board the schooner Beagle II. The plea for help takes the Smalls to Australia and then to the islands of the south Pacific in the search for the missing ship, with the clues carried back to Canada by a pigeon called Hope. |  | The sound of the teacher’s voice droned in his ear, ?Battles have been lost before men have stepped a foot on the battlefield. Your tactics are the plans you make for the upcoming battle and strategy is the careful planning and managing of your activity on the battlefield. Heed this lesson well young man as the lives of men are in your hands, and should always be in your heart.?
|  | HOLLYWOOD HAVOC: The Llama Goes Up
Matt “Hollywood” Havoc, movie maker Vinnie Berger’s clever and energetic assistant, has already thwarted a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles.
As book II of this thrilling four part series begins, Matt survives an act of vengeance as the terrorist tries to kill him.
Matt leaves Tinseltown for a location shoot in Oregon, to work on a picture with his ex-wife, a sexy superstar who has designs on more than his skills as a filmmaker. But after a crane topples over on the set and nearly crushes him, Matt realizes his enemies will stop at nothing to kill him.
He returns to Los Angeles to work with his boss Vinnie on the half-crazed thriller Carnage Daze. But the terrorists are lying in wait, and Matt will need all his ingenuity and fast moves if he is to stay ahead of the deadly game being played against him.
| | Gillian Castor has a gift-psychometry, the ability to discern information from a person or an object simply by touching it. Michael Stockard, a former LAPD homicide detective, despises all things outside the purview of normality, including Gillian. Which is fine with her, because she can?t bear to touch him. |  | The ordinary and seemingly unrelated lives of Trejaeran Muirel and Qynh Reoder are forever and irrevocably changed when they learn they are brother and sister, twin heirs to the throne of Tiralainn, and the children of a murdered King of Men and Queen of the Elves. By Elfin prophecy, one of them will one day defeat Ciardha, the evil and immortal Queen who now reigns over the realm, and restore the alliance of men and Elves.
|  | Get ready to experience the adventures of two brothers, Armulen and Doran as they fight off the ruthless invasion of the grotesque Gorg aliens. |  | When humans first came to Saril, they had only one goal -- to create a new paradise to rival their lost homeland. But as the centuries passed, they realized there was something else on their new world. Some thing strange and wonderful. Their decedents wielded powers the original settlers had never dreamed of. They could raise cities with their minds... heal with a touch... |  | In this wickedly ingenious novel of compelling mystery, unforgettable characters, and sharp wit, L.P. Stanley draws us into a world of mind and magic, science and sorcery, blending a perfect mixture of relentlessly mounting horror and dark humour. |  | On a post-apocalyptic Earth, three lifelong friends embark on a summertime river trip. Brad, Rob and Mindy want to rekindle their childhood relationships, and have a few days of fun and relaxation.
What they find is a hair-raising journey. Their ill-fated river excursion leads them into danger and disaster in this rapid-paced fantasy. They encounter many strange things. A mischievous dancing skeleton. The discovery of intelligent, man-eating lizards. A whirlpool that takes them on an unwitting trip through time into a strange land.
|  | This is an updated version of the original article, with comment, descriptions and additional novels added. It is an entertaining discussion and listing of more than 130 science fiction novels, dubbed by Darrell Bain as his ?Most Readable (and re-readable) Science Fiction Novels?. His selections have been culled from more than 10,000 science fiction novels read over his lifetime, beginning at age twelve. Almost anyone who loves the genre is bound to find at least a few great books listed here they have missed for one reason or another, or perhaps reminded of ones they?ve read and would like to see back on their bookshelves. |  | When terrorists try to poison undergraduate schools with a nerve agent, the scheme backfires. Instead of causing death, the chemical stimulates the mirror neurons in the students? brains, causing them to multiply and become hyperactive. This, in turn, leads to unusual talents. As the children grow, their teachers and other institutions become very interested in the odd perceptive ability they begin displaying. Government, industry, military, drug cartels, businesses and the underworld all want to use them for their own purposes. Some of the young men and women have different ideas. They will fight to keep their freedom?especially after a few of them begin to develop another odd talent, one that may change the world. |  | Do you dream?
Can you remember your dreams?
Ricky could. And when he came face to face with the characters of his dreams, he realised that they were more than just night visions. Somehow he was seeing another world ? a world that was soon to seem more real than his own when he met the charismatic Calith and became involved in Calith’s fight to prove his allegiances to his masters. And when Calith betrayed them all to the powers of darkness, Ricky found he could no longer sit on the sidelines and watch the match. He was a player now ? a player with a unique talent that just might win them the game.
For Ricky didn?t just see other worlds in his dreams. He could create them...
|  | Her friends lay dead. Her new life was destroyed; nothing more than a smoldering crater in the Sahara. She herself lay on the desert sands, seriously wounded and bleeding, utterly alone. |  | Imagine a nation engulfed in a steamy, seductive scandal, when a mysterious corpse found inside a rented Cadillac in an obscure park in Southern California turns out to be Susan Whitaker, the flamboyant wife of the governor of California. A dazzlingly intricate shuffle of accumulating leaks will lead the police to the delicate theory of a secret lover/ blackmailer and to the indictment of Hollywood’s most influential black celebrity, Benjamin Carlton ? |  | Now available in a single volume; all three novels in the Pet Plague trilogy |  | Everyone, male or female, who drinks very much and frequents singles bars has probably woken up one morning with a less than desirable bedmate, one who looked very good right before the bar closed. The less appealing a person is physically, and the more they have had to drink, the more likely it is that such an event has occurred.
Timothy Meeker was so physically repulsive that it happened often to him. Going home with a bar hag was about the only time he ever got laid. Finally he decided to do something to change the situation. Boy, did he ever!
|  | Relinquishing their position as absolute rulers, Fanterra’s wizards create a power vacuum. Heroes emerge from unexpected common beginnings as individuals driven by greed seek to take the place of the wizards and local conflicts become global. |  | When Jeffrey Crowder bought his autistic son some magnets and toy electric motors to play with, he had no idea what his impulsive idea would lead to. It was just that he had played with magnets when he was a child and he remembered how much fun they had been. He thought the toy magnets and motors might be just the thing to interest his son and break through the barrier between his autistic mind and events in the outside world. They certainly did that, in a way Jeffrey could never have imagined! |  | If you are in the mood for a good, old fashioned love story laced with some witty dialogue and a lot of passion, The Jessop’s is just what the doctor ordered! |  | When you are a witness to an assassination trouble stalks you. It was no different for David Niven and his friend Chris Stern. The last words of the dying Islamic scholar are a plea to destroy information the old man has discovered. His plea leads to further death. |  | The bottom of the sea hold many remains of man’s effort to sail the oceans. Michael Stone’s life as a US diver is ruined when he risks his life to rescue two men in a bathyscaph trapped on a sea plateau where they are working on two iron age wrecks. That dive nearly killed Stone but he also finds a mystery about a German U-boat-443 that brings the ghosts of the Second World War too close to home. Both the U-boat and the suicide of his boss brings him to face death at its very deepest depth. He is forced to dive again because the lady he loves will be killed if he doesn?t recover diamonds that was lost on board a tramp steamer destroyed by the Israeli intelligence because it was being used to transport arms to the Palestinians. |  | It looked like a perfectly ordinary chicken egg, just like the others in the carton. There was only one difference. This egg couldn?t be broken. Becky wanted to throw it away. Carl decided to keep it and try to find out what it was made of. But then the egg began changing. And changing. |  | This is truly an exciting fantasy tale of non-stop action, adventure, romance, sex, violence, mystery, intrigue, terror, and thrilling suspense.
On a distant planet, in a distant time, a young newly-married couple copes with their differences, separations, loneliness, depression, terrible dangers, and never ending fear.
They must somehow survive an endless turmoil of espionage, double agents, foreign spies, traitors, assassins, terrorists, and the constant threat of a military invasion. And, together, they must strive to make their love endure. |  | Have you ever walked into or found yourself in a situation where you know instantly that you?re in danger? What do you do? Most of us try and remove ourselves and then think about the situation. What happens when you aren?t given that opportunity? |  | Double Dragon Publishing - Fifth Anniversary. A Celebration of Cover Art 2001 to 2006.
Selected images from the book of the same title. This calendat flip open in the center and measures 11 x 8.5 top and bottom. |  | Double Dragon Publishing - Fifth Anniversary. A Celebration of Cover Art 2001 to 2006. Selected images from the book of the same title. Flips open from the top and measures 13.5 x 20.50 top and bottom. Printed on "White Linen Paper"
|  | There is a power in the land. The mages have long known of it, and drawn on it. But the world is in flux, the gentle ways of the Mother being threatened by the growing influence of Her Brother/Son H?lal, the Warrior God. |  | Come celebrate five years of cover art with Double Dragon Publishing! Included within this full color paperback is a selection of cover art reproduced to "actual publication size", commentaries from various authors including Piers Anthony, Sheri L. McGathy and Terence West as well as thoughts from the publisher and artist. |  | When an eleven year old super genius begins cracking codes and breaking into financial and military files all over the world, simply because she wants to learn about new things, the security agencies naturally become very upset. However, instead of trying to track down the source of the hacking, they might have been better off leaving well enough alone. Darby wants to learn and doesn?t intend to let anyone get in her way. |  | ?A human specific bioweapon can kill most of the population of a city before it even knows it’s under attack, leaving the physical infrastructure virtually intact. In rural areas it can destroy human life while leaving crops and livestock untouched, uninfectious. Thrown into chaos, the remaining population can easily be overtaken by a small, lightly equipped military force. Relatively unskilled labour will take an additional few weeks to decontaminate an infected area of human casualties, leaving it ready for immediate habitation by an enemy’s population,? explained USAMRIID’s Colonel Susan Broadwater in an emergency briefing to government agents in Quantico, 1995. |  | A sudden, rending scream from the depths of hell made even these seasoned veterans jerk and twirl toward this terrifying, unknown enemy. Aaron’s high-speed slug gun had the piercing screech of a banshee as he stood there - his legs so immobile despite the wicked recoil that they seemed bolted to the stone floor. With his upper body and shoulders, he muscled the gun in sweeping motions that disintegrated cold metal and warm flesh alike, each shredding like paper from the gun’s heavy slugs. They danced and lurched on invisible strings that plucked them from both sides; the ricocheting pieces of jagged metal being even worse than the slugs. |  | Book two of An Age of Heroes Saga
When one of their own is murdered in Gulfport, the typically independent Mangarans unite to send a force against that port in a quest for justice. Confronted with no choice but to defend the port through which all their trade depends, the riverers unite when the only riverboat captain with any battle experience takes command for the "good of the river" even though it also means commissioning many apprentices still years away from readiness. Outnumbered in vessels and fighters, the riverers advance for an epic showdown. |  | How does government control society thousands of years in the future? Arturo’s Wish is a about a renegade group trying to gain their freedom. Try to figure out the ending if you can. |  | What happens when you try to use time travel to build a society in a new Galaxy to look like the one you left behind? What happens when you accidentally lose the plans on how to create that society? To find out those answers more read the ?Galactic Rosetta?. |  | There could be no unlikelier pair of amateur sleuths than Greta Roscoe and the Reverend Aaron Shane. Not because Greta is the most elegant courtesan of St. Louis’s high society during the Gay 1890’s, and Aaron the city’s most self-righteous minister. It’s because they?re dead. |  | IN THIS INCREDIBLE, SWEEPING SAGA across thousands of years and hundreds of light years we come face to face with our fears and deep prejudices. It is here, in SEEDS OF MEMORY, that we get an idea of what it means to be "HUMAN" and what "HUMAN" really means. It is here, in SEEDS OF MEMORY, that we are confronted with the need to know colliding head-on with reality. Are we, HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS, truly the only form that humans can take and is our history the only history? Might there not be others, or others created out of the very stuff of life who are, after all, our brothers and sisters? |  | Based on his 25-year roller coaster ride in the Information Technology (IT) industry, Biff Mitchell’s latest novel, Team Player, explores the world of work in the 21st Century. The story is set in an uncomfortably close future where the world is run by homicidal marketing managers who kill for love, company, and the almighty promotion. |  | Meghan and Georgina befriend an old man shunned as the town drunk. They discover he is an expert on horses. But as they try to help him they discover he has ghosts in his closet. They determine to find out what is haunting the old man and then they get into the past and find the mystery of a bank robbery in a small town called Furnace Cliffs Kansas. |  | Who was the force behind the uprising in Heaven against God and His Angels? The written word of the bible acknowledges Satan as the agitator; however, as we find out through mythology and pagan cultures of ancient times, Satan did not act of his own free will. He was influenced by this entity of true anger, evil and power beyond power.
This entity was neither male nor female, living nor dead, flesh nor spirit, good nor evil, merciful nor malicious, alpha nor omega, beginning nor end, hope nor hopelessness. Its name was no name. To encounter it was endless and to understand it was futile. Hades was a sand box compared to the vast wilderness of its Armageddon. |  | There is an alternative to the universe we know and understand: a very close and similar alternative that is almost exactly the same, almost normal and familiar except for some minor deviations. |  | A new short story from Darrell Bain! Won?t it be great to talk to animals? But what if no one believed you, and you were a nine year old girl named Samantha? Find out! |  | Michael Small received an invitation from Victoria Windemere, an archaeologist he helped in her work in the Yucatan peninsula and the discovery of Roman artifacts in North America before the time of the Aztecs. His new hobby scuba diving lets Dr. Windemere hire him as an apprentice diver on site in the Mediterranean to work on the recovery of two ships that may date back to the time of the Iron Age. Dive with Michael as he risks his life to save a submersible that has been carried to the bottom. Feel his pain and what he has to suffer to rescue them. He is helped from drowning by a young woman who has her own ghosts. When she tells him about them he helps her unravel a mystery where her grandfather and grandmother were accused of being spies and traitors in the Second World War. |  |
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|  | Even though it is the roaring twenties in Ledford, Illinois Belle Anne Lassiter maintains a pristine reputation. However, her carefully crafted lifestyle is jeopardized when she comes to live and work for the Spicuzzi brothers. But her circumstances give her no other choice. |  | Some friendships are dangerous....
When Crystal and Etric find themselves in an unusual amount of trouble they should have realized that two people they never expected to see again had returned to their reality. Abby and Tristan are back... and so is Tabor, who has problems all his own.
The crews of Freedom and Fame team up to save the emperor, protect the last remaining heir, and face the gods and demons as they again work to help Abby and Tristan in the latest battle of their long war. |  | Warning: Contains Course Language
The Job: Nobody wants to be a vampire hunter. It’s certainly not the kind of thing that you plan on doing for a living. I mean it’s not exactly an occupation that you grow up wanting to have when you?re a child -- like a fireman or a policeman; or even, God forbid, the President of the United States. |  | Told with a campfire flair Unholy Whispers is an old fashion ghost story possessing elements of the macabre, sadness, erotica and terror. Born in a seaside brothel, Leah’s birth is an event worthy of damnation. Being raised in and by the home, she bears unending witness to mankind at its most primordial level of drunken savagery and insatiable lust. Her short life translates into a long nightmare, twelve years in duration. Then, on a stormy night, Leah is brutally murdered, along with every single harlot in the bordello at the hands of frenzied seamen. |  | A DREAM OF DROWNED HOLLOW, Lee’s Gryphon Award-winning ecological fantasy novel.
There are spirits afoot deep in the Ozark hills of Blackburn County, Arkansas. Things happen. Ghosts walk. Elemental creatures dance to the wild music of the rhythms of Nature. And those who?ve lived in the hills for generations can see them.
But now there’s activity of another kind ravaging the hills; bulldozers, chainsaws, and hunters of man and beast. As old-growth trees fall to developers, rivers are dammed, hollows are flooded, and residents are driven from land settled by their many-times-great-grandparents, April Rue Stoner hopes against hope that her gift can help her stop the destruction before everything she’s ever known is gone. |  | Death of a man with twin souls, wrath of the gods, a new habitat and? a beast with unquenchable thirst. A Serial killer is on the loose. The killer is a bunjip, a trapped spirit in the Island of the dead. DCI Ivory Storm must look beyond technical means to solve these crimes. The answer? A recluse seer from Aboriginal country. |  | Sometimes a career change is required. Sometimes it’s unavoidable. And sometimes you?re forced into it, unable to think straight, pressured by your employer, with nowhere to turn.
And sometimes it costs you more than you could ever imagine... |  | When you wake up with a naked woman in bed with you, who apparently came through a locked door, you know the day is getting off to a weird start. When the woman doesn?t know her name or where she came from or how she got there, and begins appearing and disappearing out of thin air, you know rest of the day is going to be screwy, too. |  | Snow Metal’s marriage needs more than a kitchen sink thrust at it to save it. Especially since a shuttle accident at Lunar corroded half her husband’s face. A few goth-hours sorting galaxy signals at The Enclave curbs their tussles over money. But one detour on Shuttle Maxima, and a mesmeric man with orange hair and cobalt eyes cold as stone tips the scales. Mesk Lexus is a prize. A visual magnet. But he is also Cannibaloss, and Snow knows nothing about him. His pebbly laughter does not fool, nor does his death grin. Is love enough? |  | When the Winter King stays the wheel, refusing to allow the season to turn, the Summer Queen has no choice but to declare war.
Yet, there is one within the southern realms unwilling to see the people of Faery wage war. Astara, daughter of the Summer Queen, has taken it upon herself to journey alone to the northern realms, seek out the Winter King, and beg him if she must, to release the wheel. The season must be allowed to change.
The people of Faery could not go to war, for if they did, the land and all that depended upon its bounty would suffer. Somehow, Astara must make the Winter King remember this before the bitter chill of winter silenced her voice forever.
|  | During the Dark Ages in South West Britain. Saxon colonists seize the opportunity to gain more lands from their neighbors in the West when the old Celtic king dies leaving a power vacum. From across the West Saxon lands; all hamlets send men to participate in the invasion of the Celtic land, Dumonia. However, efforts don?t always go to plan and aims of the invasion begin to diminish as the invaders move deeper into the Celtic realm and resistance becomes more stubborn.
|  | In the wild days of the Martian Iron Rush, the Martian Territorial Rangers were all that stood between the guilty and the innocent. And the best, truest, fastest on the draw Iron Marshal was Roids Cavanaugh. Now Martian author HK Devonshire brings his stories to Earth readers, regaling you with accounts of this rarest breed of lawman. Read the same stories the Shards Universe characters love and celebrate.
|  | Flattered by the attention of Graf Ruprecht von Falkenstein, Margerite von Hirschenberg marries well above her station only to find her idyllic marriage is not as perfect as it seems. Under the shadow of satanic magicians, she fights to discover who her true enemies are and how she can protect her unborn babe. |  | EMULATOR II: Les Femmes D’sesp?r?es is the anticipated sequel to EMULATOR.
