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Black Gate Tales

by Paul Draper

A collection of 14 dark fantasy short stories, flavoured with folk horror and the supernatural

Before she became a slave, she was a humble village girl. Before she became a child soldier, she was a fugitive. Before she became the Pale Wolf, she was simply Asha. Her tale begins in rural Africa in the 1980s, when she, a child with albinism, is abducted from her small, jungle community and thrust into a life of violence, heartbreak, and ultimately hope. We follow her through a wild, forgotten land as she transforms from an innocent tomboy to a seasoned warrior with superhuman powers—powers s... more

THE STEWARD (series)

by M. D. Ironz

THE STEWARD is an epic contemporary tale in which folklore and fantasy enmesh with physics and forensics. The expanded box set includes Volumes 1 through 4 of the series (Domaine Delafaire, Realms of Possibility, Alas The Best Laid Plans, and Storm Haven). Ellen Doyle must accept two facts. Firstly, she is named heir to the Stewardship of the hidden Grand Portal to the Multiverse, which unfortunately doesn't come with instructions. Secondly, and perhaps more unsettling, many of the creatur... more

Maverick Gambit

by Marjorie King

An impoverished town plundered by space pirates. A captain who decides to protect the town with shields. A crew that plans to steal those shields from the Goliath of space shipping. A plan that blows up in their face.

Children of the Night

by M. Dutchy

When two young girls come looking for Detective Vicky Smithton. During the investigation, Vicky learns that the darkness is kidnapping children. What does the darkness want from these children? And why so many? With her nan in a coma and Liam fighting for custody of his daughters in Boston, Vicky asks Lisa Williams and the FBI for help. While investigating Vicky comes across secrets, challenges, and magical beings. Victoria Smithton is a young detective in a small town. She is half-vampire/... more

The Cool Thing: A Dark Comedy. Or Not.

by Robert Rife

R.L. mistakenly buys a device taken from a long-ago crashed spaceship. When activated, it nullifies distance, allowing immediate access to the human staffed lab built above the wreck. A lab operated ruthlessly by Dr. Lillith Gaust, who has a terrifying history of failed species-splicing experiments. Not all her failures die; called Lab Spills, they’re abandoned in the toxic Waydowns. Occasionally one escapes, vastly invigorating the staff. Especially those who get eaten. ... more

The Book Lady: A Psychological Horror Novel

by Chandra Renee Powell

Lucinda McKay is a woman driven to the depths of insanity and ravages a Southern Louisiana town targeting it's most vulnerable population adapting fairytales as her MO. Can Lucinda McKay be stopped? The Book Lady will have your heart racing to an unexpected ending.

Free

by Yvonne Anderson

One of the most prominent names in the lore of the planet Urban, author J. S. Freeman is as mysterious and controversial as the island of Freemansland from which she came. In this, the last book in her three-part story, the remainder of her supposedly safe world crumbles to ashes. Just when she thinks she can't go on, she finds new life in a most unlikely place--the rejected legends of her own people. Come and see. The truth she tells is better than her fiction.

Citizen

by Yvonne Anderson

One of the most prominent names in the lore of the planet Umban, J. S. Freeman is as mysterious and controversial as the island of Freemansland from which she came. In this second book of her three-part story, she tells of her fairy-tale marriage into the City's elite ruling class. It's a dream come true--until she wakes up in a nightmare. After nearly losing her life in what seems like the collapse of civilization, she seeks relief from her pain in a bottle. Her husband's stalwart love draws... more

Locator

by William Girdwood

In the far distant future, after segregating into groups decided by race, religion, color, creed, or nationality, mankind has dispersed throughout the spiral arms of the galaxy. The only remaining humans left on Earth are the aboriginal peoples of Australia, some of the American Indian tribes, the Zulus of Africa, and the Creators. The Earth, now more aptly called Oceanus, has become a virtual paradise except for one major problem. The seemingly immortal Creators are slowly dying! After discover... more

Bloodstained Bliss

by Elle Limpkin

Three centuries after the violence genes have been removed from the entire world population, a series of murders shake the blissful island of Roseside Reef and the entire planet. New dead bodies are discovered despite around-the-clock video surveillance, but is there anyone who can stop the killer? With no police, no detectives, and no forensics team, Zeno Pruitt, former military Commander and unenthusiastic Governor, jumps at the opportunity to lead the team that aims to solve the mystery. T... more

Stranded (The Shorten Chronicles Book 1)

by Rosalind Tate

Bridget Jones meets Downton Abbey in this acclaimed time-travel debut novel! Sophie Arundel is stuck in a grand house in 1925 England with her dog, Charlotte. Oh, and fellow student Hugo, annoying and charming in equal measure. But the only way back to the twenty-first century is through a hidden portal — and Sophie must work with Hugo to unlock its secrets…

Oasis One

by Daniel Weisbeck

A deadly virus returns.

Only three Sanctuary cities remain.

Doctor Mercy Perching will unravel their secrets to survival one terrifying city at a time.

After having discovered the Sanctuary of Americas secret population of human-animal hybrids, Doctor Mercy Perching, head virologist for the Sanctuary of Europe, has stolen the only hope for a cure to the deadly FossilFlu: a human-avian hybrid. But life has just gotten far ... more

Suffocation: The Femitokon Series Volume I

by Tina Anderson

Suffocation collects episodes 1 - 3 of the Femitokon Series: After Ambassador Laxum Jyr fails to report the death of suspected hybrid Pym Zhang, the Ambassador Prime of Ramaxia, Pitana Dag, enlists operative Sofita Kul to determine if the deceased man dabbled in Femarctic bio-sciences.

Dragon Mage

by ML Spencer

Aram Raythe has the power to challenge the gods. He just doesn't know it yet. Aram thinks he’s nothing but a misfit from a small fishing village in a dark corner of the world. As far as Aram knows, he has nothing, with hardly a possession to his name other than a desire to make friends and be accepted by those around him, which is something he’s never known. But Aram is more. Much, much more. Unknown to him, Aram bears within him a gift so old and rare that many people would kill him fo... more

Shadow of Wolves

by J.R. White

A tortured gunfighter. A Navajo outcast. – And the Creature whose claws would stain the stones of the Mojave red. Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil. When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come. But as their band of misfits hunts for... more

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