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Through this strange window

by Edgar Smith

This is a collection of short stories dealing in the supernatural and metaphysical, while posting intriguing philosophical questions and pushing the reader through, at times, uncomfortable pathways. Themes such as identity, death, the beyond, hell, the occult, aliens, and fate are discussed throughout the book in a series of powerfully engaging (at times, disturbing) tales.

Last Strand

by Jennifer Estep

Every bloody thread has been leading to this . . . I’ve battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I’ve never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society. Just when I finally have a lead on how I can defeat the evil group once and for all, new information comes to light that throws me for a loop. Suddenly, everyone and everything I love is in imminent peril of being de... more

The Sallow Scourge

by E Stuart Marlowe

On the cusp of becoming maidens, twin Queens Allison and Joie Wynpenny have spent the past year trapped inside their castle. The Sallow Scourge has their kingdom in its grip. Whether curse or contagion, the wisemen do not yet know. What is known is that it causes the afflicted to commit severe bodily harm, while disrupting the balance of magic throughout the realm.

Both queens decide that something drastic must be done, though each has a very different solution. Allison vows to seek out... more

Dark Apprentice: Fall of Magic Book One

by Val Neil

A psychopathic wizard. An immortal mage. An epic battle of wills. Nikolai doesn’t want much out of life: sex, immortality, and the power to disembowel anyone who crosses him. But with dark magic forbidden, his only option is Medea–a mage so deadly even the Enforcers give her a wide berth. Despite dire warnings that her apprentices don’t survive, Nikolai won’t stop until she agrees to train him. After all, he’s a killer himself. Barbaric and brutal, the training is a far cry from what Nikol... more

A Song of Sirens

by Pandora Pandora

A new era has dawned, giving rise to women called Sirens. Imbued with god-like powers of the Universe, they are a force unlike any the World has ever seen. Will the Sirens use their amazing powers to help or destroy humanity? With the birth of every new Siren, heroines and villains will be forged in the fire that shapes the fate of the World.

Hall Of Skulls

by Jamie Eubanks

The abduction of a Mokuteki female kicks off this sci-fi adventure of interstellar travel, alien invasions, and a confrontation with those who attacked Kai’s world 2000 years earlier.

The new provisional leader of the Mokuteki must undergo a testing phase to prove himself worthy of a leadership position. His people, once a technologically advanced species, had believed themselves invincible until their complacency resulted in an alien attack that had left his world ... more

To Slip the Surly Bonds of Earth: About the Breaking of the Day

by Hugh Cameron

With small colonies established on the moon and on Mars, the Prometheus Group struggles to increase the number of people living off Earth before widespread breakdown of civilization occurs in the Western world and catastrophic numbers try to escape, leading inevitably to overcrowding and conflict, which would likely see the colonies fail. A major war on Earth would mean the loss of the ability to resupply space colonies, so establishing independence is a priority.
There is a continued se... more

Taken

by Mary Brock Jones

Fix your planet before we have to, warns the Alliance—and then we’ll take it from you. All Ethan Winter ever wanted was to run his family’s solar energy business. But that business has been attacked, he’s been imprisoned and brutalised, his planet threatened, and to save anything he has to work with a woman set on fighting him every step of the way. The planet Arcadia’s environment is dangerously unbalanced and the Alliance is demanding they fix it or lose their home world. The Alliance of Hu... more

Pride of Ashna

by Emmanuel M Arriaga

In the Outer Rim, a lawless region of space filled with violence, a young girl vows vengeance against the marauding pirate bands who brutally murdered her family. After enlisting with the zealous matriarchal Ashna Maidens who attempt to police the Outer Rim, Serah'Elax quickly becomes a powerful weapon. Meanwhile, a ruthless pirate band has taken over a cruise ship deep within Alliance space. They run into unexpected trouble when they encounter a few members of the highly trained force of ... more

The Unburned Island

by Auden Johnson

The entire island was on fire yet only one schoolhouse burned. Everyone disappeared. Several tried taking it over but were never successful. People no longer talk about the Unburned Island. It was left to rot. Years later, Kiran, En and a team of magical investigators travel to the island to banish whatever haunts an old building. It takes them no time to realize the building isn’t the problem. The island is. With En acting strange, they knew this wouldn’t be a simple job. Kiran develops a... more

The Dakker Chronicles: Birth of the Defiance

by Matt Gerwitz

Some 150 years after colonists first arrived from Earth, the galaxy is very heavily populated. Settled planets are thriving and unsettled planets are being explored. Each planet and solar system are politically independent, though a Galactic Council does exist to provide a unifying force across the galaxy. Despite the many successes of the new galactic experiment, the original founder’s dream of Utopia was never realized. Planetary governments continue putting on a good show, making the people ... more

Creepy Sheen

by Rebecca Gransden

Ten Stories. For decades, Humankind sent transmissions around the globe. In addition to reaching every corner of the planet, the signals travelled beyond, into the dark void of space. All of broadcast history made its way gracefully through the stars, racing into the unknown—until the mid 1980s, when nuclear mushroom clouds plumed in the skies of Earth’s Third World War. The magnitude of the explosions caused the extinction of life on Earth, and sent a shockwave through the fabric of real... more

Tapestry

by Collin Brown

Tapestry follows a young traveler named Khal as he searches for his place in a world fraught with magic, mage-hunters, and a myriad of cultures and (constructed) languages. Khal bears a supernatural burden, his latent magic consuming him and those he cares for, and the tides of history seem to conspire to keep him ever on the run, devouring his friends and family and all that he holds dear.

Tiny Planet Filled With Liars

by Stephen M.A.

The good news is a whole lotta honesty could save us all forever.
The bad news tells itself.

On a lonely world in a star system under siege, an ex-military whistleblower buys the certified rights to question anyone while investigating a classified disaster—backed by threat of corporate law. But instead of answers, The Interviewer finds a trail of lies leading directly to the untouchable overlords of the Board.

In the Un... more

Space Junk

by Andrew Bixler

Adam Jones is just another broke scrapper combing his little slice of space for the semi-valuable trash that litters its dark corners. He spends most of his days inside his junker, the Asteroid Jones II, drinking beer, watching ancient horror movies, and evading debt collectors. But life for Adam gets a lot more complicated when he discovers a mysterious object that attracts the attention of powerful and bumbling forces from around the universe. With the help of his wily grandfather and a myster... more

Awen Rising

by O. J. Barré

A secret society of Druids.
An ancient Reptilian foe.
Earth teeters in the balance.

Bankrupt and broken, Emily would give anything for a safe place to hide from the witch Shalane. But when her long-lost Druid family tracks Emily down and offers her haven, she balks at the "Must Save Earth" clause. As fate in the guise of crappy luck reveals her to her witchy stalker, Emily is forced to accept the Druids' proposition despite its blatantly out... more

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