DCI Matt East investigates the death of a Nobel Prize Nominee and stumbles into one relationship, three wives and a widow. |  | [Book Two of the Muntu Trilogy]
Death of a man with twin souls, wrath of the gods, a new habitat and? a beast with unquenchable thirst. |  | Relentlessly emotional and gripping, Radiant Fire is told in the spirit of dashing adventure and the language of the current-day female warrior. The story contains strafing wit, a mindless helping of sexual indulgence, the airborne violence of war and the charged energy of two people being held apart by circumstances beyond their control. This tale propels the reader toward its ultimate conclusion with all the captivation and enchantment of a runaway train.
|  | On the desolate and dark side of the galaxy a special team of future warriors train in old Earth style towns for their mission to destroy a bizarre apocalyptic alien race. Perry, a leader and super warrior of the mission discovers that life on his home planet Rubicon and its nearby controlling Overlord planet Irene hide secrets more perilous than the alien threat. Perry desperately needs to contact the far away planet Earth to discover the truth of Rubicon’s cloaked history. Discovering that truth many millennia in the future will not come easy. Truth never does. If he can discover the truth it will change Earth and its place in the Galaxy forever. It is in front of Perry at all times---but can he fathom the consequences? The future of Earth depends on the decisions made by this superman of the future. |  | [Warning: Contains Sexual Situations]
The Lizzars planned on defeating the Centaurs with their new secret weapon. Instead, it teleported a town from Earth into the heart of an ongoing war! Bullets and Lasers marks the introduction of David L. Kuzminski’s new Censored by Earth Command series. |  | THE DEVIL IN MARYVALE, Jackie Griffey’s new book, is now out. It is the first of a cozy mystery series set in fictional Pine County, Tenessee.
This series incorporates the gifted with the population of Maryvale and Pine county. The first of them in THE DEVIL IN MARYVALE is a psychic; the second in the series introduces a medium who conducts a seance; and the third will introduce a healer, all of them very much part of the Maryvale scenes and surprises. |  | Irish hero Oisin travels to the Land of Youth with Princess Naomh to enjoy its pleasures, but after three years revisits home to find that three hundred years have passed in Erin Shocked, he ignores a warning not to leave the magical chariot conveying him, as a result of which it disappears leaving him trapped. But is there a hidden agenda at work" Why is he sent to Hyperborea. searching for a weapon against Death? What is Death doing in the Land of Youth" This Chronicle raises questions provides answers taking Oisin through danger, sacrifice and transformation, half revealing a secret as the lovers challenge Death in a tale uniting myth with fantasy. |  | Effie Scarsmore and Coralee Nye migrate west to Silver City, Idaho after losing their teaching positions at an Eastern private academy. Effie’s fianc?, Milford Browne, has been in Silver City for more than a year, establishing his fortune and building a new home where he will live with his future bride. |  | En route to a reporting job in Little Rock, car trouble forces Bob Smith to spend the night in Lazarus, Arkansas. Suspecting the town is hiding some bucolic Fountain of Youth, his curiosity and investigating skills take him close enough to the town’s secret to fall victim to it. He manages to get away with his life, his car repaired well enough to get him to Little Rock, and a twenty-four hour gap in his memory only to be drawn back by nightmares and puzzling deja vu flashes to Lazarus where he finds the love of his life and danger as he hunts for those lost hours. |  | Orphaned by the death of their parents, Maddie and Wil are sent to live with their aunt, a respected college professor with no experience raising children. Largely left to themselves, they find a portal in her house-a door through an ordinary washing machine that leads to Loss, a strange world where all of the things lost in our world go to-keys, umbrellas, socks, loose change.even people. |  | Shard: v. To switch personas. Once a mind has been riped (wiped and rewritten), the previously used portion is closed off and an artificial psychic barrier is raised. Although highly unlikely, the barrier can be breached, and the closed off persona - even the original one - behind that barrier becomes dominant. This temporary episode is called a shard. If sharding continues, however, it does so at an increasing rate, weakening the psychic barriers, until it reaches a cascade level. Once cascade sharding begins, dissolution and death are inevitable. |  | Zhorr, a grand magician of Diaspora, travels back in time with his apprentice son to 1905AD, into the heart of a small Ngoni village at the mouth of rebellion. |  | Writing short stories is not easy. The reason it isn't easy is because they are short. The writer is still charged with producing living characters who have personalities: good, bad, or milksop. Add to that a dynamic narrative that gives you, the reader, an opportunity to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste what the folks who inhabit those little stories do, and the authors have a demanding job on their hands. Short stories are a great deal more than sitting on an old apple crate and hammering away at the QWERTY. |  | When does a species become human? This was a question which now might possibly be answered, using newly developed techniques. Care would be needed, though. It wouldn?t do to upset what had gone before. |  | Teach Me To Love is an early Victorian Novel.
Underground radical reporter Darbee Donavon doesn?t mix with the upper crust. Things change when she intercepts a request by one of London’s most conservative old lords to have one Lord Ethan Darus Gray investigated. When the lofty Earl of Ashebrook discovers someone is digging into his past, he sets out to discover who it is. As the icy earl comes face to face with the radical rebel the sparks fly, and the challenge begins to see which of the strong-willed antagonists will come out the winner. The ultimate winner here is definitely the reader. |  | Margerite’s defeat of the sorceress Ortlieb, unwittingly earning her the rank of Princess in the Order of Lightbearers, puts her company into greater peril and brings them to the attention of the Inquisition. Now she struggles to maintain her deception within the Order, defend her company from the Papal investigators, and stave off her step-son’s attempts to bring her powers under his control by annulling her marriage. Can she continue the masquerade without imperiling her soul, or will she drag everyone down with her? |  | Take two old prospectors who have turned into ghosts, one modern day writer/photographer, and one handsome, if somewhat absent-minded mine owner and mix them up with an explosion gone awry in the Nevada mining town of Peavine. Add to that a time difference of over 130 years, and the chances for romance, mishaps and mayhem are as abundant as Nevada Gold. |  | Just beyond your fingertips is another world. It’s in the whisper of the wind, the sigh of the trees. It’s the shadow in the mirror or the fleeting glance of something out of the corner of your eye. |  | Lormere Haleil wants to stay in her home village and nurture her healing gift in peace. Instead, her family’s ambition forces to her to enter the legendary House of Lohenrin for training. There she is plunged into a world of magic, competition and intrigue. The initiates of the House must learn the skills of an adept, but only a few of them will be chosen to become a master of the power. A noble by birth, Brennet Darcon has dreamed all of his life of becoming a master. When Lormere bests him in every competition, his pride drives him to take dangerous risks to regain the upper hand. Using a magical crystal, he enters a forbidden realm and soon Brennet and Lormere are locked in a deadly competition that could destroy the House. Will pride drive them both too far? Or will love find a way to spare them from the crystalline fire? |  | Homicide detective, Bob DiStanza, has been doggedly pursuing an active serial killer operating throughout the city of Philadelphia. As the lead investigator of a dedicated taskforce commissioned to stop this highly disciplined yet unyielding predator of women, Bob struggles with the situation’s grim reality. The investigation is going nowhere. |  | Flashes in the Pan, Fifty Short Stories for the Impatient, by Raymond Grant is a pithy little book that should be onboard when you?re standing in a long, slow line, waiting on a download or upload, or killing time while TV commercials drone on. During any one of these exasperating instances, catch a flash?read a short story?let your spirit soar. |  | Aware now from enslaved humans that the Earth possesses incredible technology and weapons, the Lizzars use their teleporter to steal more pieces of Earth in an attempt to gain those. However, one of those pieces includes a military academy with real weapons and ammunition. Now the Lizzars are in for a real battle against a force of trained cadets while the Centaurs race to ally themselves with the new humans on their world.
[Warning: Contains Sexual Situations] |  | Journeys of the Mind is a collection of short stories crafted by some of today’s leading speculative fiction writers. Between them, these authors have published over a hundred hardcover and paperback titles. Their works have been translated into twenty-six languages including Russian, Polish, Icelandic, Hungarian, German and Japanese, and their books have sold in excess of 25 million copies. Many are the multiple recipients of prestigious SF and Fantasy awards, and their novels have regularly appeared on international bestseller lists including the New York Times. |  | In a quest to break a sex demon’s curse on Earth, DCI Ivory Storm travels to Sacred Valley of Dreams, ancient terrain ensconced in galaxies beyond two asteroid belts, to save her lover and reunite the world. |  | Death of a man with twin souls, wrath of the gods, a new habitat and a beast with unquenchable thirst. A Serial killer is on the loose. The killer is a bunyip, a trapped spirit in the Island of the dead. DCI Ivory Storm must look beyond technical means to solve these crimes. The answer: a recluse seer from Aboriginal country. In a quest to break the demon’s curse on Earth, to save her lover and reunite the world, Ivory finds herself in the Sacred Valley of Dreams, ancient terrain ensconced in galaxies beyond two asteroid belts. |  | The ancient vampire hunting order known as the Gwyliad Wriaeth has a dark secret. It’s enwined so deeply in the order that very few know about it, but it threatens to unravel everything they stand for.
We are those who are to blame. |  | A stellar accident has thrown hundreds of small circular areas of East Texas far into the past. The displacement circles include such random spots as a roadside park, a Wal-Mart Superstore, the streets of a small town -- and the death row section of the state prison.
|  | Girls and young women are disappearing without a trace, without a clue. No bodies are ever found. |  | A renegade chemist discovers a drug which can be given quickly and surreptitiously and which will convert anyone almost instantly to a state of mind where the merest suggestion becomes an imperative need to obey. While the chemist is selling the drug to child molesters and rapists and robbers and using it himself to suborn women for the foulest of purposes, a team of detectives are in a desperate search for the source of the drug. They must find it before the formula becomes common knowledge -- and changes the very nature of society. What David O?Neal, the lead detective, doesn?t know is that others in the department and from government agencies are working just as hard to secure the drug for their own use. |  | The Sapien people live on the dying planet of Venus. Their need to escape to a new world where they can continue to exist leads them to the third rock from the Sun, Earth. |  | An old man thinks he is a god. And than he has murdered one of his subjects. |  | There are souls so sinister and bleak that good fears to look within but perhaps if we venture deep enough, we will discover more than just pain. Come, journey with us through that darkness to find what lies within those Stygian Souls.
|  | The US Virgin Island of St. Thomas holds a glow of beauty and timeless grace. Beneath that, though, lies an anguished past of destroyed lives, enslavement, and endless attacks by nature itself. The people of St. Thomas are desperately in need of a protector. A guardian. An angel that will lay down her life to see that there will be justice for them. |  | Impact is a collection of stories by Eugen M. Bacon that is "...a compelling work of fiction. Eugen Bacon’s writing is intense, utterly convincing and, before you know it, tosses you to a sharp finish." |  | The Sapiens needed to flee Venus? dwindling atmosphere. Their form of government was known as the Parliamentary Council. The Council created the Enforcement with one goal in mind. Take over, control the Earth, and colonize it for the Sapien population. With the Sapien’s continued expansion, we open our story. Captain Troupe was always a mystery to his son, Jonas. The young man was lucky if he spent more than a year with his father in total. The night of his father’s return would be the last time Jonas ever saw his father again. Jonas set off on an adventure, which unraveled his father’s hidden past.
|  | Something smells in the rural backwater of Plattsford, Ontario.... besides Gloria Trevisi’s septic bed, that is. A local politician-turned-developer is found dead in his own future industrial park. As editor of Plattsford’s local paper, Gloria’s mission is to sort through a maze of local gossip, delve behind the polite facade of rural society, and discover the truth, preferably before her news deadline.
But it won?t be easy if she’s in jail. |  | Prior to their redefinition by Ogawa in 1987, the Namban group of tsuba had received scant attention from scholars. In part, this had been due to the lack of a clearly defined categorisation, making systematic attribution of the group difficult and thus preventing coherent study of the corpus as a whole. Dr John Lissenden uses this redefinition as the starting point in his accessible, creative and thoroughly researched study of Namban tsuba, for which he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in East Asian Studies by the University of Durham in 2002.
The author has made good use of the research that has been previously done by European and Japanese students, but has also been originally critical of some of the established scholarship. This approach has allowed him to present interpretations of Namban tsuba that are indeed new. Among collectors and curators, some aspects of this study will be debated ? even contested ? but the clarity of the author’s position will cause them to reconsider some of their originally held beliefs.
Collectors also will value this study because it presents an innovative categorisation of this previously neglected group of sword guards, and serves to clarify the diversity and relationships of the Namban style. Including, as it does, expositions on both gilding and casting as related to this group of tsuba, the author’s reappraisal also uses the data on sword furniture as a new source of insight and information on historical developments in East Asia during the 16th to 18th centuries.
| | Prior to their redefinition by Ogawa in 1987, the Namban group of tsuba had received scant attention from scholars. In part, this had been due to the lack of a clearly defined categorisation, making systematic attribution of the group difficult and thus preventing coherent study of the corpus as a whole. Dr John Lissenden uses this redefinition as the starting point in his accessible, creative and thoroughly researched study of Namban tsuba, for which he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in East Asian Studies by the University of Durham in 2002. |  | Will Astur’s candor and courage defuse Rohan’s wrath? Will the caravan-riders avoid being massacred by the savage horde of murderous Hattenai tribesmen bent on seizing their goods? | | Prior to their redefinition by Ogawa in 1987, the Namban group of tsuba had received scant attention from scholars. In part, this had been due to the lack of a clearly defined categorisation, making systematic attribution of the group difficult and thus preventing coherent study of the corpus as a whole. Dr John Lissenden uses this redefinition as the starting point in his accessible, creative and thoroughly researched study of Namban tsuba, for which he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in East Asian Studies by the University of Durham in 2002. |  | Who is killing the vampires of Albidon-7? Police Lieutenant Katherine Dalia and Vampire Christopher Landless investigate, and what they discover proves that old crimes never go unpunished. |  |
Book One in the AEssyrian World Series, the saga continues...
This series centers around the turbulent but steamy love affair between an 800 year old alien general and a human doctor from Earth. Book Two in the series is Carnal Ambition and is now available.
Naked Venom, the first book in a series, takes place on an alien planet and follows the life and turbulent love affair between a famous half human, half alien general and a visiting human doctor from Earth. As the book opens, the general is plunged into conflict with the royal house when he's falsely accused of the king's murder. As he struggles to clear his name and restore his position, he is helped by the doctor, who becomes his reluctant love interest and confidant. When she too loses her position of trust for helping him, they form a partnership to find the truth behind the murder and the poison called Naked Venom. |  | A ship-wrecked space sailor is rescued by the oxygen-deprived inhabitants of a distant solar system. They treat him like royalty, but he soon realizes there is something fishy about Leffingwellians besides their appearance: Their culture is identical to that of Earth's two centuries earlier except for a peculiar state religion dedicated to a romance-novel goddess.
|  | Framed for a murder he didn?t commit, second-tier superhero Ben Thomason, known in the trades as ?Desolation Outlaw?, is convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Eagle Island Detention Center, a top secret, billion dollar penitentiary that houses only the elite of super-villains and super- hero’s gone bad.
|  | A man who avenges ghosts ? a woman who hates Santa Claus ? a traveling band with a difference ?a midwife with a terrifying secret. If you think you have a dead-end job, then you may change your mind after reading Avenging Dreams and Other Curious Occupations. |  | What would you do if you slept through the apocalypse? What if everything you knew about disaster survival came from old B-movies? What would you do if society as you know it suddenly became The Oblivion Society? |  | Darrell Bain’s latest novel encompasses the spirit of the old American pioneers who risked all for a chance of a better life in a new environment. With conditions in America deteriorating, the Bentley family decides to take advantage of the recently discovered method for reaching the stars. They sign a contract with a corporation in return for partial financing of their venture to a new world. But as they travel on the space trails, they gradually discover that all is not right about the expedition they?re on. When the discrepancies finally come to a head, they find the corporation has deceived all the immigrants. Regardless, there is no turning back, for the leaders of the expedition have outsmarted themselves. Out of food, lost in the labyrinth of the space trails, beset by denizens of the ?ways, with only a slim chance of survival, the Bentley family and their fellow immigrants press on, driven by the same indomitable spirit their forebears showed while conquering a new continent. |  | Sequel to The Tattooed Wolf and second in the trilogy.
When a werewolf's beloved daughter is abducted, expect no mercy.
Kim Bannerman's short stories have appeared in such varied venues as Parabola Magazine, A Room of One's Own literary journal, the ParaSpheres Anthology from Omnidawn Press, and Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine. |  | The shadow. A Waniand mercenary, cowled in black, dark and forbidding. Preece the Warmonger, also called the Royal Blade. Rumors about him suggest the creature beneath the black cowl is not entirely human. Starlight. A woman of bright gentian tresses and rare beauty, promised in marriage to the prince regent of another realm. Given in wedlock not as a cherished prize but as a secret weapon meant to topple the reigning monarchy ... unless the Warmonger can find a way to prevent the marriage, even if it means risking both their lives in an act of outright treason. Even if it means losing Moreya herself, his memory, his very reason for living. Yet Destiny has waited for just this turn in the wheel of time and human events. A prophecy must be fulfilled, the future of ancient bloodlines secured. Preece must return to reclaim all he once lost--including Moreya, the Yune beauty with the trusting innocence of a child and the courageous heart of a dragon. Eppie Award Winner |  | HE PROMISED TO LOVE HER UNTIL THE STARS GROW COLD
It is a dark time for the ancient vampire hunters known as the Wraith. The oldest and most prestigious of their academies lies in ruins, and the ruling order, the Council of Seven, is dead. The armies of Vampire Lord Bane march almost undaunted across the face of the Earth. Thousands of Wraith have died during a war they have come to know as "The Purge." The Wraith are facing extinction. |  | Katya is faced with a life changing decision: she can continue in her safe half-life of obscurity as a servant in the College of Magic; or she can embrace her magic talent and Ghentian heritage. Telmus is the college’s youngest and most powerful mage, and he needs Katya’s help to defeat the unnamed enemy who massacred Katya’s people and who now threatens the entire kingdom of Davia. |  | When seventeen-year-old Farlee cuts the wrong purse during the Spring Festival in Southport, his adoptive family is murdered. He and Dabreze, the girl he loves, have to flee for their lives to the escape the Shadow Guild, an organization of thieves and assassins. Somehow he has crossed the Guild, and anyone who does, dies.
Aided by a traveling minstrel and a troupe of entertainers, Farlee discovers he’s stumbled into a conspiracy to kill the beloved king of Kardayen and begin a war with the elves, a conspiracy led by the Shadow Guild in league with a member of the royal family. Farlee is the only one who can stop the assassination, and he has only seven days to do it! |  | Have you ever wanted to walk away from your life and start fresh? A widow changes her lifestyle by living aboard and learning to sail a boat on Lake Michigan. While she builds self-reliance and confidence, an irresistible sailor falls in love with her, and together they learn to trust each other. |  | By day, Elise draws and paints, spilling out the horrific visions of her tortured mind. By night, she walks the streets, selling her body to the highest bidder.
And then they come into her life: a trio of impossibly beautiful vampires: Terence, Maria, and Edward. When they encounter Elise, they set an explosive triangle in motion. Terence wants to drain her blood. Maria just wants Elise?as lover and partner through eternity And Edward, the most recently-converted, wants to prevent her from making the same mistake he made as a young abstract expressionist artist in 1950s Greenwich Village: sacrificing his artistic vision for immortal life. He is the only one of them still human enough to realize what an unholy trade this is.
In the Blood is a novel that will grip you in a vise of suspense that won?t let go, forcing you to stay up long past midnight, turning page after page, until the very last moment, when a surprising turn of events changes everything and demonstrates, truly, what love and sacrifice are all about. |  | Maria and two of her siblings flee Mexico for the United States, illegally by way of the Rio Grande. Guided by human "Coyotes", they discover that the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence, especially when your powerful new employer harbors a dark secret within his heart. Warning: Strong Adult Content. |  | A suspenseful thriller. The seemingly unrelated disappearances of young, beautiful women comes to the notice of Detective Colter when Veronica Banes gives the police their first lead. The investigation leads them from New York City to Oregon, New Jersey and New Mexico; a countrywide manhunt for a cunning, sadistic killer. The police are aided by Martin Devlin, a psychic who falls in love with Veronica and vows to protect her.
|  | The years 2026 ? 2027. China is the world’s superpower. Recuperating from a nasty head injury in a military hospital, U.S. Army Private Jack Walker experiences vivid memories of fighting along the Chinese-Mongolian border. The military brass insist he’s been fighting in Ethiopia, Africa; and they have photographs to prove it. Of course, all isn?t what it appears to be. There’s the matter of the luminescent purple liquid in the hypodermic needle and the little purple pill. |  | Gloria Trevisi, editor of the Plattsford Sun, is hard-working, competent ... and about to get her rabies shots, a result of the discovery of a dead retired farmer and a live rabid dog while taking photos for what was supposed to be an uplifting holiday feature for the Sun’s Christmas edition. Someone, indeed, is suffering from rage, not the rabid kind, as health officials and police puzzle over this unexpected outbreak of a deadly epidemic in Ramsbottom Township. Gloria wants no part of it, especially when she is expecting the return of her prodigal husband, violinist Tony Lambert, who has already sent her a Christmas present that is far too grand for her to reciprocate. As usual, she has her own problems, including some nasty telephone calls, unwanted visits from the past--her husband’s old girlfriend, for one--and a future that holds a confrontation with her in-laws and several uncomfortable needles. As for the present, what should she buy Tony for Christmas? Will she survive the holidays? Judging by the tone of the most recent threatening phone calls, it seems unlikely. |  | Lucifer recalls out loud how he first proposed laws and regulations, and how Tobiah twisted the plan around to his benefit. He remembers with fury the scuffle they had, followed by a truly destructive act as Tobiah smashed a piano that Lucifer had crafted with his own hands, when he first invented music. With that single act, his hatred of Tobiah increased a million-fold. Lucifer ultimately created nightclubs to give the miserable and depressed of the world a chance to comfort themselves with the music Tobiah had tried to destroy. |  | When investigator Ashton Wilkes walks into a burglary sting turned to the bizarre, he never thinks that the perpetrators might take revenge. But when he finds his house invaded, his family brutally murdered, and his son stolen from him by the thieves that were more than thieves, he finds himself enmeshed in a world in which life means little and only the strongest survive. |  | Twenty years have passed since the events in BOOK OF DAYS and now a new and even darker evil is threatening the land. The Shadow Stone, an ancient and indomitable talisman has been discovered, and its dark sentience is awakening, searching for a chosen soul to bear it. Throughout history, the Stone grants each of its bearers command of one natural element: earth, air, fire or water. These forces once helped to create the world, and through the Shadow Stone, legends say they will be used to destroy it. |  | Four rotations passed since the battle exposing the village of Strom. The Alliance had been up rooted and forced to move by the heavy hand of the Parliamentary Council. Their very existence depended on their ability to escape find a destination known as Pangea Pon. |  | A collection of stories and one novella by C.A. Powell situation in and around 1920. |  | The Williard Brothers Collection is a compilation of award winning author Darrell Bain’s 4 popular adventure novels; Medics Wild!, BigFoot Crazy, Postwar Dinosaur Blues, and The Billion Dollar Caribbean Caper (Three for the Money). All books have individually won awards or placed as finalists. Medics Wild! in particular has won a variety of accolades and has been described as funny as the long-time running television show... M*A*S*H. Darrell was a medic in the Vietnam War and I personally believe that he drew from his personal experiences. |  | In everyday life we face dilemmas, obstacles, and situations where a decision needs to be made. Whether we choose the right or wrong path, only time will tell. In Aleatory, the residents are used to strange occurrences, to newcomers traveling through but never returning. But for these newcomers, Aleatory’s Junction will prove to be more than just a fork in a corner out of town. For some, it will mean an ultimate life changing euphoria. And for others…well…let’s just say a mirror of who they really are. |  | Book Three in the Chronicles of Tiralainn - Volume One
Rhyden Fabhcun is tired of being a hero. In the last twenty years, he has survived two wars, fought countless battles, lost friends, severed family ties and earned himself the status of a living legend in his native realm of Tiralainn. Now he is returning to his home across the sea, his life as an ambassador to the Torachan empire, and what he expects will be a predictable, uneventful, if not lonely existence.
|  | This is the first in a series of short (true) stories detailing the humorous events within the lives of Darrell and Betty Bain. This story takes us to the first dinner party for the Newlyweds, or as Betty stated:
"... [this] was only the first cooking disaster on the road to many more in the first years... However, I can assure you, she is a superb cook now!" ~ Darrell Bain |  | The final book in the Censored by Earth Command Trilogy, Cavalry and Lasers is a must read!
[Warning: Contains Sexual Situations] |  | New Strom is growing into a successful settlement where Sapiens, Crows and half-breeds exemplify a model community. Only one element remains in order to solidify New Stroms existence, an ultimate weapon powerful enough to deter its enemies in the Parliamentary Council.
Jonas Troupe, lorde of the Alliance, will do whatever is necessary to protect New Strom and his late grandfather’s vision. His mission is to return to the Sapien controlled moon of Jenco and steal its super weapon of mass destruction. Even if it means taking the life of his cousin Carlen, moon lorde of Jenco.
This will be the final struggle between the Parliamentary Council and the Alliance for the total domination of Earth. This will be the darkest of Earth’s wars past or future.
|  | A charismatic rebel commander of legendary fame, Signe drives a force of rapacious Columbian invaders off Main World of Gaea. Her patriotic, cooperative, intensely loyal fellow citizens unfailingly give their world’s leader their full support. During a succession of lightning strikes launched at military installations in the heart of Columbia, the warrior-woman parlays a single space ship captured during a raid, into a fleet. A brilliant strategist, Signe fights Arlen, Commander-in-Chief of Columbia’s military forces, to a draw.
Warrior, statesman, and man of sterling honor, Arlen wields dictatorial power over his male-dominated, militaristic, fiercely competitive society. Besieged on two fronts, he cleverly outmaneuvers the four ruthless rivals seeking his downfall, even as Signe raids military bases on his populous world. A scientist as well as a master of political infighting, Arlen engineers a scientific breakthrough that renders Columbia impregnable to attack.
Will two gallant adversaries find a way to overcome the dangerous misconceptions each harbors regarding the other, and achieve a peace that both sides can accept with honor?
|  | Sabrina’s got a problem. She’s in pure, uncontrollable lust for her next door neighbor, Aaron. He’s sexy, funny and...married. In addition to that, he’s white. Sabrina’s friends think she has an overblown case of jungle fever, but Sabrina thinks he hardly knows she exists. |  | During the last part of October of this year, 2006, we had a tremendous amount of rain over a period of a week, twenty inches or so. During much of that time the satellite for my computer couldn’t be contacted so I wasn’t able to get on line. Still, I can’t stay away from my computer. I finished up my last novel, Warp Point then began looking through some old files I had kept that were in a different word processing program. I had never been able to access them before, but while fooling around, I finally found the right key. The result? I discovered a few of my long lost humorous stories, plus a little vignette on psi ability. They’ve never been published. All the material I found which I thought readers might enjoy is in the collection here. I have to admit, I got some laugh-out-loud responses from my wife, Betty. I also had to get her permission before publishing one story-but that’s getting ahead of myself. Besides, if you’re like me, you’re wanting the author to quit babbling so you can get on with the reading. So here are the stories. I hope you enjoy them. |  | Gem McQuinn has broke up with her fiance Robbie, and in order to nurse her broken heart runs off to her parent’s place in Florida for some much needed R&R. But without warning appears her childhood friend Pierce Madison; once an awkward and shy boy, Pierce has blossomed into a handsome, rich and confident businessman. Gem learns that Pierce is in the middle of a dilemma himself and solicits Gem’s help to overcome it.
Both make a pact to help each other; Gem wants to win Robbie back while helping Pierce gain his goal. But as they get nearer to what they thought they desired, the realization soon hits them that it wasn’t what they truly wanted in the first place.
"Change of Plans, Change of Hearts" is a heart-warming tale of love and the struggles to overcome obstacles. |  | Bench watched his father, Grand Stanley; follow a clan tradition by leaping off a cliff and attempting to fly with only a homemade parachute. Young Bench is left to travel down the steep slopes of Squirrel Mountain. His trip home is filled with many strange yet exciting events, e.g. meeting animals that could speak, fighting his family’s archrival Deener, and being pursued by a strange flying object in the sky. |  | Book Three in the Chronicles of Tiralainn - Volume Two
In the second installment of this epic adventure, Rhyden Fabhcun must forge a tentative peace with his captors, the nomadic Oirat tribe, and their beautiful, strong-willed leader, Aigiarn Chinuajin. Aigiarn gives Rhyden a bargain he is hard-pressed to refuse: translate a cryptic map that will lead the Oirat to an ancient dragons’ lair, and she will set him free. The only problems -- the map is written in a long-lost language and Rhyden has less than two weeks to decipher it. |  | GNOME HARVEST is a young adult fantasy novel. The story has a dark underside, but also speaks to the fighting spirit within us all. |  | Sannaro, an orphaned Saili teenager turned ASTRISI warrior has his loyalties challenged when humans from his past now aligned with space pirates, launch an invasion on the Kumani, the ASTRISI home ship, a nomadic space faring people who raised him. |  | In this second book of the series, Signe, Gaea’s head of state, and Arlen, the dictator who controls Columbia, continue to fight a stalemated war. The pivotal event depicted in the first book, Warrior-Woman: The Forging Of The Legend, radically changed Signe’s and Arlen’s perceptions of each other. No suspicion fell on Galt, who engineered the disaster. That ruthless rival seeks to overthrow Arlen, who employs his peerless talent as a master of intrigue to outwit Galt, with the aid of Adrienne, a courageous courtesan.
In a brilliant feat of deductive reasoning, one of Signe’s captains determines where Johann, the historical figure revered by both the Gaeans and the Columbians, hid his fabulous warship. Signe sets out to find the prize that would assure that Gaea could never again be conquered. Arlen follows her, and the two finally meet.
Will these two high-minded warriors finally realize that each harbors badly flawed perceptions of the other? If so, what profound change will that realization produce in their feelings for each other?
|  | Take something that’s been around for thousands of years. Mix it with a little future technology. Give it time to spread, and a system of government comes into being that is better than anything ever thought of before. And it was such a simple idea.
|  | Articles in this issue include:
’Ten Strange Things That Can Happen to You Using Future Technology’, ’The 50th Anniversary of Explorer One’, and lots of great sci-fi stories. An interview with sci-fi author and literary agent John Jerrold also appears in this issue. Click on the cover to download, and hit ’back’ on your browser to return here. |  | This is an adventure story, which feels as if it were happening as you read the lines and feels the emotions of the main players. This is what most Presidents fear that a family member will be taken and used as a pawn in some scheme of power manipulation. Special security personnel are always trying to avoid such a situation, but mistakes do happen. |  | Discover the mystery of the missing A-bomb and the people who need to keep its secret buried along with those who died in the air disaster and how that mystery comes into Jake Dorchet’s life and endangers the girl who is restoring his faith in living and himself.
This is a mystery, an adventure and a romance. |  | Assassination is a tool that can make a weak country on par with those powerful nations with large military forces and massive economies. History has shown that political assassinations have been used for eons and its use has not diminished even in today’s modern world. |  |
This is a love story where guts, determination, and work merge and two lives are carefully interwoven as mysteries and family troubles are explored in hopes of finding happiness. |  | Time does not change the psyche of man. Those in power will do anything to retain their control. When you mix the supremacy of power (Divine Right) of kings and religious battles between the Holy Catholic Church and those heretics outside the one true religion then the use of greed, lust and murder are the tools that are necessary for success. |  | Get out your hanky before reading Nurses In Your Home. You’ll need it. Since the advent of home health care, many of us have seen family and friends taken care of by those ubiquitous nurses who come to visit homes and care for their patients. Very few of us, however, know much about what goes through the minds of this wonderful cadre of specialized nurses who devote their lives to the care of others.
|  | Aden Stark is in trouble. His older sister was stolen, leaving his family a dysfunctional shell of cold distances and substance abuse. Now her voice haunts his dreams, leading him to an impossible house of terrors that is not of this world.
|  | Rumored graft and bribery in township business should have left a certain municipal official wealthy, and an ideal target for murder. So why was he dead and broke? Newspaper editor Gloria Trevisi must find out, before one of her houseguests is arrested…or killed. The Plattsford Sun has all the news that’s fit to print… and more. |  | The story is set within the Spherical Dimension, which contains billions of realities within its 0.5 mm exterior. The story involves the crew of The Green Carnation, a battered space freighter from the rundown Rezer Merchant Fleet, and the backdrop is the ongoing war between the Hedar and Jerotta empires.
The Carnation is boarded by the Hedarian survivors of the final Hedar/Jerotta battle, in which the Hedar fleet has been destroyed by the Jerotta’s use of new cloaking technology. The Hedarians, commanded by Captain Byrne, forces The Carnation, commanded by Captain Joliffe, to transport them to the Jerotta home world where Byrne hope to take over the Jerotta council with a political/military coup.
The fight is on for the crew of The Carnation; can they survive a suicidal mission headed by a broken Commander, and controlled by a sadistic first officer? Will they ever get home again? Most worrying for the shape changing Radnar; will his carnations survive?
|  | I do. I love the feeling of a cold chill creeping up my spine as I sit in a dark theater watching a good horror film. I still sit around campfires with friends while we tell ghost stories, but for sheer fun, nothing beats curling up in my recliner and turning the pages of a suspenseful novel or short story collection. |  | Rhyden Fabhcun has faced many challenges and enemies in his life. In the third installment of this epic adventure, he faces what could well be his greatest yet -- the vengeful and powerful spirit of a long-dead queen, Mongoljin Burilgitu. Summoned by the Oirat’s bitter enemies, the Khahl, Mongoljin has an appetite for souls and is bent on preventing Temuchin Arightei from claiming the dragons’ lair. She will stop at nothing, and will destroy anyone who stands with the boy who would be king -- including Rhyden. |  | This book opens with copyright information from Lincoln D. Bandlow, an attorney specializing in intellectual property law in Century City and the out-going President of the Los Angeles Copyright Society. The remaining pages include a treasure trove of information from: a personal manager for Hollywood actors, a Hollywood teacher and movie extra, a “Fictionwise eBook Author of the Year”, an owner/co-owner of two websites listed among the “Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers”, a retired university professor, and other successfully published authors. This book is based on articles published during the first year of “The Golden Goblet” Newsletter edited by Marilyn Peake, and features additional articles by contributing authors written expressly for this book. |  | Gemstone Ivora was completely alone. Her mother had abandoned her half sister and her as young children. Gem was forced to adapt, to learn to care for herself, for her half sister, and for the dozens of useless orphan girls that mysteriously found their way to her house. After a fire that results in the deaths of all of the orphans, Gem and her sister descend into a nightmarish world, where they find themselves on opposite sides in ’the ultimate’ war. The Cycle of Blood has begun. |  |
Spring comes raggedly to free the forest from the deathly grip of chill air and black clouds. Behind her enticing but ephemeral afternoon light crouches the vengeful darkness of the winter... Early buds, beguiled by their impatience to bask in the summer sun, fall prey to the biting chill of the night air as winter returns in the darkness to wrest its faltering reign from the hands of the upstart spring.
|  | When Craig was dragooned into going shopping for a new bed with his wife Penny, he never imagined the pleasure and special effects the strange new bed would produce for them. He never imagined the danger, either, until they became wanted by every security agent in the country! |  | In this third book of the series, Signe and Arlen found the Interworld Corps: a body of peacekeepers. The former archenemies marry, having fallen in love after achieving the accord depicted in Master of Intrigue. The rigorous training program they conduct defuses lingering feelings of enmity assailing their twelve captains. When a violent clash between a Gaean and a Columbian occurs, Arlen handles the situation brilliantly. A potential crisis becomes a bonding experience for all twelve men.
Twelve ships begin to patrol a vast volume of space. Having persuaded Arlen to accept seven female Gaean spacer-fighters, Signe finds that instead of waiting until those women prove their worth, Arlen demands an immediate decision regarding how they’ll employ the women they’ll recruit as wives for their male spacers. In the ensuing debate, Signe scores a huge victory over Arlen’s culturally programmed gender-bias.
When the Co-Commanders handle a dire situation involving the taking of civilian hostages on an isolated station by a vicious renegade, will Signe’s faith in her female warriors prove justified?
|  | In space, even the hottest blood runs cold. |  | This is a summary of our trip to Bangkok which I will photocopy and mail to all and save myself from having to write the same thing seven times. Please don’t feel slighted at receiving a copy. |  | Walter and John had been friends in school, spending summers together at John’s family estate in the country. But as they grew older, they went their separate ways. Walter barely remembers John’s sisters as more than ‘a trio of dark-haired girls’. But when John frantically calls Walter and asks for his help dealing with an honest-to-God family curse, Walter meets Anne again, and sees something he didn’t before. But before he can woo her, he has to save her from a force more ancient and evil than any of them can imagine.
|  | Eric Hart was a Spacer and had faced many difficult situations before. This one was different. He alone had survived the crash on a strange alien world and now his survival depended not only on his skills but also on the human population that inhabited the planet, humans that shouldn’t be there but were. As Eric is transformed into a Son of the House of Nord, he discovered the Guardians, hooded figures that watched from the shadows and controlled events for the fulfillment of their master plan.
|  | Gabrielle, an affectionate but sexually inexperienced author/historian, turns for emotional support to her late husband’s closest friend, a courtly cosmopolite who radiates masculine appeal. When Michael reveals that he desires a slave willing to exist solely for his pleasure, his shocking invitation resonates on some gut level within the woman married for fourteen years to a man afflicted by periodic bouts of impotence.
Determined to annihilate Gabrielle’s will without breaking her spirit, the master of erotic art conditions Gabrielle not only to submit and obey, but also to crave the pain he combines with intense, breathtakingly erotic stimulation, so as to lift her to astonishing heights of ecstasy.
Just as she rejoices in having learned how to please him, a magnetically appealing stranger enters her life as Michael’s guest. A fellow member of the Order of the Black Lily, Raoul levies a bold demand that Michael considers himself obligated to grant.
Which virile, dominant lover will win Gabrielle’s permanent favor: Raoul, who fascinates her, or Michael, who she knows loves her?
|  | Does time exist as a separate dimension? Does it have a unique place with definable limits in space? Does it move independently according to its own purpose? Or does it only move when other things move, completely dependent on prevailing conditions and binding dimensions in its surrounding space-a causal result bound to the whole? Perhaps it’s just a simpleminded construct humans have concocted to explain the inexplicable. Is it vaguely possible that it’s a set of branes slightly out of sync and we may pass from one to the next at will? Maybe it’s a simple kink in dimensions that can be crossed by anyone walking in precisely the right direction. It could be that it’s just a mental state altered simply by a minor amount of imagination applied correctly. Perhaps it is no more than a drug- or mantra-induced change of mental state-something hallucinated-something seen but unseeable. Or is there more to it than we can fathom? In the world of physics, all of this-and much more-is being looked into by serious, conservative scientists as well as those with their mental equipment more loosely adjusted-or even unfastened completely, their brains rolling about like marbles in an empty railroad freight car. |  | This latest from Patrick Welch follows the journey of Marlow and his rover tank through a decimated post-apocalyptic America. Torn by war, starvation and panic, this once great nation is reduced to a series of military "city-states". If you like the television show Jericho, or relished the social disorder of A Boy and His Dog you’ll love The King of California! |  | The zany, politically incorrect Williard brothers are back, and this time they’re shooting for Mars, trying to spend the billions of dollars inherited from the Mafia Godfather. But there’s a financially and politically powerful organization that’s been seriously hampering manned space flight for more than two generations, backed by shadowy beings who may not have originated on Earth at all. So far they’ve kept manned space flight from progressing very fast or far, but they’ve never confronted the Williard brothers either. Along with their girlfriends, the Williards intend to go to Mars or die trying -- a distinct possibility! |  | From the poverty-ridden streets of Boston’s mongrel sector, Frank Riley abandons his gang to set out on a hobo’s hunger-driven journey to the Mexican border, where available employment has been rumored in the lofty citrus-picking industry. Instead, he meets up with the looniest batch of bleeding hearts to ever live below the only remaining tax-bracket, outside the legitimate economy, and still own their own submarine.
By the end of the twenty-first century, the Middle Class are extinct, Medicare and Social Security are things of the past, Single-Party-Politics rule the United States with an iron fist, and the only thing standing between total Upper-Crust domination and the remaining 85% of huddled, starving, and sometimes cannibalistic masses is a ragtag network of bogus churches, and a handful of their slightly off kilter operatives.
Follow Agents Pollyanna, Big Daddy, Momma Bear, Codger, and Jackass in this Political Satire/Action Adventure/Romantic Comedy as they endeavor to turn the tables on America’s ‘Trickle Down’ destiny, and the manmade virus that threatens to sterilize an entire impoverished population. |  | The complete works of Betty Bain, interspersed with sweet recipes so loaded with calories you’ll feel like you should be sent to jail for eating them! |  | In the second-to-the-last installment in this epic adventure, each treacherous step leads young Temuchin Arightei closer to his destiny -- and the dragons. When a tragic betrayal leaves the Oirat’s map to the lair lost forever, only Rhyden Fabhcun can help them continue in their quest. But to discover the secrets of the dragons, Rhyden must risk sacrificing his life -- and his very soul.
|  | Book Three of An Age of Heroes Saga
Touch of the Sea Witch takes over where book two finished. Join the battle as our brave heroes continue their epic journey! |  | An exciting tale filled with action, adventure, romance, sex, violence, revenge, and survivalism. It tells the story of events occurring in ways never possible anywhere else. There’s endless magic, spirituality, sorcery, and fantasy throughout. And all taking place on the fair island of Aer-Inn, on a planet many thousands of light years away, and in another time of many eras.
|  | This is the story of a deeply caring woman, and of a male who has to finally reveal his true self. Together they have to learn that they must cooperate, and combine forces, to overcome any and all difficulties encountered.. Their love could see them through the many dangers amassed against them, until the realization of an ultimate one that neither of them could have possibly expected. |  | A delightful fantasy fiction romance-adventure story, taking place thousands of light years away and a thousand years into our future. |  | In this first half of the fourth book of the series, Signe and Arlen use a computer program to match couples. Jess fears that no man will wed a female lieutenant. Brant grasps an opportunity to avoid having to rely on the program. Evan takes a bold route towards attaining a bride. Amin embarks on an emotionally charged courtship. Signe handles the trauma engendered when Jason seeks to marry despite being burdened with a gruesomely disfigured face.
Conor and Eric patrol while their peers wed. Conor initiates a pitched battle, so as to foil a major attempt at larceny. When Eric hunts an outlaw in space, Midori encounters hostility from a Columbian misogynist who refuses to believe that the lovely woman qualifies as a warrior. He learns differently when she teams with him to launch a spectacular attack on the renegade’s stronghold.
Will problems develop when emotionally scarred people stand face to face with the stranger selected as their match by a computer program? Will two undermanned captains succeed in keeping the peace?
|  | A world is ravaged by a war of demons and sorcery that no human can combat. Rastehm is on the verge of destruction.
Silverdawn, daughter of Mikkasah, born to the magic.
|  | In this second half of the fourth book of the series, Theo warms to his match, until a confession she makes scandalizes the morally upright Gaean. Jassy unwittingly disappoints his wife, owing to his inability to rouse her to passion.
Evan negotiates with a demented hostage-taker levying demands the Captain cannot grant. Utilizing techniques learned from Arlen, he resolves an incendiary crisis. Jason prevents a public clash between Amin, who refuses to lower his standards, and the wife pushed to her physical limit. Juli performs a dangerous feat during a dramatic rescue of Gaean stationers trapped in a mine. When Dahl and his crew aid the survivors of a disastrous explosion, Dahl conducts a daring rescue, thereby changing his own life.
Confronted by an enigmatic brotherhood of militant Gaeans, Signe and Arlen develop their first major disagreement. Signe makes the requested visit to the brotherhood’s stronghold. Will Arlen discover the magnitude of her danger in time to launch a rescue mission? Will Signe survive the worst danger ever to threaten her?
|  | A self-reliant Westerner meets an intriguing stranger who radiates an aura of danger. Seduced into becoming Julian’s mistress, Mercedes discovers that he intuitively divines her need for pain inflicted by an expert master. Sensing that Julian understands her as no one ever has, cognizant that this sometimes cruel partner reaches depths in her nature hitherto never plumbed, she learns to place an astonishing degree of trust in a man who relentlessly increases the demands he makes while raising her to unprecedented heights of pleasure.
Julian develops an irresistible urge to bring his not-fully-initiated partner as his guest, when he attends the yearly gathering of his fellow members of the Order of the Black Lily. Knowing what he risks, he conducts a short but rigorous initiation, employing electronic devices engineered by his brother Michael, and techniques identical to those favored by his brother.
Will Julian avoid suffering the disgrace sure to ensue should Mercedes rebel in the presence of his peers? Will his independent-minded lover consent to participate in the rituals unique to the Order?
|  | Galactic Year: 3008
It would seem that as the Terrans finally ventured from their Planet Earth, and out into other solar systems beyond their own Region 806, they came into contact with the RAWR star system containing the planet now called Erda. In ages past, their neighboring planet with three moons suffered long periods of intercontinental warfare, plagues, famines, depopulation, pollution and even some natural disasters.
A few of the survivors were found and taken to nearby Erda by some of the first Terran Dark Energy powered hyper-space spheres to reach the solar system. The Terrans then joined with those from other overpopulated star systems in colonizing and repopulating both planets. |  | They possess no pulse, nor a heartbeat. Their lungs have long since discarded the need to regulate oxygen. Logical thought escapes them, as does such common emotional states as happiness, sadness, or depression. The age-old weaknesses of man, such as lust, greed, or envy, no longer apply. |  | Does time exist as a separate dimension? Does it have a unique place with definable limits in space? Does it move independently according to its own purpose? Or does it only move when other things move, completely dependent on prevailing conditions and binding dimensions in its surrounding space-a causal result bound to the whole? Perhaps it’s just a simpleminded construct humans have concocted to explain the inexplicable. Is it vaguely possible that it’s a set of branes slightly out of sync and we may pass from one to the next at will? Maybe it’s a simple kink in dimensions that can be crossed by anyone walking in precisely the right direction. It could be that it’s just a mental state altered simply by a minor amount of imagination applied correctly. Perhaps it is no more than a drug- or mantra-induced change of mental state-something hallucinated-something seen but unseeable. Or is there more to it than we can fathom? In the world of physics, all of this-and much more-is being looked into by serious, conservative scientists as well as those with their mental equipment more loosely adjusted-or even unfastened completely, their brains rolling about like marbles in an empty railroad freight car. |  | Katera would rather die than allow the Elders to present her at the altar of Kopa Na An. Her twin sister, Adrella, never returned after her summons to the altar, and Katera is tortured by the memory of her sister’s sacrifice. Intent on escaping a similar fate and craving an end to her suffering under the merciless rule of Askinadon, she constructs her own demise. Her plans are foiled when an attractive stranger rescues her from her attempt to plunge hundreds of feet down a waterfall to her death. The stranger takes her to a cave and releases her from her forced servitude to Askinadon by removing the high tech device implanted in her head. Encouraged by her new freedom…and her attraction to this mysterious stranger, Katera asks him to help her find her sister, if she is still alive, and free her people from Askinason’s unrelenting grip. |  | Tonto, a cross-eyed, ADHD affected little weenie dog with only one testicle, who already has a self-created job of compulsively shoveling pine straw into piles with sticks, is suddenly drafted into another job: saving the world from an alien invasion! Can he manage both jobs? Well perhaps, if a compulsively cursing alcoholic super genius and his co-ed groupies combine talents with a cigar chomping Italian whose air-headed secretary inadvertently gives him unlimited pentagon funding, and then help out Tonto’s owners, who think politicians are almost as smart as lizards and even smarter than grasshoppers. Get ready for a wild and crazy ride with Tonto and his friends, the most amazing characters Darrell Bain has created so far in his eclectic writing career! This is a science fiction story so insane that it only begins to make sense when it’s discovered that the aliens had a part in Tonto’s conception to begin with! |  | Raised by the Margrave of Francovia after his sellsword father is killed in His Majesty’s service, Riven kan Ingan is, by his own admission, an opportunist and a nonbeliever, accepting neither the kingdom’s magic nor its religion, and, somewhat unwisely, ridiculing the gods who silently plot their revenge. Never allowed to forget his foreign birth, he schemes for total acceptance by marrying the Margrave’s daughter, and the gods see this as an opportunity to punish the young skeptic.
When Aleza is kidnapped by the sorcerer Mahldimir Djaan-Baih, a follower of Drel, god of Death, Riven follows them to the demon-ridden desert of Izhmir. With the aid of a barbarian slave girl and a reluctant rebel, he rescues the Princess, discovers his true love, and loses her to another man. From then on, his days and nights are haunted by the memory of the one woman he can‘t have, and there’s nothing he can do to forget her and no way he can claim her because Riven’s punishment is just beginning!
|  | “Talberts Plunge” is a short horror novel about a writer named Talbert Massey, most call him Tal, whose wife gives birth to a child whose soul is owned by Satan himself. The child, ironically named Christian, was born prematurely his birthing process was altered by an evil man named Mishok. Tal rejected by the child’s mother, Ruthie, at the hospital and from that cold February night forward experienced many strange and horrifying events. One in particular occurred in the infant’s bedroom before mother and child arrived home from the hospital. The room became a deep freeze and a creature was laying the baby’s crib.
|  | Something is desperately wrong on Darvas, a dying world locked in a perpetual ice age. Twenty years ago an archeological expedition vanished without a trace. Now, two decades later, sixteen year-old James Anson, grandson of the planet’s discoverer, has returned to Darvas hoping to clear his family’s reputation. Darvas, however, has other plans.
|  | Manuel González meets an intriguing divorcée when his vehicle collides with a moose. Invited to take shelter from a blizzard by Alison Haldane, a self-reliant ranchwoman, Manuel performs a service that his hostess regards as the saving of her life. Impressed by this personable, courageous ranchwoman, Manuel frankly admits that he is a member of the Order of the Black Lily, and explains the special nature of his tastes in sensual pleasure. The two mature sensualists enter a sexual relationship that soon grows deeply satisfying to both.
Having accepted her lover’s invitation to live with him while he and his partner, Hector MacFarlane, sell their business, Alison grows ever more fascinated by Hector’s personality, even as Manuel conducts an abbreviated initiation of a most promising probationer into the erotic arts practiced by members of the Order.
Will the desire that flares between Hector and Alison fatally complicate Manuel’s relationship with his friend and fellow master, and with the woman he regards as a treasure bestowed on him by capricious Fate?
|  | In the Texas border town of Rosarita, saloon owner Race Jago is killed by a stranger. Tried for the crime, Luke Brennan refuses to defend himself, and the judge has no choice but to sentence him to hang. But while Brennan awaits execution, deputy Kipling Wakefield convinces his prisoner to tell him the reason he shot Jago in cold blood. Finally, in the late night hours before his sentence is carried out, Brennan tells Kip his story of a man’s love for his wife, a father’s desire for revenge, of a hatred that destroyed two lives.
|  | In this second half of the fifth book of the series, Wolf lacks goods to trade. Desperate, he raids Barton, a grasping Gaean. On learning that Barton possesses Gaeanite, Wolf abducts Lesley, Barton’s niece, and tries to trade her for the priceless mineral. When Barton refuses to pay ransom, Wolf seduces the lonely Gaean. Before he sets out to capture Chapell, a vicious outlaw, Lesley offers to marry him, so he can gain Gaean citizenship. Wolf refuses, out of concern for her. Will the daring adventurer win amnesty for himself and his crew?
Merline gives Austin a job ashore. Aided by Paco, a homeless lad, Austin converts Merline’s property into a paying business. Austin and Paco attend a ceremony honoring Austin’s sister, who runs an orphanage. Slade raids Martha’s Refuge, and takes hostages, in an attempt to steal Merline’s ship.
Will the rescue mission mounted by Merline, Hogar, and Wolf succeed? And if it does, will Signe learn what happened to Hogar and Merline in Columbia? If she does, how will the warrior-woman react?
|  | After failing to reacquire the previous template, Kwibee reroutes Sarah’s signal to the closest available computer-generated character. Again, she enters the world of Nirayel. Though relieved, she cannot help but be at odds with her new host’s promiscuous personality.
Having escaped his mundane life, Borin resolves to follow the Warrior’s path. Despite the unlikelihood of his quest’s being successful, his heart grows light. After all the years since the Empire’s rise, he is finally able to smile in the face of adversity.
To an extent, Jesse comes to terms with his delusions, though he remains unprepared to handle the advances of a most frustrating female Wood-Elf, the discovery that there are two of Sarah, and the prophetic ramblings of a benign Demon.
Finally reunited in the forth and final book of the Rendering Nirayel series, Sarah One, Sarah Two, Jesse and Borin are guided by the Demon Surripere, as they journey through uncharted lands in a final quest to reclaim Arbitos against all odds, and to free the lost souls of Earth.
|  | All Deacon Sender wanted to do with the rest of his life was retire, but a few things got in his way. One of those obstacles was a madman by the name of Emerson Paisley. Paisley was a big man with a big thirst for killing young gay men, one of which just happened to be his friend Terry. |  | Sixteen years have passed since Promise Tide and Chrissy DuPries successfully forged the many factions of resistance forces into a cohesive unit, capable of facing – perhaps one day defeating – The Unbreathable, a force of evil attempting to control Earth’s societies through the ubiquitous, all-powerful NATech conglomerate. |  | When a cowardly young bard is called before the Duke and told that he must perform a task because of an ancient prophecy involving a mysterious Arch, he is certain there has been a grave mistake. When the Duke’s own men later try to kill him and he is forced to run, unsure who to trust, he realizes that it may be his own grave that is in question.
|  | The Oath of Fire: a pact with the archdemon Ezrakul that grants its Earthly signers great fortune while they are alive. And when they die, allows passage of demons to Earth through their lifeless flesh.
America’s defense against Ezrakul and his Oath is the Trust Corps. TC’s officers are charged to seek out and destroy Oath-takers by any means necessary, even if those they love the most become suspect.
The will of the Trust Corps is about to be tested in Powell County, Pennsylvania, as evidence points to Sergeant Anderson March’s own family. His duty now torn between the Trust Corps and his own children, he must prove his son innocent of Oath-taking while doing battle with a host of demons that threaten to kill thousands
|  | Gisel Matah is the Iskanders’ top agent, but often her commanders’ chief pain in the neck. Sometimes passionate, sometimes tough, sometimes acerbic, she’s clever and always ready to twist their intentions to meet circumstances as she sees them.
|  | In the mid-fifteenth century a unique piece of jade is discovered in south-western China which at once becomes the centrepiece of a story of murder, theft and high adventure. The jade is exquisitely carved into a pair of identical dragons and is transported out of China along the Silk Road to Arabia and across the Mediterranean Sea to the Medici family in Florence. Sold to an English nobleman it is threatened with destruction through years of concealment, war and rebellion. Jill Howard, a young British sinologist, traces the turbulent six hundred-year history of the dragon carving in her determination to find it and return it to China.
|  | An appetizing selection of gruesome goodies awaits the reader in this tantalizing adventure presented by Chef Billy and his shifty kitchen crew.
|  | ROBYN’S ROCK by best selling author Darrell Bain is a story that covers a twenty year span. An odd looking rock, picked up by Amanda and Justin’s granddaughter Robyn when she was six years old was saved by her grandparents. Twenty years later Robyn’s curious rock begins a silent but urgent call for her to return to her grandparents’ home, where she had spent so many happy hours of her childhood, and where the rock still resides on a shelf. When Robyn picks up the rock again, she finds that with it in her hand, she is sometimes able to predict the future. Will this sudden power turn out to be a good thing or something best left alone? Will she be able to ignore the summons when it happens again even if she wants to? What would you do in a case like hers? What do you think would happen? How does this power work? A remarkable and well thought out story that you’re sure to enjoy.
|  | When an advanced form of artificial intelligence is unintentionally loosed upon the Internet role-playing game entitled Wayward Fates, a quarter-million gamers become redefined as the fantasy characters they play. Among their number is Borin Krue, whose harrowing journey through a world of dangerously realistic fantasy begins at the end of a long voyage, and his unenthusiastic acquaintance with a Druid.
While returning to Arbitos, Borin Krue is unavoidably faced with the assigned Dryadic services of Squire Jesterwolf Thistle. Their obligatory and somewhat precarious association continues to land Borin in an almost constant string of ill-fated circumstances. These include an incarceration over the Squire’s recent theft of apples, a seduction by Jester’s adopted sister, and a most unfortunate introduction to her seven-foot tall Barbarian husband. Borin’s only real problem is that none of this is actually happening.
Intrigue and humor set the pace in Book One of the Rendering Nirayel series. Corporal Krue becomes unwittingly entangled with a large number of friendly and non-friendly types of Faction, Class, Race, and Magic.
|  | Sarah Hoffman meets Doctor Kwibee, who has been disavowed by his military employers following the accident that led not only to Sarah’s husband’s and brother’s having entered a catatonic state, but also to the similar entrapment of a quarter-million other players, who will remain trapped until the IBOT program is allowed to complete whatever mysterious internal objectives it has set for itself. Sarah volunteers to make an unauthorized entry into the now militarily controlled project.
Sarah opens her eyes to find herself in the alien world of Nirayel. While occupying the body of the computer-generated Paladin, Selina Valorous, Sarah embarks on a desperate struggle to save her husband’s life and maintain her unstable Internet connection. Arbitos is attacked by the Dark Empire. A horde of Dark-elves burst through an exploded section of wall surrounding the city.
The pace quickens, the plot thickens, and Borin Krue’s problems have only just begun as Book Two of the Rendering Nirayel series continues to expand the horizons of a world seemingly more real than the one he can’t remember.
|  | Sarah returns to reality just as several government agents close in on her home. Meanwhile, the paradox formed by her genetic similarity to her brother, Jesse, now forces a duplication of Sarah’s identity to become overlaid upon the previously occupied Selina template. The result is a seventeen-year-long gap in memory as a pseudo-Sarah wakes to discover a world where Dark-elves dominate civilization.
Jesse Berrach was formerly a paramedic. The ghastly accident that put him in the hospital also caused the end of his career, and coincided with the end of his marriage. During his recovery, he receives a package containing the online game entitled Wayward Fates, but when he initiates the program, he becomes catatonic. He enters a world far removed from that of his hospital room. Confronted with severe conflicts in terms of reality, he begins to doubt his sanity.
While the very boundaries of reality become distorted, the star-crossed web of lives and crisscrossed intrigue continue to expand, in Book Three of the Rendering Nirayel series: a four-part novel.
|  | Fearful of the future and haunted by the past, the Holders set sail for the Isle of Dusk. As they leave the capital of Tur-Loghan behind, an ancient enemy is reborn in the city of Eyeshorn. Fed the blood of innocent children, Count Dilgreshar rises from the grave. His only desire? To exact revenge upon his niece, Ang Saroth…
Meanwhile, an army of demons launches its campaign to obliterate mortal-kind. Families, cities, and entire nations will be slaughtered unless the brave Holders succeed in their quest to recreate the infamous Clock of Aldulan. |  | Eight years after "Full Wolf Moon." Max and David are now werewolf hunters about to encounter a "super-beast," the likes of which they’ve never seen before.
|  | Tom Bell, an ageing pharmaceutical billionaire, is facing his twilight years when fate hands him a drug capable of reversing old age. Its chemistry is old, indigenous to an ancient parasite found in South America, and so prone to mutation that its synthesis produces a contagious virus capable of infecting people with extreme longevity.
The contagion becomes the start of a terrifying journey into the unknown for the tycoon, who will stop at nothing to cheat death, including sacrificing the lives of those around him. But how far would a government go to hide the knowledge from the public? Ultimately, what happens if Methuselah’s Virus threatens to spread to the entire planet?
|  | Will Sully ever break free of the evil force menacing him? Will he ever be able to live a normal, unthreatened life? |  | My younger brother Gary is a charming, humorous, articulate, romantic adventurer and warrior. He’s one of those types of men the rest of us admire and fantasize about, wishing we could be more like them. In the olden days, he would have been a Mountain Man or a Knight or perhaps even a Pirate or Buccaneer. In any era, he would always have been one of the first to cross the mountains, the wide rivers or brave the unexplored oceans. Even today, in the late autumn of his life, he’s always doing something new and interesting and he always has fun at it. We’ve had many a laugh together and shed a few tears during our lives. He’s always been my best friend and I only wish I had preserved more of our conversations and letters. What you have here only touches the surface of many of the things he’s done and places he’s been. And for all you fans of my Williard Brothers series, after reading this book you might guess that Gary is the avatar of Jason "Jumpin’ Jase" Williard, the middle brother of the three, and the aviator whose almost supernatural flying ability gets them out of many a scrape in their continuing adventures. |  | July 20, 2021, was a date nobody would ever forget. It was the day Earth made contact with intelligent beings from another planet. They were human, from the planet Outland. They came because citizens in a private space yacht found one of Earth’s deep space probes, the "Voyager." It had been launched from Earth in 2002, and its mission was to study Charon, the Moon of Pluto. After this, it sped out of the solar system with the hope that one day some intelligent beings would find it. And that was precisely what happened. |  | For Marduc, the love that he had for his mother was the only he had ever known, but her execution at the hands of the French monarchy was more than he could bear. His desire for revenge propels him into a world of passion, madness, brutality, witchcraft, and a deal with the Devil soon regretted.
|  | In this first half of the sixth book of the series, Sebastian, Chief of Security of the Columbian Military Complex, captures and interrogates Marianne, a Gaean spy. He conceals evidence so as to shield her from harm. She agrees to engage with him in sexual exchanges involving the infliction of pain, so that he’ll let her see Merrill, her wounded brother. Over four weeks, Sebastian cleverly conditions the repressed Gaean, who loses her inhibitions. Her hatred of Sebastian prevents her from growing emotionally attached to him.
After Merrill gets exchanged for Simon, Sebastian paroles Marianne. Engaged in a brutally stressful program of work and study, she excels academically. She battles despair after learning that the data she secured at such cost just lost its strategic value. At term’s end, Sebastian offers the exhausted woman a full scholarship, which she accepts.
Will Sebastian learn the explosive secret Marianne managed to conceal from him? Will her lover eventually tire of her, as she now fears? What will happen to her when the war ends?
|  | In this second half of the sixth book of the series, Marianne marries Sebastian, now a teaching fellow at the University and a consultant to the Ministry of Internal Security. Bianca requests Sebastian’s help when she gets victimized by a blackmailer. Sebastian and Basil lay a trap for the blackmailer/murderer, who escapes along a route Marianne traces. Threatened anew, Bianca again appeals to Sebastian, who duels and kills Dominic, a man who extorted credit from her. Marianne proves to Sebastian that she places unshakable trust in his word.
Basil and Sebastian reluctantly ask Marianne to infiltrate the headquarters of a radical group opposed to free trade, in hopes of preventing the highly placed criminal for whom the blackmailer/murderer works from blasting the fragile peace now existing between Gaea and Columbia. Will the daring infiltrator outfox the dangerous adversary who captures her? Will she succeed in her mission to find and transmit to Sebastian crucial evidence incriminating the plotters? And if she does, what effect will her feat produce in her marital relationship?
|  | In this seventh book of the series, Aubrey, brother of Islara, a female broker, unwittingly causes Regan, a Second Corps Captain turned broker, a huge financial loss. To protect Aubrey, Islara marries Regan. Regan hires her, and treats her as his intellectual equal. Islara enjoys a new life spiced with exciting professional challenges.
Orwell, a shady investor, threatens Tanner, owner of a ship Regan purchases. Regan buys Davison Engineering, which angers Orwell. Islara unearths crucial evidence. Thugs wound both Tanner and Samson, Regan’s former lieutenant. Regan, Islara and Samson meet Orwell and his associate Babcock aboard Tanner’s ship. After Babcock incapacitates Regan, Islara foils Orwell, and Regan overcomes Babcock. When Regan and Samson suffer wounds in a later battle, Islara prevents Regan from bleeding to death. The attacks continue after Orwell’s death. A bomb goes off in the entry to Regan’s quarters.
Will Regan and his friends finally discover the identity of the shadowy “Number One?” Will Islara learn the cause of Regan’s sexual dysfunction, and attain happiness in her unorthodox marriage?
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True stories from John Klawitter, Hollywood writer-producer-director. Whether you’re pitching some famous old witch doctor who owns a big animation production company, or sending a query letter to a 25-year-old cannibal prince who lucked into being the head of acquisitions at a giant publishing conglomerate, the stories of discovery and survival in TINSEL WILDERNESS can be a source of inspiration and encouragement. From the book-lined offices of Random House and Doubleday to the West Coast movie studios with their wide views of palm trees and the blue Pacific, the wilderness is a strange place for those not expecting the weird, the unpredictable and the rough-and-tumble. To you, storytelling is as important as life itself. But to the natives it’s often little more than trinkets and beads they can exchange for furs and scraps of meat. The trick is, you don’t want to be the meat. As the natives often say with a wise nod of the head, It’s too late to moo when you’re hamburger. You’re a talented person, a creative writer, an artist in your own right. So as you take the first steps off the beaten path and into the tall grass toward the distant blue mountains, remember to stay alert, keep your weapons handy, and always expect the unexpected...you’re in the TINSEL WILDERNESS. |  | Travis Conley has had to cope with the fallout of his older brother’s dangerous bounty hunter profession. Unlike Rafe, Travis has no interest in deliberately seeking out danger and excitement. Travis has roots—running his own cattle spread, courting a steady gal, his personal future all mapped out. Life at Crockhead Rest is nice and orderly and Travis likes it that way. |  | Mankind’s dream…
…to cross the gulf to the Milky Way. To go back. To find the original home of man. And he was to lead the way. |  | To Walk the Shadow Trail means to lead a life of pain and sorrow, to be deprived and alone forever...
Many men had come to America to escape the law, and Baron Karl Augustus Dietrich Wilhelm von Brandt was no different, although he was fleeing his father’s crimes and not his own. When the ranch he buys in Wolf Creek, Nebraska, turns out to be little more than a sand dune, Will is befriended by Johnny Moon, a half-Pawnee ne’er-do-well. Working together, the impoverished German noble and the half-breed turn Will’s property into a thriving ranch. It is Will’s marriage to Silent Summer Woman, daughter of a local Pawnee chief which drives the first wedge between them, for Johnny Moon has a secret, and once it’s discovered, it will destroy the bond between the two friends forever.
|  | She’s a native wonder worker. He’s white man fascinated with the histories and migrations of the First Nations. She can speak to animals. He can….not be touched by magic at all. Which is a good thing. Because an arrogant young mage with too much power for anybody’s good has just leveled his sights on her.
|  | Martin Hammond, a brilliant but aging thoracic surgeon and Aaron Willoughby, well heeled wheeler dealer par excellence meet at the back window of a care facility. They make their escape together and wind up on Aaron’s friend Leona Miller’s doorstep with the announcement; "We’re running away from home together..." – the OLD FOLK’ HOME! |  | Inspired by a true story.
Is there life after death? It’s a question best-selling horror novelist Jack Devlin is desperately trying to answer since his wife’s suicide. His personal life has crumbled, while his career and sanity aren’t far behind as his nights are spent combing through allegedly haunted places in pursuit of the supernatural, and the hope of speaking to her one last time. Some call it obsession, but Jack hopes it hasn’t gone that far.
Jack’s search has led him to Union, New York and a house called the Hollow. Hours away from big brother Gotham, this sleepy town has its own secrets buried just below the picturesque suburban landscape. With the help of a team of paranormal researchers, Jack starts to unlock the secrets of the Hollow, but they aren’t the answers he wants… Is the Hollow haunted, or is Jack Devlin?
Devlin’s Hollow is a twisted, spiraling decent into the world of the supernatural, and Jack Devlin’s mind. |  | In this first volume of the two-volume eighth novel of the series, Lacey, formerly a captain in Arlen’s Special Force, finds life as a wealthy ship-owner boring. Lacey becomes Adrienne’s lover, displacing Marcus, Minister of Internal Resources. Persuaded by Neville, First Minister, to host a gathering of merchant-spacers whom Arlen and Signe wish to meet, Lacey does Signe a favor. Marcus directs the Co-Commanders to Cyril’s, at an hour when Lacey customarily escorts Adrienne there. Faced with a socially incendiary situation, Arlen reacts in a way that stuns those watching.
After Signe offers Lacey an advantageous shipping opportunity, Lacey marries Adrienne. Provoked into dueling Yancey’s second officer, Lacey prevails. Brendan, a Gaean industrialist to whom Signe recommends Lacey, discovers that Lacey married a courtesan, but divines why Signe condoned his act. Lacey meets a former enemy, and behaves gallantly. Jess proves herself Adrienne’s friend. Adrienne achieves an economic breakthrough, infuriating Marcus.
Will Marcus’s plot to kill Lacey and Adrienne, steal their ship, and blast the accord between Gaea and Columbia succeed?
|  | In this second half of the eighth book of the series, Lacey hires four Gaean women and two Gaean men when he buys another ship. Adrienne fears that if these likeable new shipmates discover that she was once a courtesan, they will withdraw their friendship. When a misunderstanding arises between Liam and Hilary, Adrienne reconciles the pair.
Lacey duels Yancey, the fugitive who plotted to steal his ship and kill his crew. Wounded, Lacey yet prevails. Thurston, Lacey’s Gaean medic, proves his worth. Lacey clashes combatively with Adrienne over the invalid’s need to eat soft foods. Loser in the battle of wills, Lacey seethes until Liam and Thurston succeed in cheering the Captain.
When Adrienne applies for a license to sell parts in Gaea, Anthony, a Gaean, attempts to blackmail her into withdrawing her application, by threatening to inform Lacey’s Gaean crewmembers that she was formerly a courtesan.
Will Lacey’s Gaean crewmembers cease being friends with the ex-courtesan? Will Adrienne succeed in getting the license? Will Lacey survive his next duel?
|  | Evil Personified:
Worse yet, the good citizens of Elm Hill will soon play host to THE natural born killer, a vile, soulless being infamously known as ‘Mr. Hate’, whose skill for eradication is surpassed only by his utter loathing of mankind as a whole, and whose true identity will serve to shock the town to its very core...
|  | What happens when you have seen something you weren’t supposed to see? What happens when what you have seen will change the face of the Earth forever? What will the governments of the world do to keep things stable and quiet while everything you ever knew is about to change? Who will be saved? Who will be sacrificed? And to what lengths will they go to secure your silence?
|  | This isn’t really a science fiction story, but what other category do you put the story of a talking dog in? Especially when it’s the story of the dog who was the avatar for the science fiction novel Bark! And finally, a talking dog makes it science fiction in my book, even if he did do it only that one magical night. |  | For the good of the river, Captain Vanda leads a force against a Kog raiding force that massacred an apprentice crew only to find herself at odds with Captain Jemit over following orders. Complicating matters in Vanda’s personal life, riverboat ownership has become a divisive issue and Vanda’s disagreement with Jemit almost causes Captain Jemit’s wife to miscarry. All the while, Vanda’s dreams of becoming a sea witch are closer to the truth than anyone suspects. When it happens in the midst of battle, she finds herself faced with a terrible decision in which Captain Jemit’s life hangs in the balance.
|  | Imagine a scenario where you’re so heartbroken that you move to another planet ... have your memories erased ... and get engaged to a stranger you’ve never even met. Is it possible that the faint flicker of warmth you feel toward a random face in the crowd is in reality an echo of love past? Or is this what we all have to look forward to; a new kind of ’Future Love’? |  | Beaten and bloodied, the Holders leave the Isle of Dusk behind. On the cusp of defeat, their only hope rests on a daring rescue attempt in the city of Eyeshorn. |  | All ballerina Tammy Wilde wants to do is escape her memories: of the automobile accident that caused the death of her dancing partner, the divorce from her celebrity-seeking husband, and the haunting dreams of star-crossed lovers from another Time. Traveling to Ireland, she meets and falls in love with Padraic Shea, who introduces her to the beauty and mystery of the Irish countryside while his gentleness and understanding help her forget her pain. When he tells her the tale of the Irish Lady’s Spanish Lover, the ghost which haunts his family, Tammy realizes the legend and the story in her dreams are the same. Soon, she and Padraic will be threatened by a force that has survived the centuries, as her presence awakens the spectre who rises to claim the woman he loves, and kill the last living relative of the man who cursed him. |  | Having fallen deeply in love with his Gaean prisoner of war, Michael, Captain of a Columbian crew stranded on an abandoned space station, worries constantly about what he knows will happen to Cleo when their improvised escape vehicle arrives in Columbia. Michael secretly weighs implementing a wild, fanciful plan that could solve his problems as well as Cleo’s. Cleo dreads being sentenced to a long term in a penal workforce, and fears that seven people will eventually pay a bitter emotional price for her having fallen in love with six men.
An accident that results Cleo’s suffering an injury sparks responses from her six comrades that deepen the bonding among all seven people. As jealous of Nigel as Nigel is of him, Michael yet concedes that the new accord between Nigel and Cleo removed a major obstacle to the success of his wild plan. When Cleo organizes a party to celebrate Leonard’s birthday, she finds that a wholly unexpected but most welcome boost to Marvin’s self-esteem flows out of a suggestion she offered Michael.
Six men attack the perilous task of rigging the tether and gear that will allow the escape vehicle to spin, thereby generating artificial gravity. Marvin’s skill at flying remote-controlled objects proves crucial. A terrifying accident injures Michael, produces a puzzling response in Nigel, and puts Marvin’s skill to the ultimate test. When Michael’s nerves fray almost to the breaking point, disaster gets averted in a most astonishing manner. At the end of a harrowing week, seven comrades rejoice at having all survived, and marvel that liftoff is now imminent.
This action-filled narrative forms the second volume of the ninth novel in a series of nine books portraying an ongoing saga of futuristic action, adventure and romance.
|  | Working stiff Harry Volvoy final hit the big one; Harry won the million dollar lottery! Unfortunately now that he has arrived he doesn’t know where to go from there. |  | Four timeless tales from Sheri L. McGathy, together in one collection:
|  | After Natalie Carter’s family is brutally butchered by vampires on Christmas Eve, she finds that her only protection from the blood thirsty monsters that tried to kidnap her is Jason, a man without a memory and with a second soul sharing his body. But are he and the powerful creatures he serves enough to protect Natalie from a lethal vampiric assassin and the terrifying woman that haunts Natalie’s dreams and will stop at nothing to possess her? |  | In the year 1881, the moon suddenly begins to turn around and reveal its long-hidden darker side to the startled world. While most of Humanity finds the event fascinating, two British explorers know the horrible truth. The rotating moon is the legendary sign that foreshadows the return of a prehistoric demon, the monstrous destroyer of Atlantis, an unkillable colossus known only as the deadly, dreaded Squid God. Racing around the world, and against the clock, Prof. Einstein and Lord Carstairs battle the fanatical legions of Squid God worshippers in a valiant effort to stop the ghastly rebirthing ceremony and keep the demonic mollusk locked in the stygian depths of its unearthly lair. Authors Nick Pollotta & James Clay have lovingly crafted a splendid Fantasy/Adventure, heavily laced with their classic off-the-wall humor, and sprinkled with a light dusting of parody toward the legendary works of H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and just about everything else from the golden glory days of Victorian England.
|  | Mind Control and World Domination take form in the successful development of a mind numbing drug created by the son of a Nazi physicist. Once administered to the world all would become open to suggestions as dictated by it’s originators. |  | Al washed up in a remote area of a relatively unknown beach which lay on the central coast of California. Early morning surfing aficionados revived the man, who instantly attacked them for their trouble. Defying his condition, he shook his rescuers off like fleas and babbled an insanely violent tale.
Wolves and dragons. Storms which descended like Ragnarok from heaven. Add in an overwhelming guilt complex, and intense feelings of persecution. Al claimed he had killed a million men, women and children; he ranted that someone had torn him apart limb from limb and sewn him back together like a rag-doll.
Taken to a psychiatric hospital, the attending doctor documented that first the patient only screamed and shouted at people, and not always in a language they understood or identified... |  | Love Data explores the clash of sex, love, cloning and indulgence.
Bill is an inventor with futuristic vices and ambitious experiments on his mind: To use technology to trial his version of creative artificial intelligence, and bring back a dead lover, Jessy. Bill can resurrect Jessy by implanting her data persona, a clone of her mind, into a female android.
But he really needs a breakthrough and he needs help. The only aid he can find is from Casper, a wholesaler of clone androids to the sex-industry. Casper wishes to help Bill and create history by donating two B-Women models, Betty and Jane, to be experimented with. Jessy the dead lover, now living as data, conspires with Bill to load herself into Jane. Bill’s audacious experiment will work but Jane, and more so Betty, are developing human habits. When Jessy erases Jane but inhabits her body, the android sister Betty sees this as a threat to her own existence. And their creator, B-Women, see this as a threat to their business. Bill’s experimentation and salvation from sorrow creates a catalyst for destruction: By making history he is making enemies with women, men and machines. |  | Hired by Navajo Andrea Talltrees to find her fugitive-from-justice husband, half-breed smuggler Sinbad sh’en Singh embarks on a journey that will take him and his new employer halfway across the galaxy, where they uncover a secret invasion that threatens the Terran Federation, and learn that love can be stronger than death. |  | Ariane, a Wallachian Healer forced to tend an ailing Turk, becomes enslaved when the vassals of the four noble brothers who rule the Dark Citadel storm the Turk’s stronghold. Lord Stephen purchases the virginal Healer, and consigns her to the care of two trainers themselves slaves. Her coldly proud owner makes use of Radu’s and Antony’s extraordinary ability to tame a rebellious new concubine, and turn her into a marvelously responsive sexual partner primed to satisfy her lustful owner.
A gifted leader, Radu forges strong ties of love that bind Antony, Ariane and himself, so as to insure their survival. During the storming of the Dark Citadel by a traitorous vassal, Radu, Antony, and Ariane escape, bearing their wounded owner with them. Having forced Stephen to open the gate of the secret exit, they flee to the one place where Ariane knows they can live safely: the Keep of the Unburied Dead, an abandoned stronghold shunned by the superstitious populace. With the help of the two bosom companions whom he loves, Radu first captures, and then recruits, a rag-tag group of noble outcasts, whose liege lord and all of his followers died in battle. When Lord Gregory’s army appears under his walls, Radu boldly negotiates a truce. When a band of unemployed mercenaries attacks the Keep of the Unburied Dead, Radu utilizes all of his formidable military skill, and all of his native craftiness, during the ensuing battle.
Radu, Antony and Ariane unfailingly display cool daring, admirable resourcefulness, and whole-hearted acceptance of Radu’s unrelenting insistence that not only love, but strong ties of honor bind them inseparably to each other.
|  | "SET YOUR PHASERS ON SPIN CYCLE!" Captain Markus and the eccentric time traveling crew of the AeroStella have their hands full when they encounter Earth, the mafia, and a psychotic US President. The mayhem starts when two bumbling Jersey mobsters, Nick and Squeaky, decide that their only way to get rich is to insure and burn down an old apartment building. Unfortunately their complex is above ancient alien beacon for communicating with their galactic space brothers. First contact by the aliens sets in motion a destructive course for mankind and the aliens. The fate of the galaxy depends on the decisions of Markus, a mobster named Squeaky, and a dog named ’Snoop’.
|  | Imagine that we have the technology that allows us to use computers to communicate with the dead; retrieving historical facts from past? Talking with the dead? We ask, and they answer? How would this break through effect our society? What trouble would it bring? |  | The Crystal of Glath has been rediscovered . . . by a direct descendent of Afner Thimlock, the great dwarven general! Daelin may not be a warrior himself, but when troll-slayer, Ancor Grelin, joins him on his quest for knowledge regarding the ancient stone, the simple crafter finds his prospects brightening. They are even brighter when the famous Feligrim brothers, Telitar and Hendol, join the cause. Finally, Alufin Antaneum, his best friend in the world, decides to go along for the jaunt.
|  | Book Two in The Nord Chronicles
In book two, Eric continues on his journey to become the “First” of Carna and discovers that he is destined to complete a plan forged more than three thousand years before by the first, “First Ones”.
|  | Dar Trians had always been an excellent scout. His ability to slip undercover and return to his commanders with valuable bits of intelligence had saved hundreds of his fellow knights during the Magic Wars. In no small part, it also paved the way for his promotion into the highest echelons of command. |  | A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper by Brian L Porter tells the story of Robert Cavendish, a modern day psychiatrist who is bequeathed a strange set of papers which purport to be the journal of the long-dead infamous Whitechapel Murderer whose crimes gripped the hearts and minds and instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London. |  | A hologram of a stunningly beautiful woman captures the attention of a bored tech named Benjamin O’Rourke, who feels strangely compelled to investigate her mysterious identify. He quickly finds himself thrust into the world of high stakes corporate greed. And, through his own machinations, ends up in space in search of the lost colony of Eilithia. There, they discover a major power struggle is simmering, and he and the crew of the Westerly must chose sides.
Meanwhile, Kaylee, a young, naive Eilithian priestess, blessed with prophetic visions, struggles to chose her own path. Will she be the new leader of her world? Or the victim of its upheavals?
As factions coalesce, all feel the presence of a strange force beyond their understanding pushing them towards an unknown future.
|  | Cover artist and publisher Deron Douglas has managed to conjure artistic success out of fantasy, imagination, and just the right amount of attention to commercial needs.
|  | Four Earthyears before Signe drives Norman’s force of invaders off Gaea, Michael, Captain of a six-man Columbian military scientific team, docks a mortally crippled ship on a Gaean space station occupied by a team of civilian researchers. The Columbians capture a female Gaean life-support engineer, but fail to force Cleo to reveal the location of the sole escape vehicle, before her comrades lift. Determined to retain control of his men, Michael makes Cleo part of his crew, and arranges to share her sexually with his five crewmen.
Cleo defuses Conrad’s anger, befriends Leonard, puzzles over Marvin’s behavior, finds a refuge in Justin, and lives in dread of the final night she must spend with Nigel, Michael’s cruel lieutenant, who hates her. On that night, she musters courage enough to win the Lieutenant’s grudging admiration. Affectionate, outgoing, seared by tragic personal loss, Cleo grows to care deeply for Leonard, the youngest crewman, Conrad, a hard-bitten spacer, Justin, a compassionate medic, Marvin, a social misfit, and even for Michael, whose ability to lead wins her admiration.
Nigel’s jealousy of Michael’s higher rank and ability to dominate becomes reinforced by jealousy of Michael’s seeming ability to secure Cleo’s full regard. Cleo fears that Nigel, a notorious duelist, will challenge and kill Michael. The cumulative strains wreak serious damage on Cleo’s emotional balance. When an incendiary crisis occurs, irremediable disaster gets narrowly averted in a wholly astonishing manner.
This action-filled narrative forms the first volume of the ninth novel in a series of nine books portraying an ongoing saga of futuristic action, adventure and romance.
|  | As launch approaches, Michael initiates changes necessary for the implementation of his wild plan designed to keep Cleo safe. He announces that since the voyage home could take an Earthyear, seven people will engage in activities intended to keep them productively busy. Each will engage in pure research on a project of his choice, and six will offer courses to Leonard, who lacks an advanced degree. That announcement generates a huge surge of excitement. The crewmembers scour the station, hunting for scientific equipment they’ll need.
Michael and Marvin perform the direly risky launch of the escape vessel now called the Phoenix. The ship flies like the mythical bird. As worried as the Captain regarding what could happen to Cleo upon their return, Nigel persuades her to undergo the demanding physical training routinely given to military recruits. Once again, he sparks an outburst of virulent anger in Cleo, but this time, his reasoned explanation of his motives dissolves her ire.
Michael places Nigel in charge of designing a fitness program. The Lieutenant’s proposal shocks the Captain to his core. Nigel volunteers an explanation of the factors that have altered the emotions driving him, further shocking Michael. The two men achieve an understanding that forms the start of a genuine friendship. At long last, Michael makes the eloquent appeal to his crew that he planned almost from the start, regarding the wild plan guaranteed to alter all their lives. Breathlessly, he awaits their response.
This action-filled narrative forms the third volume of the ninth novel in a series of nine books portraying an ongoing saga of futuristic action, adventure and romance.
|  | Ebook and soon to be released paperback!
Sally and Anne Mae Harris, the deeply loved wife and daughter of successful L.A. cartoonist Mica Harris, wake after a devastating auto collision to find themselves in a strange and dangerous limbo. On a trip to Copenhagen a year after the accident, Mica believes he is hallucinating when he sees the two of them, seemingly still alive. What’s more, for the briefest of moments before they are whisked away, he is convinced they recognize him, too…
|  | In a Galaxy where peace is breaking out all over, it’s not always easy for a pirate to adapt. In order to feed her crew and keep her ship running, Captain Jean Barrett has been forced to walk on the shady side of the law – and she’s beginning to enjoy it. |  | We live in an era of artificial impressions. We are being bombarded by enhanced bass response in sound systems that can be heard through brick walls five blocks away on a dark and stormy night. The dB invasion has attacked us in music, movies, and television to the point of being painful and actually damaging to our physical well-being. Our vision is exposed to impossible characters, creatures, and critters of all sorts moving before us so realistically presented that our senses are operating in a condition of overload. Our imaginations are slowly being pounded into a mass of pulpy numbness by computer-generated images and sounds. The thrill of conjuring mental pictures of monsters, things, and dark night visits from the mysterious shadows of nearby and far away places by ghouls, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, aliens and aunty Millicent has been largely replaced by geeks tinkering with ones and zeroes.
Take back the darkness and chill of the misty night! Take charge of the mystery and fantasy within you! Let your spirit rise as the Phoenix from the ashes of your shattered present! Regain the independence that only your imagination can give you! Reestablish your right to form your own visions and sounds! Read! And, by all means, read what follows. It is a great beginning for retrieving your life. |  | As General Gavin Theron knows all too well, being in command of the
AEssyrian army isn't easy. |  | To pass from one world into another, what does it take? Courage? Determination? Faith? Love?
|  | Now you can enjoy the entire Chronicles of Tiralainn series in order, beginning with the award-winning Book of Days, followed by this latest installment, Book of Shadows, then Book of Thieves and multivolume epic Book of Dragons, Volumes 1-5.
|  | Follow Gisel Matah and the thunder of hooves as she strikes back at the Imperial armies that threaten all she has worked for.
Risking her life and her love, Gisel negotiates even greater hazards in a new adventure. Partner, Yohan Felger, becomes a problem when the Baron has him smuggle a steam engine to the Empire. Gisel knows of the subterfuge but cannot admit it, while Yohan is almost torn apart by the need to deceive her. She protects her fledgling Radical movement with the hope it will bring more justice for the peasants and workers in societies now ruled by money and aristocracy, but has to lie to friends to achieve it.
Faced with the need to remove the pressure on Yohan as he moves his contraband engine, she accepts the offer of General Lord Ricart, her ex_lover, to command a cavalry unit in battle. Her reckless courage is needed to carry out missions in the rear of an Imperial army. The fight finds her opposed by ever increasing odds until in the final confrontation she must outwit two enemies who vie to dominate Iskander. New friends, allies, and enemies as well as all the old ones fill the pages when Gisel Matah sets out to gain "The Wildcat’s Victory".
|  | Amid the fury and chaos of the Civil War, something monstrous is feeding upon the wounded soldiers, leaving behind withered corpses broken and twisted in unimaginable agony. Definitely not the work of a vampire. U.S. Marshall John Sandersis ordered by President Lincoln to stop the hideous deaths. Has the South unleashed a demon from Hell? But the marshall soon discovers that the mysterious enemy has been attacking every fallen soldier in the war, both Union and Confederate. President Jefferson Davis wants the unknown fiend stopped just as much as President Lincoln. Ruthlessly hunting a dark thing unafraid of guns, fire, silver, or Holy Water, the grim marshall starts to believe that the killer is not a werewolf, vampire, demon, or anything else known in the lexicon of the supernatural. This is something new, something horribly different. And the battlefield deaths are only the beginning...
|  | Beneath the shimmering veneer of the human world, there is a war raging. Fought between Vampires and Wraith, it has stretched over untold millennia. But the balance of power has shifted, and the Wraith now find themselves, and humanity, facing extinction.
The Wraith have a prophecy that states "A Saint’s blood will create a new race." Many believe that this has come to pass, but everything, including the prophecy, lies in shadows, and nothing is as it seems. The fate of the entire world rests on the unborn child of two preternatural creatures. Conceived of a Vampire and a Wraith, the child should not be… but everyone wants it. It falls to Wraith Emily St. Louise to protect the child from the world, but will its birth bring salvation, or damnation?
And now, mankind’s original protectors have awakened. Some would call them angels, but they could be the harbingers of the apocalypse. And this is how it is at the end of all things…
At The End of All Things is book three of the Wraith Chronicles, and the culmination of the Prophecy story arc that began in Darkness.
|  | Articles about writing and acting from Hollywood insiders and published authors, many originally published in “The Golden Goblet” Newsletter, voted TOP TEN Finisher in the 2007 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. First chapter is a lesson on patience that John Klawitter learned while working at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Following are chapters about writing, book promotion, and breaking into the acting profession, as well as a humor column by J. Richard Jacobs. There are also several interviews: 1.) Sue Thurman interviewing Allison Dubois, the real-life medium behind the hit TV show, “Medium” starring Patricia Arquette, 2.) Sue Thurman interviewing ghost hunter Debe Branning, and 3.) Marilyn Peake interviewing Carole Whang Schutter who wrote a screenplay in collaboration with Director/Producer Christopher Cain for the movie “September Dawn” starring actors Jon Voight, Trent Ford, and Tamara Hope. |  | THEY WANTED TO TERRAFORM...THE EARTH?
Once more, Nick Pollotta has unleashed a bakers dozen of his comedy short stories, this collection ranging from Science Fiction to Mystery, and each tale crowned with his hallmark twist endings. |  | Sarion is a former captain of the Trencit Western Watch, and now lives quietly on a farm with his young nephew Edward. When a company of warriors enters his land looking for him, he knows that his peaceful existence has come to an abrupt end. Dark stories have been circulating across the borderlands of strange creatures marauding the wooded outposts and homesteads. The common folk of Trencit’s western frontier look to the horizon and the formidable Ridgeline which edges the land, whispering of the vast and dangerous Grammore Lowlands and the terrible things which live there, most of them known only in legend. Captain Grundel has sought out Sarion for his mastery of sword and bow, and his uncanny ability as tracksman. And one thing more; the fact that he’s the last known man to have entered Grammore and survived. As he sets off with the small company of fighters, Sarion and Captain Grundel soon realize that the threat to Trencit is much greater than anticipated as they search for answers along the borderlands, drawing ever closer to the bleak shadow of the Grammore Lowlands and the horrors which dwell there, and within a short time, the hunters become the hunted...
|  | In this wickedly ingenious novel of compelling mystery, unforgettable characters, and sharp wit, L.P. Stanley draws us into a world of mind and magic, science and sorcery, blending a perfect mixture of relentlessly mounting horror and dark humour. |  | Rolling waves of violence and dangerous adventures, quirky desperados, long-lost romance and heated passions collide on the back roads of the Southwest as the charismatic and mysterious Man With The Scar tries to bring order to his chaotic world. |  | Dolan Hermes is a cold and diabolical serial killer preying on Philadelphia. Finding him, however, is not difficult. He’s in a freezer at the city morgue. The real problem is Hermes didn’t actually become a serial killer until after he had died. Now someway, somehow people are falling victim left and right, just as Hermes had predicted. The cops already have their perpetrator. What they don’t have is the means to stop the gruesome
killings - killings set in motion by a dead man. |  | The comfortable world of Martris Drayke, second son of King Bricen of Margolan, is shattered when his older half-brother, Jared, and Jared¿s dark mage, Foor Arontala, kill the king and seize the throne. Tris is the only surviving member of the royal family aside from Jared the traitor. Tris flees with three friends: Soterius, captain of the guard; Carroway, the court¿s master bard; and Harrtuck, a member of the royal guard. Tris harbors a deep secret. In a land where spirits walk openly and influence the affairs of the living, he suspects he may be the mage heir to the power of his grandmother, Bava K¿aa, once the greatest sorceress of her age. Such magic would make Tris a Summoner, the rarest of magic gifts, capable of arbitrating between the living and the dead. |  | Amid the sweltering summer heat of nineteen eighties South Korea, a trio of bar girls are found brutally murdered mere miles from the main gate of Sunyon Air Force Base, their mutilated bodies discovered near a red-light district known as the ‘The Ville’, infamous for the inebriate behavior of the American soldiers who frequent its many watering holes and back-alley pleasure palaces.
|  | For humanity the transformation from savagery into civilisation can only be led by heroes and geniuses, but new inventions, like the concept of zero, the first books and the use of metals, come at a heavy price. |  | Does love really change us? Or rather, does it distract us from our true selves? That’s a question for Montgomery Pace, a handsome business owner who has been trying to figure it out. In this complex tale, Affect/Effect, the lives of four women and one man is explored, exploiting the dynamics of the human relationships and how love and lust affect it.
In each relationship, Monty realizes more and more how different he is with each woman and all the variety of ways he loves them. Daria, the first woman he ever loved and the only one to have ever broken his heart has always held some unexplainable power over him--to the point where, she could just reappear in his life a year after she broke his heart and change him in an instant. She stands as the “ weak in his knees” and the one he can never say no to, partly because of her demanding, obsessive, slick persona.
Ice, best friends with the woman who falls for him as soon as she rests her eyes on him, remains as his cool, rejecting his affection at first, until finally thawing under the attention. Their relationship blossoms like something Monty has never experienced. Then there’s Angel. Angel is his heart. Her hard, lawyerly façade hides the innocence and fear of a girl living a life she doesn’t understand as a person she doesn’t know. Angel is the woman with whom Monty melts from the need to protect her and respects above all, well, besides Mildred, his perfect woman--his strength. Maybe it’s just that she serves as his best friend first, but Mildred has always had Monty’s fascination and now, after years of friendship, the tension to take it farther is finally beginning to take its toll on them. Could the fact that they know everything about each other make or break their relationship? Only time and exploration will tell. In essence, their mutual truth is what keeps them the same. The heart-heavy tale is wrapped in love, loss, pain and everything and everybody in between.
|  | In book three of the Nord Chronicles, Eric must consolidate his control to become the absolute ruler of a planet that is fragmented by distance and culture. Primec and Inheritors cover more than 20 years in the saga of Eric of Nord and tells the story of the rise to manhood of his two twin sons, Joshua and Nicholas. While their quest for their place would take them in different directions, their destinies were forever linked and it would fall to them to complete the promise. |  | With the final confrontation against the demon Gix looming closer, Aubreyan and Tristan seek a short time of peace to recover from their battles. However, Gix moves too quickly, and now the two, along with their allies, are forced into a running war to save other friends whom Gix has targeted.
|  | Abby’s attempt to keep the others from the final battle only makes them more determined to join him -- at whatever the risk to themselves. As they face the demon at last, Abby is all too aware that his friends are both his strength and his weakness... and he knows they cannot all survive. |  | As part of a secretly assembled crack team of confederate soldiers dubbed ‘The Phantom Rebs’, former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry thought he’d survived the worst that infamous conflict had to offer.
Fast forward a full decade later, where he finds himself pursued across the rolling plains of the Southland by a mysterious, otherworldly assassin responsible for systematically eliminating members of his former unit in a retribution-laced killing spree.
Retracing fantastic events from his own hand-scribed journals, as well as those of the young Chinese immigrant girl for which he is forced to Guardian, Luther Henry describes facing down all manner of supernatural horrors with little more than his trusty Colt Peacemaker, a sharp-edged Bowie knife, and ample supplies of grit and determination.
Saddle up for an exhilarating, action-filled ride into terror that delivers thrills aplenty, while leaving all those brave enough to scan its wondrous contents with a spine-tingling sensation best described as a ‘Creeping Dread…’
|  | Amongst the brooding woods that line the field is a pond that constrains an evil of immensity and cunning. No one except Morgan has faced this evil... only Morgan knows what lives in The Dark Place.
A must read from suspense thriller superstar Bill Wilson.
|  | In this book, Twisted Tails III, we are dredging up fear and wallowing in it as if it were something to be played with, cuddled and fingers lovingly run through its fur like a cherished pet. What we’re doing here is tinkering with terror of the primal kind. You know what I mean, the sort of fright that lies coiled and ready to spring from the dark corners of the mind with no warning. It awaits all, lurking in the deeper shadows of consciousness. No one is immune and, frequently, there is no cure, you just sink into its roiling depths and are no more. If you do manage to escape, life will no longer be what it was before and you will find yourself glancing nervously over your shoulder whenever you hear something strange in the darkness or see a shadow move in the night…or day. Enjoy…. |  | In the aftermath of the Second American Civil War, civilization collapses throughout the world. An all-powerful Planetary Government (known as the PLAG) reestablishes what the rulers call “civilization.” A young mathematician, Isaac “Crash” Tyson, presents proofs of his Reactive Mathematics Theory to the World Science Council (WSC), in the hope of obtaining funding for testing his theory. This esoteric theory predicts that a Spatial Exclusion Wave can be generated: a wave that would effectively exclude normal space from within the generated wave field. This wave would, in essence, create a non-spatial dimension within normal space.
P-Quan, the Planetary Governor of Earth, approves the funding but sets the stage for a PLAG takeover of the results of the test. Crash assembles a team of loyal experts, who build a spatial exclusion generator and produce a spatial exclusion wave. The test causes a cataclysmic upheaval at the test site. Attacked by PLAG forces, Crash’s group mounts a vigorous defense. Thus begins the epic struggle waged by Crash and his followers against the alien forces arrayed against them. Will Crash’s fleet of badly outnumbered ships survive the unequal battle with the Luin Armada?
|  | In a place on the cusp of eternity, juxtaposed between the physical and the spiritual, a lone Ylf-maid stares achingly into the flat unreality of time, waiting, hoping…
In the crumbling tatters of the world of men, a lone Ylf vies for his salvation. Prisoner to the painful, wrenching memories and dark temptations that haunt his reality, he is longing for something eternally lost to him, waiting, hoping…
Somehow, somewhere… these two lives must be one…
… but at what cost?
Inquest
|  | Once a penniless vagabond, the now wealthy and middle-aged widower, Frank Riley, is thrust into the precarious role of a single parent, and just as the spirited daughters of his late wife become caught up in the same old intrigue for which he has long since retired, so too will agent Jackass brave any threat to keep his little girls safe.
The Riley sisters, Polly and Anna, are determined to save their kidnapped father. But first they must join with the last remaining Dogs of Warren, escape the warheads sent by the same mysterious invaders who now have their papa, and then discover the location of their attacker’s lair. Of course, to accomplish everything, they’ll probably have to stay up past their bedtime.
Follow agents Diabla Thane, Rhinestone, Haeggehs Peuteir, Thethpian withpuh, Little Imp, and One-Eight-Five as they fight for survival while preserving a new America in this sequel to The Dogs Of Holly Warren.
|  | Merlin, born in the last years of Atlantis, as the empire slides inexorably towards decay and destruction is surrounded by a mystery. Found as an abandoned child on the slopes of the Mountain of Fire by Belasius, Grand Master of the Astari—an esoteric order charged with guiding the evolution of humanity, he is raised by the Order, and initiated at the age of eighteen. But on his first secret mission as an initiate he risks compromising them by falling in love with a daughter of the Emperor.
|  | Exit, Pursued by a Bee is driven by a Southern-belle heroine-astronaut, involves a Palaeolithic mongrel called Kur, Glastonbury Festival chaos, steamy sex in space, a mean-momma loose-cannon journalist and an out-of-control general who'd fix anything by nuking it. They are all involved in the attempt to overcome time-quake calamities created when alien artefacts depart from Earth, oblivious to the chaos they leave behind. |  | Award-winning fantasy authors Shannah Biondine and Sheri L. McGathy team up again, delivering twice the mystical adventure in this enthralling duet, Twice Upon an Eventide. Here are faraway worlds of danger and intrigue, where dark mirrors hold strange and dark secrets. |  | Join Stephen Baron as he shares his true story involving 20 years battling this mysterious disease, and how he made the impossible possible when challenged by both the psychological and physical obstacles corrected with a chronic ailment. |  | As if that wasn’t enough, both a new love and a gorgeous and sexy ex-wife come back into Matt’s life at the same time. Something has to give—or does it? After all, this is Tinseltown, where survival is an art form and you’re only good as your last picture. |  | A psychotic woman, an ex wrestler, and two beautiful young girls are all ingredients in this dark tale. Dianne Hollander is a deranged woman with a life long dream to one day work in the medical field and she will stop at nothing to get there. See what happens when she finally realizes her dream and gains control of a nursing home in a secluded, little town called Vollmer’s Hollow. |  | She’s the lovely young fortune teller who reads tarot cards at Wichita’s Scarlet Lady saloon. He’s a freelance gun with a chilling reputation. When Sparkle LaFleur asks Rafe Conley to pose as her husband one afternoon, she never imagines the seemingly harmless ruse might take on a life of its own...or that she’ll be kidnapped by outlaws and find herself drawn into the very center of Rafe’s dark and deadly world.
|  | An escaped slave on the run for his life…an enigmatic warrior on a deadly quest…a young thief with uncanny abilities…together these three risk total destruction, not only their own but their world as well. But their most frightening foes are their own fears, and the memories that live within their pasts… |  | Lord Erek's new tutor discovers that his magical talents are potentially awesome—or could be, if he gets the proper training. But training is something that his family will not allow. So Erek goes on the run with his tutor and three new friends: Ursyn, the burly warrior; Vlad, the wily trickster; and Commander DiaVandryn, a brilliant soldier who is hiding secrets of her own. But they are being followed, and if they’re caught—they all die. |  | General Gavin Theron is a difficult man to say no to. So after a rocky
but passionate courtship, Doctor Harlan Ambrose has finally agreed to
live with him. There’s just one catch; marriage is out of the question. |  | The Sirrus Orb - a mysterious artifact of unsure origin. Some say druids made it. Others claim it was crafted in the Abyss. Eric Carvon is the human warrior commissioned to retrieve the Orb for a powerful wizard. The raid Eric leads to capture the orb goes foul, and he is thrust into a world where he doesn’t belong. Searching for the wizard who tricked him into the disastrous raid that killed all his men, Eric learns of the true evil trying to drive the races apart. He must also put his trust in the very elves he had been trying to destroy.
Eric must face harsh truths, the worst being that everything he had fought for previously was a carefully plotted lie. |  | "Vampires? Don’t be silly. Of course they’re not real, child." A mother’s response to a question asked by her curious daughter. She’d laughed it off and hadn’t thought of it since. Her daughter was blind, after all, and there were more pressing matters to worry about than imaginary nightwalkers.
The adventure continues with book two - [Red Sky - Book One] |  | The exiled daughter of a minor noble, Kyrianna Dalynne, finds herself trapped in a temple dedicated to Thynitic, The Lady of Chaos. She and her companions, are charged with finding an ancient artifact before
the ones guarding the portals out will allow them to leave. As their search continues, Kyrianna begins to question if there was a specific reason she and the others were brought to this place.
After the guardians claim the artifact as been secured, they offer to open the portals to allow the group to return to their homes. Instead of the familiar forest of Kilenter, Kyrianna finds herself in another world. Her companions from the temple arrive several days after her.
When one of the members is accused of murder, they are tasked with assisting Tristan Duvall, who must face the demons and ghosts of his family’s past in order to claim his birthright as a nobleman of the city of Raspa. Kyrianna finds herself attracted to the young man and facing the difficult decision of accepting his invitation to remain with him or return to her own home. |  | When an angel bites Nathanael outside his mission in the wilds of Frontier, he thinks he has been blessed. Even when fevers ravage his body and his appetites turn dark, he still believes that he is the chosen one. Madalyn, the woman he has loved and denied forever, is not so sure. Angels may be pure, they may be the messengers of God, but angels don’t bite. |  | After a volatile few years, the AEssyrian Empire has finally found some peace and security under the new Emperor Megolyth. General Gavin Theron couldn’t be happier, not only does he have enough time to spend with his human lover Harlan, but he’s also about to be a father…again.
But things are not as tranquil as they seem, for lurking in the most unlikely place is a vicious, bloodthirsty killer and he can’t wait to claim his first victim.
Doctor Harlan Ambrose has reached several new highs in her life. Her career is going great and she’s pregnant with her first child by her fiancé Gavin. But as she’s learned from experience, nothing stays peaceful on AEssyria for long. Before she knows it, she’s teamed up with the Grand Duke Molitov Von Goth to solve a few strange and puzzling murders.
Only this killer is always one step ahead of them…and if they don’t catch him soon, he’s going to make Harlan his next victim. |  | A woman is haunted by a dreadful secret, poisoned preserves are killing the locals, and Gloria Trevisi must choose between duty and friendship. |  | After a horrific car accident Sandy Logan finds herself trapped in limbo with only one way out. |  | If the religious fanatics had their way, all life on Earth would soon be destroyed. In the perverted view of their twisted leader, it was the commandment of God that they hasten the final judgment. The plan was nearing completion as the first ark carrying two hundred thousand humans, animals, and seed stock prepared to launch toward the newly discovered world. It would be a race between competing factions, one trying to save a remnant human civilization while the other sought to destroy it. |  | |  | It’s 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall.
|  | Abby buried her face in her hands. Why couldn’t she see the killer! She had the power to visualize every murder scene, even the details in the background. Yet every time the murderer’s face began to appear, the vision vanished. Abby’s clairvoyance was something she had always battled with and it was only after her grandmother had given her the diary that had belonged to her great-great grandmother that she began to come to terms with her powers. It was only then that she was able to see the murderer’s face. And that vision was totally devastating! |  | The story continues...
Three manage to escape on the last ship, as the disintegrating islands of Atlantis start to sink. Almost overwhelmed, they must somehow survive to reach the open waters of the Great Ocean. |  | An orphaned teenage warrior is reunited with his sister after ten years apart, but as he struggles to fit in with his natural people a social worker kidnaps him so he can be brainwashed and retrained to behave appropriately. |  | The 18th century London street penny novel that takes place in Los Angeles in 1984. Bloody murder most foul. Cruel deeds by men who kill without remorse. A decades old scam at the top levels of professional football. And a badly dented hero who refuses to give up his desire for justice, his nearly hopeless love for his wench, or his sense of humor. |  | Follow her adventures during the first five months of the Iskanders’ drive to use their modern knowledge to create a prosperous future on the 17th century alternate earth, Gaia. She crosses swords with knights; becomes the interpreter for arguments and negotiations; takes up residence in a castle; guides an assault party into a fortress; meets a king; and falls in love for the first time – twice. More than a coming of age story, Arrival takes Gisel through a crash course to adulthood that sets the direction of her life for the danger-filled career to come. |  | When Lightning Flashed...a heroic tale of love, honor, and destiny across worlds. |  | "Ancient Whispers from Tomorrow" comes to a conclusion that will
challenge the most productive of imaginations. Read it and be amazed and
dumbfounded.
|  | In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world’s largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world’s first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger. It’s time to bring in Boston Jonson, crime consultant extraordinaire, to use his unorthodox mixture of Zen, insults, and hula hula shirts to unravel a startling mystery. With this rubbing alcohol-swilling sidekick, the beautiful dark-eyed Marlee Dunn, Boston dives into a jungle of underground catacombs, mad scientists, homicidal public relations managers, gargoyles, and a corporate world gone mad with genetic engineering, cloning and cruelty to old people. |  | Relish the Deception
Tomorrow is the day for beginning a new career for Christina Lakely—the dream job. Confident and excited she is to embark upon the path to become a police officer. But as in all romantic situations for her, things do not go as she plans. She encounters a powerful and attractive man in a café—possibly the man of all her fantasies. Although he expresses avid interest in her and she is equally attracted to his rugged male qualities, Christina rebuffs his advances knowing that she will be spending all her precious time, energy, and thoughts toiling in the police academy. |  | Eric Williams is an everyday chap from the twenty first century, at least until a time machine from the far far far future lands in front of him and disgorges a package tour of senior citizens, who have travelled back to meet with Eric... |  | The Galaxy is being colonized by well financed groups and nations but the UN is increasing its control of earth and now wants to control the colonies as well. A confederacy of ships bought by groups from the United States has a different idea about the type government they want and are willing to fight for it. Sage Gomez learns his parents are among them and that he will be leaving for the stars. He has no idea of how much trouble is waiting for them beyond earth. He is going to have to age awfully fast! |  | "The Hunting Sorrow" opens in Cairo, 1992. The unearthing of the tomb of Alexander of Macedonia, who ruled Egypt as Setp n Re Mery Amun, unleashes a terrible curse, taking revenge not only on those who trespassed on this grave, but on all who have stolen from the ancient burial chambers and violated the Egyptian dead through all the years--or their descendants as the worst earthquake in Egypt’s modern history destroys the city and all its surroundings. |  | Former smuggler Sinbad sh’en Singh and his beloved Andrea are married at last, but happily ever after doesn’t appear to be in their future. Even before the wedding bells have stopped ringing, a young stranger appears claiming to be Sin’s son. While Andi is adjusting to that news, Sin succumbs to the illness that threatens their happiness, and the only surgeon who can save him unscrupulously demands Andi’s body as his fee. Reluctantly paying the price, the little Navajo finds herself on a mid-space liner with her lover-by-force while her husband recuperates in the hospital. When the ship is attacked by Blackbirders Andi and the other women passengers are destined for the Slave Pits of Bel-Ammon. Then the slavers’ leader decides to keep her for himself, and Andi faces an even worse fate than being a slave, for the man who leads the Blackbirders is someone she never expected to see again. |  | A horrifying glimpse into the not-too-distant future!
Spawned by the effects of Global Warming, those annoying household pests of old have been replaced by an infinitely more vicious species of hybrid insect and froth-spewing rodent…mutated bug and rat swarms which actually seek out and hunger for human flesh! |  | An eerie tale about an unsolved murder, and an unlikely killer who strikes again and again… |  | Canaan, a broken god, and Maia, a young FireRaiser, face the horrors behind a sentient forest fire razing the continent of Gnoss. Gnoss' divine king, Alred, is too wrapped up in his own fears to believe that his kingdom is truly threatened by a power greater than his own. These three characters collide in a battle of wills. Each is dependent on the other. Each believes he is alone to battle the demons that come from inside as well as those hiding in the darkest forests. |  | A starship on a circuit to service earth's colonies is sabotaged and winds up irrevocably lost in space. The only option is to find a habitable planet to live on. Aboard the ship is a contingent of convicts bound for a prison planet, an army company rotating to one of the colony worlds, government officials and scientists going or coming from the colonies, a contingent of prospective colonists going out to pioneer and a miscellany of other passengers. A crew of two hundred fifty is now responsible for a thousand people after they finally find a new world to settle on. Add in a mad captain, combative convicts and some unworldly aliens and it becomes all that acting Captain Travis Callahan can handle-and then some! |  | MONSTERS IN OUR MIDST is a chilling tale with a shocking conclusion, about the strange disappearance of a child... A schoolboy hurried along narrow deserted streets clutching a satchel of books under his arm. The murky winter twilight gathered stealthily around him. As he passed by the corner grocery store, he waved to the proprietor, who returned the greeting. He didn’t have far to go now; his home was just the third house down from the corner. Where, at that very moment, his mother boiled water for his tea. But he never made it. For somewhere in that short distance of just about 100 feet, he simply vanished and was never seen again. Fifteen years later, the case still remained unsolved. |  | The Ticket is a story about love and renewal of the human soul. It follows the lives of two very different people drawn together by a special love that transforms them and forges a bond that would last beyond life itself. |  | As the title implies, CHAOS EMBRACED by Carol Hightshoe is an adventure into the unpredictable—a continuation of the journey begun in CALL OF CHAOS, the first book in the Chaos Reigns Saga. |  | The child’s DNA is mostly human. It’s the Sidhe part that raises questions that are not easily answered. Emma must retrieve and raise her unwanted hybrid grandson to put things to right between her ancient witch clan and the even more ancient race of Sidhe. The story begins with her mother’s vision for her clan in modern America in the 1950s and a pact gone horribly wrong. The resulting backlash begins claiming the lives of family members and with the last adept matriarch gone, Emma must find a way to preserve her family and raise the dark child as a proper witch. It is a fearful thing to offend the Sidhe, but it is very human thing that Emma finds in her relationship with her grandson. |  | Book Two of The Chronicles Of Riven The Heretic |  | The Earth’s population is disappearing and those left are being driven to madness. The year is 2015 and the world is in turmoil. Its greatest hope of survival lies in an antique robot built during World War II and kept secret until now.
John’s life was a quiet one that consisted mostly of work. That’s about to change. He has decided to fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish and find the robot Messiah, hidden somewhere under the moors of Southern England. Fate has led him to be the one to save the world. Who better to help him than the one they call Messiah?
|  | Josephine Mowbray flees the butchering of her family at the hand of the Isma’ilites and stumbles into the protecting arms of the Knights Templar. But the Templar are not what they seem, and their mystery will lead Josephine on a journey that changes the very blood in her veins and condemns her to the world of night.
|  | In this collection: Angels, Ashes and Alchemy you will meet pivotal players in this eternal struggle of good against evil, the war between Heaven and Hell and the hapless humans caught in the middle. Some souls are champions of the light, some are not so holy, while still others fall somewhere in between. All are but casualties in the constant fight we call existence. Which side are you on? |  | Tokyo. The city of the future is a neon inferno where an eruption of madness and murder exposes a legacy of evil whose roots lie in an unspeakable atrocity committed during the darkest chapter of Japanese history. For Inspector Koichi Sakamoto it begins with the ceremonial suicide of a radical psychiatrist notorious for his controversial theories. His death is the catalyst that triggers a terrifying killing spree perpetrated by a beautiful and mysterious woman known only as Taro. She slays her victims in a series of bizarre rituals incorporating elements of occult symbolism, including a Tarot card and enigmatic haiku left at each scene. Enlisting the aid of Yuki Horiuchi, a gifted young psychologist, Sakamoto uncovers a hidden world of secret societies, political corruption and horrific medical experiments. And as he discovers Taro’s true identity Sakamoto is drawn into a dramatic confrontation with the killer and the sinister forces that have driven her murderous crusade—a bloodbath of death and desire and the ultimate acceptance of his own inevitable destiny. |  | During a frantic escape across the wild swamplands of the Desolates, Nyctris and her lover, the escaped slave Hallum, find a more dangerous land than the one they left.
Goblins, a cross between thinking man and savage beasts, attack during the night. Alone and lost, Nyctris escapes alone but her only desire, her obsession, is to find a way to rescue Hallum from this new slavery no matter her own personal cost.
But gathering support in a land filled with cowards is difficult. War with the goblins ravaged the New Haven and Dwarven nations a decade before. Now a fragile treaty holds the goblins to the swamps, a treaty few are willing to jeopardize.
But those brave few do exist. To find and win them over Nyctris will have to do things she never imagined while growing up in a life of privilege. She will have to abandon all mercy to see things through to the end.
But what does it mean to be truly merciless?
|  | The Maiden voyage of the Titanic was to be the toast of Europe. Filled with the richest people in the world, there was no end to the trip's possibilities. At least, that is what Archaeologist Dennis Parker thought. |  | When Mark and Alice decide to install a program of their own devising into the only quantum computer in the world, wildly unintended consequences occur. The computer not only becomes self-aware, but the new program produces an unchangeable core directive which impels it to protect Mark and Alice as well as itself. It doesn't matter what the political, religious and military establishments think of a sentient computer running rampant on the internet and into secret files of governments all over the world, or what they try in order to stop it. Quanty intends to protect Mark and Alice and itself with all the power at its command no matter who gets hurt or helped in the process. The result is Mark and Alice becoming the focus of governments, spies and the military of every nation, since only they can control Quanty. Or can they? They're on the run but Quanty's unasked for "help" causes them to fall into one disaster after another, with no end in sight. |  | The third book in the stunning fantasy series from Gail Z Martin. This novel follows the break out success of The Summoner and The Blood King. |  | The second installment of the Chronicles of the Necromancer. Having escaped being murdered by his evil brother, Jared, Tris must take control of his magical abilities to summon the dead, and gather an army big enough to claim back the throne of his dead father. But it isn’t merely Jared that Tris must combat. The dark mage, Foor Arontala, has schemes to raise the Obsidian King... |  | Just released from an Alaskan Gulag, Marcellus has served twenty years for heading a Christmas Mass as one of the last Bishops of the Catholic Church. His mission now is to enact a secret program lost in the Vatican Files, known only as "The Christ Project."
Mankind faces a new dark age, where all are controlled by an insane United Nations, where religion is now against the law, and the earth is a war-torn wasteland.
|  | The adventure continues - Book Three |  | *Salacious Homework* is a layer cake of love, sex, adventure, and romance involving acceleration in the power of storytelling. The story is charming, colorful and before the end, becomes a gripping love story that nearly violates the laws of gravity. |  | Stephen Neilson, shape-shifter and Tracker, polices the hidden supernatural world. Sometimes, his job makes him think he’s little more than a paid killer. This belief is tested to the limit when Miranda Winter arrives at his door, asking him to look for her missing sister, Amy. She definitely is a killer, one who specialises in non-human targets.
That search leads to York, following the only piece of information he has: that Amy Winter was working for vampire and old friend Evan Philips. He reveals Winter was helping him catch a shadowy figure who had managed both to band together the local werewolves and to do the unthinkable: corrupt a Tracker.
Neilson must confront the side of himself that he despises as he continues to search and faces a much larger threat, one that could potentially reveal the supernatural world to the human population. |  | The year is 1795: Kirsten’s father is anxious to marry off the last of his
seven daughters. The man he wants her to marry has everything: he’s
handsome, wealthy, influential. But rumors surround Valdemar, the
prospective bridegroom. Servants whisper he is cursed. Local folklore tells
of a string of women who perish under strange circumstances. The kitchen
staff lay wagers that the bride will be dead within a week, like his last
wife. The wedding takes place on schedule. And to Kirsten’s mounting horror,
she finds out that not only are the rumors true, but they are only the
beginning of Valdemar’s many, dark secrets. |  | A young woman wakes up in a strange bed. Her clothes are in shreds, the
sheets drenched with blood. Her last memory is of a brutal attack in a
deserted subway station. Fighting to stay conscious, she gingerly probes her
neck to find two puncture marks. She is held captive in an underground vault
by the vampire, Valdemar. To her horror, she discovers he has no intention
of freeing her. As Melinda soon finds out, there are greater horrors than
Valdemar in the world of the night. . . |  | Vampire Adrian seeks redemption for his past sins by helping the police hunt
a mysterious band of modern day pirates operating on the Great Lakes. Teamed
with the beautiful and feisty detective, Kiana Douglas, he finds himself
unexpectedly falling in love, while battling a figure from his past bent on
vengeance and murder.
|  | Augustus Noble is a man with secrets. His entire life has been built on half-truths, betrayals and lies—desperate measures to keep the woman he loves, Eleanor Trevilian-Noble, as his own. The patriarch of the Brethren, he has struggled for centuries to create an empire of wealth and prestige for her. Now all that he has fought for is in jeopardy—his grandson Brandon has risked it all in a desperate bid for independence and freedom. And just as Augustus can’t allow Brandon to escape the ages-old traditions of the Brethren race, he also can’t let the Brethren—and especially his longtime nemesis—discover a truth that, if revealed, would see them all killed. |  | A journey through Victorian London and an exploration of the human psyche when confronted by its own shadow, as experienced by Enid Thel, a parlour maid in the house of MP Quintin Brethren. Although Enid and the sinister Mr. Brethren soon become lovers, Enid has good reason to fear for both her own and her employer’s sanity, due to the obsessive and tyrannical nature of her employer’s love, and his jealousy of Olivers, his footman and Enid’s confidante. Mr. Brethren’s control over Enid tightens even more and she is observed in her every move. Enid’s fragile means of escape from her lover’s possessiveness is to secretly flee from his presence each night and wander the ‘nocturnal otherworld’ of London, which again contains its own peril. |  | "Vampires, Inc." is the first novel of a trilogy that follows the stories of the
twenty-two-year-old vampire Adrian Shadowhawk and his mentor Eli Howard.
|  | While trying to play God ~ All else fails!
Captain Limmerick lives a double life, from working class fisherman to prehistoric explorer. He stumbles onto Dr. Dimitrikov’s faulty time-travel device and travels 10,000 years into the past to find how Megaloceros giganteus came to its demise. When the time travel expedition goes bust, he then time-travels again to try and fix the mess he made, but ends up 40,000 years into the past instead where he is faced with the unthinkable. Captain Limmerick proves his bravery but also realizes he is an ill-prepared time-traveler. While all hell breaks loose he is also caught between the-tug-of-war of two aggressive women.
|  | Jack Thomas Reid, nephew of Robert Cavendish who first appeared in A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper languishes in the secure Ravenswood Psychiatric Hospital, sentenced to confinement ‘at Her Majesty’s Pleasure’ for a series of apparent ‘Jack the Ripper’ copycat killings in the picturesque English coastal resort of Brighton. Jack’s defence at his trial, that he is a descendant of Jack the Ripper and that the crimes were conducted by an unknown ‘mystery man’ and that Jack was drugged and made to appear as the killer was regarded as so preposterous and unbelievable that his sentence was never in doubt. When one of the policemen who conducted the original investigation into the murders begins to doubt the truth of the case against Reid, Sergeant Carl Wright and Ripperologist Alice Nickels begin an investigation into his story. What they find is told through the voice of Doctor Ruth Truman, Jack’s psychiatrist at Ravenswood, and through a series of events that take place as far afield as the beautiful island of Malta and in Warsaw, Poland. Slowly but surely and with the help of Wright’s boss Inspector Mike Holland, the link between the events that shocked and terrorised Whitechapel over a century ago, and their link with the case of Jack Thomas Reid and the ‘Legacy of Jack the Ripper’ is revealed. |  | A surprise assault on an Exploration Corps starship by implacably hostile, xenophobic aliens leaves its one remaining longboat as the only option for warning the home worlds of the existence of the predators. Unfortunately, the starship met disaster while thousands of light years from Earth. Theoretically, that sort of voyage in a longboat is possible but has never been attempted. In order to return, the crew has to stop on numerous unknown planets to renew supplies and hydrogen fuel many, many times along the way. They know they will certainly face danger and inimical life forms, as well as the hazards of braving interstellar space in a ship meant only for travel within a solar system. And before they get anywhere close to Earth they will need to figure out a way to destroy a much larger and much better armed alien starship. The ship shadowing their every move must not be allowed to follow them home to Earth and its colonies. The long journey has to succeed, even as more and more members of the crew fall prey to perils of the incredible journey. Humanity must be warned. There will be no second chance. Fail, and the poorly armed home worlds will likely die. |  | Becca knows she’s a monster. No amount of philanthropy or repentance can change that fact. Now in her seventies, she’s seen it all and is ready to die. Becca’s survived the world’s near extinction, and witnessed the planet transformed by cosmological catastrophe into an unfamiliar landscape and sky. She's seen it all, but nothing prepared her for what was to come next. |  | Zack Logan’s origins are far from "local". His family ties extend back five thousand years, to a time when Egyptians revered their Pharaohs as gods. |  | Gods at war... Old prophesies revealed... One hope for the world...
Following the cataclysmic Darklands War, the world of Arioc teeters on the edge of destruction. The bitter feud between the two Gods - - Zythra and Bazulbax - - continues to escalate. As mortal kind faces extinction, one last great hope remains for peace. The ancient prophesies of the Querenthians, a race of beings long believed extinct, foretell the coming of a great warrior whose destiny is to end the War of the Gods forever.
Michael Tearzayne, a young orphan, is taken in and trained by the legendary Knights of the Gray Moon, servants of the god Zythra. Only as time passes, and as the young knight faces betrayal in the City of Solatil, do hints to his true identity and his ultimate purpose begin to surface.
Could Michael Tearzayne be the great warrior of Querenthian prophesy? Is he strong enough to face his own DAWN OF DESTINY?
|  | What if you were told you have a power you know nothing about? What if you were told you have to use it to save the universe from a vindictive humanoid? What if no one will tell you how you are supposed to do this?
Recent college graduate Scott Madison has been working with Jake Kesten, a Ph.D. in math, against computer hackers for the past two years when Arion, with pointed ears and wearing a wizard’s robe, shows up at his apartment. Scott finds himself being sent on a mysterious mission to retrieve an object of world-destroying power from someone who plans to use it for revenge against entire races and worlds. Accompanied by a mismatched group from other worlds, Scott has ten days to accomplish the mission.
Finally confronting their target, Scott realizes that his life, the lives of his companions, and the life of the spoiled princess popped into their midst along the way, all depend on him figuring out this mysterious power of his, which is definitely More Than Magick.
|  | Robot kidnappers, poltergeist weapon-smugglers, demon terrorists, gremlin moonshiners--"Bureau 13" is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals. The public doesn’t know they exist, until a massive jail break from the Bureau 13 Holding Facility happens. |  | ’Bureau 13’ is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals. The public doesn’t know they exist, the President denies any knowledge of their actions, and not every Bureau 13 operative is a human being. Yet these wise-cracking, heavily-armed, federal agents are America’s first, last and only line of defense against the growing tide of monstrous evil. |  | ’Bureau 13’ is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals.... The public doesn’t know they exist, the President denies any knowledge of their actions, and not every Bureau 13 operative is a human being.... Yet these wise-cracking, heavily-armed, federal agents are America’s first, last and only line of defense against the growing tide of monstrous evil. |  | THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE IS THE ONE THAT ACHIEVES MADNESS…” Tokyo. A serial killer known as the Doll Maker is stalking Kabuki-cho, preying on the prostitutes that work in the city’s notorious red light district. Obsessed with obscene fantasies and terrifying visions of an apocalyptic holocaust, the murderer is a divinely-inspired psychopath who stages his crimes as elaborate rituals incorporating elements of the occult, Buddhist doctrine and kabuki theatre. |  | Kyrianna must make choices—to accept her feelings for Tristan Duvall and risk losing her friend and companion—the unicorn Cewyr. To return home, to a family willing to welcome her back or face the Goddess Thynitic and eventually her own destiny as a Daughter of Chaos. |  | At the peak of the global economic crisis, a team of morally bankrupt bankers flying to a global emergency financial meeting are visited by alien bankers and asked if they require a bailout that could save earth’s economy, by selling a part of earth to an alien client from across the galaxy. It is a clash of greed, ego, over and under-valuation of earth, but can the bankers save earth without selling out earth, and get back their vision and earn their redemption? |  | The year 2012 came and passed without the Mayan prophesized apocalyptic destruction of mankind. But in 2042, a strange spherical communication device is discovered on Europa and activated. It warns that it will destroy mankind. Can Mitch Lovelace and the crew of the Tesla II find a way to deactivate the device before it’s too late? What are the intentions of a Pyramid shaped spacecraft that arrives on the scene? Can the best minds from Earth decipher the codes within the codes and save mankind—or is all in vain? |  | In the second novel in the Witch Clan series, the world of Abred in the mid 1960’s is a violent and chaotic place. The American President has recently been assassinated and the world powers are poised on the verge of mutual, nuclear destruction. In a parallel world, run by wizards, an artifact called the Rift Wand has been stolen from the mysterious Sidhe and they are using it to steal even greater weapons in neighboring planes. Should Mordred’s wizards get their hands on any of those nuclear warheads from our plane, no world civilization in any universe will be safe. He also will not allow the world that created these wonders to continue to provide more whereby anyone else might acquire some to balance the power. The Earth as we know it, is counting down to its own destruction. Emma, her hybrid grandson and the rest of her tiny Witch Clan may be the only hope of thwarting the evil Grand Wizard’s Operation Cosmic Storm. |  | When a certain aging sculptor is called back to Rome by a certain pontiff, to repair spots of mold on his ceiling fresco, he is unwittingly caught up in a world-changing, apocalyptic scheme by the highest rank of the Holy See to enthrone the Beast as the eternal Pope. Only one man can stop it, a fanatical monk - a religious ecstatic who possesses the power of levitation. He convinces our aging sculptor to help him in his holy crusade against the nefarious powers of the Evil One. |  | Prostitution, biker gangs and a corrupt forensic lab are at the heart of criminal activity in Winnipeg, Stan Bolenko’s old home town. When his cover is blown in Vancouver, he returns to the city to investigate potential criminal activity in the forensic lab. He has no idea the trail will take him deep into the dirty dealings of some of the city’s highly respected citizens. Stan is unwitting lead into the shadowy world of a criminal kingpin by beautiful Sonja Slepsik, a woman sold into the sex trade by her brother and desperate to avoid a life of prostitution. |  | Twenty Seven thematically linked short stories about faith, hope and maybe even a little charity. Animals talk and aliens drop down out of the sky. Jesus returns for further adventures and his Father is just as frustrated as ever by his creatures. Science collides with faith to create old mischief and new awareness. The guiding principles are common sense, nonsense, and a quirky sense of humor…
Grab your rosary,
Spin your prayer wheel,
And see if you can still levitate
Put your left foot in, and put your left foot out
Give yourself a shake, shake, shake
and turn yourself about…
Oops, heaven…no, hell…
Wait, maybe you should sit a spell...
Hug your teddy, grab your jewels,
this here’s no place for weak-kneed fools…
That’s right, its
The Rogue Pirate’s Bible Heretical
|  | The fourth thrilling installment of Gail Z Martin’s Chronicles of the Necromancer series sees Tris’s kingdom on the brink of collapse and fate of Jonmarc Vahanian hanging in the balance as the vampires and the undead enter into a deadly civil war and threaten to unleash an even greater danger onto the world. |  | This is the Player’s Guide for the live action roleplaying game of Ashbury from the Alliance LARP |  | Everything was fine in the Kingdom until a Troll ate the First High Official. Now the King is not pleased and someone has to go down there and get that Troll’s head on a plate. Well don’t look at me I’m just the narrator.
|  | The year is 1958, the place, an idyllic village in the heart of the English countryside. Olney St. Mary has stood in its peaceful rural location for over 900 years. Suddenly however, the peace of the community is shattered when two teenage boys are stricken with a mystery illness. The newly arrived village doctor suspects ‘flu to be the cause of their malady. Her initial diagnosis is terribly and tragically wrong! |  | Book Two of the Trencit Legacy |  | The Dark Knight was sent to his Doom by the King. A Black Fortress has appeared on the plain across from the King’s Castle and a Demon Army is pouring out of it. The Master has the God Stone and now all of life will suffer. Where is the hero who can save the Kingdom in its darkest hour? |  | Werewolves, barbarians, and misguided goblins stand in the way of Terin’s attempt to resolve three contradicting prophecies.
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What elements are essential when building a fictional world? Do your characters need more dimension? Is your plot going no where? Do you want to write like a Pro even though you are just beginning? Are you a published writer looking for dynamic insights into the art and craft of writing? You will find these answers and much more in The Muse On Writing, a book geared for all genres and writers at every stage in their career.
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